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MIAMI (AP) — Traffic citations issued to Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill after a September altercation with police have been dismissed after the charging officers didn't attend a court hearing. Hill's tickets for careless driving and failing to wear a seat belt were dismissed after the Miami-Dade Police officers failed to show up for a Monday hearing. The tickets were issued after Hill was stopped outside Hard Rock Stadium for allegedly speeding before the Dolphins' season opener on Sept. 8. The stop escalated and an officer pulled Hill from the car, forced him to the ground and handcuffed him. Hill said in a Tuesday post on the social platform X , “Where all the internet cops now”. The Miami-Dade Police said the officers' failure to appear was “an oversight” and “the matter will be handled administratively.” Still, the department defended issuing Hill the tickets. “A citation dismissed due to this reason does not indicate that the citation held no merit,” the agency said in a statement. Police body camera video from the September stop showed Hill appeared to speed past two motorcycle officers who were monitoring traffic on a road outside the stadium. They pulled over his McLaren sports car and one tapped on his window. Hill, 30, handed the officer his driver's license, but told the officer repeatedly, “Don’t knock on my window like that." He then put his window back up. Their verbal exchange escalated and the officers soon pulled him from the car, forcing Hill face-first to the ground. The officers cursed at Hill but he did not resist their physical force or strike at them in the video. He did tell one officer, “Don’t tell me what to do.” Hill was eventually stood up, but then an officer dragged him into a sitting position on the curb after he said a knee injury made that difficult. After about 30 minutes, Hill was issued citations and allowed to enter the stadium. One officer was placed on administrative duty and an internal affairs investigation was launched. No results have been released.Novato minimum wage set to increase
Jannik Sinner leads Italy back to the Davis Cup semifinals and a rematch against Australia MALAGA, Spain (AP) — No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner won matches in singles and doubles to lead defending champion Italy to a 2-1 comeback victory over Argentina on Thursday, earning a return trip to the Davis Cup semifinals. Howard Fendrich, The Associated Press Nov 21, 2024 2:20 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Italy's Jannik Sinner, top, and Matteo Berrettini celebrate a point against Argentina's Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni during their doubles tennis quarterfinal Davis Cup match at the Martin Carpena Sports Hall in Malaga, southern Spain, on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) MALAGA, Spain (AP) — No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner won matches in singles and doubles to lead defending champion Italy to a 2-1 comeback victory over Argentina on Thursday, earning a return trip to the Davis Cup semifinals. “I’m here trying to do the best I can in the singles,” Sinner said. “If they put me on the court in doubles, I’ll also try my best.” On Saturday, Italy will face Australia in a rematch of last year's final, but this time it will only be for a chance to play for the championship. Australia eliminated the U.S. 2-1 earlier Thursday to reach the final four at the team competition for the third consecutive year. The other semifinal, to be contested Friday, is the Netherlands against Germany. The Dutch got past Rafael Nadal and Spain in the quarterfinals earlier in the week, sending the 22-time Grand Slam champion into retirement. Italy fell behind 1-0 in the quarterfinals when Argentina’s Francisco Cerúndolo defeated Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-1 on an indoor hard court at the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martina Carpena in southern Spain. But then in stepped Sinner, whose season already includes two Grand Slam trophies — at the Australian Open and U.S. Open — plus the title at the ATP Finals last weekend in Turin, Italy. First he overwhelmed Sebastián Báez 6-2, 6-1. Then Sinner teamed with 2021 Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini in the deciding doubles match to win 6-4, 7-5 against Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez. “He carried me today,” Sinner said about Berrettini. After arriving late to Malaga from Turin, Sinner did not get a chance to practice on the Davis Cup competition court before taking on Báez and stretching his streak to 22 sets won in a row. “In three minutes, he was perfectly comfortable on court,” Italy captain Filippo Volandri said. “He’s a special one.” Volandri swapped out his original doubles team, Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, for Sinner and Berrettini, and the change paid dividends. Australia, the Davis Cup runner-up the last two years, advanced when Matt Ebden and Jordan Thompson beat the surprise, last-minute American pairing of Ben Shelton and Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-4 in that quarterfinal's deciding doubles match. The Shelton-Paul substitution for Paris Olympics silver medalists Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram was announced about 15 minutes before the doubles match began. Ebden and John Peers beat Krajicek and Ram in the Summer Games final in