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Repeat or revenge: Alabama vs. Georgia, again, for CFP title
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Alabama has a chance to repeat. Georgia has a chance for revenge. The rematch is set, and it will decide the College Football Playoff national championship. After a pair of easy wins in the semifinals on Friday night, the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs — the...
Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining nuclear plants
Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power. The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken...
Angry Dawgs: No. 3 Georgia beats No. 2 Michigan in CFP
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — With one overwhelming half at the Orange Bowl, No. 3 Georgia showed that a humbling loss to Alabama did not break the Bulldogs. In fact, it might have made them even stronger. Stetson Bennett threw three touchdown passes, Nakobe Dean led an angry defense and Georgia...
No. 1 Alabama runs over No. 4 Cincinnati in College Football Playoff semifinalVideo
ARLINGTON, Texas — Brian Robinson Jr. ran for a career-high 204 yards and top-ranked Alabama rolled into yet another national championship game by overwhelming the first non-Power Five team to make the College Football Playoff. Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young threw three touchdown passes while mostly avoiding Cincinnati’s standout cornerbacks,...
West Virginia QB Jarret Doege plans to transferVideo
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia quarterback Jarret Doege said Friday that he plans to transfer. Doege announced his decision on Twitter. “I will forever be grateful for the friendships and memories I’ve made at WVU over the past three years,” Doege said. “I am excited about the future and will...
Browns gearing up for one last shot at dropping Steelers’ Ben RoethlisbergerVideo
CLEVELAND — Myles Garrett was only 8 years old when Ben Roethlisberger started his personal, nearly two-decade-long crusade against Cleveland. Big Ben has tormented the Browns, going 24-2-1 as a starter against them since 2004, including a 12-0 mark in the regular season at home. “One of the greats,” said...
Replacement Central Michigan beats Washington State in Sun BowlVideo
EL PASO, Texas — Central Michigan came to the desert to play in one bowl game and ended up in another. The Chippewas still found a way to end their five-game bowl losing streak. Lew Nichols III ran for 130 yards and a touchdown, leading late replacement Central Michigan to...
Wake Forest routs Rutgers in Gator BowlVideo
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Sam Hartman tossed three touchdown passes, two of them to tight end Brandon Chapman, and No. 20 Wake Forest beat Rutgers, 38-10, in the Gator Bowl on Friday to reach 11 wins for the second time in program history. Hartman completed 23 of 39 passes for 304...
Notre Dame, Oklahoma State set for Fiesta Bowl after difficult stretchesVideo
GLENDALE, Ariz. — No. 5 Notre Dame lost its coach and its chance at playing in the College Football Playoff in a span of six days, a tumultuous stretch that could have sent the program spiraling. New Irish coach Marcus Freeman has steadied the rudder, kept the Irish focused as...
Betty White dead at age 99
Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99. People and the Washington Post reported White’s death. She...
NFL coaching carousel likely to be in full swing soonVideo
Just like the Super Bowl, the draft, and the Jets missing the playoffs, there is another ritual in every NFL season. The coaching carousel. It’s spinning already with two openings, in Las Vegas and Jacksonville, forced by the departures of two disgraced coaches, Jon Gruden and Urban Meyer. It might...
Vikings lose Kirk Cousins to covid list before game vs. PackersVideo
The Minnesota Vikings placed quarterback Kirk Cousins on the covid-19 reserve list on Friday, two days before their most important game of the season at Green Bay. Cousins is unvaccinated. Even if he were asymptomatic, he wouldn’t be able to return in time to face the Packers. The NFL recently...
1 in 15 people in London likely has covid
LONDON — New figures from Britain’s official statistics body estimate that about 1 in 25 people in private households in England had covid-19 in the week before Christmas, as the highly transmissible omicron variant spread rapidly across the country. The figure was even higher in London, the British capital, where...
Hall of Famer Sam Jones, winner of 10 NBA titles with Celtics, dies at 88Video
BOSTON — Basketball Hall of Famer Sam Jones, the skilled scorer whose 10 NBA titles is second only to Boston Celtics teammate Bill Russell, has died, the team said. He was 88. Jones died Thursday night in Florida, where he was hospitalized in failing health, Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss said....
Cain scores 22 to lift Oakland past Robert Morris
OAKLAND, Mich. (AP) — Jamal Cain had 22 points and 14 rebounds as Oakland defeated Robert Morris, 79-61, on Thursday night. Trey Townsend had 18 points and five steals for Oakland (8-4, 3-0 Horizon League). Jalen Moore added 15 points and 10 assists, and Osei Price had 11 points and...
Braelon Allen, Wisconsin hold off Arizona State in Las Vegas Bowl
LAS VEGAS — Braelon Allen thought his week in Las Vegas was rather uneventful. After all, it’s hard to really soak in Sin City when you’re only 17 years old. He’ll have to settle for his MVP award. Allen ran for 159 yards and Wisconsin drained the final 9 minutes,...
Penn State, No. 22 Arkansas, excited about Outback matchup
TAMPA, Fla. — James Franklin and Sam Pittman are concentrating on the players who actually will be on the field for Penn State and No. 22 Arkansas in the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day. That’s no disrespect to the talented collection of players who opted to prepare for the...
‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among works going public in 2022
WASHINGTON — “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public. A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, along with films starring Buster Keaton and Greta Garbo are among the works from 1926 whose copyrights will expire Saturday, putting them in the public domain as...
Over 65 shots fired on busy Philadelphia street; 6 wounded
PHILADELPHIA — Two gunmen fired more than 65 rounds on a Philadelphia street, sending nighttime pedestrians on a busy block teeming with markets and restaurants scrambling for cover and injuring six people, at least one of them critically, police said Friday. Police responded around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the Germantown...
‘Wait, what?’ quip tops school’s annual banished words list
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The judges of a Michigan university’s cheeky annual “Banished Words List” have a message for texting and tweeting Americans: Your “wait, what?” joke is lame. The phrase topped Lake Superior State University in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula lighthearted list of 10 “winners” chosen from among more...
Yemen officials: Saudi airstrike kills 12 troops by mistake
SANAA, Yemen — An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a camp of allied Yemeni pro-government forces, killing at least 12 troops, Yemeni military officials said Friday. The strike, which took place on Thursday in the province of Shabwa, also wounded at least eight Yemeni troops, the officials...
Western North Carolina sheriff: 3-year-old shot Christmas Day has died
EDNEYVILLE, N.C. — A 3-year-old girl flown to a western North Carolina hospital on Christmas Day for treatment of what officials described as an “accidental self-inflicted shooting” has died, authorities announced on Wednesday. Aylee Gordon died late Tuesday at Mission Hospital in Asheville, the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office said in...
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021
They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service. But both also saw their legacies tarnished by their actions in the long, bloody war in Iraq. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are among the many noteworthy...
Devin Hester, DeMarcus Ware 1st-year Hall of Fame finalists
DeMarcus Ware, Andre Johnson and Devin Hester, all in their first year of eligibility, are finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2022. The 15 modern-day players who will be considered Jan. 18 by the selection committee include tackle Tony Boselli, in his sixth year as a...
Biden, Putin talk nearly an hour as alarm rises over UkraineVideo
WILMINGTON, Del. — Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke frankly for nearly an hour late Thursday amid growing alarm over Russia’s troop buildup near Ukraine, a simmering crisis that’s recently deepened as the Kremlin has stiffened its demands for increased security guarantees and test fired hypersonic missiles to underscore...
