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711 fitness The Red Sox made their first big signing of the offseason Tuesday, inking veteran reliever Aroldis Chapman to a one-year, $10.75 million contract. The deal, which is pending a physical, also includes $250,000 in potential bonuses. Chapman confirmed the deal, posting a photo of himself in a Red Sox cap on social media. The Cuban-born lefty made his major league debut with the Cincinnati Reds in 2010. Since leaving Cincinnati in 2015, he’s primarily pitched for the New York Yankees (two stints), as well as the Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, and Pittsburgh Pirates. One of MLB’s hardest-throwing pitchers, Chapman is a seven-time All-Star, was American League Reliever of the Year in 2019, and has won two World Series (’16 Cubs, ’23 Rangers). He also has the distinction of being the first Yankees pitcher to ever give up a home run to Rafael Devers, on Aug. 13, 2017 at Yankee Stadium. The signing, however, is a controversial move for the Red Sox. In 2016, Chapman became the first player ever suspended by Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association under their Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Child Abuse Policy , which they’d enacted in 2015. The then-Yankees closer served a 30-game suspension at the beginning of the ’16 season after an Oct. 30, 2015 incident at his Florida home. He fired a gun eight times in his garage, and his 22-year-old girlfriend alleged that he’d choked her. “I’m apologizing because of the use of the gun,” Chapman told reporters at spring training in March 2016. He acknowledged that he used “bad judgement,” but maintained that he never physically harmed his girlfriend. While prosecutors declined to prosecute due to conflicting accounts and insufficient evidence, MLB’s own investigation yielded enough to penalize Chapman. And unlike the performance-enhancing drug policy, players who serve DV suspensions are allowed to participate in that year’s postseason. Three days after the one-year anniversary of the incident that led to his suspension, Chapman picked up the win in Game 7 of the World Series, ending Chicago’s 108-year championship drought. In signing Chapman, the Red Sox are signaling a pivot in organizational values. Boston notably backed out of acquiring Chapman from Cincinnati during the 2015 Winter Meetings. The Dodgers then reached an agreement with the Reds, only to walk away for the same reason. After reports of Chapman’s incident surfaced and MLB opened an investigation, the Yankees traded for him on Dec. 28. A few years later, the Red Sox made a similar decision. Despite needing bullpen reinforcements at the 2018 trade deadline, then-president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski made it clear that the club hadn’t pursed Toronto Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna, who was serving a 75-game DV suspension (and appearing in court) at the time. “We were not going that route,” manager Alex Cora told reporters before the Red Sox demolished Osuna and his new team, the Houston Astros, in that year’s ALCS. “After 2015, we agreed to send (top prospects Manuel) Margot and Marco Hernandez to the Reds for Chapman, but it fell apart when we discovered disturbing details about his domestic dispute,” former Red Sox assistant general manager Zack Scott wrote on X . “We actually informed the Reds about it. We pivoted to (Craig) Kimbrel, and Chapman went to the Yankees. I guess enough time has passed without incident for the Sox to be OK with it now.” You can find every Red Sox offseason update on the Boston Herald’s 2024-25 live tracker !

