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Ohio State, Michigan players involved in postgame scuffleTHE Kansas City Chiefs got a special locker room visit after their Christmas Day win. After crushing the Pittsburgh Steelers , the Chiefs got a visit from Santa Claus in their locker room. The Chiefs locked up the No. 1 seed in the AFC with their 29-10 win, and Santa Claus made sure to give them their flowers. Of course, it wasn't actually St. Nick, but head coach Andy Reid dressed up in a costume. He was especially fired up from securing the No. 1 seed and gave a passionate speech to his players. "Merry Christmas! Proud of you, dudes. Proud of you," he said. Read more on the NFL "For the present, you get home field advantage." Chiefs fans loved the gesture from their head coach and shared their thoughts on social media "As much as I hate the Chiefs. Patty is the goat and Andy Reid is the best coach ever. Respect," one fan said. "Andy Reid as Santa might be the most clutch play of the season," another fan said. Most read in American Football "Classic holiday fun," a third fan said. "I love Andy Reid man," a fourth fan said. "Andy Reid might be the goat santa," a fifth fan said. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were also in festive attire after their dominating performance. The two were gifted special red and white jackets from Netflix after their big win. Mahomes threw for 320 yards with three touchdowns during the game. Kelce accounted for 84 of those yards and a touchdown. Netflix will be the global home of the NFL on Christmas Day this year. The streaming service will show two special holiday games live around the world. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs kick off the double header against the Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 pm ET. And they'll be followed by the Baltimore Ravens at the Houston Texans from 4.30 pm ET. That game will also feature a halftime show from Beyonce in her home town of Houston, Texas. Netflix also confirmed their broadcast team for the day , led by Fox NFL commentator Greg Olsen and former Good Morning Football host Kay Adams. He also broke the Chiefs' record for receiving touchdowns and became the first Chief with 1,000 receptions during the game. The focus was on Mahomes after the game though, as he gave his wife Brittany a shoutout on live TV. "I told my wife, my pregnant wife, I was gonna get her the No. 1 seed so we can go have that baby," he said. Read More on The US Sun "So we got the one seed." The Mahomes' are expecting their third child soon.

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Buggs shot 4 for 7 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Buccaneers (6-2). Jaden Seymour scored 13 points and added 11 rebounds. Quimari Peterson had 13 points and went 6 of 11 from the field. The Governors (4-4) were led in scoring by LJ Thomas, who finished with 15 points. Austin Peay also got 10 points, seven rebounds and two steals from Tate McCubbin. Tekao Carpenter also had eight points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

Despite spending 16 seasons with the New York Giants, former quarterback Eli Manning did something this week that he's never done in the Big Apple. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Thanks for the feedback.Chelsea’s surprise defeat at home to Fulham earlier in the day had been an unexpected gift for Arne Slot’s side and they drove home their advantage by outclassing the struggling Foxes. Having overcome the early setback of conceding to Jordan Ayew, with even the travelling fans expressing their surprise they were winning away after taking just five points on the road this season, the home team had too much quality. That was personified by the excellent Cody Gakpo, whose eighth goal in his last 14 appearances produced the equaliser in first-half added time with the Netherlands international unlucky to have a second ruled out for offside by VAR. Further goals from Curtis Jones and Mohamed Salah, with his 19th of the season, stretched Liverpool’s unbeaten run to 22 matches. For Leicester, who had slipped into the bottom three after Wolves’ win over Manchester United, it is now one win from the last 10 in the league and Ruud van Nistelrooy has plenty of work to do, although he was not helped here by the absence of leading scorer Jamie Vardy through injury. It looked liked Liverpool meant business from the off with Salah’s volley from Gakpo’s far-post cross just being kept out by Jakub Stolarczyk, making his league debut after former Liverpool goalkeeper Danny Ward was omitted from the squad having struggled in the defeat to Wolves. But if the hosts thought that had set the tone they were badly mistaken after being opened up with such simplicity in only the sixth minute. Stephy Mavididi broke down the left and his low cross picked out Ayew, who turned Andy Robertson far too easily, with his shot deflecting off Virgil van Dijk to take it just out of Alisson Becker’s reach. With a surprise lead to cling to Leicester knew they had to quell the storm heading their way and they began by trying to take as much time out of the game as they could, much to Anfield’s frustration. It took a further 18 minutes for Liverpool to threaten with Gakpo cutting in from the left to fire over, a precursor for what was to follow just before half-time. That was the prompt for the attacks to rain down on the Foxes goal, with Salah’s shot looping up off Victor Kristiansen and landing on the roof of the net and Robertson heading against a post. Gakpo’s inclination to come in off the left was proving a problem for the visitors, doing their utmost to resist the pressure, but when Salah curled a shot onto the crossbar on the stroke of half-time it appeared they had survived. However, Gakpo once again drifted in off the flank to collect an Alexis Mac Allister pass before curling what is fast becoming his trademark effort over Stolarczyk and inside the far post. Early the second half Darwin Nunez fired over Ryan Gravenberch’s cross before Jones side-footed home Mac Allister’s cross after an intricate passing move inside the penalty area involving Nunez, Salah and the Argentina international. Leicester’s ambition remained limited but Patson Daka should have done better from a two-on-one counter attack with Mavididi but completely missed his kick with the goal looming. 🎯 pic.twitter.com/IqmAsKylLR — Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 26, 2024 Nunez forced a save out of the goalkeeper before Gakpo blasted home what he thought was his second only for VAR to rule Nunez was offside in the build-up. But Liverpool’s third was eventually delivered by the left foot of Salah, who curled the ball outside Kristiansen, inside Jannick Vestergaard and past Stolarczyk inside the far post.

