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Broncos roundtable: Can Denver get above .500 by the time a three-game road trip starts?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

Parker Gabriel, Broncos beat reporter: The Broncos are doing their best Will Ferrell impersonation and going streaking. They’ve got three straight wins to get to 4-5 on the season. To make it a quad, they’re going to have to beat Minnesota at home in prime time. In order to be better than .500 (Who’d have considered that conversation in early October?) when a three-game road trip against Houston, the Chargers and Detroit starts in early December, they’ve got to get the Vikings and Cleveland at home the next two Sundays. Can they do it? Minnesota’s hot, too, having won five straight, and the Browns have one of the best defenses in the NFL. But they’re also starting Josh Dobbs (great story and a literal rocket scientist) and Dorian Thompson-Robinson (or P.J. Walker), respectively, at quarterback. Denver squandered a gettable two-game home set to open the season against Las Vegas and Washington. It still feels like a split to me. What do you fine gen...

Keeler: Why would Deion Sanders stiff Texas A&M football? CU Buffs give him one thing Aggies can’t: Absolute power.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

Can you imagine the first time Bubba Booster suggests to Deion Sanders who oughta play tailback?Or asks Coach Prime to entertain his foursome on some random Thursday at the PGA Resort in Frisco? Or wants Sanders to fly out and meet his momma?“Deion, we got a, urmmm, business agreement with this here young man, so …”Click.“Prime? Prime. Bubba here. We musta got cut off, ‘cuz …”Click.Nobody — not Bubba, not Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork, not John Ross Ewing — tells Deion Sanders what to do.Well, unless they’re directing the commercial he happens to be shooting that day. Or they’re Mike Zimmer.“NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) is not a problem with me,” Sanders told our old pal Joel Klatt of Fox Sports a few months back. “Collectives are.”Go on, Coach Prime. Preach. Stephen A. can’t hear you over the sound of his own bull junk.“Collectives, you could be Tom, Dick, Harry and Larry and...

Man falls from moving big rig on 91 Freeway

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

A bizarre and dangerous incident was captured on cell phone video in Orange County when a man fell from the back of a big rig Wednesday morning.The video obtained by Traffic News Los Angeles shows a man clinging to the rear of the tractor-trailer as it traveled along the 91 Freeway.The man tries to carefully step off the bumper of the moving vehicle only to tumble and fall onto his chest, the video shows.Video obtained by Traffic News Los Angeles shows a man clinging to the rear of the tractor-trailer as it traveled along the 91 Freeway. Nov. 15, 2023. (TNLA)The truck driver may have been aware of the man's presence since they appeared to be driving slowly compared to other vehicles.Nothing else is known about the incident and was not immediately clear if the man was injured.

Body found on Orange County freeway onramp

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

Police are investigating after a body was found on a Buena Park freeway.On Sunday, authorities responded to reports of a body found on a dirt embankment near the Knott Avenue onramp onto the eastbound 91 Freeway lanes.The body was later identified as Victor Fregozo-Alcaraz, 45, a La Habra resident, according to California Highway Patrol.The nature of the victim’s fatal injuries was not released and no suspect was located at the scene.The man was found near a busy onramp area just over a mile away from Knott’s Berry Farm theme park.Details are limited as the case remains under investigation by homicide detectives. Violent follow-home robbery in North Hollywood caught on camera Anyone with information can call CHP’s Major Crimes Unit at 657-391-4017 or Investigator Joaquin Gill at 714-240-3754. 

Biden hails Xi talks as most productive they’ve had yet

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee | CNNPresident Joe Biden hailed his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Wednesday as the two agreed to take steps to curb fentanyl production and restore military communication during their summit.The results, which were expected ahead of the talks, amount to progress in improving the still-tense US-China relationship. During a news conference following the summit, Biden said the negotiations with Xi were “some of the most constructive and productive discussions we’ve had.”“We haven’t always agreed,” Biden said, but his talks with Xi are always “straightforward.”Biden had aimed to use the meeting to put the US-China relationship on steadier footing after months of tension between the two superpowers. Ahead of the talks, US officials were careful to manage expectations, saying they did not expect a long list of outcomes or even a joint leaders’ statement, as is customary after such summits. The primary objective for the talks appeared to be the restoratio...