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Lisa Kudrow isn’t happy about Tom Hanks’ latest movie. The “Friends” actress, 61, recently slammed Hanks’ reunion film with Robin Wright, “Here,” claiming the movie — which shows the pair decades younger in certain scenes thanks to de-aging technology — was an “endorsement for AI.” “Here” was released in November and flopped at the box office, bringing in $13 million worldwide, according to Variety . “They shot it, and they could actually shoot the scene and then look at the playback of them as younger, and it’s ready for them to see,” Kudrow criticized the movie on Dax Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert.” “All I got from that was, this is an endorsement for AI. It’s not like, ‘Oh it’s going to ruin everything,’ but what will be left? Forget actors, what about up-and-coming actors? They’ll just be licensing and recycling,” she continued. The actress — whose Netflix series “No Good Deed” was released last week — expressed her concern over the technology. “Set that completely aside, what work will there be for human beings? Then what?” Kudrow asked. “There’ll be some kind of living stipend for people, you won’t have to work? How can it possibly be enough?” Last year, Hanks discussed artificial intelligence, revealing that the technology would make it possible for him to continue acting long after his death. “Anybody can now re-create themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deep fake technology. I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that’s it, but performances can go on and on and on and on,” the Oscar winner said in May 2023. “Outside the understanding of AI and deepfake, there’ll be nothing to tell you that it’s not me and me alone. And it’s going to have some degree of lifelike quality. That’s certainly an artistic challenge but it’s also a legal one,” he explained. Hanks shared that “all of the guilds, all of the agencies and all of the legal firms” were discussing “the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else’s being our intellectual property.” He added: “Without a doubt people will be able to tell [that it’s AI], but the question is will they care? There are some people that won’t care, that won’t make that delineation.” The Robert Zemeckis-directed film made headlines when it was revealed that Hanks and Wright would reunite for the first time on the big screen in 30 years following the success of their 1994 blockbuster “Forrest Gump.” The stars revealed they jumped at the chance to work together again. “When Bob [Zemeckis] mentioned getting the band back together, I was like, yes, for sure,” Wright said of the reunion. “And he’s like, this has never been done before. I said, let’s go, let’s take the ride. We have such faith in him because his imagination is pretty incredible.” “We were making jokes when we were doing it because a lot of these scenes, they only last like two minutes or, you know, and our job was to make them as lively as possible and real as possible,” Hanks shared. “And I said, well, look, if, look, if it gets boring, Bob will just have a stegosaurus walk by the window.” “Here” is a story about families, loss and love. The movie uses digital effects to show Hanks and Wright at different ages to create a sense of time passing. The Post’s movie critic, Johnny Oleksinski, called the movie a “nauseating bomb.”‘Mommy positions’ bring flexible work hours to China’s working mothersThe resolution creating the committee focused in particular on Willis’ hiring of special prosecutor Nathan Wade, with whom she had a romantic relationship, to lead the prosecution against Trump and others.

WASHINGTON — Linda McMahon once claimed an unearned education degree from East Carolina University. Now she is nominated to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Education. Trump announced Tuesday that McMahon, best known as a founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, is nominated to be the next education secretary. She is his first nominee to have served in his previous administration. “It is my great honor to announce that Linda McMahon, former Administrator of the Small Business Administration, will be the United States Secretary of Education,” Trump wrote in a news release. McMahon now must wait for the Senate to confirm her nomination. North Carolina roots McMahon grew up in New Bern. Her parents worked 30 minutes away at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, and she attended the nearby Havelock High School. It was during high school that she met her now-estranged husband and business partner, Vince McMahon. Together they attended East Carolina University where, in 1969, she earned a degree in French. After college, they moved away from the Tar Heel State. But in 2010, McMahon’s ties to North Carolina would be noted in a story by the Hartford Courant, which reported that she received a position on the Connecticut Board of Education after wrongfully claiming to then-Gov. M. Jodi Rell that she graduated from ECU with an education degree. In response to the allegations, McMahon told the Courant, “she first thought she had been right, because she did a semester of student-teaching, and after state testing, emerged with the certificate to teach — although she never did,” the Courant reported. Education background Her college degree was one of several misleading statements the newspaper reported McMahon had made on her application. McMahon’s opponents had argued her connection to WWE, and its violent, sexual and vulgar content, sent the wrong kind of message. They also criticized her lack of experience in education, though supporters saw that as a win. She still faces that criticism as Trump’s nominee. McMahon’s resume also includes serving on the board of trustees for Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Despite the opposition, and news of her misidentified degree breaking in the Stamford Advocate a month before her confirmation hearing, the Connecticut legislature approved Rell’s nomination of McMahon. She would serve on the board for around a year. McMahon took to social media Thursday following the news that Rell died suddenly at 78. “Her dedication and approach to public service is the gold standard to which we all should aspire to,” McMahon wrote. “I was honored to have her appoint