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12-team College Football Playoff puts even more emphasis on schedule strength, for better or worse 08/29/2024 03:32pm • Y'all ain't played nobody! It might as well be college football's slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating. With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season ��� in Angelina Jolie dazzles Venice Film Festival with ���Maria,��� a biopic about opera legend Maria Callas 08/29/2024 03:31pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� For Angelina Jolie, portraying the famed opera singer Maria Callas meant more to her than she can put into words. ���I felt such a privilege to feel like I got to know this woman and got to be inside her skin a moment. I really care for her deeply,��� Jolie told The Associated Real Madrid gets Champions League final rematches with Liverpool, Dortmund in new format fixtures 08/29/2024 03:13pm • MONACO (AP) ��� The Champions League will have a series of rematches of recent finals in the bigger slate of games paired Thursday in the new format of European soccer���s signature competition. Real Madrid will have re-runs of its past three Champions League title wins, against Liverpool and Boruss A baby in Gaza has a strain of polio linked to mistakes in eradication campaign, experts say 08/29/2024 02:51pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of ���an unqualified failure��� of public health policy. The infection, which marked Baltimore 'baby bonus' won't appear on ballots after court rules it unconstitutional 08/29/2024 02:30pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� A proposal in Baltimore that would allow city voters to decide whether to pay new parents $1,000 will not appear on the ballot in November after Maryland���s highest court ruled it unconstitutional. The court issued a ruling Thursday after hearing oral arguments Wednesday. I A US Open match lasts only 3 points when Karolina Pliskova stops against Paolini with an injury 08/29/2024 02:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A U.S. Open match between a pair of two-time Grand Slam finalists lasted only three points on Thursday, when former No. 1 Karolina Pliskova injured herself and had to stop playing against Jasmine Paolini. The score in the second-round contest was 15-all, with Paolini serving, when Virginia Board of Education approves changes to accreditation, accountability systems 08/29/2024 02:20pm • The Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday approved the final touches on the state���s Every Student Succeeds Act plan, designed to address concerns with how schools were rated and student performance was measured to determine better how to direct state resources. During the special meeting in No. 21 Arizona kicks off first season under Brent Brennan against New Mexico 08/29/2024 02:01pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ��� Arizona took three short years to go from one of the worst programs in the FBS to a 10-game winner on the rise. That was under Jedd Fisch. Now it's Brent Brennan's turn and he appears to have a stacked deck. Kicking off a season with more expectations than any in recent years, QB Malik Willis has little time to adapt as he joins Packers just before start of the season 08/29/2024 01:48pm • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) ��� The Green Bay Packers believe Malik Willis��� solid production this preseason offers a better indication of his potential than his rather pedestrian regular-season statistics. Green Bay acquired Willis from the Tennessee Titans this week to back up starting quarterback Jorda Nippon Steel boosts capital commitment to US Steel plants 08/29/2024 01:30pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Nippon Steel Corp. raised its capital commitment Thursday by more than $1 billion to spend on U.S. Steel's plants amid entrenched political and labor opposition to the Japanese company's nearly $15 billion acquisition of the iconic American steelmaker. Nippon Steel's $1.3 bi Normally nervous Norris not feeling extra pressure heading into Italian GP amid F1 title chase 08/29/2024 12:56pm • MONZA, Italy (AP) ��� Lando Norris claimed he���s not feeling the pressure ��� no more than normal at least. Norris secured a dominant victory at the Dutch Grand Prix last time out to continue to chip away at Max Verstappen���s lead at the top of the Formula One standings. The McLaren driver moved t Purdue hoping fast start against Indiana State puts it on road to defy last-place projections 08/29/2024 12:20pm • Indiana State at Purdue, Saturday, 12 p.m. ET (BTN) BetMGM College Football Odds: Purdue by 33 1/2. Series record: Purdue 6-0. WHAT���S AT STAKE? With six losses in their last eight season-openers, slow starts have become the norm at Purdue. The Boilermakers have gotten through their first four gam Newborn rattlesnakes at a Colorado 'mega den' are making their live debut 08/29/2024 12:08pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ��� A ���mega den��� of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born. Thanks to livestream video, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these enigmatic ��� and oft Darlington honors the late Cale Yarborough at his hometown track where he won five Southern 500s 08/29/2024 12:05pm • DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) ��� Cale Yarborough used to sneak under the fence as a child at Darlington Raceway, planning for the day when he would dominate at the hometown track known as ���Too Tough To Tame.��� Yarborough, the Hall of Fame driver who died at age 84 this past New Year's Eve, soon enough l Jacoby Brissett is selected Patriots starting quarterback for Week 1 against Cincinnati 08/29/2024 12:02pm • FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ��� Patriots coach Jerod Mayo is putting the keys to his offense in the hands of the veteran quarterback on his roster over the franchise's potential quarterback of the future. Mayo selected Jacoby Brissett as the starting quarterback for New England's season opener at Cincin