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Denver (9-6) at Cincinnati (7-8) Saturday, 4:30 p.m. EST, NFL Network BetMGM NFL Odds: Bengals by 3. Against the spread: Broncos 11-4, Bengals 9-6. Series record: Broncos lead 22-11. Last meeting: Bengals beat Broncos 15-10 on Dec. 19, 2021, at Denver. Last week: Chargers beat Broncos 34-27; Bengals beat Browns 24-6. Broncos offense: overall (22), rush (19), pass (22), scoring (10). Broncos defense: overall (9), rush (5), pass (18), scoring (4). Bengals offense: overall (10), rush (29), pass (1), scoring (6). Bengals defense: overall (28), rush (21), pass (26), scoring (28). Turnover differential: Broncos plus-6, Bengals: plus-4. Broncos player to watch CB Riley Moss. The second-year pro is returning from a sprained MCL that sidelined him for a month. Denver’s defense wasn’t the same without Moss, who has 71 tackles, eight pass breakups and an interception in his first season as a starter opposite Patrick Surtain. With him back, the Broncos could return to their favored man coverage after their zone coverage was exploited by the Browns, Colts and Chargers. Bengals player to watch QB Joe Burrow is having perhaps the best season of his career. He passed for 252 yards and three TDs last week against the Browns and is among the NFL leaders in most passing categories. Burrow has thrown at least three TD passes in each of his past seven games. Key matchup Bengals passing game against the Broncos secondary. Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins combined for 14 receptions for 155 yards and two touchdowns against the Browns last Sunday. After Week 16, Chase led the NFL leaders in receptions, yards and touchdowns. The Broncos passing defense is ranked eighth in the NFL. Surtain has allowed 234 receiving yards this season, the fewest allowed by a cornerback in a season through 16 games since at least 2018. Key injuries The Broncos are as healthy as they’ve been all season. The only player who was limited at practice this week was RB Jaleel McLaughlin (thigh), but he was a full participant by Wednesday. Bengals: DE Sam Hubbard (knee) and DT Sheldon Rankins (illness) are out for Saturday. WR Tee Higgins (ankle/knee), DT Amarius Mims (ankle) and S Geno Stone (illness) are questionable. TE Tanner Hudson (knee) is doubtful. Series notes The teams have traded wins in their past four meetings since 2016. ... The Broncos’ longest win streak was eight from 1983 to 1998. ... The Bengals have managed to win two in a row in the series just twice in 1971 and ‘72; and 1975 and ‘76. The largest margin of victory was a 45-14 win by Denver in 1991. Stats and stuff Denver QB Bo Nix is three touchdown throws shy of becoming the fifth rookie in NFL history to throw for 3,000 yards and 25 touchdowns his rookie season. The others: Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson, Baker Mayfield and Justin Herbert. ... WR Courtland Sutton needs 72 yards to reach 1,000 for just the second time in his career (2019). ... The Broncos have scored 166 points in their past five games, their most in a five-game span since 2014. ... Zach Allen’s 26 quarterback hits are the most by an interior defensive lineman in the NFL this season. His 67 QB pressures are the second most by an interior DL, behind only the Chiefs’ Chris Jones (74). ... Nik Bonitto has sacks in 10 games so far, two shy of the Broncos record held by Von Miller. ... Brandon Jones is the first Broncos safety since Hall of Famer Steve Atwater in 1995 to have 100 or more tackles and three or more interceptions in a season. ... Cincinnati’s defense forced three turnovers and had five sacks in the win over Cleveland last week. ... Burrow was sacked four times by the Browns, but also passed for three touchdowns. ... Cincinnati has won its past three games to improve to 7-8 on the season and can get to .500 in the final home game of the season. ... All of the Bengals’ seven wins have come against teams with losing records. ... Seven of Cincinnati’s eight losses have been by one score. ... Bengals K Cade York is 4 of 5 on field goals since being promoted from the practice squad to replace the injured Evan McPherson. York was drafted by the Browns in 2022 ... Bengals edge rusher Trey Hendrickson has 13 1/2 sacks. Fantasy tip Bengals RB Chase Brown is poised for a breakout. Brown has 91 rushing yards in the win over Cleveland last week and 97 yards and a touchdown against Tennessee the previous week. The second-year player is averaging 4.4 yards per carry. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