me to serve on the CT State Board of Education and so enjoyed working with her.” When McMahon resigned from Connecticut’s board in 2010, she told the Courant it didn’t have to do with their pending story. She said it was instead because of the board’s rules wouldn’t allow her to raise money for her Senate campaign while serving. She would go on to lose two separate Senate campaigns. Political work But McMahon never walked away from politics. She became a major donor and fundraiser for Republicans. During Trump’s 2024 campaign, she donated more than $20 million to the former and future president, NBC News reported. McMahon supported Trump from the beginning of his political career and it paid off for her when he nominated her to lead the Small Business Administration. After three years, McMahon resigned to lead America First Action, a Trump super-PAC. She chairs the America First Policy Institute board. Trump’s news release about her most recent nomination credits her for working on parents’ rights and universal school choice policy at the institute. She also serves as co-chair of Trump’s transition team. Education’s future McMahon is one of several of Trump’s nominees who could face a tough nomination process. For McMahon, she’s accused of allowing one of her employees to use his position to sexually abuse five teenagers 15 and under The accusation is part of a lawsuit filed anonymously by former teenage employees. If McMahon clears the Senate nomination, she faces a different hurdle. It’s unclear how long her position might even exist. And once again, that might be left up to Congress to decide. One of Trump’s constant campaign promises was to shutter the Department of Education. However, that’s a promise Trump can’t keep without congressional approval.Syria's Assad: the president who led a bloody crackdownAfter Trump's win, Black women are rethinking their role as America's reliable political organizers

Lessons learned on Justin Tatum's off-season world tour have primed the Illawarra Hawks coach for his first full season, so much so he now considers anything less than a NBL championship a failure. It's been a steep learning curve for American Tatum, who was installed to his first professional head-coaching job after the Hawks sacked Jacob Jackomas on a 2-7 start to last season. Back then, assistant-turned-interim coach Tatum was known for two things: a strong high-school coaching record in his home state of Missouri and fathering NBA superstar Jayson Tatum. But the 45-year-old has since carved out his own reputation and was nominated for NBL coach of the year last season for inspiring a Hawks resurgence that ended one win short of a championship series berth. Tatum has had to adjust to the rigours of professional basketball along the way and, a little more than a year after his promotion, he still thinks of himself as a newbie. "I've learned a lot," Tatum told AAP, reflecting on his first year in the job. "It went fast but I learned about the speed of the game, the adjustments that needed to be made. "Just probably managing the game during certain times, when teams make runs, managing my timeouts and things like that. "Also finding a way to navigate through the physicality of the plays and stuff that have been called. I'll get better at it but at the end of the day, I'm still one year in. I'm still learning." Another learning curve came earlier this season when Tatum was fined $3000 for a post-match critique that implied match officials treated him differently from other coaches. Tatum is currently the NBL's only African-American coach. "(The NBL) is more scrutinised or more publicised than high school because it's a professional league and things like that," he said. "You definitely can't go in there and do a rant because clearly there are fines and you're going to be clickbait, or whatever the hell comes about." But Tatum has been learning since before the season began, having shipped out to Boston to watch son Jayson win the NBA finals with the Celtics in game five at TD Garden this June. That was followed by a trip to attend his progeny's second Olympics in Paris, though coach Steve Kerr controversially benched the younger Tatum on the USA's run to the gold medal. Sitting in the stands, Tatum could not help but cast his mind to the other side of the world and the lessons he would take from Paris and Boston to Wollongong. "Just the patience of the coaches over there and the way they communicate to the players," Tatum said. "I only watch one (NBA) team play: the Celtics. But whoever they go against, I just try to watch the mannerisms of the coaches. "They know their team, they play so many games that they can act differently when they need to. "Me, I can't. I've got to find a way to be on an even keel or be a certain way to make sure my team doesn't go up and down." In son Jayson and his teammates, Tatum saw the kind of unity he wanted on court at the Hawks. "When Boston won the whole thing, they just went on a roll of everybody knowing their role, knowing what time it is and what they're going to do," he said. "They didn't care about nothing individually anymore. The 82 (regular-season) games they played were over with and now it's about finding a way to get everybody on the same page. "That's something that I want to insert into this group when we start being consistent and winning some games." The Hawks are in the process of getting onto that same page, sitting second on the ladder with a 8-5 record past the halfway mark of the NBL season. No team retained more players than Illawarra this season, with Americans Trey Kell and Darius Days proving shrewd additions to a playing group that made it to the final four last season. "We're in a good situation. We're one of the top, if not in the top-two, teams in the league," Tatum said. "Compared to where we were at last year, I think we're in a good spot." Since he got off the plane in Australia and before a ball was bounced in NBL25, Tatum was confident in what the Hawks could achieve. The only thing he will accept this season will be the ultimate success, a second championship banner for the city of Wollongong. "From the jump, when we landed (it has been)," he said. "The championship should be the only thing in our mind, not final four, not top six. Win the whole damn thing, otherwise it's a bust season."

