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For the first time since 2011, the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies will be facing off in the formerly iconic, Lone Star Showdown. The rivalry game that was discontinued after the Aggies left the Big 12 for the SEC has since been reignited, with the Longhorns joining the SEC. While the vitriol from the fanbases never left, there is some added stakes in Saturday's matchup. This, of course, is the fact that the winner will go to the SEC title game to play Georgia. While the No. 3 Longhorns (10-1) have just one blemish on the season, while the No. 20 Aggies(8-3) have three, the health of Quinn Ewers may even the playing field a bit. The third-year starter injured his ankle against Kentucky last weekend, and it was clear that he was not the same player. With hopes he'd be able to recover quickly for this game, it appears, based on reports, that he is not 100%. A reason that the Houston Chronicle's Kirk Bohls thinks his backup, Arch Manning, will get some run. "I expect a hobbled Quinn Ewers to play but won't be surprised at all if Arch Manning gets in the game," wrote Bohls. Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images As college football fans learned earlier in the season, Manning is much more mobile than Ewers. In fact, he was clocked at over 20 miles per hour on a 60+ yard touchdown run against UTSA. Ewers isn't the most mobile quarterback, so an ankle injury limiting his movement even more against an aggressive pass rush may not be ideal. According to ESPN BET, the Longhorns are still favored by 4.5 points, but as we know, in rivalry games, the spread can always be thrown out the window. Related: Travis Hunter Is All Over Social Media After Colorado GPA SurfacesIt was the spring of 1991, and St. John’s had just lost to eventual champion Duke in a regional final of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Lou Carnesecca invited the several newspaper writers who covered the team to a season-ending lunch at Dante Restaurant, his longtime hangout near campus. Why not? It seemed like a nice gesture. So this then-30-year-old reporter told his editor he would be gone for a bit and set out from Newsday’s Queens office. Six hours later . . . I left the restaurant with a better sense of what a casual lunch with Carnesecca entailed, and with a quintessential New York experience. Rather than the small table of sportswriters I envisioned, there were long ones that filled the restaurant with several dozen of Looie’s closest friends. Menus? Um, no. Just rounds of Italian food as chosen by the chef, and even more rounds of red wine bottles. Scenes from an Italian restaurant on Union Turnpike, hosted by Lou Carnesecca, complete with heartburn and a hangover. Why bring this up now? Because it is one way among many of illustrating the life and times of Carnesecca, who died Saturday at age 99. To call him old school would be an understatement. The guy was born in 1925, two years before television. His father, Alfredo, ran a grocery store in East Harlem. Carnesecca lived his entire life in and around New York City other than during his service in World War II and evolved only grudgingly. He was a character who reveled in being a character, most of it genuine, some of it shtick and all of it memorable. And as much as he was a New Yorker out of central casting himself, he knew almost every other famous New Yorker in the sports world of the middle-to-late 20th century. And non-New Yorkers, too. Basketball was his bailiwick, though. St. John's basketball coach Lou Carnesecca, center, flanked, by players from left, Ron Steward, Chris Mullin and Bill Wennington, laugh as they hold the trophy for winning the Holiday Festival College Basketball tournament, December 29, 1984 at New York's Madison Square Garden. Credit: AP/G. PAUL BURNETT In an interview with Newsday late in 2023, two weeks before his 99th birthday, he was able to offer firsthand opinions on iconic coaches the likes of Joe Lapchick, John Wooden, Frank McGuire, Adolph Rupp, Nat Holman, Ben Carnevale, Clair Bee and, yes, Rick Pitino. Like others with images so colorful they threatened to overshadow their accomplishments – Yogi Berra comes to mind – it was easy to forget Carnesecca knew basketball in general, knew recruiting the streets of New York City in particular and was no one’s pushover. Most famously, he made the transition from the ancient days of Eastern college basketball’s loose affiliations to become a towering figure in the early Big East. The pinnacle came in 1985, when he led St. John’s to the Final Four before it fell to mighty Georgetown. The rivalry between St. John’s and Georgetown that season was and remains one of the highlights in New York City’s long love affair with college basketball. And it cemented New York’s long love affair with Carnesecca. The feeling was mutual, to understate things. Lou Carnesecca coaches his St. John's team from the sidelines during their game against Niagara on Nov. 23, 1991. Credit: AP/Mark Lennihan Carnesecca never did leave his hometown. Why would he? He lived out his final years in Queens, still sharp and witty. When St. John’s hired Pitino, an old Big East rival, as its coach in 2023, the then-98-year-old showed up at the introductory news conference. “Lou built a legendary program – legendary – and we will get back to those days by exemplifying everything that he taught,” Pitino said, pointing to Carnesecca. As he left the event that day, the old man said, “This is a great day, a great day.” Carnesecca loved all the attention he got in one of his first public outings since the COVID-19 pandemic. People were his lifeblood, and he could kibitz and zing one-liners with the best of them, from recruits to fans to reporters. Asked on the cusp of turning 99 what kept him going, he said, “It must be the olive oil.” Recalling when he denied his father’s wish that he become a doctor, he said, “I thank God in his infinite wisdom. He knew I would have caused more deaths than the bubonic plague.” Journalists usually must approach modern coaching stars through protective public relations folks. How did one get an audience with Carnesecca? By showing up unannounced at his office and asking his secretary, “Is Coach around?” (He was the only coach I called “Coach” in 40 years of sportswriting.) Privately, Carnesecca had a tough side that he could and would aim at those who crossed him. But his public face never wavered, and his famously raspy voice and accent said it all. He was a New Yorker, troo and troo. Next round is on me, Coach. No menu required. Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A machinists strike. Another safety problem involving its troubled top-selling airliner. A plunging stock price. 2024 was already a dispiriting year for Boeing, the American aviation giant. But when one of the company's jets crash-landed in South Korea on Sunday, killing all but two of the 181 people on board, it brought to a close an especially unfortunate year for Boeing. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and aviation experts were quick to distinguish Sunday's incident from the company’s earlier safety problems. Alan Price, a former chief pilot at Delta Air Lines who is now a consultant, said it would be inappropriate to link the incident Sunday to two fatal crashes involving Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jetliner in 2018 and 2019. In January this year, a door plug blew off a 737 Max while it was in flight, raising more questions about the plane. The Boeing 737-800 that crash-landed in Korea, Price noted, is “a very proven airplane. "It’s different from the Max ...It’s a very safe airplane.’’ For decades, Boeing has maintained a role as one of the giants of American manufacturing. But the the past year's repeated troubles have been damaging. The company's stock price is down more than 30% in 2024. The company's reputation for safety was especially tarnished by the 737 Max crashes, which occurred off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019 and left a combined 346 people dead. In the five years since then, Boeing has lost more than $23 billion. And it has fallen behind its European rival, Airbus, in selling and delivering new planes. Last fall, 33,000 Boeing machinists went on strike, crippling the production of the 737 Max, the company's bestseller, the 777 airliner and 767 cargo plane. The walkout lasted seven weeks, until members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers agreed to an offer that included 38% pay raises over four years. In January, a door plug blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight. Federal regulators responded by imposing limits on Boeing aircraft production that they said would remain in place until they felt confident about manufacturing safety at the company. In July, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration regulators who approved the 737 Max. Acting on Boeing’s incomplete disclosures, the FAA approved minimal, computer-based training instead of more intensive training in flight simulators. Simulator training would have increased the cost for airlines to operate the Max and might have pushed some to buy planes from Airbus instead. (Prosecutors said they lacked evidence to argue that Boeing’s deception had played a role in the crashes.) But the plea deal was rejected this month by a federal judge in Texas, Reed O’Connor , who decided that diversity, inclusion and equity or DEI policies in the government and at Boeing could result in race being a factor in choosing an official to oversee Boeing’s compliance with the agreement. Boeing has sought to change its culture. Under intense pressure over safety issues, David Calhoun departed as CEO in August. Since January, 70,000 Boeing employees have participated in meetings to discuss ways to improve safety.

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A combined total of 10 goals on 106 shots wasn't enough for the Kelowna Chiefs and Osoyoos Coyotes to settle the score in regulation on Friday, Nov. 29. In an action-packed game, the Chiefs beat the Coyotes 6-5 in a shootout at Sun Bowl Arena. Kelowna's powerplay was clicking all night and it started when Luke Rishaug scored at the 10:52 mark of the first period. After the first period, the floodgates opened as both teams went back and forth scoring goals. Aiden Morcom scored on the powerplay to double Kelowna's lead but just 27 seconds later, Osoyoos' Dexter Materi scored to cut he deficit to one. The Coyotes then got goals from Austin Cooper (shorthanded) and Spencer Fleck (powerplay) to take a 3-2 lead. But 1:11 later, Ben Henshall scored for the Chiefs to tie the game. With just 22 seconds left to go in the frame, Rishaug scored his second goal of the game, on the powerplay once again, to give Kelowna a 4-3 lead heading into the third. Less than five minutes into the third period, Morcom scored his second of the contest to give Kelowna a two-goal lead again. But as they saying goes, a two-goal lead is the most dangerous lead in hockey and that's proved to be true as the Coyotes got goals from Mathieu Lessard at the 9:39 mark and Scott Dyck at the 13:34 mark to tie the game 5-5. The rest of regulation and overtime solved nothing so the game went to a shootout. In the skills competition, Jake Kessler and Owen Miller scored for the Chiefs to give Kelowna the win. Chiefs goaltender Max Fowle made 43 saves in the win while Coyotes goaltender Hunter Arntsen made 52 saves in the loss. Kelowna (9-8-0-2) welcomes the Columbia Valley Rockies (12-10-0-0) to Rutland Arena on Saturday night. Puck drop is at 7 p.m.

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