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No. 22 Xavier aims to keep its perfect record intact Monday night in Fort Myers, Fla., when it takes on South Carolina in the Fort Myers Tip-Off. The Musketeers (5-0) are coming off an 80-55 victory on Wednesday over Siena, while the Gamecocks (3-2) beat Mercer on Thursday 84-72. Against Mercer, South Carolina sank a season-best 12 3-pointers -- tied for the fourth-most in a single game under third-year coach Lamont Paris. Jamarii Thomas, a senior transfer from Norfolk State, had 19 points and swished 4 of 5 shots from behind the arc. "Thomas got some good, clean looks," Paris said. "It was good to see those guys make their shots. Hopefully it gets those guys going in the right direction." On the season, the Gamecocks are making 7.8 3-pointers per game and shooting 32.5 percent from deep. Senior guard Jacobi Wright makes a team-best 1.8 3-pointers per game and shoots 37.5 percent from behind the arc. At 13.0 ppg, he is second on the team behind Collin Murray-Boyles (15.8). Xavier is allowing eight makes from deep per game and is letting opponents shoot 38.5 percent from behind the arc, which ranks 337th in the country. And despite an undefeated record so far for the Musketeers, third-year coach Sean Miller is worried about his players developing bad habits. "We have a virus that everybody is looking at the stat sheet, trying to get as many points as they possibly can," Miller said after the win over Siena. "They want to win, but they really want to win and score. We need a couple of guys that are willing to rebound, defend, make the extra pass, play at a high level defensively and understand what makes a team great." Marcus Foster did a decent job of doing a little bit of everything for Xavier against Siena, piling up 12 points, five rebounds, five assists and a steal. It was the first double-digit scoring outing for Foster -- a grad transfer from Furman -- in a Xavier uniform. Since 2008, Xavier is 25-11 against teams from the Southeastern Conference, but it hasn't played South Carolina in that stretch. --Field Level MediaUndefeated Oregon and No. 23 Texas A&M will collide Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas in the second game of the new Players Era Festival. Both teams are in the "Power" group of the eight-team event. All eight teams are receiving $1 million for their name, image and likeness (NIL) collectives, but placing fourth or higher in the tourney in order will net them anywhere from $1.1 million to $1.5 million. The Aggies (4-1) opened the season with a three-point loss at UCF, but since then have won four straight, all in convincing fashion. Texas A&M upset then-No. 21 Ohio State 78-64 on Nov. 15 at home in College Station, Texas. Then the Aggies crushed Southern 71-54 last Wednesday, when Wade Taylor IV led the way with 17 points and six assists. All of Texas A&M's wins have been by double digits. The Aggies and Ducks (5-0) have split the two previous meetings against each other. Until March 2022 in an NIT second-round game, they had not met since the 1970-71 season. Texas A&M tied the overall series with a 75-60 win at home in 2022. The only player on the Ducks' current roster who played in that game was 7-foot senior Nate Bittle, who has been one of Oregon's best players so far this season. Bittle's 16.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game lead the Ducks so far this season, and the big man also averages two blocked shots per game. Texas A&M guard Zhuric Phelps, a transfer from SMU, leads the Aggies in scoring at 16 points per game. Taylor adds 14 points per game. The Aggies could be the best defensive team the Ducks will have seen this season. A&M is allowing teams to shoot only 36.6 percent in games. Head coach Buzz Williams and his staff are hoping the team gets better at taking charges on defense, as the Aggies have just one so far this season. "I guess the thing that you work on most is verticality around the rim," Texas A&M assistant coach Steve Roccaforte told KBTX television. "‘Hey, once you get there, if you try and take a charge, it's going to be a block. Just jump as high as you can, stay vertical, try to go chest-to-chest. Make it a hard shot.'" Oregon is coming off a 78-75 win at Oregon State, the Ducks' first road game of the season. The Ducks trailed by 10 points at halftime but, as they have in several games this season, they found a rhythm on offense in the second half and came up with a comeback win. Bittle's 23 points and 14 rebounds led the way. Jackson Shelstad had 15 points and Jadrian Tracey and Keeshawn Barthelemy both added 10. "We started rebounding the ball a little better. Nate really got it going inside and our guys got him the ball," Oregon head coach Dana Altman told the school's athletics website. "He had a heck of a game." --Field Level MediaStraight out of a movie? A tiny white pill called Captagon brought Syria's Bashar Al-Assad down; here's how that happenedMercy Drives Conversation on AI Use in Health Care at 'CHAI on the Hill'
