5 Siouxland boys basketball teams, players and storylines to watch in 2025Pulse Biosciences, Inc. Announces Planned Redemption of WarrantsA former NFL star has accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being intoxicated during her speech to Americans on Wednesday. Harris, who lost the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump in early November, gave a speech to dejected Democrats on Wednesday. However, many are taking to social media to talk about her appearance in the speech. The full speech has gone viral on social media, as it was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I just have to remind you: Don’t you ever let anybody take your power from you,” Harris stated in the clip posted to the Democratic Party’s account. “You have the same power that you did before November 5, and you have the same purpose that you did. And you have the same ability to engage and inspire, so don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.” Democratic National Party. Former NFL star Antonio Brown was among those accusing Harris of being intoxicated during her speech. "Drunk Auntie on Thanksgiving...." he wrote. NFL fans are weighing in on the accusation. "She started before the Lions game came on, I know that look, I’ve seen it in the mirror by game two," one fan wrote. "She’s definitely gonna be the one making a scene, stumbling around, calling everyone fascist until she starts crying and telling you how much she loves you before she passes out in backyard," one fan added. "Look's exactly like my sixth grade reading teacher, Mrs. Gillis, who had a bottle of "Listerine," that she sipped out of all day," one fan added. "Imagine the Thanksgiving dinner chaos with Kamala Harris at the table! Culture clash or comedy gold?" one fan added. Vice President @KamalaHarris ’ message to supporters. pic.twitter.com/x5xMUGTtkz Brown, of course, isn't one to talk about public appearances. The former NFL star last played in the league in 2022, when he ran off the field at Metlife Stadium with his shirt off. "I took a seat on the sideline and my coach came up to me, very upset, and shouted, 'What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?' I told him, 'It's my ankle.' But he knew that. It was well-documented and we had discussed it," Brown said of his behavior. "He then ordered me to get on the field. I said, 'Coach, I can't.' He didn't call for medical attention. Instead, he shouted at me, 'YOU'RE DONE!' while he ran his finger across his throat. Coach was telling me that if I didn't play hurt, then I was done with the Bucs." He added: "I know we were losing to the Jets and that was frustrating for all of us. But I could not make football plays on that ankle. Yes, I walked off the field. But there's a major difference between launching from the line and taking hits, compared to jogging off the field with a rush of emotions going through your mind. I am reflecting on my reaction, but there was a trigger. The trigger was someone telling me that I'm not allowed to feel pain." Brown, 36, played in the NFL from 2010-2021. He was a five-time All-Pro, but he's clearly gone off the deep end in recent years.
Eyeing to end the losing streak, Man City will host Tottenham Hotspur on match week 12 of the Premier League 2024-25 on Saturday, November 23. The Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur match will be played at Etihad Stadium and it starts at 11:00 PM IST (Indian Standard Time). For years, Star Sports Network has been the official broadcast partner of the Premier League matches and will broadcast EPL 2024-25 matches in India. The Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur live telecast will be available on the Star Sports Select HD and SD channels. Fans in India can watch the Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur, Premier League 2024-25 match live streaming online on the Disney+ Hotstar app and website. Lionel Messi Listens to All Three Versions Of Tracks In Contention to Become Official Song For Barcelona's 125th Anniversary, Gives His Approval (Watch Video). We. Are. Back. pic.twitter.com/SuQEG1wKBC — Premier League (@premierleague) November 23, 2024 (SocialLY brings you all the latest breaking news, viral trends and information from social media world, including Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. The above post is embeded directly from the user's social media account and LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body. The views and facts appearing in the social media post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY, also LatestLY does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.)Seafood industry awaits Trump
Folks reported strange things in a New York town in 1945, right after the government announced an experiment adding tiny amounts of fluoride to the municipal drinking water. “Dozens of Newburgh residents called the water department to complain that the water was discoloring their saucepans, hurting the flavor of carbonated beverages and causing digestive upsets,” the Washington Evening Star reported on Feb. 22, 1951. One Newburgh resident demanded restitution from the city, claiming her false teeth dissolved overnight in a glass of tap water. The same thing happened in North Carolina, where residents of Charlotte flooded the city water department with complaints of illness not long after the water fluoridation program was announced there in 1949. All of these complaints? They came before the fluoride had actually been added to the water. The callers had only heard this would happen. Newspapers described it as something used in some insecticides, but didn’t mention that it is a mineral naturally occurring in water and soil. “By the time the compound was put in,” the Evening Star wrote, “... complaints had ceased.” And so began the fluoride wars, a decades-long battle of science, urban myth, emotion and passionate division. It’s a public debate that has invoked Nazis and Communists, mind control, public poisoning and civil rights. And with President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who promises to end fluoridation of public water — to his Cabinet, it’s part of today’s politics. Tooth decay had long been a profound public health issue in America. “Not one person in 10 had a mouth full of teeth,” Willard VerMeulen told The Washington Post in a 1988 interview when he described his dental practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1930s. The dentist went on to describe the Saturday morning routine of extracting scores of rotten teeth from the mouths of children. Grand Rapids became the first U.S. city to try adding fluoride to its drinking water in 1945. In the 