ATLANTA — On Jan. 18 and 19 the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! will be held at State Farm Arena in advance of the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 20. The star-studded lineup was announced Thursday at a news conference at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Performances will include Lil Wayne and GloRilla on Saturday; and Camila Cabello, Myles Smith and Knox on Sunday. On game day, the Allstate Championship Tailgate, taking place just outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the Home Depot Backyard, will feature country acts on the Capital One Music Stage, including global superstar Kane Brown and iHeartCountry “On The Verge” artist Ashley Cooke. The concerts are just two of the festivities visiting fans can enjoy in the days leading up to the big game. The fan experience for both ticket holders and the general public has been a focus for event planners. All weekend long, an estimated 100,000 people from across the country are expected to attend fan events preceding kickoff. “It will be an opportunity for fans of all ages to come together to sample what college football is all about, and you don’t have to have a ticket to the game to be a part of it,” said Bill Hancock, executive director of the CFP in a press release. “We’ve worked closely with the Atlanta Football Host Committee to develop fan-friendly events that thousands will enjoy come January.” On Saturday, Jan. 18, Playoff Fan Central will open at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The free, family-friendly experience will include games, clinics, pep rallies, special guest appearances, autograph signings and exhibits celebrating college football and its history. That day, fans can also attend Media Day, presented by Great Clips, which will feature one-hour sessions with student-athletes and coaches from each of the College Football Playoff national championship participating teams. ESPN and social media giants X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will be taping live broadcasts from the event. On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Trophy Trot, both a 5K and 10K race, will wind its way through the streets of downtown Atlanta. Each Trophy Trot participant will receive a T-shirt and finisher’s medal. Participants can register at atlantatrackclub.org . On Sunday evening, the Georgia Aquarium will host the Taste of the Championship dining event, which offers attendees the opportunity to indulge in food and drink prepared by local Atlanta chefs. This premium experience serves as an elevated exploration of local cuisine on the eve of the national championship. Tickets to the Taste of the Championship event are available on etix.com . Atlanta is the first city ever to repeat as host for the CFP national championship. The playoff was previously held in Atlanta in 2018. “We are honored to be the first city to repeat as host for the CFP national championship and look forward to welcoming college football fans from around the country in January,” said Dan Corso, president of the Atlanta Sports Council and Atlanta Football Host Committee. “This event gives us another opportunity to showcase our incredible city.” The College Football Playoff is the event that crowns the national champion in college football. The quarterfinals and semifinals rotate annually among six bowl games — the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year’s quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025, while the semifinals will be Jan. 9-10, 2025. The CFP national championship will be Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com .AI Ethics 101: Navigating the Moral Landscape of Machine Learning
The high school football recruiting process is grueling — and more nuanced than most know. With another season on the gridiron under wraps, a new wave of recruits will move on to play at the next level, including quarterback Aiden Brown of Kalama and quarterback Elijah Andersen of Woodland, both of whom have committed to Idaho State University. Others like Matt Andersen — father to Elijah and an assistant coach at Woodland High School — and Kelso head coach Steve Amrine have experience through playing and coaching at the next level. Matt Andersen attended Willamette University in Salem where he played during his undergraduate. Amrine has coaching experience at Idaho State, Feather River College, Central Washington University and Eastern Washington. The four answered The Daily News questions about the ins and outs of the recruitment process to help other players down the line. Q: When should you start marketing yourself to recruiters? Aiden Brown: "After my sophomore season, I started messaging like, almost every coach around, like, sending out DMs and stuff on Twitter ... A lot of recruiting is done through Twitter, so I would message coaches on there like all the time." Matt Andersen: "That starts in your junior year ... The way it started for us was getting (Elijah) on Twitter with sort of a football-centric account, and then you basically start putting together highlight videos that you've got from the season or from the various weeks in the season as it goes along." Q: How did you make highlight tapes? Elijah Andersen: "(I'd) figure out which which film makes me look the best, and pick those ones, and then make a tape and send it out to the coaches ... It was