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Jaylen Brown anota 33, Payton Pritchard 30 y los Celtics vencen 121-118 a Clippers
BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown anotó 33 puntos y consiguió 13 rebotes, Payton Pritchard añadió 30 unidades y los Celtics de Boston resistieron a los Clippers de Los Ángeles para lograr una victoria de 121-118 el domingo.
Derrick White anotó 22 tantos con nueve asistencias y siete rebotes, y Neemias Queta contribuyó con 14 puntos y nueve rebotes para Boston.
Jugando por primera vez desde que vencieron a Memphis por 37 puntos en casa el miércoles, los Celtics casi desperdiciaron una ventaja de 24 en el tercer cuarto, pero nunca estuvieron por detrás en su camino hacia su segunda victoria consecutiva.
Después del 82do triple-doble en su carrera con 41 puntos en una victoria en doble tiempo extra en Dallas el viernes, James Harden anotó 32 de sus 37 unidades en la segunda mitad para liderar a los Clippers. Ivica Zubac añadió 16 puntos y 12 rebotes.
El alero de los Clippers, Derrick Jones Jr., fue ayudado a salir hacia el vestuario después de caer al suelo y agarrarse la rodilla derecha tras una colisión en el segundo cuarto y no regresó.
Los Ángeles lo redujo a 119-118 con un triple de Harden a dos segundos del final, pero Pritchard fue objeto de falta y encestó dos tiros libres.
Harden tuvo una oportunidad clara de un posible triple para empatar, pero el balón rebotó en el aro cuando sonó la bocina.
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Comunista Jara y ultraderechista Kast irían a una segunda vuelta presidencial en Chile, según 52% del conteo
SANTIAGO (AP) — Comunista Jara y ultraderechista Kast irían a una segunda vuelta presidencial en Chile, según 52% del conteo.
New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd is critically wounded in a Manhattan shooting
New York Jets cornerback and special teams standout Kris Boyd was critically injured in a shooting in midtown Manhattan early Sunday, according to Mayor Eric Adams’ office.
The shooting happened just after 2 a.m. outside a business on West 38th Street near 7th Avenue, according to the New York Police Department. A 29-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, police said.
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing. Adams’ office said the man shot was Boyd.
Adams said in a message posted on social media that he is praying for Boyd and his loved ones.
“Although we’ve gotten shootings to historic lows in our city, we must continue to work to end gun violence,” Adams said. “Too many young lives have been tragically altered and cut short by this epidemic.”
“We are aware of the situation involving Kris Boyd and will have no further comment at this time,” a Jets spokesperson said in a statement. Boyd’s agent didn’t immediately respond to a text message inquiring about the incident.
Boyd hasn’t played this season, his first with the Jets, after going on the season-ending injured reserve list Aug. 18 with a shoulder injury that required surgery to repair.
He signed with New York as a free agent in March and was expected to be a key part of a revamped special teams unit under new coach Aaron Glenn and special teams coordinator Chris Banjo. But Boyd was hurt during a training camp practice Aug. 2 and carted from the field.
Boyd was regarded as a special teams standout during his first six NFL seasons, including most of the last two with the Houston Texans.
He made headlines during the Texans’ divisional playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in January when he celebrated a forced fumble on a kickoff by ripping off his helmet and nearly shoving his special teams coach to the ground.
Boyd played his first four seasons with the Minnesota Vikings after they picked him in the seventh round out of Texas in 2019. He signed with the Arizona Cardinals in 2023 and then joined Houston’s practice squad later that season.
Teammates asked for prayers for Boyd in social media posts Sunday afternoon.
“Everybody please send prayers to my brother and teammate Kris Boyd and his family!!! Lord please hold your healing hand over Kris and guide him back to health and safety,” linebacker Jermaine Johnson said in a post.
“Lord, place your mighty hand on him as he fights lord God. Guide every doctor, nurse, and surgeon who touches him lord,” defensive tackle Harrison Phillips said in a post. “Give his family strength! Kris is a fighter and we’re all here for him.”
