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Rodgers’ return will come next season with Jets out of playoff hunt and QB not 100% healthy

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

Aaron Rodgers’ quest to make an improbable return this season for the New York Jets appears over.The 40-year-old quarterback said during his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday he’s not yet 100% healthy in his recovery from a torn left Achilles tendon and is still a few weeks away.Rodgers said if the Jets had won last Sunday at Miami and remained in the postseason hunt, he “would have pushed it as far as I could this week” even at less than fully healthy to be ready to play against Washington on Sunday. But the Jets were routed 30-0 and eliminated from the playoff hunt for the 13th straight year.“If I was 100% today, I’d be pushing to play,” Rodgers said. “But I’m not. … I pushed it as far as I could.”Rodgers never firmly said he won’t play this season, but strongly indicated that is the case. The Jets opened the 21-day practice window for Rodgers on Nov. 29 and have until Wednesday to activate him from the injured reserve list. ...

Freshman OL Cayden Green transferring home from Oklahoma to Missouri. Alabama lands Texas A&M DL

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

Offensive lineman Cayden Green announced Tuesday he is transferring home to Missouri from Oklahoma, and Alabama landed a commitment from former Texas A&M defensive lineman LT Overton.The 6-foot-5, 316-pound Green, who is from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, started five games at guard as a freshman for the 12th-ranked Sooners this season. He was one of the top offensive line recruits in the 2023 recruiting class and will have three years of eligibility left.Overton was a five-star recruit who was on track to be in the 2023 class but reclassified to 2022 and was part of Texas A&M’s No. 1-ranked signing class of that year. The 6-5, 265-pound Overton, who is from Georgia, played more as a freshman than a sophomore but overall appeared in 23 games and made 48 tackles. He will have two years of eligibility left.Both revealed their decisions on social media.Georgia received a commitment from London Humphreys, Vanderbilt’s second-leading receiver this past season. Humphre...

Funeraria entrega las cenizas del difunto a familiares y el cerebro también, en una caja

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

Una familia de Missouri cuenta que cuando acudieron a una funeraria a recoger las cenizas de su ser querido, les entregaron una urna junto con una caja de cartón que contenía algo que no esperaban: el cerebro del hombre.La familia de Frederick Dean Love Jr., de 68 años, dijo que la terrible experiencia del año pasado los dejó sufriendo un trauma emocional severo y depresión, según una demanda presentada en octubre en la Corte de Circuito de la ciudad de St. Louis.La hijastra de Love dijo que todavía tiene fuertes dolores de cabeza después de haber estado expuesta a un químico tóxico para embalsamamiento utilizado en el cerebro, según la demanda.La familia dijo que inmediatamente se dieron cuenta de que algo andaba mal cuando llegaron a la capilla de Simpson Funeral Home para un servicio de ataúd abierto el 3 de octubre de 2022. Love había muerto el 25 de septiembre de 2022, después de colapsar en su casa de Missouri. Acuden a corte los dueños de una funeraria acusados ...

AP player of the week: Tulane’s Kevin Cross has consecutive 20-point triple-doubles

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

The Associated Press national player of the week in men’s basketball for Week 65 of the season:KEVIN CROSS, TulaneThe senior forward had consecutive triple-doubles against Furman and Southern last week. Cross had 25 points, 12 assists and 12 rebounds against Furman on Thursday for the Green Wave’s first triple-double since 1996. He followed that up with another, putting up 20 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds against Southern on Saturday. Cross joined Memphis’ Penny Hardaway (1992-93) as the only Division I players to have consecutive 20-point triple-doubles since assists became official in 1984.RUNNER-UPKyle Filipowski, Duke. The sophomore big man had 28 points, 12 rebounds, eight assists and three blocks in a win over Hofstra last Tuesday. He is the only DI player to put up those numbers since 2010-11.HONORABLE MENTIONDavid Jones, Memphis, Donovan Clingan, UConn.KEEP AN EYE ONElijah Hawkins, Minnesota. The junior guard had a school-record 17 assists in a win over IUPU...

QB transfers dominate the headlines. But the portal’s had a major impact on other positions too

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

All the attention surrounding quarterbacks who switch schools has overshadowed how the transfer portal has affected the way colleges try to stockpile talent at other positions.The Associated Press measured the impact of the transfers by tracking the top 20 prospects at every position each year from 2019-22, as rated by composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports.As expected, the most impacted position was quarterback. Nearly two-thirds of those 80 quarterbacks already have switched schools or are currently in the portal. But about 55% of the cornerbacks and about half of the safeties, running backs, wide receivers and inside linebackers also have either transferred or are in the process of doing so.All that movement is having a trickle-down effect on high school recruiting that has become apparent heading into Wednesday’s start of the December signing period. Since teams have a chance to fill holes in their roster with more proven players, high school prospects don’...

