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treasure of the aztecs Paveletzke also contributed eight rebounds for the Bobcats (4-5). Elmore James scored 16 points, shooting 6 for 8, including 2 for 4 from beyond the arc. AJ Clayton went 5 of 10 from the field (2 for 7 from 3-point range) to finish with 14 points. The Eagles (3-6) were led in scoring by Tyler Brelsford, who finished with 16 points, six rebounds and five assists. Jalen Breazeale added 13 points for Morehead State. Kade Ruegsegger also had 12 points, six rebounds and three steals. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Nat Lopez There's a Swiftie in Singapore who hasn't missed a single one of 's performances. Since on March 17, 2023, the super-fan has seen Swift in every venue she's sold out on six different continents. For the most part, he's tuned into the shows on TikTok livestreams, but he's also been physically present in the crowd for several of the career-spanning concerts. But he hasn't been religiously tuning in simply for personal pleasure. For over two years, he's dedicated hundreds of hours to documenting the historic, record-breaking Eras Tour for his own audience of 813,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter). On Nov. 1, 2022, the day Swift announced she was going back on tour, the Singaporean fan launched , an anonymous social media profile dedicated to keeping fellow fans updated on her anticipated return to stadiums. With some viral posts that have breached beyond the Swiftie community, the admin has watched his work make mainstream media headlines, and he's even given a few interviews himself. Through it all, the Eras Tour expert has kept his identity a secret — until now, that is, because on Dec. 8, the Grammy winner will close her Eras Tour with a last show in Vancouver. Nat Lopez — whom PEOPLE can exclusively reveal is the person behind the leading Swift update account on X — will be there to witness the grande finale. Nat Lopez Related: First, however, Lopez has another milestone to celebrate: finishing high school. He's already taken his A-level exams, and after the graduation ceremony on Dec. 7, the 20-year-old will fly from Singapore to Canada for the Eras Tour closing night. "This is my first solo trip, and in fact, this is my second time ever out of Asia," Lopez tells PEOPLE ahead of his journey to Vancouver. "I'm excited to experience Canada and just explore. It's a new place, a new environment, and of course seeing Taylor, that's always an exciting thing." This won't be his first time attending the Eras Tour, though. Lopez was able to nab tickets for all six shows she performed in Singapore this past March. Technically, he started saving up for the pricey seats back in 2018, during Swift's Reputation Tour, the last time she took her talents to stadiums around the world. He set aside money for when the Reputation Tour came to visit Asia, but Swift only ended up performing in Japan. At the time, Lopez was a young teenager and unable to travel solo. His parents wouldn't take him either, as he says they "didn't understand" why he was so desperate to see Swift in Tokyo. "I had to miss out on [the Reputation Tour], but I did have a little money saved," he explains. "I put that money away until the next time she toured, and then COVID happened, and she didn't tour for quite a few years. When the Eras Tour was announced, I started saving again, and I added that to the Reputation Tour fund that I already had." Originally, only three Singapore dates were set for the Eras Tour, and Lopez opted to try for tickets to two of the shows. When she extended the stop two-fold, he decided to stretch his savings to cover four nights. Thanks to his X account's viral notoriety, he was offered two more tickets sponsored by brands. Nat Lopez Related: And yes, even when he was physically present at the stadium, he diligently continued updating his X followers about the show's ongoings. Whether in the crowd or watching a livestream from home, Lopez has developed a streamlined process for documenting performances. From each concert's start to finish, the admin posts about Swift's outfit choices for each era and shares videos of performance highlights. When it's time for the widely anticipated acoustic portion of the night, the X user blasts updates about which "surprise songs" Swift chose to sing. "In real life, I love staying organized, so I made it quite a big deal to stay organized for this as well," Lopez tells PEOPLE. "I would say the first few shows [were] a real mess for me because I mean, no one knew what was happening. No one knew that we were going to keep getting new outfits or surprise songs." After nearly 152 shows, the student says the process has become "quite simple." He knows all the variations of Swift's on-stage costumes and can recite the setlist by heart. Sometimes Lopez will draft tweets, though with such frequent surprises, it's hard to draft and schedule posts ahead of the show. "Surprise songs are the most hectic time for me because I've got to update the outfit, the song, the album, whatever she's saying, all in