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The Houston Texans made some crucial mistakes late in their game against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday that may have cost them a win. The Texans were trailing 23-17 late in the third quarter at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Their defense came up with a huge play when cornerback Jimmie Ward intercepted a pass from Titans quarterback Will Levis and returned it for a touchdown. The Texans went up 24-23 and extended their lead to 27-23 with a field goal two drives later. Things quickly went downhill from there. First, Houston completely blew a coverage and allowed tight end Chig Okonkwo to break free for a 70-yard touchdown: Chig Okonkwo gets in open space for a 70-yard TD! : #TENvsHOU on CBS/Paramount+ : https://t.co/waVpO909ge pic.twitter.com/98scOwfisp — NFL (@NFL) November 24, 2024 That gave the Titans a 30-27 lead. CJ Stroud and the Texans drove into field goal range and had a chance to tie the game with 1:56 remaining, but Ka’imi Fairbairn shanked a 28-yard chip shot wide left: NO GOOD!!!!!! OH NO TEXANS!!! pic.twitter.com/VyQh6aY4pj — Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthew_CFB) November 24, 2024 The Texans still had three timeouts left after the missed field goal. Their defense came up with a stop and they got the ball back with 1:29 remaining. Houston’s drive started at their own 8-yard line, however, and Stroud took a big sack on 2nd-and-10. Stroud was then forced out of the back of the end zone for a safety on third down. SAFETY DANCE @Titans defense continues to make big plays pic.twitter.com/lUltpoQJFN — NFL on CBS (@NFLonCBS) November 24, 2024 Houston went on to lose 32-27 in a game in which they were heavily favored. The win was just the third of the year for Tennessee, while the Texans fell to 7-5. The Texans remain in the lead in the AFC South, but their loss to the Titans is the type of game — and self-inflicted wound — that could come back to haunt them late in the year. This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.Penn State seeks to stay perfect, takes on FordhamJoe Burrow addresses Bengals' 4-7 record ahead of game against PittsburghTedmos Launches its New Line of Rechargeable Puck Lights, Picture Frame Lights and Ceiling Lights. A Perfect Blend of Technology and Design for Modern Homes
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Two charged in connection with Iran drone strike that killed 3 US troops in the Middle EastIt looked like there was an episode of “Power Slap” taking place in the stands during the UCLA-USC football game on Saturday. In a video that made its way around social media , a female fan, who wore a UCLA bucket hat slapped a male fan while he was sitting in the stands at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif.. The blonde woman stood over the man — who was wearing a red sweatshirt, a Trojans color — wound her arm back and struck him hard as fans nearby were visibly stunned by the incident. Warning: Adult Language “Woah woah woah, what the f–k,” someone can be heard yelling. “What the hell!” The woman caught herself after the force of her haymaker caused her to stumble. The man in the red sweatshirt was seen touching his face to assess any damage before looked up at the woman and raised his hands in the air. Fans nearby looked on while the woman took a few steps back while staring down the man. It is unclear if the two knew each other or what sparked the vicious scene. The fans have yet to be identified. It is also unclear if stadium security or authorities intervened. Despite the ongoings in the stands, the Trojans rallied back to defeat the rival Bruins 19-13 and became bowl-eligible. USC quarterback Jayden Maiava passed for 221 yards, including a 4-yard touchdown to Ja’Kobi Lane in the fourth quarter.
McNeese vs. Illinois State Predictions & Picks: Spread, Total – November 22Riyadh : The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Wednesday, November 27, inaugurated the Riyadh Metro project. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) described the project as the backbone of the public transport network in Riyadh. During the opening ceremony, the King watched a documentary film, explaining the key features of a major public transport project during his prosperous era. The new metro system aims to cater to the increasing population’s needs, reduce traffic congestion, and enhance air quality. The project comprises a 176 kilometre network of six automated metro lines, 85 stations, and 183 trains, all designed and technically advanced. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques views an introductory video about the Riyadh Metro — one of the Kingdom’s major projects during his prosperous reign — distinguished by its standout design and technological features, with a network that spans 176 kilometers across 6 lines... pic.twitter.com/qyN6AMvvaY The metro will be operational daily from 6 am to midnight from December 1. The lines will open in stages over two months, starting with blue, yellow, purple on December 1, red and green on December15, and orange on January 5, 2025. Speaking on the occasion, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman thanks the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques for his support and patronage of the Riyadh Public Transport Project, including metro and bus systems, from concept to execution. “The Riyadh Public Transport Project, which spans metro and bus networks, is the culmination of concerted efforts made by King Salman and the outcome of his visionary leadership while serving as the Chairman of the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh, the predecessor of the Royal Commission for Riyadh City,” he added.
