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If Lamar Jackson is healthy again, the Ravens can contend for a title despite offseason departures 08/28/2024 12:10pm • BALTIMORE RAVENS (14-5) EXPECTATIONS: The Ravens fell one win short of the Super Bowl last season after having the NFL's best record during the regular season. The loss to Kansas City at home in the AFC championship game was a huge missed opportunity, and Baltimore had to make plenty of changes i Marathon Match: Longest US Open match since at least 1970 goes a grueling 5 hours, 35 minutes 08/28/2024 12:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A few hours into a match that eventually set a U.S. Open record for length, Dan Evans glanced over at the scoreboard. Not to see how he was doing, but to clarify exactly how long he had been playing. ���In the fourth set, I had to check the set to see what set we were in,��� Evans Commanders turn to Jayden Daniels to quarterback a new era for Washington football 08/28/2024 12:03pm • WASHINGTON COMMANDERS (4-13) EXPECTATIONS: It is a whole new era for Washington football, with rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels at the forefront. The No. 2 pick and 2023 Heisman Trophy winner out of LSU is set to be the team's eighth different starter at football's most important position in as Aaron Rodgers is back for the Jets and so are lofty expectations to end a 13-year playoff drought 08/28/2024 11:58am • NEW YORK JETS (7-10) EXPECTATIONS: Playoffs or bust. And for a franchise that has the NFL's longest active postseason drought at 13 years, that's no easy task. But with the 40-year-old Aaron Rodger back and healthy after tearing his left Achilles tendon on his fourth snap of the season last year, th No. 24 N.C. State looks for pre-Tennessee tuneup with home opener against Western Carolina 08/28/2024 11:00am • Western Carolina at No. 24 N.C. State, Thursday at 7 p.m. ET (ACC Network) BetMGM College Football Odds: No line. Series record: N.C. State leads 7-0 WHAT���S AT STAKE? N.C. State is opening a season with ambitions of being a contender in the Atlantic Coast Conference, bolstered by transfers like a Sweaty corn is making it even more humid 08/28/2024 10:33am • Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ocean of corn. The term for the late-summer spike in humidity from corn plants cooling themselves was � Navy recruiting rebounds, but it will miss its target to get sailors through boot camp 08/28/2024 10:29am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Navy will meet its goal to sign up 40,600 recruits by the end of September thanks to several new recruiting programs, but the crush of last-minute enlistments means it won't be able to get them all through boot camp by next month. Navy Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman said the servic Sports on TV for Thursday, Aug. 29 08/28/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Aug. 29 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 6 p.m. BTN ��� Howard at Rutgers 7 p.m. ACCN ��� W. Carolina at NC State 7:30 p.m. ESPNU ��� Ark.-Pine Bluff at Arkansas 8 p.m. CBSSN ��� Coastal Carolina at Jacksonville St. ESPN ��� N. Dakota St. at Sports on TV for Sept. 2 - 8 08/28/2024 10:00am • Adv31 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Sept. 2 AUTO RACING Noon FS1 ��� NHRA: The Toyota NHRA U.S. Nationals, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis 2 p.m. FS1 ��� NHRA: The Toyota NHRA U.S. Nationals, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapoli Ecuador's citizens voted to stop oil drilling in heart of Amazon. A year later, it hasn't happened 08/28/2024 09:45am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� It's been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country's share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to start shutting down operations. For supporters of the shutdown, that's not even the worst part: the gov Denmark creates 3 new ministers in government reshuffle 08/28/2024 08:20am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Denmark's three-party centrist government said Wednesday it will create three new ministries, including a government office in charge of emergency preparedness. The government wants a minister in charge of European Union affairs ahead of Denmark���s rotating EU presidenc Stolen letters, burned mail: One DC community's ordeal with monthslong postal woes 08/28/2024 07:27am • Across the country, communities have seen a rise postal crimes in recent years. One neighborhood in Northeast D.C. is not only dealing with stolen mail, but also mail that's being burned. Daniel Hartmann, Homeowners Association president for the Village at Dakota Crossing, told WTOP that resident No. 24 NC State opens against FCS foe Western Carolina with eye on looming Tennessee matchup 08/28/2024 06:10am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� N.C. State found plenty of offseason help in the transfer portal. Coach Dave Doeren is set to get his first look at how those pieces fit together and what must improve before a looming marquee matchup. Western Carolina visits the 24th-ranked Wolfpack on Thursday night, opening Drying lakes and thirsty trees: In drought-hit Greece, water trucks are keeping crops alive 08/28/2024 03:53am • NEA SILATA, Greece (AP) ��� Six weeks before harvest, there���s no water left in the ground for farmer Dimitris Papadakis��� olive grove in northern Greece, so he has started a new morning routine. Joined by his teenage son, he uses a truck to bring water from nearby areas. Using a small generator, Women in Chad defy discrimination and violence to assert their rights to own and control land 08/28/2024 03:01am • BINMAR, Chad (AP) ��� When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without means for survival. Though raised in a farming family, she struggled to get by in a community where access to land is customaril