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Toronto eliminated, winless road streak hits 19 after 3-0 loss to NYCFC

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrés Perea scored in the 2nd minute, teenager Julián Fernández netted his first career goal and NYCFC eliminated Toronto FC from playoff contention with a 3-0 victory on Sunday.NYCFC (8-10-13) jumps over D.C. United into the ninth and final playoff spot with the regular season winding down. NYCFC has three matches remaining — one less than United.The season can’t end soon enough for Toronto (4-16-10). The club has lost eight straight on the road in all competitions, including six shutout losses in a row, and been outscored 24-1. Toronto has just four draws in its last 19 away matches in all competitions.Perea took a crossing pass from Santiago Rodríguez in the 2nd minute and scored his first goal of the season for NYCFC. Perea, who had one goal in eight appearances this season for Philadelphia, is on loan from the Union until the end of the season.NYCFC took a two-goal lead into halftime after Andres Jasson found the net for a third time this season, unassist...

Frustrated Fighting Irish lament miscues that led to late loss against Buckeyes

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The anguish was evident all over coach Marcus Freeman’s face Saturday night.Notre Dame needed one stop to beat then-No. 6 Ohio State for the first time since 1936, and yet it couldn’t finish the job.Instead, a series of miscues over the final, frantic minutes allowed the Buckeyes to keep their perfect season and playoff hopes intact with an improbable 17-14 victory that will force the Fighting Irish to search for answers this week.“As I just told the team, it’s disappointing,” Freeman said before seeing his team fall two spots to No. 11 in the new Associated Press Top 25. “We had a lot of opportunities to win that game and then we didn’t. Credit to them for continuing to battle back and be resilient when we went up. We’ve got to finish that game.”Chalk it up as yet another learning experience for the second-year Irish coach and his players.A year ago, Freeman lost his first two games, at Ohio State, his alma mater, followed by an inexplicabl...

Bonner and Allen lead Connecticut to a 78-63 win over New York in Game 1 of WNBA semifinal series

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — DeWanna Bonner scored 20 points, Rebecca Allen added 18 and the Connecticut Sun played stellar defense to beat the New York Liberty 78-63 on Sunday in the first game of their best-of-five WNBA semifinals playoff series.Game 2 is Tuesday night in New York.Third-seeded Connecticut lost all four games between the teams in the regular season, including getting blown out twice in New York. On Sunday, the Sun turned up their defensive effort, slowing down the second-seeded Liberty and holding them to their lowest point total of the season.New York led by three at halftime before Connecticut went on a 16-2 run to start the third quarter. The Sun scored the first nine points during the spurt and Natisha Hiedeman hit two 3-pointers.New York got within 53-48, but Allen — who was traded from the Liberty in the offseason to the Sun as part of the Jonquel Jones deal — hit her fourth 3-pointer of the game.Bonner made a pull-up jumper just before the end of the third quarter to ext...

Saints’ Carr leaves game with shoulder injury after getting sacked in 3rd quarter against Packers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Saints quarterback Derek Carr left the game against the Green Bay Packers with a shoulder injury after getting sacked in the third quarter of New Orleans’ game on Sunday.Carr remained on the ground for a few minutes after getting hit hard on Rashan Gary’s third down sack in the third quarter. He left the field under his own power and went in the blue medical tent before heading to the locker room. The Saints initially announced that his return was questionable. They updated his status early in the fourth quarter by ruling him out for the game.Backup quarterback Jameis Winston entered the game on the Saints’ next series.The Saints lead the game 17-0. Carr has gone 13 of 18 for 103 yards, including an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Graham.Carr, 32, agreed to a four-year contract with the Saints in the offseason after spending his first nine NFL seasons with the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders.___AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflSource

‘I miss it all’: NW Miami-Dade woman looks back on treehouse she called home for 17 years

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

It’s gone, but not forgotten.A South Florida homeowner reflected on the treehouse that, she said, was her oasis for nearly two decades and spurred a legal showdown that led to the structure being taken down.Longtime Northwest Miami-Dade resident Shawnee Chasser spoke with 7News on Saturday about the now completed dismantling of her home.“Well, it’s been a big demolition, and I don’t even like looking at it,” she said. “It’s sad.”It has been a difficult week for Chasser, as she said goodbye to her way of life for the past 17 years.“I feel like a bird in a cage when I’m in a house. It just doesn’t work for me,” she said, “but I’m thinking that a lot of people have told me that there’s going to be an outside structure. I’m just praying for that day”The final pieces of the treehouse Chasser called home have finally been dismantled.“I tried to not be here. Yeah, because, you know, ...