Courtois says he won’t play at Euro 2024 due to injury. Belgium goalkeeper has quarreled with coach

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois won’t be able to play at the European Championship next summer because of the long-term knee injury that has sidelined him since the start of the season, he said Tuesday.His absence could last even longer, though, amid ongoing tensions between Courtois and national team coach Domenico Tedesco.The Belgian federation said in a short statement it regrets that Courtois will miss the tournament but respects his decision.“We wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back on the pitch soon,” it said.Courtois said in an interview with Belgian broadcaster Sporza that he will not recover in time from ACL surgery on his left knee to play at the tournament. Euro 2024 will be hosted by Germany from June 14-July 14.“Due to the injury, there will be no European Championships for me anyway,” Courtois said. “I first have to recover the full 100% and then it is better not to put a date on it. If I’m lucky, I can play another m...

Northeastern US mops up ahead of holidays after deadly storm slams the region, killing at least 5

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the region rose even higher. At least five people were killed.In Hallowell, Maine, just south of the state capital of Augusta, the Kennebec River was over flood stage and still rising.Nathan Sennett, a cook at the Quarry Tap Room in town, was wading through hip-deep water to move furniture from a flooded patio and deal with a change in holiday-related business.“We were supposed to have a couple of parties today and tomorrow, and just kind of sporadically throughout the weekend,” he said. “But obviously, we’ve had to cancel those.”Utility crews worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands of customers following the powerful storm that brought windspeeds over 60 mph (96 kph) to some areas.“It was pretty loud, the wind was pretty strong, branches...

No. 17 UConn to play Toronto Metropolitan in a game NCAA will recognize as a regular-season contest

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Don’t call it an exhibition.No. 17 UConn is headed to Canada for a game Wednesday against Toronto Metropolitan University, which is not an NCAA team but a member of the Canadian organization U Sports.Rick Nixon, a spokesman for the NCAA, said the game will be recognized as a regular-season contest and all the statistics will count under the organizations’ rules involving “outside competitions.” The only caveat, he said, it that because TMU (10-0) is not an NCAA Division I opponent, a win or a loss won’t be calculated in UConn’s NET rankings for consideration in postseason seeding.The game was scheduled as part of a tradition at Connecticut in which Geno Auriemma tries to give his players from out of state at least one “homecoming” game in their careers at a school near their hometown.This one is for UConn senior Aaliyah Edwards, who is from Kingston, Ontario, and played high school ball in Toronto and is a member of the Canadian n...

China, Russia, Iran and Cuba all tried to meddle in 2022 US congressional elections, intelligence assessment finds

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

(CNN) — Foreign government efforts to target the 2022 US midterm elections appeared to grow compared with the 2018 elections, according to a declassified intelligence assessment released Monday, with a “diverse and growing group of foreign actors” participating.There was no known order from any foreign leader to “undertake a comprehensive, whole-of-government influence campaign” like the one Russia carried out in 2016, according to the report. But the assessment found that China, Russia, Iran and Cuba all tried to meddle in congressional elections in 2022.The intelligence community assesses with high confidence that China “tacitly approved efforts to try to influence a handful of midterm races involving members of both US political parties” – likely as part of a broad series of directives by Chinese Communist Party leaders since 2020 to “intensify efforts to influence US policy and public opinion in China’s favor.”China intensified its efforts to heighten sociopolitical divisions, a...

How Houthi rebels are threatening global trade nexus on Red Sea

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:43 GMT

The U.S. is mustering an international armada to deter Iranian-backed Houthi militias from Yemen from attacking shipping in the Red Sea, one of the world’s most important waterways for global trade, including energy cargos. The Houthis’ drone and missile attacks are ostensibly a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, but fears are growing that the broader world economy could be disrupted as commercial vessels are forced to reroute. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a videoconference with 43 countries, the EU and NATO, telling them that “attacks had already impacted the global economy and would continue to threaten commercial shipping if the international community did not come together to address the issue collectively.” Earlier this week, the U.S. announced an international security effort dubbed Operation Prosperity Guardian that listed the U.K., Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Seychelles and Spain as participan...