Malique Ewin finished with team highs of 17 points and seven rebounds to lead the Florida State Seminoles to a 92-59 victory over the Massachusetts Minutemen in each team's final game of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tip-Off on Sunday afternoon in Uncasville, Conn. The Seminoles (6-1) won their third consecutive game and went 2-0 in the event as they pulled away in the second half, leading by as many as 36 points. It's Florida State's best start since the 2019-20 season when it went 7-1. UMass (1-5) dropped its fifth in a row following a season-opening win over New Hampshire despite a strong game on Sunday from Jaylen Curry, who scored 17 points. Curry, with six free throws, helped propel the Minutemen on a 10-0 run over a four-plus minute span in the first half to take a 24-23 lead with 4:22 left. FSU closed the half on a 13-3 run to lead 37-27 at halftime. A 15-4 surge to open the second half helped the Seminoles break the game open. Florida State's defense frustrated UMass shooters throughout the contest, especially on the perimeter, limiting the Minutemen to 3-for-24 shooting (12.5 percent) from 3-point range and 18-for-58 (31 percent) overall. The Seminoles finished with 22 points off 17 UMass turnovers. On the flipside, Florida State had one of its best shooting games of the season. The Seminoles moved the ball well throughout the game and finished with 25 assists while only turning the ball over 10 times. The Seminoles shot 33 for 58 (57 percent) from the field and made 9 of 18 three-pointers to put together a season-high scoring output. Once again, Florida State shined thanks to its depth as 10 players scored and four scored in double figures. The Seminoles were able to have 16 players participate in the game as well. Jamir Watkins finished with 14 points while Jerry Deng and Justin Thomas each had 10 points. For UMass, Daniel Rivera finished with 12 points and six rebounds while Nate Guerengomba had 10 points. Daniel Hankins-Sanford collected a game-high 13 rebounds. --Field Level Medialodigame gaming 。

It has been described as "one of Australia's worst days of Test cricket" and it's hard to argue after India completely put the hosts to the sword on day three. From start to finish, it was complete annihilation in Perth, from young gun Yashasvi Jaiswal notching a century to Jasprit Bumrah tearing a hole in the top order. While a lot of the hype will be around Virat Kohli's breakthrough ton after 16 months , the performance from the Aussies has raised major alarm bells for the rest of the series. READ MORE: Kohli sends 'ominous' warning to Aussies with dominant ton READ MORE: Luckless star suffers injury scare in 'bizarre' moment READ MORE: 'Drama' haunts Smith on final day as young gun wins title "I doubt that an overseas player has come to Australia in the last 15 years and played in this fashion," Indian legend Ravi Shastri said on Fox Cricket. "To set up the series - they call him the king - to get a hundred in the very first Test match, it's a terrific signal for India and it's ominous from an Australian point of view." Virat Kohli scored an impressive century on day three. Getty Australia could only muster up six wickets as India set a mammoth total, declaring with just half an hour left to play and giving the home team a tough period to see out. Unfortunately, the red-hot Bumrah wreaked havoc once again, taking the wickets of Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne to leave the Aussies reeling at 3-12. The dismissal of Labuschagne in particular raised some eyebrows, especially after the No.3 batter opted to review a clear lbw despite not offering a shot. Labuschagne's work with ball in hand also came under fire after the umpires warned him for negative bowling due to too many leg-side deliveries. Test legend Adam Gilchrist was stunned by the usage of the part-timer, who switched from his short-pitched medium pace to leg-spin as India moved towards declaration. "Have you ever seen such a despondent team of Australian cricketers, resorting to those tactics? What are deemed negative, illegal tactics by the rulebook," he said. English legend Michael Vaughan agreed with the former Aussie wicketkeeper. "I've not seen that," he said. "I'm looking at this Australian side, they're a terrific side, and for whatever reason they bowl out India for 150, then only bat well enough to only get 104, and then with the ball in hand they had periods where they bowled nicely. "But that last half an hour is something I've not seen in Australia. Every boundary rider was on the fence, Labuschagne's bowling around the wicket, he's bowling negatively." Marnus Labuschagne during the first Test. Getty The fragile batting order that was exposed in the first innings is already in trouble the second time around, with McSweeney and Labuschagne gone. Across the board, day three was an absolute shambles and it's impossible to take any positives from it from an Aussie perspective, with a humbling loss all but inevitable. While the match isn't officially done and dusted, social media was quick to react and cast doubt over Australia's ability to bounce back in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. When play resumes on Monday, the next batter in is Steve Smith - a player struggling for form and clearly unable to deal with the awkward pace and height of Bumrah. From there, it's over to the big hitters Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh to try and salvage something from this clash, before the series heads to Adelaide. To make matters worse, India has four superstars waiting in the wings. Shubman Gill is expected to return at some stage from a thumb injury, spin duo Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja should play a role, while captain Rohit Sharma will be back on deck for the second Test after missing this one due to personal reasons. It's a scary thought for Aussie fans, but there are still four games to make amends.

