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Bubba Wallace on pole at Texas after making 2nd round of NASCAR’s playoffs

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Bubba Wallace will start from the pole at Texas, the first race after he just made the cut to get into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Wallace turned a lap of 188.337 mph in the final round of qualifying Saturday, finishing ahead of fellow playoff contenders and RFK Racing teammates Chris Buescher and Brad Keselowski.“Was I expecting it? I don’t know,” Wallace said. “Qualifying, you know, I tend to try too hard and overthink things. And that’s my problem with life, I need to stop doing it, I just need to just go out and do. So that was a good surprise.”It is the second career pole for Wallace, the 23XI Racing driver who entered the round of 12 in 12th place after the points were reset following the first three playoff races.Buescher will start on the front row Sunday with Wallace after a final lap of 188.081 mph. Keselowski, who is the owner of Buescher’s No. 17 car, qualified third at 187.891 mph.Christopher Bell was among the 10 drivers ...

Syracuse scores 29 unanswered points after sluggish start to defeat Army 29-16 and stay unbeaten

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Garett Shrader threw for one touchdown and ran for another, Syracuse overcame a first-half dominated by Army and scored 26 unanswered points to defeat the Black Knights 29-16 Saturday and remain unbeaten.Army totally dominated the first half statistics, but not on the scoreboard, where it led just 10-3. The Black Knights held the ball for 23:24, had 149 yards to the Orange’s 77, ran 41 plays to Syracuse’s 17. Army gained 129 yards on the ground, while the Orange could muster just 18.Syracuse (4-0) came alive in the second half, scoring on five straight possessions. LeQuint Allen scored on a 13-yard touchdown run to tie the game at 10 midway through the third and a 13-yard pass from Shrader to Umari Hatcher on the Orange’s next possession gave Syracuse a 16-10 lead over the Black Knights (2-2). The Orange defense held Army to just five first downs, minus four yards rushing yards, sacked Bryson Daily three times and intercepted him twice after intermission.Shrade...

TCU tops SMU 34-17 in long-running Dallas-Fort Worth rivalry that isn’t scheduled beyond 2025

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Chandler Morris threw for three touchdowns, Emani Bailey ran for 126 yards and a score and TCU wore down SMU in the second half of a 34-17 victory in the Dallas-Fort Worth rivalry Saturday.The Horned Frogs (3-1) intercepted Preston Stone twice after halftime in a second consecutive victory in the “Iron Skillet” game, which was played for the 102nd time but isn’t scheduled beyond 2025.Tight end Jared Wiley caught two short touchdown passes in the first half from Morris, who was 23 of 32 for 261 yards in his first game against the school near the Dallas high school he attended, Highland Park.Morris’ third touchdown came on fourth-and-2 to another tight end, Chase Curtis, with the TCU trying to get a first down to run out the clock in the final two minutes. Curtis got behind the defense for the 36-yard score.The Horned Frogs got 13 points out of three long drives to start the second half and should have had more after Josh Newton’s 53-yard int...

No. 2 Michigan starts slow but finishes strong in a 31-7 win over Rutgers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — J.J. McCarthy threw a tiebreaking, 18-yard touchdown pass to Semaj Morgan late in the first half and No. 2 Michigan went on to beat Rutgers 31-7 on Saturday with coach Jim Harbaugh on the sideline for the first time since serving a school-imposed three-game suspension.The Wolverines (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) went ahead by 17 points on Mike Sainristil’s 71-yard interception return with 4:31 left in the third quarter. Blake Corum’s second rushing touchdown of the game — his eighth score of the season — put Michigan up 31-7 early in the fourth.The Scarlet Knights (3-1, 1-1) took a 7-0 lead on the third snap of the game on Gavin Wimsatt’s 69-yard touchdown pass to Christian Dremel, but they missed chances to score more in each quarter.Corum capped a 94-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run to help Michigan pull into a tie on its second possession and the All-American running back finished with 97 yards on 21 carries. McCarthy was 15 of 21 for 214 yard...

Renzi’s 40-yard FG as time expires lifts Sacred Heart past St. Francis 37-34

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

LORETTO, Pa. (AP) — Jon Moccia’s 34-yard kickoff return set up Sam Renzi’s 40-yard field goal as time expired expired, lifting Sacred Heart to a 37-34 win over St. Francis (Pa.) on Saturday afternoon.St. Francis tied it on Cole Doyle’s pin-point 17-yard pass to Aaron Tutino with 2:29 to play. Doyle kept the drive alive with a 17-yard gain on 4th-and-4 from from his own 31.Moccia’s return put the Pioneers at their 45 and Rob McCoy calmly drove the team into range for Renzi’s third field goal.McCoy was 14 of 23 for 285 yards and two touchdowns for the Pioneers (1-3, 1-1 Northeast Conference). Malik Grant had 120 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries.Doyle was 16 of 28 for 193 yards and three touchdowns for Sacred Heart (0-4, 0-1).The Red Flash took a quick 10-0 lead but after three-straight punts, Sacred Heart scored on five-straight possessions, taking a 20-17 lead at the half on a 40-yard field goal as time expired. The Pioneers added a touchdown to open the th...

