MONTREAL — The Ottawa Charge got contributions from six different goal scorers in a 6-1 pre-season win over the Boston Fleet on Thursday in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Emily Clark, Stephanie Markowski and Anna Meixner had a goal and an assist each, while Katerina Mrazova, Mannon McMahon and Shiann Darkangelo also scored for Ottawa (1-0-0). Emerance Maschmeyer made 36 saves playing all 60 minutes and Tereza Vanisova pitched in with two assists at the Verdun Auditorium. Lexie Adzija replied for Boston (1-1-0). Starter Cami Kronish stopped 10 of 12 shots, while Klara Peslarova denied 12 of 16 in relief. PWHL mini-camp play in Montreal wraps up Friday when Ottawa takes on the Montreal Victoire (0-1-0). Boston beat Montreal 3-1 on Wednesday. --- FROST 4 SIRENS 3 (OT) TORONTO — Mae Batherson scored twice, including the overtime winner, and the Minnesota Frost beat the New York Sirens in exhibition play. Brooke McQuigge, with a goal and an assist, and Melissa Channell-Watkins also scored for Minnesota (2-0-0), which won the inaugural Walter Cup last season. Nicole Hensley stopped 10 of 11 shots and Lauren Bench saved nine of 11 while splitting duties at Ford Performance Centre. Paetyn Levis had a goal and an assist for New York (0-0-1). Brooke Hobson and Elle Hartje also scored, and Corinne Schroeder made 19 saves. The Sirens take on the Toronto Sceptres (0-1-0) on Friday. Toronto fell 3-1 to Minnesota on Wednesday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 21, 2024. The Canadian PressCapricorn Daily Horoscope Today, December 28, 2024 predicts a productive love affair
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Cam Miller threw three touchdown passes, ran for another and second-seeded North Dakota State blew past a 14-point deficit to beat 15th-seeded Abilene Christian 51-31 on Saturday in the second round of the FCS playoffs. The Bison (11-2), in the FCS playoffs for a 15th straight season and winner of nine FCS titles, will host seventh-seeded Mercer in the quarterfinals. Abilene Christian (9-5) took a 17-3 lead on a 13-yard TD pass from Maverick McIvor to J.J. Henry, a 90-yard run by Sam Hicks and a Ritse Vaes 29-yard field goal early in the second quarter. The Bison then took over, starting with Jackson Williams' 100-yard kickoff return to start a run of 31 consecutive points, 17 coming in the second quarter for a 20-17 halftime lead. The scoring streak ended when Nehemiah Martinez’s 53-yard return helped set up Hicks’ 3-yard score to get the Wildcats within 34-24. But the Bison matched that TD on their ensuing drive on Miller’s 36-yard connection with Bryce Lance to cap their 21-point third quarter. Again, the Wildcats got within 10 early in the fourth quarter on Rovaughn Banks Jr.’s 2-yard TD run. But NDSU’s Marcus Gulley returned an interception 37 yards to the ACU 9 and the Crosa kicked a field goal and Logan Kopp followed with a 31-yard pick-6. Miller was 20 of 29 for 274 yards passing. McIvor threw for 153 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. Hicks ran for 153 yards on 16 carries. ACU, champion of the United Athletic Conference, was in its first FCS playoffs since joining the classification in 2013, and beat Northern Arizona in its first-round game. Crosa has made his 262nd career PAT to pass NDSU's Cam Pederson (2015-18) and set an FCS record. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football . Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.com/cfbtop25Chiefs president Mark Donovan remembers when the organization practically begged the NFL for a prime piece of broadcast real estate. In 2010, the Chiefs wanted to show off a renovated Arrowhead Stadium with a “Monday Night Football” appearance for the opening game. “We lobbied hard, and the NFL came back and said no initially,” Donovan said. “It was going to be the biggest thing for the franchise. We had to have that.” The Chiefs got the game, but how things have changed. Now, as one of the NFL’s most watched teams , the Chiefs have become a top choice for not only the networks but for streaming services that have recently entered the sports-rights market. Two remaining games will be streamed: Friday’s contest at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium against the Las Vegas Raiders will be on Prime Video. It’s the second year for a Black Friday contest on the streaming service, following the Miami Dolphins-New York Jets matchup last season. On Christmas, Netflix will show its first NFL game: the Chiefs at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Netflix is the world’s largest streaming service with some 283 million subscribers. Amazon Prime is next at 230 million. Both games will be broadcast locally on network television. KSHB (Channel 41) will carry Friday’s game. The Christmas game will be on KCTV (Channel 5). The Chiefs were the first team to appear on a streaming service. Two years ago, Prime Video became the first service with exclusive rights to the NFL when it took over “Thursday Night Football” for $1 billion annually through 2033. The Chiefs defeated the L.A. Chargers that night in a thriller that turned on Jaylen Watson’s 99-yard interception return for a touchdown. In 2023, the Chiefs were involved in the first playoff game that was streamed, when they defeated the Miami Dolphins on Peacock. Call the Chiefs ... the NFL’s stream team? “It’s a compliment, but it’s also a credit to what our culture has created and what our fans have created,” Donovan said. “Think about how the NFL has grown, going from radio to television, to “Monday Night Football” to cable and now streaming. “I don’t think people understand the power of being on a worldwide broadcast.” The franchise that has won consecutive Super Bowls — and three championships in the past five seasons — takes a 10-1 record into Friday. In beating the Carolina Panthers last weekend, the Chiefs became the third team in NFL history to post double-digit victories in at least 10 consecutive seasons. This Chiefs golden era has been shaped by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight end Travis Kelce and head coach Andy Reid, who have become the faces not only of the franchise but of the league and whatever commercial is being shown during a game. It’s all helped grow the brand, and has coincided with streaming services entering the NFL. “The (NFL) looks at this and says, ‘Here’s an opportunity, here’s an opportunity,’” Donovan said. “For us, as a franchise, the timing of the consistent success, all of it is a wave we’re riding and we’re trying to be strategic in taking advantage of it.” Even if it means playing games on six different days of the week, which the Chiefs are doing this year. The Christmas game is on a Wednesday. With the Chiefs and Steelers playing the previous Saturday, the teams will have three off days between games instead of the usual six. But next year, Christmas is on a Thursday, then a Friday and a Saturday. Perhaps the Chiefs could become something of a streaming fixture on that date. “Over the next few years, we can be to Christmas what Dallas and Detroit are to Thanksgiving,” Donovan said. To Donovan, no team is better positioned to take advantage of the technology. “It’s an amazing opportunity, and an important responsibility,” Donovan said. “If we don’t take advantage of everything we can capitalize on right now, we’ll look back 20 years from now and say we missed.” This story was originally published November 26, 2024, 12:55 PM. What we learned about Kansas City Chiefs in Mahomes-led 30-27 road win vs. Panthers Five things that stood out about the Chiefs’ narrow win over the Panthers
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Related Story: Debate Plays Out on X Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer’s comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks, whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar.” Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government, weighed in, defending the tech industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump’s world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift. His presidential transition team did not respond to questions about positions on visas for highly skilled workers or the debate between his supporters online. Instead, his team instead sent a link to a post on X by longtime adviser and immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller that was a transcript of a speech Trump gave in 2020 at Mount Rushmore in which he praised figures and moments from American history. Musk, the world’s richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect, was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump’s movement but his stance on the tech industry’s hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Related Story: Musk Was Once on a H-1B Visa Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry’s need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent,” he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump’s own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration, including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Related Story: Trump’s businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club, and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country” and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country,” he told the “All-In” podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump’s budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes.
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