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That match was effectively the APS grand final, but Brighton still had two games to play and trailed in the final term a week later against St Kevin's College before coming from behind, as they did against Haileybury. Brighton also survived eventual No.1 draft pick Sam Lalor's first-half heroics to beat Geelong Grammar in the last match to seal a perfect season. Only 19 of the 71 draftees picked up in the national draft came from a public school, but Joslin said there was an unfair perception that private schools always "poached" talented footballers. "It's not often us, or any schools in the APS, swooping on kids," he said. "I would say it's often the parents of boys in state schools, or the like, reaching out to schools in the private system, knowing the offerings they get – not just from a resource standpoint for footy, [because] I think that's secondary. "I think it's more the academic networking opportunities ... so I would like to change the vernacular around us poaching, or swooping, on boys or girls in the state system." Harry Oliver prepares to kick long for Brighton Grammar. Credit: Mark Chew Photography St Patrick's College students Ollie Hannaford (pick No.18) and Jack Ough (36) are both headed to... Marc McGowan

What time does ‘Yellowstone’ come on tonight? How to watch season 5 part 2 new episode for freeMalique Ewin finished with team highs of 17 points and seven rebounds to lead the Florida State Seminoles to a 92-59 victory over the Massachusetts Minutemen in each team's final game of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tip-Off on Sunday afternoon in Uncasville, Conn. The Seminoles (6-1) won their third consecutive game and went 2-0 in the event as they pulled away in the second half, leading by as many as 36 points. It's Florida State's best start since the 2019-20 season when it went 7-1. UMass (1-5) dropped its fifth in a row following a season-opening win over New Hampshire despite a strong game on Sunday from Jaylen Curry, who scored 17 points. Curry, with six free throws, helped propel the Minutemen on a 10-0 run over a four-plus minute span in the first half to take a 24-23 lead with 4:22 left. FSU closed the half on a 13-3 run to lead 37-27 at halftime. A 15-4 surge to open the second half helped the Seminoles break the game open. Florida State's defense frustrated UMass shooters throughout the contest, especially on the perimeter, limiting the Minutemen to 3-for-24 shooting (12.5 percent) from 3-point range and 18-for-58 (31 percent) overall. The Seminoles finished with 22 points off 17 UMass turnovers. On the flipside, Florida State had one of its best shooting games of the season. The Seminoles moved the ball well throughout the game and finished with 25 assists while only turning the ball over 10 times. The Seminoles shot 33 for 58 (57 percent) from the field and made 9 of 18 three-pointers to put together a season-high scoring output. Once again, Florida State shined thanks to its depth as 10 players scored and four scored in double figures. The Seminoles were able to have 16 players participate in the game as well. Jamir Watkins finished with 14 points while Jerry Deng and Justin Thomas each had 10 points. For UMass, Daniel Rivera finished with 12 points and six rebounds while Nate Guerengomba had 10 points. Daniel Hankins-Sanford collected a game-high 13 rebounds. --Field Level MediaLeading marketing executive Lisa Ronson has been remembered as “the light in every life she touched” after her tragic death in a farm accident near Daylesford on Saturday night, reports News Corp’s Rebecca Borg . The high-profile businesswoman lost control of an all-terrain vehicle at her beloved property on Daylesford-Clunes Rd in Ullina about 7pm. Ronson’s family told the Herald Sun the 52-year-old had been stolen “from us far too soon”. Her husband Chris Taylor paid tribute to “the love of my life, my inspiration and greatest supporter”. “I am lost without her,” he said. Taylor said his wife – who was the chief marketing officer at Medibank – was the “light in every life she touched”. Ronson joined Medibank after leaving her role as chief executive of marketing at Coles in May 2023, following a successful four-year stint where she won numerous awards including Australia’s most prolific marketer and the Best of the Best Marketer of the Year in 2021. [Read more] Prominent anti-gambling advocate Tim Costello has slammed the government’s failure to enact a long-mooted ban on wagering advertising, saying it had caved in to vested interests and broken a commitment to get it passed before Christmas, reports The AFR’s Max Mason . Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is facing growing frustration, including from within her own party, over the delay in introducing legislation to restrict gambling advertising 18 months after an inquiry led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy recommended a total ban. The Albanese government may still restrict gambling advertising but does not plan to introduce legislation this week, according to Rowland’s office. Monday kicks off the last parliamentary sitting week of the year, which may also be the last before an election if an early vote is called. [Read more] Southern Cross Media will hold its AGM on Monday, and we ­imagine that chairman Heith Mackay-Cruise will face an uncomfortable grilling over, well, just about everything going wrong with the management of the business, report The Australian’s Yoni Bashan and Nick Evans . We hear he’ll just scrape over the line during a re-election ballot, but Adore Beauty chair Marina Go , appointed to