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PEQUOT LAKES — For the second straight weekend Crosby-Ironton pulled off a first-place sweep at a dance competition. This time C-I won both the kick and jazz divisions at the Pequot Lakes/Pine River-Backus Invite Saturday, Nov. 23. ADVERTISEMENT Total team points were unavailable for the kick category, but C-I received three rank points for kick and jazz. “t was another great day of competition at the mixed class invite,” C-I head coach Rachel Norwood said. “We had a few execution and timing errors in our performances, but we feel good about where our scores have been landing overall. We will continue to work on cleaning, confidence and performance quality in the coming weeks before our first conference meet.” C-I collected 305 total points for its jazz win. Aitkin placed fourth in jazz with 12 rank points and 269 total points. Little Falls landed in fifth with 15 rank points and 261 points and PLPRB finished sixth with 16 rank points and 253 total points. “Our teams performed really well,” Aitkin head coach Colleen Christensen said. “Our scores improved in nearly every category over last week and we had fewer errors. We spent a lot of practice this week drilling the choreography and working on execution and routine effectiveness so we were pleased to see that our hard work was awarded with higher scores, especially in those areas. We don't compete again until Dec. 14, so the upcoming weeks will be focused on cleaning and refining the choreography, adding difficulty and improving our technique and stamina." Aitkin placed third in kick with 10 rank points followed by Little Falls in fourth and PLPRB in sixth.Bukayo Saka, left, faces months on the sidelines (Adam Davy/PA) Bukayo Saka will be sidelined until at least March following surgery on his hamstring, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has revealed. Arsenal moved back up to second in the Premier League table with a 1-0 victory over Ipswich at the Emirates – their first fixture without Saka after the England winger tore his right hamstring in a 5-1 win against Crystal Palace last weekend. Prior to Friday’s fixture, Arteta said Saka, 23, would be sidelined for “many weeks”, but speaking in the moments after his side saw out a win that keeps the pressure on leaders Liverpool, Arteta afforded a grizzlier timeframe for his star man. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta will be without a key player for months (Adam Davy/PA) “He has had a procedure and everything went well, but unfortunately he will be out for many, many weeks,” said Arteta. “It will be more than two months. I don’t know exactly how much longer. It will depend on how the scar tissue starts to heal, the first week or so, and the mobility of that. It is very difficult to say. “The replacement of Bukayo is going to be the team. There were moments where it flowed well tonight and moments where you could see there is still work to do. But I am certain that we are going to do that. We have to rely on the team and not the individual.” The length of Saka’s injury will come as a significant blow to Arteta, who is bidding to oversee Arsenal’s first Premier League title in two decades. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. In Saka’s absence, and in the Gunners’ final fixture of 2024, Kai Havertz scored the game’s sole goal midway through the opening period. Gabriel, Havertz and Martin Odegaard all spurned chances to increase Arsenal’s lead in the second period, but their victory takes them back to within six points of leaders Liverpool – having played one match more than the Reds – and a point clear of Chelsea following their Boxing Day defeat to Fulham. Arteta continued: “I am very happy with the victory and the clean sheet and big parts of the game. They are difficult opposition and we are playing so many games. “You see that teams are winning from small margins. Today we could have made that margin bigger but we didn’t and we held our nerve in the last few minutes to defend well. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. “We should have scored more. We had big openings in the second half, the big header of Gabriel from one yard, but the team was consistent and conceded nothing and that is something that will always give us the chance to win games.” Arsenal will next be in action against Brentford on New Year’s Day. Ipswich, who remain second from bottom, three points away from safety, host Chelsea on Monday night. Ipswich suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat at home to Newcastle in the fixture which preceded their trip to the Emirates, and this marked their fifth loss from six games. “It was a good step back in the right direction for us,” said boss Kieran McKenna. “We didn’t hit our levels against Newcastle. We knew today we had to be resilient and we did that.”
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(CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court to pause a controversial ban on TikTok that is set to take effect next month, telling the justices in a legal filing Friday that a delay would allow his administration to “pursue a negotiated resolution.” Trump’s request for a delay in implementing the ban puts him at odds with the Biden administration, which defended the law in its own brief Friday, warning of “grave” national security concerns about TikTok’s continued operation in the US. In one of the most significant pending cases before the Supreme Court, the justices must weigh whether the TikTok ban Congress approved in April violates the First Amendment. The court has already scheduled two hours of oral argument in the case for January 10. The court was flooded with roughly two dozen briefs Friday from groups and officials who have landed on both sides of that question. Trump is technically not a party in the case —he filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief, as did several outside groups, members of Congress and others who wanted to offer their perspective. But given that the ban is set to take effect January 19, a day before his inauguration, Trump’s position may carry significant weight with the justices. In his brief, Trump technically took no position on the underlying First Amendment questions posed by the case, but he urged the court to delay the January 19 effective date so that his administration could look for a way to resolve the issue without a ban. Trump suggested the court pause the ban’s effective date “to allow his incoming administration to pursue a negotiated resolution that could prevent a nationwide shutdown of TikTok, thus preserving the First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans, while also addressing the government’s national security concerns.” The incoming president has sent mixed signals in the past about his views on TikTok but most recently vowed to “save” the platform. Trump, who met with TikTok’s CEO this month, will be inaugurated January 20, a day after the ban is set to take effect unless the Supreme Court intervenes. Congress passed the ban with bipartisan support in response to years of concern that TikTok’s Chinese parent company poses a national security risk