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Analysis: NFL playoff race defines parity, though competition doesn’t always equal quality footbal

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

On Football analyzes the biggest topics in the NFL from week to week. For more On Football analysis, head here.___The NFL playoff race defines parity.Thirty teams entered Week 15 still alive for a Super Bowl run. Of course, several of those teams had astronomical odds and a few more know they’re not going anywhere. But, it’s been five years since only two teams were mathematically eliminated this late in the season.Close scores and competitive games don’t always translate into quality football — just ask Tom Brady — but the NFL takes pride in balance.They’ve sure got it in 2023.There are 24 teams in or within one game of a playoff spot. Seven of eight division races are within two games, including four that are within one or tied.Eleven AFC teams have a winning record. Since the 1970 merger, that’s only happened three times previously through 14 weeks. Five NFC teams that are 6-7 are tied for the final wild-card spot. Three 6-7 teams are tied for the top spot in the NFC South.Three ...

2-time All-Star Ja Morant set to talk with 25-game suspension nearing an end

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two-time All-Star Ja Morant told reporters after the Los Angeles Lakers ousted Memphis in six games to start the playoffs in April that he had to make better decisions, knowing off-the-court issues affected the Grizzlies’ season. Now the dazzling point guard given a 25-game timeout by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is about to get a second chance to prove he really means that. Morant will talk with the media Friday after Memphis’ morning shootaround before the Grizzlies host Houston that night. It will be the first time that Morant has talked with reporters since that disappointing first-round ouster April 29. And the Grizzlies really need a boost. Morant’s suspension is one of several factors that have left the Grizzlies near the bottom of the NBA after earning the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference each of the past two seasons. The No. 2 pick overall in the 2020 draft, 2021 NBA Rookie of the Year and 2022 Most Improved Player didn’t sh...

Judge says a tabloid publisher hacked Prince Harry’s phone and awards him 140,000 pounds in damages

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Judge says a tabloid publisher hacked Prince Harry’s phone and awards him 140,000 pounds in damages.Source

Tiroteo en Irán: al menos 11 muertos deja balacera en una comisaría de la policía

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

Un supuesto ataque insurgente causó 11 muertos y varios heridos en un tiroteo nocturno contra una comisaría de policía en el sureste de Irán, según reportó la televisora estatal el viernes.Altos cargos de la policía y soldados perdieron la vida en el ataque ocurrido a las 2:00 a.m. en Rask, una localidad a unas 875 millas al suroeste de Teherán, explicó el vicegobernador de la provincia de Sistán y Baluchistán, Ali Reza Marhemati.La policía abatió a varios atacantes en un tiroteo, agregó. Irán asegura que puso en órbita una cápsula capaz de transportar animales Desde el aire: así fueron los bombazos de EEUU contra objetivos en Siria La televisora estatal culpó del ataque al grupo separatista Jaish al-Adl. En 2019, Jaish al-Adl se atribuyó la responsabilidad por un atentado suicida en un bus en el que murieron 27 miembros de la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní.En los últimos meses, insurgentes y pequeños grupos separatistas en la regió...

Aún no se conoce el paradero de Navalny, dice el equipo del líder opositor ruso

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

(CNN) — El equipo del líder opositor ruso Alexey Navalny afirma que no ha tenido contacto con él en los últimos diez días y que desconoce su paradero.En la última vista judicial sobre su caso, el tribunal escuchó que había abandonado la región de Vladimir, donde está encarcelado desde julio, según declaró el viernes su equipo. En la plataforma de redes sociales X, la portavoz de Navalny, Kira Yarmysh, dijo: Alexey [Navalny] “‘ha abandonado la región de Vladimir’, le dijeron al abogado en el tribunal. Se desconoce a dónde exactamente”.A pesar de que el tribunal alega que Navalny estuvo en la colonia hasta el lunes, según Yarmysh, a sus abogados se les ha denegado el acceso desde el pasado miércoles.“Supuestamente esto ocurrió el 11 de diciembre. Permítanme recordarles que los abogados no han visto a Alexey desde el 6 de diciembre”, añadió Yarmysh.Según reportes, en los días previos a su desaparición Navalny no estuvo presente en ninguna de la...

