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Keeler: Save Shedeur Sanders! CU Buffs QB will keep getting crushed if Coach Prime doesn’t start running the darn ball

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

PASADENA, Calif. — What good is a Louis Vuitton quarterback if his handles keep falling off?“It’s a struggle to run the ball,” CU football coach Deion Sanders said after a 28-16 loss to UCLA inside a Rose Bowl with thorns, the Buffs’ fourth defeat in five games. “And we’ve got to figure that out, because now you’re one-dimensional. And it’s easy to stop a team when they’re one-dimensional and that’s who we are at this point in time.”Shedeur Sanders, the coach’s son and the offense’s only hope, needed an injection for the pain at halftime, thanks to a bruising bunch of Bruins and seven sacks allowed. The kid wouldn’t need a shot if he wasn’t taking so dang many of them in the pocket, week after week.Run the darn ball, Coach Prime. For your son’s sake, if nothing else.From a play-calling front, the Buffs are too dang easy right now. CU’s playing checkers in a Pac-12 full of ches...

Travis Hunter provides silver lining in CU Buffs’ loss to UCLA: “He’s a special football player”

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

PASADENA, Calif. — Jimmy Smith, Chidobe Awuzie, Ahkello Witherspoon… Travis Hunter.How does the fourth belong with the latter three? Hunter, the Buffs’ two-way breakout star playing his first season of Division-I FBS, is on the fast-track to join those other names as a high-drafted cornerback out of CU.Hunter put on another eye-opening defensive performance Saturday in CU’s 28-16 loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl, with two first-half interceptions that helped give the Buffs an early lead.The sophomore snuffed out the Bruins’ first drive of the game by intercepting Ethan Garbers to set CU up for a field goal that made it 6-0. On the 3rd-and-5 play, Hunter was in man, press coverage on Kam Brown at the line of scrimmage, but after jamming Brown, Hunter intuitively jumped off him and into space when he recognized Bruins slot receiver Logan Loya was running a short button-hook to the first-down line.Hunter dove and picked off Garbers’ pass, then popped up...

4 children found with 'lacerations' at Lancaster home; 2 dead

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the deaths of two children and the hospitalizations of two others in Lancaster.According to an LASD release, deputies were dispatched to the 1800 block of East Avenue J-2 shortly before midnight on Saturday after a call came in alleging children were being harmed at the location. “Upon arrival, deputies contacted a female adult and conducted a check of the location,” the LASD release said. “Deputies found four children under the age of ten suffering from lacerations to their bodies.” According to an LASD release, deputies were dispatched to the 1800 block of East Avenue J-2 in Lancaster shortly before midnight on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023 after a call came in alleging children were being harmed at the location. (Luis Meza)The children were immediately transported to a local hospital where two of them were pronounced dead, authorities said. The other two children are said to be in stable condition with non-life...

Santa Ana winds prompt fire weather warning for L.A., Ventura counties

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

A Red Flag Warning is in effect for part of Southern California Sunday as potentially dangerous fire weather conditions develop with the arrival of Santa Ana winds.According to the National Weather Service, the warning affects Los Angeles and Ventura counties; consistent wind speeds of 40 to 60 miles per hour are forecast for Sunday, with an isolated chance of a 70 mile per hour burst. “Our first significant Santa Ana wind event of the season will likely bring critical Red Flag conditions to wind prone areas of Los Angeles and Ventura counties,” NWS said. “The onset of Santa Ana winds will bring rapid drying to the region late Saturday night, with widespread single digit humidities Sunday into Monday.”  Click here to view the forecast for your community In addition, a wind advisory is in effect for multiple communities across the L.A. area until 10 p.m. Monday. Included in the list of affected locations are Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Ventura, Camarillo, Topanga, Burbank, Universal...

Fire department says large structure fire west of city

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

(BCN) -- The Petaluma Fire Department said at 8:29 a.m. Sunday firefighters are on the scene of a large structure fire west of Petaluma. The department said, though there's smoke in Petaluma, there is no threat to the city. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Newsom requires diversity reporting, but not for himself

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

(BCN) -- Coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for venture capital firms. Not coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for Gov. Gavin Newsom.As the bill signing period wrapped up earlier this month, Newsom approved a measure that will force venture capital firms operating in California to collect and disclose demographic data about the founders of the companies they invest in -- while on the very same day, he vetoed for the third time a similar transparency requirement for his own gubernatorial appointments.Senate Bill 54 by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat, was among nearly 900 measures that Newsom signed into law this year. It represents an effort to boost lagging venture capital investments in businesses founded by women, Latino and Black entrepreneurs. Fans, friends, co-stars react to Matthew Perry’s sudden death Under the law, venture capital firms must annually survey the founding teams of the companies they invested in during ...

