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All eyes will be on the player-availability report when the Los Angeles Clippers play host to the Golden State Warriors on Friday at Inglewood, Calif. While the Clippers are moving closer to the season debut of Kawhi Leonard, the Warriors are pondering a day of rest for Stephen Curry on the first night of a back-to-back that includes a game at home against the Phoenix Suns on Saturday. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Stacker compiled a list of cities with the fastest growing home prices in the Savannah, GA metro using data from Zillow. Click for more. Cities with the fastest-growing home prices in the Savannah metro area
Arizona and TCU go into Monday's Big 12 opener at Tucson, Ariz., with the Wildcats looking to score at a fast pace and the Horned Frogs wanting to shut them down after allowing only one opponent to reach 80 points through their first 11 games. In that game -- an 83-74 loss to Vanderbilt in Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 8 -- TCU (7-4) lost leading scorer Frankie Collins to a season-ending broken foot. The Horned Frogs entered Sunday tied for 30th in the nation in scoring defense at 63.8 points allowed per game. Arizona (6-5), on the other hand, entered the day ranked 23rd nationally in scoring average at 85.5 points per game. "I feel like we're getting there defensively," said TCU coach Jamie Dixon, who has 12 new players on his roster this season. "We've had very few mental mistakes defensively." North Carolina Wilmington transfer Trazarien White leads the Horned Frogs with 19 steals while trying to take on more of a scorer's role with the absence of Collins. White is averaging 10.5 points per game, second to Collins' 11.2 mark. Vasean Allette, a sophomore who transferred from Old Dominion, has replaced Collins at point guard. He has 13 steals and is averaging 10 points and 2.3 assists per game. Arizona has struggled against top competition after starting the season ranked No. 10. The Wildcats welcomed the nine-day Christmas break before playing TCU. "I mean, this nonconference was rough," sophomore guard KJ Lewis said. "I think we all need a little break and a reset." Arizona's losses are to Wisconsin, Duke, Oklahoma, West Virginia and UCLA -- teams with a combined record of 53-9. In those games, Arizona reached 80 points once, a 103-88 loss at Wisconsin on Nov. 15. The Wildcats averaged 70 points in those five losses. 15.5 points below their season mark. Caleb Love leads Arizona with 15.2 points a game, but he has taken the most shots on the team by a wide margin while struggling with his percentage. He is 61 of 152 (40.1 percent) overall and 25 of 85 (29.4 percent) from 3-point range. The player with the second-most shots overall, Jaden Bradley, is 46 of 98 (46.9 percent). Anthony Dell'Orso, a transfer from Campbell, has taken the second-most 3-pointers on the team, hitting 21 of 47 (44.7 percent). --Field Level MediaStanford takes aim at Andrej Stojakovic, Cal
Tyler Huntley started the 2024 season on the Cleveland Browns. By late August, however, the Browns had released the quarterback. The Broward County native subsequently returned to the practice squad of the Baltimore Ravens — the team on which he got his NFL start. Then the Miami Dolphins lost franchise quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to a concussion in Week 2, leading the team to sign Huntley to its active roster. Huntley would start three games in Tagovailoa’s absence, going 1-2, before he wound up on injured reserved with a shoulder injury. But when the news that Tagovailoa’s hip injury could force him to miss Sunday’s game against the Browns, there was no doubt Huntley would step in. What was unknown at the time, however, was just how well Huntley would play. “I feel good,” Huntley said after the game. “I actually feel more comfortable with these plays. A couple weeks in the office definitely makes a difference.” Huntley helped lead the Dolphins to 20-3 victory against the Browns , completing nearly 85% of his passes for 225 yards and a touchdown. The Hallandale High graduate only threw four incompletions in addition to his 52 yards on the ground and a rushing touchdown. “I think what was evident was the positives of time for Snoop and how far he’s come since we last played with him,” coach Mike McDaniel said. “I thought that was a tremendous outing for him. I thought he made some plays and was very good with the ball, and those are always cool things for a player when they’re playing a team that they were on in that same calendar year.” With the win, the Dolphins reached .500 for the first time since the start of the season and remained alive in the playoff race. They will need the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Denver Broncos to ultimately secure a spot in the postseason but Sunday’s victory was a good start. Here are four additional takeaways from Sunday’s victory over the Browns. Defense steps up The Dolphins defense had a very clear motto: bend don’t break. Despite allowing a little more than 275 yards on the day, the defense didn’t let up a touchdown, limiting the Browns to just three points on their two trips to the red zone. More evidence of their ‘bend don’t break’ mentality: the defense held the Browns to seven conversions on third down (41%) as well as zero fourth down conversions. Defensive tackle Zach Sieler praised the unit’s “communication” after the victory. “Staying on the same page and no one trying to take a shot and working within the bounds of the defense,” Sieler said. Added McDaniel: “They rose to the occasion. Having a couple turnovers and not letting them into the end zone. Guys made some plays just across the board.” Forcing turnovers The Dolphins came into the game ranked in the bottom five in terms of forced turnovers. Against the Browns, however, they were able to create two turnovers. With just more than four and half minutes before halftime, inside linebacker Tyrel Dodson picked off Browns quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Then, with roughly five and a half minutes left in the third quarter, edge rusher Emmanuel Ogbah sacked Thompson-Robinson, leading the quarterback to cough up the ball which defensive tackle D’Shawn Hand recovered. While none of these turnovers led to Dolphins scores, it’s a good sign that the defense could wreak havoc on a Browns offense down to its third quarterback. Poor rushing numbers: This has been written time and time again. The Dolphins offense truly struggles to run the ball. As a team, they finished with 74 yards on 27 carries and a touchdown. That’s roughly 2.74 yards per carry, which would rank dead last in the NFL. Remove Huntley’s touchdown as well as his 52-yards on the ground and the rushing numbers look awful to say the least: 20 attempts for 22 yards. Yes, you read that right. 