AP’s Jake Offenhartz and Dennis Waszak contributed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/new-york-jets-kris-boyd-wounded-shooting/
Corporate Bankruptcies On Pace For 15-Year High As More “Isolated Incidents” To Occur
Corporate Bankruptcies On Pace For 15-Year High As More “Isolated Incidents” To Occur
First came the spectacular implosions of subprime auto lender Tricolor and auto-parts supplier First Brands. Then came the regional-bank fiasco, prompting JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to warn that more late-cycle accidents may be ahead. Add in signs that lower-income consumers are tapped out, frothy valuations across the AI equity sphere, and even Bitcoin sliding below $100,000, and it’s no surprise that many are beginning to wonder whether mounting financial stress signals the early stages of a broader downturn.
Another flashing red warning sign is new data from S&P Global this past week, showing that through October, 655 companies have filed for bankruptcy, nearly matching the 687 total for all of 2024.
S&P Global data showed that in October alone, there were 68 new corporate bankruptcies filings. In August, there were 76 filings, the highest monthly tally since at least 2020.
Industrials lead the charge with 98 filings, reflecting the group’s vulnerability to snarled supply chains related to tariffs. Then, consumer discretionary firms followed with 80 bankruptcies so far this year.
At current pace, corporate bankruptcies could reach a 15-year high by year’s end.
The Tricolor and First Brands implosions earlier this fall were certaintly a wake-up call. Regional bank woes and now lower- and middle-income consumers are exhausted, all combined, suggesting softening of the economy in the late year. The record 43-day government shutdown certainly compounded problems.
“I view those few incidents as idiosyncratic but expect more of these ‘isolated incidents’ to occur, potentially in other sectors like software, which has increased leverage in that market while capital flows to AI capex,” Clayton Triick, head of portfolio management of public strategies at Angel Oak Capital Advisors, told S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Here are the notable bankruptcies this year.
In mid-October, JPM CEO Jamie Dimon sparked some controversy in banking and finance circles with this comment: “My antenna goes up when things like that happen. I probably shouldn’t say this, but when you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”
UBS analysts, led by Jonathan Pingle, told clients days ago, “Our base case is that an equity market drawdown is avoided. Households suffer for the next two quarters.”
However, Pingle noted that a $55 billion boost to disposable income in 2Q 2026 from retroactive tax relief in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will lift consumer sentiment in the early spring. Plus, all the infrastructure buildouts, reshoring, data center construction, and the list goes on and on, will likely begin to filter into the real economy early next year – all in time for midterms.
So from now until economic tailwinds emerge, the Trump administration has launched Operation Affordability, focusing on lowering prices to lift low-income consumers and improve sentiment ahead of the midterms.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/16/2025 – 18:05
Argentina: River empata con Vélez y pierde la clasificación a la Libertadores por tabla anual
Por HERNÁN ALVAREZ
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — En un partido parejo, Vélez Sarsfield y River Plate empataron 0-0 en el estadio José Amalfitani el domingo por la decimosexta fecha del fútbol argentino.
Este resultado deja afuera a los riverplatenses de los tres primeros puestos de la tabla que clasifica a la Copa Libertadores del año próximo. Los que consiguieron el boleto son Rosario Central (66 puntos), Boca Juniors (59) y Argentinos Juniors (54).
Los bichitos colorados juegan más tarde ante Estudiantes.
River mantiene la posibilidad de clasificar al torneo subcontinental si gana el certamen local o si alguno de entre Central, Boca o Argentinos lo consiguen.
El primer tiempo fue parejo. Los millonarios dominaron al comienzo y los velezanos emparejaron a partir de los 25 minutos.
La situación más clara la tuvo el local Maher Carrizo al 30 cuando disparó combado de zurda y el portero Franco Armani sacó con esfuerzo al córner.