Business Don't miss out on the headlines from Business. Followed categories will be added to My News. Google is expanding its $1bn undersea cable project to connect Darwin and Singapore via Christmas Island, a move it says will boost “reliability and resilience” of Australia’s internet connectivity and provide a new link between the US and Asia. Google will also install a new interlink cable to connect Melbourne, Perth and Christmas Island and link to the Homomoana cable system, which connects to the US. This will provide a new interconnection point between America and Asia. Seabed infrastructure is increasingly critical to national security, with up to 99 per cent of transregional digital data transported by the global subsea data cable system and becoming warfare targets. Last week a 1200m undersea fibre-optic cable linking Finland and Germany was severed . The two countries said in a joint statement that they were investigating the incident, which “immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage” with Russia suspected of orchestrating the attack as Europe’s security is threatened by the war in Ukraine. An undersea telecommunications cable linking the Germany and Finland had been severed, with Russia suspected of the attack as tensions flare over the war against Ukraine. Google has partnered with NextDC, SUBCO, Vocus and state and local governments to deliver the expanded cable system under its $1bn “Pacific Connect” project, which Communications Minister Michelle Rowland praised as “strengthening the resilience of Australia’s own digital connectivity through new and diversified routes”. Ms Rowland said the investment complemented the federal government’s “active work” with industry and government partners to support secure, resilient and reliable connectivity across the Pacific.” Google Cloud vice president of global network infrastructure Brian Quigley named the new cable the Bosun subsea cable, which he said refers to the white-tailed tropicbird on Christmas Island and the nautical term for a ship’s deckhand. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland. “Once operational, Bosun and the interlink cable will deliver new digital pathways for Australia, enhancing the reliability and resilience of the internet within the country and throughout the Indo-Pacific region,” Mr Quigley said. “In addition to the Bosun subsea cable system, we’re working with partners like Vocus to deliver terrestrial fibre pairs that connect Darwin to the Sunshine Coast, connecting Bosun with the Tabua subsea cable system that connects the United States and Australia to Fiji.” NextDC chief executive Craig Scroggie said submarine cables were “critical, often unseen lifelines linking Australia to the global digital ecosystem”. “We’re proud to be working in partnership with Google in establishing cable landing stations in Darwin, the Sunshine Coast, and Melbourne. These investments across our national data centre network will improve every customer’s experience by boosting data speeds, enhancing reliability and redundancy, and strengthening cybersecurity across Australia and the Indo-Pacific.” NextDC boss Craig Scroggie says submarine cables are ‘critical, often unseen lifelines linking Australia to the global digital ecosystem’. Jarrod Nink, interim chief executive of Macquarie-backed Vocus – which acquired TPG’s enterprise fixed and fibre assets , including its NBN competitor Vision Network, for $5.25bn in October – said was also “thrilled” to “deepen our strategic network partnership with Google”. “Australia Connect will bolster our nation’s strategic position as a vital gateway between Asia and the United States by connecting key nodes located in Australia’s East, West, and North to global digital markets,” Mr Nink said. “Australia Connect will create a low latency, secure, and stable network architecture while providing added reliability for Google, our customers, and partners.“ SUBCO co-chief executive Belle Lajoie said: “This collaboration allows both parties to harness shared infrastructure, enhancing resiliency, speeding up project delivery, and minimising environmental and community impact”. Originally published as Google expands $1bn sea cable project to connect US and Asia via Darwin Join the conversation Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout More related stories Business Shock waves: markets hit by Trump’s tariff plans Stocks have fallen and the Australian dollar has been pummelled by fear of a global trade war after US president elect Donald Trump announced a hardline tariff plan. Read more Business Trump’s rise could spoil BHP’s run at Anglo As restrictions on BHP making another mega-approach to Anglo’s board lift in coming days, this time the Australian miner could be racing against another clock. Read moreSheriff office assistance grants awarded
