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New York Jets (4-11) at Buffalo (12-3) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS BetMGM NFL odds: Bills by 9 1/2. Series record: Bills lead 70-58. Against the spread: Jets 5-10, Bills 9-6. Last meeting: Bills beat Jets 23-20 on Oct. 14, at East Rutherford, New Jersey. Last week: Jets lost to Rams 19-9; Bills beat Patriots 24-21. Jets offense: overall (23), rush (31), pass (17), scoring (24). Jets defense: overall (4), rush (16), pass (5), scoring (16). Bills offense: overall (7), rush (9), pass (9), scoring (2). Bills defense: overall (23), rush (14), pass (25), scoring (11). Turnover differential: Jets minus-2; Bills plus-20. QB Aaron Rodgers. The 41-year-old four-time NFL MVP is one touchdown pass from joining Tom Brady (649), Drew Brees (571), Peyton Manning (539) and Brett Favre (508) as the only players to throw 500 in the regular season. He’s dealing with a knee injury that he described as “a little MCL,” but insisted early in the week he’d play and was off the injury report on Friday. Rodgers could be playing in the last two games of his storied career as he’s undecided if he wants to return for a 21st year, and his future with the Jets uncertain as the team searches for a new general manager and head coach. RB James Cook. The third-year player has topped 100 yards rushing in three of his past four, and scored five TDs, including one receiving, over that span. His 14 TDs rushing are tied for first in the NFL entering Thursday, and rank third on the Bills single-season list, behind Josh Allen, who scored 15 last year, and O.J. Simpson (16, 1975). Bills pass rush vs. Jets O-line. The Bills, who rely mostly on a four-man pass rush, rank 25th in the NFL in by averaging 6.59% sacks per pass attempt. They face a veteran quarterback in Rodgers and a line that will be without starting left tackle after rookie Olu Fashanu (left foot) landed on IR this week. Max Mitchell and Carter Warren were competing this week to replace him. Jets K Greg Zuerlein was being activated from injured reserve after missing seven games with a knee injury. ... WR Davante Adams (hip) was questionable, but optimistic about playing. ... DT Quinnen Williams sat out last week with a hamstring injury, but could return to play at Buffalo. ... CB Sauce Gardner (hamstring) was questionable, as were RT Morgan Moses (knee), S Tony Adams (ankle), CB Michael Carter II (back) and DE Haason Reddick (neck). ... The Bills are getting healthier with starting CB Rasul Douglas practicing fully after missing two games. ... Buffalo’s starting safety tandem of Damar Hamlin (rib) and Taylor Rapp (neck) were questionable after practicing on a limited basis all week after also missing the past two outings. ... Starting LB Matt Milano was off the injury report after missing last weekend with groin injury. ... Allen was listed as a full participant all week after hurting his throwing elbow and shoulder against New England. The teams have split the past two season series, with the Jets being the Bills only division rival to have beaten them once in each of the past two seasons. ... The Bills have won four straight at home since a 13-6 loss in a mean-nothing 2019 season finale in which Buffalo rested a majority of its starters after the first quarter. ... Buffalo is 16-8 in the past 24 meetings since snapping a six-game skid spanning the 2009-12 seasons. The Jets are 2-8 since defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich replaced the fired Robert Saleh on Oct. 8 on an interim basis. ... Rodgers is interception-free in seven of his past eight games, including none in each of the Jets’ past four on the road. ... Rodgers needs one TD pass to give him 25 for the season. It would be the 14th time in his 20-year career he reached the mark, tying him with Brees (14) for the third-most seasons with at least that many. Only Brady (17) and Manning (16) have more. ... Rodgers and WR Davante Adams have connected for 82 touchdowns, including the postseason, to tie Miami’s Dan Marino and Mark Clayton for the third most in NFL history by a quarterback-wide receiver duo. ... Adams needs 72 yards receiving for his sixth 1,000-yard season. ... In nine games since being acquired from Las Vegas, Adams has 56 catches for 719 yards and six TDs. ... WR Garrett Wilson needs 13 yards receiving to reach 1,000 for the third straight season to start his career. He’s six catches away from surpassing his career high of 95 set last season. ... The Jets went 99 yards on their opening possession to score a touchdown for the second straight game on their first drive after not doing so previously all season. ... New York scored nine points and had no punts in the loss to Los Angeles. The Jets joined the 1991 Colts — a 16-7 loss to the Patriots in the season opener — as the only teams in the