mainly every three weeks we would try to make a video." Aiden Brown: "After my sophomore year, I just made a highlight tape with all my best stuff ... I had a Twitter already out there, so I kind of put together a specific message that I would send to almost every coach and that would highlight what my (40-yard dash) time was, what my stats were, measurables like in the weight room ..." Recruitment terms Hudl – An online tool created by Agile Sports Technologies, INC. for capturing game film to easily analyze plays and players with live streaming abilities. It was initially used for collegiate and professional football teams, but has since been the standard for capturing and sharing game film. Power 4 Conference – The four major or "power" conferences in college football, which comprises The Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). It was previously called the Power 5 before the unraveling of the Pac-12 Conference. FBS vs FCS – Football Bowl Subdivision is the highest level of NCAA football. The FBS programs outnumber Football Championship Subdivision schools by student population and financially as FBS programs allow up to 85 scholarship positions. FCS allows just 63. Q: How many teams did you send film to? Aiden Brown: "Probably hundreds of different schools that I've messaged." Elijah Andersen: "I've been in contact with about 10 teams here and there. We'd talk and then kind of die out, but I would probably say 20 to 25 teams." Q: What is the most important time in the recruiting process? Aiden Brown: "A lot of offers, especially early offers, go out after your junior year before your senior season. So having a good junior year really puts you on the map. And if you don't have it before your senior year, at least coaches know about you because you had a good junior year, and then if you have an even better senior year, then that puts you in an even better spot." Matt Andersen: "The end of the season, you make your junior-year highlight film, which is your most important one, because that's what kind of starts the process at the end of your season. Once everyone's done playing, the college coaches go to full recruiting mode, no more coaching going on. That's when they really started looking at most juniors." Q: How important is X (formerly Twitter) to your recruitment? Aiden Brown: "It's kind of everything for these recruits nowadays. If you're not on Twitter, unless you're just some crazy athlete, you're not going to get recruited. Like I have probably 400 Twitter posts just promoting myself, like, every week, probably posting a new post just to promote myself, whether that's like me in the weight room benching, or me on the field throwing the ball, or like stuff like. I keep (tagging) coaches, and you build the following of different coaches, and then over time, they continue to watch." Matt Andersen: "You tag them in your Twitter. The thing is 100% Twitter. You send an email with your phone to somebody, those guys — I don't think those coaches ever read their emails. It's 100% you tag them on a Twitter video, and then you pop up on (their) Twitter, and then they'll contact you through a Twitter DM." Q: How do you advertise yourself? Elijah Andersen: "I think you just you really got to look and kind of think about videos that you know look best ... think about what the coaches want to see, not necessarily if it's a big touchdown ...(it's) filling in on the run, because they like to see that, too. So just trying to figure out what the coaches want." Matt Andersen: "You make a huddle video, and the emphasis ... It needs to be super short — needs to highlight your explosiveness or speed, decision making ... The main thing is to get them (head, position and assistant coaches) to know your name, get yourself in front of them." Q: How do you find the best fit for you? Aiden Brown: "It was really what coaches I felt built the best connection with me ... because I wanted to go somewhere where I felt really comfortable with the coaches and felt like I was going to be around good people." Elijah Andersen: "I like the relationship I have with the coach ... They want the best for their players. That's one of the things I was really impressed by, and just how much support the team has from their community is too." Steve Amrine: "No. 1, does it have what you want to do academically, or is it going to lead to what you want to do academically? Your career is only one play away, right? Is it a good fit for you academically? Then start to look at the history of those coaches and then talk to their student athletes when they're on campus, because coaches will tell you anything you want to hear. But the best recruiters and the best place to get knowledge is from kids that are on that team or at that school. And then, you know, do I have a chance to play?" Q: What can coaches do to help the process? Matt Andersen: "Promote your kid on Twitter. If a kid has a good game, say stuff on Twitter ... Tag those coaches. The (Hudl) video is a big one, you know, really help them make a nice, tight, two-minute video that really showcases explosiveness, speed, you know, good hands, stuff like that. The big one is to keep them credible. And you know, only promote kids that deserve it. You want to support the kids, but you're not being supportive if you promote a kid to Washington State that's not good enough to play there, it's not doing anything for them, right? So the main thing is, like, maintain your credibility with coaches in promoting kids to the appropriate level." Steve Amrine: "The football world is a pretty small world, and I spent 16 years at the college level, so I still am tied with guys I've either worked with or know somebody that works with; just getting the name out, making sure the kids are in the clearing house — their grades are taken care of and making sure they're getting stuff out." Check out more coverage at x.com/ Andrew_Lwowski. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