like mere seconds, but I think I've just gotten used to it," he adds. When Swift started her U.S. leg, Lopez had no trouble waking up a little earlier to fulfill his duties to the fandom. The Australian shows were easy as well, just an adjustment that moved Lopez's shift from morning to evening. Lopez says the "real struggle" came about when the tour made its way to Europe. Nat Lopez Related: "I didn't actually know if I was going to do it. I didn't know if I was going to have the time or the willpower to be awake in the middle of the night," he admits. "But lucky for me, the European leg was along the span of my school break, so I didn't really have anything going on. I thought, let me just do it. I've done the rest of the tour." Surprisingly, Lopez says he only feels a bit of pressure when he's juggling updates with his life outside of X, like when he was busy in class. "[If] I'm at school, I'll just secretly do it under the table or something, but that's rare because the shows are usually on weekends, which is really good for me," he explains. "For me, if something becomes stressful, I just stop doing it. But this has just been fun for me. It's been enjoyable." After garnering such a massive following of Swifties, Lopez started to receive direct messages from fans actually in attendance at the show. They'd send him tips about the event, like photos and notes about which celebrities were in the VIP tent. "Sometimes people warn me whenever they know that there's not going to be good reception at a certain show, like, 'Oh, this stadium is known for having bad reception,'" says Lopez. "I'll purposefully plan beforehand and have people inside the stadium that I know will be able to help me out, and they do. They do it really well. I'm very grateful." When Swift's not on stage, the account regularly posts photos of her outings and creates buzz about the shows to come. The account took on a life outside the Eras Tour when Swift started dating Travis Kelce and attending Kansas City Chiefs games. Most notably, Lopez's post surmising Swift "was eating a piece of chicken with ketchup " at an NFL game went particularly viral, clocking in today with . 🚨| Taylor Swift was eating a piece of chicken with ketchup and seemingly ranch! — The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) Related: The "seemingly ranch" concept blew up, reaching the likes of the and even inspiring later that month. At one point, even changed its X name to “Seemingly Ranch.” Heinz took the cheeky quote to another level by releasing 100 limited-edition bottles of a new "Ketchup and Seemingly Ranch" sauce just days after the tweet was posted. Lopez says that "seemingly ranch" might have been the "craziest thing" to spawn from this account. He wasn't expecting the media surge at all; it was just another one of Lopez's playfully captioned Swift updates at first. "I think it was the first Chiefs game Taylor attended, and no one knew she was going to attend. I woke up late, it was early in the morning for me and everyone was blowing up my notifications," he recalls to PEOPLE. "I was a bit late to it, so I was thinking, oh, what's something I can tweet to be a little unique? Let me just randomly tweet about this photo." He continues, "I think people who had followed me for a while back then, they know the kind of tweets I make. They're not very serious. I do make a lot of joking tweets and I don't take my account super formally. It's really informal. It's like a fan account that does updates less than an update account," Lopez says the magnitude of the moment really hit him when about 20 bottles of "Seemingly Ranch" dressing with his name on them were delivered to his house. "They did ask for my address. I thought, 'Oh, they're just going to send one bottle,'" he shares. "I still have some. I gave them out to my family and my friends." In addition to the support from friendships he's foraged within the fan base, Lopez says he's backed by his offline pals as well. Some of them even joined him at the Singapore shows. Speaking about his inner circle of friends, Lopez says, "Whenever I need help doing something or editing something or thinking of ideas, I just ask them and they just help me out. Nat Lopez Related: Lopez's family, however, isn't as clued in on the ongoings of his life as a digital celebrity, despite the fact that he lives at home. "They don't really know what I do. They know it's related to Taylor Swift and social media, but I don't think they know it's to this extent," he says of his family. When he's up at 4 a.m. watching the Eras Tour on a livestream, he just tells them it's work, and no one questions it. In many ways, it really work. Beyond the required organization and knowledge of all things Swift, Lopez does make money through X monetization. He just doesn't keep much of the profits. "I like donating to the animal shelters in Singapore. My plan was originally to do overseas shelters, but I wasn't able to figure out how it worked. I'm trying to do it for Vancouver for the last stop. Hopefully it works out," he says. "In the future, I plan to be a [veterinarian]. That's what I'm aiming for. So I think it's nice if I start contributing to that part of the culture early on." Next up for Lopez — after the closing night of the Eras Tour, of course — is university, he hopes, which will move him closer to his goal of professionally caring for animals. As for the @tswifterastour account, he says it'll likely continue as "a normal fan account," but he'll maintain the same level of "respect" for Swift's life and privacy, which have always been top priorities for the X user. "I purposefully don't post when people take photos of her without her knowing in public or at a restaurant, inside the restaurant or something. I don't post those. I don't like those spreading around," he says. "I just like to spread a positive image ... I think that's quite important." Nat Lopez Related: That ethos has set Lopez's work apart from other fan pages, and he says he's received a lot of encouraging feedback from followers about that fact. "With the tour ending, a lot of people [are] DMing me saying this account has been such a safe space for them. It's like the only reason they still have this app or they're going to miss it," Lopez tells PEOPLE. "You don't have to miss it. I'm still going to be here, just not updating [about] the tour." Lopez also hopes that his devotion to the Eras Tour — whether shown through his posts on X or in interviews — sends a heartfelt message to Swift, too. "I just want to thank her for being such a safe space for so many people like me, my friends, everyone online," he notes. "I mean, she definitely knows the impact her music has made, but it never hurts to tell her again." Read the original article on

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CEDAR FALLS — End of an era. A fourth straight championship game appearance is something to be proud about. But in the end, West Hancock of Britt could not overcome Tri-Center of Neola in the Class A state championship game Thursday at the UNI-Dome. The Trojans (12-1) pulled out a 14-10 victory to dethrone the defending champion Eagles (12-1), earning the school’s first state football title in program history. “Championship games are about who makes the biggest plays or who makes the most plays,” running back Gustavo Gomez said. “It looks like they did today.” “I’m proud of my guys,” quarterback Zephyr Jamtgaard said. “They took it seriously and I’m really proud of that. We’re a program that gets to the championship. Win or lose, I’m still proud of this team. I don’t think this game defines our season at all.” West Hancock nearly pulled it off despite a pair of devastating injuries. A week ago, the Eagles lost second-leading rusher and top tackler Creighton Kelly to a knee injury. Kelly tried to make a go of it in pre-game but was immediately ruled out. Then in the second half, leading rusher Brady Bixel went down and had an arm in a sling by the end of the game. “Down here that’s part of the game,” West Hancock head coach Mark Sanger said. “In Class A football, when you lose kids like Creighton Kelly and Brady Bixel, I’d be lying to you if it didn’t affect what your gameplan was and what you’re doing. We got guys who stepped in, and we prepared for it.” “Brady was out so I had to step in at fullback,” Gomez said. “I have experience playing fullback, so it didn’t really increase my workload or anything.” Tri-Center made it tough on the Eagles and forced them into things a typical West Hancock team does not have to do, especially playing from behind and without its two best offensive weapons. For a team that didn’t throw the ball once in the semi-final game against Madrid, the Eagles quarterback Zephyr Jamtgaard was forced to throw more than normal as he finished just 3 for 9 for 33 yards. Bixel had 100 rushing yards before he went out with injury. Tri-Center, on the other hand, was also firing on all cylinders offensively with Carter Kunze running for 168 yards and a rushing touchdown paired with 62 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown. Quarterback A.J. Harder had 207 passing yards with the touchdown to Kunze. Zach Nelson led the Trojans in receiving yards with 78. The game started with an explosive drive by the Trojans. The Trojans pounded the ball 42 yards down the field before Kunze picked up his first touchdown of the game on a 38-yard reception to give them the early 7-0 lead. After trading defensive stops, the Eagles finally answered back in a big way. After forcing a turnover on downs on the West Hancock 45-yard line, Gomez took off from the Tri-Center 49-yard line and tied the game up 7-7. “I ran my hardest,” Gomez said. “I only had one touchdown. It was all that I could get today.” Tri-Center closed the first half with a nearly five-minute drive dominated by Kunze’s ground game and the Trojans took back the lead with a Kunze four-yard touchdown with 40 seconds left in the half. The Eagles tried to tie the game back up, but a forward pass on a trick play past the line of scrimmage left the game 14-7 in favor of the Trojans as both teams headed into the locker room. The Eagles were the only team to score in the