1940s, bad teeth was the top reason the Selective Service booted aspiring soldiers from the Army. About 17% of recruits didn’t have “six opposing teeth,” according to the American Dental Association. By then, American scientists researching fluoride believed they may have come across a simple antidote for better dental health. It began in 1901, when a dental school graduate from the East Coast headed west to open his first practice and was startled by the pronounced brown stains on the teeth of his patients in Colorado Springs. Curiously, Frederick McKay observed that the folks with “Colorado Brown Stain” had otherwise remarkably healthy teeth. McKay began researching this, and was joined by others hopscotching from Colorado to Idaho to Arkansas, following reports of other brown-toothed children. The answer finally came exactly 30 years after he met his first mottled tooth. The chief chemist at a company in Pennsylvania, exhausted after years refuting claims that aluminum cookware was poisonous, tested a water sample from one of the brown-tooth towns and found high levels of fluoride. The early research focused on how to reduce the fluoride levels on some water sources across the nation. The idea was to get rid of the brown stains, the result of over-fluoridation called fluorosis. “Scrub, Scrub, Scrub, Just Like Tub,” read the headline of a 1941 story in the Albuquerque Tribune advising people of ways to eliminate the stains. Eventually, H. Trendley Dean, head of the Dental Hygiene Unit at the National Institutes of Health, homed in on the benefits of the fluoride and sought to determine levels that strengthened the teeth but didn’t stain them. The Grand Rapids experiment was his first chance to try this out. Within 11 years of the 15-year experiment, the level of tooth damage from decay dropped by 60% among the city’s children, according to the National Institutes of Health. As other municipalities began adding fluoride to the public water supply, studies continued to show improvement in children’s dental health. The fear of fluoridation, however, began to bloom. “The German chemists (under Hitler) worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass control,” read one of the many letters opposing fluoridation that were published by the Hartford Courant in February 1955. A reader in the Chippewa Herald-Telegram in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, urged editors that same year to alert FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that fluoridation programs should count as an “attempt at poisoning the public water supplies.” Historians have debunked the myth of Nazi involvement, and scientists have knocked down scores of theories centering on singular and weird examples of health issues. The growing dissent may have had something to do with that moment in American culture. Widespread fluoridation was beginning as part of the “long list of social developments that swept into the public conscience on the wings of scientific achievement,” R. Allan Freeze and Jay H. Lehr wrote in their 2009 book, “The Fluoride Wars: How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America’s Longest-Running Political Melodrama.” The authors drew parallels between this public division and the development of nuclear power and the widespread development of genetically altered food. “Like the pasteurization of milk and the iodization of salt, fluoridation was delivered publicly rather than privately,” they wrote. “Those that wished to avoid the governmental benevolence had to work to do so.” As hundreds of studies were published establishing the dental benefits of fluoride and debunking medical concerns, the nation continued to see hundreds of votes, lawsuits and legislative battles over the practice. A Canadian paper, the Kingston Whig-Standard, boiled the conflict down in a 1972 editorial that said, “This is not a public-health issue. It is a civil rights issue.” NIH calls it an “achievement ranking with the other great preventive health measures of our century.”By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and MAURICIO SAVARESE, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Thursday they indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections. Police said their findings were being delivered Thursday to Brazil’s Supreme Court, which must decide whether to refer them to Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who will either formally charge Bolsonaro and put him on trial, or toss the investigation. The former right-wing president has denied all claims he tried to stay in office after his narrow electoral defeat in 2022 to his rival, leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has faced a series of legal threats since then. Police said in a brief statement that the Supreme Court had agreed to reveal the names of all 37 people who were indicted “to avoid the dissemination of incorrect news.” The 700-page police document likely will take several days for the court to review, Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes said. Dozens of former and current Bolsonaro aides also were indicted, including Gen. Walter Braga Netto, who was his running mate in the 2022 campaign; former Army commander Gen. Paulo Sérgio Nogueira de Oliveira; Valdemar Costa Neto, the chairman of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party; and his veteran former adviser, Gen. Augusto Heleno. The investigation started last year. On Tuesday, four military men and one federal police agent were arrested as part of the same probe . Other investigations focus on Bolosnaro’s potential roles in smuggling diamond jewelry into Brazil without properly declaring them, and in directing a subordinate to falsify his and others’ COVID-19 vaccination statuses. Bolsonaro has denied any involvement in either. Another probe found that he had abused his authority to cast doubt on the country’s voting system, and judges barred him from running again until 2030. The far-reaching investigations have weakened Bolsonaro’s status as a leader of Brazil’s right wing, said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo. “Bolsonaro is already barred from running in the 2026 elections,” Melo told the The Associated Press. “And if he is convicted he could also be jailed by then. To avoid being behind bars, he will have to convince Supreme Court justices that he has nothing to do with a plot that involves dozens of his aids. That’s a very tall order,” Melo said. On Tuesday, the federal police arrested four military and a federal police officer accused of plotting to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections, including alleged plans to kill Lula and other top officials.