Israel strikes Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital while the WHO chief says he was meters awayUAE Tops Global Mobile Internet Speeds; India Ranks 25th WorldwideORLANDO, Fla. — It was a season of Iowa State comebacks. And fittingly, that's how it ended for the Cyclones. Game MVP Rocco Becht scored from a yard out on fourth-and-goal with 56 seconds remaining and No. 18 Iowa State capped the best season in school history by rallying past No. 15 Miami 42-41 in the Pop-Tarts Bowl on Saturday. Becht finished with 270 passing yards and three touchdowns for Iowa State (11-2), a program that entered this season — the 133rd year of Cyclone football — never having won more than nine games in a year. “If you look at this team, it’s really who they’ve been all year,” coach Matt Campbell said. The win marked the fourth time in 2024 that Iowa State got a winning score with less than two minutes remaining. For this one, the Cyclones rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half — with Miami quarterback Cam Ward watching after a record-setting first half — to get win No. 11. Carson Hansen rushed for a pair of touchdowns for Iowa State. People are also reading... And as the MVP, Becht got the honor of choosing which flavor Pop-Tart was to be sacrificed in a giant toaster. “There's only one,” Becht said. “Cinnamon roll.” Ward passed for three touchdowns in his final college game, while Damien Martinez rushed for a career-high 179 yards for Miami (10-3), which dropped its sixth straight bowl game and lost three of four games to end the season — those three losses by a combined 10 points. "Disappointed that we couldn't pull out a victory," Miami coach Mario Cristobal said. “These guys have always fought and always competed and this was no exception. ... It's painful. It's as painful as it gets when you don't win. But there's a lot to build on.” NEBRASKA 20, BOSTON COLLEGE 15: Dylan Raiola passed for 228 yards and a touchdown as Nebraska built an 18-point lead through three quarters and hung on for its first bowl victory since 2015. Raiola hit Emmett Johnson with a 13-yard TD pass on fourth down with 3:02 remaining in the third quarter for a 20-2 edge and the Cornhuskers (7-6) held on for the win at Yankee Stadium. Raiola completed 23 of 31 passes in front of a sizable Nebraska crowd that celebrated the team's first bowl win since topping UCLA in the 2015 Foster Farms Bowl and first winning season since 2016. Raiola completed passes to 10 receivers, including Jahmal Banks, who finished with four receptions for 79 yards. Grayson James finished 25 of 40 for 296 yards as Boston College (7-6). MILITARY BOWL EAST CAROLINA 26, NC STATE 21: Rahjai Harris broke free for an 86-yard touchdown run with 1:33 remaining, giving East Carolina a pulsating victory over NC State in the Military Bowl in a game that descended into a wild brawl in the final minute in Annapolis, Md. Harris had 220 of ECU's 326 yards rushing, and his sensational sprint near the end of the game gave the Pirates (8-5) the lead back after they'd blown a 13-point advantage in the fourth. But after an interception by Dontavius Nash ended NC State's final drive, East Carolina's attempt to run out the clock was interrupted by large-scale fight between the two in-state rivals — who play each other again to start next season. Three players for ECU and five for NC State (6-7) were ejected. ECU trailed 21-20 and took over the ball at its own 14, and after two incompletions, the Pirates decided to run the ball with Harris. He had a good hole to the left for a big gain, then cut back past the final defender on his way to the end zone. ARIZONA BOWL MIAMI (OHIO) 43, COLORADO STATE 17: Kevin Davis had a career-high 148 yards rushing and two touchdowns on just nine carries, and Jordan Brunson also ran for two TDs to help Miami (Ohio) wrapped the season at 9-5 by beating Colorado State (8-5) in Tucson, Ariz. Davis scored on a 4-yard run with 12:35 left in the third quarter, Matt Salopek forced a fumble that was recovered by Silas Walters and quarterback Brett Gabbert's first rushing touchdown of the season — a 10-yard scramble that capped a 47-yard drive — made it 22-3 about 2 minutes later. UCONN 27, NORTH CAROLINA 14: Joe Fagnano threw for 151 yards and two touchdowns to help the Huskies (9-4) beat the Tar Heels (6-7) at Fenway Park, embarrassing incoming coach Bill Belichick's new team in his old backyard. Mel Brown rushed for 96 yards for UConn and Skyler Bell caught three passes for 77 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown that gave the Huskies a 10-0 first-quarter lead. Chris Culliver returned the ensuing kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown, but that would be Carolina's only production in the first half. TCU 34, LOUISIANA 3: Josh Hoover passed for four touchdowns as the Horned Frogs (9-4) routed the Ragin' Cajuns (10-4) in Albuquerque. Hoover was 20 for 32 for 252 yards with an interception. Eric McAlister had eight catches for 87 yards and a TD for the Horned Frogs. TCU's defense also had a solid day, holding Louisiana-Lafayette to 209 yards, including 61 on the game's final possession. LATE FRIDAY LAS VEGAS BOWL USC 35, TEXAS A&M 31: Jayden Maiava threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kyle Ford with eight seconds left to give Southern California the victory over Texas A&M (8-5) in the Las Vegas Bowl. A graduate of Liberty High School in nearby Henderson and a transfer from UNLV, Maiava helped the Trojans (7-6) overcome a 17-point deficit. Be the first to know