Hubo más acciones en el complemento en el área chica. Thiago Acosta (River) disparó al 66 y el portero Tomás Marchiori logró despejar. Dos minutos más tarde, Tomás Cavanagh (Vélez) cabeceó desviado muy cerca de la portería.
Marcelo Gallardo realizó cambios en pos de la victoria visitante. Entraron los juveniles Acosta y también Joaquín Freitas e Ian Subriabre. Además de Lucas Obregón por el lesionado Bustos a los 19 minutos. Todos de 20 años o menos.
“(Es) Una situación difícil. Hay que afrontarla”, dijo el riverplatense Milton Casco. “Somos muy autocríticos. Tenemos que seguir trabajando”.
Instituto y Talleres igualaron 0-0 en un clásico de la ciudad de Córdoba. Le anularon dos goles por fuera de juego a los rojiblancos.
Con este punto, el equipo de Carlos Tévez accedió a los octavos.
Más tarde juegan: Boca Juniors-Tigre, Newell’s Old Boys-Racing, Central Córdoba (SdE)-Banfield.
El sábado se definieron los dos clubes descendidos. San Martín (San Juan) perdió el duelo decisivo ante Aldosivi por 4-2 en el estadio José María Minella. El club marplatense se salvó así en el último partido. El otro que jugará en segunda división será Godoy Cruz, que empató 1-1 ante Deportivo Riestra.
Otros resultados: Lanús 3, Atlético Tucumán 1; San Lorenzo 1, Sarmiento 1; Independiente de Avellaneda 1, Rosario Central 0 (sábado).
En esta 16ta y última jornada, se definirán los 16 clubes que avanzan a octavos de la competencia local y los que jugarán competencias internacionales en 2026.
Próximos partidos: Belgrano-Unión, Barracas Central-Huracán, Defensa y Justicia-Independiente Rivadavia, Platense-Gimnasia La Plata (lunes).
Posiciones: zona A: Boca 26 puntos; Unión 24; Central Córdoba 23; Tigre, Barracas, Racing 22; Argentinos, Estudiantes 21; Banfield 20; Belgrano, Defensa, Huracán 19; Aldosivi 18; Newell’s 14; Ind. Rivadavia 13.
Zona B: R. Central 31 puntos; Lanús 30; Riestra 28; Vélez 26; San Lorenzo 24; River 22; Talleres 21; Sarmiento 20; San Martín, Gimnasia 19; Independiente, Atl. Tucumán 18; Instituto 16; Platense, Godoy Cruz 12.
Valparaiso University marks 100 years of Lutheran control
One hundred years ago, the Lutheran University Association purchased a struggling Valparaiso University and made it what it is today.
Mel Piehl, senior research professor in the humanities at VU, has researched the 166-year history of the university. For VU, 1925 was a big turning point.
The university was founded in 1859 by the Methodists as Valparaiso Male and Female College. That lasted until 1871, when the college’s charter and property were purchased by a group of Ohio educators led by Henry Baker Brown, Oliver Perry Kinsey and Samantha Baldwin, Piehl said.
It was a boom time for Northern Indiana Normal School, later renamed Valparaiso College and then Valparaiso University. By 1900, it was the second-largest college in the United States, after Harvard, with over 5,000 students.
Brown pushed VU’s presence into Chicago. In 1902, VU launched its own medical school near Cook County Hospital, the largest such institution in the region, Piehl said. It later became the Loyola School of Medicine.
In 1903, VU acquired the Chicago College of Dental Surgery from Lake Forest College. VU students could take their first two years of pre-medical or pre-dental courses in Valparaiso before transferring to Chicago. The law school and pharmacy school stayed in Valparaiso.
To give a sense of how important VU had become by the early 1900s, Piehl noted that the governors of Illinois and Wisconsin were both VU alumni. “Lowell Thomas was the most famous alumnus, but there were others.” Thomas, a pioneering radio journalist, famously covered British Colonel T.E. Lawrence, immortalized as Lawrence of Arabia, who aided the Arab revolt against Turkish rule in World War I.
