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Indianapolis Colts activate QB Philip Rivers, making him eligible to play Sunday vs. Seattle Seahawks
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts promoted 44-year-old quarterback Philip Rivers to the active roster Saturday, making him eligible to play — and perhaps start — in Sunday’s crucial game in Seattle.
The Colts (8-5) brought the Pro Football Hall of Fame semifinalist out of retirement Tuesday when they signed him to the practice squad. Rivers practiced all week but he hasn’t taken a snap since what appeared to be the end of his career following the 2020 season.
The move to add Rivers to the active roster will take him off the Hall of Fame ballot for the class of 2026. Rivers had been picked last month as one of 26 semifinalists with the 15 finalists expected to be announced later this month.
Rivers will no longer be eligible with Hall of Fame rules mandating a player being out of the league for at least five years before his candidacy can be considered. The earliest Rivers now can be a candidate is for the class of 2031.
The signing of Rivers came after coach Shane Steichen confirmed starting quarterback Daniel Jones would miss the rest of this season with a torn right Achilles tendon. Jones, who wore No. 17 with the Colts, had surgery earlier this week and now is allowing Rivers to wear the No. 17 he wore throughout his long NFL career.
The Colts have lost three straight and four of their last five to fall out of the AFC South lead into a tie for second with the Houston Texans. The Colts also have slid into the No. 8 seed for the seven-team playoff field. The Seahawks (10-3) are trying to stay in the NFC West title chase.
The Colts believe Rivers, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection who was the 2013 NFL Comeback Player of the Year, can salvage their postseason hopes. Rivers still ranks among the league’s top 10 in wins, career attempts, completions, yards passing, touchdown passes and 300-yard games.
Alternately, rookie Riley Leonard could make his first career start. But he has dealt with a right knee injury all week, and the only other quarterback on the roster is veteran Brett Rypien, who also was promoted from the practice squad to the active roster this week.
The Colts also activated receiver Coleman Owen and defensive tackle Chris Wormley to the active roster from the practice squad and removed the questionable designation from defensive end Tyquan Lewis.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/13/philip-rivers-indianapolis-colts-activated/
Belarus Frees 123 Political Prisoners In Exchange For US Lifting More Sanctions
Belarus Frees 123 Political Prisoners In Exchange For US Lifting More Sanctions
Despite the frustrating lack of real progress in the stalled Ukraine peace deal talks, the United States continues to achieve smaller separate deals with Russia, and their appears to be a slow improvement of bilateral ties.
On Saturday, Belarus, which forms a ‘Union State’ with Russia, announced that it has released 123 detainees, in return for the United States easing long-existing sanctions on Minsk.
Among those freed from Belarusian prisons included prominent protest figure Maria Kalesnikava, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, and former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka, according to the AFP.
President Alexander Lukashenko’s said the large-scale amnesty which included mostly foreigners – including 114 Ukrainians – was due to Washington lifting of “unlawful” sanctions on the country’s vital potash sector, and the rolling back of some other punitive restrictions.
Some of the freed had been serving sentences related to a government crackdown on protests related to the last election which extended strongman Lukashenko’s rule:
Relatives of the prisoners gathered outside the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, where it is expected some of them will be taken from Belarus. Ukrainian authorities said that 114 civilians, including Ukrainian and Belarusian citizens, were transferred to Ukraine.
Trump’s Belarus envoy, John Coale, told reporters in Minsk that the US would be lifting sanctions on potash, “as per the instructions of president Trump”.
The US and EU placed sanctions on Belarus after the government cracked down on popular protests following a contested election in 2020…
Human rights monitors have estimated that Belarus was holding some 1,200 political prisoners as of November of this year.
This follows an initial successful prisoner release deal from back in September. That prior deal saw 50 political prisoners released, which was reportedly at Trump’s request. It included many Ukrainians and foreigners, who were transferred bordering Lithuania. In return, the US lifted sanctions on the country’s national airline, Belavia – sactions which had been in place since 2023.
President Trump statement at the time suggested there were more deals on the horizon. “52 is a lot. A great many. Yet more than 1,000 political prisoners still remain in Belarusian prisons and we cannot stop until they see freedom!” – he had said.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/13/2025 – 21:35
El utility Amed Rosario y los Yankees pactan por 1 año y 2,5 millones, según fuente de AP
Por RONALD BLUM
NUEVA YORK (AP) — En busca de bates derechos, los Yankees de Nueva York llegaron a un acuerdo de un año por 2,5 millones de dólares para retener al pelotero multifuncional Amed Rosario, dijo a The Associated Press una persona familiarizada con las negociaciones.
