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Ahead of the Week 1 game between the Dolphins and the Jaguars, star wide receiver Tyreek Hill was detained by police outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. They had pulled him over for speeding, but the story took on a different narrative as more footage was released. Hill refused to roll down his window, and it resulted in the cops getting physical with him. He was detained, and two other players, Calais Campbell and Jonnu Smith, were nearly detained with him while they were trying to defend Hill and provide an explanation to the officers. Despite being detained, Hill was never formally arrested. He even suited up and played in the game against Jacksonville later that afternoon. The citations against the wideout were finally dismissed on Tuesday ahead of Week 13 after the charging officers did not attend the hearing. Here's more information about the detainment, charges, and what Hill said about the incident. NFL HQ: Live NFL scores | Updated NFL standings | Full NFL schedule Tyreek Hill arrest Officers pulled over Hill for speeding on his way to Hard Rock Stadium for the Week 1 game against the Jags. He wasn't charged with speeding, but instead, he was cited for reckless driving and a seatbelt violation. While being detained, Hill was pulled from his car amid complaints that he recently had knee surgery and didn't want to sit on the ground. He was lowered to the ground and an officer put his knee on the wide receiver's back. Hill was eventually released with the citations and played in Miami's game later that afternoon. Tyreek Hill charges, explained Hill was initially pulled over for speeding. In the initially released bodycam footage, you can see Hill's car coming down the street quickly. It's hard to tell how fast he was going just from watching the video, but he was reportedly driving over 60 mph, which led to his being pulled over. Here is the body cam footage of what led to Tyreek Hill being pulled over pic.twitter.com/9W5XyOCYTR When Hill was finally released, he was given two traffic citations: reckless driving and a seatbelt violation. Both citations were dropped on Tuesday after the arresting officers failed to appear at the court date hearing. Traffic citations issued to Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill after a September altercation with police have been dismissed after the charging officers didn't attend a court hearing. More: https://t.co/rvmGkl8x5l pic.twitter.com/xtH0Aqu3Ov MORE NFL : Week 13 NFL playoff picture Week 13 NFL Power Rankings Week 13 NFL picks Week 13 NFL picks against the spread What did Tyreek Hill say about his detainment? Hill, his teammates, and head coach Mike McDaniel were all shaken up after the detainment. The wide receiver spoke about it for the first time after the game, but he later went on various news programs to discuss the situation in an effort to encourage police reform. Tyreek Hill is speaking with the media here right now in South Florida. Asked if he could have acted different to police: “I could have been better. I could have let down my window.” Hill also adds that it doesn’t give police the right to act as they did. Here are his comments... pic.twitter.com/AVKwCHSFuN #Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill says he wants officer Danny Torres to be fired. "Gone. Gone. Gone. Gone. He’s gotta go, man. You... OUTTT." Hill says it’s not even just about him. He says Torres mistreated his teammates, "who ain't even do nothing." pic.twitter.com/SvX6Kzm5Qo Tyreek Hill says he won't take a knee, ask to defund the police, or engage in any form of protest in response to Sunday's incident. "Football is my therapy." Hill also mentioned earlier that he wants to become a police officer himself. pic.twitter.com/Xc0g42CUvh https://t.co/wIO2T3va1BNone

Shop Walmart's Home Essentials for the holiday – here are our top 15 picksNEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball switched a pair of series involving the Tampa Bay Rays to the first two months of the season in an attempt to avoid summer rain at open-air Steinbrenner Field, their temporary home following damage to Tropicana Field. Tampa Bay is scheduled to play 19 of its first 22 games at home and 37 of 54 through May 28, then play 64 of its last 108 games on the road. The Rays are home for eight games each in July and August. A series scheduled at the Los Angeles Angels from April 7-9 will instead be played at Tampa, Florida, from April 8-10, MLB said Monday. The second series between the teams will be played at Anaheim, California, from Aug. 4-6 instead of at St. Petersburg, Florida, from Aug. 5-7. Minnesota's first series against the Rays will be played at Steinbrenner Field from May 26-28 and the Twins' second will be at Target Field in Minneapolis from July 4-6. Tampa Bay heads into the All-Star break with a 10-game trip to Minnesota, Detroit and Boston, and has a 12-game trip to the Angels, Seattle, Oakland and San Francisco from Aug. 4-17. Tropicana Field, the Rays’ home since the team started play in 1998, was heavily damaged by Hurricane Milton on Oct. 9 , with most of its fabric roof shredded. The