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TORONTO - Bruce Brown intercepted a pass and streaked down the court, driving past some token defence from Atlanta Hawks forward Jalen Johnson for a one-handed slam dunk. Brown’s Toronto Raptors teammates burst off the home team’s bench, cheering for the veteran forward. “It’s just because they didn’t think I can jump, because I haven’t jumped really, or they haven’t seen it, and then they didn’t see it the last year,” Brown said, adding he knew he would dunk as soon as he crossed half-court. “I told them I could do it and I was like, ‘if I get the chance to, I’mma dunk it.’” It was Brown’s first dunk in eight months as he scored 12 points and had three rebounds off the bench in his season debut on Sunday as Toronto lost to Atlanta 136-107. He’d missed the first 31 games of the Raptors season as he recovered from arthroscopic knee surgery on Sept. 20, a process that took longer than he expected. “I thought I was gonna be out like six to eight weeks but some things didn’t go my way,” said Brown. “There was a lot of swelling in there for a while. “Things happened, and then I was supposed to come back, like, three, four weeks ago, but there was still swelling there, so they told me to take my time.” Brown averaged 9.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 0.7 steals and 0.3 blocks over 34 games with the Raptors last season. He was traded from the Indiana Pacers to Toronto on Jan. 18 as part of a package for all-star forward Pascal Siakam. He’s averaged 8.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists over his career in 416 games with the Detroit Pistons, Brooklyn Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana and Toronto. Brown’s return doesn’t just add depth to the Raptors’ lineup, but brings some much-needed energy to a struggling team that has lost 10 in a row. “You see him get out there and put his body on the line after being out for so long,” said Scottie Barnes, who led Toronto with 19 points, eight rebounds, and five assists but eight turnovers in the loss. “He’s making himself so tired out there just guarding, pushing himself. That’s what the team needs. “We’ve all got to match that energy every single night. That’s the effort we’re going to need in order to win games.” Head coach Darko Rajakovic said that fatigue is a major factor in the NBA’s longest active losing skid. He said that a lack of focus played a role in Toronto’s season-high 31 turnovers on Sunday. “We hit a wall. We look tired. We look drained,” said Rajakovic. “Guys are not in a rhythm. That’s the reality that we’re in right now. We’ve got to find a way to get out of it.” It was the third consecutive game where the Raptors had given up over 130 points, and second 29-point blowout in a row. “Getting beat by 30, man, at home — that’s unacceptable,” said Barnes. “We can’t be doing that. We got to go out there and play harder, be smarter. “We had a lot of turnovers today. We can’t allow this to happen.” Brown was more optimistic. “We just need some rest, and we’ll push through it,” he said, noting that a stomach flu had spread through Toronto’s locker room. “I mean, all teams have this at some point, even championship teams, so we’ll push through it. We’ll be fine.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2024.Saquon Barkley on potentially breaking Eric Dickerson’s NFL single-season rushing yardage record
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It’s no secret that people here in the South have a fascination with snow. It is not very common, relatively speaking, so any mention of the word prompts posts, shares, and a full range of emotions. In the midst of Sunday football, I have watched closely as meteorologist colleagues try to be a credible vaccine for a viral post about snow in the southeastern U.S. over ten days from now. What’s the fallout from such posts? A post on a popular Georgia pop culture site included one weather map indicating the possibility of a foot or more of snow in parts of the South, including the Atlanta area, by the second week of January. It has gone viral. The site is awesome, and one that follow routinely too, so it is not surprising how widespread the post has been. Friends have been messaging me all day asking if it is true. Such maps and information are certainly available to anybody, which creates a challenge for the meteorology community. I witness all types of platforms posting long-range snow forecasts. Colleagues like James Spann in Alabama and Brad Panovich in North Carolina routinely push back on what we call “snow pornography.” It plays on the snow lover’s desire, and the social media culture rooted in clicks, views, or shares. When I saw the model information being shared, I cringed. To the site’s credit, they mentioned that such information could change. However, the context was missing, and it was probably better not to post it at all. Atlanta News First meteorologist Ella Dorsey commented on