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DALLAS -- The enormity of 's contract -- stretching 15 years and guaranteeing $765 million, not a penny of which is deferred -- brought an initial jolt to Major League Baseball's winter meetings on Sunday night. It was monumental and far-reaching, but it was also an outlier, given the uniqueness of landing one of history's greatest hitters in his mid-20s. As the days passed, subsequent transactions took place and the offseason began to round into form, a more revealing trend emerged at the sprawling Hilton hotel that hosted baseball's annual gathering earlier this week. A prominent agent expressed it succinctly on Tuesday night, in the middle of an emptying lobby after a dizzying round of transactions. "Man," he said, "starting pitchers are getting ." Hours earlier, signed an eight-year, $218 million deal with the , blowing away the most reputable projections. Later, secured a three-year, $75 million contract to return to the , more than doubling the guarantee of his prior deal in his mid-30s. And just a day prior, , a 37-year-old who made three starts while dealing with a litany of injuries last season, cost the $15 million on a one-year deal -- a sign that it wasn't just the top starters getting paid, but the innings-eaters and the reclamation projects, too, age be damned. Fried, Eovaldi and Cobb followed a path that had already been laid out by the likes of (five years, $182 million with the ), (three years, $67 million with the Athletics) and (two years, $29 million with the ). All of them did better than expected. All of them triggered a fundamental question: Why, at a time when starting pitchers have never been counted on less, are they more expensive than ever? Executives, agents and coaches surveyed in the 72 hours that encompassed baseball's winter meetings brought up an assortment of theories. One general manager noted that starting pitchers who can consistently tackle five to six innings and 160 or so over the course of a six-month season aren't any less important, even in an era of heavy bullpen usage -- they're simply more rare, triggering the type of demand that can escalate prices. Another pointed to the impact of big-market teams chasing top-tier free agents and how that has affected those below them. Another pointed specifically to the , who handed Soto a record-breaking contract but might have set a tone in a different way -- by signing earlier this month to a two-year, $34 million deal that was viewed in some circles as an overpay. But most of the conversations came back to the rapid rate of arm injuries that have plagued the industry and made teams hyper-paranoid about their starting pitching depth. These days, even more so than before, enough is never enough. "Teams used to feel good if they could go into a season with, I'd say, seven or eight guys they can count on to start games at the major league level, at least in some capacity," said one front office executive. "Now that number is like 11." The approach taken by two of the sport's most successful franchises illustrates that. The Yankees already boasted a solid fivesome of , , , and -- but Fried was their obvious pivot after missing out on Soto, enough to cross a $200 million threshold few foresaw for the soon-to-be-31-year-old left-hander. The Dodgers, who beat the Yankees in the World Series, were set to return a rotation composed of , , , and , while backed by a pitching pipeline that has become the envy of the sport -- and yet they zeroed in on Snell at the onset of the offseason. "I know that as a team, we've felt it more acutely," said Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes, whose club suffered through an array of pitching injuries in 2024. "You feel like you have depth coming in, and sometimes it maintains and sometimes it doesn't. It's a little scary of an unknown." The increase in pitcher injuries has been raising alarm bells for the better part of a decade, but a presentation at this week's winter meetings placed that in a new light. The sport's 30 managers gathered in a conference room on Wednesday morning as MLB officials guided them through key findings from a yearlong study of pitcher injuries that involved input from more than 200 experts in a variety of roles. One of the slides showed that surgeries to repair damaged ulnar collateral ligaments at the minor league level had basically doubled over the past 10 years. Not only are current major league pitchers breaking down, so is the foundation behind them. Said one manager in attendance: "It was stunning." The trade market hadn't reached full tilt by the time most of the industry's agents and executives boarded their flights back home on Wednesday afternoon. But the expectation was that it would soon pick up, particularly as it relates to starting pitchers. Teams seeking alternatives to the higher free agent prices have expressed interest in , , , and , names that should gain more traction after ace was dealt to the for an impressive haul of prospects. Two of the Red Sox's division rivals, the and the , are still searching for frontline starting pitching. So are the Mets and the , two of the offseason's busiest teams. So are many others. A dozen starting pitchers have signed for a combined $788.5 million through the first five weeks of this offseason, already about 63% of the spending in that department from last year -- with still expected to exceed $200 million and , , , , and among the roughly 75 other starters available. And though the player pool is widely considered to be better than it was a year ago, and many executives will caution that early deals tend to be inflated, setting up the possibility that those who remain don't do so well, one thing is clear: Starting pitching, famously out of vogue in the modern game, is still at a premium.
