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Basketball legend Kobe Bryan and his daughter killed in an accident
Kobe Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar and one of the greatest players in National Basketball Association history, died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. He was 41 years old.
Mr. Bryant, who commuted to Lakers games from his Orange County home by helicopter during his playing career, was among the dead after a copter with eight others on the flight manifest caught fire after crashing into the hills of Calabasas, Calif.
Gianna “Gigi” Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, was also killed in the crash. Gianna was a budding basketball star herself, and Mr. Bryant often shared photos and videos of her with millions of followers on social media. He called her “Mambacita”—a nod to the nickname he once gave himself, “Black Mamba.”
On a morning with foggy conditions in the Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles County Fire Department received the first report of a possible helicopter crash and brush fire at 9:47 a.m., said Daryl Osby, chief of the department. A helicopter was used to lower a paramedic near the site of the Sikorsky S-76B wreckage. He said everyone on board, including the unnamed pilot, “was determined to be perished.”
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the crash, a spokesperson for the FAA said.
Mr. Bryant held a singular place in NBA lore. In more than two decades with the Lakers, the only team for which he played in the league, he was a relentless, intense competitor who won five championships and became the biggest superstar of his generation.
The league’s former most valuable player once scored 81 points in one game and scored 33,643 points in his career, the third-most of all time until Saturday night, when he was surpassed by LeBron James and offered his congratulations on social media.
“Keep growing the game and charting the path for the next,” Mr. Bryant wrote on Instagram hours before his death.
His legacy was tarnished by a 2003 sexual-assault accusation that had received renewed attention in recent years in light of the #MeToo movement. Mr. Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in a Colorado hotel room and charged with felony sexual assault. He acknowledged a sexual encounter but said it was consensual. The charges were dropped after the woman said she didn’t want to testify. Mr. Bryant apologized to the woman in 2004 and later settled a civil lawsuit connected with the case.
Mr. Bryant’s death rocked the world of sports, devastated the NBA and reverberated around the world.
The league’s grieving players, many of whom idolized Mr. Bryant after watching him as children, tweeted condolences and choked back tears when they met with reporters before their Sunday games, which went on as scheduled.
Hundreds of mourners gathered outside Staples Center in Los Angeles, and the New York Knicks lighted Madison Square Garden’s ceiling in Lakers purple and gold. At the start of a game between the Toronto Raptors and San Antonio Spurs, both teams took 24-second shot-clock violations to honor Mr. Bryant’s No. 24.
The Lakers are scheduled to play their next game on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Mr. Bryant took a helicopter from his Newport Beach home to Staples Center in Los Angeles during his playing career to avoid traffic and not exacerbate the pain that he tolerated after enduring numerous injuries.
In the past two decades in the U.S., federal aviation officials have focused on enhancing the safety of helicopters used in air tours and emergency-medical transportation. Poor visibility and flights in stormy conditions are considered among the biggest risk factors for helicopters.
Helicopter manufacturers and operators have tried for years, with limited success, to reduce the overall nationwide fatal accident rate for commercial and private helicopters. Improved data collection about incidents and greater use of flight simulators to train pilots have been some of the main strategies. But the rate has stayed stubbornly high.
Safety experts say primary causes of chopper crashes include pilot disorientation from flying into unexpectedly poor weather and reluctance of some flight crews to quickly land at the first hint of weather or mechanical problems. Despite high-level attention from industry leaders and regulators, however, the overall U.S. crash rate for all registered U.S. choppers has averaged roughly 120 annually for a number of years. The fatal crash rate, which is the statistical measure most closely watched by safety experts, in 2017 dropped to around one fatal accident per 200,000 flight hours, according to FAA statistics. But it climbed the next two years to end more than 20% higher last year.
In the hours after TMZ’s first report of the crash involving Mr. Bryant, tributes poured in from sports celebrities, Hollywood celebrities and U.S. politicians. Michael Jordan called him “like a little brother to me” and said that “words can’t describe the pain I’m feeling.” Jerry West, whose silhouette is the NBA’s logo, said “he has left the world a better place.” President Trump said in a tweet that it was “terrible news!” and former President Obama called it an “unthinkable day.”
“Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act,” he said in a tweet. “To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents.”
Mr. Bryant “showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion to winning,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “But he will be remembered most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete to the very best of their ability. He was generous with the wisdom he acquired and saw it as his mission to share it with future generations of players, taking special delight in passing down his love of the game to Gianna.”
Kobe Bean Bryant was a force long before the entire world came to see him that way. Born in Philadelphia and named after the Japanese beef and “Jellybean,” the nickname of his father, also an NBA player, he jumped from high school to the NBA. He invited comparisons to Mr. Jordan and then exceeded the lofty expectations that were set for him when he was a teenager.
After he retired in 2016, Mr. Bryant pursued a variety of interests off the court, launching a venture-capital firm, publishing a series of young-adult fantasy novels and winning an Academy Award for an animated short film called “Dear Basketball.”
But he was an especially active participant in his daughter’s basketball career, once his was over. Ms. Bryant played for a team called Team Mamba. ESPN reported that the Bryants were headed to one of her games after their helicopter was scheduled to land.