World War I did to VU what the Civil War did to the Methodists’ Valparaiso Male and Female College, causing a sharp drop in enrollment. Contributing to the decline were Brown’s crippling stroke in 1912 and Kinsey’s retirement in 1919.
“They cycled through a couple of presidents” after Kinsey retired. Brown’s son didn’t know what to do, and “a charlatan from the east” didn’t help, Piehl said.
Valparaiso University students goof around in this 1929 photo. (Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections/provided)
“The whole changing nature of higher education at that point” was moving from teaching the classics to accreditation commissions and a focus on research, Piehl said. A delegation from the North Central Accrediting Association visited campus and declared that despite VU’s “great work in the past,” its present wasn’t up to snuff.
Horace Evans was put in charge of rescuing the flailing university. He even got the Indiana General Assembly to consider turning it into a public university, but the governor vetoed it, Piehl said. “That’s when the Klan came in.”
KKK wanted VU
Piehl added historical context. “The early 1920s was when the Klan was flourishing,” Piehl said. Most members of the state legislature and many of the men who held statewide office were Ku Klux Klan members. The KKK was in its second iteration, succeeding the organization that had formed after the Civil War.
“They put out a big announcement that they were going to buy Valparaiso University and started negotiating with Brown and some of the board people,” Piehl said. VU would have become Ku Klux Klan University.
The July 1923 announcement was bluster, much like tweeting a decision to buy VU without first arranging the deal.
“As befitted the Klan, much of what happened in the next months was clouded in secrecy and mystery, and actual records of these dealings, as distinct from rumors and speculation, are few. But it appears that Evans, out of desperation or naivete or stupidity, did meet clandestinely with some Klan officials and a purchase price was agreed on,” Piehl wrote in his “Valparaiso Before the Lutherans” history of VU.
“Essentially, it was a fraud. They never had any real money,” Piehl said.
However, the announcement made national headlines. Editorial cartoons speculated on what the Klan Academy might be like. “They were going to have courses in white sheet making and things like that,” Piehl said. A New York newspaper published a cartoon that speculated on courses like “whipping” and “advanced tar and feathering.” The New Republic imagined a student lynching party returning to campus singing the new alma mater: “Land where the mob is boss/Land of the rope and toss/On every flaming cross/Let freedom ring.”
The Chicago Evening Post reported on July 26, 1923, “Klan officials say they will await the outcome of the negotiations at Valparaiso. In the event they do not obtain control of the institution, they say, a university will be established in the state that will be larger than either present state schools – Purdue and Indiana – in which the teaching of Americanism will be emphasized.”
That, too, was all talk and no action.
Public opinion was sharply against the KKK purchase. But VU’s financial situation was desperate.
“Valparaiso University, which at one time was said to have the largest student body in the United States, was virtually closed by a recent action of the board of directors of the Valparaiso Realty company, which owns the buildings and plant,” the Chicago Daily Tribune reported on July 16, 1923.
A day later, the Tribune reported that debts amounting to nearly $300,000 contracted during World War I wouldn’t force the university’s closure. Adjusted for inflation, that $300,000 would be nearly $5.7 million in 2025.
The (Valparaiso) Messenger reported on Aug. 6, 1923, that the VU board was to meet that afternoon to consider the Klan proposal and that it would likely be rejected.
Valparaíso University students clean up the campus behind Heimlich and Baldwin halls in this 1925 photo. (Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections/provided)
The New York Times reported on Sept. 5, 1923, that the KKK plan was officially dead. Milton Elroad, editor of The Fiery Cross, a Klan publication, said the deal was off because VU’s charter and deeds prevented the sale to the KKK.
The downfall of the Indiana Klan itself came soon after.
Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson was convicted the following year of raping and murdering his secretary Marge Oberholtzer on a train from Indianapolis to Chicago. “He was the power behind the throne and everything,” Piehl said.
