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panaloko 777 login register CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Perhaps the biggest improvement in Bryce Young’s game in Year 2 has been his ability to improvise and use his legs to create plays. On Sunday, Young ran five times for a career-high 68 yards, including a 23-yard touchdown on a scramble in Carolina’s 36-30 overtime win over Arizona , which eliminated the Cardinals from playoff contention . It was Young’s fourth rushing touchdown of the season after failing to score on the ground in 2023 as a rookie. Aside from the touchdowns, his rushing numbers are similar to 2023, but it’s clear Young is making better decisions and getting out of the pocket quicker when his protection begins to breaks down. “I’m trying to take what the defense gives me,” Young said. “As a passer, I always try to remain a passer as long as possible. We talk about all the time just extending above the 2.7 (seconds) and starting the second play, and doing whatever it takes. For me, it’s just being more comfortable in the system and playing with the guys. I want to do everything I can to continue to be efficient by moving the chains and doing what’s best for the team. The last couple of weeks have been a little more than that.” Young played one of his better games against the Cardinals, finishing 17 of 26 passing for 158 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions one week after turning the ball over four times in a loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Carolina scored TDs on its first three possessions, the first time that has happened in six years. RELATED COVERAGE There’s no defending Jaguars GM Trent Baalke, especially amid his latest free-agent class Titans keep losing as coach Brian Callahan tries to show some progress Commanders keep playing wild and wacky games. They’ve gotten better at winning them Panthers coach Dave Canales said Young played “fast” and was “really decisive.” “You saw some of the scrambles early in the first half where he was able to pick up some critical third downs for us there and run one in for a touchdown,” Canales said. “It was about just being decisive, knowing where all the bones are buried in his concepts and being able to get to the scramble when those windows opened up for him. Again, just making some really nice throws when we needed him to.” What’s working Carolina’s offensive line was outstanding on Sunday in the run-blocking game as the Panthers racked up 243 yards with Chuba Hubbard running for 152 yards and two TDs. Hubbard has 1,195 yards rushing, which ranks as the fourth most in a season in team history behind DeAngelo Williams (1,515) in 2008, Stephen Davis (1,444) in 2003 and Christian McCaffrey (1,387) in 2019. His 10 touchdowns on the ground are tied for the fifth most in franchise history. What needs help The Panthers run defense. It’s the same old refrain and it isn’t going to get any better until next season. Carolina allowed James Conner to run for 117 yards and a touchdown as Arizona put up 206 yards on the ground. The Panthers have now allowed an average of nearly 200 yards rushing over the past seven weeks under defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero. Injuries have played a major role in that as the team lost defensive lineman Derrick Brown and linebacker Shaq Thompson early in the season, but it’s obvious that adding help on the front seven will be a major priority for general manager Dan Morgan in the offseason. Stock up Hubbard got the redemption he sought on Sunday when he ran 21 yards for the winning touchdown in overtime to knock the Cardinals out of playoff contention. Three weeks earlier, Hubbard fumbled in overtime against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while the Panthers were driving for the winning field goal, costing his team the game. The left Hubbard sitting on the team’s bench on the sideline in disbelief. But Hubbard told himself at the time he would get another shot — and make the most of it. Hubbard had all 49 yards on the team’s winning drive in OT and finished with 152 yards — 1 shy of a career high — and two touchdowns. Stock down Getting plays in on time to the huddle and getting them off before the play clock expires has been a challenge at times this season, and it crept up again against the Cardinals. On third-and-goal at the Arizona 3, the Panthers were flagged for delay of game after spending too much time reviewing whether Jalen Coker had hauled in a TD catch on the previous play. Replays showed Coker made the catch, but was out of bounds. The play call got in late to Young and he didn’t get it off in time and no timeout was called. The penalty moved the Panthers