Super Bowl era to score fewer than 10 points and not punt. ... The Jets allowed 110 net passing yards against the Rams, the third fewest they’ve given up this season and fifth time they held an opponent under 150 this season. ... The Bills are a win from clinching the AFC’s No. 2 seed entering the playoffs. ... Buffalo has 12 wins for just the seventh time in team history, and third since 2020, and in position to match the team record previously done four times (1990, 1991, 2020 and 2022). ... The Bills are 10-0 at home since a 24-22 loss to Denver on Nov. 13, 2023, and have an opportunity to finish a season without a home loss for just the second time in team history (8-0 in 1990). ... Allen’s 75 wins through his first seven NFL seasons are tied for the most with Russell Wilson. ... Allen, who threw just his sixth interception of the season last week and also has two lost fumbles, is 6-1 this season and 44-27 overall when committing turnover. ... Buffalo’s 29 TDs rushing match a single-season team record set in 2016. ... Buffalo is 4-3 this season when trailing at the half after overcoming a 14-7 deficit against New England. ... Buffalo improved to 28-22 when allowing 20 or more points since 2019. The team went a combined 12-67 when allowing that many from 2011-18. ... Buffalo forced three turnovers last week, and has a takeaway in all but one outing this season. Allen might have gotten you to your championship weekend, but he could be hard-pressed to put up big numbers against the Jets. Allen is 3-2 in his past five meetings and averaging just 215 yards passing, with seven touchdowns and six interceptions while being sacked 16 times. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLCombermere students’ achievements celebrated
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Juan Soto introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15-year deal NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto put on a New York Mets jersey and cap for the first time after his record $765 million, 15-year contract was finalized and talked about what made the difference in his decision. He said at his introductory news conference on Thursday that the Mets “showed me a lot of love." Soto was introduced at Citi Field a day after his deal was finalized. Speaking in the Piazza 31 Club, Soto was flanked by Mets owner Steve Cohen, president of baseball operations David Stearns and his agent, Scott Boras. Bill Belichick 'always wanted' to give college coaching a try. Now he will at North Carolina New North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick said he had long been interested in coaching in the college ranks. But it had never worked out until now, as he takes over the Tar Heels program. Belichick led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl titles during a 24-year run there that ended last year. Belichick's five-year deal pays him $10 million in base and supplemental salary per year. It is guaranteed only for the first three years, including for buyout purposes. There is also up to $3.5 million in annual bonuses. Wander Franco's sex abuse trial has been postponed 5 months PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) — The trial against Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who has been charged with sexually abusing a minor, sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking, has been postponed until June 2, 2025. Dominican judge Yacaira Veras postponed the hearing Thursday at the request of prosecutors because of the absence of several key witnesses in the case. Franco’s lawyers asked the court to reconsider the postponement, arguing Franco must report to spring training in mid-February. The judge replied that Franco is obligated to continue with the trial schedule and his conditional release from detainment. Rape investigation that Swedish media say focused on Kylian Mbappé has been closed STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors say they have dropped a rape investigation that was launched in connection with soccer star Kylian Mbappé’s visit to Stockholm in October. In a statement, lead investigator Marina Chirakova says there is not enough evidence to continue the investigation into the allegation at a hotel. Prosecutors never publicly named the suspect in the investigation but some Swedish media reported it was Mbappé. The Real Madrid striker visited Stockholm in October during a break in the Spanish league. At the time, Mbappé’s legal team dismissed those reports as false. Travis Hunter, the 2-way standout for Colorado, is the AP college football player of the year BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado two-way standout Travis Hunter is The Associated Press college football player of the year. Hunter received 26 of the 43 votes from a panel of AP Top 25 voters. Boise State tailback