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Georgia quarterback Carson Beck on Saturday announced his plans to enter the NFL draft, five days after having season-ending elbow surgery . Beck, a fifth-year senior, made his NFL plans official on social media. He suffered a right elbow injury in the first half of the Bulldogs’ 22-19 overtime win over Texas in the Southeastern Conference championship game on Dec. 7 in Atlanta. Beck had surgery on Monday to repair his ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow. The procedure was performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles. Beck is expected to begin throwing next spring. He could have returned for a sixth season but instead will enter the NFL draft. Beck posted on Instagram: “The past five years at the University of Georgia have been nothing short of a dream come true and I will forever cherish the memories that have been made.” Gunner Stockton, who took over for Beck in the second half against Texas, will make his first start for Georgia on Wednesday in the Sugar Bowl against Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals. Beck has started every game of the 2023 and 2024 seasons. He was 24-3 as a starter. Beck passed for 3,941 yards with 24 touchdowns and only six interceptions in 2023 but had more difficulties with turnovers this season as he passed for 28 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. He completed 7 of 13 passes for 56 yards before his injury in the SEC championship game. Georgia coach Kirby Smart stuck with Beck despite a midseason string of eight interceptions in three games. “Obviously, you look at the stats and they aren’t the same stats as the year before,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said Saturday when reflecting on Beck's career. “The goal in this league is to win the SEC championship. And he was the quarterback of that team that got us to that game and put us in that position.” Added offensive guard Tate Ratledge: “I think Carson should be remembered as a great player. He’s who got us to this point of the season.” Stockton, a sophomore, completed 12 of 16 passes for 71 yards with one interception against Texas. He signed with Georgia as a highly recruited in-state player from Rabun County High School, where he broke Trevor Lawrence's state high school record for most career touchdown passes and Deshaun Watson's state record for combined rushing and passing touchdowns in a career. “Obviously when he was in high school, he was one of the best to ever do it in Georgia,” Bulldogs linebacker Chaz Chambliss said of Stockton before adding that he “just has that fire in him.” Georgia was preparing to start Stockton before announcing Beck's season-ending injury. Stockton will attempt to join a short list of quarterbacks who have been promoted from backup jobs to win national championships. The list includes Georgia's Stetson Bennett, who began the 2021 season as the backup to JT Daniels before taking over the starting job in October. Lawrence took over for Kelly Bryant during Clemson's 2018 championship season. The best comparison to Stockton's challenge during the CFP era may be Cardale Jones on the 2014 Ohio State national championship team. Jones' first start was the Big Ten championship game following an injury to J.T. Barrett, who began the preseason as the expected backup before Braxton Miller's injury. Stockton led Georgia to a touchdown on his first drive against Texas and has had extra practice time during the Bulldogs' break after receiving a first-round bye in the playoff. “To see his growth since he’s been here, he’s been waiting patiently, he’s been sitting and putting his time in and he’s been working while he was waiting,” Georgia safety Malaki Starks said Friday. “And now he gets a chance to go out there and prove what he can do. And, you know, I believe in him 100%.” Starks, who is from Jefferson, Ga., often faced Stockton's Rabun County teams in high school. “He’s always been, you know, that guy, you know, since I’ve been growing up,” Starks said. “He’s an easy guy to follow. I mean, Gunner is a great guy, you know, very respectful, great parents. I mean, he’s the guy that you want to lead. And a lot of guys have confidence in him. And I think you saw it during games in the SEC (championship game), how much the guys believed in him.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballNo. 23 Texas A&M aims to hand Oregon first loss at Players Era
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The No. 5 Indiana Hoosiers are no longer undefeated after the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes beat them on Saturday in Columbus. On Monday, Joel Klatt, on a recent episode of "The Joel Klatt Show," offered Indiana fans some hope. With the win, Ohio State extended its winning streak over Indiana to 29 games. The last time the Hoosiers beat the Buckeyes was 1998. Indiana scored on its first offensive possession after a two-yard touchdown from running back Ty Son Lawton. However, that would be Indiana's last touchdown until the fourth quarter. After the first-quarter score, the Buckeyes put up 31 unanswered points. The Hoosiers broke the scoring drought with another touchdown run from Lawton and converted the two-point conversion to make it 31-15. The Buckeyes scored another touchdown before the final whistle sounded. Klatt was on Indiana's side regarding the Hoosiers' College Football Playoff hopes. He compared the worst losses that some of the top CFP teams have on their resumes to Indiana's Ohio State loss. Klatt used the No. 8 Miami Hurricanes' loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the No. 13 SMU Mustangs' loss to the No. 14 BYU Cougars, and the No. 6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish's loss to Northern Illinois. He argued that the concern should be with Notre Dame, not Indiana. The Fighting Irish have the 78th-ranked strength of schedule and lost to a team from the MAC, whereas Indiana's worst loss is to the Buckeyes. Kyle Robertson/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images "...Miami lost to Georgia Tech," Klatt said. "SMU lost to BYU, and Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois. If there's a question now, it should be about Notre Dame. They've played the 78th-ranked schedule,e and their loss is to Northern Illinois. It's not even close to a team like Indiana. ...This is why I'm telling you that Indiana is absolutely in." Indiana is ABSOLUTELY in – do you agree? 