the board last month, and notably without any broadcast experience, is unlikely to survive. She is quite certain to be dumped, and there’s certainly a view that Mackay-Cruise should be following her out. Just take a look at the joint. The SCA board has received five transaction proposals over the past 12 months and shrugged off each of them as the share price kept tumbling – from highs of $1.05 in November last year to Friday’s pitiful close of 54.5c. [Read more] See also: Southern Cross hit with first strike, with chairman under pressure The Albanese government is facing growing backlash for attempting to ram through its ban on social media for people under 16 before the end of the week without proper consultation, reports The AFR’s Max Mason . The government’s proposed ban allowed the industry just a day to make fresh submissions on a bill introduced to parliament last Thursday. The Senate will hold a three-hour public inquiry on Monday before reporting on Tuesday. The legislation is expected to pass this week with the support of the Coalition, who announced a similar policy in June. [Read more] Back when he lived in Newtown, Alan Jones had a wall covered in photographs of himself with the Pick and Stick crew. There were football players, political allies, celebrities and billionaires; the “Moses of the airwaves” had cultivated a powerful fellowship over his first 20-odd years on air, and still had half his radio career to run. Yet even then, some in his orbit had misgivings about getting too close to Jones. “The last place you wanted to end up was on his wall,” said one, reports Nine Publishing’s Jordan Baker . Being close to Jones was, as one former staffer put it, “an exhausting thing”. It was like being smiled upon by a capricious emperor. The anointed ones, who ranged from sports stars to musicians to prime ministers and premiers, were graced with favours and largesse. But they had to pay homage or risk it all. Jones’ warning that a failure to respond to a request would “be the end of our friendship”, was ominous indeed. For decades, power protected Jones. He bullied his staff, bulldozed elected officials, and was perceived to favour handsome young men. Few were game to challenge him. Those who did paid the price. Jones was a man “drunk on power”, said one former staffer, and “did not know when to stop”. But his grip loosened as society changed and Jones refused to change with it, as advertisers became reluctant to align themselves with his increasingly fringe views, and as movements such as #MeToo put the anatomy of power under the microscope. [Read more] Prominent broadcaster and podcaster Josh Szeps has defended radio star Alan Jones despite revealing that the 83-year-old made repeated physical advances towards him as a young producer on his radio show, including trying to kiss him and touch his genitals, reports Nine Publishing’s Riley Walter . In an episode of his Uncomfortable Conversations podcast, Szeps told listeners that Jones – who on Monday was arrested and charged with 26 offences against nine alleged victims after a top-secret police investigation – tried to “put his hand on my dick”, kiss him and rub his chest on several occasions while he worked as a junior producer on his radio show. “It was clear that he had a crush on me, and he hit on me many times, and in that context, hitting on me meant making a physical move, not a verbal one. He tried to put his hand on my dick, he tried to kiss me, he tried to rub my chest, and I would just slap him off, and we would laugh, and we’d move on,” Szeps said. [Read more] Some of those best placed to uphold the presumption of innocence are the same ones who ignored it, after Alan Jones was arrested and charged with more than two dozen alleged offences against nine men over two decades. His youngest alleged victim was 17, writes The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen. The presumption of innocence was undermined when NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald fronted the media and described the complainants as victims. He commended the “victims” for their “bravery in coming forward”. “The victims have our full support. This is what they have been asking for,” he said. “These are serious charges.” Equally serious is the presumption of innocence. There is no “victim”. Not yet. There is a complainant. I would launch this strident defence of the presumption of innocence even if Jones were my foe. That Jones is a friend of mine is neither here nor there. A good portion of the media take the presumption of innocence seriously. But when, in the first press conference after Jones’s arrest, a senior policeman calls a complainant a “victim”, the media will report that. When police tip off the media about the arrest of a man with as high a profile as Jones, the media will film that. Still, there are plenty in the media also laying down impressions that here’s a man who has rightly met his comeuppance. [Read more] The Australian has recorded the highest audience growth of any major metropolitan print title over the past year, with its average weekday readership surging by more than 10 per cent, according to figures released by research company Roy Morgan on Monday, reports The Australian’s James Madden . The national masthead ­attracted 38,000 extra readers over the past 12 months, more than any newspaper in the country. The Weekend Australian also remains the most-read Saturday masthead in the nation, lifting its audience by 1.1 per cent year on year and boasting more than 3.6 times more readers than the Nine-owned business tabloid The Australian Financial Review on weekends. Across print and