Should San Jose ask developers to pay for public art?

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose creatives want more funding for the arts--and they are turning to the city for help.San Jose Arts Advocates, a coalition of art and culture leaders, is asking city officials to move forward on applying a "percent for art policy" on new development to fund art and culture projects. The coalition held a meeting Thursday to prepare for a city council arts funding study session on Nov. 30. Pregnant woman, baby killed in San Jose hit-and-run crash The city council first broached the idea in 2007 with a goal to implement it by 2020, but it didn't happen. In 2020, just a month before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, six councilmembers approved of the fee creation as one of the city's top priorities. But priorities shifted during the pandemic. The hospitality sector collapsed and revenue from a tax charged to hotel guests--the city's main funding for art projects--plummeted.Brendan Rawson, executive director of San Jose Jazz and a founding member of San Jose Arts Advocates, sa...

AP Top 25 Takeaways: No. 6 OU upset; No. 8 Oregon flexes; No. 1 UGA, No. 4 FSU roll before CFP debut

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

The upsets have arrived.Kansas made it two weeks in a row with an unranked team beating a top-10 team, when the Jayhawks knocked No. 6 Oklahoma out of the ranks of the unbeaten Saturday to snap an 18-game losing streak against the Sooners.OU’s loss comes a week after then-No. 10 North Carolina lost to Virginia at home, and three days before the first College Football Playoff rankings are released. Before the Tar Heels were tripped up, there hadn’t been a top-10 loss to an unranked team since Week 1.Kansas’ upset wasn’t as stunning at Virginia’s. These are not your older brother’s Jayhawks (6-2). Coach Lance Leipold has Kansas bowl eligible for the second year in a row. That’s only happened one other time in the history of the program.“It’s time for me to start talking about how far we’ve come,” Leipold said.In just three seasons in Lawrence, Leipold has turned around what was the worst Power Five program. The Jayhawks won 21 games from 2010-...

Wrong distance takes women’s walk race athletes to mistaken world record at Pan American Games

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Peru’s Kimberly García thought she set the world record in the women’s 20 kilometers walk race at the Pan American Games. She later found out she didn’t.Organizers of the largest multi-sports in the continent said in a statement that the times of the race were annulled due to “a measuring problem” in Santiago’s O’Higgins Park. They blamed the Association of Pan American Athletics for the mistake.Athletes believe the distance they ran in Chile was about 3 kilometers (almost 1.9 miles) shorter.The gross mistake adds to Santiago’s woes in the organization of the Pan American Games, which started on Oct. 20 and finish on Nov. 5.García finished her race in a cold and damp morning in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 26 seconds. The record belongs to China’s Jiayu Yang in 1 hour, 23 minutes and 49 seconds. Eleven other competitors seemingly finished their race below the world record. “We do control our pace a lot and right out of the g...

Mbappe scores late winner as PSG edges Brest 3-2 in French league

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:39:58 GMT

BREST, France (AP) — Kylian Mbappe scored twice to reach 250 goals in his club career as defending champion Paris Saint-Germain edged Brest 3-2 to stay a point behind provisional leader Nice in the French league on Sunday. Nice had beaten Clermont 1-0 to take the provisional league lead on Friday but Monaco can snatch back top spot with a victory at Lille later Sunday. Mbappe scored the winner in the 89th minute with his league-leading 10th goal this season. The France striker converted the rebound after Brest goalkeeper Marco Bizot had saved his penalty, which was awarded after a video review showed that Lilian Brassier had tripped Randal Kolo Muani. Mbappe was shown a yellow card for taunting Brest supporters while celebrating his goal. There was no love lost between them as the supporters replied with insulting chants. PSG midfielder Warren Zaire-Emery opened the scoring in the 16th by evading a challenge from Hugo Magnetti on the edge of the box to unleash a powerful strike into...