Qatar first in key global governance indicatorsRajasthan Cabinet Minister Kirodi Lal Meena on Friday (December 6, 2024) accused the police of acting against him over his “objections” on the SHO’s behaviour while detaining people who sought cancellation of the Superintendent (SI) recruitment exam over alleged irregularities. He claimed that he could tell on whose direction the “FIR” was registered. However, police commissioner Biju George Joseph said that no FIR was registered against him, but the sequence of events was mentioned in a daily diary or ‘Rojnamcha’ by the SHO of Mahesh Nagar Police station regarding the incident of Tuesday (December 3, 2024) night. The SHO on Tuesday (December 3, 2024) night detained Manju Sharma, who is seeking the cancellation of the SI recruitment exam. She then went to the Vikas Bidhuri’s residence to detain him on directions of the senior police officers following intelligence inputs that they were planning to disrupt the prime minister’s visits to Jaipur in support of their demand. When the SHO was at Bidhuri’s residence and was trying to call him out, Kirodi Meena reached there and scolded her. He allegedly rebuked her and questioned her actions. On Friday (December 6, 2024), Mr. Meena held a press conference and demanded action against Mahesh Nagar SHO Kavita Sharma. “Only the chief minister can tell on whose behest the FIR was lodged. Why was it lodged, what is the reason? As per the provision in BNSS, I went to save (Manju Sharma and Vikas ) from the police. I did not take the law in my hands,” he said. He said that he would reveal the names of the officers and political leaders who have acted against him only after meeting the BJP state president. Mr. Meena said that the “strictest” action should be taken against SHO Kavita Sharma. He said that some officers were protecting her, and the government should take the matter seriously. He demanded her arrest in a case that was registered against her in the past. On Wednesday (December 4, 2024) morning, Kirodi Meena reached the residence of Minister of State for Home Jawahar Singh Bedham with Manju Sharma and Vikas Bidhuri and demanded action against the SHO. He alleged that some officials have given an intelligence report to the state government stating that he has plans to disrupt Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming events in Rajasthan. The Prime Minister will inaugurate the Rising Rajasthan Investment Summit on December 9. Without naming any official, Mr. Meena termed it an attempt by the officers to spoil his image and to create a divide between him and the chief minister. Meanwhile, when contacted Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph, he said, “No FIR was registered against the minister. The SHO mentioned the sequence of events in the Rojnamcha’. Published - December 07, 2024 02:53 am IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Rajasthan / police
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In the current market session, L3Harris Technologies Inc. LHX share price is at $213.79, after a 0.22% spike. Moreover, over the past month, the stock decreased by 13.18% , but in the past year, went up by 1.51% . Shareholders might be interested in knowing whether the stock is overvalued, even if the company is performing up to par in the current session. Comparing L3Harris Technologies P/E Against Its Peers The P/E ratio is used by long-term shareholders to assess the company's market performance against aggregate market data, historical earnings, and the industry at large. A lower P/E could indicate that shareholders do not expect the stock to perform better in the future or it could mean that the company is undervalued. L3Harris Technologies has a lower P/E than the aggregate P/E of 71.42 of the Aerospace & Defense industry. Ideally, one might believe that the stock might perform worse than its peers, but it's also probable that the stock is undervalued. In summary, while the price-to-earnings ratio is a valuable tool for investors to evaluate a company's market performance, it should be used with caution. A low P/E ratio can be an indication of undervaluation, but it can also suggest weak growth prospects or financial instability. Moreover, the P/E ratio is just one of many metrics that investors should consider when making investment decisions, and it should be evaluated alongside other financial ratios, industry trends, and qualitative factors. By taking a comprehensive approach to analyzing a company's financial health, investors can make well-informed decisions that are more likely to lead to successful outcomes. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.