digital, The Australian is read by more than four million consumers each month, with its cross-platform audience 16 per cent higher than that of the AFR , its main commercial rival. Of News Corp’s state-based titles, the Herald Sun’s weekday edition drew an additional 19,000 readers (up 3.3 per cent year on year), the Courier-Mail’s cross-platform metro audience (print and digital) jumped by 12.1 per cent over the past 12 months, The Advertiser climbed by 4.7 per cent and Sydney’s Daily Telegraph increased by 2.5 per cent. The weekday edition of the Herald Sun remains the most-read Monday-to-Friday masthead in Australia, while Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph is the highest-selling title on weekends, with an average weekly readership of 804,000. [Read more] The Sydney Morning Herald continues to hold its long-running title as Australia’s most-read masthead, attracting a cross-platform readership of more than 7 million, fresh Roy Morgan figures have revealed, reports Nine Publishing. The numbers were driven by the Walkley Award-winning investigative series Building Bad, the masthead’s Olympics and Paralympics coverage and news of two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, which have also pushed subscriber figures higher. At 7.05 million readers in the 12 months to September, this means about one in three Australians choose to read the Herald , putting it ahead of competitor The Daily Telegraph , which had 4 million. The Herald’s Monday to Friday print edition notched average reader numbers of 386,000, while the Saturday paper recorded 472,000 readers. Victoria’s The Age has a national readership of 4.55 million, ahead of competitor the Herald Sun by 450,000. [Read more] Tensions are reportedly high at Brisbane’s 4BC as breakfast host Peter Fegan has an issue with the station’s decision to enlist Shane Doherty as a summer fill-in presenter, reports News Corp’s Georgia Clelland . Doherty, a former senior media adviser to the Palaszczuk government, will temporarily replace drive host Gary Hardgrave while both he and Fegan are on leave. Sources close to the station reveal Fegan and Doherty share a frosty history. Both Fegan and Hardgrave have been vocal critics of Palaszczuk. The move to bring Doherty on board is understood to have been driven by execs in Sydney, bypassing local reservations. Meanwhile, future of Brisbane breakfast radio is under scrutiny, with speculation swirling that Sydney’s Kyle and Jackie O Show could replace Robin and Kip on KIIS97.3 in 2025. Despite strong denials from the Australian Radio Network (ARN), industry insiders remain unconvinced, citing recent structural changes at the station as potential indicators. The redundancy of Robin and Kip’s executive producer, Ruth De Glas , this week has fuelled rumours of an impending shake-up. [Read more] Jase Hawkins , Lauren Phillips and Clint Stanaway of Nova Melbourne’s breakfast show marked an unusual anniversary on Friday, with November 22 being the date last year that they were told they were being axed from the breakfast shift at KIIS FM to make way for Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson , reports News Corp’s Fiona Byrne . Twelve months on, the number 1 FM breakfast show in Melbourne is the Nova trio while Sandilands and his posse are dwelling in seventh position in the overall breakfast market. “We just want to thank everyone for listening to our show. It was one year ago today that we were told no one wanted to listen to us on the radio,” Phillips said on their show on Friday. “We got shafted a year ago to the day,” Hawkins added. [Read more] Brigitte Duclos is radio’s comeback queen, reports News Corp’s Fiona Byrne . After a stellar career as part of some of Melbourne radio’s most iconic on air teams in 90s and mid noughties, Duclos thought her radio days were over when the axe fell on her role as host of Gold FM’s breakfast show in late 2015. But after forging a new career as a counsellor, Duclos is returning to the airwaves in 2025 as the host of ABC Melbourne’s afternoon show. Duclos started her media career in the sports department at Channel 10 in 1986 before moving into general news. In 1992 she also started reading news on Richard Stubbs’ Triple M breakfast show. “Eventually I gave up the TV because I thought this radio is so much better for me,” Duclos said. After four years on Stubbs’ show she joined Triple M’s The Grill Team with Eddie McGuire and Dermott Brereton . Next came The Cage on Triple M with Peter Berner, James Brayshaw, Matt Parkinson and Mike Fitzpatrick before Duclos moved to MIX FM (now KIIS) in 2008 to host breakfast with Tom Gleeson and George McEnroe . [Read more] Matt Doran , the co-host of Seven’s Weekend Sunrise , is quitting the network, reports The Australian’s James Madden . The 41-year-old made the announcement during Sunday’s show, telling viewers that after five years on the program, he would be finishing up at the end of the year. “It’s something I’ve agonised over because it’s honest to say this is one of the best jobs on earth, but we think it’s right – and at the right time – for our little family,” Doran told viewers. Three years ago, Doran made headlines across the globe when he delivered an on-air apology to British singer Adele after he flew to the UK to interview her about her new album without having listened to it – a mistake that left him Rolling In The Deep shit with his bosses at Seven. [Read more] Samantha Armytage is set to “Wake up with Today ” next month, when she sits in the hot seat as host of the program, reports News Corp’s Briana Domjen . Sunday Confidential can reveal Nine bosses have asked Armytage