😤🤔 @joelklatt takes a look at how @IndianaFootball stacks up against other one-loss ranked teams. 👀 pic.twitter.com/GeC9I7NLUM Indiana fans will have to wait until Tuesday night for the updated CFP Rankings results. The rankings show starts at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. Indiana closes out the regular season with the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. ET on FS1. Related: Joel Klatt Didn't Hesitate When Naming the Best SEC Team in College FootballCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes insisted at a federal court hearing Thursday that they didn't set out to harass or otherwise target a transgender soccer player at the game they attended. But a judge hearing the case suggested the message the parents sent may matter more than their intentions. Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote after being banned from school grounds for wearing the wristbands at their daughters' soccer game in September. The no-trespass orders have since expired, but a judge is deciding whether the plaintiffs should be allowed to wear the wristbands and carry signs at upcoming school events, including basketball games, swim meets and a music concert, while the case proceeds. Testifying at Thursday's hearing, both men said that they did not view the wristbands as a protest against Parker Tirrell, a transgender girl on the opposing team, but rather as a show of support for their daughters and their teammates. U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe questioned whether there is a meaningful distinction and whether their intentions matter. “Sometimes the message you think you’re sending might not be the message that is being sent,” he said. McAuliffe asked Foote whether it occurred to him that a transgender person might interpret the pink XX wristbands as an attempt to invalidate their existence. “If he’s a trans female, pink might be a color he likes,” Foote said. McAuliffe also noted that while both plaintiffs said they had no problem with transgender people outside the issue of sports, they repeatedly referred to the athlete in question as a boy. “You seem to go out of your way to suggest there’s no such thing as a trans girl,” McAuliffe said. Foote disagreed, saying it was “like learning a new language” to refer to transgender people. In a separate courtroom earlier Thursday, another judge held a hearing on a lawsuit brought by Parker Tirrell and another student challenging the state law that in grades 5 to 12 from teams that align with their gender identity. It requires schools to designate all teams as either girls, boys or coed, with eligibility determined based on students’ birth certificates “or other evidence.” U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya McCafferty that the teens can try out for and play on girls school sports teams. The order only applies to those two individuals for now as they seek to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act on behalf of all transgender girl students in New Hampshire. Lawyers for the teens said in court Thursday they hoped the matter could go to trial and be resolved before the start of the next school year in September. They said the teens’ school districts and others in the state have asked for guidance regarding the statute. Lawyers for the state said they needed more time to prepare. Judge Talesha Saint-Marc suggested the timing of the trial was ambitious and asked that both sides talk further about scheduling. Gov. Chris Sununu, who signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act into law in July, has said it “ensures fairness and safety in women’s sports by maintaining integrity and competitive balance in athletic competitions.” About half of states have adopted In the Bow case, school district officials have said they acted appropriately in sanctioning the parents for conduct they knew violated school policy at athletic events. They'll explain their evidence on Friday. On Thursday, the plaintiff's lawyer, Endel Kolde, accused the district of “breathtaking” overreach by asserting that the wristbands target transgender students in general, regardless of whether such students were present at the events. “This is viewpoint discrimination, and it’s very clear they’re proud of it,” Kolde said. Kolde initially conceded that a school district can limit speech “to some degree” to protect children from harassment, but he stopped short of agreeing with the judge’s claim that yelling “transgender students out” at a particular player would be subject to such regulation. “It might be,” he said. “I’m trying to get you to concede the obvious,” McAuliffe said. “It’s less than obvious to me,” Kolde said. Feller, the first witness in the case involving the wristbands, said he purchased them thinking his daughter and her teammates would wear them, but ended up wearing one himself after they declined. After being told to leave the game, he stood in the parking lot with a sign that said “Protect women’s sports for female athletes.” “I wanted to support women’s sports and I believed what was going on was a travesty,” he said. Kathy Mccormack And Holly Ramer, The Associated Press