La persona habló bajo condición de anonimato el sábado porque el acuerdo estaba sujeto a un examen físico exitoso.
Nueva York adquirió a Rosario procedente de Washington el 26 de julio a cambio del lanzador derecho Clayton Beeter y del jardinero dominicano de ligas menores Browm Martinez. Rosario bateó .303 con un jonrón y cinco carreras impulsadas en 33 turnos al bate a lo largo de 16 juegos.
Se convirtió en agente libre después de la Serie Mundial.
Rosario jugó como campocorto, segunda base, antesalista y jardinero derecho la temporada pasada y el manager Aaron Boone podría alternarlo en tercera base con Ryan McMahon, obtenido de Colorado el 25 de julio.
El dominicano Rosario bateó .302 con un OPS de .819 contra zurdos la temporada pasada y .231 con un OPS de .614 contra derechos. McMahon, un bateador zurdo en los Yankees, que tienen muchos zurdos, bateó .184 con un OPS de .534 contra zurdos y .223 con un OPS de .739 contra derechos.
“Definitivamente quiero darle a Aaron Boone algunas opciones legítimas para que pueda hacer coincidir cuando nos enfrentemos al abridor zurdo”, dijo el gerente general Brian Cashman el miércoles, “porque obviamente tenemos a tantos zurdos que eso es una vulnerabilidad en este momento”.
Rosario cumplió 30 años el 20 de noviembre. El veterano de nueve años en las Grandes Ligas, tiene un promedio de .273 con 69 jonrones y 389 carreras impulsadas para los Mets de Nueva York (2017-20), Cleveland (2021-23), los Dodgers de Los Ángeles (2023-24), Tampa Bay (2024), Cincinnati (2024), Washington (2025) y los Yankees.
El campocorto titular de los Yankees, Anthony Volpe, comenzará la temporada en la lista de lesionados mientras se recupera de una cirugía artroscópica el 14 de octubre para reparar el labrum en su hombro derecho. El panameño José Caballero, obtenido de Tampa Bay el 31 de julio, probablemente jugará mucho tiempo en el campocorto hasta que Volpe regrese, Difícilmente antes de mayo.
“¿Creo en Anthony Volpe? La respuesta es sí”, dijo Cashman. “¿Creo que Caballero tiene mucho talento? La respuesta es sí. Creo que Trent Grisham es un ejemplo del año pasado. ¿Pienso que Trent Grisham iba a ser el jugador que resultó ser? Antes de que comenzara la temporada el año pasado, se suponía que iba a ser un jugador de rol para nosotros y se convirtió en un jugador de impacto prominente”
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Policía del Reino Unido no investigará acusación de que Andrés pidió indagar a Virginia Giuffre
LONDRES (AP) — La policía británica indicó el sábado que no ha encontrado evidencia de que Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor le haya pedido a uno de sus guardaespaldas que investigara a Virginia Giuffre, víctima del financiero Jeffrey Epstein.
La Policía Metropolitana de Londres dijo en octubre que estaba investigando informes de los medios que indicaban que el ex príncipe Andrés buscó información en 2011 para desacreditar a Giuffre, pidiéndole a un guardaespaldas policial que averiguara si ella tenía antecedentes penales. El periódico Mail on Sunday afirmó que el entonces príncipe le pasó la fecha de nacimiento y el número de seguro social de Giuffre a su guardaespaldas, cuyo sueldo era pagado por los contribuyentes.
En un comunicado el sábado, la fuerza policial señaló que su evaluación “no ha revelado ninguna evidencia adicional de actos criminales o conducta indebida” y no abrirá una investigación penal.
“La Met (Policía Metropolitana) sigue comprometida a evaluar minuciosamente cualquier nueva información que pueda ayudar en este asunto”, declaró Ella Marriott, comandante central especializada en delincuencia de la policía. “Hasta la fecha no hemos recibido ninguna evidencia adicional que justifique la reapertura de la investigación. A falta de más información, no tomaremos ninguna otra medida”.
“Nuestros pensamientos siempre estarán con la familia y amigos de la señora Giuffre tras su fallecimiento”, expresó Marriott.