to “fill in” for a week and a half over the summer period, while regular hosts Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo are on leave. She will be co-hosting the show with Weekend Today host Clint Stanaway . Armytage wouldn’t return Confidential’s calls on Saturday, and a Nine spokesperson said the network would confirm its summer program soon. It is believed Nine has made the move in a bid to get the Nine audience acquainted with Armytage, who worked with rival network Seven for 21 years but recently jumped ship to host their new reality dating program. Whether it is a “trial” for a more permanent position is yet to be seen. [Read more] The Seven Network may be about to dip their toe back in the rugby league waters, report News Corp’s Brent Read and Michael Carayannis . The network has held internal talks over starting their own rugby league show next year in a potential pointer to entering the fight for the game’s broadcast rights in coming months. Seven were last involved with rugby league seven years ago when they won the rights to televise the 2017 World Cup. However, they have hitched their wagon to AFL in recent years and Nine has been the commercial broadcaster of choice for rugby league. [Read more] Josh Hazlewood has been sold for nearly $2.3m while Jake Fraser-McGurk’s price has gone through the roof, reports cricket.com.au’s Max Hatzoglou . A total of 37 Australians will go under the hammer across two days of the Indian Premier League Auction beginning on Sunday night. Mitchell Starc was one of the first few players to sell with the left-arm quick going to the Delhi Capitals for 11.75 crore ($2.14 million), less than half of the 24.75 crore he went for last year to break the record for the most expensive player in IPL history. Marcus Stoinis was sold to Ricky Ponting’s Punjab Kings for 11 crore ($2 million) while rising star Jake Fraser-McGurk was sold to the Capitals for 9 crore ($1.64 million) after the franchise which he starred for last year matched the bid of the Kings. Glenn Maxwell was sold to the Kings for 4.2 crore ($765,000) and Mitchell Marsh was picked up by the Lucknow Super Giants for 3.4 crore (620,000). Josh Hazlewood was the last of the first five Aussies to be sold at the auction with the fast bowler heading to the Royal Challengers Bengaluru for 12.5 crore ($2.29 million), the highest price of an Aussie at the auction so far. David Warner went unsold in the auction. [Read more]

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Jordan Ivy-Curry, UCF aim to topple TulsaFrench President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally Francois Bayrou as prime minister, after a historic parliamentary vote ousted the previous government last week. Mr Bayrou, 73, a crucial partner in Macron’s centrist alliance, has been a well-known figure in French politics for decades. His political experience is seen as key in efforts to restore stability as no single party holds a majority at the National Assembly. Mr Macron’s office said in a statement that Mr Bayrou “has been charged with forming a new government”. During the handover ceremony, Mr Bayrou said that “no one knows the difficulty of the situation better” than he does. “I’ve taken reckless risks all along my political life to raise the issue of debt and deficits in the most important elections,” he said. France is under pressure from the European Union’s executive body and financial markets to reduce its colossal debt, estimated to reach 6% of its gross domestic product this year. “I know that the risks of difficulties are much greater than the chances of success,” Mr Bayrou said, adding that he hopes to lead the country towards a “needed reconciliation”. “I think this is the only possible path to success,” he said. The new prime minister is expected to hold talks with political leaders from various parties in the coming days in order to choose new ministers. Former prime minister Michel Barnier resigned last week following a no-confidence vote prompted by budget disputes in the National Assembly, leaving France without a functioning government. Mr Macron in an address to the nation vowed to remain in office until his term ends in 2027. Mr Macron’s centrist alliance does not have a majority in parliament and Mr Bayrou’s Cabinet will need to rely on moderate lawmakers from the left and the right to be able to stay in power. Some conservatives are expected to be part of the new government. Mr Macron’s strategy aims at preventing far-right leader Marine Le Pen from holding “make or break” power over the government. Ms Le Pen helped oust Mr Barnier by joining her National Rally party’s forces to the left to pass the no-confidence motion last week. Mr Bayrou’s appointment is also in line with Mr Macron’s efforts to build a non-aggression pact with the Socialists so that they commit not to vote against the government in any future confidence motion. Mr Bayrou leads the centrist Democratic Movement, known as MoDem, which he founded in 2007. In 2017, he supported Mr Macron’s first presidential bid and became a weighty partner in the French president’s centrist alliance. At the time, he was appointed justice minister, but he quickly resigned from the government amid an investigation into the MoDem’s alleged embezzlement of European Parliament funds. Mr Bayrou this year was cleared in the case by a Paris court, which found eight other party officials guilty and sentenced the party to pay a fine. Mr Bayrou became well known to the French public when he was education minister from 1993 to 1997 in a conservative government. He was three times a candidate for president: in 2002, 2007 and 2012.

