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The No. 15 Texas A&M Aggies , led by quarterback Marcel Reed , face the Auburn Tigers , led by quarterback Payton Thorne on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 (11/23/24) at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV . You can also watch via a subscription to Sling TV , which is offering half off your first month. Here’s what you need to know: What: NCAA Football, Week 13 Who: Texas A&M vs. Auburn When: Saturday, Nov. 23 (11/23/24) Where: Jordan-Hare Stadium Time: 7:30 p.m. ET TV: ESPN Live stream: fuboTV (free trial) , DirecTV Stream (free trial) *** Here are the best streaming options for college football this season: Fubo TV (free trial): fuboTV carries ESPN, FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS. DirecTV Stream (free trial) : DirecTV Stream carries ESPN, FOX, NBC and CBS. Sling TV ( $25 off the first month) - Sling TV carries ESPN, FOX, ABC and NBC. ESPN+ ($9.99 a month): ESPN+ carries college football games each weekend for only $9.99 a month. These games are exclusive to the platform. Peacock TV ($5.99 a month): Peacock will simulstream all of NBC Sports’ college football games airing on the NBC broadcast network this season, including Big Ten Saturday Night. Peacock will also stream Notre Dame home games. Certain games will be streamed exclusively on Peacock this year as well. Paramount+ (free trial): Paramount Plus will live stream college football games airing on CBS this year. *** Here’s a preview capsule via the Associated Press: No. 15 Texas A&M (8-2, 5-1 SEC, No. 15) at Auburn (4-6, 1-5), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST (ESPN) BetMGM College Football Odds: Texas A&M by 2 1/2. Series record: Texas A&M leads 8-6. The Aggies are still in the hunt for their first Southeastern Conference championship and playoff berth but can ill afford another loss on either count. Texas A&M’s toughest test still awaits: in-state rival Texas in College Station. The challenge may be avoiding looking ahead from this one. The Tigers have to win their final two games to avoid a fourth straight losing season. Auburn’s running game against Texas A&M’s defense. Jarquez Hunter has already rushed for 1,015 yards with five touchdowns, including a nation’s best 278-yard game against Kentucky. No coincidence that it was the Tigers' only SEC win, since their passing game has been inconsistent. The Aggies have only allowed two of their last seven opponents to top 100 rushing yards, including holding LSU to 24 yards on 23 rushes. They have a defensive front led by Shemar Turner and transfer Nic Scourton. Texas A&M: QB Marcel Reed is 4-1 as a starter. He has passed for 1,129 yards and nine touchdowns against two interceptions. He has run for 375 yards and six scores. Auburn: QB Payton Thorne has been up and down this season but passed for a career-high five touchdowns in a 48-14 win over Louisiana-Monroe. Thorne has only three TD passes over his last four SEC games, though. RECOMMENDED • nj .com What channel is Texas A&M vs. Auburn game tonight (11/23/24)? FREE LIVE STREAM, Time, TV, Channel for college Nov. 23, 2024, 1:30 p.m. What channel is Vanderbilt vs. LSU game tonight (11/23/24)? FREE LIVE STREAM, Time, TV, Channel for college f Nov. 23, 2024, 1:45 p.m. The Aggies have won three of the last four meetings, including a 27-10 home win last season. ... Texas A&M has allowed just 37 tackles for loss this season, leading the SEC and ranking fifth nationally. ... Auburn is fourth nationally with 14 pass plays of at least 40 yards. ... The Tigers had their first penalty-free game since at least 1996 against Louisiana-Monroe. They’re averaging a league-low 5.40 penalties per game. Only seven other FBS teams have had games without a penalty this season. (The Associated Press contributed to this report) Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting us with a subscription.
India EU firm up extensive roadmap for green hydrogen cooperation(The Center Square) – American taxpayers may provide a loan of more than $7.5 billion to a joint venture involving automaker Chrysler that plans to build electric vehicle batteries in Indiana. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office revealed that StarPlus Energy has received a “conditional commitment” for the multi-billion dollar loan. If approved, teh money would help the collaboration between FCA US and Samsung SDI Co. construct two lithium-ion battery plants in the Kokomo 50 miles north of Indianapolis. The loan announcement comes after the Indiana Economic Development Corp. pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and incentives to the project. Stellantis, FCA’s parent company, and Samsung first announced plans to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Kokomo in May 2022. Then, in October 2023, the partners announced they would construct a second plant. According to Monday’s announcement, the project is expected to create up to 3,200 construction jobs as well as 2,800 plant jobs. The batteries built in Kokomo are forecasted to power about 670,000 electric cars each year. Stellantis would purchase the batteries for the vehicles marketed in the United States. An Energy Department fact sheet indicates that the interest rate for the loan would be the “applicable U.S. Treasury rate for the term of the loan with no credit spread.” No details on the term were immediately available. “This project reinforces President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to onshore and reshore domestic manufacturing technologies,” the Energy Department’s statement said. The loan would come through the federal government’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, which was first established through the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. It would be the second Indiana plant to receive program funds. Last month, the Biden administration announced the finalization of a $1.3 billion loan to ENTEK, which is constructing a factory in Terre Haute to make separators used in lithium-ion batteries. The Biden administration and StarPlus must still complete some requirements before the loan can be finalized. Among them, StarPlus must create a Community Benefits Plan that demonstrates how the company will work with local officials and labor groups. The battery plants are being built using workers from local trade unions. Administration officials are also expecting StarPlus to participate in the Justice40 Initiative, which calls for 40% of the benefits produced from the government’s investment to boost communities that are considered underinvested “and overburdened by pollution.”
