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SEC contenders handling early schedule of beefier foes instead of cupcakes to boost playoff resumes 09/11/2024 04:41pm • One unknown to scheduling non-conference opponents years in advance is whether those future foes are as attractive when game day finally arrives as they were when the contract was signed. So-called “cupcake” guarantee games against overmatched lower-tier foes often end up providing a lopsided wi Pirates GM Ben Cherington says he expects manager Derek Shelton to return in 2025 09/11/2024 04:38pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington expects manager Derek Shelton to return next season. Cherington said Wednesday that Shelton remains “the right person to manage this team in 2025” despite an August swoon that dropped the Pirates out of postseason contention. Donald Trump faces his own debate fallout just months after benefiting from Joe Biden's 09/11/2024 04:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump emerged Wednesday from a rocky debate against Kamala Harris looking to regain his footing with 55 days until Election Day, the first ballots already going out in Alabama and other states on the cusp of early voting. Not even three months ago, Trump stepped off the de Pochettino embarks on 'journey' with US men's team after turbulence at PSG and Chelsea 09/11/2024 03:28pm • Mauricio Pochettino didn't expect to be here. His appointment as United States men's national team head coach was not in the plans when he signed a two-year contract at Chelsea last season and made his triumphant return to the Premier League. But soccer management is a fickle industry and the U.S. h Round House Theatre's 'Sojourners' argues immigration is vital to the American Dream 09/11/2024 03:16pm •   Immigration is front and center in the heartfelt new dramatic play "Sojourners," which opens Wednesday night at the prolific Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, running now through Oct. 6. "It's a timely topic," director Valerie Curtis-Newton told WTOP. "There's a lot of conv Former conference rivals Oklahoma, Oklahoma State to play men's basketball game at Paycom Center 09/11/2024 03:05pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former conference rivals Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will face off in a men's basketball game on Dec. 14 at the Paycom Center, home of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The schools competed for decades as members of the Big 12, but Oklahoma left for the Southeastern Conference in Jul Campbell wants to say goodbye to the 'soup' in its name. It isn't the first to make such a change 09/11/2024 03:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Campbell is ready to drop the soup — at least from its official name. Campbell Soup Co. announced its intention to change its name at an annual meeting of investors on Tuesday. The 155-year-old food seller, which is most famous for its namesake canned soups, says it would now lik Cardinals put starting right tackle Jonah Williams on injured reserve with a knee injury 09/11/2024 02:45pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have put starting right tackle Jonah Williams on injured reserve because of a knee injury suffered in the season-opening loss against the Buffalo Bills. Coach Jonathan Gannon confirmed the move on Wednesday, saying he's “not going to speculate” how lon Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political 09/11/2024 01:57pm • Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We're Alone,” a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like the assassination of a president back in her n No. 18 Notre Dame counting on young offensive line to grow into new roles quickly 09/11/2024 01:22pm • SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame’s young, inexperienced offensive line handled the hostile environment at Texas A&M just fine. Then came the home opener everyone wants to forget — a 16-14 loss to Northern Illinois. Two weeks into the season, the Fighting Irish (1-1) are languishing at No Editorial Roundup: United States 09/11/2024 01:08pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 6 The Washington Post on Chinese subterfuge in the U.S. Evidence — including a bombshell indictment this week of a senior New York political figure — is mounting that China is not content to run a police state just at ho The Mississippi River is running low again. It’s a problem for farmers moving beans and grain 09/11/2024 12:49pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits. It was just two months ago that much of the Mississippi River was above flood stage north of Movie Review: Sinister and unhinged, James McAvoy is the weekend host from hell in ‘Speak No Evil’ 09/11/2024 12:16pm • Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal? Nope, and there’s no signal at Paddy and Ciara’s house, either, deep in the English countryside. Soon, that land line will be cut, too, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Paddy and Ciara are that fun-b Workers call off protest that grounded flights at Kenya's main airport 09/11/2024 12:01pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's airport workers' union has called off a strike that grounded flights in the country's main airport on Wednesday over awarding the contract for its modernization and operations to an Indian firm. The decision came after a day-long talks between the union leaders and t US Postal Service squeeze on shipping consolidators could raise consumer costs 09/11/2024 12:01pm • The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation's doorsteps, in a move meant to help the Postal Service slow losses but that could see the higher costs passed on to consumers. Consolidators move abou