United States women’s head coach Emma Hayes admitted she initially grappled with how best to behave during ‘God Save The King’ ahead of her side’s goalless draw with England in their Wembley friendly. The billing of London-born former Chelsea boss Hayes against England’s Dutch manager Sarina Wiegman – arguably the best two bosses in the women’s game – had generated more buzz in the build-up than the players on the pitch, despite it being a rare encounter between the two top-ranked sides in the world. Hayes enjoyed her return to familiar shores but felt the US lacked the “killer piece” after they looked the likelier side to make the breakthrough. Elite meeting of the minds 🌟 — U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (@USWNT) Asked what was going through her mind during the national anthem, Hayes said: “I was definitely mouthing (it), and Naomi (Girma) and Lynn (Williams) could see that I was struggling with where to be and all that. “I got to the end of the anthems and I thought, ‘that’s so ridiculous. I’m proud to be English and I’m proud of our national anthem, and I’m also really proud to coach America’. “Two things are possible all at once. I don’t want to fuel a nationalist debate around it. The realities are both countries are really dear to me for lots of reasons, and I’m really proud to represent both of them.” The Lionesses did not register a shot on target in the first half but grew into the game in the second. US captain Lindsey Horan had the ball in the net after the break but the flag was up, while Hayes’ side had a penalty award for a handball reversed after a VAR check determined substitute Yazmeen Ryan’s shot hit Alex Greenwood’s chest. Hayes, who left Chelsea after 12 trophy-packed years this summer, said: “I’ve been privileged to coach a lot of top-level games, including here, so there’s a familiarity to being here for me. “It’s not new to me, and because of that there was a whole sense of I’m coming back to a place I know. I have a really healthy perspective, and I want to have a really healthy perspective on my profession. “I give everything I possibly can for a team that I really, really enjoy coaching, and I thrive, not just under pressure, but I like these opportunities, I like being in these situations. They bring out the best in me. “You’ve got two top teams now, Sarina is an amazing coach, I thought it was a good tactical match-up, and I just enjoy coaching a high-level football match, to be honest with you. I don’t think too much about it.” Hayes had travelled to London without her entire Olympic gold medal-winning ‘Triple Espresso’ forward line of Trinity Rodman, Mallory Swanson and Sophia Smith, all nursing niggling injuries. Before the match, the 48-year-old was spotted chatting with Wiegman and her US men’s counterpart, fellow ex-Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino, who was also in attendance. England were also missing a number of key attackers for the friendly including Lauren Hemp, Lauren James and Ella Toone, all ruled out with injury. "This shows where we are at and we need to keep improving. It is November now. This is good but we want to be better again. We have to be better again." 👊 Reaction from the boss ⬇️ — Lionesses (@Lionesses) Wiegman brushed aside suggestions from some pundits that her side were content to settle for a draw. She said: “I think we were really defending as a team, very strong. We got momentum in the second half, we did better, and of course both teams went for the win. “So many things happened in this game, also in front of the goal, so I don’t think it was boring. “We wanted to go for the win, but it was such a high-intensity game, you have to deal with a very good opponent, so you can’t just say, ‘Now we’re going to go and score that goal’. “We tried, of course, to do that. We didn’t slow down to keep it 0-0. I think that was just how the game went.”EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — J.K. Dobbins will miss at least the next four games after the Los Angeles Chargers placed the running back on injured reserve Saturday. The team also placed safety Alohi Gilman on injured reserve and signed safety Tony Jefferson to the active roster. Dobbins sprained the MCL in his left knee late in the first half of the Chargers’ 30-23 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Monday. Dobbins is fourth in the AFC in rushing with 766 yards and averages 4.8 yards per carry, third highest among AFC running backs with at least 100 carries. He has been considered among the candidates for AP Comeback Player of the Year after suffering a torn Achilles tendon in last season’s opener. Gus Edwards will be counted on to be the lead back in Dobbins' absence. Edwards missed four games during the middle of the season because of an ankle injury and has 25 carries for 93 yards in three games since returning to the lineup. The Chargers are 7-4 and hold the sixth seed in the AFC going into Sunday's game at NFC South leader Atlanta (6-5). Los Angeles is at Kansas City (10-1) in a prime-time game on Dec. 8, hosts Tampa Bay (5-6) on Dec. 15 and Denver (7-5) on Dec. 19. Gilman suffered a hamstring injury in the loss to the Ravens. He has 47 tackles, which is fifth on the team, along with one sack. Los Angeles also elevated cornerback Dicaprio Bootle and linebacker Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste from the practice squad for Sunday’s game. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl The Associated PressGlobal Blockchain Technologies (CVE:BLOC) Stock Price Up ∞ – Should You Buy?