back 5 yards, but the Cardinals bailed them out when they were flagged for roughing the passer. That gave the Panthers a new set of downs at the 4, and Hubbard scored on the next play. Injuries The Panthers came out of Sunday’s game relatively injury-free. There had been an illness running through the team’s locker room last week and it forced center Cade Mays to sit out the game. Brady Christensen stepped in and played well, helping aid in Hubbard’s big day. Key number 1 — The NFL wanted to emphasize taking hip-drop tackles out of the game. Well, for the first time this season a flag was thrown on Sunday, coming against Panthers rookie linebacker Jacoby Windmon with just under eight minutes remaining in the second quarter when he brought down Conner. Conner was not injured on that play, but later left the game in the third quarter with a knee injury. Next steps The Panthers play their final two games on the road at Tampa Bay and Atlanta, so they’ll play a factor in who wins the NFC South. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

Republicans refute Dems’ claims that Trump intelligence pick Gabbard is ‘compromised’JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Greg McGarity had reason to be concerned. The Gator Bowl president kept a watchful eye on College Football Playoff scenarios all season and understood the fallout might affect his postseason matchup in Jacksonville. What if the Southeastern Conference got five teams into the expanded CFP? What if the Atlantic Coast Conference landed three spots? It was a math problem that was impossible to truly answer, even into late November. Four first-round playoff games, which will end with four good teams going home without a bowl game, had the potential to shake up the system. The good news for McGarity and other bowl organizers: Adding quality teams to power leagues — Oregon to the Big Ten, Texas to the SEC and SMU to the ACC — managed to ease much of the handwringing. McGarity and the Gator Bowl ended up with their highest-ranked team, No. 16 Ole Miss, in nearly two decades. "It really didn't lessen our pool much at all," McGarity said. "The SEC bowl pool strengthened with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. You knew they were going to push traditional SEC teams up or down. Texas ended up pushing just about everyone down." The long waiting game was the latest twist for non-CFP bowls that have become adept at dealing with change. Efforts to match the top teams came and went in the 1990s and first decade of this century before the CFP became the first actual tournament in major college football. It was a four-team invitational — until this year, when the 12-team expanded format meant that four quality teams would not be in the mix for bowl games after they lose next week in the first round. "There's been a lot of things that we've kind of had to roll with," said Scott Ramsey, president of the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee. "I don't think the extra games changed our selection model to much degree. We used to look at the New York's Six before this, and that was 12 teams out of the bowl mix. The 12-team playoff is pretty much the same." Ramsey ended up with No. 23 Missouri against Iowa in his Dec. 30 bowl. A lot of so-called lesser bowl games do have high-profile teams — the ReliaQuest Bowl has No. 11 Alabama vs. Michigan (a rematch of last year's CFP semifinal), Texas A&M and USC will play in the Las Vegas Bowl while No. 14 South Carolina and No. 15 Miami, two CFP bubble teams, ended up in separate bowls in Orlando. "The stress of it is just the fact that the CFP takes that opening weekend," Las Vegas Bowl executive director John Saccenti said. "It kind of condenses the calendar a little bit." Bowl season opens Saturday with the Cricket Celebration Bowl. The first round of the CFP runs Dec. 20-21. It remains to be seen whether non-CFP bowls will see an impact from the new dynamic. They will know more by 2026, with a planned bowl reset looming. It could include CFP expansion from 12 to 14 teams and significant tweaks to the bowl system. More on-campus matchups? More diversity among cities selected to host semifinal and championship games? And would there be a trickle-down effect for everyone else? Demand for non-playoff bowls remains high, according to ESPN, despite increased focus on the expanded CFP and more players choosing to skip season finales to either enter the NCAA transfer portal or begin preparations for the NFL draft. "There's a natural appetite around the holidays for football and bowl games," Kurt Dargis, ESPN's senior director of programming and acquisitions, said at Sports Business Journal's Intercollegiate Athletics Forum last week in Las Vegas. "People