Stephenson was naming names on his way out, spreading scandal throughout state government. “The Stephenson thing really collapsed the Indiana Klan,” Piehl said. “They hung around, but they were absolutely discredited.”
Lutherans to the rescue
By 1925, the university was on the verge of collapse when the Lutherans showed up. “The situation was dire,” Piehl said. This time, the threatened closing was real.
“It was sort of a last-minute deal in 1925 that they came in. Evans must have thought the Lord was speaking to him,” Piehl said. “They bought it in the summer of 1925 and opened it for business that fall.”
Lutherans were vehemently opposed to the KKK, which had threatened to shut down parochial schools in the United States. The Klan hated Catholics as well as Blacks.
After Catholics, Lutherans operated the second largest group of parochial schools. “It was kind of the first boost of Lutheran lay activity” to try to block the Klan’s attack, Piehl said. A 1925 Supreme Court case, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, upheld the legality of parochial education.
The Lutherans wanted a Lutheran university, primarily the Missouri Synod, in the Midwest. “They had been talking about building a university from scratch,” but here they saw a ready-made university they could take over, Piehl said.
Mildred Boger and fellow Valparaiso University students pose with a goat and wagon in this 1929 photo. (Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections/provided)
Buying VU would cost a few hundred thousand dollars – millions in 2025, adjusted for inflation. “At the time, it was a substantial amount that they had to come up with,” Piehl said.
“It was really a big step up to purchase this,” he said. “These were the successful people” coming together to raise the necessary funds. Among them were a hardware chain owner, candy manufacturer, doctors, lawyers and a resort owner. “They were earnest, conservative, but they were also kind of the reforming wing of the Missouri Synod.”
The plan was to train people for Lutheran professions. “The strong emphasis was laity, to train people for regular work,” Piehl said.
The Lutheran University Association was formed to control VU and continues to do so today, 100 years later.
VU’s early Lutheran years
In 1926, 10,000 Lutherans from around the United States came to VU for the inauguration of VU’s first Lutheran president, William H.T. Dau.
“They had been largely immigrant outsiders, so this was their coming out,” Piehl said.
Valparaiso University’s first Lutheran president, William H.T. Dau. (Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections/provided)
Dau was one of the well-known Lutheran scholars of the time, creating VU’s current motto, “Out of thy light we see light,” based on Psalm 36:9.
Dau brought in Lutheran faculty, but a lot of the previous employees were kept, too.
VU cleaned up the campus and earned the accreditation that had been denied a few years earlier.
In September 1929, VU planned to launch a big fundraising campaign. “Talk about a bad piece of timing,” Piehl said. The following month’s Wall Street crash launched the Great Depression, which lasted a decade.
“They had to struggle through the ‘30s for sure,” Piehl said. “Basically, everybody scrimped, pinched.” Students did work study to pay for their education.
Every single student requested financial aid. “It was hard times,” he said. Faculty missed paychecks at times.
The Works Progress Administration offered some student aid, which was good, because churches were also hit hard. Churches had traditionally helped pay for students’ education, but giving to churches had plummeted.
Toward the end of the 1930s, there was an uptick in enrollment. VU built Hilltop Gym, the Lutherans’ first building on campus and encroaching on what has since become the east campus, what we now think of as the main campus. Hilltop Gym has since been greatly expanded to become the Athletics Recreation Center.
The first basketball game in the new gym was against the University of Notre Dame. Afterwards, everyone marched through downtown to celebrate. “It was fairly dramatic for the time,” Piehl said.
The only remaining building from the pre-Lutheran era is Heritage Hall, which was gutted and rebuilt. Despite what many people think, its name isn’t an homage to tradition. It was named for VU’s first music professor, Richard Heritage, Piehl said.
VU went through a series of Lutheran presidents, first clergy, then lay presidents.
Jose Padilla is the first non-Lutheran president of the Lutheran era, Piehl said. Padilla is retiring at the end of the year; his replacement could be named as soon as this month.