Sports on TV for Sunday, Dec. 29Bryce Thompson scored 17 points and achieved a milestone as Oklahoma State defeated Miami 80-74 on Friday afternoon in a Charleston Classic consolation game in Charleston, S.C. Thompson made 6-of-14 shots from the floor, surpassing 1,000 points for his career at Oklahoma State (4-1), which also got 15 points from Marchelus Avery. The Cowboys won in large part thanks to their impressive 3-point shooting (10-for-22, 45.5 percent). Oklahoma State backup guard Arturo Dean, a Miami native, posted eight points and one steal. He led the nation in steals last season while playing for Florida International. Miami (3-2) has lost two straight games in Charleston, failing to take a lead at any point. They will play on Sunday against either Nevada or VCU. The Hurricanes on Friday were led by Nijel Pack, who had a game-high 20 points. Brandon Johnson had a double-double for Miami with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Matthew Cleveland scored 11 points and Lynn Kidd and Paul Djobet added 10 points apiece for Miami. Miami, which fell behind 7-0 in Thursday's loss to Drake, got behind 9-0 on Friday as Abou Ousmane scored six of his eight points. Oklahoma State stretched its lead to 18 before settling for a 43-27 advantage at the break. Pack led all first-half scorers with 10 points, but Miami shot just 29.6 percent from the floor, including 3-of-13 on 3-pointers (23.1). Oklahoma State shot 48.4 percent, including 8-for-15 on 3-pointers (53.3 percent) before intermission. The Cowboys also had a 14-8 edge in paint points. In the second half, Miami closed its 20-point deficit to 55-42 with 12:12 left. Miami got a bit closer as two straight short jumpers by Kidd, trimming the deficit to 73-62 with 3:25 to play. The Hurricanes cut it to 77-70 on Pack's 3-pointer with 34 seconds remaining, but the Cowboys hit their free throws to close out the win. --Field Level Media
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The New Orleans Saints hit a reset on the future of their organization when they parted ways with head coach Dennis Allen earlier this year. The Saints started the 2024 season strong, beating the Panthers and Cowboys in their first two games of the year and posting over 40 points in back-to-back contests. Then New Orleans lost seven-straight games and the wheels fell off the operation, with Allen getting fired and replaced with special teams coach Darren Rizzi as the team’s interim HC. The change sparked an instant culture turnaround, and the Saints went on to win two-straight games, but have lost three out of their last four matchups and are heading into the offseason with several question marks heading into 2025. One of the biggest decisions to be made about the future is whether to ride with Derek Carr as the team’s QB , who is under contract through 2026. It would be costly for the Saints to cut Carr, but the former Raiders signal caller has been average to say the least. Even with major questions surrounding the quarterback, Bleacher Report has the Saints hiring Detroit Lions DC Aaron Glenn as their next head coach: The Saints are going to be in an odd position next season. They probably lack the overall talent needed to continue chasing the playoffs with a bloated payroll—they're projected to be $78 million over the salary cap—but they may not have the financial flexibility to engage in a fresh start. New Orleans needs a coach willing to work with ownership and general manager Mickey Loomis to navigate the tearing-down portion of a rebuild while getting the most out of a patchwork roster. Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is the perfect candidate. His work with Detroit's injury-depleted defense this season has been impressive. Although the team has lost multiple starters, he keeps rolling out a squad capable of winning games. The 52-year-old also has ties to New Orleans, having served as its defensive backs coach from 2016 to 2020. His connection to the Saints, the front office and franchise owner Gayle Benson could be vital, as all parties will likely head into 2025 knowing the next couple of seasons could be unpleasant
In an exciting Saturday night matchup, the Los Angeles Lakers will aim to bounce back as they host the Denver Nuggets at Crypto.com Arena. The Lakers faced a tough 119-118 defeat against the Orlando Magic, marked by Franz Wagner's last-second three-pointer that ended Los Angeles's six-game winning streak. Despite the loss, Anthony Davis led the Lakers with an impressive 39 points and nine rebounds, while LeBron James added 31 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. The Nuggets ended their two-game losing streak with a 122-110 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies, but the success was short-lived. On Friday night, they hosted the Dallas Mavericks, who extended their winning streak to four games with a 123-120 win against the Nuggets in an NBA Cup matchup. Despite the loss, Nikola Jokic had an impressive performance, leading the Nuggets with 33 points, 17 rebounds, and 10 assists. Get ready to watch the Lakers face off against the Nuggets in a game that's a must-watch for all basketball fans. It's a Saturday night game you won't want to miss! More: LeBron James is taking a break from social media. Why? Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers predictions ESPN : Lakers have a 63% chance to win According to ESPN's Matchup Predictor, the Los Angeles Lakers have a 63.5% chance to beat the Denver Nuggets. Action Network : Denver Nuggets Michael Arinze writes: "I have a lean toward the Nuggets as my model projects Denver closer to a 4-point underdog. The total is a complete pass for me after getting steamed from 229.5 up to as high as 233. I project a total of 232.9 points, so there's little value at the current number." Winners and Whiners : Los Angeles Lakers Staff writes: "The Lakers must be fired up to beat the Nuggets. Denver has been bullying Los Angeles lately, and I expect the Lakers to win this game. Should Nikola Jokic return, he will have to deal with Anthony Davis, who’s been unstoppable so far this season. Davis is tallying 31.3 points and 11.2 rebounds per game. LeBron James is playing well, too, and the Lakers’ offense has been outstanding thus far. With both teams struggling to defend, I expect the Lakers’ offense to make a difference. The Nuggets will have to deal with fatigue, coming off a tough home matchup against the Mavericks." Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers odds As of Nov. 23, according to BetMGM the Los Angeles Lakers are favorite to beat the Denver Nuggets. How to watch Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers: Stream the game: Catch Nuggets vs. Lakers with a Fubo subscription We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn’t influence our coverage.
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By Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times (TNS) Every day millions of people share more intimate information with their accessories than they do with their spouse. Wearable technology — smartwatches, smart rings, fitness trackers and the like — monitors body-centric data such as your heart rate, steps taken and calories burned, and may record where you go along the way. Like Santa Claus, it knows when you are sleeping (and how well), it knows when you’re awake, it knows when you’ve been idle or exercising, and it keeps track of all of it. People are also sharing sensitive health information on health and wellness apps , including online mental health and counseling programs. Some women use period tracker apps to map out their monthly cycle. These devices and services have excited consumers hoping for better insight into their health and lifestyle choices. But the lack of oversight into how body-centric data are used and shared with third parties has prompted concerns from privacy experts, who warn that the data could be sold or lost through data breaches, then used to raise insurance premiums, discriminate surreptitiously against applicants for jobs or housing, and even perform surveillance. The use of wearable technology and medical apps surged in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, but research released by Mozilla on Wednesday indicates that current laws offer little protection for consumers who are often unaware just how much of their health data are being collected and shared by companies. “I’ve been studying the intersections of emerging technologies, data-driven technologies, AI and human rights and social justice for the past 15 years, and since the pandemic I’ve noticed the industry has become hyper-focused on our bodies,” said Mozilla Foundation technology fellow Júlia Keserű, who conducted the research. “That permeates into all kinds of areas of our lives and all kinds of domains within the tech industry.” The report “From Skin to Screen: Bodily Integrity in the Digital Age” recommends that existing data protection laws be clarified to encompass all forms of bodily data. It also calls for expanding national health privacy laws to cover health-related information collected from health apps and fitness trackers and making it easier for users to opt out of body-centric data collections. Researchers have been raising alarms about health data privacy for years. Data collected by companies are often sold to data brokers or groups that buy, sell and trade data from the internet to create detailed consumer profiles. Body-centric data can include information such as the fingerprints used to unlock phones, face scans from facial recognition technology, and data from fitness and fertility trackers, mental health apps and digital medical records. One of the key reasons health information has value to companies — even when the person’s name is not associated with it — is that advertisers can use the data to send targeted ads to groups of people based on certain details they