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President who died at the age of 100 on Sunday night, shared a special connection with India and even has a village in Haryana named after him called 'Carterpuri'. On January 3, 1978, Mr Carter, along with the then First Lady Rosalynn Carter, travelled to Daulatpur Nasirabad - a village in Haryana which is an hour away from Delhi. According to the Carter Center, an NGO founded by Mr Carter , the visit was so successful that the residents renamed the area 'Carterpuri' in honour of the former US President. They also remained in contact with the White House for the rest of Mr Carter's tenure. January 3 was declared a holiday in 'Carterpuri' since then. When Mr Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, the villagers held massive festivities and celebrated his honour. The visit by the former US President came just a year after the removal of the Emergency and the victory of the Janata Party. During his time in India, he had also addressed the Parliament. Speaking against the authoritarian rule, Mr Carter said, "For the remainder of this century and into the next, the democratic countries of the world will increasingly turn to each other for answers to our most pressing, common challenge: how our political and spiritual values can provide the basis for dealing with the social and economic strains to which they will unquestionably be subjected." Not just this, Mr Carter also shared a personal connection with India as his mother, Lillian, had worked in the country as a health volunteer with the Peace Corps during the late 1960s. Since the Carter administration, the US and India have worked closely on energy, humanitarian aid, technology, space cooperation, maritime security, disaster relief, and counterterrorism. In the mid-2000s, the two countries struck a landmark agreement to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation, and bilateral trade has since skyrocketed, the Carter Center said. Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived US President and Nobel peace laureate, died at the age of 100. He had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia - the same town where he was born and once ran a peanut farm before becoming governor of the Peach State. "Carter died peacefully at his home in Plains surrounded by his family," the Carter Center wrote in a statement. Mr Carter's son, Chip, told news agency AFP, "My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights and unselfish love." US President Joe Biden expressed grief over Mr Carter's death and declared January 9 as the national mourning day. "I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter, Jr. I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance," he said. Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the worldMacron names ally Bayrou as new PM as he aims to restore political stability

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Dec. 29—The Eagles had every excuse to lose Sunday. They were playing their archrivals, the Cowboys, for the second time this season. The Cowboys were out of playoff contention but they had won four of five games, including a win at Washington, the site of the Eagles' latest disaster, and they were playing with abandon, visiting a team haunted by collapses both distant and recent. The week before, the Birds blew a 14-point lead at Washington, where they lost quarterback Jalen Hurts to a concussion that lingered through Sunday, Hurts' first missed game of the season. Worse, the Eagles' top-ranked defense had lost its composure, and the game, at Washington. Finally, on Sunday, not only was the offense's quarterback absent, so was the defense's quarterback: Middle linebacker Nakobe Dean missed Sunday's game due to an abdominal strain. They had every excuse to lose. They didn't lose. Nick Sirianni wouldn't have it. Several players said afterward that Sirianni this past week reiterated this axiom: "You can't be great without the greatness of others." It's that sort of saying that has been the hallmark of Sirianni's astounding success. He's 47-20 in the regular season, has the best winning percentage among active coaches, and secured a fourth straight playoff appearance Sunday. From Monday to Sunday, no one in the Eagles Nation was greater than Sirianni. In a 13-win campaign that saw the Birds clinch the NFC East with a week left, it was, in many ways, Sirianni's finest hour of the season. "Amazing," said tackle Jordan Mailata. "In many ways, I think that was our best complementary football of the season." It was a ticklish spot for Sirianni, who's had a hell of a season. He'd been questioned after a 2-2 start, which followed a 1-5 collapse in 2023 and a blowout loss in the playoffs. He'd been pilloried after Game 5, when he taunted Eagles fans after a home win. Game 5 was the start of a franchise-record 10-game winning streak, in which