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Syra Health to Present at NobleCon20Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is in the midst of an MVP caliber season, leading the Bills to a 9-2 record through 11 games. However, it is another award that Allen was nominated for that is somewhat ironic. Allen was the Bills' nomination for the Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award . The award was created in 2014 to honor Art Rooney, the late owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. It is presented each year to the NFL player who demonstrates the qualities of on-field sportsmanship. The ironic part of this is that Allen was voted the biggest trash-talker in the NFL ahead of the 2024 season. Should Allen be the winner, he will receiver a $25,000 donation from the NFL Foundation to a charity of his choice. Until then, the Bills will continue their quest for a Super Bowl - the next step being a Week 13 game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Netflix signs US broadcast deal with FIFA for the Women's World Cup in 2027 and 2031Milwaukee's Pat Murphy made history recently, becoming the first manager in Brewers history to win Manager of the Year. At the start of the 2024 season, the Brewers were projected to finish in the lower half of the NL Central . But the Brewers far exceeded expectations, finishing 93-69 and tying the third-highest win total in franchise history. The 10-game division lead over the Chicago Cubs marked the largest margin in team history for a first-place team. After Murphy's strong first year, expectations for 2025 are high, and the pressure for the team to go deeper in the playoffs is mounting. Here are four areas where Murphy should focus this season: 1. Keep rolling if Willy Adames departs Following the strongest season of his career, leading the Brewers with 32 home runs and 112 RBI, Adames is free agent. With his value rising, he likely will not return to small-market Milwaukee in 2025. He recently declined the team's $21M qualifying offer. Though the departure of fan-favorite Adames would be significant, it is up to Murphy to ensure Milwaukee remains competitive. With some of the best young talent in baseball — including OF Jackson Chourio (20), OF Sal Frelick (24), 2B Brice Turang (25), infielder Joey Ortiz (26) and pitcher Tobais Myers (26) — and a roster brimming with depth, Murphy must find the right lineup combination to keep Milwaukee in playoff contention. 2. Establish a stable lineup With depth being a significant advantage for Milwaukee, Murphy must find a consistent lineup. Last season, he juggled lineup combinations. Murphy has five excellent choices for the outfield: Christian Yelich, Chourio, Frelick, Garrett Mitchell and Blake Perkins. Yelich and Chourio have been instrumental to the team's offensive success, while the defense from Frelick, Mitchell and Perkins cannot be overlooked. They were a key factor in Milwaukee securing the National League Gold Glove Team award for the second consecutive season . Frelick, coming off his first Gold Glove award, is especially versatile, having played third base in spring training . If Adames doesn't return, as expected, many pieces will be shifted around in the infield. Offensively, Yelich and Chourio are the standout options, with Yelich leading the team with a .315 batting average before his injury and Chourio boasting the second highest at .275. Although the designated- hitter role offers flexibility, it's challenging for Murphy to incorporate all five players into a single lineup. Finding the optimal combination will be crucial for success. 3. Claim a top seed in the National League A key reason in the Brewers' playoff struggles is seeding. Over the past six seasons, Milwaukee has reached the postseason five times, with four of those appearances being in the wild-card round even though it won the NL Central the past two seasons. in 2024, the Brewers fell short of a top seed — which would give them a bye to the divisional series — by finishing two games behind second-seeded Philadelphia and five games behind top-seeded Los Angeles by five. The last time the Brewers secured the No.1 seed in the National League was in 2018, a season in which they advanced to the NL Championship Series and fell just one game short of reaching the World Series. A similar season in 2025 would be ideal for a club eager to recapture that level of success. 4. Break the cycle of playoff disappointment Yes, this is easier said than done. No manager snaps his fingers and magically advances through the postseason. While the regular season showcased many high points, Murphy faces a critical challenge: fixing Milwaukee's postseason struggles. With the loss to the New York Mets in the 2024 wild-card round, the Brewers extended their streak of not winning one round in the playoffs to five consecutive appearances . Against the Mets in Game 3 of the best-of-three series, Murphy's decision-making appeared flawless. The Brewers had a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth and closer Devin Williams taking the mound. While in the ideal situation, Williams gave up four runs, ending the Brewers' season. As JR Radcliffe of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted in October , "What Milwaukee hasn't had in the postseason is a complete team." Added Radcliffe, "In 2024, [the Brewers] built around defense and pitching with a patchwork starting rotation and an offense that was consistent but lacked power." To elevate its lineup to be more competitive in the playoffs, Milwaukee should make a run at young middle infielders Ha-Seong Kim and Gleyber Torres, both free agents. Milwaukee might also be interested in free-agent first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, the 2022 NL MVP. Any addiiton from the aforementioned group would be an enhancement who could help lead the Brewers to a deep playoff run.