There was a time when Lutheran students accounted for 80% to 90% of the student body, Piehl said. When Padilla took office, VU had more Catholic students than Lutherans.
President O.P. Kretzmann’s inaugural address on Oct. 6, 1940, says much about the Lutherans’ impact on what VU is today, Piehl said. “He really had this notion that you could simultaneously hold this deeper religious feeling and be open to the wider world.”
Padilla has repeatedly stressed the importance of servant leadership in addressing students and faculty.
VU’s mission statement still says to lead and serve in church and society, Piehl said, and not just for Lutherans.
“It’s obviously become far more diverse. You’ve got people from every kind of background,” he said. “There’s still the kind of atmosphere that this is a place of moral reflection.”
Doug Ross is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/valparaiso-university-marks-100-years-of-lutheran-control/
Chicago Bulls embrace a pragmatic identity after skid: ‘We’re not talented enough not to play desperate’
The Chicago Bulls aren’t running from reality.
After opening the season on a winning streak and a losing streak, the Bulls know there’s no margin for error.
This isn’t criticism. It’s a simple pragmatism, something that coach Billy Donovan delivered with flat certainty after the Bulls crumbled to the Detroit Pistons in their fourth consecutive loss Wednesday: “We’re not talented enough not to play desperate.”
This isn’t new language. Coaches and players alike have adopted this blunt approach to discussing their roster — and the requirements that come with it. The Bulls don’t have an All-Star. This is the first full season of a reconstruction project around young talent. And that means this roster doesn’t have any wiggle room. There isn’t a star waiting in the wings to bail this team out of a bad game. The price of a win is steeper.
“We’re not the most talented team out there,” forward Isaac Okoro said. “We got to beat teams with our hustle, our grit, being relentless for the whole 48 minutes of the game, with our toughness.”
But what exactly does it mean for a team to embrace the limitations of its construction?
The Bulls found clarity in building an identity around the balanced responsibilities of their roster. That identity — scramble on defense, win the boards, beat opponents down the court, hunt the extra pass — weathered the injuries of Coby White and Josh Giddey. The Bulls generate more than two-thirds of their points through assisted shots. Six different players average 14 or more points per game.
“You look around the NBA and in the past, teams that people don’t look at as talented — they still win games by just doing the dirty work,” Okoro said. “No one on our team is going to come in and score 30, 40 points every single night. As a collective, we all have to buy in as a team. Everyone has to come and contribute in whatever their role is. Everyone knows their role on the team. They’ve got to be great in that role.”
But the Bulls are still struggling to translate clarity into results. The work starts at the beginning. While the Bulls have set a decently competitive pace on offense this season — ranking 11th overall in scoring with 118.6 points per game — this relative offensive success has been diminished by slow starts.
The Bulls rank in the bottom third of the NBA in first-quarter scoring, averaging only 28.7 points in the first 12 minutes of their games. That number dropped to 25.7 first-quarter points over the last six games, a span in which the Bulls dropped five losses — and their sole win in that span required a massive comeback effort after the Bulls fell into a 24-point deficit against the Philadelphia 76ers.
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At the same time, the Bulls gave up an average of 31.5 points to their opponents in the first quarter. Chicago’s first-quarter scoring and opponent scoring both rank eighth-worst in the NBA, creating a negative margin of 5.8 points.
Some teams have the luxury of fighting from behind. The Bulls know they aren’t one of them.
“It feels like we’re just casually walking into games where we shouldn’t be doing that,” Okoro said. “From the start of the season, our identity is being the most conditioned team from the start of the game, so by the fourth quarter, their legs are tired. We have to bring the energy from the start of the game.”
Even with the sluggishness of these recent starts, the Bulls still feel they’ve struck on something uniquely effective in their style of play this season. Only one of Chicago’s first five losses — a blowout to the undermanned Detroit Pistons — disappointed Donovan. The other losses encapsulated the difficulty of slowing the most talented rosters in the league, an inevitability the coach had already accepted before the season began.