Editor’s note: The headline of this story was updated to correct an error related to the reported day of the week. On Monday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted final payment determinations for its 2025 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. Included was a final decision related to CMS pricing for Exact Sciences Corp’s (NASDAQ: EXAS ) Cologuard Plus, a second-generation test that received FDA approval in October . William Blair writes that the determinations effectively raise reimbursement by 16% versus the current Medicare rate for the first-generation Cologuard test (to $592 for Cologuard Plus from $509 for Cologuard). Also Read: Colorectal Cancer Diagnostic Focused Exact Sciences Stock Plunges On Weak Annual Guidance, Analyst Sees Compelling Long-Term Entry Point The determination reverses the September preliminary decision but aligns with a proposal made during the public comment period. The analyst writes that reimbursement for Cologuard Plus will now be calculated based on two components: three times the fee for methylation analysis of Septin-9 ($192 x 3) and the fee for a FIT test ($15.92). This pricing adjustment is expected to take effect for Medicare volumes when the test officially launches in late first quarter or early second quarter of 2025. Medicare fee-for-service volumes should reflect the new pricing immediately upon launch, with Medicare Advantage following soon after. The company is also likely to renegotiate commercial contracts for higher pricing, which may gradually roll out over the coming quarters and years. William Blair reiterates the Outperform rating on the stock. The analyst highlights that the update is a positive outcome for the company, as it simplifies the process of implementing a price increase compared to the more complex advanced diagnostic laboratory test (ADLT) pathway. From a financial perspective, this decision is expected to support a moderate pricing boost starting in 2025. Based on William Blair’s estimates, this could add at least 300 basis points to Cologuard's growth rate next year, which is projected to be around 15% overall. Exact Sciences said it will present 10 abstracts demonstrating the breadth of its Precision Oncology portfolio at the 2024 annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium scheduled next month . Price Action: EXAS stock is up 7.60% at $59.33 at last check Tuesday. Read Next: Analog Devices Q4 Earnings: Beats Estimates, Automotive Rebound, Cautiously Optimistic Outlook & More Illustration of Phrama lab worker created with MidJourney. Date Firm Action From To Feb 2022 Wells Fargo Maintains Equal-Weight Feb 2022 Citigroup Maintains Neutral Feb 2022 Raymond James Maintains Outperform View More Analyst Ratings for EXAS View the Latest Analyst Ratings UNLOCKED: 5 NEW TRADES EVERY WEEK. Click now to get top trade ideas daily , plus unlimited access to cutting-edge tools and strategies to gain an edge in the markets. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? EXACT SCIENCES (EXAS): Free Stock Analysis Report This article Why Is Exact Sciences Stock Trading Higher On Tuesday? (CORRECTED) originally appeared on Benzinga.com © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.‘Mommy positions’ bring flexible work hours to China’s working mothersIreland lost 2-1 against Wales at the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday and in the process, ended all hopes of an Irish debut at the Euros next summer. After ending their first Euro qualifier against the Welsh team with a tie in Cardiff, the night shaped up to be an optimistic one for the Irish national team. However, the girls in green failed to materialise a victory that would have been an epic sequel to qualifying for the World Cup two years ago. Ireland dominated possession over the first half and made several attempts on the Welsh net. Denise O'Suillvan hit the crossbar also. With a 0-0 scoreline at halftime, anything seemed possible for the remainder of the game. However, minutes into the second half, Ireland’s hopes were crushed when a penalty was given away to Wales due to a handball by Anna Patten. It was then that Hannah Cain subsequently scored the first goal of the match. Things worsened for Ireland when Carrie Jones, who had just been subbed on, kicked the ball into the Irish net past Courtney Brosnan, making it 2-0 to Wales. Despite this, the hosts refused to back down. In the end, it was Patten who managed to score a goal for Ireland off the back of a corner from Katie McCabe and a failed clearance by Welsh keeper Olivia