I recently listened to an archive clip on the radio that consisted primarily of people whingeing about the railways. Amongst the biggest complaints was about dirty trains and u reliability of services and there was widespread hope that things were about to get better. It all sounds familiar but the clip was from 1961 and came as the nationalised UK rail network was about to make the momentous move from steam to diesel. Fast forward more than 60 years and things haven’t really changed that much, apart from no-one today will moan about the problem of soot making the stations dirty. British Rail had many good points, not least the fine dining carriages, but in the end it became a national joke. But it appears the Labour Government has no recollection of BR’s faults as it embarks on the renationalising of the network. Read More: Is the human cost of Net Zero drive really worth it? Even the name - Great British Railways - harks back to a glorious bygone age that many argue didn’t actually exist. Regardless, it is happening but will it make a difference? History tells us it won’t and will almost certainly make things worse. Scotrail, of course, was nationalised in 2022 but you’ll be hard pressed to find a passenger who will say with a straight face that things have improved. Under Labour’s plan, three rail operators will be taken into state control next year, but the move is not expected to bring down fares for passengers travelling on these lines. UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said she recognised that “affordability is really important to people” but that people were “willing to pay for a good service”. Of course they will but there is no guarantee they will get one. Read More: One Day plaque row is battle between conservation over evolution South Western Railway will be renationalised in May 2025, C2C in July 2025, and Greater Anglia in autumn 2025, after Labour passed a law allowing it to do so. But some have criticised the plans, arguing that public ownership will not make much difference unless it is paired with fresh investment in the railways. And therein lies the rub - can the taxpayer seriously be expected to fund new rolling stock and other investments that private companies currently do to the tune of billions of pounds? In short, no, which means the whole exercise is pretty futile. Presently, shiny new trains rattle up and down the country making rail travel vastly superior to what it once was. But what happens when they all need replaced? They’re not cheap and politicians keep telling us they’re skint so where will the money come from? Almost certainly from higher fares which folk will be happy to pay if the service matched the ticket price which it almost never does. Under the existing system, Britain’s railway lines are run by train operating companies as franchises for a fixed length of time. The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024, which has passed Westminster, allows the government to act on its manifesto promise to take rail contracts back into public ownership in five years as each private franchise runs out. The government also plans to set up a new arms-length body, the elaborately-titled Great British Railways (GBR), which will take over service contracts currently held by private firms as they expire in the coming years. Read More: How can CalMac run ferry services without any ships It wants GBR to take over responsibility for maintaining and improving rail infrastructure from Network Rail eventually. This moves comes as rail fares are due to rise by 4.6% from March as set out in the recent UK Budget, a figure that the transport secretary repeated when asked if tickets will get cheaper with public ownership. She described this as “the lowest absolute increase for the last three years”. Ms Alexander added that it while people may be willing to pay more for a “really good” service, including at evenings and weekends, performance had to improve. The transport department said that renationalisation would improve reliability, boost economic growth, and save £150m per year in fees. However, Rail Partners, which represents private train firms, said Labour has “parked the big decisions” on how to fix the railways. Responsibility for running train services was handed to private companies during the 1990s, and since then there has been a boom in rail usage. This year alone, passengers numbers have increased by 23% and 1.4bn passengers now use the railways annually. Some franchises have undoubtedly been a success, while many others less so. A few have been downright dreadful and have deservedly been stripped of their roles early. It is hard to conclude that nationalisation is less about passengers and more about ideology which is always a dangerous track to go down. As if to illustrate this, when Humza Yousaf (remember him)? announced the Dutch firm Abellio was being stripped of the franchise and Scotrail be nationalised, the top management was kept on. Read More: Sabbath isn't for everyone so Tesco should open on Sunday If, as the then Transport Secretary, claimed, Abellio was worse than useless, then the failing management would have been binned along with the franchise. Unions also like a nationalised industry as they know elected ministers are more likely to cave in to demands than a private company is. Let’s hope that nationalisation is a roaring success and passenger numbers keep rising As everyone would be a winner. 