Instagram , “This is just one run of the Euro model. The next run showed 0.2 inches of snow for the same period.” She went on to explain that a weather pattern shift to colder temperature is expected, but information this far out is not reliable for precipitation forecasts. Meteorologist Tyler Mauldin also said in the same thread, “A little early to be posting! Forecasting snow, it’s hard enough three days out, much less 10 days.” As I recently wrote in Forbes.com , “These ‘pick your favorite mode scenarios’ often disappear in the next model run.... credible meteorologists should not convey information based on one model run.” As weather professionals, we know the limitations of long-range or single model runs. However, many people do not and will post or share information without proper context. So what Dr. Shepherd! I hear you. It may all seem innocent, but there are serious implications of “snow porn.” When those forecasts do not verify, people question the credibility of the weather community. When these “fantasy storms” never develop, it amplifies false narratives that weather forecasts are always wrong. As I have written many times, forecasts are right most of the time, but people have biases or shortcomings in how they consume the information. They may not understand percent chance of rain, limitations of weather Apps, or other metrics of uncertainty. There is also a tendency to latch on to the rare bad forecast and overlook the more numerous correct ones. Most people will remember a kicker’s field goal miss in the Super Bowl, and forgot that he made every kick all season. It also “clouds” the boundary of expertise. Meteorologists are trained experts who understand the limitations, tendencies, and biases in weather model information. My colleagues and I are aware of fantasy snowstorms and hurricanes that dissipate in the next model run or when things are ten or more days out. A 2019 study out of Pennsylvania State University has describe the barriers in numerical model weather predictability. Part of the challenge is that many people do not really understand how forecasts are made. The atmosphere is a fluid within a rotating frame of reference. There is a whole lot of physics, calculus, and complex computational processing going on y’all. Those calculations are further affected by slight differences in the initial condition of the model, data quality or scale, and changes in the weather scenario between runs. To mitigate against these challenges, we use numerous models or ensembles (multiple manifestations) to reduce uncertainty. We do not anchor forecasts in one single outcome or scenario. Another challenge is that once bad, viral forecasts are in the public space, confirmation bias sets in. People have seen or heard what they want to happen and will often resist credible explanations. We saw this during Hurricane Helene when colleagues were being threatened or attacked for explaining that we cannot control hurricanes. Confirmation bias and “wishcasting” are powerful motivators if you want to believe that a snow scenario is possible. I will defer to my psychology colleagues for deeper explanations. However, trust me, it is as real as the irrational overload on French toast ingredients purchased at the very mention of snow in the South. I encourage you to stop, take inventory of the source, and process the information carefully before pushing the “share” button or running to the grocery storm. Having said all of that, conditions are trending towards a colder pattern for the South by the middle of January. That means snowfall could be in future cards, but it is certainly too early to confirm base on a model you are seeing in late December.Toronto, Dec 3 (AP) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Donald Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products, a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Monday. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don't stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the United States. He said on social media last week that he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, attended a dinner with Trump and Trudeau at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Friday. Trudeau requested the meeting in a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump that the northern border is nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico. "The prime minister of course spoke about the importance of protecting the Canadian economy and Canadian workers from tariffs, but we also discussed with our American friends the negative impact that those tariffs could have on their economy, on affordability in the United States as well," LeBlanc said in Parliament. If Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, alcohol and other goods. The Produce Distributors Association, a Washington trade group, said last week that tariffs will raise prices for fresh fruit and vegetables and hurt U.S. farmers when the