still want to watch bowl games, regardless of what's going on with the playoff. ... It's obviously an unknown now with the expanded playoff, but we really feel like it's going to continue." The current bowl format runs through 2025. What lies ahead is anyone's guess. Could sponsors start paying athletes to play in bowl games? Could schools include hefty name, image and likeness incentives for players participating in bowls? Would conferences be willing to dump bowl tie-ins to provide a wider range of potential matchups? Are bowls ready to lean into more edginess like Pop-Tarts has done with its edible mascot? The path forward will be determined primarily by revenue, title sponsors, TV demand and ticket sales. "The one thing I have learned is we're going to serve our partners," Saccenti said. "We're going to be a part of the system that's there, and we're going to try to remain flexible and make sure that we're adjusting to what's going on in the world of postseason college football." Get local news delivered to your inbox!Mission will be the first RCMP detachment in B.C. to roll out the use of body-worn cameras, beginning the week of Nov. 25. It's the first of the six initial rollouts and will be followed by Ucluelet, Tofino (including Ahousaht), Prince George, Cranbrook and Kamloops, B.C. RCMP said during a news conference in Surrey Thursday (Nov. 21). In total in B.C., 3,000 officers in 144 detachments serving 150 municipalities will be using body-worn cameras. RCMP did not provide specific dates yet for the first six rollouts, but said a release would go out from each detachment to inform the public. B.C. RCMP commanding officer Dwayne McDonald said this represents the "largest and most ambitious rollout of body-worn cameras in the province." He said the body-worn cameras is "expected to promote transparency, to strengthen accountability and to enhance officer and public safety." "Basically, how this works is that when one of our members responds to a call for service and begins to engage with a person, the camera is activated and you will see frontline officers wearing the cameras in front of their vests on a regular basis." Officers are expected to activate their body-worn camera before exiting their vehicle. Body-worn cameras are expected to be activated for crimes in progress, investigations, public disorder and protests, mental health calls, interactions with people in crisis and "to record information to support the performance of their duties." McDonald said the while the cameras are worn, they are on standby, which means they're always buffering and capturing 30 seconds of video without audio. He said it's "essentially writing over that 30 seconds constantly," but once the camera is activated it attaches the 30 seconds without audio to the rest of the video. "It's in the best interest of our officers to capture the video," McDonald said. "I think it's important to remember that in addition to calls from public for greater transparency ... and accountability for police, it's also in police's best interest to give the objective viewpoint of what's happening in interactions with the public." In B.C., police agencies have watchdogs including, the Independent Investigations Office and the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. Nationally, there is the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission, which is an independent agency tasked with examining RCMP conduct. The Independent Investigations Office, which investigates police's actions or inactions into incidents of death or serious harm, doesn't force an officer under investigation to be interviewed or submit notes, reports or data. McDonald said the IIO would absolutely have access to the even if the officer chooses to not submit anything. He added those agencies will have access to unvetted – generally redacted – versions of the footage to conduct oversight investigations. "That's where the transparency and accountability comes from." He said he completely understands the "public's desire, and in some cases, curiosity to know right away what happens, but we do have to respect the privacy legislation." The RCMP's federal headquarters announced the national rollout Nov. 14. Over the next nine months, 1,000 officers will start using the body-worn cameras each month. Ninety per cent of the RCMP officers will be using the cameras in the next year, with the full rollout completed within 18 months. The RCMP is not the first to rollout body-worn cameras in B.C. The Delta Police Department, in the Lower Mainland, has been using the technology for more than two years. At a news conference in January 2024, the department anticipated it would have about 37 body-worn cameras in operation.