The Bulls are closer than expected to their ideal of outplaying their talent ceiling. And that’s a meaningful step for this team — especially with Giddey and White returning to their roles this week.
“It’s the idea that collectively doing it together, helping each other on both ends, maybe you can offset a team that’s got incredible talent,” Donovan said. “I really, really believe that if guys play together like that, you can play with anybody. This is a group of guys that understand and value the importance of having to rely on each other.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/chicago-bulls-billy-donovan-pragmatic-identity/
Maryland coach Mike Locksley will return in 2026 — with more money to spend on talent acquisition
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland, which has dropped six straight games and is headed toward an 11th straight losing record in Big Ten play, will bring back coach Mike Locksley for an eighth season with a promise to give him more money to acquire the talent necessary to become more competitive.
Athletic director Jim Smith announced his support for Locksley on Sunday in a letter to fans on the Terrapins athletic website.
The 55-year-old Locksley, who was offensive coordinator at Illinois from 2005-08, is 36-42 overall and 16-41 in the Big Ten since taking over in 2019. The Terps’ 24-6 loss at Illinois on Saturday was their 14th in their last 16 conference games.
Smith noted that Locksley led Maryland to three straight winning seasons and bowl berths from 2021-23.
“Those accomplishments demonstrate what this program is capable of when aligned and supported,” Smith wrote. “But in the two short years since that run, the entire environment of college athletics has transformed. To continue building on this foundation, Coach Locksley needs — and deserves — the full support of our department, our university and all of Terp Nation.”
Maryland has struggled financially since joining the Big Ten in 2014, and the school would have owed Locksley a $13 million buyout if he were fired this year. The Athletic reported in February that the athletic department had incurred $32.7 million in losses over the past five years. The Terps also have struggled to generate significant name, image and likeness opportunities for their athletes.
“We are fully committed to giving him and our student-athletes the resources and investments necessary to succeed,” Smith wrote. “I have worked closely with Coach Locksley to rapidly strengthen our NIL support for 2026 and beyond, with a clear and focused effort on roster retention, recruiting and being highly competitive in the transfer portal.”
Smith said Maryland’s goal is to build a program that competes for Big Ten championships and College Football Playoff bids and that university President Darryll Pines is on board to make the necessary investment.
“Every decision we’ve made reflects our belief in this program’s potential and its leadership,” Smith wrote to supporters. “We are fully committed to getting this right — and making you proud of our football program.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/maryland-football-mike-locksley-returning/
Border Patrol official touts North Carolina arrests despite objections of local leaders
A top Border Patrol commander touted dozens of arrests in North Carolina’s largest city on Sunday as Charlotte residents reported encounters with federal immigration agents near churches, apartment complexes and stores.
The Trump administration has made the Democratic city of about 950,000 people its latest target for an immigration enforcement surge it says will combat crime, despite fierce objections from local leaders and downtrending crime rates.
Gregory Bovino, who led hundreds of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in a similar effort in Chicago, took to social media to document a few of the more than 80 arrests he said agents had made. He posted pictures of people the Trump administration commonly dubs “criminal illegal aliens,” meaning people living in the U.S. without legal permission who allegedly have criminal records. That included one of a man with an alleged history of drunk driving convictions.
“We arrested him, taking him off the streets of Charlotte so he can’t continue to ignore our laws and drive intoxicated on the same roads you and your loved ones are on,” Bovino wrote on X.
The effort was dubbed “Operation Charlotte’s Web” as a play on the title of a famous children’s book that isn’t about North Carolina.
The flurry of activity prompted fear and questions, including where detainees would be held, how long the operation would last and what agents’ tactics — criticized elsewhere as aggressive and racist — would look like in North Carolina. On Saturday, at least one U.S. citizen said he was thrown to the ground and briefly detained.
