we took a trip to Devin Booker's hometown of Moss Point, Mississippi, where he continues to be an inspiration to people of all ages. I've shared a lot of stories in my career, but this is certainly one of my favorites ☺️
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FULL STORY:
Donald Glover: "Ladies and gentleman, Childish. Gambino."
*rips tearaway pants and hurdles over audience members as intro to Redbone plays*
Childish Gambino: "Dayliiiiight..."
“it’s not on one f*cking guy.”
NSFW: Cardinals veteran offensive lineman Justin Pugh steps in to defend kicker Matt Ammendola, who missed the game-tying field goal against the Eagles
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Meet my new BFF: 9-year-old Richard! I’m rarely recognized in public (especially with a mask on) so this little
@Athletics
fan had me SHOOK not only knowing I work for
@ABC10
but actually knowing my full name 😭💛
@SeanCunningham
will confirm Richard made my day at the ballpark!
after seeing how involved Devin Booker has been on the sidelines during the last three games, I asked Suns head coach Monty Williams and forward Jae Crowder if they see coaching in his future... this was their response 😅
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when the editors at your news station accidentally send video of *actual sharks* to your sports story about the
@SanJoseSharks
🤦🏾♀️🥲 sharing this lil blooper from last week just because we could all use a laugh today
COVID-19 took my dad on Thursday.
I have a lot to say. I just don’t have the strength right now & I’m not well. I’m sharing this post from my sister because it’s all I can do in this moment. I’m just tired of repeating myself & need space to think.
Thanks for the support 🖤
Waitttt. LeBron just told everyone “if you fall, stay down! your brother will come pick you up!”
And they all left Rondo on the floor face down in the other end of the floor I’m weaaaaak 😭
A couple things:
1)
@OffsetYRN
is a fantastic interview
2)
@seanseaevans
might be my favorite interviewer ever
3) I need this scream from
#HotOnes
to be an ad-lib on the next
@Migos
album 😩😭
my dad owned shoe shine stands inside America West Arena in the early 90s. this was his favorite photo of us, standing in front of my childhood home in Chandler on our way to a Suns game. I know he’d be beaming with pride for me tonight and I wish he could be here to see this. 🤍
for the record... since I've been back in Phoenix:
- Suns make it to NBA Finals
- Mercury make it to WNBA Finals
- Cardinals start 5-0 for the first time in Arizona
- ASU football cracks the Top 20
... just sayin'😏
"FLORES! ROCK 'EM, SOCK 'EM, AND PARTY TIME IN STOCKTON!"
Watch the one-punch KO from boxing's rising star Gabriel Flores Jr. in front of his hometown crowd at Stockton Arena! The 19-year-old is motivated by his late mother, Juanita, who was killed by a stray bullet in 2013
The highlights for Kings vs. Mavericks on SportsCenter consisted of 4 shots from Luka, 1 from Porzingis & NOT ONE highlight from the Kings who WON the game. I know this is how it's been for a while.... Which is why having local coverage is so important.
I’ve been trying to preparing myself for today but I’m already crying. It’s our first Thanksgiving without my dad. Today marks 24 weeks since COVID-19 took my his life. I’m thankful I had 30 years with him. I’m thankful for my mom’s strength. I’m thankful that I’m their daughter.
This move comes after the death of one of your employees, my dad, who returned to work on May 15.
He died in the ICU after complications from COVID-19 on June 11.
I’m on my way back to Phoenix right now so my family & I can have a socially distant celebration of life on Sunday.
To protect the health and safety of our team members and guests, Gila River Hotels & Casinos will be temporarily closing for two weeks to mitigate recent COVID-19 spikes in Arizona, effective at 2AM June 18. All team members will be on paid leave and receive benefits.
shoutout to all the Sacramento ~*influencers*~ who just couldn’t resist posting videos from that gross NYE mansion party in Granite Bay... super weird flex but at least we know how you really feel about the pandemic.
My dad was a 68-year-old diabetic & recent cancer survivor who had to return to work at an Arizona casino as soon as they could reopen on May 15.
Needless to say, I’m fucking livid.
Kings rookie Tyrese Haliburton offered a thoughtful response to today's events in DC, saying in part: "I'm 20 years old but in my lifetime this is probably the biggest flex of white power and white privilege I've seen... I believe in human decency... and that's not being shown."