Clark. Ireland huffed and puffed after their goal. Patten’s header was nodded off the line, and Megan Campbell caused chaos in the Welsh box with her long throws. Wales then nearly made it 3-1, but Brosnan made a smart save to keep the tie alive with minutes to go. However, Wales held on for the win to ensure they made it to the Euro finals for the first time ever at the expense of Eileen Gleeson's Irish side. FT | Devastated. Congratulations to @Cymru . #COYGIG pic.twitter.com/RvUSgo4gFI — Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 (@IrelandFootball) December 3, 2024 After setting up an impressive goal in Cardiff last week, Ireland midfielder Ruesha Littlejohn spoke to RTE Sport about this unfortunate defeat. “We’re devastated; the team’s devastated,” she said. “We fell short tonight. credit to Wales, they took their chances. I thought we played well in the first half; we had a few good moments, but scoring in these big games, I thought you get punished, and we’ve been punished.” Littlejohn went on to talk about what lies ahead for the Irish national team. “That’s the journey we’re on now. I think it’s going to start with the young ones coming through; everyone’s going to get better in football. “Yes, but no, we can be hard; we can be resilient; we put our bodies on the line; we’ve got Megan’s throw; we’ve got big girls that can win headers, but yeah, we need to do more; if we want to consistently go to these tournaments, we need to do more.” Ireland's next game will be against Türkiye in the Nations League on February 21st. See More: Football, Ireland

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The holidays can be a particularly challenging time to collect enough blood for local patients, and there is an immediate need for all blood types, especially type O. With that in mind, Stanford Blood Center is giving away a long-sleeve holiday t-shirt through Dec. 17 to donors at all its locations, including the South Bay Donor Center in Campbell. Donors must be at least 17 years of age and bring a photo ID. To make an appointment, visit stanfordbloodcenter.org , call 888-723-7831 or text to 999-777. The Ainsley House will host two evening open house events on Thursday, Dec. 19, and Sunday, Dec. 22, 5:30-8 p.m., for visitors to check out the house’s holiday decorations at night, accompanied by live music in the living room and light refreshments in the Carriage House. Admission is $15 for the general public, $10 for museum members and free for children 17 and under. Tickets will be available at the Carriage House on the evening of each event. For more information and reservations, visit www.campbellmuseums.com . Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), has relaunched its online customer resource center to include an all-new incentive finder for residential customers and updated resources for businesses and contractors. SVCE provides clean energy for residents of South Bay communities, including Campbell. The SVCE eHub, located at https://ehub.svcleanenergy.org , is designed to help customers find rebates and other incentives to go all electric, as well as free expert advice and assisted home upgrades. An updated Appliance Marketplace helps renters and homeowners compare and select electric technologies. To learn how to navigate the new incentive finder and other tools, visit https://svcleanenergy.org/2024/11/15/incentives-finder.MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Mike McDaniel has seen a change in quarterback Tua Tagovailoa over the past month. “He's found a way to improve the way he plays the position throughout the game,” the Dolphins coach said Sunday, after Tagovailoa threw for four touchdowns in a dominant 34-15 win over the New England Patriots. “The most monumental thing that you have to overcome as a quarterback is playing the position regardless of the ebbs and flows," McDaniel added, "so not changing how you play based upon positive or negative results and letting every play stand on its own.” Tagovailoa has mastered that ability to remain even-keeled during Miami's three-game winning streak, McDaniel noted, highlighted by his 317-yard passing performance on Sunday. The Dolphins (5-6) have a thin margin for error the rest of the season but have kept themselves afloat with a strong stretch that includes two-straight 30-point games. With their win at New England (3-9) in Week 5, the Dolphins have swept their division rivals in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1999-2000. Tagovailoa, who moved to 7-0 in his career against New England, entered the game with