Rays cannot return to the Trop until 2026 at the earliest, if at all. Tampa's average monthly rainfall from 1991 to 2020 was 2.25 inches in April and 2.60 in May , according to the National Weather Service, then rose to 7.37 in June , 7.75 in July and 9.03 in August before falling to 6.09 in September . The Class A Tampa Tarpons, the usual team at Steinbrenner Field, had six home postponements, two cancellations and four suspended games this year from June 21 through their season finale on Sept. 8. The Rays are now scheduled to play their first six games at home against Colorado and Pittsburgh, go to Texas for a three-game series, then return for a 13-game homestand against the Angels, Atlanta, Boston and the New York Yankees. The Tarpons will play their home games on a back field. AP MLB: https://apnews.com/

Barkley says he and Eagles offensive line players are in rhythmBarkley says he and Eagles offensive line players are in rhythmBy: Sir Henry Olujimi Boyo (Les Leba) first published in January 2018 Intro: Last week this column repub­lished “Money, Money, Money, Ev­erywhere but None to Borrow!” The article discussed CBN’s inefficient control of money supply and the miseducation of the masses through media. (See www.betternaijanow.com for this series and more articles by the Late Sir Henry Boyo) The below republication refers to previous rates that date back as far as 2015 to emphasize the consistent devaluation of the Naira till date. The article describes how the CBN in claiming to defend the Naira, con­tinually implements a contradictory strategy that actually fights Naira appreciation. As you read through the below article taking note of previous events or rates, keep in mind its year of pub­lication (2018), a clear indication that Nigeria’s economic situation is yet to improve even after all this time. “A s I speak to you, our exter­nal reserves stand above $31bn and that provides us with enough fire power to be able to defend the Naira (N305=$1)” (Godwin Emefiele CBN Governor, April 25th, 2017). However, fast forward to January 2018 with reserves above $40bn, i.e., over 30 percent increase since April 2017, and despite the reduction in ex­change outflows caused by the ban of non-essentials imports, the naira inexplicably remains between N305- 360=$1. The question, therefore is: “Is CBN actually defending the Naira?” The above title, was first published in Punch and Vanguard Newspapers on 12th January, 2015. A summary follows hereafter: “Evidently, the serial devalua­tion from stronger than N1=$1 to an abysmal low of about N70=$1, at that time, was probably, the most sig­nificant instigator of the oppressive economic challenges, induced by the IMF imposed Structural Adjustment Programme’ (SAP). Nigeria’s once pulsating industrial base gradually became almost silent, with increas­ing idle capacity, while millions of workers were offloaded into a rapidly contracting job market. Worse still, the oppressive Naira devaluation re­duced wages to ‘peanut’ value; con­sequently, the ‘check out’ syndrome became fashionable, as, well-heeled professionals, and technocrats sought greener pastures abroad, in order to maintain the accustomed dignity in their lifestyles. Sadly, the impact of the near fatal blows from SAP has truncated our development till this day, and Nigeria is now listed as one of the world’s poorest nations. Inexplicably, despite exceptionally high crude oil prices, around $140/ barrel some years back, with the attendant bountiful dollar reserves accumulated thereafter, the econo­my has continued to falter. Ironically, rising dollar reserves, and extended payments cover for our imports, have unexpectedly fostered weak­er Naira exchange rates, such that one wonders if less reserves would in contrast, unexpectedly induce a stronger Naira! However, the reduction in export revenue, when crude oil prices later fell below $60/barrel, undeniably, constituted another onslaught on the Naira exchange rate and inclusive economic growth and employment. Thus, in our quest for a socially and industrially supportive ex­change rate, we find ourselves in a bizarre twist of “heads or tails”, we lose. Indeed, as with SAP, the em­bedded role of IMF technocrats in the management of our economy, also fostered the unfortunate no­tion that Naira rate is overvalued, even when we had best ever foreign reserves above $60bn and largely extended imports payments cover, Regrettably, government economic blueprints, such as NEEDS, were predicated on this obtuse mindset, that if the economy is not diversi­fied, fortuitously bountiful reserves, will neither induce, a stronger Naira nor spur inclusive economic growth. Well, today (January 2015), the Naira exchange rate is close to the N180=$1 exchange rate projected to induce economic diversification and growth in the NEEDS blueprint, but sadly, in reality, catalytic lower rates of inflation, and cost of borrowing, with exchange rate stability which should drive inclusive growth, still remain unattainable. Certainly, no economy can per­form creditably, when cost of funds, to real sector remains over 20 percent while stable consumer demand, re­mains, severely constrained with annual inflation