share. The information contained in these consumer profiles is becoming so detailed, however, that when paired with other data sets that include location information, it could be possible to target specific individuals, Keserű said. Location data can “expose sophisticated insights about people’s health status, through their visits to places like hospitals or abortions clinics,” Mozilla’s report said, adding that “companies like Google have been reported to keep such data even after promising to delete it.” A 2023 report by Duke University revealed that data brokers were selling sensitive data on individuals’ mental health conditions on the open market. While many brokers deleted personal identifiers, some provided names and addresses of individuals seeking mental health assistance, according to the report. In two public surveys conducted as part of the research, Keserű said, participants were outraged and felt exploited in scenarios where their health data were sold for a profit without their knowledge. “We need a new approach to our digital interactions that recognizes the fundamental rights of individuals to safeguard their bodily data, an issue that speaks directly to human autonomy and dignity,” Keserű said. “As technology continues to advance, it is critical that our laws and practices evolve to meet the unique challenges of this era.” Consumers often take part in these technologies without fully understanding the implications. Last month, Elon Musk suggested on X that users submit X-rays, PET scans, MRIs and other medical images to Grok, the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot, to seek diagnoses. The issue alarmed privacy experts, but many X users heeded Musk’s call and submitted health information to the chatbot. While X’s privacy policy says that the company will not sell user data to third parties, it does share some information with certain business partners. Gaps in existing laws have allowed the widespread sharing of biometric and other body-related data. Health information provided to hospitals, doctor’s offices and medical insurance companies is protected from disclosure under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , known as HIPAA, which established federal standards protecting such information from release without the patient’s consent. But health data collected by many wearable devices and health and wellness apps don’t fall under HIPAA’s umbrella, said Suzanne Bernstein, counsel at Electronic Privacy Information Center. “In the U.S. because we don’t have a comprehensive federal privacy law ... it falls to the state level,” she said. But not every state has weighed in on the issue. Washington, Nevada and Connecticut all recently passed laws to provide safeguards for consumer health data. Washington, D.C., in July introduced legislation that aimed to require tech companies to adhere to strengthened privacy provisions regarding the collection, sharing, use or sale of consumer health data. In California, the California Privacy Rights Act regulates how businesses can use certain types of sensitive information, including biometric information, and requires them to offer consumers the ability to opt out of disclosure of sensitive personal information. “This information being sold or shared with data brokers and other entities hypercharge the online profiling that we’re so used to at this point, and the more sensitive the data, the more sophisticated the profiling can be,” Bernstein said. “A lot of the sharing or selling with third parties is outside the scope of what a consumer would reasonably expect.” Health information has become a prime target for hackers seeking to extort healthcare agencies and individuals after accessing sensitive patient data. Health-related cybersecurity breaches and ransom attacks increased more than 4,000% between 2009 and 2023, targeting the booming market of body-centric data, which is expected to exceed $500 billion by 2030, according to the report. “Nonconsensual data sharing is a big issue,” Keserű said. “Even if it’s biometric data or health data, a lot of the companies are just sharing that data without you knowing, and that is causing a lot of anxiety and questions.” ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit at latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.James, Quigley and Hayes combine for 59 points as No. 20 NC State women beat Coastal Carolina 89-68