Ashton Jeanty finished second with 16 votes, and Arizona State running back Cameron Skattebo received one vote. A throwback player who rarely left the field, Hunter had 92 catches for 1,152 yards and 14 touchdowns as a receiver. He had four interceptions and 11 passes defensed as a shutdown corner. Hunter helped the the 20th-ranked Buffaloes to a 9-3 record and an appearance in the Alamo Bowl against BYU. 2034 World Cup visitors will live in 'a bubble' and not see real life, Saudi rights activist says LONDON (AP) — A Saudi human rights activist says soccer fans visiting Saudi Arabia for the 2034 World Cup will live in a “bubble” that doesn't reflect real life there. Lina al-Hathloul is a London-based activist whose sister was jailed in Saudi Arabia then banned from travel after campaigning to end a ban on women driving. When FIFA confirmed the kingdom as the 2034 tournament host on Wednesday its president Gianni Infantino acknowledged “the world will be watching” for positive social change. Al-Hathloul says western people “will be very safe” at the World Cup but "will see a bubble of what Saudi Arabia is.” Team claims NASCAR rescinded approval to buy new charter unless federal antitrust suit is dropped CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A new court filing says NASCAR rejected Front Row Motorsports’ agreement to purchase a charter from Stewart-Haas Racing unless the team and 23XI Racing dropped their federal antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series. Front Row and 23XI rejected NASCAR's new revenue sharing agreement and have gone to court. NASCAR now says it will move forward in 2025 with 32 chartered teams and eight open spots, with offers on charters for Front Row and 23XI rescinded and the SHR charters in limbo. Indian teen Gukesh Dommaraju becomes the youngest chess world champion after beating Chinese rival NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest chess world champion after beating the defending champion Ding Liren of China. Dommaraju, 18, secured 7.5 points against 6.5 of his Chinese rival in Thursday's game which was played in Singapore. He has surpassed the achievement of Russia’s Garry Kasparov who won the title at the age of 22. Dommaraju is now also the second Indian to win the title after five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand. The Indian teen prodigy has long been considered a rising star in the chess world after he became a chess grandmaster at 12. He had entered the match as the youngest-ever challenger to the world crown after winning the Candidates tournament earlier this year. Hojlund scores twice for Manchester United to beat Viktoria Plzen 2-1 in Europa League Rasmus Hojlund scored twice after coming off the bench and Manchester United rallied to beat Viktoria Plzen 2-1 in the Europa League. The Denmark striker netted in the 88th minute after collecting Bruno Fernandes’ pass off a free kick to seal the victory. Ahead of the late games, United moved to fifth place with 12 points from six games. Hojlund came on in the 56th to replace Marcus Rashford and scored an equalizer six minutes later. In the Conference League a youthful Chelsea lineup made the most of a long trip to Kazakhstan by beating Astana 3-1 to stay perfect in the third-tier competition. NFL world reacts with excitement, surprise, questions after Bill Belichick is hired to coach UNC Bill Belichick is already the most decorated coach in NFL history. 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Arsenal up to second after Kai Havertz goal sees off struggling IpswichFor Tesla drivers in and around Seattle, the mood these days can feel a little charged. In a metro area famous for its Democratic majorities, driving an electric vehicle whose maker, Elon Musk, just helped reelect Republican Donald Trump can earn its own special version of the Seattle freeze. Parked Teslas have been spray-painted and smashed. Tesla drivers have been given unseemly hand gestures. “It’s surprising how much more often I get flipped off now than 2 days ago,” quipped a member of a Seattle Cybertruck Facebook group shortly after the Nov. 5 election. Seattle has always had a love-hate thing for Tesla, to be sure. While the area’s many thousands of Tesla-stans see their cars as climate-friendly disrupters of the petroleum status quo, others gleefully dunk on Teslas as clichéd status symbols for obnoxious tech bros. Still, Tesla dunking intensified in the run-up to the election, when Musk was roiling progressives with social media blasts on everything from “open borders” and the “woke mind virus” to an offer to impregnate Taylor Swift. Some Seattle Tesla fans have tried to steer a middle ground. “The politics of the leader of the company is unfortunate, but I don’t think it affects my view of their product,” said Matt Moreno, a Microsoft engineer from