a more composed, mature Sirianni guided the team to blowout wins in Cincinnati and Dallas as well as decisive victories over the Commanders, Rams, Ravens, and Steelers. A pass-first coach, Sirianni had leaned on Saquon Barkley, who, in the fourth quarter, became the ninth player to eclipse 2,000 rushing yards in a season; at 2,005, he passed O.J. Simpson's best season, in 1973 with the Bills, but remains 100 yards behind Eric Dickerson's 1984 record, set with the Rams. Sirianni's next big decision: Will he let Barkley play in a probably meaningless finale against the Giants next week? "We'll see." "If it's in God's plan," Barkley said, "then it is. I didn't come here just to rush for 2,000 or break a record. It's up to Nick." It's a nice decision to have to make, especially considering the more pressing problems he dealt with this past week and the weight carried by Sunday's game against the Cowboys. Last week's messy loss, combined with Hurts' injury, added to a postgame dustup with former Eagles tight end Zach Ertz, put the focus on Sirianni again. He'd been a Coach of the Year candidate for a month. He'd seemingly earned a contract extension; his expires after next season. But a loss to the Cowboys and a win by the Commanders on Sunday night would have put the division title in jeopardy, and, perhaps, Sirianni's future. Sirianni proved equal to the task. "We had a great atmosphere, you know?" cornerback Quinyon Mitchell said. "Coach came in and said, 'We have to look ourselves in the mirror. Clean up some mistakes.' So, in practice, we honed in. This week was executed, mentally, really well." Sirianni prepared backup quarterback Kenny Pickett, whose style of play is entirely opposite to that Hurts'. He prepared third-string rookie Tanner McKee, who threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Brown for a dagger late in the third quarter, then added a 25-yarder to DeVonta Smith in the fourth. He controlled Jalen Carter, who led the league with four unnecessary roughness penalties, and C.J. Gardner-Johnson, who was ejected at Washington for two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls. Carter's disappearance and Gardner-Johnson's absence led to 22 fourth-quarter points in the Commanders' comeback win. Carter was outstanding on Sunday. Gardner-Johnson? Amazing. Two interceptions. A pick-six on the first Commanders' possession. With Hurts out of action, he even broke down the pregame huddle. "He responded awesome," Sirianni said, and said it was a manifestation of Sirianni's "dog mentality" philosophy: "Learning from your mistakes, but putting them in the past, and being able to focus completely on where you're at right now. That won't only serve him well in football, it will serve him well in life." It served Sirianni well on Sunday. Really, he was never better. He featured Smith, knowing the Cowboys would sell out to stop Brown. Smith had six catches for 120 yards and two touchdowns. Brown had three catches for 36 yards and a score. Nothing mattered more than preparing Pickett. Pickett recognized a six-man blitz and hit Smith for a 22-yard touchdown and a 14-7 lead. He was part of four short-yardage Tush Pushes, three of which worked, the fourth for a touchdown as the first half expired with the Eagles leading, 24-7. He completed 10 of 15 passes for 143 yards and the touchdown before a hit from Micah Parsons aggravated a rib injury Pickett suffered at Washington and knocked him from the game. "It's very much a college-team feel," Pickett said afterward. "Everyone cares about each other. That's incredibly special." With Pickett hobbled and with McKee an unknown entity, Sirianni knew the Birds would have to ride Barkley. They did: They gave the ball to Barkley on six of the first seven plays of the third quarter, and he gained 30 yards as the Eagles made four first downs, used almost seven minutes, and came away with a 26-yard field goal for a 20-point lead. Barkley finished with 167 yards, the fifth-highest rushing total of his career, the third-highest total of this season, and his 11th 100-yard rushing game this season. He did it on 31 rushes, which tied for the third-highest total of his career. This was not the Cowboys team that began the season as a playoff favorite. It lacked quarterback Dak Prescott, defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, receiver CeeDee Lamb, guard Zack Martin, and cornerback Trevon Diggs, five of Dallas' six best players, excepting Parsons. Also, Mike McCarthy remains their coach. So no, the Cowboys weren't good. But, since Sirianni was hired in 2021, the Eagles have lost to plenty of teams that weren't good. Occasionally, Sirianni has been the problem. On Sunday, he was the solution. (c)2024 The Philadelphia Inquirer Visit The Philadelphia Inquirer at www.inquirer.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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