sloto cash casino NoneThe Patriots' season is winding down and one of their final matchups will air Saturday on WMUR-TV. It has been another disappointing year for the Patriots, who have a 3-12 record, but it's almost over. They have just two games left. The Pats will miss out on the playoffs for the third straight year, but they can play spoiler on Saturday against the Los Angeles Chargers, who are 9-6 and can earn a spot in the postseason with a win on Saturday. Besides playing spoiler, it's also a time for the coaching staff and front office to evaluate the talent on this team. Head coach Jerod Mayo said even in a down year, coaches can still spot players who have earned spots next year. “I always talk about the cream will eventually rise to the top. We’ve been going through these tough times with our feet to the fire, you really start to see the guys that are with you and the guys that aren’t,” Mayo said. “I would also say you grow through pain. You grow through these types of experiences and with our record, we all have a lot of room to grow.” After the Raiders and Panthers both won last week, the Patriots, losers of five straight, are currently in line for the No. 2 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. They still have a chance at the No. 1 overall pick. See the Patriots take on the Chargers at 1 p.m. Saturday on WMUR-TV. Meanwhile, Boston College will play the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium at 12 p.m. Saturday. That game can be seen on MeTV New Hampshire .

The Indiana State men's basketball team hosts Chicago State on Friday night at Hulman Center and coach Matthew Graves and the rest of the team are ready to go. "I've had a chance to watch three of their games," Graves said. "They're a team that likes to get up and down the floor, they're very aggressive defensively and they're a team that's very dangerous if you let them get in a rhythm." The Sycamores are coming off a 94-84 victory at Ball State on Saturday that saw Camp Wagner drop 19 with multiple buckets from beyond the 3-point arc. Graves said they learned about getting better together against the Cardinals. Graves is looking for Wagner to move without the ball, take really good shots and compete defensively as he did Saturday. But it's not just been Wagner growing and making progress in his game, but the team as a whole from its loss to SIU-Edwardsville to its win at Ball State, Graves has seen the whole team making strides. "It's been a process, but from our first two closed scrimmages through our first couple games, just seeing guys make progress, get better with their understanding in their roles and being able to adapt within the flow of the game," Graves said. While Chicago State is not a conference opponent, he said it's another opportunity to get better, have shared experiences on the court and play at home in front of their fans. "You only get so many of these opportunities and you don't want to get any of them for granted," Graves said. With the loss to SIUE and then emerging victorious at Ball State, Graves said he thinks it's just guys getting comfortable. "The more repetitions we get with the lights on, the officials and the fans, the better we're going to get," Graves said. "It's not going to be perfect. We're going to continue to have our ups and downs, but just to see that continued growth from Game 1 to Game 5 to Game 10, I expect us to be a little bit better each time we come out on to the floor." While ISU found the key to winning Saturday, Chicago State (0-5) continues to search for its first victory of the season. Most recently, the Cougars lost 86-66 at home to Eastern Kentucky with leading scorer Gabe Spinelli dropping 15 points. Indiana State's Samage Teel is a top player in the Missouri Valley Conference assist-wise, averaging 5.5 per game, while Wagner is tied for second in 3-point field goals made with 10 and an average of 3.33 a game.Angela Merkel has said she was “tormented” over the result of the Brexit referendum and viewed it as a “humiliation, a disgrace” for the EU that Britain was leaving. In her autobiography, Freedom, due to be published on Tuesday, the former German chancellor says she was dismayed by the notion that she might have done more to help the then British prime minister, David Cameron, who was keen for the UK to stay in the EU, but that ultimately, she concluded, he only had himself to blame. In extracts from the book, Merkel, who left office three years ago, said looking back she recognised that Brexit was on the cards once Cameron proposed in 2005 that Conservative party MEPs should leave the European People’s party, which they subsequently did, over the parliamentary alliance’s backing of the in 2009. The treaty introduced significant changes to the EU that anti-European critics considered undemocratic. In her 700-page memoir, about five pages are dedicated to Brexit and to her role in the pre-referendum negotiations with Cameron in an attempt to help him keep Britain inside the bloc. She also writes about the subsequent exit deal drawn out over several years once Britain had decided to leave, and refers to how deflated she felt over the result. “To me, the result felt like a humiliation, a disgrace for us, the other members of the European Union – the United Kingdom was leaving us in the lurch. This changed the European Union in the view of the world; we were weakened.” Merkel writes about how she had reached out to Cameron as he struggled to try to secure changes over freedom of movement and trade that might have won over Eurosceptics and allowed him to keep the UK in a reformed EU. She says she “tried wherever possible to help David Cameron”, despite risking the ire of other EU leaders who had distanced themselves from him. Referring to various stages in her attempts to help him and ensure he was not isolated, most crucially at a summit of EU leaders in February 2016 during which an agreement was expected to be reached over Britain’s renegotiation demands to stay in the EU, she says: “My support of him rendered me an outsider with my other colleagues ... The impact of the euro crisis was still lingering, and I was also being repeatedly accused of stinginess. “And yet, during the summit, I steadfastly remained by David Cameron’s side for an entire evening. In this way I was able to prevent his complete isolation in the council and eventually move the others to back down. I did this because I knew from various discussions with Cameron that where domestic policy was concerned, he had no room for manoeuvre whatsoever.” But she writes that there came a point when she could no longer help him. The UK she says, had not helped itself by making the mistake of not introducing restrictions on eastern European workers once 10 new countries joined the bloc in May 2004, the then Labour government having grossly underestimated the number of people who would arrive. This gave Eurosceptics the chance to put freedom of movement in a negative light. By contrast, France and Germany introduced a gradual phase-in of eastern Europeans’ rights to work, not giving them full access to their labour markets until 2011. Merkel says she thought Cameron’s pledge in 2005 for the Conservatives to leave the EPP was the initial nail in the coffin of any attempts to keep Britain in the EU. “He therefore, from the very beginning, put himself in the hands of those who were sceptical about the European Union, and was never able to escape this dependency,” she writes. Brexit, she concludes, “demonstrated in textbook fashion the consequences that can arise when there’s a miscalculation from the very start”. Subsequently she was pained by the idea that she might have been able to have done more to keep the UK in the fold, she says. “After the referendum, I was tormented by whether I should have made even more concessions toward the UK to make it possible for them to remain in the community. I came to the conclusion that, in the face of the political developments taking place at the time within the country, there wouldn’t have been any reasonable way of my preventing the UK’s path out of the European Union as an outsider. Even with the best political will, mistakes of the past could not be undone.”

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