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The NFL won the head-to-head battle for viewers with the College Football Playoff. Front Office Sports, citing figures from Nielsen, reported Tuesday that the Kansas City Chiefs' 27-19 win over the Houston Texans on Saturday averaged 15.5 million viewers on NBC, more than double the average of 6.4 million people who watched Penn State defeat SMU 38-10 on TNT Sports in the same time frame. The Baltimore Ravens' 34-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers drew an average of 15.4 million for Fox Sports, while 8.6 million viewers tuned in to see Texas defeat Clemson 38-24in the College Football Playoff on TNT. The CFP games returned stronger ratings when they weren't matched up against an NFL game, however. Ohio State's 42-17 victory over Tennessee, played in primetime on Saturday night, averaged 14.3 million viewers on ESPN. The network also saw strong ratings for Notre Dame's 27-17 win over Indiana on Friday night with an average of 13.4 million. All four first-round CFP games were played at campus sites. They averaged 10.6 million viewers overall, per Front Office Sports, which noted that figure exceeded the ratings for all but four college football broadcasts this season. --Field Level Media

Harrisburg continued its winning tradition in the District 3 Class 6A playoffs as the fourth-seeded Cougars defeated second-seeded Wilson 42-14 at Reiffton on Saturday afternoon. Penn State commit Messiah Mickens, a junior, had a strong game on both sides of the ball, scoring two rushing touchdowns, as well as three sacks and four tackles for losses on defense. Playing for its fourth straight title, Harrisburg scored the first three touchdowns before taking a 21-6 lead at halftime. Despite getting the ball first to start the second half, the Bulldogs (11-2) could not score on the first drive of the third quarter, and the Cougars (11-2) scored three touchdowns over the span of five minutes to put the game away. “Despite this loss, I’m so proud of my guys,” Wilson sophomore Mike Glover said. “The seniors especially. We fought. This game got away from us and it’s not the outcome we wanted. But we’re gonna get back in the lab, the juniors and sophomores, and we’re gonna get back to work and come back stronger next year.” With 8:12 left in the third, Jaiyon Lewis completed a 3-play 47-yard drive with a 37-yard touchdown pass to Elias Coke. Coke had a fingertip grab streaking over the middle after beating out the Bulldogs’ secondary Then, with its back close to its own end zone trailing 28-6, Wilson went for a fake punt pass on fourth down from their own 10 that fell incomplete, resulting in a 10-yard touchdown run by D’Antae Sheffy moments later to make it 35-6 with 6:42 remaining in the third. Mickens’ third sack of the day on fourth down of the Bulldogs’ ensuing drive gave Harrisburg the ball once again. This time, Lewis connected with Quincy Brannon on a pop pass near the line of scrimmage before Brannon took the pass 30 yards for the touchdown. In the fourth, with 10:56 to go in the game, a 22-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Madyx Gruber to Glover, followed by a two-point conversion run by Monty Greer closed out the scoring. Gruber finished the game 12-for-20 passing for 133 yards and two interceptions. “Madyx, man, he’s my guy,” Glover said. “He’s got a really bright future ahead of him, whether it’s football or basketball. And his basketball season is coming up and I know he’s gonna do great things. He did great things on the field this year so I’m proud of him.” In total, the Cougars outgained Wilson 306-155 with Harrisburg recording 180 rushing yards while the Bulldogs had just 26. The Cougars had four different rushers gain 30 or more rushing yards and Nehemiah Ewell had a team-high 52 rushing yards off his 52-yard touchdown run. “We just dug ourselves some holes that we couldn’t get out of,” Wilson coach Doug Dahms said. “And give it to them they have athletes across the board.” The Cougars posted the opening touchdown when Mickens scored a 7-yard touchdown run with 2:59 left in the opening quarter. The play completed a 7-play, 45-yard drive. A bad snap on a Wilson punt from their own 49 on the drive prior gave Harrisburg solid field position. After a second consecutive three-and-out for the Bulldogs, the Cougars took over and quickly advanced down the field before a 4-yard