super ace slot big win Travis Hunter named AP player of the yearTrue freshman Luke Kromenhoek threw three touchdown passes and Caziah Holmes ran for two more as host Florida State routed Charleston Southern 41-7 on Saturday afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla. The Seminoles (2-9) convincingly snapped a six-game losing streak and ensured that the Buccaneers (1-11) would finish theirs on a 10-game skid. Florida State has not had much to celebrate during one of its worst seasons in program history. But on Saturday, the Seminoles overcame a rough start and put together one of their more complete efforts of the season. Florida State had not scored more than 21 points in a game prior to Saturday's contest and its 175 rushing yards more than doubled its average (80.5 per game) this season. No single runner had over 40 yards, but seven rushers combined for that output on 34 attempts. The Seminoles entered the game ranked 130th out of 133 FBS teams in rushing offense. Holmes, a senior, finished with three carries for 38 yards, including touchdown runs of 3 and 18 yards. Kromenhoek gave Florida State a sliver of hope for its quarterback future as he completed 13 of 20 passes for 209 yards and no interceptions. He threw TD passes for Amaree Williams, Ja'Khi Douglas and Hykeem Williams. The highlight was a 71-yard touchdown pass to Douglas on the first play from scrimmage of the second half to put the Seminoles ahead 24-0. Douglas finished with 82 yards receiving on three catches, and 10 different Florida State players caught passes for 240 total yards. The Seminoles went 6 of 10 on third downs after averaging only a 25 percent conversion rate all season. Their defense held Charleston Southern to 275 total yards (57 rushing) and forced two turnovers. Florida State was unable to hang on to the shutout, however, as Bucs quarterback Kaleb Jackson found Landon Sauers for a 7-yard touchdown pass with 57 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Jackson completed 22 of 32 passes for 218 yards, one touchdown and one interception. The Bucs defense recorded three sacks led by Davion Williams, who had eight tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack. The Seminoles will conclude their season next Saturday at home against rival Florida. --Field Level Media

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Millions brace for scorching heat with mercury tipped to hit 40sFormer U.S. president Jimmy Carter, once called a 'pretty good Canadian,' dies at 100WASHINGTON: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and one of Donald Trump’s closest allies, met with US lawmakers Thursday on his plans for overseeing radical government spending cuts under the incoming administration. President-elect Trump rewarded the Tesla, X and SpaceX chief for his support during the White House campaign by naming him head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, along with another wealthy ally, Vivek Ramaswamy. Although the office, dubbed DOGE, has a purely advisory role, Musk’s star power and intense influence in Trump’s inner circle bring political clout. As Musk and Ramaswamy strode into the Capitol for meetings with lawmakers, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson touted “a new day in America.” “There’s an enormous amount of waste, fraud and abuse,” he told reporters. “Government is too big, it does too many things, and it does almost nothing well.” Musk and Ramaswamy have said they can identify billions of dollars of cuts in spending, sparking questions about whether Republicans will even try to slash politically popular social security programs. Wave of terminations Writing in the Wall Street Journal last month, the two businessmen laid out plans for the White House to cut staff, trim government programs and reduce federal regulations, even if it means bypassing Congress, which holds budgetary power. “The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote. “We’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. During Trump’s election campaign, Musk vowed to reduce federal spending by $2 trillion. This would represent cutting total US spending by a third, almost certainly meaning devastation of social support programs — something that has never garnered strong political backing. Musk’s emphasis on firing large numbers of government employees, however, echoes Republican talking points about the need to take on an overbearing state and may garner more support. Musk says he is seeking “mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy.” Musk suggested banning government employees from working at home as an opening tactic. “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.” Cuts will also target subsidies to public broadcasters and groups such as Planned Parenthood, which campaigns for abortion access and offers an array of reproductive health services. Social welfare But DOGE is unlikely, at least initially, to go after welfare programs such as Social Security or health insurance for the poor and seniors, Ramaswamy said in an interview with Axios on Wednesday. Such cuts should be “a policy decision that belongs to the voters” and their representatives in Congress, Ramaswamy said. A reduction in military spending, which climbed to $820 billion in 2023, is also unlikely to be on the table. Musk’s new role raises the question of potential conflicts of interest, since he could be issuing policy recommendations that impact directly on his own business empire. Underlining the close connection to DOGE, Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency is called Dogecoin. — AFP

