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March 18, 2025
By WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH — PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andy Reid donned a Santa Claus suit in a giddy Kansas City Chiefs locker room on Christmas Day, then handed his team a present it increasingly looks like it deserves: home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. How Reid managed to slide into the costume
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By ROB MAADDI, AP Pro Football Writer Beyoncé provided more excitement than either game during Netflix’s NFL debut on Christmas Day. Riding into her halftime appearance on a white horse, the 32-time Grammy winner rocked her hometown Houston crowd with a nearly 13-minute performance on Wednesday. She surprised fans by bringing out Shaboozey to perform
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A power cable linking Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea suffered an outage, prompting an investigation, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Wednesday. Writing on X, Orpo said that power transmission through the Estlink-2 cable stopped Wednesday and that authorities were “investigating the matter.” He said the interruption would not
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Annabell Whelan woke up Tuesday and frantically checked on her holiday overnight guest — Nowl the snowy owl, who she rescued from the grille of a car the day before. Whelan was out with her boyfriend’s family Monday in Duluth, Minnesota, when she saw the owl “just hanging out there, literally” after car and bird
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NEW YORK — Dec. 24, 2024 — Carolina Panthers running back Chuba Hubbard, Minnesota Vikings linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel and Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey are the NFC Offensive, Defensive and Special Teams Players of the Week for Week 16 (December 19, 21-23). OFFENSE: RB CHUBA HUBBARD, CAROLINA PANTHERS Hubbard recorded 165 scrimmage yards (152
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A reigning state champion in girls basketball won’t defend its title. Cresset Christian, a private school in Durham with fewer than 115 students in grades 9-12, withdrew from the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association, the association confirmed to HighSchoolOT. The Eagles won the 1A girls basketball title a year ago — its first in any
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Record-setting flooding over three days dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of northern California, a fire left thousands under evacuation orders and warnings in Los Angeles County, forecasters issued the first-ever tornado warning in San Francisco and rough seas tore down part of a wharf in Santa Cruz.
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Word of God Christian Academy senior Trevor Best will play college basketball at Arizona State — possibly as soon as this season. Best announced his commitment live on WRAL-TV on Monday evening’s newscast. “I wanted a good fit for me and a coach that likes guards heavy, so I’m looking forward to (Bobby Hurley) making
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HighSchoolOT has released its updated North Carolina high school football rankings following the action of week 12. HSOT has two sets of rankings: a statewide Top 25 and top 15s for each of North Carolina’s six area codes. The area code rankings have already been released and can be found at the links below: More
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Caitlin Clark raised the profile of women’s basketball to unprecedented levels in both the college ranks and the WNBA, and Tuesday she was named the AP Female Athlete of the Year for her impact on and off the court. After leading Iowa to the national championship game, Clark was
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