Everett who has been a Tesla fan since 2013. Others, however, are done. “People I knew would comment to me, ‘Why are you supporting him?’” said John Wyss, a 60-year-old Seattleite, who got so fed up he dumped his leased Model 3 Tesla late last year and switched to an electric Hyundai. For Wyss, Tesla had changed from a brand associated with climate action and disruptive innovation “to something that was much more divisive and representing a very specific viewpoint around right-wing politics.” Surveys show that Musk’s controversial positions turn off many left-leaning, climate-focused consumers who would otherwise embrace the upscale Tesla, which can cost anywhere from around $40,000 for a basic Model 3 to $100,000 for a deluxe version of the new Cybertruck. That “Elon Effect” may be showing up in sales data. Although shares of Tesla are up 39% since Jan. 1, overall Tesla deliveries through Sept. 30 are down around 2.4% versus the same period in 2023. In Washington state, Tesla deliveries fell further — by 11% for the same period, according to state new title registration data — even as registrations for battery-powered electric vehicles overall rose 2.4%. If that continues through December, it will be Tesla’s first yearly decline in Washington since 2014. To be clear, it’s difficult to know whether Tesla’s recent slump reflects politics or other market factors, such as growing competition from other electric vehicle brands. Tesla’s share of the state’s electric vehicle market, which peaked at 72% in 2018, was already falling before Musk started stumping for Trump; so far this year, around 48% of new EVs in Washington have been Teslas. But anecdotally, Musk is indeed having an effect. Redmond resident Theresa McNeal Ramsdell, a Tesla owner since 2016 and president of Tesla OwnersWashington, knows club members who “will not buy another Tesla again because of Elon.” Trouble in Tesla Town Tesla’s Washington swoon marks a striking shift for a part of the country that was once one of the brand’s biggest supporters. The Seattle area in particular, with its ranks of well-heeled tech workers, strong environmental attitudes and relatively cheap electricity, was fertile ground for a car that aimed to utterly disrupt the traditional petroleum-fueled car industry. “It was an investment in the future,” said David Eaton, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, of the roughly $100,000 he shelled out in 2012 for one of the first Tesla Model S vehicles. By the following year, Washington was registering more Teslas per capita than any other state, according to state data. Tesla fans were so loyal here that when the company was struggling to meet delivery goals in 2018 and turned to existing customers for help, Moreno, the Microsoft engineer, and dozens of other Seattle-area Tesla owners volunteered to offer new-driver orientation for local buyers. “No other car company could get their customers to come back in and volunteer their time,” Moreno said at the time. In 2018, nearly 3 of every 4 new electric vehicles titled in Washington were Teslas. By 2021, Tesla deliveries in Washington were increasing 55% a year, as the brand’s appeal expanded from idealists and status seekers to ordinary drivers hoping to escape the high costs of gas-powered transportation. Lyft driver Andres Cortes, 61, of Kirkland, bought a Tesla Model 3 in 2019, partly at the suggestion of his tech-industry passengers. He found he was able to more than cover the monthly car payment with the money saved not buying gas. Do the numbers, said Cortes, “and you can see that you’re going to save money.” Even then, though, there was trouble in Tesla paradise. The cars were increasingly associated with the influx of tech workers that some progressives blamed for rising inequality in and around Seattle. Tesla drivers were also feeling heat from some conservatives who saw the cars as a symbol of a growing hostility to gas-powered transportation — especially after Washington enacted legislation in 2020 that ultimately led to the mandate that all new passenger vehicles be zero-emission by 2035. “That’s when I saw a lot more of the hatred start to pick up,” said McNeal Ramsdell of the Tesla Owners club. “I think people started to feel threatened that they’re going to be forced to buy electric vehicles.” But it was also around that time that Tesla’s CEO was starting to antagonize progressives. On Twitter, which Musk would eventually buy and rename X, he offered hot takes on everything from COVID-19 (he wrongly predicted cases would fall nearly to zero by the end of April 2020) to transgender issues (“Pronouns suck”) to his suggestions that Ukraine give up Crimea as a way to negotiate peace with Russia. And well before Musk openly endorsed Trump, he had repeatedly criticized the Biden administration, which he saw as anti-Tesla due to