La familia de Giuffre expresó que estaba “profundamente decepcionada” por la decisión, y añadió que “no se ha hecho justicia”.
Giuffre, quien se suicidó en abril, alegó que en la década de 2000 —cuando era adolescente— se vio atrapada en la red de tráfico sexual de Epstein y fue explotada por Andrés y otros hombres influyentes.
El mes pasado, el rey Carlos III despojó formalmente a su hermano menor de su título real después de que surgieran nuevos detalles sobre la relación de Andrés con Epstein y de que las memorias póstumas de Giuffre volvieran a centrar la atención en sus acusaciones.
Mountbatten-Windsor llegó a un acuerdo extrajudicial con Giuffre en 2022 después de que ella presentara una demanda civil contra él en Nueva York. Aunque no admitió haber actuado mal, sí reconoció el sufrimiento de Giuffre como víctima de tráfico sexual.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Fernando Mendoza wins the Heisman Trophy, becoming the 1st Indiana player to win the award
NEW YORK — Fernando Mendoza, the mercurial quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first Hoosier to win college football’s most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.
Mendoza claimed 2,362 first-place votes. He beat Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia (1,435 votes), Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love (719) and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin (432).
Mendoza guided the Hoosiers to their first No. 1 ranking and the top seed in the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket, throwing for 2,980 yards and a national-best 33 touchdowns while also running for six scores. Indiana, the last unbeaten team in major college football, will play a CFP quarterfinal game in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.
12 teams, 11 games — and 1 champion: A guide to the College Football Playoff
Mendoza, the Hoosiers’ first-year starter after transferring from California, is the triggerman for an offense that surpassed program records for touchdowns and points set during last season’s surprise run to the CFP.
A redshirt junior, the once-lightly recruited Miami native is the second Heisman finalist in school history, joining 1989 runner-up Anthony Thompson. Mendoza is the seventh Indiana player to earn a top-10 finish in Heisman balloting and it marks another first in program history — having back-to-back players in the top 10. Hoosiers quarterback Kurtis Rourke was ninth last year.
Quarterbacks have won the Heisman four of the last five years, with two-way player Travis Hunter of Colorado ending the run last season.
The Heisman Trophy presentation came after a number of accolades were already awarded. Mendoza was named The Associated Press player of the year earlier this week and picked up the Maxwell and Davey O’Brien awards Friday night while Love won the Doak Walker Award.
Confident Commodore
Pavia threw for a school-record 3,192 yards and 27 touchdowns for the Commodores, who were pushing for a CFP berth all the way to the bracket announcement. He is the first Heisman finalist in Vanderbilt history.
Generously listed as 6 feet tall, Pavia led Vanderbilt to its first 10-win season along with six wins against Southeastern Conference foes. That includes four wins over ranked programs as Vandy reached No. 9, its highest ranking in The Associated Press Top 25 since 1937.
Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia celebrates a touchdown against LSU on Oct. 18, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (George Walker IV/AP)
Pavia went from being unrecruited out of high school to junior college, New Mexico State and finally Vanderbilt in 2024 through the transfer portal.
Brash and confident, the graduate student from Albuquerque, New Mexico, calls himself “a chip on the shoulder guy” and he was feisty off the field too: He played his fourth Division I season under a preliminary injunction as he challenges NCAA eligibility rules; he contends his junior college years should not count against his eligibility, citing the potential losses in earnings from name, image and likeness deals as an illegal restraint on free trade.
Vandy next plays in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Iowa on Dec. 31.
Buckeyes’ leader
Ohio State’s Julian Sayin throws a pass against Michigan on Nov. 29, 2025 in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Sayin led the Buckeyes to a No. 1 ranking for most of the season, throwing for 3,329 yards while tying for second in the country with 31 TD passes ahead of their CFP quarterfinal at the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 31.
The sophomore from Carlsbad, Calif., arrived at Ohio State after initially committing to Alabama and entering the transfer portal following a coaching change. He played four games last season before winning the starting job. He led the Buckeyes to a 14-7 win in the opener against preseason No. 1 Texas and kept the team atop the AP Top 25 for 13 straight weeks, tying its second-longest run.
Sayin was only the second Bowl Subdivision quarterback in the last 40 years to have three games in a season with at least 300 passing yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions and a completion rate of at least 80%. West Virginia’s Geno Smith was the other in 2012.