second half. Bixel exploded in the first two plays for a 28-yard rush followed by a 15-yard rush to get the ball in scoring position. However, a strong defensive showing by Tri-Center, West Hancock was forced to kick their first field goal of the year to make the game 14-10. “It was just a battle in the second half,” Sanger said. “We tried to figure out what we could do and couldn’t do. Defensively, we gave them some yards, but we turned them away when we had to. We turned them away in the second half, but we couldn’t make enough plays in the end to win that game.” The West Hancock senior class finished their football careers doing something that no team in school history has ever done by making the championship game for all four years of high school. “I couldn’t ask for a better senior class,” Sanger said. “There may be more athletic classes that come through but the way these guys compose themselves, the way they work, the example they set, the things they do, they’re going to be fine young men in our society as they go forward. That’s the goal isn’t it?” “This season has been great,” Jamtgaard said. “We finished 12-1 and were district champs, which is something we didn’t do last year. It’s really something to be proud of.” Sent weekly directly to your inbox!Brainy, 'normal guy': the suspect in US insurance CEO's slaying

Judge rejects move to bar San Jose State volleyball player from women's tournamentATLANTA — On Jan. 18 and 19 the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! will be held at State Farm Arena in advance of the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 20. The star-studded lineup was announced Thursday at a news conference at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Performances will include Lil Wayne and GloRilla on Saturday; and Camila Cabello, Myles Smith and Knox on Sunday. On game day, the Allstate Championship Tailgate, taking place just outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the Home Depot Backyard, will feature country acts on the Capital One Music Stage, including global superstar Kane Brown and iHeartCountry “On The Verge” artist Ashley Cooke. The concerts are just two of the festivities visiting fans can enjoy in the days leading up to the big game. The fan experience for both ticket holders and the general public has been a focus for event planners. All weekend long, an estimated 100,000 people from across the country are expected to attend fan events preceding kickoff. “It will be an opportunity for fans of all ages to come together to sample what college football is all about, and you don’t have to have a ticket to the game to be a part of it,” said Bill Hancock, executive director of the CFP in a press release. “We’ve worked closely with the Atlanta Football Host Committee to develop fan-friendly events that thousands will enjoy come January.” On Saturday, Jan. 18, Playoff Fan Central will open at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The free, family-friendly experience will include games, clinics, pep rallies, special guest appearances, autograph signings and exhibits celebrating college football and its history. That day, fans can also attend Media Day, presented by Great Clips, which will feature one-hour sessions with student-athletes and coaches from each of the College Football Playoff national championship participating teams. ESPN and social media giants X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will be taping live broadcasts from the event. On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Trophy Trot, both a 5K and 10K race, will wind its way through the streets of downtown Atlanta. Each Trophy Trot participant will receive a T-shirt and finisher’s medal. Participants can register at atlantatrackclub.org . On Sunday evening, the Georgia Aquarium will host the Taste of the Championship dining event, which offers attendees the opportunity to indulge in food and drink prepared by local Atlanta chefs. This premium experience serves as an elevated exploration of local cuisine on the eve of the national championship. Tickets to the Taste of the Championship event are available on etix.com . Atlanta is the first city ever to repeat as host for the CFP national championship. The playoff was previously held in Atlanta in 2018. “We are honored to be the first city to repeat as host for the CFP national championship and look forward to welcoming college football fans from around the country in January,” said Dan Corso, president of the Atlanta Sports Council and Atlanta Football Host Committee. “This event gives us another opportunity to showcase our incredible city.” The College Football Playoff is the event that crowns the national champion in college football. The quarterfinals and semifinals rotate annually among six bowl games — the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year’s quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025, while the semifinals will be Jan. 9-10, 2025. The CFP national championship will be Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com . Get local news delivered to your inbox!