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Watch the best shots and moments from the third round of The RSM Classic on the PGA Tour from Sea Island Golf Club, St. Simons Island, Ga. Watch the best shots and moments from the third round of The RSM Classic on the PGA Tour from Sea Island Golf Club, St. Simons Island, Ga. The Golf Central crew looks at how the players on the bubble performed during the second round of The RSM Classic. Watch the best shots and moments from the second round of The RSM Classic on the PGA Tour from Sea Island Golf Club, St. Simons Island, Ga. Watch the best shots and moments from the first round of The RSM Classic on the PGA Tour from Sea Island Golf Club, St. Simons Island, Ga. Todd Lewis and Eamon Lynch discuss Caitlin Clark playing at the RSM Classic pro-am before Rex Hoggard reports on the WNBA star's impact on the modern golf game. Rex Hoggard reports on Caitlin Clark's appearance at the RSM Classic pro-am, explaining what the star power of the WNBA phenom means for the event and golf as whole. Johnson Wagner joins the Golf Today Roundtable to shed light on the approved changes to decrease field sizes and if the PGA Tour has a "fundamental problem" with players making decisions at the top. Rex Hoggard joins Golf Today to report live from the RSM Classic pro-am, explaining what seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady has brought to the table at Sea Island Golf Course. Wesley Bryan reflects on his play over the last few months, where he's recorded four top-25 finishes in five starts, before sharing why he's at ease no matter what happens at the RSM Classic. Brian Harman and Ben Griffin discuss why they're excited to see the PGA Tour "push the envelope" with changes coming in 2026, including the reduction of field sizes and number of fully-exempt players. Rex Hoggard details and discusses how players are reacting to changes that are coming to the PGA Tour in 2026, including the reduction of field sizes at nearly every event, as well as the number of fully-exempt players. Rex Hoggard and Ryan Lavner dive into a handful of rapid fire questions, including Rory McIlroy's year, if Ryder Cup players should be paid, and the PGA Tour's 2025 Player of the Year.Data: World is rapidly closing in on peak beef
DANNY MURPHY: Man City's humiliating 4-0 loss by Tottenham is a wake-up call that Pep Guardiola can't ignore - his side have become far too easy to play againstDoug Keenum Expands Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Footprint with Three Tennessee Locationsboss Rúben Amorim has admitted Pep Guardiola's new contract at is "a problem for everybody." Amorim has been tasked with bringing the title back to Old Trafford after succeeding Erik ten Hag as head coach. The 39-year-old's arrival has coincided with Guardiola's decision to , which will keep him at the Etihad Stadium until 2027. Given his ambitions with United, Amorim said it is not ideal that Guardiola, who has won the league title in six of the last seven seasons, is sticking around. "I think it's a problem for everybody but we have so much to do we cannot focus on anybody," Amorim said. "We just have to focus on improving our club and not focus on the other clubs. It's amazing, if you can beat that team it's a good sign but we are focused on Manchester United." Amorim, who will take charge of his first game against Ipswich on Sunday, is looking to become the first United manager to win the title since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. Still only two weeks into the job, he said he is "not yet had the opportunity" to meet Ferguson. Despite the Scot's unbelievable success at the club, Amorim said he is not in Manchester "to copy" the legendary manager. "It's not to copy someone, so I have to be me," he said. "We have to be very demanding. This is a club that has to win things, we have to show that to our players. But it's a different time. I cannot be the same guy that Alex Ferguson was. It's a different time and I need to have a different approach but I can also be demanding with that different approach." Amorim has been parachuted into the United job following a miserable start to the season under Ten Hag. The former Sporting CP coach, who hinted that he would have preferred to stay in Portugal until the end of the season before moving on, admitted that trying to implement his methods halfway through the campaign will be tough. "It's so much harder to come to the team in the middle of the season because you have to get to know the players during the games," Amorim said. "You are talking about no national team periods to work with the players, it's just games. It depends. If you are winning it's a lot of fun, having a lot of games, trying to make changes tactically and winning games. "But if you are losing you don't have time in training to work out everything you want to work on. To improve a team, training is the most important aspect. "Players can recover very fast but if you don't do any exercise with that it's really hard to do that in video or recovery training sessions. It's really hard but we'll try to find ways to cope with that."
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AVANTI HELIUM ANNOUNCES AMENDMENT TO EQUITY INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLANIn response to the ban on windshields, efforts are underway to explore alternative heating methods for electric scooter riders to stay warm during colder weather. Some innovative solutions being considered include heated handlebars, heated seats, and thermal clothing designed specifically for electric scooter riders. These alternative heating methods not only provide protection from the cold but also ensure that riders maintain full visibility and control while on the road.
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