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Boston College suspends swimming, diving program amid hazing allegations

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

Boston College has suspended the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams while it investigates reports of hazing, allegations strongly disputed by athletes who have hired attorneys and demanded retractions of the accusations.An initial statement from the university’s athletic department Wednesday said the situation will be handled through an investigation by the Office of the Dean of Students.Allegations of hazing for both university teams were first published last week in The Heights, Boston College’s student-run newspaper. The report cited an administration letter alleging that freshmen being told to “binge drink and consume their own vomit.”On Thursday, the college posted on its website a clarified statement that “Boston College Athletics has suspended the activities of the Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving teams following credible reports of hazing.”The report in the Heights spurred a response from Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP attorneys Andrew Miltenbe...

Patriots TE Pharaoh Brown becomes unlikely hero in 15-10 win over Jets

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The last time Pharaoh Brown scored a touchdown longer than 50 yards he was in college.No surprise, as he capped a 58-yard rumble to the end zone Sunday, the Patriots’ third-string tight end celebrated like it.Brown’s touchdown hoisted the Pats to a critical early lead in their 15-10 win over the Jets. He finished with two catches for a team-high 71 yards, and became the Patriots’ unlikely hero in their first win. Brown’s touchdown stands as offense’s longest gain of the season and its only explosive passing play of the last two weeks.A seven-year journeyman, Brown signed in New England on Sept. 4 because of his familiarity with offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien, who coached him in Houston. Against the Jets, O’Brien sprung him loose on a play-action pass that had the Jets charging toward the line of scrimmage to stop a run that never came.“It was a great freaking sell by the line with the play-action. They bit, and Ma...

Chicago Cubs sweep the Colorado Rockies to enter the final week of the regular season in playoff position

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

Patrick Wisdom had made his way through the Chicago Cubs dugout, slapping high-fives with his teammates to celebrate his go-ahead two-run homer, when he reached the camera well.The season hasn’t played out how Wisdom envisioned at the onset, when he logged most of the playing time at third base. He has been reduced to a platoon role, predominantly playing against left-handers both in spot starts and pinch-hitting opportunities. His two-run homer in the sixth inning off Colorado Rockies lefty Ty Blach served as the decisive blow in the Cubs’ 4-3 win Sunday for a three-game sweep.“In the moment, I wasn’t really thinking, especially in the (batter’s) box, ‘Oh, if I hit a home run we’re going to go ahead,’ but it kind of hit me as I was rounding the bases,” Wisdom said. “Just hearing Wrigley erupt and seeing the dugout when you’re rounding second explode is really cool. It’s a hard feeling to replicate and just grat...

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis makes stop in Coronado for event

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Florida Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is visiting Coronado for a Veterans appreciation event, his campaign said.The gathering will be at 6 p.m. at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2422 on Orange Avenue, DeSantis officials said in a press release Friday.DeSantis' visit comes ahead of the second Republican presidential debate on Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. First Lady Jill Biden visits San Diego for fundraiser; Mayor Gloria welcomes Several campaigns have said they've satisfied the marks to participate in Wednesday's debate, including DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Vice President Mike Pence. Former President Donald Trump missed the first debate and plans to meet with current and former union workers in Michigan instead of attending the second debate. The attendance of North Dako...

'I’m never going to give up': Family members search for answers 5 years after disappearance of pregnant postal worker

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

CHICAGO — Family members gathered in Pilsen on Sunday to celebrate the 31st birthday of Kierra Coles, a pregnant woman who vanished from the city's South Side in 2018. While loved ones celebrated the occasion, they say they are still desperate to find out what happened to her."Another year. Every year I hope I don't have to come stand up here and announce that my child is still not home," Kierra's mother Karen Phillips said.  12 buses carrying migrants arrive in Chicago over the weekend For the past five years, Phillps has been searching for her daughter, a postal worker who was three months pregnant when she vanished. "If it was your child, your mother, your sister, your grandmother. You'd be begging for the same help that I'm standing here begging for," Phillips said in a public plea for information. Coles disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, from an area near East 83rd Street and South King Drive, in the city's Chatham neighborhood. Her car was later found on that ...

Race is on to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy them

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so pristine they could practically fly again when archaeologists finally discovered them.Now, an invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks deep in the depths of the lakes, forcing archeologists and amateur historians into a race against time to find as many sites as they can before the region touching eight U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario loses any physical trace of its centuries-long maritime history.“What you need to understand is every shipwreck is covered with quagga mussels in the lower Great Lakes,” Wisconsin state maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen said. “Everything. If you drain the lakes, you’ll get a bowl of quagga mussels.” Spotted lanternfly: Should you be worried about them? Quagga mussels, finger-sized mollusks with voracious appetites, have become the...

Vikings can’t stop Chargers veteran receiver Keenan Allen

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

The Vikings’ defense knew Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert would be looking for Keenan Allen on Sunday. He has five 1,000-yard receiving seasons under his belt, and the 11th-year pro hasn’t slowed down yet.That’s what makes Allen’s success in the Chargers’ 28-24 victory Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium so galling for Vikings safety Camryn Bynum.“He’s a future hall of famer, really. He’s Keenan Allen,” Bynum said. “We have to know … where the premium receivers are on the field. At the end of the day, we didn’t do our job of knowing where he was at all times.”Maybe it would not have mattered. That’s Allen’s take, anyway, after he caught 18 passes for 215 yards.“Everybody on the field can know where the ball is going, but somebody’s got to make the play,” Allen said. “You can point at it. You can say, ‘He’s going here.’ You can do all this, but you’ve still got to go stop it.”None of the Vikings could stop Allen on Sunday. He didn’t catch a touchdown pass, but he did th...

Vikings cornerback Akayleb Evans had an interception in his hands. It turned into a Chargers touchdown.

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

Akayleb Evans is slowly developing into a solid cornerback for the Vikings. He’s an unquestioned starter in the secondary and has a chance to be a really good player in the NFL. If he lives up to his potential, Evans will look back on his biggest mistake Sunday as a moment that helped him grow.In the immediate aftermath of the Vikings suffering a 28-24 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, however, Evans was having a hard time separating the forest from the trees.He hung his head in the locker room after the game as he pondered how he turned what should have been an interception of quarterback Justin Herbert in a big moment into a touchdown catch for receiver Josh Palmer that ultimately proved to be the difference.“Yeah,” Evans said. “Just a missed opportunity.”Indeed. After reading Herbert perfectly, Evans was in perfect position when he leaped to make an interception. Instead, he had the ball go right off of his hands and land directly in the arms of Palm...

Boost your mobile productivity with a bigger-screen laptop — or one with two screens

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

The more computer-screen real estate you have, the more room you have to spread out, and the more productive you will be. At least, that has been my experience.At my home-office desk, I have three screens: that of my employer-supplied Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, raised to about eye level with a stand, and flanked by 27-inch monitors. This allows me to have three, four, even five windows open and unobstructed.So I feel constricted when I am away from my workstation and trying to get stuff done on a single 14-inch screen. It’s nice that I can grab my ThinkPad and go, but working on it becomes more of a chore because I am no longer able to throw up multiple windows and glance among them.What’s the solution? There are two obvious ones:Use more than one display while on the go.Use one display while on the go, but bigger.I’ve lately been experimenting with both scenarios, which have major implications for the mobile-work crowd.On the multiple-display front, I’ve been trying out Lenovo’s Yoga ...

Pedal the Cause raises millions for cancer research

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:33:08 GMT

ST. LOUIS – Another year of Pedal the Cause is in the books, but the fundraiser continues through the end of October.Craig Stiegemeier is a cancer survivor.“In 2012, I was diagnosed with a melanoma,” Stiegemeier said. “That's why this ear's a little funny shape. They cut it off, but it had metastasized and spread. I lost a golf ball-size piece of my brain. I lost a right kidney, and all my lymph nodes were full of cancer.”He learned about the impact of Pedal the Cause firsthand, and he rides and volunteers every year.“Pedal the Cause was a big sponsor in all this out-of-the-box cancer research,” Stiegemeier said. “Immunotherapy is one of them, and it was just FDA-approved a few months before I needed it, and now it's my 11th ride.”Around 3,000 people took part in the cycling events on the course, and hundreds participated virtually. There were also around 700 volunteers.“Everyone is affected by cancer,” said Eleanor Goedeke, Pedal the Cause director of communications and marketing. ...