San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
HUMPHRIES WINS 100TH MEDAL
Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. got a milestone medal Saturday, winning a World Cup women’s monobob race for the 100th top-three finish of her career in major international competition.
Humphries, a Chula Vista resident, has won 70 medals in two-woman races in her career; 60 in World Cups, seven at the world championships and three at the Olympics. She’s won another 11 medals in monobob events — including Olympic gold at Beijing last year — plus 10 more on the North American Cup circuit and nine medals in team competitions.
Humphries used a blazing second run to finish two heats on Saturday in 1 minute, 57.92 seconds at Altenberg, Germany. Laura Nolte of Germany was second in 1:58.47, and Canada’s
Cynthia Appiah was third in 1:58.86. Humphries’ winning margin of 0.55 seconds was the largest in a World Cup monobob race this season.
Humphries got 225 standings points for the win, 15 more than Nolte got for finishing second. That gave Humphries 1,070 points on the season, 50 more than Nolte in the race for the overall monobob title with three races remaining on the World Cup schedule.
Humphries was 0.15 seconds behind Nolte after the first heat. But her secondheat time of 58.97 seconds beat Nolte’s time by seventenths of a second — a huge margin in a sliding sport.
In the two-man race later Saturday, Germany’s Johannes Lochner drove to the win in 1:49.20. Britain’s
Brad Hall was second in 1:49.63, and Germany’s
Francesco Friedrich drove to third in 1:50.26. There were no U.S. sleds in the race.
More winter sports
The dominant men’s downhill racer is Aleksander Aamodt Kilde — clearly. Kilde won Switzerland’s marquee World Cup race at Wengen by a big margin for his fourth win in six downhills this season. “It’s flowing pretty well now, it’s really a lot of fun. I feel so happy skiing,” Kilde told Swiss broadcaster RTS. That Kilde won with Swiss standout Marco Odermatt second was less of a surprise than the gap between them on a shortened version of the storied Lauberhorn course — 0.88 seconds.
Federica Brignone won a World Cup super-g at St. Anton, Austria, for the 2020 overall champion’s first victory this season. Mikaela Shiffrin skipped the race to rest while she has a dominating lead in the overall standings. Brignone mastered a course shortened because of heavy overnight snowfall to finish 0.54 ahead of Joana Hahlen. Olympic champion Lara Gutbehrami was third, trailing 0.66 behind Brignone. Sofia Goggia, the downhill standings leader, crashed out. Olympic bronze medalist
Michelle Gisin also failed to finish her run. Another super-g is scheduled today on the Karl Schranz course.
Local colleges
The San Diego State women’s basketball team (14-4, 4-1) knocked off Boise State (7-10, 2-2) 55-42 inside Viejas Arena. SDSU went on a 17-2 run in the first quarter and then led by double-digits for most of the game from that point on.
Sydney Brown became the sixth Triton in program history to record 1,000 points and 600 rebounds, leading UC San Diego women’s basketball to a 62-50 victory over CSU Bakersfield at home. The Tritons (6-9, 3-2 Big West) improved to 3-2 in the D-I series (7-12 all-time) against the Roadrunners (410, 1-5). Brown finished with a game-high 20 points and 10 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.
The University of San Diego women’s basketball program (10-8, 4-3 WCC) and graduate student Myah Pace made history, en route to a 61-49 win at Loyola Marymount (5-14, 2-6). Pace reached the 1,000-point plateau in her illustrious career, scoring 10 points, nine rebounds and five assists. Kiera Oakry led all Toreros with 16 points, while Kylie Horstmeyer added 10 points and six rebounds.
The UC San Diego men’s volleyball team (1-4) dropped a four-set decision at Lewis (3-2), the 15th-ranked team in the nation.
The No. 23/23 Cal State San Marcos women’s basketball team (12-2, 9-1 CCAA) wrapped up a perfect weekend with a 70-68 victory at Humboldt State (6-8, 4-6). Charity Gallegos, Dynnah Buckner and Jordan Vasquez all scored 14 points for the winners.
Locally
The Calgary Roughnecks scored the first five goals of the game and beat the visiting San Diego Seals 14-10 in NLL play. Dane Dobbie scored three times for the Seals.
The Ontario Reign completed a weekend sweep of the San Diego Gulls with a 5-2 AHL victory at home. Drew Helleson and Benoitolivier Groulx scored for the Gulls.