Sayin follows a strong lineage of Ohio State quarterbacks since coach Ryan Day arrived in 2017. Dwayne Haskins (2018), Justin Fields (2019), C.J. Stroud (2021) and Kyle McCord (2023) averaged 3,927 passing yards, 40 touchdowns and six interceptions, along with a 68.9% completion rate during their first seasons.
Irish Love
Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love is tackled by Stanford safety Charlie Eckhardt on Nov. 29, 2025, in Stanford, Calif. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AP)
The last running back to win the Heisman was Alabama’s Derrick Henry in 2015. Love put himself in the mix with an outstanding season for Notre Dame.
The junior from St. Louis was fourth in the Bowl Subdivision in yards rushing (1,372), fifth in per-game average (114.3) and third with 18 rushing touchdowns for the Fighting Irish, who missed out on a CFP bid and opted not to play in a bowl game.
He was the first player in Notre Dame’s storied history to produce multiple TD runs of 90 or more yards, a 98-yarder against Indiana in the first round of last year’s playoffs and a 94-yarder against Boston College earlier this season.
He padded his Heisman resume with a series of highlights displaying an uncanny ability to maintain his balance while hurdling defenders, spinning out of tackles or rolling off opponents. He teamed with Jadarian Price to create one of the season’s top running back duos, a combination that helped first-time starter CJ Carr emerge as one of the nation’s best young quarterbacks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/13/fernando-mendoza-indiana-wins-heisman-trophy/
Regenerative Farming Just Went Mainstream; Here’s Why It Matters
Regenerative Farming Just Went Mainstream; Here’s Why It Matters
Authored by Mollie Englehart via The Epoch Times,
My phone started dinging almost all at once.
Text messages, links, alerts—people were telling me that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was about to make a major announcement on Dec. 10 related to regenerative agriculture. A YouTube link was circulating. The livestream was about to begin. There was a sense of anticipation in the air.
When the video came on, Rollins stood alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others. What stood out immediately was not the funding amount, but the language: soil health, human health, nutrient density, the microbiome, and microbiology. The living systems beneath our feet and within our bodies were finally being discussed as part of one connected reality.
That language matters.
Then the announcement itself came: $700 million allocated toward regenerative agriculture.
On paper, that sounds significant. In reality, when spread across acreage that is already regenerative, it comes out to roughly $16 per acre. My phone began lighting up again—this time with frustration and disappointment. Farmers were doing the math. Many compared it to the $12 billion recently allocated to soybean farmers to ease losses from China no longer buying at previous levels. The imbalance felt familiar.
I felt that disappointment myself. But I stopped.
Because the truth is, the government is not going to save us. It never was.
What matters is what was said on stage—out loud, at the highest levels of agricultural leadership. Years of pushing, educating, farming, and speaking have forced the mainstream to acknowledge that regenerative agriculture exists and that what many of us have been saying for years is not fringe, not experimental, and not untested. It is rooted in biological reality.
Unused soil remain on the side of squash plants at Reeves Family Farm in Princeton, Texas, on June 9, 2023. This farm is one of the farms in Collin County following regenerative agriculture farming. Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News/TNS
Not long ago, when regenerative agriculture was barely even a term, a simple Google search would return little more than my brother Ryland Engelhart’s small website and the work of Allan Savory. That was essentially it. Today, regenerative agriculture is discussed in policy rooms, media, and public health conversations. That shift did not happen by accident.
As someone who has spent years pounding the pavement on small stages, podcasts, newspaper articles, Instagram posts, and anywhere else someone might listen, hearing words that could have come straight from my own mouth—or from the mouths of so many friends—spoken by the Secretary of Agriculture was a real turning point.
It was not only agricultural language that shifted.
In the same period, advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held hearings on the hepatitis B vaccine and made recommendations to reconsider whether it should be universally mandatory in infancy. Hepatitis B is primarily transmitted through blood and bodily fluids, including sexual contact and needle exposure. These modes of transmission do not logically apply to newborn infants.
For decades, the trend has moved in only one direction, with more interventions introduced earlier and with less public debate. Seeing even one policy questioned openly represents a meaningful shift. It does not mean the system is fixed, but it does suggest that logic and discussion are beginning to reenter conversations where they have long been absent.