I’ve been working toward this moment since breaking into the biz back in 2013 — covering the
#SuperBowl
in my home state for the station I grew up watching ✨ hope you’ll join me & the
@12SportsAZ
team at 11pm for complete coverage of an incredible sports Sunday in the Valley!
Thank you
@NicolleDWallace
for your tribute to my late father on
@MSNBC
. Thanks to fellow
@Cronkite_ASU
grad
@laurenpeikoff
for giving me a platform to share my dad’s story. I hope that putting a face to
#COVID19
will encourage empathy & change. Particularly in my home state, AZ.
Today marks 3 weeks since COVID-19 killed my dad.
I had been doing better this week but the news that his former employer,
@PlayAtGila
, will reopen today as
#coronavirus
cases continue to surge in AZ is so upsetting to me.
Here’s a reminder of who’s at risk.
I miss you, dad.
"No one believed he could survive... No one believed that Sacramento could be so good."
Heartwarming story coming from the Kings this week: The team welcomes a young fan from Serbia recovering from a brain surgery funded in part by Vlade Divac and Bogdan Bogdanovic
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me: “hey Chuck! Lina Washington, 12News.”
Charles Barkley: “yeah, I know who you are… keep doing your thing!”
as if seeing players from the Suns 1992-93 NBA Finals team reuniting in Phoenix wasn’t cool enough!
@12SportsAZ
#WeAreTheValley
you guys………. please look at all this fantastic vintage
@Suns
gear I’m inheriting 🥲 I was gifted a treasure trove of 1990s
@PhoenixMercury
shirts last summer, too!
.
@steveaoki
just got the crowd at
@Golden1Center
on its feet with the fans pumping their fists during halftime! Here's a quick look at his set, we'll have the full halftime performance up on our
@ABC10
YouTube channel later tonight 🤘🏾
props to the ESPN crew, particularly Lisa Salters on the sidelines, for handling the Damar Hamlin developments with thoughtfulness and empathy. this is all very heavy…
I noticed this woman rocking a Marvin Bagley III (
@MB3FIVE
) jersey on my way into the arena & it turns out... SHE WAS HIS 4TH GRADE TEACHER IN AZ!💜He even listed her as his favorite teacher in a
@USATODAY
profile in 2017 & she taught his little brother
@bagleymarcus23
!
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I’ve seen a ton of familiar faces in the field since coming home to Phoenix but I must admit, having
@HGiiizzle
tap me on the shoulder to say hi after Game 5 was the highlight of my night 💜 what a cool moment with this
@SacramentoKings
fan favorite visiting PHX to support
@CP3
today marks 3 years of covering sports for
@ABC10
🎊
it took a lot for me to walk away from my position as sports director at
@KGETnews
in Bakersfield.
I was unemployed & only had 2 interviews from September 2016 - July 2017 before someone in
#Sacramento
took a chance on me...
after last night’s win over the Saints,
#AZCardinals
cornerback Marco Wilson confirmed he used to do parkour all the time and now I need everyone to see this YouTube video from 9 years ago 🤯 a front flip into the endzone for a pick 6 is light work compared to this!
JUST IN:
@SacRepublicFC
releases updated renderings for its proposed
@MLS
stadium at the Downtown Railyards. The updates are part of the work new lead investor Ron Burkle and his business partner Matt Alvarez have been doing since joining SRFC's ownership group in January
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I was dripping sweat and my favorite pants ripped right down the middle but I can promise you I am living the freakin’ dream 💜🧡 see ya for Game 2
#NBAFinals
#RallyTheValley
Hey guys. I just found out my dad is cancer free. Thought you should know just in case you catch my eyes getting watery and me ugly crying sometime today at
#NABJ
. Just know that God is so good. And he puts you right where you need to be when you need to be there.
BREAKING: the
@SacramentoKings
announced they are moving their
@nbagleague
affiliate from Reno to Stockton next season, pending league approval. I just sat down with Mayor
@MichaelDTubbs
to talk about this exciting development for the city and you can catch it on
@ABC10
at 5!
My father didn’t deserve this. At-risk Arizonans don’t deserve this. I’m sharing this in my rage because something has to be done about this. Someone needs to be held accountable.
I hope you see this,
@dougducey
.
COVID-19 took my dad on Thursday.
I have a lot to say. I just don’t have the strength right now & I’m not well. I’m sharing this post from my sister because it’s all I can do in this moment. I’m just tired of repeating myself & need space to think.
