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Sellers scores 23 points to lead Central Florida past Florida International

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jaylin Sellers scored 23 points and Darius Johnson scored 15 and Central Florida beat Florida International 85-62 on Monday night in a season opener for the teams.Despite shooting 7 for 24 for 3-point range (29.2%), the Knights — now of the Big 12 Conference — shot 50% (31 for 62) overall.After Dashon Gittens made two foul shots to get the Panthers within 18-16 with 9:36 before halftime, the Knightsoutscored FIU 25-5 and led 43-21 at halftime.The Panthers’ lone lead came when Petar Krivokapic made a layup for the game’s first score. FIU shot 4 for 18 (22.2%) from 3-point range. Gittens scored 11 points and Krivokapic 10. Arturo Dean, FIU’s leading scorer last year at 11.9-points per contest, finished 1-for-7 shooting and scored two points.UCF, which will face Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, on Jan. 6 for its first Big 12 action, has a total of 10 new players on its roster, four of which are fifth-year players.The Knights travel to play 13th-...

Chargers roll past Jets 27-6 behind Davis’ punt return, Ekeler’s 2 TDs and LA’s sack-happy defense

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Derius Davis returned a punt 87 yards for a touchdown, Austin Ekeler ran for two scores and Joey Bosa and Los Angeles’ defense stifled Zach Wilson and the New York Jets’ bumbling offense in the Chargers’ 27-6 victory Monday night.Justin Herbert didn’t have to do much in this one, finishing 16 of 30 for just 136 yards, but became the fastest player in NFL history to 1,500 completions as the Chargers (4-4) snapped the Jets’ three-game winning streak.Keenan Allen had eight catches for 77 yards to reach 10,000 career yards receiving. Los Angeles, which forced New York (4-4) to fumble four times and recovered three of them, sacked Wilson eight times, including 2 1/2 by Bosa and two each by Khalil Mack and Tuli Tuipulotu.Wilson and the Jets couldn’t get anything going despite facing the NFL’s worst-ranked passing defense. Wilson was 33 of 49 for 263 yards while taking a step back in his development. After the Jets went...

Micah Peavy scores 21 points to lead hot-shooting TCU over Southern 108-75 in a season opener

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Micah Peavy scored 21 points, JaKobe Coles added 17 and TCU rolled to a 108-75 victory over Southern in a season opener on Monday night. Peavy shot 10 of 13 from the field and Coles finished 5-of-7 shooting for TCU, which shot 61.4% (43 of 70) overall. Avery Anderson III added 15 points, Jameer Nelson Jr. chipped in 14 and Trevian Tennyson had 13 for TCU. Nelson had game-highs of six assists and five steals. Tennyson made three of the Horned Frogs’ 10 3-pointers. Brandon Davis scored 20 and made six 3-pointers to lead Southern. Tai’Reon Joseph added 15 points and JaRonn Wilkens had 10. Southern led for most of the first eight minutes of the game before TCU built a 19-point lead heading into the break. Peavy, Nelson and Coles combined for 34 of the Horned Frogs’ 54 first-half points. TCU opened the second half on a 15-3 run, capped by an Xavier Cork dunk, and eventually built its largest lead at 96-57 with 6:17 to play. TCU is 44-1 against current...

Giannis Antetokounmpo has 36 points and 12 rebounds, Bucks beat Nets 129-125

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 36 points and 12 rebounds to help the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Brooklyn Nets 129-125 on Monday night.Damian Lillard added 21 points, and Jae Crowder had 15. Milwaukee improved to 4-2 with its first road victory of the season.“We got stops when we needed,” Bucks coach Adrian Griffin said. “That’s an important thing that we can build on and continue to get better.”Cam Thomas scored 45 points for Brooklyn in his fourth 30-point game of the season. Mikal Bridges had 31 points, and Lonnie Walker IV added 19 points. Brooklyn fell to 3-4 overall and 0-3 at home.“We executed really well, we just missed the shots at the end,” Thomas said. “This is game seven. We’ve got another one Wednesday. Flush this, and move onto Wednesday.”Antetokounmpo entered with more points in his career against Brooklyn than any other opponent (817), and the Nets were without center Nic Claxton and forward Cam Johnson for the sixth straight game. Despite trailing by 10 in t...

Nikola Jokic's 108th triple-double lifts his record above LeBron James, Jason Kidd

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic notched his 108th career triple-double with 35 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Denver Nuggets overcame a 20-point, first-half deficit to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 134-116. Jokic broke a tie with LeBron James and Jason Kidd to move into fourth place in triple-doubles. He trails Magic Johnson by 30 for third. Colorado stuns LSU in defending national champion’s season opener Denver rookie Julian Strawther scored a career-high 21 points off the bench to help overcome the absence of Jamal Murray, who will miss several games with a right hamstring injury.“His injury is not one- or two-game injury,” coach Michael Malone said. “That’s what I do know. This is something that will be longer than we would like.”New Orleans rookie Jordan Hawkins, starting for CJ McCollum, set a career-best with 31 points on 7-for-14 shooting from 3-point range.