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Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools. Georgetown’s then-president, for example, listed a prospective student on his “president’s list” after meeting her and her wealthy father at an Idaho conference known as “summer camp for billionaires,” according to Tuesday court filings in the price-fixing lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court in 2022. Although it’s always been assumed that such favoritism exists, the filings offer a rare peek at the often secret deliberations of university heads and admissions officials. They show how schools admit otherwise unqualified wealthy children because their parents have connections and could possibly donate large sums down the line, raising questions about fairness. Stuart Schmill, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in a 2018 email that the university admitted four out of six applicants recommended by then-board chairman Robert Millard, including two who “we would really not have otherwise admitted.” The two others were not admitted because they were “not in the ball park, or the push from him was not as strong.” In the email, Schmill said Millard was careful to play down his influence on admissions decisions, but he said the chair also sent notes on all six students and later met with Schmill to share insight “into who he thought was more of a priority.” The filings are the latest salvo in a lawsuit that claims that 17 of the nation’s most prestigious colleges colluded to reduce the competition for prospective students and drive down the amount of financial aid they would offer, all while giving special preference to the children of wealthy donors. “That illegal collusion resulted in the defendants providing far less aid to students than would have been provided in a free market,” said Robert Gilbert, an attorney for the plaintiffs. Since the lawsuit was filed, 10 of the schools have reached settlements to pay out a total of $284 million, including payments of up to $2,000 to current or former students whose financial aid might have been shortchanged over a period of more than two decades. They are Brown, the University of Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt and Yale. Johns Hopkins is working on a settlement and the six schools still fighting the lawsuit are the California Institute of Technology, Cornell, Georgetown, MIT, Notre Dame and the University of Pennsylvania. MIT called the lawsuit and the claims about admissions favoritism baseless. “MIT has no history of wealth favoritism in its admissions; quite the opposite,” university spokesperson Kimberly Allen said. “After years of discovery in which millions of documents were produced that provide an overwhelming record of independence in our admissions process, plaintiffs could cite just a single instance in which the recommendation of a board member helped sway the decisions for two undergraduate applicants." In a statement, Penn also said the case is meritless that the evidence shows that it doesn't favor students whose families have donated or pledged money to the Ivy League school. “Plaintiffs’ whole case is an attempt to embarrass the University about its purported admission practices on issues totally unrelated to this case," the school said. Notre Dame officials also called the case baseless. “We are confident that every student admitted to Notre Dame is fully qualified and ready to succeed,” a university spokesperson said in a statement. The South Bend, Indiana, school, though, did apparently admit wealthy students with subpar academic backgrounds. According to the new court filings, Don Bishop, who was then associate vice president for enrollment at Notre Dame, bluntly wrote about the “special interest” admits in a 2012 email, saying that year's crop had poorer academic records than the previous year's. The 2012 group included 38 applicants who were given a “very low” academic rating, Bishop wrote. He said those students represented “massive allowances to the power of the family connections and funding history,” adding that “we allowed their high gifting or potential gifting to influence our choices more this year than last year.” The final line of his email: “Sure hope the wealthy next year raise a few more smart kids!” Some of the examples pointed to in this week's court filings showed that just being able to pay full tuition would give students an advantage. During a deposition, a former Vanderbilt admissions director said that in some cases, a student would get an edge on the waitlist if they didn’t need financial aid. The 17 schools were part of a decades-old group that got permission from Congress to come up with a shared approach to awarding financial aid. Such an arrangement might otherwise violate antitrust laws, but Congress allowed it as long as the colleges all had need-blind admissions policies, meaning they wouldn't consider a student’s financial situation when deciding who gets in. The lawsuit argues that many colleges claimed to be need-blind but routinely favored the children of alumni and donors. In doing so, the suit says, the colleges violated the Congressional exemption and tainted the entire organization. The group dissolved in recent years when the provision allowing the collaboration expired.