Musk’s opposition to labor unions at Tesla. Given that Democrats were then accounting for around 40% of sales, according to research firm Strategic Vision, Musk’s antics seemed like a risky play. And, in fact, since January 2021, the share of Americans who view Tesla unfavorably has surged from 15% to 38% — and to 47% among Democrats, according to CivicScience, a consumer analytics company. That has “obvious implications” in Democratic-leaning states like Washington, said CivicScience CEO John Dick. While no one can “prove beyond any doubt that the decline in (Washington Tesla) registrations is purely a function of political tribalism manifesting itself in auto sales,” Dick said, “it would be hard to call it a coincidence.” “Culture war on wheels” Still, while some think Musk has been cavalier with Tesla’s reputation, others see it as a shrewd bet by Musk that a Trump administration will be helpful for his other businesses, including SpaceX. “He’s making a calculated decision that what he might lose in market share for Tesla cars he will preserve and protect and enhance his SpaceX and other activities that have huge government contracts,” said Lawrence Parnell, director of the Strategic Public Relations graduate program at George Washington University. For critics and fans alike, the tide of Tesla hate took a new twist late last year with the first deliveries of the Cybertruck, a Tesla that is arguably as divisive as Musk. With its stainless steel exterior, angular, fortresslike profile and $100,000 price, the Cybertruck is seen by some as being less about technological disruption than deliberate provocation. “Cybertruck customers are in it for the stares and glares,” Ivan Drury, with the Edmunds car shopping guide, told Wired last week. In a story headlined “A culture war on wheels,” The New York Times notes that Tesla’s Cybertruck designers were inspired by dystopian science fiction of the 1980s and 1990s — stories set on “dark worlds, where corporations reign over a teeming and violent urban underclass” and “cars often function as armored weapons.” The peculiar styling, coupled with half a dozen Cybertruck recalls and the truck’s less-than-perfect handling on off-road terrain, led to a storm of nasty memes and viral videos and photos of stuck Cybertrucks. That includes a Reddit thread, called “CyberStuck,” about a Seattle Cybertruck that was immobilized for weeks after being crashed into while parked on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which drew hundreds of caustic comments. But the Cybertruck has also further scrambled the traditional Tesla love-hate dynamic. DC Ren, a Bellevue tech worker who got his Cybertruck in May, said he is regularly flipped off by people in Priuses and Subarus but also by those in traditional pickups. “At this point, it’s from every segment of the political realm,” said Ren, 37, a Tesla-stan since 2017, as he stood by his shiny Cybertruck on Mercer Island last week. Ren thinks progressives continue to be bothered by “Elon Musk’s political stances,” while the Cybertruck’s decidedly unconventional look “challenges the traditional pickup drivers’ ego and image of themselves.” Perhaps not surprisingly, of the more than 850 Cybertrucks currently registered in the state, the vast majority are in Western Washington, and especially in the suburbs to the north and east of Seattle, where the trucks are unlikely to encounter unfriendly terrain. “I like my Tesla” Whether the Elon Effect continues to hurt Tesla sales in Seattle and elsewhere remains to be seen. With more electric vehicles on the market — and with much of Tesla’s massive charging network now open to rival brands such as Ford, General Motors and Rivian — EV fans have choices. And, frankly, given Republican skepticism of electric vehicles, including the current federal $7,500 EV tax credit that Trump says he plans to cancel, the entire EV industry faces a lot of uncertainty. But many Seattle-area Tesla owners feel the brand’s momentum will carry it through, despite its mixed reception locally. Tesla’s technology, they say, is still so far ahead of other electric vehicles that it compensates for any political backlash. “It’s a love-hate relationship,” said McNeal Ramsdell, the Tesla club president. “I love the tech, but it would be nice if he would keep his mouth shut once in a while.” For Cortes, the Lyft driver, the choice is starker. A legal immigrant from Colombia, he is keenly aware of the challenges others in immigrant communities may face following the Musk-assisted Trump victory. But there’s no thought of abandoning the Tesla and its economics. “I can say that I hate that — the political part,” said Cortes. “But I like my Tesla.”Former Trump attorney lashes out at 'lawfare' after court appearance in Wisconsin fake electors case
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