touchdown run by Mickens added to the lead on the first play of the second quarter. Trailing 14-0 midway through the second quarter, the Bulldogs put together a strong drive that ended with a turnover. After starting at their own 34, Wilson advanced to first and goal from the 5. Two runs for no gain, followed by a 2-yard run made it fourth and goal from the 3. Gruber dropped back and under heavy pressure rolled out to the right. With multiple lineman in his face Gruber attempted a pass to Glover in the back middle of the end zone that was intercepted by Trays Walker. Following the interception, a 52-yard run by Nehemiah Ewell completed a 5-play 80-yard drive for Harrisburg, making it 21-0 with 4:22 left in the first half. “We knew we had to play a really good game and get some breaks,” Dahms said. “We played well at times, but we couldn’t get any breaks.” The Bulldogs put together another promising drive to close out the first half and put points on the board. A 13-play, 58-yard drive culminated with a 2-yard touchdown run by Gruber with 14 seconds left. The drive took just over four minutes off the clock. Greer had a team-high 37 rushing yards on six carries and Cam Zullinger had a team-high 31 receiving yards on three catches. E.J. Brownback led the Bulldogs’ defense with 7.5 total tackles. “I told the kids, ‘This hurts, but you can’t overlook what you did this year,'” Dahms said. “You beat a lot of teams that nobody expected. We just let this one get away. We didn’t play our A game, and you needed your A game for this. “The seniors did a heck of a job. It was a great senior group. They did everything that was asked.”

NoneWinning the 2024 election didn’t just return Donald Trump to power. It also allowed him to dodge multiple criminal cases . And while his unofficial vice president , Elon Musk, didn’t need a Trump win to stay out of jail—at least under any existing charges—the victory likely freed Musk and his companies from regulatory oversight. That’s an exceedingly lucky break for Musk, currently being scrutinized by multiple government agencies for everything from his inflated claims about self-driving Tesla cars to his SpaceX rocket launches polluting wetlands to his purchase of social media platform X—just to name a few. To be perfectly fair, Trump’s victory means a far friendlier atmosphere for all greedy billionaires who hate regulations, not just Musk personally. But Musk is the one sitting next to Trump at Thanksgiving and the one who threw roughly $260 million at Trump’s campaign while fawning over him on X and in person. So which pesky investigations and regulations is Musk probably free of now that his bestie is headed to the White House? For starters, perhaps he’ll get out from under the alphabet soup of agencies looking into Tesla’s so-called full self-driving system, or FSD. Musk has promised a vision of a completely autonomous hands-free Tesla since 2013 . It’s not a vision that has ever come true. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has twice required Tesla to recall FSD because of the system’s bad habit of ignoring traffic laws, including being programmed to run stop signs at slow speeds. In October, the agency opened another inquiry after the company reported four crashes, one of which killed a pedestrian, when FSD was used in low-visibility conditions like fog. The issue isn’t just that FSD is unsafe. It’s also that Tesla hoovered up cash by selling a product that basically doesn’t exist. Tesla owners filed a class-action lawsuit in 2022 alleging the company defrauded them by charging $15,000 for an FSD package that didn’t result in a Tesla being able to drive itself successfully. Tesla’s defense? Full self-driving is merely an aspirational goal, so a failure to provide it isn’t a deliberate fraud—just bad luck. Perhaps that’s the same excuse Tesla would have trotted out in response to the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation into whether the company committed wire fraud by deceiving consumers about FSD’s capabilities and securities fraud by deceiving investors. Trump named former reality show star and former Congressman Sean Duffy to head the Department of Transportation, of which NHTSA is a part, and tapped one of his impeachment defense attorneys, Pam Bondi, to head the DOJ after Matt Gaetz’s nomination flamed out. There’s no reason to think either of these people will grow a spine and continue investigating “ first buddy ” Elon Musk or Tesla. Trump’s election also probably gives SpaceX breathing room. Musk’s private space company, which receives literal billions in government money, hasn’t been terribly interested in following government rules. In September, the Environmental Protection Agency fined SpaceX $148,378 for dumping industrial wastewater and pollutants into wetlands near its Texas launch site. The company paid that fine, albeit with some whining about how it was “disappointing” to pay when it disagreed with the allegations, but it’s planning on challenging the recent $633,000 fine from the Federal Aviation Administration. The regulatory agency proposed the fine after two launches in 2023 where the company allegedly didn’t get FAA approval for launch procedure changes and didn’t follow license requirements. This isn’t SpaceX’s first run-in with the FAA. The aerospace company paid a $175,000 fine in October 2023 over not submitting required safety data to the agency before a 2022 launch of Starlink satellites. After an April 2023 launch where one of the company’s rockets blew up shortly after takeoff, sending debris over South Texas, the FAA required the agency to make dozens of changes before another launch. Like the NHTSA, the FAA is part of the Transportation Department. Sean Duffy’s past as an airline industry lobbyist doesn’t inspire confidence that he’ll take a hard line against SpaceX. And as far as whether the EPA will continue to pose any problems for Musk? Under Trump, that agency will be run by former GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, whose primary qualification seems to be hating EPA regulations . He’s voted against replacing lead water pipes and cleaning up brownfields and sees his mission at the EPA as pursuing “energy dominance.” Again, not exactly someone who will bring the hammer down on Musk or his companies. Musk is also in hot water with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the possibility he delayed disclosing his acquisition of Twitter stock in 2022. Investors must disclose when they accumulate 5% of a publicly traded company, a requirement that ostensible super-genius Musk says he misunderstood somehow. Under President Joe Biden, current SEC chair Gary Gensler has aggressively pursued enforcement efforts, a trend in no way expected to continue under whoever Trump picks. Lightning round! Musk tried hard to violate a consent order with the Federal Trade Commission by giving “Twitter Files” writers improper access to user data, but he was thwarted by Twitter employees who actually followed the order. He’s faced numerous unfair labor practices claims and been investigated multiple times by the National Labor Relations Board, so he’s suing to have the board declared unconstitutional . He lost out on $885 million in government subsidies after the Federal Communications Commission found that Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service, couldn’t meet the speed metrics for the government’s rural broadband program. Luckily for the multibillionaire, the incoming head of the FCC is a pal of Musk’s who thinks it is “ regulatory harassment ” to require Starlink to meet program requirements. Musk will also have the advantage of helming a newly invented entity, the cringily titled Department of Government Efficiency (aka DOGE—ugh), that can put his rivals under a microscope. DOGE’s co-head, fellow tech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, has already said he’ll examine a government loan to Rivian, a competing electric vehicle manufacturer, calling the loan “a political shot across the bow at Elon Musk and Tesla.” Though DOGE is not an actual department—you need Congress to create one of those—and cannot slash spending directly, Musk could still suggest to Trump that government funding of fiber optic cables in rural areas be gutted . This would leave satellite services like Starlink as the only option for some rural consumers—an option either those consumers or the government would then have to pay for. Until Trump was elected in 2016, it was impossible to imagine giving billionaires like Musk so much opportunity to use the levers of government to openly and directly benefit themselves. Now that Trump has won a second term in office, Musk is just one of many oligarchs looking forward to an extremely lucrative four years. It’s lucky for them—but terrible for the rest of us.