College football
Team Kai defeated Team Aina 16-13 on a field goal in the final two minutes of the Hula Bowl. San Diego State wide receiver Jesse Matthews caught a 5-yard pass from East Carolina quarterback Holton Ahlers on fourth-and-3 that kept alive a touchdown drive late in the third quarter for Team Kai.
Alabama defensive coordinator Pete Golding is leaving for the same job at rival Mississippi. Golding had been the Crimson Tide’s defensive coordinator since 2018.
CES gives us a glimpse of where automakers believe vehicles are headed in the future. Edmunds (a car-shopping and pricing website) attended this year’s event — formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show — and reports on the most notable vehicles and what new technology car shoppers might see in the coming years. Here are a few near-term trends we spotted at the Las Vegas show.
BMW’S talking car
BMW had one of the more forward-thinking concepts at CES. The i Vision Dee is a talking electric sedan with artificial intelligence that BMW says “will go far beyond the level of voice control and driver assistance systems we are familiar with today.”
The name “Dee” stands for Digital Emotional Experience. One notable feature is an advanced head-up display that can display driver information on the full windshield at a base level and is capable of projecting virtual reality on the windshield. BMW says the AI can get excited when it sees you and can express its mood via screens on the front grille.
If that wasn’t enough, the i Vison Dee is covered in 240 e-ink panels, including the wheels, that allow it to shift colors at will. You can have a purple car one day and a checkerboard pattern another.
These may sound like far-fetched features, but BMW says these are real products that are coming down the pipeline, starting in 2025 and beyond.
Hooked on Afeeling
Honda and Sony are hoping to excite car shoppers with their new joint venture brand, Afeela. They showed off their otherwise unnamed prototype electric midsize sedan. They didn’t provide any significant information about range or power but did say the sedan will be equipped with about 45 cameras and sensors to give it a number of automated driving features. Afeela also promises “best in class entertainment,” and it will have a small display on the grille to provide information to both pedestrians and the vehicle’s owner.
It is unclear how Afeela will affect other upcoming electric vehicles from Honda but preorders will open in the first half of 2025, with deliveries starting in spring of 2026.
Electric Revolution
The Ram Revolution concept is a preview of what we might expect to see from the brand’s first electric pickup. Some of the more notable features include third-row jump seats, a retractable steering wheel, a glass roof with the ability to adjust the shade of tint, and an 18-foot pass-through that allows for long items to be placed from the bed all the way to the front trunk.
Stellantis, Ram’s parent company, didn’t comment on the Revolution’s range or power. Since this was a proof-of-concept prototype, some of the Revolution’s high-tech features might not see production, but we’ll know more when the production model is revealed later this year. The Revolution is expected to go on sale sometime in 2024.
VW sedan
Volkswagen returned to CES after a six-year hiatus to debut its first electric sedan, the ID.7. The ID.7 will be a substantial size; its 116.9-inch wheelbase is about the same as the Tesla Model S’— Volkswagen says the ID.7 has a range of about 435 miles, but that is based on the European testing cycle, so the figure will differ when it comes to the U.S.
The ID.7 boasts a number of high-tech features such as a 15-inch touchscreen, digitally controlled air vents, and an augmented reality head-up display. VW will reveal the final production version sometime in the second quarter of 2023.
Volvo’s HD maps
The Volvo EX90 is a seven-seat electric SUV that the company calls a “highly advanced computer on wheels.” Volvo says the EX90 will have an estimated range of about 300 miles and an electric motor producing up to 496 horsepower. At CES, however, Volvo primarily focused on showing off the EX90’S Google HD map integration.
HD maps provide a greater level of detail about road landmarks and more to improve the awareness the vehicle has of the road. When combined with the
ACROSS
1. Hitchhiker’s need
4. AR “The ____ State” tags
8. Used car deals
9. Get a tankful (3,2)
10. Ambulance alert
11. Top speed limiter (3,4)
13. Some interstate cops (5,8)
16. Trucker’s “tin can” (1,1,5)
18. Car ad “OBO” word
20. UPS truck color
21. Chief and Scout bikes
22. Hyundai luxury line
23. Cars, informally
DOWN
1. ‘97 supersonic car (6,1,1,1)
2. Indy racing family
3. Tire shop task
4. Novice Talladega racers (6,7)
5. Triumph bike or Sunbeam car
6. No ____ auto auction 7. Once around track
12. Major ‘70s auto event (3,6)
14. Big rig noisemaker
15. Parts counter words (2,5)
17. Frequent fender flaws
19. Odometer rollback, e.g.
20. Beetle slang, once