For years, soft language has been used to control public discourse. Conversations about vaccine efficacy, soil degradation, chemical agriculture, and the microbiome were not debated openly. They were often shut down through social pressure and professional risk.
That grip appears to be loosening.
Government leaders are now speaking openly about the microbiome, soil microbiology, and nutrient density. There is growing acknowledgment that chronic disease, metabolic dysfunction, and declining fertility do not exist in isolation from how our food is grown. Regenerative agriculture, once dismissed as niche, is now part of national policy discussions.
Regenerative farmer and business owner Mollie Engelhart in Fillmore, Calif., on Oct. 30, 2023. Engelhart says that unlike organic farming, which avoids synthetic inputs, regenerative agriculture focuses on restoring soil health, water resources, and biodiversity. Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times
Is this the sweeping reform some of us want? No.
Is it enough? No.
But it is movement. And movement matters.
I also want to acknowledge someone who has been pushing this work forward long before it was widely accepted. My brother, Ryland Engelhart, started Kiss the Ground as a small nonprofit in his garage at a time when regenerative agriculture was rarely discussed outside of farming circles. Through years of commitment, education, and personal sacrifice, he helped bring this conversation into the mainstream.
He has since stepped away from Kiss the Ground and is now focused on a new advocacy effort called American Regeneration, continuing his work to advance soil health, regenerative farming, and national policy conversations around land stewardship.
Today, Kiss the Ground has produced two documentaries—“Kiss the Ground” and “Common Ground”—available on Amazon Prime, introducing millions of people to the realities of soil regeneration and land stewardship. That progress did not happen because institutions embraced the message early. It happened because people refused to stop pushing.
The government still has a long way to go. I do not trust it to lead this transformation on its own, and neither should farmers, parents, or patients. Pressure matters. Accountability matters. Demanding more matters.
But so does recognizing when something has shifted.
Once certain truths are spoken publicly, they cannot be taken back. The connection between soil health and human health has been named. The role of microbiology in food and medicine has been acknowledged. Regenerative agriculture cannot be pushed back into obscurity once it has entered the national conversation.
We are not winning through sweeping victories. We are winning incrementally. And for those of us who have been pushing uphill for years, that matters.
Incremental wins are still wins. And the direction of the wind has finally changed.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/13/2025 – 21:00
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/regenerative-farming-just-went-mainstream-heres-why-it-matters
Fernando Mendoza gana el Trofeo Heisman como el mejor jugador de fútbol americano universitario
Por EVERETT MERRILL
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Fernando Mendoza, el versátil quarterbacks de Indiana, ganó el Trofeo Heisman el sábado por la noche, convirtiéndose en el primer Hoosier en ganar el premio más prestigioso del fútbol americano universitario desde su creación en 1935.
Mendoza obtuvo 2.362 votos de primer lugar. Superó al QB mexicano de Vanderbilt, Diego Pavia (1.435 votos), al corredor de Notre Dame, Jeremiyah Love (719 votos) y al QB de Ohio State, Julian Sayin (432 votos).
Mendoza guió a los Hoosiers a su primer puesto y al primer lugar en el cuadro de 12 equipos del College Football, lanzando para 2.980 yardas y un récord nacional de 33 pases de touchdown, además de correr para seis anotaciones. Indiana, el último equipo invicto en el fútbol americano universitario de alto nivel, jugará un partido de cuartos de final del College Football Playoff en el Rose Bowl el uno de enero.
Mendoza, el primer titular de los Hoosiers en su primer año después de transferirse desde California, es el artífice de una ofensiva que superó los récords del programa en touchdowns y puntos establecidos durante la sorprendente carrera de la temporada pasada hacia el CFP.
El junior con camiseta roja, nativo de Miami, que por poco fue reclutado, es el segundo finalista del Heisman en la historia de la escuela, uniéndose al subcampeón de 1989, Anthony Thompson. Mendoza es el séptimo jugador de Indiana en lograr un puesto entre los diez primeros en la votación del Heisman y marca otro primer lugar en la historia del programa: tener jugadores consecutivos entre los diez primeros. El QB de los Hoosiers, Kurtis Rourke, fue noveno el año pasado.
Los quarterback han ganado el Heisman en cuatro de los últimos cinco años, con el jugador de dos vías Travis Hunter de Colorado rompiendo la racha la temporada pasada.