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I’m A Celeb’s Maura Higgins ‘100% walking’ as her campmates spot clue she’ll quit within daysBy Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers worldwide reported having issues with services like Outlook and Teams on Monday. In social media posts and comments on platforms like outage tracker Downdetector, some impacted said that they were having trouble seeing their emails, loading calendars or opening other Microsoft 365 applications such as Powerpoint. Microsoft acknowledged “an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or functionality within Microsoft Teams calendar” earlier in the day. In updates posted on X , the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the company’s status page said it identified a “recent change” that it believed to be behind the problem — and was working to revert it. Microsoft shared that it was deploying a fix — which, as of shortly before noon E.T., it said had reached about 98% of “affected environments.” Still, the company’s status page later added , targeted restarts were “progressing slower than anticipated for the majority of affected users.” As of midday Monday, Downdetector showed thousands of outage reports from users of Microsoft 365 , particularly Outlook . Extra News Alerts Get breaking updates as they happen. Be civil. Be kind.The arrest of a Ugandan opposition figure in Kenya was carried out with Nairobi’s knowledge, a Ugandan government spokesperson told AFP Friday. His comments came two days after a senior Kenyan official said Nairobi had launched an investigation into the affair. Uganda has faced international condemnation following the abduction from Nairobi of veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who appeared in a Kampala court on Wednesday. Kenya had insisted that it had nothing to do with the arrest of Besigye, 68, a medical doctor and longtime critic of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. “Uganda and Kenya authorities were in the know on the arrest and transfer of Dr Besigye to Uganda,” government spokesperson Chris Baryomunsi told AFP. “Kenya is a sovereign country and with a full functioning governance system and it is not possible for an arrest to happen in the country, especially Nairobi, and the suspect is transferred across borders without the knowledge of institutions of Kenya,” he said. He said “without [the] involvement of Kenya, it would not have been possible to have Besigye cross into Uganda”. Baryomunsi added that there was “a lot” of intelligence shared between countries that is never made public “for the good of brotherly and sisterly countries”. – ‘Regrettable’ – His comments follow remarks Wednesday by Kenya’s foreign ministry permanent secretary Korir Sing’Oei, who labelled the incident involving Besigye “regrettable” and said an investigation had been launched. He told local TV: “This is not an act of the Kenyan government. It’s not the act of our security officials”. Besigye appeared in a military court on Wednesday, with the prosecution alleging he had been in possession of two pistols and had “solicited logistical support in Uganda, Greece and other countries with the aim of compromising the country’s national security”. Besigye, a retired army colonel, denied the charges. He insisted he was now a civilian and should not be tried in a military tribunal. He was remanded to Luzira prison until December 2. Late Friday, opposition leader Bobi Wine said he had visited Besigye in jail, and that he was in “good spirits”. He condemned the actions of the Ugandan government in a post on X, and urged Kenya to “take corrective measures to prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future”. The Ugandan government has sought to justify the extraction. On Wednesday, Baryomunsi said: “You can be arrested from anywhere because countries have treaties or instruments that they signed between them that allow for extradition.” A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “extremely concerned” about Besigye’s situation. International rights groups have condemned the incident, with Amnesty International warning it was part of a “growing and worrying trend of transnational repression” in Kenya. Last month, Nairobi admitted to allowing four Turkish refugees to be repatriated, despite evidence they were abducted in the city and forcibly returned without due process. Uganda has cracked down on the opposition in recent months. In July, 36 members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) — the party Besigye founded two decades ago — were deported from Kenya and tried in Uganda on terrorism charges. With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world as a leading global news agency. AFP provides fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the issues affecting our daily lives.
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