rates of 8-12 per­cent, while Naira exchange rate, is also sliding nearer N200=$1, despite increasing dollar revenue and ex­tended payments cover. Furthermore, it is clearly, reckless financial management, for any gov­ernment to readily pay over N600bn as annual interest to store away the perceived surplus funds it borrows, to restrain inflation, only to turn around to simply sterilize the pro­ceeds of the loan from use, despite the acute shortage of cheap funds with single digit rates of interest, required to drive real sector growth. Sadly, CBN and our Economic Management Teams have never been able to construct an appropri­ate growth model which supports low cost of funds (i.e. 3-6 percent), low inflation rate (1-3 percent), with a non-monopolistic and, open forex market that will drive the elusive quest for economic diversification and growth. Nonetheless, politicians, critics, and a gullible public are once again united in singing the chorus of eco­nomic diversification, while they apparently share the illusion that El-Dorado will be attained by simply throwing billions of Naira as inter­vention funds at various economic sub-sectors. Indeed, in an economy with a burdensome, abiding problem of stupendously surplus Naira, such intervention funds, regrettably, sim­ply compound the existing problem of inflation, which is sustained by systemic surplus Naira. Ultimately, the presence of such surplus funds, would usually instigate another kind of intervention, which compels CBN to step up its own borrowing, despite having to pay excruciatingly high and destabilising interest rates on such sovereign borrowings, which crowd out the productive sector, from access to cheaper loanable funds, which are necessary, to drive lower rates of inflation and boost econom­ic growth, that is characterised by increasing job opportunities, and stable income values. Clearly, the inexplicable burden of eternally surplus Naira is actually also the major obstacle to achieving best practice supportive indices, required to grow and diversify the economy. Systemic surplus Naira supply is, clearly also, responsible for weaker Naira exchange rates, as CBN’s weekly auctions of modest dollar rations, are pitched, in a mar­ket, with excess Naira supply, which invariably creates an imbalance in favour of the dollar! Nigerians do not usually interro­gate the process through which CBN consolidates it’s so called “own re­serves”! Indeed, CBN’s strategy of creating fresh Naira values, every time it substitutes Naira budgetary allocations, for dollar denominat­ed revenue, undeniably, induces a market imbalance of an avalanche of Naira surplus, chasing the much smaller dollar rations, which are in­termittently auctioned by the CBN; consequently, with this arrange­ment, CBN, ironically becomes a stronger defender of the dollar, in­stead of the Naira exchange rate! Thus, the higher the dollar rev­enue from rising crude prices and output, the greater also would be the fresh supply of Naira that CBN, would create and place in the econ­omy, as Naira substitute allocations to government, for the actual export dollar income it had earlier captured. Thus, whenever we celebrate CBN’s rising dollar reserves, we must recognise that the process of accumulating such reserves, is un­fortunately, distortional, primitive and retrogressive, as it creates an ob­tuse paradigm that ensures that the larger the reserves captured by CBN, the greater is Naira liquidity, and the harsher and more counter-produc­tive also, would ultimately be CBN’s monetary control measures. Thus, it is ironical that the CBN which instigates a market disequi­librium in favour of the dollar when it substitutes fresh Naira values for dollar denominated revenue, should later turn round, in seeming defence of the Naira exchange rate, to invari­ably bet against its own currency, by intermittently auctioning small ra­tions of dollars in the same market, which it had earlier inundated with Naira supply; unfortunately such a market imbalance will invariably always precipitate weaker Naira exchange rates, which will inevita­bly increase fuel price, regardless of crude price and output. In this event, the CBN must imme­diately stop digging itself into a deep­er hole with a Naira defence strategy that has consistently worked against the domestic currency (Naira), over time to deepen poverty. Furthermore, the elimination of the oppressive burden of excess Naira liquidity will also induce lower rates of inflation and cost of borrowing and leave the door wide open for inclusive economic growth, economic diversification and rapidly increasing job opportunities (Janu­ary 2015). Fast forward January 2018: Re­serves are now over $40bn; inflation 15 percent plus; Interest rate on real sector borrowing over 20 percent; N305-N400=U$1; unemployment remains untamed, while excess li­quidity remains unyielding! Heaven help us! Surely, the adoption of dollar cer­tificates for government allocations of dollar denominated revenue will eliminate or critically reduce the burden of excess Naira liquidity and therefore give the Naira a fighting chance against the dollar in the forex market.” Save the Naira, Save Nigeri­ans!!