‘Expend4bles’ opens with epic flop while ‘Nun II’ claims top spot again at the box office

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham weren’t enough to save “Expend4bles” from a debut box office flop. The fourth installment suffered the action-packed franchise’s worst opening weekend while “The Nun II” took home the top spot for a third straight week, data firm Comscore reported on Sunday.The Lionsgate and Millennium’s film, also known as “Expendables 4,” pulled in a mediocre $8.3 million for the big-budget project. It starred several popular names, including Stallone, Statham, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox and Dolph Lundgren. It’s been nearly a decade since the franchise released a film, which opened with $15.8 million and eventually grossed $214 million globally.But times have certainly changed, as the film barely placed second behind “The Nun 2,” a horror movie that earned $8.4 million in its first week. It’s been a solid start for that Warner Bros.’ project — a spinoff from the lucrative “Conjuring” fr...

France withdraws troops from Niger

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that French troops would be withdrawn from Niger in the next couple of months, in the wake of a coup d’état in the Western African country this summer.The military withdrawal from Niger comes after French troops were ousted from neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali, amid growing anti-French sentiment across the continent and military failures in containing jihadist terrorism in the Sahel region.Macron also said France would imminently withdraw its ambassador, who had been living under effective house arrest in the French embassy in the capital Niamey, according to French authorities.“France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours, our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France,” Macron said during an interview with French TV channels.Macron also said the military cooperation between France and Niger was “over” and that French troops would return before the end of the year. R...

Macron face au mur du “Green Deal” climatique

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

PARIS — Qui aurait cru que les chaudières à gaz deviendraient un objet politique aussi explosif ?A Paris, Londres et Berlin, elles sont désormais le symbole du type d’arbitrages à haut risque auxquels font face les gouvernements européens, à quelques mois d’échéances électorales importantes.Emmanuel Macron a exclu dimanche soir de les interdire, malgré la pollution qui leur est associée, et après un coup de chaud estival sur le sujet.Impossible pour le président français de l’ignorer : en Allemagne, leur banissement progressif des foyers a déclenché une crise gouvernementale majeure. Au Royaume-Uni, le sujet a fait les frais d’un revirement politique brutal, le Premier ministre Rishi Sunak ayant décidé de renvoyer aux calendes grecques une série de mesures pour le climat, pour cause de déroute électorale annoncée.Or, c’est ce lundi que le chef de l’Etat français doit — enfin — présenter le plan censé permettre à la France d’avancer plus vite sur le chemin de la neutralité carbone, p...

Space rocks: NASA recovers sample from asteroid

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.“We have touchdown!” Mission Recovery Operations announced, immediately repeating the news since the landing occurred three minutes early. Officials later said the orange striped parachute opened four times higher than anticipated — around 20,000 feet — basing it on the deceleration rate.To everyone’s relief, the capsule was intact and not breached, keeping its 4.5 billion-year-old samples free of contamination. Within two hours of touchdown, the capsule was inside a temporary clean room at the Defense Department’s Utah Test and Training Range, hoisted there by helicopter.“It’s like ‘Wow!'̶...

Patriots get right with 15-10 win over Jets in strong defensive performance

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:55:56 GMT

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — God bless Zach Wilson.The Patriots can partially thank the Jets quarterback for a get-right game Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. With a 15-10 Week 3 win over the Jets, the Patriots improved their record to 1-2.The Patriots essentially closed the game out with Wilson taking a safety when outside linebacker Matthew Judon sacked him in the end zone with 2:27 left in the fourth quarter. The play was emblematic of Wilson’s performance all game.But like the drenching conditions in New Jersey, it wasn’t always pretty for the Pats. Quarterback Mac Jones’ longest play of the game came on a deep pass to uncovered third tight end Pharaoh Brown.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots inactives: One rookie WR out of doghouse, another a healthy scratch New England Patriots | Patriots’ defense gets bad news ahead of Week 3 game vs. Jets New England Patriots | NFL notes: What happened to all of the Patriots&...