a league-high 73.4% completion rate and went 29 for 40. He has 11 passing touchdowns and just one interception since returning from injured reserve in Week 8. “We’re still below the .500 threshold, and it’s a long way to where we want to get to," Tagovailoa said. “We’ll enjoy this win, but this next one is going to be big for us.” The Dolphins have a short turnaround with a game at Green Bay on Thursday. Backup Skylar Thompson replaced Tagovailoa with about 11 minutes left in what was already a blowout, but a bad handoff on his first play resulted in a fumble that was recovered by cornerback Christian Gonzalez and returned 63 yards for a touchdown. It cut New England's deficit to 31-15, and Tagovailoa returned the next drive. Miami's defense held the rest of the way. Linebacker Tyrel Dodson intercepted rookie quarterback Drake Maye on New England's penultimate drive, then Miami stopped the Patriots on fourth down on the next. Jaylen Waddle caught eight passes for a season-high 144 yards and a 23-yard touchdown that stretched Miami's lead to 31-0 entering the fourth. Running back De'Von Achane scored on a 9-yard screen pass and then walked into the end zone for an 11-yard TD in the first half. Jonnu Smith finished with 87 yards on nine catches to continue his strong first season as a Dolphin. One week after catching two touchdowns with a career-high 101 yards receiving, Smith found the end zone for a 7-yard TD catch on the Dolphins' second drive. New England was shut out until tight end Austin Hooper got behind the Dolphins defense for a wide-open 38-yard touchdown catch from Maye to make it 31-7 with 13:43 left. Maye completed 22 of 37 passes for 221 yards with 26 yards rushing. But he couldn't overcome an overall sloppy performance by the Patriots in which they got nothing going offensively until the final quarter and had 10 penalties accepted against them. “I always say I hate losing more than I like to win," Maye said. "We got our butts whipped today, and it’s only up from here. We’ve got a bright future and the right players in there for the Patriots.” New England's best drive of the first half lasted 12 plays and covered 80 yards but included three accepted offensive penalties and ended in a missed 45-yard field goal by Joey Slye. The Patriots forced a Dolphins punt and moved down the field again on the opening drive of the second half, with Maye completing an improvised 10-yard throw on third down to receiver Kendrick Bourne. New England then tried a double pass with Bourne, whose cross-field throw fell short of Rhamondre Stevenson on 3rd-and-17. DeMario Douglas led the Patriots with 61 yards receiving. Antonio Gibson had six rushes for 30 yards. With the loss, the Patriots will finish their third straight season below .500. Its the first time since 1991-93 New England has had three straight losing seasons. “Once those guys cross the white lines, there’s nothing I can do for them,” coach Jerod Mayo said. "There’s nothing any coach can do for them. It’s my job to continue to prepare not only them, but our coaches as well.” Dolphins: LB Anthony Walker Jr. sustained a noncontact hamstring injury in the second quarter. He was helped slowly off the field by trainers and did not return. Patriots: Host Indianapolis next Sunday. Dolphins: At Green Bay on Thursday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL

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Nebraska offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen has no shortage of memories of the Iowa football program. An Iowa native born in Davenport, Holgorsen’s days as a Hawkeye fan are long in the past — but he remembers what it’s like to coach against them. An experience that Holgorsen first underwent as a young Texas Tech assistant in 2001 will be reprised again this weekend. “Twenty-some years later, it’s the same scheme, the same coach, the same everything; this is crazy,” Holgorsen said of Iowa. “It’s going to take another good effort and more improvement to be able to go to Iowa and play in that atmosphere against a good football team.” Nebraska’s recent surge on offense will have the Huskers feeling confident about their upcoming matchup. While Nebraska may not have equaled its recent 44-point outburst against Wisconsin during a loss to USC two weeks prior, foundational improvements were there from the start in Holgorsen’s eyes. Despite scoring 13 points on offense against the Trojans, the Husker offense “just felt better” in that game, Holgorsen said, leading to a “very motivated team” during the week’s practice efforts. And when NU hit the