NoneEthnic nationalities from the six geopolitical zones and groups at the end of its just concluded symposium in Kaduna have proposed an eight region structure for the country. Participants at the two days event insisted that the time has come for Nigeria to restructure, into reorganized regions. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the national symposium, the National President of the Middle Belt Forum, Dr Bitrus Pogu represented by the National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Alamu said the middle belt believe in the oneness of Nigeria, saying, but we believe the country need to restructure. For instance, “we in the middle belt want more states in the zone. The convener of the two day summit, Deacon Owolabi Oladejo, explained to the first series of the national symposium was held in Ibadan in 2023, saying that the essence of The Rebirth Group is to provide a platform where people of ethnic nationalities and minorities can air their views freely on the future of Nigeria. In a communique read by the chairman of the communique drafting committee, Mr Jare Ajayi noted that the proposed Regions should be given more powers over their respective affairs. “In other words, the central government is to concern itself only with issues that the federating units cannot handle. The central government should be smaller and smarter. ALSO READ: Jigawa Gov launches N10.88bn erosion control project in Dutse “Six Regions were recommended at the Ibadan Symposium – perhaps in line with the present geo-political zones. At the Kaduna Symposium however, Eight Regions were proposed. But each region would be equal to the other in status and ranking. The ethnic nationalities believes that restructuring into Regions is not meant to abrogate states that we have presently. However, posited that, “The Regions would form the Federating units to make the country to be known as United Regions of Nigeria (URN) or any other nomenclature that we find convenient “Each Region is to have its own Constitution and be autonomous. This is to ensure that they are in a proper position to operationalize self-determination. “The restructuring must be such that the community, state and local government from where certain resources come should have 70 per cent of the proceeds of the resources while 30 per cent goes to the center. “To avoid domination or even sit-tight syndrome, heads of each level of government should be rotational on the basis of the constituents within that enclave. “When the head comes from one area the deputy would be from another part. “The latter would automatically become the Head of the Government at the end of the tenure of the incumbent. “This should be done in a manner that each constituent area in the state, region and the country will have the opportunity to be head of government in turn. NIGERIAN TRIBUNE Get real-time news updates from Tribune Online! Follow us on WhatsApp for breaking news, exclusive stories and interviews, and much more. Join our WhatsApp Channel now

