CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders made his NFL debut in the second half of Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens.

The highly publicized quarterback entered with 12:43 remaining in the third quarter after the Browns announced Dillon Gabriel was being evaluated for a concussion. Gabriel was ruled out later in the quarter.

On his first snap, Sanders threw a 5-yard pass to Cedric Tillman with the Browns leading 16-10. He completed both of his passes for 12 yards on his first drive but fumbled after an 11-yard sack by Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton.

Sanders threw his first NFL interception on his second series. On third-and-10 at the Browns 17, Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy got pressure up the middle and hammered Sanders as he released the ball. The throw was off target and picked off at the 30 by Nate Wiggins, who returned it 14 yards.

The Browns got the ball back on the next play when rookie linebacker Carson Schwesinger picked off Lamar Jackson.

Sanders became Cleveland’s backup behind fellow rookie Gabriel after Joe Flacco was traded to the Cincinnati Bengals on Oct. 7.

A fifth-round pick by the Browns after some projected him to go in the first round, Sanders was inactive for Cleveland’s first five games as the emergency third quarterback. His father, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, coached him in college at Jackson State and Colorado.

The Browns opened camp with a four-QB competition among Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Gabriel and Sanders. Pickett was considered the front-runner before suffering a hamstring injury, missing time and being traded in August to the Las Vegas Raiders for a fifth-round pick.

Gabriel completed 7 of 10 passes for 68 yards in the first half.

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La inmaculada Inglaterra se dirige al Mundial con un récord de clasificación del 100%.

Una victoria por 2-0 contra Albania el domingo hizo que el equipo de Thomas Tuchel sumara ocho victorias en ocho partidos, asegurando también su lugar en el torneo del próximo año sin conceder un solo gol.

Inglaterra ya se había clasificado antes de completar su último partido del Grupo K, pero terminó con estilo con otra victoria.

El máximo goleador de todos los tiempos, Harry Kane, anotó ambos tantos en Tirana para extender su récord a 78 goles en 112 partidos para su país.

“Hemos establecido el estándar ahora, especialmente en los últimos campamentos. Vamos a entrar al torneo como uno de los favoritos. Tenemos que aceptar eso, ha sido así en las últimos ediciones”, señaló el capitán de Inglaterra.

El récord de Kane en todas las competiciones para el Bayern Múnich e Inglaterra esta temporada es de 25 goles en 18 apariciones.

Tuchel fue contratado el año pasado con la tarea inicial de llevar a Inglaterra al Mundial en Estados Unidos, Canadá y México. La Asociación de Fútbol de Inglaterra cree que el entrenador puede poner fin a la espera de décadas del país por un título importante, ya que el equipo de la rosa no ha ganado la Copa del Mundo desde 1966.

Inglaterra se dirige al torneo del próximo año habiendo llegado a la final de las dos últimas Eurocopas.

“Hemos estado construyendo, hemos tenido un gran año juntos con el nuevo entrenador, y ahora esperamos un gran 2026”, señaló Kane.

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Japan Summons Chinese Ambassador Over Online Threats Against Prime Minister

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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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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.

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Corporate Bankruptcies On Pace For 15-Year High As More “Isolated Incidents” To Occur 

Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/16/2025 – 18:05

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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.

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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.”

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