field on Saturday, improvements were there. After struggling to finish drives against USC, Nebraska scored five touchdowns in its seven red zone attempts against Wisconsin. Nebraska threw the ball well, protected its quarterback and found a "difference-maker" in running back Emmett Johnson. “We ran the ball better; that’s the second week in a row I thought the O-line has played well,” Holgorsen said. “Dylan (Raiola) hasn’t been hit a whole lot, he feels good, he’s getting better and processing things well. We’re throwing it and catching it better and our receivers are in the right spots.” It’s been no easy task to drive those improvements in a short amount of time. Holgorsen has only been in Lincoln for a little over three weeks, having first been summoned by head coach Matt Rhule to evaluate the team’s offense before taking over control of it. Midseason coordinator changes may not be rare, but hiring a new face from outside the program is, and Holgorsen admits it made for a “rough” first week on the job. After all, none of the Husker coaches Holgorsen was joining and players he was beginning to coach knew exactly how the situation would play out. Instead, they had to go through it together. “I started getting into the offensive room and those coaches were looking at me crazy like, ‘What are you doing here?’ It’s just true, so we had to sit down and talk and start feeling things out and start working together,” Holgorsen said. “Give those assistant coaches a lot of credit because they didn’t bat an eye. I thought we were smart with how we handled it — I could’ve came in here and changed specific things and that wouldn’t have been the right thing to do for the coaches and the players. I was the one that had to learn.” A desire to challenge himself was one reason Holgorsen said he took the Nebraska job, something which showed up in the new offensive language he needed to familiarize himself with. Having come up as a young coach in the Air Raid offense, Holgorsen exclusively learned, mastered and taught those principles in the years since. It had been 35 years since he last had to learn a new offensive language, Holgorsen estimated. Flash cards with terminology from the Nebraska offense and help from other assistants have helped smooth over that process. Holgorsen may not have been able to stamp his identity all over the offense yet, but he has been able to tweak things, including the very playbook Nebraska operates from. Rhule’s original concepts of a pro-style offense have been added to, transformed and adjusted over the years, with current coaches Marcus Satterfield, Glenn Thomas and Donovan Raiola all bringing different principles and focuses to the playbook. “There’s just all kinds of ideas, so that playbook got pretty big,” Holgorsen said. “I was just like, ‘Look, there’s only one sheet and whatever’s on the sheet is what’s going to get called.’” Trimming down the number of plays Nebraska practices is one such adjustment Holgorsen has made, a process that is collaborative among the Husker coaching staff. Holgorsen also said Nebraska was “probably playing people in too many different spots,” something he’s looked to change so players can focus on their individual roles with more accuracy. “We’ve done a good job of coming together and coming up with a plan of what makes sense to our players,” Holgorsen said. “If it don’t make sense to me, it ain’t gonna make sense to them.” Those changes, and the potential Nebraska showed on offense last week, have excited Husker fans about what the future of a Holgorsen-led offense will look like. However, nothing is guaranteed yet. Holgorsen said that when taking the job he told Rhule he’d get the team ready for USC, Wisconsin and Iowa before figuring out what the future holds. “I don’t want to talk about it, and I don’t want to know what’s next,” Holgorsen. What Holgorsen does know is that he’s enjoying the opportunity in front of him. In part because of the responsibilities he had as a head coach compared to being an offensive coordinator, Holgorsen said he had “more fun on Saturday than I’ve had in a long time” overseeing the Husker offense. As Holgorsen continues furthering improvements within the Nebraska offense, the only guarantee Husker fans have is that he’ll be on the sidelines Friday. It’s currently “the plan” that he will continue as Nebraska’s playcaller during its bowl game, Holgorsen said. “My plan’s to focus on Iowa, try to beat Iowa and see what happens after that.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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