La presentación del Trofeo Heisman se produjo después de que ya se otorgaran varios reconocimientos. Mendoza fue nombrado jugador del año por The Associated Press a principios de esta semana y recibió los premios Maxwell y Davey O’Brien el viernes por la noche, mientras que Love ganó el premio Doak Walker.
Comodoro confiado
Pavia lanzó para un récord escolar de 3.192 yardas y 27 touchdowns para los Commodores, quienes estuvieron presionando por un lugar en el CFP hasta el anuncio del cuadro. Es el primer finalista del Heisman en la historia de Vanderbilt.
Generosamente listado con una altura de seis pies, Pavia llevó a Vanderbilt a su primera temporada de diez victorias junto con seis victorias contra rivales de la Conferencia del Sureste. Eso incluye cuatro victorias sobre programas clasificados mientras Vandy alcanzó el No. 9, su clasificación más alta en el Top 25 de The Associated Press desde 1937.
Pavia pasó de no ser reclutado al salir de la escuela secundaria a la universidad comunitaria, luego a New Mexico State y finalmente a Vanderbilt en 2024 a través del portal de transferencias.
Audaz y confiado, el estudiante graduado de Albuquerque, Nuevo México, se autodenomina “un tipo con chip en el hombro” y también fue combativo fuera del campo: jugó su cuarta temporada de la División I bajo una orden judicial preliminar mientras desafía las reglas de elegibilidad de la NCAA; sostiene que sus años en la universidad comunitaria no deberían contar en contra de su elegibilidad, citando las posibles pérdidas en ganancias de acuerdos de nombre, imagen y semejanza como una restricción ilegal al libre comercio.
Vandy jugará a continuación en el ReliaQuest Bowl contra Iowa el 31 de diciembre.
Líder de los Buckeyes
Sayin llevó a los Buckeyes a una clasificación No. 1 durante la mayor parte de la temporada, lanzando para 3.329 yardas mientras empataba en el segundo lugar del país con 31 pases de touchdown antes de su cuarto de final del CFP en el Cotton Bowl el 31 de diciembre.
El estudiante de segundo año de Carlsbad, California, llegó a Ohio State después de comprometerse inicialmente con Alabama e ingresar al portal de transferencias tras un cambio de entrenador. Jugó cuatro juegos la temporada pasada antes de ganar el puesto titular. Lideró a los Buckeyes a una victoria de 14-7 en el partido inaugural contra el No. 1 de la pretemporada, Texas, y mantuvo al equipo en la cima del Top 25 de AP durante 13 semanas consecutivas, empatando su segunda racha más larga.
Sayin fue solo el segundo mariscal de campo de la Subdivisión Bowl en los últimos 40 años en tener tres juegos en una temporada con al menos 300 yardas por pase, tres touchdowns, sin intercepciones y una tasa de completación de al menos el 80%. Geno Smith de West Virginia fue el otro en 2012.
Sayin sigue una fuerte línea de QB’s de Ohio State desde que el entrenador Ryan Day llegó en 2017. Dwayne Haskins (2018), Justin Fields (2019), C.J. Stroud (2021) y Kyle McCord (2023) promediaron 3.927 yardas por pase, 40 touchdowns y seis intercepciones, junto con una tasa de completación del 68.9% durante sus primeras temporadas.
Amor irlandés
El último corredor en ganar el Heisman fue Derrick Henry de Alabama en 2015. Love se puso en la mezcla con una temporada sobresaliente para Notre Dame.
El junior de San Luis fue cuarto en la Subdivisión Bowl en yardas por carrera (1.372), quinto en promedio por juego (114.3) y tercero con 18 touchdowns por carrera para los Fighting Irish, quienes se quedaron fuera de una oferta del CFP y optaron por no jugar en un juego de tazón.
Fue el primer jugador en la histórica historia de Notre Dame en producir múltiples carreras de touchdown de 90 o más yardas, una de 98 yardas contra Indiana en la primera ronda de los playoffs del año pasado y una de 94 yardas contra Boston College a principios de esta temporada.
Enriqueció su currículum para el Heisman con una serie de momentos destacados que mostraban una habilidad extraordinaria para mantener el equilibrio mientras saltaba sobre defensores, giraba fuera de los tacleos o rodaba sobre los oponentes. Se asoció con Jadarian Price para crear uno de los mejores dúos de corredores de la temporada, una combinación que ayudó al debutante CJ Carr a emerger como uno de los mejores jóvenes mariscales de campo del país.