The Nanooks were at the Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for their final showings until the new year. They fell in the opening round to the University of Connecticut before bouncing back in the third-place game against Ferris State University. Saturday: Huskies run past Nanooks, 4-1 Saturday began the invitational, as Alaska was paired against UConn. The Huskies scored three consecutive goals, thanks mainly to power play efficiency, seeing them take a 4-1 win. Two goals in the opening period helped the Huskies start fast. Ethan Whitcomb and Jake Richard were the contributors, guiding Connecticut to a 2-0 lead. Their momentum rolled over into the second period, where they found their third unanswered in the opening seconds. Their first and third tallies both came on the power play, as special teams provided a key spark early on. The run was answered by Chase Dafoe, who gave the Nanooks their first score of the night, making it 3-1 near the halfway mark of the second. Assists were credited to Haden Kruse and Caelum Dick. Their scoring efforts ended there, as they wouldn’t produce another before the close of the game. Jake Percival added on for the Huskies to push the deficit to its final margin of 4-1. UAF put up a competitive effort in terms of shots produced, as their 28 slightly trailed the Huskies’ 33. The biggest gap came in converting on the power play, as they went 0-5 compared to 2-4. The trio of Dafoe, Kruse and Dick were the only players to register a point in the loss. Eight different skaters did so for the Huskies. For goalkeeping, Nicholas Grabko finished with four goals allowed on 27 shots faced. He finished with 23 saves and a .852 save percentage. The result put Alaska in the third-place game, where they matched up against the Ferris State University Bulldogs, who fell to the University of Wisconsin in the opening round by a score of 8-0. Sunday: Nanooks rebound for convincing win over Bulldogs The Nanooks bounced back against Ferris State the following night with a 4-1 to claim third place at the event. This time around, they got off to a strong start, as a power play goal from Matt Hubbarde started the scoring with Matt Koethe doubling the lead later in the frame. UAF held a 2-0 lead with just under 10 minutes played. The Bulldogs continued to be blanked in the second period, as the Nanooks kept them off the board. They added on another in their favor, with Dafoe netting his second score at the Face-Off to make it a 3-0 game with a shorthanded score. Both teams traded goals in the third period, with Ferris State initially shrinking the deficit thanks to Logan Heroux before Matt Rickard put the puck into an empty net for the final score of 4-1. UAF held the advantage in the shot total at 36-27 and went 1-6 on the power play compared to Ferris State’s 1-8. Goalkeeper Lassi Lehti made 22 saves on 23 shots faced, seeing him tally a .957 save percentage in the win. Up next, the Nanooks are on the road to the University of Minnesota Duluth for two games on Jan. 3 and 4 before returning home against Simon Fraser University on Jan. 10-11.Opinion Don't miss out on the headlines from Opinion. Followed categories will be added to My News. Form analyst Gilbert Gardiner provides his best bets, value selection and jockey to follow for Monday’s Victorian meeting at Wangaratta. • PUNT LIKE A PRO : Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet’s team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW ! ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ WANGARATTA TIPS BEST BET ARIZONA ACTIVIST ( Race 6 No.2 – $4) First-up flyer and gets some nice weight relief. Arizona Activist has won two of three starts first-up previously and been runner-up once. Hard to beat. NEXT BEST BRENLYN’S DAISY ( Race 8 No.1 – $3.60) Won two of past three starts and placed in-between. Always around the money. VALUE BET PERSIAN CAVIAR ( Race 2 No.12 – $8) Worth an each-way ticket at the price. Drawn well and 1100m suits. Runner-up in three jumpouts including two most recent 800m heats at Pakenham. SOUTH POLE ( Race 4 No.6 – $14) The North Pole is where all the Santa Claus action is this time of year but South Pole could be a stocking filler. The four-year-old gelding has run well the past three starts including two third places. THE JOCKEY BILLY EGAN MALLETIER ( Race 1 No.4 – $1.95), JE CITY ( Race 3 No.3 – $6), MOMETZ ( Race 4 No.8 – $2.25), SON OF A BOOM ( Race 5 No.4 – $18), POP QUIZ ( Race 6 No.9 – $5.50), OUR SILVER LININGS ( Race 7 No.5 – $11), MINTULEE ( Race 8 No.7 – $4.60) and SHYLEAH ( Race 9 No.12 – $2.70). Originally published as On The Punt: Best bets for Wangaratta on Monday Join the conversation Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout More related stories Opinion Tamworth, Bathurst tips, inside mail for Monday Palentino daughter Apparently looks ready and able to post her first career win when she steps out at her new home track at Tamworth on Monday with Ash Morgan in the saddle. Read more Horse Racing Taree tips: Prosser hopes debutant can ‘Playa’ winning tune Trainer Colt Prosser is looking forward to see what his three-year-old colt Crashmyplaya can do on debut. Read moreLAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Christian Shumate's 22 points helped McNeese defeat NCAA Division-member LeTourneau 103-69 on Saturday night. Shumate also contributed five rebounds for the Cowboys (5-4). 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Rivers, like mountains, are places of the imagination as much as they are facts of geography and political history. In the introduction to his 2014 book Congo: The Epic History of a People, Belgian historian David van Reybrouck acknowledges this duality — let's call it the magical actuality of rivers — in relation to Central Africa's greatest river. The Congo, tells Van Reybrouck, has a resonance that far exceeds its 4 700km length. The basin where the river flows into the Atlantic Ocean is an enigma of colour: a yellowish, ochre, rusty broth, he writes, that stretches westward for 800km during the rainy months: "That is how a country begins: far before the coastline, thinned down with lots and lots of seawater." Curator Owen Martin was still living in Cape Town — a place of epic mountains but meh rivers — when he read Van Reybrouck's widely admired book. He found the connections the author made between hydrology and history insightful and banked them for a possible exhibition about rivers. It took river time and a change in address to ultimately realise that exhibition. Martin lives in Oslo, Norway, where he is a curator at the Astrup Fearnley Museum. Two years into his new role at the resourced private art museum with extensive holdings of blue-chip American and European artists, Martin has finally realised his dream exhibition. Its realisation is partly a story of revival. Hicham Berrada's installation Mesk-Ellil composed of terrariums housing jasmine Among South Africans, Martin is best known from his five-year tenure as the likeable chief curator of Cape Town's Norval Foundation. After joining Norval from Zeitz MOCAA in 2017, Martin excelled at organising solo exhibitions spotlighting major African talents, among them Kenyan painter Michael Armitage and Ghanaian installation artist Ibrahim Mahama. But the departure of Norval CEO Elana Brundyn in 2022 saddled Martin, a Canadian who came into the orbit of art collector Jochen Zeitz in 2011, with new...