Denver weather: Plenty of sunshine and warming into weekend

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Abundant sunshine is back across the state for the end of the workweek as highs climb to above average in the Denver weather forecast.Weather today: Lots of sunshineDenver finishes off the workweek with plenty of sunshine as winds stay light. Johnston wants 167 new officers on Denver’s streets Afternoon highs will be above average, making it to the 50-degree mark.Pinpoint Weather: Daily forecast on Dec. 15 Weather tonight: Keeping it clearSkies will stay clear Friday night, but lows will be above average. Winds are light overnight as temperatures dip into the upper 20s.Pinpoint Weather: Overnight forecast on Dec. 15 Looking ahead: Warming and staying dryThe weekend will continue the warming trend with mainly sunny skies. Colorado wolf reintroduction in limbo while judge decides on case Highs on Saturday and Sunday will make it to the upper 50s with light winds. Pinpoint Weather 7-day forecast for Denver on Dec. 15 Monday begins the next week with abundant sunshi...

Boy, 13, charged after allegedly planning mass shooting in a synagogue

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year old boy from Canton, Ohio, has been charged with allegedly planning a mass shooting of a local Jewish synagogue.The teenager, who is unnamed in court documents because he is a minor, is charged with inducing panic and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. He’s accused of posting a “detailed plan to complete a mass shooting” at Temple Israel in Canton, a city south of Akron, on the live streaming platform Discord.The charges come amid a rise of antisemitism in the United States and worldwide. In the U.S. alone, antisemitic incidents rose 35% from 2021 to 2022.According to documents released by the Stark County Sherriff’s Office Thursday, an FBI agent alerted the department to the Discord posts on Sept. 7. The plans were initially posted on Sept. 1, and contained maps of the synagogue allegedly drawn by the boy and another individual in Washington state. They also included plans to burn down and “shoot up” the building.When confronted by law ...

Dreary Days to Continue into this Weekend

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

We’re now onto Day 3 of the wet and windy weather across South Florida.A front has been stalled across the Florida Straits, keeping moisture stuck across the region while a strong, northeast breeze taps into that moisture and is translating to passing showers.The setup will remain fairly similar this Friday with rounds of rain persisting along with plenty of clouds. Rain chances should increase as the day progresses.Wind gusts up to 45 mph remain forecast through Sunday morning, so a Wind Advisory is in effect for metro and coastal Miami-Dade and Broward Counties as a result.In terms of rainfall, heavy rain remains a concern, especially on Saturday, as an area of low pressure develops over the Gulf of Mexico then tracks to our north across Florida.A Flood Watch is in effect for the Florida Keys as a result with several inches of rainfall forecast. Isolated areas of flooding will also be a possibility across mainland South Florida.On Saturday, this is when the worst of the weat...

Belgian far right expels alleged China spy from party

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

The Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang on Friday expelled former senator Frank Creyelman over accusations he was recruited by China to spy on Europe.Tom Van Grieken, the party’s chair, announced Creyelman’s immediate expulsion on X saying: “His actions go against the purpose and essence, even the name, of our party.” He added: “The only loyalty for nationalists can only be to their own nation.”The move follows an explosive investigation published by the Financial Times, Der Spiegel and Le Monde detailing how China’s spy agency allegedly used Creyelman over the course of three years to influence discussions in Europe on issues ranging from China’s crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong to its persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.“I take that very seriously,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told journalists when asked about the report as he arrived at a European Council summit in Brussels. “That would actually mean that some people are sabotaging o...

Boston Tea Party 250th anniversary: City to re-enact key moment in history

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:56:06 GMT

(CNN) — They were fed up with a British tax on tea in particular and consumed by resentment of British authority in general. So on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of rebellious colonial Americans called the Sons of Liberty decided to make a statement.They sneaked onto ships docked in Boston Harbor and proceeded to toss 342 chests of imported Chinese tea into the water. This act of mercantile defiance impressed the heck out of future US President John Adams.“This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History,” he wrote in his diary.Adams certainly hit the bullseye in his prediction that this night would echo through history. And now the city is set to re-enact the Boston Tea Party on its 250th anniversary. Here’s what they have planned:What will happen at the Tea Party re-enactmentsLive, historical re-enactments ...