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Alex Chaikin led Lafayette over NCAA DivisionIII-member Rosemont on Sunday with 21 points off of the bench in a 91-45 victory. Chaikin went 7 of 11 from the field (5 for 9 from 3-point range) for the Leopards (2-4). T.J. Berger went 4 of 10 from the field (2 for 6 from 3-point range) to add 10 points. Andrew Phillips finished 4 of 6 from the field to finish with 10 points. Bruce Black led the Ravens in scoring, finishing with 11 points. Denelle Holly added eight points for Rosemont. Kelton Warren also recorded seven points. Lafayette took the lead with 20:00 left in the first half and did not give it up. Mike Bednostin led their team in scoring with eight points in the first half to help put them up 38-22 at the break. Lafayette outscored Rosemont by 30 points in the second half, and Chaikin scored a team-high 15 points in the second half to help their team secure the victory. NEXT UP Lafayette hosts LIU in its next matchup on Friday. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the Jan. 6, 2021 , U.S. Capitol attack, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was committed to holding accountable all perpetrators “at any level” for “the assault on our democracy.” That bold declaration won't apply to at least one person: Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith's move on Monday to abandon the federal election interference case against Trump means jurors will likely never decide whether the president-elect is criminally responsible for his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 campaign. The decision to walk away from the election charges and the separate classified documents case against Trump marks an abrupt end of the Justice Department’s unprecedented legal effort that once threatened his liberty but appears only to have galvanized his supporters. The abandonment of the cases accusing Trump of endangering American democracy and national security does away with the most serious legal threats he was facing as he returns to the White House. It was the culmination of a monthslong defense effort to delay the proceedings at every step and use the criminal allegations to Trump's political advantage, putting the final word in the hands of voters instead of jurors. “We always knew that the rich and powerful had an advantage, but I don’t think we would have ever believed that somebody could walk away from everything,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department official. “If there ever was a Teflon defendant, that’s Donald Trump.” While prosecutors left the door open to the possibility that federal charges could be re-filed against Trump after he leaves office, that seems unlikely. Meanwhile, Trump's presidential victory has thrown into question the future of the two state criminal cases against him in New York and Georgia. Trump was supposed to be sentenced on Tuesday after his conviction on 34 felony counts in his New York hush money case , but it's possible the sentencing could be delayed until after Trump leaves office, and the defense is pushing to dismiss the case altogether. Smith's team stressed that their decision to abandon the federal cases was not a reflection of the merit of the charges, but an acknowledgement that they could not move forward under longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Trump's presidential victory set “at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: On the one hand, the Constitution’s requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities . . . and on the other hand, the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. The move just weeks after Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris underscores the immense personal stake Trump had in the campaign in which he turned his legal woes into a political rallying cry. Trump accused prosecutors of bringing the charges in a bid to keep him out of the White House, and he promised revenge on his perceived enemies if he won a second term. “If Donald J. Trump had lost an election, he may very well have spent the rest of his life in prison,” Vice President-elect JD Vance, wrote in a social media post on Monday. “These prosecutions were always political. Now it’s time to ensure what happened to President Trump never happens in this country again.” After the Jan. 6 attack by Trump supporters that left more than 100 police officers injured, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and several other Republicans who voted to acquit Trump during his Senate impeachment trial said it was up to the justice system to hold Trump accountable. The Jan. 6 case brought last year in Washington alleged an increasingly desperate criminal conspiracy to subvert the will of voters after Trump's 2020 loss, accusing Trump of using the angry mob of supporters that attacked the Capitol as “a tool” in his campaign to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and obstruct the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory. Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters — many of whom have said they felt called to Washington by Trump — have pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries of federal charges at the same courthouse where Trump was supposed to stand trial last year. As the trial date neared, officials at the courthouse that sits within view of the Capitol were busy making plans for the crush of reporters expected to cover the historic case. But Trump's argument that he enjoyed absolute immunity from prosecution quickly tied up the case in appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution , and sent the case back to the trial court to decide which allegations could move forward. But the case was dismissed before the trial court could get a chance to do so. The other indictment brought in Florida accused Trump of improperly storing at his Mar-a-Lago estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, enlisting aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showing off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case in July on grounds that Smith was illegally appointed . Smith appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but abandoned that appeal on Monday. Smith's team said it would continue its fight in the appeals court to revive charges against Trump's two co-defendants because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” In New York, jurors spent weeks last spring hearing evidence in a state case alleging a Trump scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. New York prosecutors recently expressed openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump's second term, while Trump's lawyers are fighting to have the conviction dismissed altogether. In Georgia, a trial while Trump is in office seems unlikely in a state case charging him and more than a dozen others with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The case has been on hold since an appeals court agreed to review whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had hired to lead the case. ____ Associated Press reporter Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed. Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press