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യേശുവാണ് തന്റെ കുടുംബത്തിന്റെയും കരിയറിന്റെയും അടിസ്ഥാനം: സീസണ് റെക്കോര്ഡിട്ട ബേസ്ബോള് താരം ആരോണ് ജഡ്ജ്
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താന് ദത്തെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടവനാണെന്ന് അറിഞ്ഞതില് തനിക്ക് യാതൊരു വിഷമവും തോന്നിയിരുന്നില്ല എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ ആരോണ് അവരാണ് തനിക്ക് അറിയാവുന്ന തന്റെ മാതാപിതാക്കളെന്നും കൂട്ടിച്ചേര്ത്തു. സ്നേഹവും പിന്തുണയും നല്കുന്ന മാതാപിതാക്കളെ ലഭിച്ച താന് എത്രമാത്രം അനുഗ്രഹീതനാണെന്ന് ആരോണ് പറയുമ്പോള്, അവനേക്കാളും ശരിക്കും തങ്ങളാണ് അനുഗ്രഹീതര് എന്നാണ് അവന്റെ അമ്മ പറയുന്നത്. 2 കൊറിന്തോസ് 5:7-ല് പറഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്ന വാക്യമാണ് തനിക്ക് ഏറ്റവും പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട ബൈബിള് വാക്യമെന്ന് താരം പറയുന്നു.
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കടപ്പാട് :പ്രവാചക ശബ്ദം
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen gave glory to God after his team won the World Series against the New York Yankees Wednesday night.
In an interview with the MLB Network after the Dodgers defeated the Yankees to become the 2024 World Series champions, Treinen told reporter Robert Flores that he felt “overwhelming joy” after the victory. “God is absolutely good. I got to give a shout out to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for this moment,” he added.
When asked “who was the first person you thought of on the final out,” Treinen responded: “God.”
Treinen’s remarks followed the Dodgers’ 7-6 victory over the Yankees in the fifth game of the World Series. The Dodgers won four games against the Yankees in the World Series, thereby enabling them to clinch the coveted title.
Although Treinen has a limited social media presence compared to many professional athletes, his Christian faith still features prominently on his socials. The name associated with his X profile is “BlakeTreinen” accompanied by a picture of a cross and the U.S. flag. The biography on his X account proclaims: “I love Jesus Christ he is my savior.”
Last year, Treinen cited his Christian faith when speaking out against the Dodgers’ decision to recognize the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a group of men in drag who dress up as Catholic nuns — as part of the team’s celebration of LGBT pride month.
In a statement shared by prominent worship artist Sean Feucht, Treinen expressed disappointment that his team was honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence because “many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.”
Treinen suggested that he was willing to accept whatever consequences might have come with speaking out: “I understand that playing baseball is a privilege, and not a right. My convictions with Jesus Christ will always come first.”
“Inviting the [Sisters] of Perpetual Indulgence to perform disenfranchises a large community and promotes hate of Christians and people of faith,” he added. “This single event alienates the fans and supporters of the Dodgers, Major League Baseball, and professional sports.”
After asserting that “Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins,” Treinen shared Bible verses that informed his opinion on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, including Galatians 6:7. The Bible passage declares: “do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked; a man reaps what he sows.”
“This group openly mocks Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my faith, and I want to make it clear that I do not agree with nor support the decision of the [Dodgers] to ‘honor’ the [Sisters] of Perpetual Indulgence,” he concluded. Treinen also quoted Joshua 24:15 to make it clear where his loyalties lie: “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
In 2016, before he joined the Dodgers, Treinen participated in Faith and Family Night at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. He was one of several players who shared their testimonies in front of 2,000 people.
Sources:Christian Post
Ex-NFL star Tim Tebow is on a faith-based mission to exterminate the evils of human trafficking, appealing to the Gospel to make his case.
Speaking recently about the Tim Tebow Foundation’s UnKNOWN and UnFINISHED campaign, an effort to rescue children from the bowels of human trafficking and abuse, the former quarterback rooted his belief in the value of every human life in Scripture.
“King Jesus, who has infinite value and worth, went to the cross and was a ransom for me, and was a ransom for you, and it was a ransom for every single person — and gave his life in exchange for us,” Tebow said. “That means that we have infinite value and worth.”
He continued, “He paid that price for us.”
Tebow said it’s essential to understand that Jesus’ sacrifice for mankind’s sins — a hallmark of the Christian faith — means there is “value and worth” in every human life.
He believes this creates a responsibility and calls for Christians to step up and defend those in desperate need.
“We have to do everything we can to protect them,” he said of human trafficking victims. “To bring them out of this horrible evil and put them in a position where they can flourish, knowing their worth, and their value, and experiencing the faith, hope, and love that so many desperately deserve.”
As CBN News previously reported, Tebow’s UnKNOWN and UnFINISHED campaign builds upon last year’s initiative known as the Unknown campaign, an endeavor named for the 50,000 boys and girls whose abuse has been seen by law enforcement via videos and images but who have not yet been identified.
Tebow said his goal is to help “through technology, through legislation, through law enforcement, through operations” to identify and rescue these children. Rather than move on to a new campaign this year, he and his foundation were moved to continue working to find these children.
“We call it Unknown and Unfinished, because we’ve got to get to as many of these boys and girls as possible,” Tebow said. “And when we look at the scale, just so people can understand it … within the last 12 months, there’s been over 500,000 unique IP addresses that have downloaded or shared images or videos of children under the age of 12 being abused.”
Sources:faithwire
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