This picturesque seaside village in regional Victoria lures food lovers for its annual Wild Harvest Seafood Festival and, year round, delights those looking for a stay that combines the bush, fishing and relaxation. The cruise Take a cruise on the historic M.V. Loch-Ard. To really appreciate the beauty and size of the surrounding lakes get on board the MV Loch-Ard, which has been beetling around the Victorian waterways since it was first built, from Huon pine and kauri, in 1910. It is a snugly romantic vessel and during a sunset cruise you can watch the changing colours of the skies, see white sea eagles dive for an evening meal and hear some great local stories from Captain Dale Winward. See mallacootacruises.com The historic stay Karbeethong Lodge was built in 1922 and offers a slice of nostalgia. Karbeethong Lodge has the distinction of being favourably compared to heaven by A Sentimental Bloke author C.J. Dennis when he stayed here in 1932. It is hard to argue with him as you sit on the balcony of this 1920s-built seaside guesthouse with a local Gippsland drop in hand, looking across the grassy slope of a yard to the tranquil East Gippsland waters. Owners Graeme and Jenny Mitchell keep things warm and inviting with a retro collection of furnishings that populate the communal spaces of the huge living room and the help-yourself kitchen. Rooms are quirky and often have more beds than you need, but this is a very special place from which to explore the region. See karbeethonglodge.com.au The local dinner Lucy’s Cantonese fare is legendary in Mallacoota. Lucy’s, on the main street of Mallacoota, is an order-at-the-counter, family-working-all-stations affair that is packed on a weekend with visitors and locals sharing tables full of simple but utterly delicious dishes in serves that often require a take-away container. The go-tos here are the fresh, handmade noodles teamed with locally caught abalone and homegrown herbs, generously stuffed prawn har gau and rolled-up newspaper-sized spring rolls. The museum Mallacoota’s Bunker Museum was once part of a group of World War II-era military installations. The Bunker Museum was originally part of a chain of military installations that protected this exposed easterly part of the Australian coast during World War II. Now visitors descend the stairs into the rainbow-roofed bunker for a taste of military and local history with displays of “trench art” made from shell casings, the story of the sinking of British ship the SS Cumberland and a full-scale replica of home life in the 1940s complete with a mannequin looking like she has come off the set of Dad’s Army . See mallacootabunker.com.au The market Located near The Muddie, the mud brick pavilion at the centre of the Lions Park in town, this local market is full of the freshest local produce, local arts and crafts and community groups. It is a regularly changing roster of stallholders but keep an eye out for The Travelling Squid with its signature salt-and-pepper calamari and “prawn twists”. See mallacootamarkets.com The festival The Wild Harvest Seafood Festival was created to celebrate some of the less-loved creatures of the sea, such as the abalone and sea urchin that Mallacoota is known for. Started in 2022 (after some delays), the “whelk-om” dinner might have local oysters cooked over fire by Noel Butler from First Nations social enterprise Black Duck Foods, and pesce crudo using locally caught fish by guest chefs such as Stefano de Pieri. You might catch a live band, learn a sea shanty or enter a sandcastle making competition. It is an intimate introduction to this special part of Victoria. See wildharvestseafoodfestival.com The creative hub The Mallacoota Art Space, inside the Croajingolong Centre, often hosts an artist-in-residence. Tucked in behind the local radio station, inside the Croajingolong Centre, is the Mallacoota Art Space that is not only hung with works from local artists but, more often that not, will have an artist-in-residence producing works who is up for a chat about the local area and the wild coast that provides much of the inspiration for the local makers and creators. See visitmallacoota.com.au The nature walk Croajingalong National Park is great for bathing, walking or just taking in the view. It is a short drive to Genoa Falls in the Croajingolong National Park, just outside of Mallacoota, where the water runs down a long, flat slope packed full of water dragons that dart away into the rocks as soon as they see you. It is a great spot for bathing or simply wandering through the walking trails. If you have extra time the walk to Genoa Peak gives you a killer view of the surrounding bush and waterways. See visitmallacoota.com.au One more thing ... Abalone is now being processed locally. Mallacoota is the abalone capital of Victoria and the Australian Wild Abalone plant recently opened after the previous operation was devastated by the 2019 Gippsland bushfires. In the past, most of the popular aquatic meat was sent straight to Asia, but there is a renewed interest in using the fresh meat at home, so keep an eye out for it on local menus and at markets. See ex1191.com.au Paul Chai was a guest of Wild Harvest Festival and Destination Gippsland.AP Trending SummaryBrief at 5:52 p.m. EST

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