August. The Australians broke once in each set of the doubles. In the second, they stole one of Shelton’s service games on the fourth break opportunity when Ebden’s overhead smash made it 5-4. Thompson then served out the victory, closing it with a service winner before chest-bumping Ebden. The 21st-ranked Shelton made his Davis Cup debut earlier Thursday in singles against 77th-ranked Thanasi Kokkinakis, who emerged from a tight-as-can-be tiebreaker by saving four match points and eventually converting his seventh to win 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (14). No. 4 Taylor Fritz , the U.S. Open runner-up, then pulled the Americans even with a far more straightforward victory over No. 9 Alex de Minaur , 6-3, 6-4. When their match finally ended, on a backhand by Shelton that landed long, Kokkinakis dropped onto his back and pounded his chest. After he rose, he threw a ball into the stands, then walked over to Australia’s sideline, spiked his racket and yelled, before hugging captain Lleyton Hewitt. “I don’t know if I’ve been that pumped up in my life. I wanted that for my team,” said Kokkinakis, who won the 2022 Australian Open men’s doubles title with Nick Kyrgios. “It could have gone either way, but I kept my nerve.” ___ AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis Howard Fendrich, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Tennis US Davis Cup captain Bob Bryan's last-minute doubles switch doesn't work in loss to Australia Nov 21, 2024 9:37 AM Spain and tennis having to cope with the retirement of the great Nadal Nov 21, 2024 7:40 AM Kokkinakis gets past Shelton for Australia to lead the US 1-0 in Davis Cup Nov 21, 2024 4:18 AM
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What is going on at Manchester City ? After five successive defeats Pep Guardiola’s team were cruising with a 3-0 lead after 53 minutes. But then the defensive lapses that have haunted them of late returned as Feyenoord scored three times in the final 15 minutes to snatch an unlikely point Erling Haaland (2) and Ilkay Gundogan had put City in control only for Anis Hadj Moussa, Santiago Gimenez and David Hancko to stun the Etihad Stadium. Advertisement City were sluggish in the opening stages following the 4-0 home hammering by Tottenham Hotspur and hardly helped themselves early on when Jack Grealish ’s goalbound shot was kept out... by team-mate Phil Foden to deny him a first goal of the season. It took until a minute before the break for City to take the lead. Haaland was fouled in the box by Quinten Timber and got up to send Timon Wellenreuther the wrong way from the spot to become the fastest player to 50 goal involvements in the Champions League . Gundogan added a second from a corner five minutes after the restart before Haaland slid in for his second on 53. All was going swimmingly until Moussa converted after a mistake by Josko Gvardiol in the 75th minute and then substitute Gimenez set up a tight finish by scrambling home a second with eight minutes remaining. Ederson then went walkabout and Hancko headed in the equaliser with a minute remaining. Guardiola’s team will have to defend a lot better on Sunday when they head to Premier League leaders Liverpool . The Athletic’s Sam Lee and Liam Tharme analyse the talking points. Expectations lowered and boos at the end It was quite striking inside the stadium before kick-off, and even during the game, that expectations had fallen significantly in light of recent results and performances. This is a temporary thing, of course — if City get back to their usual selves soon then the high standards will return, and if they go back to dropping points there will come a time when more is demanded — but rather than hoping to see the usual sparkling football, basic competence, a bit of fight and some energy were all that were required, going by what supporters were saying. And while things were panning out just fine — not spectacularly, but certainly solid enough in the circumstances — it all came crashing down again by conceding three goals in the final 15 minutes, each more farcical than the last, and by quite some measure. With Liverpool coming up next things really do look bleak at the moment. That basic competence cannot come soon enough. Advertisement The boos at the end showed that even the lowest expectations had not been met Sam Lee What’s going on at the back? Somehow, from the jaws of a 3-0 win at 75 minutes, City’s clean sheet disappeared and the defence disintegrated. A straightforward long ball from Feyenoord ended up with Moussa rounding Ederson. Manuel Akanji headed the initial pass away, only for Gvardiol to try and hook the ball back to Ederson. It meant City only have five clean sheets in 19 games in 2024-25. Guardiola said pre-match that “a lot of minimal factors are the reason” for City’s five consecutive defeats, in which they’d shipped 14 goals. Things were controlled for 75 minutes, with Feyenoord’s only big chance before scoring coming via a tidy through ball from midfielder Hwang In-beom to winger Igor Paixao, who rushed his shot at Ederson. Within six minutes, a Feyenoord consolation turned to game on, as City failed to defend a back-post cross — Gvardiol was overloaded two-v-one — and Gimenez tapped in from a knock-back. Then another direct ball, with City’s high-line holding but Paixao timing his run perfectly, rounding Ederson as the goalkeeper tried to sweep up, then crossing for marauding left-back Hancko to rise above Rico Lewis and head in