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Jalen Brunson anota 40 puntos y lleva a Knicks a triunfo sobre Magic y a la final de la Copa NBA
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jalen Brunson anotó al menos 30 puntos por cuarto encuentro consecutivo, alcanzó su máximo número de la temporada con 40 unidades y condujo el sábado a los Knicks de Nueva York a un triunfo de 132-120 sobre el Magic de Orlando, para avanzar a la final de la Copa NBA.
Los Knicks, que han ganado cinco compromisos seguidos y nueve de los últimos diez, jugarán por el campeonato contra Oklahoma City o San Antonio el martes por la noche.
Brunson sumó también ocho asistencias y encestó 16 de 27 tiros, incluyendo un triple en el tercer cuarto después de que Anthony Black de Orlando cayó hacia atrás y se fue al suelo.
El dominicano Karl-Anthony Towns anotó 29 puntos y OG Anunoby sumó 24 por los Knicks.
Jalen Suggs contribuyó con 26 puntos, incluidos 25 en la primera mitad, por el Magic antes de salir en el último cuarto debido a un dolor en la cadera izquierda. Paolo Banchero añadió 25 unidades y Desmond Bane anotó 18.
Este partido tuvo una sensación de playoffs. Ambos equipos jugaron rudo y aprovecharon aparentemente cada oportunidad para acelerar el ritmo. Los Knicks dispararon con un 60,7% de efectividad y superaron al Magic por 70-62 en la pintura.
El juego fue de ida y vuelta con 11 cambios en la ventaja y diez empates antes de que los Knicks lograran una racha de diez puntos al final del tercer cuarto para tomar una ventaja de 102-92.
Parecía que se podría hacer un poco de historia en la NBA. Al medio tiempo Brunson y Suggs anotaron cada uno 25 puntos. Ningún encuentro de temporada regular ha tenido a un anotador de 50 puntos de cada equipo desde el año 2000.
Pero Suggs solo anotó apenas un punto en la segunda mitad, y claramente estaba cojeando. Se dirigió al vestuario al inicio del cuarto periodo.
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Lluvias arrasan comunidades rurales y dejan tres fallecidos en el oriente de Bolivia
Associated Press
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Intensas lluvias de más de diez horas provocaron la crecida extraordinaria de ríos en Bolivia, arrasando el sábado una decena de comunidades rurales del oriente del país y dejando al menos tres fallecidos y varios desaparecidos, informaron autoridades.
Decenas de casas quedaron bajo el lodo, hay tres personas muertas y las brigadas de rescate buscan a otras ocho, y se han perdido animales, informó el vicepresidente Edman Lara tras visitar la población de El Torno, en la provincia de Santa Cruz..
La riada provocó severos daños a la infraestructura vial y arrasó con varios puentes. Decenas de personas quedaron atrapadas en los techos de sus casas. El gobierno ordenó movilizar ayuda aérea para rescatarlas.
La vocera gubernamental Karla Faval anunció que el presidente Rodrigo Paz llegará a la zona en las próximas horas.
Imágenes difundidas en redes sociales muestran a personas varadas en los techos en medio de aguas lodosas que cubren sus viviendas.
La carretera que une Santa Cruz —el motor agroindustrial— con el occidente del país, donde se ubica La Paz, ha quedado dañada debido a las crecidas, informaron autoridades locales.
Es la segunda riada en menos de un mes que castiga a esa región, en una temporada de lluvias que los meteorólogos anuncian será intensa. En la anterior, las autoridades reportaron la muerte de una mujer de edad avanzada.
CJ Gunn’s 18 points off the bench help DePaul edge Wichita State 61-58
WICHITA, Kan. — CJ Gunn made four 3-pointers and scored 18 points off of the bench to lead DePaul past Wichita State 61-58 on Saturday.
Gunn made two free throws for a three-point lead with 13 seconds to play but also missed the front end of the bonus with five seconds remaining. DePaul then fouled Michael Gray Jr., who had little choice but to miss his free throws. TJ Williams got the offensive rebound, but the Shockers were unable to try a tying 3-point attempt before time ran out.
NJ Benson scored 12 points and RJ Smith 10 for the Blue Demons (8-3), who played their first road game of the season.
Kenyon Giles led the Shockers (6-5) with 16 points and four steals, and Emmanuel Okorafor added 12 points and eight rebounds.
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