Thanks for the support 🖤
🚨 new headshot/profile pic alert! 🚨
looking forward to making my
@12News
debut tomorrow as part of our team coverage of Suns-Clippers Game 6! tune in to show some love for the hometown gal 🥳
the courage it must take for
@chrissyteigen
to share this painful experience in its entirety so publicly -- from the pregnancy reveal in
@johnlegend
's music video to this awful outcome -- is so admirable.💔
my neighborhood in
#Sacramento
is home to several Little Free Libraries that I snap pictures of along my walks and today I was thrilled to see
#HairLove
by
@MatthewACherry
in this one 🤎🥺
ya girl is reporting from *inside* Phoenix Suns Arena tonight so you know I had to break out the vintage
@Suns
jacket!
#RallyTheValley
tune in to
@12News
at 4:30p for complete team coverage of the
#NBAFinals
from the Valley to Milwaukee!
@12SportsAZ
I haven’t stopped shaking & I’ve barely been able to put down my phone over the last 2 weeks.
Believe me, I’ve been collapsing in tears in the shower everyday... And then calling someone back who wants to do an Interview.
My dad would want me to be strong right now.
So LFG.
SAC NINA IN THE HOUSE! 🙌🏾 when Pleasant Grove HS product
@arikarmstead
isn't busy gobbling up QBs you can catch him courtside with
@Vivek
rooting for his hometown
@SacramentoKings
! What a reception for the Elk Grove native here for tonight's Suns vs. Kings game
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YOOOO!!!! It’s so turnt in Sacramento right now,
@TPAIN
literally has the earth shaking on the Downtown Commons plaza 😱 Folks are here going crazy for this performance to close out Day 1 of the California Classic!
#NBASummer
@ABC10
Sadly my dad is 1 out of these 200,000 deaths.
He took COVID-19 seriously because he was at-risk. He was wearing a mask & gloves as early as March. He tested positive 2 weeks after
@dougducey
re-opened AZ in May & he died in June, 2 weeks after returning to work at
@PlayAtGila
.
It’s as if God knew my dad would be called home soon & He put it in my heart to bring my camera with me on my trip to Phoenix in March. I sat both him & my mom down for extensive interviews about their lives.
That’s the last time I saw him.
Watch here:
"All that pressure sh*t y'all talking? I'm good. Pressure makes diamonds baby. I ain't got none of that."
Harry Giles
@HGiiizzle
with the bite of the night after Sacramento's 129-125 win over the Grizzlies
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Today marks 3 weeks since COVID-19 killed my dad.
I had been doing better this week but the news that his former employer,
@PlayAtGila
, will reopen today as
#coronavirus
cases continue to surge in AZ is so upsetting to me.
Here’s a reminder of who’s at risk.
I miss you, dad.
To be clear, the Sacramento Kings have been extremely active as an organization in providing spaces for the community to heal since Stephon Clark was shot & killed by Sac PD in 2018. Hosting forums, creating youth leagues, even going into prisons to challenge stigmas... A thread:
for my newsies, here’s how this happened: we had a story slugged “LOTS OF SHARKS!!!” earlier in the newscast and the editor was asked to link THIS video to THAT story... But instead they sent it to my “SHARKS GOLDEN KNIGHTS” VO, overwriting the
#SJSharks
highlights I cut 🙃🦈
Thank you to my former
@Cronkite_ASU
classmate
@VaughnHillyard
for telling my dad’s story on a national platform with such compassion
My dad’s death was preventable. He was my everything & now he’s a statistic after succumbing to COVID-19 after returning to work in an AZ casino
"you don't need to see my number or whatever, somebody might try to go to the caf" 🤣
@CP3
's currently taking communications classes with
@WSSURAMS
and he has the student ID to prove it! Paul's bringing the inaugural HBCU Challenge to
@FootprintCNTR
Nov. 28-29
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@12News
I can be an emotional person & my dad would always tell me to be strong. He is the strongest man I’ll ever know. He supported me through everything: dance, track, college dance team, broadcasting. He taught me so much about life. He was very careful & his death was preventable.
this is a photo from my first day at my first TV job — taken 10 years ago today. my journey’s come with its own unique twists & turns but I’m grateful for everyone who’s believed in me from ASU to Bakersfield to Sacramento & now back home in Phoenix. more to do, more to come ✨
"It's surreal. These are moments you dream of as a kid."
The
@SacramentoKings
held their first pre-draft workout this afternoon where Stockton's own Gabe Vincent
@iamgabevincent2
had the opportunity to show out in front of the legends he grew up watching.
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WATCH: