It was only 22 months ago that Sonny Dykes and TCU could do almost nothing wrong.The Horned Frogs were the surprise story of the 2022 season. Their unlikely run to the College Football Playoff national championship game — which included a 12-0 start, heart-stopping finishes, the “Hypnotoad”, psychedelic postgame victory videos and a Fiesta Bowl upset of Michigan — endeared them to casual fans. They were the pesky perpetual underdogs who kept finding ways to win.Halfway into the 2024 season, it seems as if nothing is going right. TCU’s 30-19 loss on Friday night to Big 12 cellar-dweller Houston is…
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Lai Ching-te, president of Taiwan, on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIt is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s President Lai Ching-te said Saturday.Lai, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a “separatist.” He rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying that the island is a country called the Republic of China, which traces its origins back to the 1911 revolution that overthrew the last imperial dynasty.The republican government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists who set up the People’s Republic of China, which continues to claim the island as its “sacred” territory.Speaking at a concert ahead…
Erik Ainge’s best moments for the New York Jets in 2009 had nothing to do with the passes he threw. That’s life as a third-string quarterback — especially then, on a Jets team that often carried four players at the position.During the 2009 season, Ainge would spend most of his days studying film, taking notes, working with the scout team. One of his most important jobs was to help starting tight end Dustin Keller with his routes, and to study opposing defenses. He was competing to be the third stringer — but really, he was just competing for fist bumps.…
NEW YORK — The moment that defined a rivalry came 47 years ago Sunday. It was a cool fall night in the Bronx, Game 2 of the 1977 ALCS, and Hal McRae stood on first base. The Kansas City Royals were trailing the New York Yankees 2-1 in the sixth inning, but McRae had an idea, so he hollered over to teammate Freddie Patek, who was on second.“I motioned to Freddie,” McRae, now 79, said from his home in Florida on Friday. “If we got a ground ball, I was gonna take out the middle infielder.”Sure enough, the Royals’ George…
As Howie Rose’s call of Pete Alonso’s season-saving home run began playing over the public address system on the New York Mets’ joyous charter flight out of Milwaukee, the veteran broadcaster briefly cupped his hands to his ears.From his seat on a plane full of Mets players and staffers, Rose, 70, was embarrassed. No broadcaster, he’d later say, wants to be present as people listen to their words. It’s weird. Uncomfortable. That’s true no matter how good the call was, and Rose’s call was epic.“I wanted to crawl under the seat when that thing was playing,” Rose said. They played…
With about a month to go until the 2024 presidential election, investors are bracing for potential volatility in the markets amid uncertainty over whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris will win in November.”It’s really important that everyone remembers that there is a lot of noise, there’s a lot of volatility around elections,” said Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management. “Really what fundamentally drives markets is going to be what’s going on with earnings growth, what is going on with inflation and what the Fed is going to do.”Differences in Republican and Democratic economic…
Amid a currently undefeated season with the first-place Orlando Pride and high-profile retirements from Alex Morgan and Christine Sinclair, Brazilian superstar Marta said she plans to play professional soccer for at least two more years.“I don’t know if I’m gonna be in Orlando. But my thought is like, play at least two more years,” she told The Athletic. Her current contract with the Pride is up after the 2024 season.Marta has scored seven goals and recorded two assists in 19 games this season, and the Pride are seven points clear of second-place Washington Spirit, whom they face on Sunday. If…
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp, left, and founder Jeff Bezos look up at a New Glenn rocket on at the company’s LC-36 facility in Florida.Blue OriginDave Limp had only one question for Jeff Bezos when he interviewed last year to become CEO of Blue Origin, the billionaire’s space venture.”Jeff, is Blue Origin a hobby or a business?” Limp asked.After 14 years as a senior Amazon executive, Limp told CNBC he made it clear to Bezos that he wasn’t interested in leading Blue Origin if the nearly 25-year-old venture wasn’t intended to be a serious company.”I don’t know how to run…
Ask any forward tagged with the ‘super sub’ label if they take pride in it, and you’ll get the same response.“I hate it,” says Adam Le Fondre, who scored eight of his 12 Premier League goals after starting as a substitute. “I have always thought I am good enough to impact the game from the start.”Some see it as football’s most backhanded compliment. For strikers, the select few that did not get pushed back to midfield or defence in youth football, it’s even more of a kick in the teeth. They have gone through their footballing lives as the leading…
The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be catastrophic flooding.Helene made landfall in Big Bend, Florida, on Sept. 26, causing flooding that devastated North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern states and claimed more than 200 lives.In a letter sent Saturday, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, chairman of the House Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee, asked FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell for “information regarding FEMA’s advanced forecasting models, its pre-positioning of resources, and its coordination with federal, state, and local partners in response.”A spokesperson for FEMA confirmed to…