‘The Stones and Brian Jones’ looks at band’s troubled founder

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

An intimate look at Brian Jones, the founding member of the Rolling Stones, who fell out of favor due to his contentiousness, drug use and unreliability and died a few weeks after being fired from the band in 1969. For many young people at the time, Jones’ premature death at age 27 was a turning point and the first in a series of drug-related deaths of idolized rock stars that has never ended.Directed by BAFTA-award winning documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (“Kurt & Courtney,” “Biggie & Tupac”), “The Stones and Brian Jones” as its title suggests shows us what made Jones different and difficult. Jones was an English enthusiast of American blues, who amassed a major record collection as an adolescent. Small in stature with a cherubic face, he found himself at odds with his parents, who disapproved of his admiration for “jazz.” They preferred less raucous musical forms and wanted Brian to follow his father into respectable middle-class business. Instead, at 19 years o...

Jarvis: Pandemic is over, pandemic stress isn’t

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

Survey after survey tells us that Americans are struggling. The latest, the American Psychological Association’s annual gauge of stress in the U.S., reveals that people continue to feel worse than before the pandemic. The question is what to do about it.And it’s no wonder that people are so stressed out: Humans have finite mental resources, and they’ve been decidedly depleted by years of dealing with COVID and its fallout, plus economic woes and worries about geopolitical upheaval. In the APA survey, which was conducted in August, nearly a quarter of adults reported operating at the highest levels of stress, rating it at least an 8 out of 10. Among parents, self-reported stress was so extreme that nearly half said it was “completely overwhelming” on most days, and 41% reported that it impedes their function.The APA’s survey of adults shows stress levels are highest among those age 18–45, who reported the biggest increases since pre-pandemic times.That group also saw a marked increas...

Editorial: It’s a border crisis, not a work permit problem

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

As overwhelmed Blue State governors struggle to secure shelter and funding for the ceaseless influx of migrants, the allegiance to all-things-Biden is starting to crack.Last week, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote a letter to the president that “the federal government’s lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for Illinois,” as NBC News reported. Chicago is set to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention.Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said in September “Time and again, I’ve asked the Biden administration for assistance at the border, but instead, they have chosen to redirect resources to speed the release of migrants without the support and coordination our local communities deserve.”Our own Maura Healey isn’t there yet.As the Herald reported, the state’s shelter system is at or approaching maximum capacity of 7,500 families. Healey did not directly say what happens to a family seeking Emergency Assistance shelter ...

Dear Abby: Living with MIL a non-stop fight

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

Dear Abby: I’m a 35-year-old woman who is married to a 27-year-old man. We currently live in the same house as his mother. She lives downstairs; we live upstairs. Thanks to my husband’s upbringing, he has a hair-trigger temper. His dad has an explosive temper, and his mother is a narcissist. He’s never directed it at me, but his mother sets him off.Sometimes, I think she does it on purpose because she has some kind of victim complex. I have tried everything to help him control his temper; nothing has worked. It has become normal for me to end the day with them fighting. I am exhausted by them. If they’re home before I go to work, they’ll get into some sort of yelling match. When I’m finishing my workday, he’ll call me and I’ll hear them arguing on the phone.I’m tired of the fighting. It’s creating so much anxiety and depression. I have told him this and asked him to at least try to stop, but it’s still the same. What ...

Celtics unable to overcome Anthony Edwards’ 38 points in first loss of season

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:12 GMT

The Celtics finally met their match.On a night when the Celtics’ offense finally looked mortal, it almost didn’t matter. Kristaps Porzingis was stuck in foul trouble. Jrue Holiday couldn’t buy a shot. Even without Derrick White again, the Celtics were in position for a tough road victory in Minnesota.Then Anthony Edwards happened.The Timberwolves guard and fastest rising NBA superstar scored 38 points, including eight in overtime. The Celtics couldn’t stop him on the court, and they couldn’t take advantage when he was off it as he dealt with foul trouble. They didn’t get enough outside of Jayson Tatum, who scored 32 points, or Jaylen Brown, who added 26. Instead, they dropped their first game of the season with a 114-109 loss to the Timberwolves.Edwards proved to be the difference.“He’s a great player,” C’s coach Joe Mazzulla told reporters in Minnesota. “He’s gonna make shots. I thought he made some difficult ones.”The Celtics’ offense went stale against Minnesota, the league’s top...