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — As spontaneous celebrations rippled throughout the Los Angeles Chargers' locker room after their resounding 40-7 win over the New England Patriots, coach Jim Harbaugh grabbed general manager Joe Hortiz and wrapped him up in a bear hug. “Love you!” Harbaugh said. “Love you!” Hortiz responded. “Great job! Let's keep it going,” Harbaugh replied, finally loosening his grasp. The Chargers (10-6) are back in the playoffs. But the message is clear: They have their eyes on achieving much more. Justin Herbert threw three touchdown passes and Los Angeles locked up its second playoff appearance in three seasons with Saturday's victory. “We had a good opportunity tonight and we went out and took it," Herbert said. “We had a good plan. All week we knew how big of a game this was for us. Guys were dialed in, focused and we executed today.” It also secured the fourth postseason appearance in Harbaugh’s five seasons as an NFL coach, adding to the three he made during his stint with the San Francisco 49ers. “You talk to them and there's more to do,” Harbaugh said. “There's no coach who could have it better than to be coaching these players. Nobody. Maybe the only person would be future us, could have it better than us.” Herbert finished 26 of 38 for 281 yards to become the third player in NFL history with at least 3,000 passing yards and 20 touchdown passes in each of his first five seasons. He joins Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson. Ladd McConkey had eight catches for 94 yards and pulled in TD throws of 6 and 40 yards. With a 10-yard reception in the second quarter, he passed 1,000 yards receiving for the season, making him the third Chargers rookie receiver to reach that milestone. JK Dobbins rushed 19 times for 76 yards and a TD. The Patriots (3-13) have lost six straight games, their second such losing streak of the season. They are now 2-14 the last two seasons at home. “We just didn’t play well enough in any phase of the game,” coach Jerod Mayo said. “No complementary football, and that’s what you get.” Asked if he thinks he is coaching for his job, Mayo said it comes with the territory. “I’m always under pressure and it’s been that way for a very long time, not just when I became the head coach of the Patriots," he said. New England quarterback Drake Maye finished 12 of 22 for 117 yards and a touchdown. He became the first rookie quarterback in franchise history with a TD pass in eight straight games. But he was sacked four times, and a second-quarter fumble marked his eighth straight game with at least one turnover. Los Angeles outgained New England 428-181 for the game. Maye briefly left the game to be evaluated for a head injury following a blow to his helmet in the first quarter. He was scrambling near the sideline on third down of the Patriots’ first possession when he was hit by Chargers cornerback Cam Hart, jarring the ball loose as Maye spun out of bounds. No flag was thrown on the play and Maye stayed down on the turf for several seconds before eventually getting up and jogging off the field. He initially sat on the bench before going to the medical tent for evaluation. He was replaced by backup Jacoby Brissett in the next series, which ended in a punt. But after further evaluation in the locker room and a Cameron Dicker 27-yard field goal put the Chargers in front 10-0, Maye returned to the game for the Patriots’ third series, at the 10:15 mark of the second quarter. Maye scrambled for 9 yards on his first play back, ending with him being hit by linebacker Junior Colson as he slid to the ground. Colson was flagged for unnecessary roughness. Five plays later, Maye mistimed a toss to Demario Douglas, causing a fumble that was recovered by Derwin James. The Chargers took over on the New England 24 and nine plays later, Herbert connected with McConkey for a 6-yard touchdown pass to put Los Angeles in front 17-0. Chargers: WR Joshua Palmer left the game in the third quarter with a heel injury. DB Elijah Molden limped off the field after a collision in the third quarter. He returned but was later driven off the field on a golf cart because of a shin injury. Patriots: In addition to Maye, CB Christian Gonzalez left the game in the second quarter to be evaluated for a head injury and was later ruled out with a concussion. McConkey, a second-round draft selection, also set a Chargers rookie record for catches, surpassing Keenan Allen, who had 71 in 2013. Chargers: Visit Las Vegas in their regular-season finale. Patriots: Host Buffalo next Sunday in their season finale. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflRicks 4-8 0-0 9, Hutchins-Everett 1-4 3-3 5, Brown 4-12 3-3 13, Freeman 3-9 0-0 7, Smith 2-6 2-2 6, Lindsay 6-11 0-0 17, Anderson 3-4 0-0 7, Williams 1-2 0-0 3, Taylor 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-56 8-8 67. Kapic 5-8 1-1 12, Gray 6-9 1-3 16, Howell 4-7 2-2 11, McGhie 4-12 0-0 9, Tait-Jones 4-10 13-18 21, Rochelin 0-1 1-2 1, Burke 1-1 0-0 3, Milovich 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-48 18-26 73. Halftime_UC San Diego 34-28. 3-Point Goals_James Madison 11-27 (Lindsay 5-8, Brown 2-6, Williams 1-1, Anderson 1-2, Ricks 1-4, Freeman 1-5, Hutchins-Everett 0-1), UC San Diego 7-18 (Gray 3-3, Burke 1-1, Howell 1-3, Kapic 1-4, McGhie 1-6, Tait-Jones 0-1). Rebounds_James Madison 25 (Smith 9), UC San Diego 24 (Tait-Jones 6). Assists_James Madison 10 (Brown 4), UC San Diego 10 (Tait-Jones 4). Total Fouls_James Madison 22, UC San Diego 15.