the equaliser. Guardiola stared at the floor. There was nowhere else to look — according to Opta, his side are the first in Champions League history to lead by three goals as late as the 75th minute and not go on to win the game. Liam Tharme City’s indirect threat from corners It wasn’t trademark City for the first two goals — there was no cutting an opponent open with a thousand passes and creating tap-ins from cutbacks — but set-piece quality matters a bit more on European nights. Lining up before kick-off, it was noticeable that City only had three real aerial threats (Akanji, Gvardiol and Haaland). Feyenoord, by comparison, were much taller. While they didn’t win many first contacts, it was City’s reaction to the second (and third) balls that made them effective. Advertisement City’s territorial dominance meant corners came in abundance, and they mixed between inswingers, outswingers and corners. For the opener, from a Foden outswinger delivered from the left, Akanji rose highest and nodded it back towards the near-post, where City had numbers. Haaland was kicked by Timber as he tried to clear, and City had a penalty. Scrappy, but effective. Gundogan doubled the lead at the start of the second-half when Foden’s inswinger from the right was headed clear, attacking the ball from his position on the edge of the box (where he was stood to stop counter-attacks) and firing through bodies. Man City double their lead over Feyenoord! ⚽️⚽️ Ilkay Gundogan’s strike from distance goes in via a deflection! #UCLonPrime pic.twitter.com/tDpK4y50bp — Amazon Prime Video Sport (@primevideosport) November 26, 2024 Liam Tharme Gundogan shows he’s still got it Gundogan’s return to City has not, so far, turned out to be the no-brainer that we all expected. After a slow start matters have got worse in recent weeks as injuries around him have increased the demands on his shoulders and exposed some of the shortcomings. It is no secret that City are missing a bit of physical presence in midfield and Gundogan has been one of those to be too easily exposed by a bursting run or a quick pass around the corner. Again, the effort has been there — see his desperate dart to try to stop Tottenham’s fourth on Saturday — but whether it is age (34), fatigue or both, he has struggled to keep up. Even the on-the-ball stuff has deserted him at times and that has only added to the problems City are having on the break, because when the players most trustworthy in possession are turning it over, and unable to win it back, you are going to struggle. But to continue the overall theme of the night, his performance here was more like it. His goal did get the luck of a deflection but he played a nice ball to Matheus Nunes to set City on their way for the third and overall it was a tidier display than recently. Sunday’s challenge will be significantly harder but this was a night to get a bit of feeling back and Gundogan certainly managed it. Sam Lee What did Pep Guardiola say? We will bring you this after he has spoken at the post-match press conference. What next for Manchester City? Sunday, December 1: Liverpool (A), Premier League, 4.30pm UK, 11.30am ET Recommended reading (Top photo: Carl Recine/Getty Images))
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True freshman Luke Kromenhoek threw three touchdown passes and Caziah Holmes ran for two more as host Florida State routed Charleston Southern 41-7 on Saturday afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla. The Seminoles (2-9) convincingly snapped a six-game losing streak and ensured that the Buccaneers (1-11) would finish theirs on a 10-game skid. Florida State has not had much to celebrate during one of its worst seasons in program history. But on Saturday, the Seminoles overcame a rough start and put together one of their more complete efforts of the season. Florida State had not scored more than 21 points in a game prior to Saturday's contest and its 175 rushing yards more than doubled its average (80.5 per game) this season. No single runner had over 40 yards, but seven rushers combined for that output on 34 attempts. The Seminoles entered the game ranked 130th out of 133 FBS teams in rushing offense. Holmes, a senior, finished with three carries for 38 yards, including touchdown runs of 3 and 18 yards. Kromenhoek gave Florida State a sliver of hope for its quarterback future as he completed 13 of 20 passes for 209 yards and no interceptions. He threw TD passes for Amaree Williams, Ja'Khi Douglas and Hykeem Williams. The highlight was a 71-yard touchdown pass to Douglas on the first play from scrimmage of the second half to put the Seminoles ahead 24-0. Douglas finished with 82 yards receiving on three catches, and 10 different Florida State players caught passes for 240 total yards. The Seminoles went 6 of 10 on third downs after averaging only a 25 percent conversion rate all season. Their defense held Charleston Southern to 275 total yards (57 rushing) and forced two turnovers. Florida State was unable to hang on to the shutout, however, as Bucs quarterback Kaleb Jackson found Landon Sauers for a 7-yard touchdown pass with 57 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Jackson completed 22 of 32 passes for 218 yards, one touchdown and one interception. The Bucs defense recorded three sacks led by Davion Williams, who had eight tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack. The Seminoles will conclude their season next Saturday at home against rival Florida. --Field Level Media