Billions of dollars can buy a lot of things. It can help revive a football program and get your alma mater into a bigger conference. It can buy a private jet. But it can’t clear more space at a tiny regional airport.SMU donor Bill Armstrong’s last name is on the team’s indoor practice facility. His plane, which included two-time U.S. Open champion golfer Bryson DeChambeau and former Mustangs star running back Craig James, left Dallas around 6:30 a.m. CT for State College, Pa. But upon arrival, it was diverted to Williamsport, as were some other SMU private planes. The airport…
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Elon Musk walks on Capitol Hill on the day of a meeting with Senate Republican Leader-elect John Thune (R-SD), in Washington, U.S. December 5, 2024. Benoit Tessier | ReutersHouse Democrats Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut say their Republican colleagues in Congress caved to the demands of Elon Musk, sinking a bipartisan government funding bill that would have regulated U.S. investments in China.Congress passed a separate stopgap funding bill over the weekend, averting a government shutdown.In a series of posts on X, McGovern said more could have been accomplished. The scrapped provision “would have made it easier to…
In 1982, George Halas reached into Chicago Bears history to find a head coach and hired Mike Ditka.In 2025, the team Halas founded needs to consider its history again.There are candidates with no ties to the Bears who deserve consideration.Foremost among them is Mike Vrabel, who never should have been fired by the Tennessee Titans and can win Super Bowls — plural — in the right situation. If Ben Johnson of the Detroit Lions is as dazzling as a head coach as he is as an offensive coordinator, he will transform an organization. His defensive counterpart in Detroit, Aaron Glenn,…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Well, the glass-one-quarter-full perspective on the Bronny James Show this weekend is to say it could have been worse. But it certainly could have been better.The NBA G League Winter Showcase came to Orlando, Fla., this weekend, and with the Los Angeles Lakers’ decision to assign James for this event, he immediately became the star attraction, with both games nationally televised.This was a 20-year-old rookie playing his third month of professional basketball, and I’ve certainly seen more tragic performances from young prospects learning the hard way at this level. But on a court mostly filled with players…
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Matt Murray looked up to the scoreboard above him, counted down the seconds as they disappeared and finally pumped his fist.It had been 638 days since Murray last felt the feeling washing over him.Bilateral hip surgery forced the Toronto Maple Leafs goalie out of the entire 2023-24 season, the final of a four-year contract. There was no guarantee the oft-injured Murray would play in the NHL again. A one-year contract offered him a lifeline to continue grinding far out of the spotlight in the AHL, with only one goal.And over a year and a half later, Murray…
Muriel Furrer and her father Reto always had the same tradition. On the startline of each race, they would find each other through the crowd, pack down their middle three fingers, and outstretch their thumbs and pinkies.“Hang loose”, they called it, their moment of calm before the peloton’s chaos. At the same time, Muriel knew her mother, Christine, would be praying for her safety.Reto and Christine had followed their 18-year-old daughter’s cycling career across Europe. Part of the Swiss Cycling Under-19 team, she won a road national junior title in 2022, and a medal in this year’s Mountain Biking European…
What’s at the top of your favorite NHL team’s holiday wish list?Is it a trade to fill a need? Or a star player to find his game? Or, the classic: health in the new year?The Athletic asked its NHL staff for one last-minute gift idea per team. Here’s what they said.Trevor Zegras looking like his old self: It’s ridiculous to think we’re talking about an inventive 23-year-old playmaker whose star should still be on the rise. Zegras has run into tough luck on the injury front, as he’s recovering from knee surgery after a 2023-24 season wrecked by groin issues…
Emergency personnel work at a Christmas market after a car drove into a group of people, according to local media, in Magdeburg, Germany, December 20, 2024.Axel Schmidt | ReutersThe suspect in the German car-ramming attack that killed five and injured more than 200 on Friday has been identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a self-described member of the “liberal opposition” to Saudi Arabia who has voiced strong anti-Islamic and anti-immigration views.Two senior U.S. officials familiar with the matter identified al-Abdulmohsen as the suspect.The car allegedly driven by al-Abdulmohsen plowed 1,200 feet into a crowd in a narrow alley in Magdeburg, a city of about…
Curt Cignetti, once again, didn’t hold back. His team was less than two hours away from kicking off its first College Football Playoff game, and the 63-year-old Indiana head coach sat in the middle of the “College GameDay” set and went right at the skeptics.“We don’t just beat Top 25 teams, we beat the s— out of them!” Cignetti said, referencing that his teams had beaten Nebraska earlier this year and Coastal Carolina when he was at JMU. It was a rewind-the-TV moment. As in, did he really just say that?! It also wasn’t true. The Huskers had fallen out…
Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.”With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role,” Trump announced Saturday.Burnett, who was born in London, helped produce hits like “Survivor” and “The Voice,” but is perhaps best known for teaming up with Trump for “The Apprentice,” which first aired on NBC in 2004.Trump had been well-known in real estate…