West Palm Beach (FL), Dec 1 (AP) President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants real estate developer Charles Kushner, father of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France. Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker." Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a real estate firm. Jared Kushner is a former White House senior adviser to Trump who is married to Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka. The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation. Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man's wife, prosecutors said. Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison — the most he could receive under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the US attorney for New Jersey at the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought. Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Trump's transition team in 2016, and has called Charles Kushner's offences "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney." Trump and the elder Kushner knew each other from real estate circles and their children were married in 2009. (AP) VN VN (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)

EPR Properties Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?How Dana Holgorsen adjusted Nebraska football's playbook to deliver instant results

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.”

CLEVELAND (AP) — Shortly after doing a face-down snow angel, firing a few celebratory snowballs and singing “Jingle Bells” on his way to the media room, Jameis Winston ended his postgame news conference with a simple question. “Am I a Brown yet?” he asked. He is now. And who knows? Maybe for a lot longer than expected. Winston entered Cleveland football folklore on Thursday night by leading the Browns to a 24-19 win over the division rival Pittsburgh Steelers, who had their five-game winning streak stopped. Winston's performance at Huntington Bank Field, which transformed into the world's largest snow globe, not only made him an instantaneous hero in the eyes of Browns fans but added another wrinkle to the team's ever-changing, never-ending quarterback conundrum. In his fourth start since Deshaun Watson's season-ending Achilles tendon injury, Winston made enough big plays to help the Browns (3-8) get a victory that should quiet conjecture about coach Kevin Stefanski's job. Some wins mean more than others. In Cleveland, beating the Steelers is as big as it gets. But beyond any instant gratification, Winston has given the Browns more to consider as they move forward. Watson's future with Cleveland is highly uncertain since it will still be months before the team has a grip on whether he's even an option in 2025, his fourth year since signing a $230 million, fully guaranteed contract that has proven calamitous. It's also possible the Browns will cut ties with Watson. They signed Winston to a one-year contract to be Watson's backup. But the unexpected events of 2024 have changed plans and led to the possibility that the 30-year-old Winston could become Cleveland's full-time QB or a bridge to their next young one. So much is unclear. What's not is that Winston, who leaped into the end zone on fourth-and-2 for a TD to put the Browns ahead 18-6 in the fourth quarter, is a difference maker. With his larger-than-life personality and the joy he shows whether practicing or throwing three touchdown passes, he has lifted the Browns. A man of faith, he's made his teammates believe. Winston has done what Watson couldn't: made the Browns better. “A very, very authentic person,” Stefanski said Friday on a Zoom call. “He’s the same guy every single day. He's the same guy at 5 a.m. as he at 5 p.m. He brings great energy to everything he does, and I think his teammates appreciate that about him.” Winston, who is 2-2 as a starter with wins over the Steelers and Baltimore Ravens, has a knack for inspiring through fiery, preacher-like pregame speeches. But what has impressed the Browns is his ability to stay calm in the storm. “He doesn’t get rattled,” said Myles Garrett, who had three sacks against the Steelers . “He’s just tuned in and focused as anyone I’ve seen at that position. Turn the page. There was a turnover, came back to the sideline, ‘Love you. I’m sorry. We’re going to get it back.’ He was already on to the next one, ‘How can we complete the mission?’ “I have a lot of respect for him. First was from afar and now seeing it on the field in front of me, it’s a blessing to have someone who plays a game with such a passion and want-to. You can’t ask for a better teammate when they take those things to heart and they want to play for you like we’re actually brothers and that’s what we have to attain. That brotherhood.” Winston has done something else Watson couldn't: move the offense. The Browns scored more than 20 points for just the second time this season, and like Joe Flacco a year ago, Winston has shown that Stefanski's system works with a quarterback patient enough to let plays develop and unafraid to take shots downfield. The conditions certainly were a factor, but the Browns were a miserable 1 of 10 on third down, a season-long trend. However, Cleveland converted all four fourth-down tries, including a fourth-and-3 pass from Winston to Jerry Jeudy with 2:36 left that helped set up Nick Chubb's go-ahead TD run. RT Jack Conklin. Garrett outplayed Steelers star T.J. Watt in their rivalry within the rivalry partly because Conklin did a nice job containing Pittsburgh's edge rusher, who was held without a sack and had one tackle for loss. Conklin has made a remarkable comeback since undergoing reconstructive knee surgery last year. Owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam. Their desire to build a dome is well intended, but an indoor game could never come close to matching the surreal setting of Thursday night, when snow swirled throughout the stadium and covered nearly all the yard lines and hash marks. “It was beautiful,” Winston said. WR Cedric Tillman is in the concussion protocol. He had two catches before taking a big hit on the final play of the third quarter. 9 — Consecutive home wins for the Browns in Thursday night games. 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