Lafayette kidnapping suspect arrested after escape from mental health program

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

(KRON) -- A kidnapping suspect was arrested on Tuesday several weeks after he escaped a mental health diversion program, the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office said. Kenneth David McIsaac was assigned to the program 13 months after he allegedly held a Lafayette family hostage at gunpoint. McIsaac was sent to the program on Sept. 5 despite "a vigorous opposition" from the Contra Costa County DA's office, according to a press release from the office. He was in custody for more than a year before that. He escaped on Oct. 24. Man found in suitcase on Lake Merritt identified "The court determined that a mental health diversion program would provide more effective treatment for McIsaac's condition and released him from custody," the DA's office wrote in a press release. McIsaac had a no-bail warrant for his arrest after his escape. The Lafayette Police Department was notified on Tuesday that McIsaac had possibly been sighted in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood, the departme...

Gayle Jr. scores 20, Ohio State uses big second-half run to defeat Merrimack 76-52

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Roddy Gayle Jr. scored 20 points, Zed Key added a double-double off the bench and Ohio State used a big second-half run to break away from Merrimack in a 76-52 victory for the Buckeyes on Wednesday night.A 3-pointer from Bryan Etumnu and a pair of free throws by Samba Diallo had Merrimack within six points with about 9 1/2 minutes to go. Ohio State responded with a 16-0 run in which Jamison Battle hit two 3-pointers and scored eight points, giving the Buckeyes a 65-43 lead with 5 1/2 minutes remaining.The Buckeyes extended the run to 24-3 and led 73-46 with 2:13 to go.Gayle finished 8-for-12 from the field and made 3 of 4 3-pointers, to go with five rebounds and three assists. Key had 11 points and 12 rebounds, and Battle scored 13 points.The Buckeyes (2-1) shot 44.1% overall, including 8 of 14 3-pointers.Devon Savage made 6 of 9 3-pointers and scored 20 points for the Warriors (2-2) and Eutmnu finished with 11 points.Gayle hit two 3-pointers to open the game a...

Sonia Citron scores 23, Hannah Hidalgo has 21, No. 16 Notre Dame women overwhelm Northwestern 110-52

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Sonia Citron scored 23 points, Hannah Hidalgo added 21 and No. 16 Notre Dame won its 29th-straight home opener, coasting to a 110-52 win over Northwestern on Wednesday night.Maddy Westbeld had 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Fighting Irish (2-1) and Anna DeWolfe and Kylee Watson scored 10 each.Hailey Weaver and Melannie Daley had 11 points each for the Wildcats (2-1).After Northwestern scored the first eight points of the game, the Fighting Irish reeled off the next 15, nine by Hidalgo on two 3-pointers and a three-point play. Citron hit a jumper and a buzzer-beating 3 to make the score 25-16 after one quarter.Citron then had the last 11 points of a 13-0 run to end the half, including another buzzer beater, for a 56-26 lead at the break.Citron had 19 points and Hidalgo 15 in the first half.Hidalgo continued the impressive start to her freshman season, going 9 of 12 from the field with 2 3s, and six rebounds, six steals and five assists. She has 21 steals an...

Biden, Xi met for hours and agreed to ‘pick up the phone’ for any urgent concerns. ‘That’s progress’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping emerged Wednesday from their first face-to-face meeting in a year vowing to stabilize their fraught relationship and showcasing modest agreements to combat illegal fentanyl and re-establish military communications. But there were still deep differences on economic competition and global security threats. The most assuring takeaway from the meeting for Biden was that if either man had a concern, “we should pick up the phone and call one another and we’ll take the call. That’s important progress,” he said in a news conference following the talks. The two leaders spent four hours together at a bucolic Northern California estate – in meetings, a working lunch and a garden stroll – intent on showing the world that while they are global economic competitors they’re not locked in a winner-take-all faceoff.“Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed,” Xi told Biden.The U.S. president t...

Aziaha James scores 20, Mimi Collins adds 18 and No. 14 N.C. State women beat Elon 90-35

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:28:13 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Aziaha James scored 20 points, Mimi Collins had a perfect night shooting and 18 points and No. 14 North Carolina State coasted to a 90-35 win over Elon on Wednesday night.Showing no hangover from Sunday’s 92-81 win over No. 2 UConn that vaulted N.C. State into the Top 25, Collins had 14 points, including 10 in a 15-0 run, as the Wolfpack bolted to a 28-12 lead after one quarter. N.C. State was 11 of 14 from the field in the first 10 minutes and then turned on the defense in the second quarter, holding the Phoenix to 1-of-15 shooting for a 44-14 lead at the half.James matched Collins with 14 first-half points, when the Wolfpack shot 59% and had a 31-7 rebounding advantage. Hayes had 10 points.Hayes finished with 15 points for N.C. State (3-0). Collings was 8-of-8 shooting with a 3-pointer and a free throw. The Wolfpack shot 52% with seven 3s on 22 attempts and went 17 for 17 from the foul line.Saniya Rivers, the NCAA and ACC player of the week after posting...