By Lawrence Delevingne (Reuters) -Stocks in the U.S. and Europe were mixed on Monday, while the dollar gained versus the euro, amid political turmoil in France and positive signals for the U.S. economy. French equities finished little changed in choppy trading after politicians there planned a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Michel Barnier, a move likely to cause the French government to collapse this week. Broader European shares pulled back on the news but still finished the day up 0.66% on the day. In the U.S., data showed manufacturing contracted at a moderate pace in November, with orders growing for the first time in eight months and factories facing significantly lower prices for inputs. More economic data is expected this week, including the key monthly jobs report on Friday. Wall Street stocks were mixed, with a boost from technology shares such as Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Amazon.com Inc, which gained 3.2% and 1.4%, respectively, although Intel fell 0.5% after the faltering American chipmaker announced CEO Pat Gelsinger’s retirement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.29% to 44,782, the S&P 500 rose 0.24% to 6,047 and the Nasdaq Composite rose about 1% to 19,403. “We are seeing a bit of a reversal of the last few weeks with tech leadership returning and rallies in financials and cyclicals pausing,” John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds in New York, said in an email. Belton added that data points released over the weekend suggested Black Friday spending was above expectations, with particular strength seen in e-commerce sales. The euro sank around 0.75% to $1.0498, as the dollar got a boost over the weekend as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump warned BRICS emerging nations against trying to replace the greenback with any other currency. The euro has lost 14% over three months, partly on concern the euro zone economy might need deeper interest rate cuts than expected from the European Central Bank. [EMRG/FRX] Amid the political drama in France, the risk premium that investors demand to hold French government debt jumped. The gap between France and Germany’s 10-year bond yields – a measure of French borrowing costs compared with the euro zone benchmark – rose about 7 basis points to 87 bps, although it remained below last week’s 12-year high of 90 bps . “Heightened political uncertainty could also play a role at the margin in keeping alive market expectations for larger 50 bps ECB rate cut this month although the hard economic data is not fully supportive,” MUFG currency strategist Lee Hardman said. Global stocks edged higher, leaving the MSCI All-World index up about 0.3%. DOLLAR, U.S. BOND YIELDS FIRM The Federal Reserve is in focus and Friday’s monthly payrolls report could be the deciding factor when policymakers consider whether to cut rates again on Dec. 18. A number of Fed officials are due to speak this week, including Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday. Traders put the odds of a quarter-point reduction at about 60%. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said on Monday he was inclined to cut the benchmark interest rate as monetary policy remained restrictive enough to keep putting downward pressure on inflation, while the labor market was roughly in balance, something the Fed wants to maintain. In Treasury markets, the yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes was flat on the day at 4.194%. That has left the dollar index, which measures the currency against six others, up 0.33% at 106.39, having gained 1.8% in November. In Asia, mainland Chinese shares closed up 0.8%, following a robust reading in a private manufacturing survey on Monday. The yen, meanwhile, was steady near Friday’s six-week high of 149.47. Gold slipped 0.6% to $2,637 an ounce, under pressure from the strong dollar, after sliding more than 3% in November, its worst monthly performance since September 2023. [GOL/] Oil prices were steady, as optimism around strong factory activity in China was largely offset by concerns the Fed will not cut U.S. rates again at its December meeting. [O/R] In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin fell 1.88% to $95,619.00. (Reporting by Lawrence Delevingne in Boston and Amanda Cooper in London. Additional reporting by Kevin Buckland in Tokyo and Ankur Banerjee in Singapore; Editing by Shri Navaratnam, Ed Osmond, Jan Harvey, Alexander Smith, Gareth Jones, Jonathan Oatis and David Gregorio) Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the Reuters news service. 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