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Birmingham fairground ride ‘collapses’ with pic showing mangled seats – as cops and ambulances rush to sceneArizona junior tight end Keyan Burnett is entering the transfer portal, he announced on his social media accounts Saturday afternoon. Burnett will enter the transfer portal after three seasons at Arizona. Burnett entered the portal in January after the UA hired head coach Brent Brennan, but withdrew his name. Burnett signed with Arizona as a four-star prospect in 2022 out of Servite High School in Anaheim, California. The 6-6, 248-pound Burnett was one of four Servite players to sign with Arizona in '22, along with wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan, quarterback Noah Fifita and linebacker Jacob Manu. Burnett is the son of former Arizona linebacker and "Desert Swarm" member Chester Burnett, who was a Second-Team All-Pac-10 selection in 1996. Arizona tight end Keyan Burnett (88) looks up field for room to run after making a catch over the middle against Texas Tech in the third quarter. The younger Burnett played his first two seasons behind Tanner McLachlan, who was Arizona's most productive tight end since Rob Gronkowski. After McLachlan went on to play in the NFL, Burnett had a productive spring and fall training camp and appeared due for a breakout junior season, but injuries hindered Burnett throughout the season. In eight games this season, Burnett had a career-high 18 catches for 217 yards and a touchdown. His only touchdown as a Wildcat was the 35-yard dagger score in Arizona's upset win over 10th-ranked Utah in Salt Lake City. Burnett joins offensive lineman Wendell Moe, quarterback Brayden Dorman, tight end Dorian Thomas, running back Rayshon Luke, wide receiver AJ Jones and running back Brandon Johnson as players entering the transfer portal. The transfer portal officially opens on Monday. 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During a Dec. 3 home win over Vancouver, Eriksson Ek left the ice during overtime after a collision with Canucks winger Jake DeBrusk. “I think we hit each other’s knees,” Eriksson Ek said. “So yeah, just an unlucky play.” The Wild went 5-6-0 with their top-line center missing, including a season-worst, four-game losing streak. While Kirill Kaprizov missed a second consecutive game and his third of the season on Sunday, Minnesota coach John Hynes struck an optimistic note about getting two-thirds of the team’s standard top line back together to face Ottawa. “It was nice that he had a full practice yesterday and feels good, so getting him back is obviously always a benefit,” he said. “With who he is as a player, who he is as a guy and what he means to our team, it’s good.” In 22 games with the Wild this season, Eriksson Ek has five goals and eight assists for 13 points, normally playing center between Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello, when all three are healthy. That has been a rarity this season, as the trio has combined to miss 29 games among the 37 that the Wild have played. ADVERTISEMENT While the Ottawa Senators were in Minnesota on Sunday, around two dozen folks from the State of Hockey are in Ottawa this week, attending the 2025 World Junior Hockey Championship and planning for a year from now when the world’s best young hockey talent comes to Minnesota. The Senators’ home rink and a secondary site in Ottawa are hosting the 2025 event, while starting in December 2025 the games will be played at 3M Arena at Mariucci in Minneapolis and Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The Twin Cities last hosted the World Juniors — which is considered second only to the Olympics among global hockey events — in 1982, with the since-demolished Met Center used as one of the rinks. 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