Coastal North Carolina hit by flooding as Tropical Storm Ophelia moves inland

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges.The storm came ashore near Emerald Isle with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph (113 kph) at around 6:15 a.m. but was expected to weaken as it moves north Saturday and then shifts northeast on Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, noting that the maximum sustained winds had dropped to 45 mph (80 kph) by the afternoon.Videos from social media showed riverfront communities in North Carolina such as New Bern, Belhaven and Washington experiencing significant flooding.Even before it made landfall, the storm proved treacherous enough that five people had to be rescued by the Coast Guard on Friday night from a boat anchored down near the North Carolina coastline.Ophelia promises a weekend of windy conditions and heavy rain as it churns ...

United Auto Workers strike: Negotiations continue after walkouts expand to other plants

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

YPSILANTI, Mich. — Negotiations between the Detroit Three and the United Auto Workers continue on day nine of a targeted plant strike — one day after the union sent all workers at General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV parts plants nationwide to picket lines.UAW President Shawn Fain on Friday expanded the union’s strike, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts distribution centers. The move added 5,600 workers at those facilities, which span 20 states, to the 12,700 other Detroit Three workers who remain on strike at three assembly plants run by GM, Stellantis and Ford Motor Co. The union spared Ford in adding more plants to the strike since it made more progress in talks with the Dearborn automaker.The union is pushing for significant wage increases, an end to a tiered-wage scale, cost-of-living increases and other demands.One of the plants added to the target list is GM’s processing center in Ypsilanti, where 161 people work. On Saturday, a handful of employees from first shif...

Amazon’s Prime Video to incorporate commercials next year

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

Amazon will be adding advertisements to shows and movies streamed on its Prime Video platform early next year, the tech and e-commerce giant said Friday morning.Amazon said Prime Video will have “meaningfully fewer ads than” traditional TV channels and other streaming services. U.S. subscribers will be able to opt out of commercials for an additional charge of $2.99 a month, with pricing for other countries to come later.The ads will launch in early 2024 in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada; as well as, later that year, Mexico, Australia and certain other European countries.The change reflects a larger shift in the entertainment industry, which has grown gradually disenchanted with the model of online content popularized by Netflix: unlimited ad-free streaming for a fixed monthly rate.In August, the Walt Disney Co.’s quarterly earnings report came alongside the announcement that the media conglomerate would be raising the price of ad-free Disney+ — t...

Marc McLaughlin, Oskar Steen throw their hats into crowded Bruin ring

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

The good news for some young Bruin hopefuls is that there are jobs available, especially in the bottom six forward slots.The more, shall we say, challenging news is that the B’s brass has not handed what could be the next Black and Gold generation anything, signing young veterans like Patrick Brown and Jesper Boqvist and bringing in established vets Alex Chiasson and Danton Heinen on PTOs, both of whom have looked more than capable so far in camp of earning contracts.So while opportunity is there, players like Oskar Steen and Marc McLaughlin will have to seize it with both hands, much like AJ Greer and Jakub Lauko did last season.It won’t be easy making this roster, despite the turnover.But both Steen and McLaughlin bring some tools to the table that could give them an advantage. Let’s start with Steen. At 5-foot-10, 195 pounds he brings a physicality that the B’s are looking for this year in front of both nets. When he first came up two years ago, he brought...

Catholic Memorial starts new win streak vs. St. Francis (NY)

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:08:46 GMT

WEST ROXBURY — When star running back Mekhi Dodd was injured in Catholic Memorial’s loss to Cardinal Newman of Florida last weekend, the Knights knew they would be missing one of the best playmakers in the state.But there were still games to be played, and CM had strong players ready to step in.Behind the running of Chris Sanchez and Lesean Sharp, CM rolled to a 50-36 victory Saturday against St. Francis of New York.With the win, CM improves to 2-1, while St. Francis drops to 0-4.“We have very limited depth,” CM coach John DiBiaso said. “We go from seniors and juniors down to sophomores and freshmen real fast. We’re very fortunate. We had three guys at the beginning of the year. We lost one. We still have two.”“The Florida game, it was obviously very humbling,” Sanchez said. “We came off good, but we had too many injuries. (Against St. Francis), we just played CM football, really.”Sanchez rushed for four touchdowns — all in...