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The Colorado Avalanche and Nashville Predators are making yet another trade , with forward Juuso Pärssinen and a 2026 seventh-round pick headed to the Avalanche in exchange for forward Ondrej Pav el and a 2027 third-round pick. The Predators have been shopping Pärssinen around throughout much of the month, with Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reporting teams were interested in the forward two weeks ago . In the end, Nashville finds a typical suitor in Colorado. The two sides have already made one trade this season , swapping veteran backup Scott Wedgewood for young up-and-comer Justus Annunen and a draft pick in late November. That move was one of four trades that Nashville has made this year and one of three Avalanche trades. Both goalies have been fantastic in their new settings, with Wedgewood posting a 4-2-0 record and .932 save percentage in six games and Annunen posting a 2-1-0 record and .941 in four games. The two sides will now hope for similar profits from this deal. In Parssinen, Colorado receives the clear upper hand, reeling in a six-foot-three, 212-pound 23-year-old with the ability to play either center or wing. Parssinen, originally a seventh-round pick in 2019, turned pro with the Predators in the 2022-23 season. He started the year in the minors but earned a quick call-up after scoring nine points in his first 10 AHL games. Unfortunately, Parssinen couldn’t stay too hot at the pro level, though he did still manage an encouraging 25 points in 45 games as an NHL rookie. He made the Predators’ roster out of training camp last season but managed just 12 points in 43 games before being reassigned to the minor leagues. Parssinen managed an additional 25 points in 36 games with the Milwaukee Admirals, setting him up to return to the NHL this year – but he still can’t seem to find his footing at the top flight. As it stands, he has just five points in 15 games this season – while serving in a true fourth-line role. Parssinen still seems to have plenty of untapped potential and middle-six upside. While Colorado mines that vein, Nashville clears up additional space on the NHL roster by acquiring career minor-leaguer Ondrej Pavel . Pavel also turned pro in 2022-23, joining the AHL’s Colorado Eagles for two games and no scoring after the end of Minnesota State’s season. He more formally played his rookie AHL season last year, recording 10 points and 37 penalty minutes in 61 games. Pavel also received the first two NHL games of his career last year, though one minor penalty and a -1 stand as his only stat changes. He’s continued to post menial scoring this year, with just two points in 14 AHL games on the season, and should head for a clear role down Nashville’s depth chart. That could open up space for the team to award more ice time to Fedor Svechkov , Reid Schaefer , or Joakim Kemell – three top prospects who have each performed admirably in the AHL. Predators general manager Barry Trotz said previously that, should the roster continue sliding, he’d like to prioritize getting top prospects NHL action – a statement vindicated by this move and the team’s 4-5-1 record in their last 10 games. This article first appeared on Pro Hockey Rumors and was syndicated with permission.The 2024 state budget projects receiving GEL 105 million from the European Union. The state budget received a total of GEL 1.4 billion in EU grants between 2013 and 2023, averaging GEL 127 million annually. However, the estimated EU grant amount has been reduced to GEL 7 million in the draft budget for 2025. Contrary to the MP’s claim, the reduction in funding was not due to opaque spending – the main reason for the decrease was political disagreements and the Russian-style law. Furthermore, whilst a reduction of GEL 100 million in a GEL 27 billion budget will not threaten the functioning of the country, it will result in a loss of trust and potentially investments, in addition to the aforementioned GEL 100 million. Given the factual inaccuracies, lack of context, or possible intentional distortion of the actual picture, FactCheck concludes that Irakli Kadagishvili’s statement is FALSE. Analysis Whilst commenting on the potential reduction of the funding from the European Union, a member of the tenth convocation Parliament from the Georgian Dream political party claimed : “It is regrettable that the actual investment from the European Union to Georgia over the past 34 years has not exceeded GEL 100 million. This is on the backdrop of the Georgian budget, amounting to GEL 28 billion. The Georgian government has been spending both the GEL 28 billion and this GEL 100 million absolutely transparently. It is interesting whether Mr Borrell thinks that NGOs should spend this GEL 100 million as transparently as the Georgian government does or should it turn into ‘black money?’” Prior to Irakli Kadagishvili’s aforementioned statement, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell suggested that civil society, rather than state agencies, might receive EU financial assistance. The EU grant has been reduced from GEL 105 million to GEL 7 million as compared to 2024 in the draft state budget for 2025. The Ministry of Finance presented the first version of the budget on 30 September whilst Deputy Minister Giorgi Kakauridze asserted that the grant volume would likely increase in the final version. Whilst the third revised version of the budget must be approved by the third Friday of December (20 December), the second revised version still reflects the same GEL 7 million from the EU as of 22 November. Despite Irakli Kadagishvili using the word “investment,” it is clear from the context that the MP was referring to grants rather than foreign direct investment. The MP likely referred to the 2024 consolidated budget (the state budget as well as the budgets of municipalities and autonomous republics) whilst mentioning the GEL 28 billion figure. Total revenues for 2025 are projected at GEL 26.9 billion, with the consolidated budget set at GEL 31 billion, according to the draft. Irakli Kadagishvili simultaneously refers to “34 years” and cites figures for the budget and grant received in a single year. It is difficult to determine whether he meant