countries retaliate. Canada is already examining possible retaliatory tariffs on certain items from the U.S. should Trump follow through on the threat. After his dinner with Trump, Trudeau returned home without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. “The idea that we came back empty handed is completely false,” LeBlanc said. “We had a very productive discussion with Mr. Trump and his future Cabinet secretaries. ... The commitment from Mr. Trump to continue to work with us was far from empty handed.” Joining Trump and Trudeau at dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department, and Mike Waltz, Trump's choice to be his national security adviser. Canada's ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “the message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood.” Hillman, who sat at an adjacent table to Trudeau and Trump, said Canada is not the problem when it comes to drugs and migrants. On Monday, Mexico's president rejected those comments. “Mexico must be respected, especially by its trading partners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said. She said Canada had its own problems with fentanyl consumption and “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has.” Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries' border are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. — where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican drug cartels using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia. On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 million encounters with migrants at the southwest border with Mexico between October 2023 and September 2024. That compares to 23,721 encounters at the Canadian border during that time. Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well. Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security.(AP) NB NB (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)
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The Arizona Cardinals are 6-6 through 12 games, which makes them an average football team. That's much better than the previous two years, which both ended with just four wins. But after two straight frustrating losses, it's not providing much consolation for a franchise that feels as though it should be much better. The latest setback came on Sunday, when the Minnesota Vikings rallied to beat the Cardinals 23-22 . Arizona never trailed until Sam Darnold threw a 5-yard touchdown pass with 1:18 remaining that proved to be the winning score. It was a mistake-filled performance for the Cardinals, who racked up 10 penalties for 96 yards. That's a big reason they had to settle for five field goals and scored just one touchdown. The Cardinals were leading 19-16 in the fourth quarter and had first-and-goal at the Vikings 5, but Tip Reiman was called for a false start and then quarterback Kyler Murray was called for intentional grounding . The Cardinals kicked a field goal for a 22-16 lead, giving the Vikings the chance they needed to drive for the winning score. Murray threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter. “I thought we moved the ball well,” Murray said. “Again, it just comes down to not scoring touchdowns. Get down there and kick field goals and penalties bite us. It’s bad — it’s bad football.” The loss knocked the Cardinals out of first place in the NFC West, though they're still in decent playoff position. A pivotal game against the division-rival Seahawks looms on Sunday. Second-year coach Jonathan Gannon acknowledged the frustration of Sunday's loss, but said they've got to rebound quickly. “They’re disappointed and down, but it’s the NFL,” Gannon said. “They’ve got to put all their energy and focus into tomorrow.” Arizona's defense blamed itself for not coming up with a stop on the Vikings' winning drive, but the unit played exceptionally well for most of the afternoon. Mack Wilson and L.J. Collier both had two sacks and the Cardinals held Minnesota to just 273 total yards. For a group that looked as if it might be the team's weakness this season, it was another rock solid performance. The Cardinals aren't a good enough football team to overcome 10 penalties and get a win — particularly on the road. Reiman had a rough day, getting called for three false starts. His false start on the next-to-last offensive drive — coupled with Murray's intentional grounding penalty — proved to be extremely costly. “That was brutal,” Gannon said. “Just got to figure out ways to punch the ball in for touchdowns there, not field goals.” Rookie Marvin Harrison Jr. had five catches for 60 yards, including an impressive touchdown catch that put the Cardinals up 19-6. It was Harrison's seventh TD reception of the season. The No. 4 overall pick has been a little inconsistent in his first year, but there's little doubt he's a difference-maker for the offense. He's still got a chance to reach 1,000 yards receiving this season if he averages about 80 yards receiving