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The first thing we learned from the opening round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is there really aren’t 12 teams good enough to compete for a national title. Indiana, SMU, Clemson and Tennessee were all sizable underdogs in their first-round road games, and all proved they weren’t up to the task of competing on the big stage. That led to four boring games in which the announcers spent much of the fourth quarter rationalizing the losing teams’ presence in the CFP and overhyping the teams that handily beat them. Going from four teams to 12 was always a stretch. Six teams, with two getting first-round byes, would have sufficed. Eight teams, with no byes, would’ve been OK. But 12? Well, money talks, and it never shuts up when it comes to college football. And despite all the blather ESPN and TNT delivered in their pregame shows, on which breathless analysts suggested the expanded playoffs was the greatest thing to happen to college football since Red Grange, the games had the feel of another bowl game once the novelty of playing in a non-bowl stadium wore off. In fact, the CFP organizers should’ve just replaced other bowls for first-round action, utilizing the lesser ones already in place that exist for the sole purpose of creating more revenue for Disney Co. and other TV network owners. Notre Dame-Indiana might have made a decent Sun Bowl matchup, replacing wind-chill factor with the actual sun and Touchdown Jesus with Tony the Tiger. Ohio State-Tennessee, a matchup of Power Two powers that couldn’t even make their own conference title games, would’ve been a perfect Citrus Bowl, in which Big Ten and SEC wannabes always meet. Texas-Clemson would’ve felt right at home in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, with Matthew McConaughey eating the Pop-Tart mascot after the Longhorns won while mumbling, “All right, all right, all right.” Penn State-SMU, the least interesting matchup of the four first-rounders, would have been more appropriate for the long-defunct Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, which featured a team from Texas against an out-of-state team whose fans traveled well. Alas, we can only dream. Instead we got overkill about the weather — oh, by the way, did you know it gets cold in late December in the Midwest? Next week’s quarterfinals should provide much better games and a real playoff-type atmosphere for viewers in warm-weather sites and domed stadiums. But we’ll see. At least they’ll all be played in the bigger, traditional bowls — Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Peach — and on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Bowl games before Christmas simply lack the aura of the end-of-year and start-of-year games. The NFL even scheduled two games Saturday opposite the CFP, undeterred by the competition. Two of the lower-seeded quarterfinalists began the week as considerable favorites, with No. 6 seed Penn State a 101⁄2-point favorite over third-seeded Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl and No. 5 seed Texas a whopping 131⁄2-point favorite over fourth-seeded Arizona State in the Peach Bowl. The most interesting game figures to be Ohio State-Oregon in the Rose Bowl, a rematch of the Big Ten thriller in October in Eugene, Ore., where Buckeyes quarterback Will Howard slid a tad too late at the gun to deny his team a shot at a potential winning field goal in a 32-31 loss. Oregon is the top seed but only a 11⁄2-point favorite over the Buckeyes, who also lost to Michigan. Ohio State recovered from its devastating 13-10 loss to the Wolverines in “The Game” with Saturday’s 42-17 pummeling of Tennessee, a game so dull former Buckeyes quarterback Kirk Herbstreit decided to launch into a partisan screed in the final minutes of the broadcast, defending Ohio State coach Ryan Day for the loss to Michigan despite being a three-touchdown favorite. Herbstreit referred to the anti-Day crowd that wants the Buckeyes coach fired for his repeated failures to beat their hated archrivals as “the lunatic fringe.” “I’m sure they’ll be happy tonight, fired up about what Ohio State did,” Herbstreit said. “But God forbid they lose to Oregon, they’ll want to fire him again.” Does Herbstreit understand the importance of beating Michigan to Ohio State fans, or is he just too comfortable acting as a shill for Day? Meanwhile, Notre Dame is coming off a virtual bye — its matchup against overmatched Indiana — to face SEC champion Georgia, the No. 2 seed, in the Sugar Bowl. Notre Dame finally won a “big” playoff game Friday, though it will be completely forgotten in a month if Georgia stifles quarterback Riley Leonard and the Irish running game, as many expect. The Irish could use some help in New Orleans from comedian Shane Gillis, who might be their version of Matthew McConaughey, the uber-Texas fan. Gillis went on ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Friday and called analyst Pat McAfee a “real scumbag” for picking Indiana. He was joking, of course, but there was applause for the gesture in many living rooms around the country. Gillis then called cocky Indiana coach Curt Cignetti “disgusting” for coming out on the field before the game without his players to “get some camera time for himself.” “It was disgusting, and I thought, ‘Wow, what a sad, disgusting program,’ ” Gillis said of Cignetti and Indiana. Knute Rockne couldn’t have given a more stirring pregame speech. The Irish will need that kind of bravado to beat the Bulldogs, so hopefully Gillis will be at the Superdome to talk smack at Georgia coach Kirby Smart. Despite its uninspiring opening weekend, there’s plenty of time for the CFP to provide memorable games and big moments that make college football what it is. Now if we can only find a way to get rid of McAfee.