that the EU grant averages GEL 100 million annually or if the total grant over the 34 years constituted GEL 100 million. However, in either case, the statement is inaccurate. Leaving aside the entire period of independence, the state budget received GEL 1.4 billion in grants from the EU during the 11 years of the Georgian Dream’s governance from 2013 to 2023. This corresponds to an annual average of GEL 127 million. How are these funds utilised? A total of GEL 2 million was spent on the development of Ajara’s water supply, GEL 16 million on the development of the economy and business and GEL 9 million in agriculture in 2023. Furthermore, GEL 116 million was allocated to the agricultural development programme. The MP claims that GEL 100 million is not a significant amount considering a GEL 28 million budget. Whilst GEL 100 million is not a small figure, it constitutes less than 0.5% of the total budget, suggesting that its absence will not threaten the functioning of the country. Financing for the army and the police, issuing social benefits and implementing infrastructure projects will continue without disruption. However, the real issue is more political, as this situation underlines that it is Brussels as a whole that is critical regarding the current policy of the Georgian government rather than just a few members of the European Parliament. Graph 1: Grants from the European Union in the State Budget Source : Ministry of Finance Moreover, Irakli Kadagishvili claims that Georgia has been spending the funds received from the EU transparently which could create the impression that opaque spending or corruption was the reason for the reduction in funding. However, this is inaccurate. Josep Borrell pointed to a deviation from the European path as the reason rather than the opaque spending of past grants: “The process of [EU accession] is being put on hold, it is stopped, until the Georgian government goes back to the [European] track. To go back on track, a lot of things have to change. In the meantime, we will use the money that was allocated to the government for the people who are fighting for their freedom [and European values].” Additionally, the EU and its financial institutions also provide Georgia with low-interest loans. Georgia owes the EU EUR 133 million directly, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) EUR 204 million and the European Investment Bank (EIB) EUR 1 billion as of 31 October 2024, totalling a debt of over EUR 1.3 billion . Georgia’s debt to France amounts to EUR 730 million and to Germany EUR 555 million amongst bilateral creditors. Georgia’s debt to the European Union, EU financial institutions and specific EU member countries exceeds EUR 2.5 billion. Another part of the aforementioned statement addressed the funding of NGOs where the MP questioned whether they would spend the received grants transparently like the government budget. However, donor organisations have not raised concerns about the transparency of NGO expenses. The main reason for the confrontation between the Georgian government and the West is the Russian-style law. Whilst the Georgian Dream political party has argued and continues to assert that the only objective of the law is to enhance transparency, many people in both Georgia and the EU view the law differently. Thousands of people in Tbilisi held almost continuous rallies for 1.5 months from the introduction of the law at the first hearing until the veto was overcome. Budget grants from the EU reached GEL 1.4 billion from 2013 to 2023, constituting an annual average of GEL 127 million just during the Georgian Dream’s governance and excluding the entire period of independence from the analysis. The reduction in funding was not due to opaque spending, rather the primary reason for it was political disagreements and the Russian-style law. Furthermore, whilst the absence of GEL 100 million in a GEL 27 budget will not threaten the functioning of the country, it will result in a loss of trust and potentially investments, in addition to the aforementioned GEL 100 million. Given the factual inaccuracies, lack of context, or possible intentional distortion of the actual picture, FactCheck concludes that Irakli Kadagishvili’s statement is FALSE.
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A pizza delivery worker, upset about a tip, allegedly repeatedly stabbed a customer at a Florida motel, authorities said Wednesday. Brianna Alvelo, 22, had delivered pizza to the Riviera Motel in Kissimmee, located south of Orlando, on Sunday, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said. The victim paid for the $33.10 order and gave Alvelo a $2 tip, according to court documents. When describing the incident to investigators, the victim said the delivery worker "rolled her eyes and walked away without saying anything" after getting the tip. But later, Alvelo came back armed with a pocket knife and with an unknown male suspect, who was armed with a gun, according to the court documents. Alvelo and the man forced their way into the room, where the victim, her boyfriend and her 5-year-old daughter were. The unknown male allegedly commanded the victim's boyfriend to go into the bathroom, and held him there at gunpoint. While the men were in the bathroom, Alvelo allegedly stabbed the victim 14 times. The victim had stab wounds to the chest, arms, leg and abdomen, and was taken to a local hospital, where she had surgery for a ruptured lung. While there, the victim learned she was a few weeks pregnant, the court documents say. She's currently in stable condition. Alvelo was taken into custody Monday and booked into the Osceola County Jail. She faces charges of home invasion with a firearm, attempted murder, kidnapping and aggravated assault. A bond is currently set for $55,000, according to online inmate records. A spokesperson for the pizza restaurant told CBS News affiliate WKMG that the owner and his team were fully cooperating with authorities. "The safety and well-being of customers and team members are always our top priority, and we are taking this incident very seriously," the spokesperson said. The armed male suspect who was at the motel has not yet been identified. Florida Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics.