over the final five games. Considering his talent, that's certainly possible. Gannon was second-guessed for his decision to kick a field goal late in the fourth quarter instead of trying for a touchdown at the Vikings 4 with 3:29 left. Chad Ryland made the 23-yard chip shot for a 22-16 lead, but the Vikings drove the field on the ensuing possession for the winning score. “I trust JG,” Murray said. “I see both sides. Go up six and make them score; trust the defense to go get a stop. Go for it, you don’t get it, they’ve still got to go down and score. If you do get it, you probably put the game away.” Said Gannon: "Yeah, I mean there’s thought about it. Just wanted to go up more than a field goal there. Definitely a decision point that we talked about. So be it.” The Cardinals came out of the game fairly healthy. Rookie DL Darius Robinson — the No. 27 overall pick — made his NFL debut against the Vikings after missing the first 11 games due to a calf injury. 1,074 — Running back James Conner's total yards from the line of scrimmage this season, including 773 on the ground and 301 in the passing game. The Cardinals return home for a game against the Seahawks on Sunday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflManchester City remarkably let a comfortable 3-0 lead against Feyenoord slip and fell to an embarrassing 3-3 Champions League draw. It is the latest horror show for Pep Guardiola 's side, who will now go more than a month without a victory across all competitions. Ederson and Josko Gvardiol were particularly culpable for the late collapse, which saw Feyenoord score three times in the final 12 minutes. Pep Guardiola fumed when the duo suffered a mix-up to allow what appeared to be a late consolation for the Dutch side - but the worse was yet to come. Santiago Gimenez and David Hancko scored goals to compound another woeful night for City and Guardiola. It seemed set to be an easy win with the Premier League champions 3-0 ahead on 77 minutes, with Erling Haaland scoring twice either side of a deflected Ilkay Gundogan strike. Here is how Express Sport rated City's players. Ederson - 4 Ederson had little to do until Gvardiol’s backpass left him stranded. The Brazilian was then unconvincing as he attempted to cut out the cross from which Gimenez scored Feyenoord’s second, and was in no man's land as he stormed out of his goal before the equaliser. Rico Lewis - 6 Inverting into midfield, Lewis was key to City retaining possession for large periods of the game and pinning Feyenoord back towards their own goal. However, he was part of his side's late collapse and was beaten in the air for the equaliser. Manuel Akanji - 5 City’s collapse late on was extremely avoidable. Akanji played his part with some lapses in concentration. Nathan Ake - 6 Ake dealt with Feyenoord’s meagre threat well until his 68th-minute withdrawal. Guardiola, in hindsight, might have kept him on the pitch. Josko Gvardiol - 4 Gvardiol’s woeful backpass allowed Anis Hadj Moussa to round Ederson and convert from a tight angle. It was a seriously sloppy moment that left Guardiola furious. The defender then failed to cut out a cross which led to Feyenoord's second goal. Ilkay Gundogan - 6 Gundogan’s deflected left-footed volley midway through the second half gave City plenty of comfort. This was the German’s best performance since his return from Barcelona. Matheus Nunes - 7 This was one of Nunes’ best games for City. Positioned centrally, his movement and ability to break between the lines was key. One of his bursts forward culminating in him finding the side netting with a ferocious strike. Bernardo Silva - 6 Silva helped City press high and he won the ball in advantageous positions several times. On one of those occasions, he was unfortunate not to create a goal for Haaland in the first half. man-utd Phil Foden - 7 Most of the positive work City did came through Foden. As the closest midfielder to Haaland, the England international posed a huge threat and came close to scoring a couple of times. Jack Grealish - 6 Had spurts of involvement and nearly struck a dramatic winner when his effort looped up and onto the post. Erling Haaland - 7 On an initially frustrating night for Haaland, he eventually struck a brace with a goal in either half. Ederson and Gvardiol compounded to make this another bad evening for the hosts, though. Substitutes Jahmai Simpson-Pusey - 5 Guardiola might have seen this as an opportunity to provide one of City's brightest defensive stars 20 minutes of action with his side 3-0 ahead. The teenager must accept some of the blame for the poor defending in the final 15 minutes. James McAtee - 5 City lost control after Guardiola's trio of substitutions in the 68th minute and the Spaniard must take accept some of the responsibility. McAtee had little impact. Kevin De Bruyne - 5 De Bruyne nearly created a couple of chances but was unable to prevent what happened late on.
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