because, as the Biden administration warned in its own brief Friday, it can both collect data on users and manipulate the content those users see. The law allows the app to continue in the US if it divests from Chinese ownership. The law gives the sitting president broad power to decide whether the company has adequately split from its owners. Trump’s brief, his first to the Supreme Court since winning the election, claimed he is operating with a “powerful electoral mandate” and that he is uniquely positioned to resolve the TikTok controversy. At one point he described himself as “one of the most powerful, prolific, and influential users of social media in history.” “The First Amendment implications of the federal government’s effective shuttering of a social-media platform used by 170 million Americans are sweeping and troubling,” Trump’s brief stated. “There are valid concerns that the act may set a dangerous global precedent by exercising the extraordinary power to shut down an entire social-media platform based, in large part, on concerns about disfavored speech on that platform.” Earlier Friday, President Joe Biden’s administration and a bipartisan group of ex-government officials — including some who once worked for Trump — urged the Supreme Court to uphold the ban on TikTok , claiming that the platform’s ties to China pose a “grave” threat to American security. “TikTok collects vast swaths of data about tens of millions of Americans,” the administration told the Supreme Court on Friday. And, it said, China “could covertly manipulate the platform to advance its geopolitical interests and harm the United States — by, for example, sowing discord and disinformation during a crisis.” The written arguments submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday underscore a tension between national security and free speech at a time when 170 million Americans use TikTok for news and entertainment. Trump acknowledged in his brief Friday that his administration had also raised concerns about the platform and had signed an executive order limiting the app. When Trump was president in 2020, he signed an executive order to effectively ban TikTok, but it was halted in the courts. But, he argued Friday, the “unfortunate timing” of the law’s effective date “interferes” with his ability to “manage the United States’ foreign policy and to pursue a resolution to both protect national security and save a social-media platform that provides a popular vehicle for 170 million Americans to exercise their core First Amendment rights.” Delaying the law’s effective date, Trump said, could “obviate the need for this court to decide the historically challenging First Amendment question.” Among the former Trump officials who filed legal briefs Friday supporting the Biden administration’s position and the TikTok ban were Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first attorney general, and Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2017 to 2021. TikTok told the court in its own brief Friday that the federal government is attempting to shut down “one of the most significant speech platforms in America” and said that lawmakers were required by the First Amendment to consider other options, such as disclosures about the company’s ownership. “History and precedent teach that, even when national security is at stake, speech bans must be Congress’s last resort,” the company said. Groups advocating for First Amendment protections — including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University — urged the Supreme Court to look beyond the government’s national security claims and assess the ban’s impact on Americans’ freedom to view whatever online content they choose. “Restricting access to foreign media to protect against purported foreign manipulation is a practice that has long been associated with repressive regimes,” the Knight First Amendment Institute wrote. “The government has no legitimate interest in banning Americans from accessing foreign speech — even if the speech comprises foreign propaganda or reflects foreign manipulation.” The ACLU, similarly, warned of a “far reaching disruption in Americans’ ability to engage with the content and audiences of their choice online” if the Supreme Court upholds the ban. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, unanimously upheld the ban in a ruling that said the government had a national security interest in regulating the platform. The quick-turn timing of the briefing reflected the highly unusual speed with which the Supreme Court agreed to consider the case. The court plucked the appeal off its emergency docket — where TikTok was seeking a temporary pause of the ban — and agreed to delve into the substantive First Amendment questions about the law. Trump’s brief was filed by D. John Sauer, whom Trump has said he intends to nominate as solicitor general and who, if confirmed, would represent the Trump administration at the Supreme Court. “There are compelling reasons to stay the act’s deadline,” Sauer argued, “and allow President Trump to seek a negotiated resolution once in office.” The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.PHILADELPHIA — Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer’s use of its vintage sports logos and images. A Pennsylvania jury awarded Penn State $28,000 in damages on Wednesday over products made and sold by Vintage Brand and Sportswear Inc., two firms co-founded by former minor league baseball player Chad Hartvigson. Penn State accused them of selling “counterfeit” clothing and accessories, while the defendants said their website makes clear they are not affiliated with the university. At least a dozen other schools have sued the defendants on similar grounds, including Purdue, Stanford and UCLA, Penn State said in its 2021 lawsuit. However, the Penn State case was the first to go to trial and seen by some as a test case in the sports merchandising industry. “It addresses an important issue with trademark law — whether or not the mark owner is able to prevent third parties from using its marks on T-shirts and paraphernalia without permission,” said Tiffany Gehrke, a trademark lawyer in Chicago who was not involved in the case. The verdict, she said, maintains the status quo, while a victory for Vintage Brand “could have shaken things up.” It followed a six-day trial in federal court in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, overseen by Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann. Defense lawyers declined to comment on the verdict and whether their clients planned to appeal. Penn State, in a statement, called its trademarks “critical” to the school’s brand, and said it was grateful for the verdict. “The university appreciates this result as it relates to the many hundreds of licensees with whom the university works and who go through the appropriate processes to use Penn State’s trademarks,” the statement said. Founded in 1855, Penn State adopted the Nittany Lion as its mascot in 1904 and has been using various images of the animal, along with the school’s seal and other logos, for decades, the lawsuit said. The school now has more than 100,000 students at 24 campuses.