For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as “rineanswsaurs” or sarcastic as “srkastik.” The 14-year-old from suburban Indianapolis can sound out words, but her dyslexia makes the process so draining that she often struggles with comprehension. “I just assumed I was stupid,” she recalled of her early grade school years. But assistive technology powered by artificial intelligence has helped her keep up with classmates. Last year, Makenzie was named to the National Junior Honor Society. She credits a customized AI-powered chatbot, a word prediction program and other tools that can read for her. “I would have just probably given up if I didn’t have them,” she said. Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless other students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments to execute tasks that come easily to others. Schools everywhere have been wrestling with how and where to incorporate AI , but many are fast-tracking applications for students with disabilities. Getting the latest technology into the hands of students with disabilities is a priority for the U.S. Education Department, which has told schools they must consider whether students need tools like text-to-speech and alternative communication devices. New rules from the Department of Justice also will require schools and other government entities to make apps and online content accessible to those with disabilities. There is concern about how to ensure students using it — including those with disabilities — are still learning. Students can use artificial intelligence to summarize jumbled thoughts into an outline, summarize complicated passages, or even translate Shakespeare into common English. And computer-generated voices that can read passages for visually impaired and dyslexic students are becoming less robotic and more natural. “I’m seeing that a lot of students are kind of exploring on their own, almost feeling like they’ve found a cheat code in a video game,” said Alexis Reid, an educational therapist in the Boston area who works with students with learning disabilities. But in her view, it is far from cheating : “We’re meeting students where they are.” Ben Snyder, a 14-year-old freshman from Larchmont, New York, who was recently diagnosed with a learning disability, has been increasingly using AI to help with homework. “Sometimes in math, my teachers will explain a problem to me, but it just makes absolutely no sense,” he said. “So if I plug that problem into AI, it’ll give me multiple different ways of explaining how to do that.” He likes a program called Question AI. Earlier in the day, he asked the program to help him write an outline for a book report — a task he completed in 15 minutes that otherwise would have taken him an hour and a half because of his struggles with writing and organization. But he does think using AI to write the whole report crosses a line. “That’s just cheating,” Ben said. Schools have been trying to balance the technology’s benefits against the risk that it will do too much. If a special education plan sets reading growth as a goal, the student needs to improve that skill. AI can’t do it for them, said Mary Lawson, general counsel at the Council of the Great City Schools. But the technology can help level the playing field for students with disabilities, said Paul Sanft, director of a Minnesota-based center where families can try out different assistive technology tools and borrow devices. “There are definitely going to be people who use some of these tools in nefarious ways. That’s always going to happen,” Sanft said. “But I don’t think that’s the biggest concern with people with disabilities, who are just trying to do something that they couldn’t do before.” Another risk is that AI will track students into less rigorous courses of study. And, because it is so good at identifying patterns , AI might be able to figure out a student has a disability. Having that disclosed by AI and not the student or their family could create ethical dilemmas, said Luis Pérez, the disability and digital inclusion lead at CAST, formerly the Center for Applied Specialized Technology. Schools are using the technology to help students who struggle academically, even if they do not qualify for special education services. In Iowa, a new law requires students deemed not proficient — about a quarter of them — to get an individualized reading plan. As part of that effort, the state’s education department spent $3 million on an AI-driven personalized tutoring program. When students struggle, a digital avatar intervenes. More AI tools are coming soon. The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding AI research and development. One firm is developing tools to help children with speech and language difficulties. Called the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, it is headquartered at the University of Buffalo, which did pioneering work on handwriting recognition that helped the U.S. Postal Service save hundreds of millions of dollars by automating processing. “We are able to solve the postal application with very high accuracy. When it comes to children’s handwriting, we fail very badly,” said Venu Govindaraju, the director of the institute. He sees it as an area that needs more work, along with speech-to-text technology, which isn’t as good at understanding children’s voices, particularly if there is a speech impediment. Sorting through the sheer number of programs developed by education technology companies can be a time-consuming challenge for schools. Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, said the nonprofit launched an effort this fall to make it easier for districts to vet what they are buying and ensure it is accessible. Makenzie wishes some of the tools were easier to use. Sometimes a feature will inexplicably be turned off, and she will be without it for a week while the tech team investigates. The challenges can be so cumbersome that some students resist the technology entirely. But Makenzie’s mother, Nadine Gilkison, who works as a technology integration supervisor at Franklin Township Community School Corporation in Indiana, said she sees more promise than downside. In September, her district rolled out chatbots to help special education students in high school. She said teachers, who sometimes struggled to provide students the help they needed, became emotional when they heard about the program. Until now, students were reliant on someone to help them, unable to move ahead on their own. “Now we don’t need to wait anymore,” she said. This story corrects that Pérez works for CAST, formerly the Center for Applied Specialized Technology, not the Center for Accessible Technology. The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org .North Carolina interviews Bill Belichick for head coaching job, AP sources say

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