20 attempts for 22 yards. That’s barely 1 yard per attempt. While offensive tackle Austin Jackson’s injury related absence has somewhat driven their poor rushing numbers, the Dolphins hung 166-yards on the San Francisco 49ers. Hopefully, they can recapture some of that form ahead of next week’s season finale versus the New York Jets. Dolphins need to clean up penalties: 11. That’s how many penalties the Dolphins had on the day. Six just so happened to be on the offense while the defense had three. Two penalties occurred on special teams. The plethora of penalties lost the Dolphins 94 yards. Obviously, the infractions didn’t ultimately hurt them; Miami just so happened to face a team that drew nearly as many penalties (nine for 84 yards). Against better teams, however, that won’t fly. “We got to get better to clean up our fundamentals,” Huntley said. “The flags were the stoppers of our drives. We could’ve put up way more points.” ©2024 Miami Herald. Visit at miamiherald.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Winston's performance in snowy win over Steelers adds new layer to Browns' quarterback conundrumAn Ohio teacher is suing her school district after she was reprimanded and ultimately suspended for having books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom. Karen Cahall, an elementary school teacher, filed a federal case against the school board, Superintendent Tracey Miller and board members Todd Wells, Tim DuFau, Robert Wooten, Jonathan Zimmerman and Amy Story, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday. "Cahall maintains sincere and deeply rooted moral and religious beliefs that all children, including children who are LGBTQ+ or the children of parents who are LGBTQ+, deserve to be respected, accepted, and loved for who they are," her lawsuit reads . So far, the school district won't comment. ALSO READ: A mysterious group of Republicans is secretly rewriting the Constitution The report said there is no policy specifically regarding book bans, only a blanket "controversial issues" rule . It says that topics "likely to arouse both support and opposition in the community" are allowed to be taught in classrooms so long as they are related to the class's instructional goals, encourage open-mindedness, and teachers don't "tend to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view." Anything outside the curriculum has to be approved by a principal. Cahall called the rule unconstitutional and said it was the reason she was suspended without pay. Four books with LGBTQ characters were on the shelf in her classroom, along with about 100 other books available to students. The lawsuit noted they weren't prominently displayed and she never read from or taught them, nor required students to read them. They were simply on the shelf. The lawsuit also said there's no sexual activity in the books, rather their characters "are coming to terms with feeling different and excluded." Parent Kayla Shaw complained. Cahall has taught in the school district for more than 30 years. Conservatives have used their faith to censor books in the past, The Interfaith Alliance noted in September ahead of new congressional legislation. “Censorship is a religious freedom issue — book banning is a political strategy that could silence diverse religious voices and traditions that are a major part of the rich social fabric of America,” said Interfaith Alliance president, Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush. “Sadly, many who want to ban books use religion as their excuse to target LGBTQIA+ voices, communities of color, and many others. In fact, most people of faith and conscience in this country oppose these harmful efforts – and stand firmly behind the right to read.” The superintendent said Cahall knew the books were banned because her request was denied to include them in the library. "You subsequently placed the books in your classroom library without putting them through the established approval process," a disciplinary letter Miller sent to Cahall said. "It is my sincere hope that you will internalize the discipline you are receiving and that you will reflect upon this in order to change," Miller continued. "However, if you continue to behave in this manner in the future, you will be subjected to more severe discipline up to and including termination of your employment."In a striking development, global shares received a boost amid a significant rally in U.S. tech stocks and prospects of lower interest rates. Wednesday saw Wall Street's major indexes climb to record highs, despite political upheaval in both South Korea and France. Tech heavyweights Salesforce and Marvell Technology posted impressive third-quarter results, contributing to a surge in both the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500. Nevertheless, UnitedHealth's gains were overshadowed by the tragic fatal shooting of its insurance unit CEO in New York. Political tensions in South Korea and France added layers of uncertainty. South Korea's KOSPI index plummeted as the nation grappled with calls for President Yoon Suk Yeol's resignation. In France, a no-confidence vote further strained the fragile government coalition led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier. (With inputs from agencies.)
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