At Camino, a nonprofit group that offers services to Latino communities, some said they were too afraid to leave their homes to attend school, medical appointments or work. A dental clinic the group runs had nine cancellations on Friday, spokesperson Paola Garcia said.
“Latinos love this country. They came here to escape socialism and communism, and they’re hard workers and people of faith,” Garcia said. “They love their family, and it’s just so sad to see that this community now has this target on their back.”
Bovino’s operations in Chicago and Los Angeles triggered lawsuits over the use of force, including widespread deployment of chemical agents. Democratic leaders in both cities accused agents of inflaming community tensions. Federal agents fatally shot one suburban Chicago man during a traffic stop.
Bovino, head of a Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California, and other Trump administration officials have called their tactics appropriate for growing threats on agents.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CBP, did not respond to inquiries about the Charlotte arrests. Bovino’s spokesman did not return a request for comment Sunday.
Elsewhere, DHS has not offered many details about its arrests. In the Chicago area, the agency only provided names and details on a handful of its more than 3,000 arrests in the region from September to last week. U.S. citizens were detained during several operations. Dozens of protesters were arrested.
By Sunday, reports of CBP activity around Charlotte were “overwhelming” and difficult to quantify, Greg Asciutto, executive director of the community development group CharlotteEast, said in an email.
“The past two hours we’ve received countless reports of CBP activity at churches, apartment complexes and a hardware store,” he said.
City council member-elect JD Mazuera Arias said federal agents appeared to be focused on churches and apartment buildings.
“Houses of worship. I mean, that’s just awful,” he said. “These are sanctuaries for people who are looking for hope and faith in dark times like these and who no longer can feel safe because of the gross violation of people’s right to worship.”
Two people were arrested during a small protest Sunday outside a DHS office in Charlotte and taken to a local FBI office, said Xavier T. de Janon, an attorney who was representing them. He said it remained unclear what charges they faced.
DHS said it was focusing on North Carolina because of so-called sanctuary policies, which limit cooperation between local authorities and immigration agents.
Several county jails house immigrant arrestees and honor detainers, which allow jails to hold detainees for immigration officers to pick them up. But Mecklenburg County, where Charlotte is located, does not. Also, the city’s police department does not help with immigration enforcement.
DHS alleged that about 1,400 detainers across North Carolina had not been honored, putting the public at risk.
“We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
Tareen and Dale reported from Chicago. Witte reported from Annapolis, Maryland.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/border-patrol-official-north-carolina-arrests/
Bryce Young lanza récord de franquicia con 448 yardas y Panthers vencen 30-27 a Falcons
Por CHARLES ODUM
ATLANTA (AP) — Bryce Young lanzó para un récord personal y de la franquicia de 448 yardas y Ryan Fitzgerald pateó un gol de campo de 28 yardas en tiempo extra para liderar el domingo la victoria 30-27 de los Panthers de Carolina sobre los Falcons de Atlanta.
El pase de 54 yardas de Young a Tommy Tremble dejó todo listo para el gol de campo ganador de Carolina (6-5), que completó su barrida sobre su rival de la NFC Sur.
Los Falcons (3-7) sufrieron su quinta derrota consecutiva, incluidas dos derrotas seguidas en tiempo extra.
Young completó 31 de 45 pases con tres touchdowns. Lanzó un pase de touchdown de 12 yardas a Tetairoa McMillan con 1:08 restantes para darle a Carolina una ventaja de 27-24. Pero Zane Gonzalez pateó un gol de campo de 45 yardas para Atlanta con 16 segundos restantes para forzar el tiempo extra.
Bijan Robinson corrió para 104 yardas y dos touchdowns, pero los Falcons no pudieron superar la pérdida de Michael Penix Jr. por una lesión de rodilla en el tercer cuarto. El suplente Kirk Cousins no pudo mover la ofensiva en tiempo extra.
McMillan tuvo ocho recepciones para 130 yardas y dos touchdowns.
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