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Georgia has a chance to post its best start to a season in 94 years ahead of its home meeting with South Carolina State in Athens, Ga., on Sunday. Georgia (11-1) hasn't appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 10 seasons and hasn't won a tournament game since 2002, but the Bulldogs seem primed to make a return. The Bulldogs have won six straight games and a seventh would mark their best start since beginning 13-0 in the 1930-31 campaign. Georgia hasn't played since a Dec. 22 home win over Charleston Southern. Head coach Mike White knows the intensity of the schedule will soon increase as Southeastern Conference play revs up, but that's not to say his team will overlook its next opponent. "We've had a much-needed break, both mentally and physically," White said. "Our guys need to get away from it a little bit, miss it, then come back rejuvenated for one more tune up for the grind of the SEC -- the best league in the country. But we'll be prepared for South Carolina State. They're dangerous, they play really hard, they've been really competitive. They're another good team." Adding to Georgia's success has been the play of De'Shayne Montgomery. After being academically ineligible for the first 10 games of the season, the Mount St. Mary's transfer has averaged 19 points per game in two contests. Asa Newell follows with 15.8 points in 12 games, while fellow Mount St. Mary's transfer Dakota Leffew chips in 12.9. South Carolina State (6-8) will play its fourth road game of a six-game stretch away from home. The other Bulldogs prepare for their final regular season meeting with a power conference team following losses at South Carolina Upstate and Xavier. South Carolina State faces Morgan State on Jan. 4 to start Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play. Led by third-year head coach Erik Martin, the team boasts a rare roster figure in today's college basketball landscape. "We brought back 90 percent of our returnable student athletes this year," Martin said. "I can pretty much guarantee I'm the only person in America that did that." Sophomore Drayton Jones leads the team with 13 points per game, followed by Omar Croskey's 9.4. Georgia is 2-0 all-time against South Carolina State, last earning a 76-60 win in Nov. 2021. --Field Level Media
AJMI sets date for 2ndannual AI conferenceOn a wintry night in Turin, the All Blacks faced a tenacious Italian squad, ultimately emerging victorious with a 29-11 win. Will Jordan, New Zealand's fullback, described the match as a tough battle, where Italy's electrifying energy kept the All Blacks on their toes. The victory was hard-fought, with New Zealand initially struggling against Italy's aggressive gameplay before securing a halftime lead. The autumn tour not only ends with a win but also highlights the All Blacks' growth since their Rugby Championship loss to South Africa. This game also marked the final test appearance for Sam Cane and TJ Perenara, both deeply revered within the team. As they transition to rugby in Japan, their contributions to New Zealand rugby remain celebrated and deeply impactful. (With inputs from agencies.)
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Giants will try to snap a 7-game losing streak when they host the SaintsATLANTA (AP) — Ahmad Robinson scored 21 points as Mercer beat Georgia State 71-68 on Saturday. Robinson had nine rebounds, 10 assists, and three steals for the Bears (7-6). Tyler Johnson went 7 of 15 from the field (3 for 10 from 3-point range) to add 19 points. Cam Bryant shot 4 for 7, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 11 points. The Bears outscored the Panthers 10-4 over the final 4 1/2 minutes. The Panthers (4-9) were led in scoring by Cesare Edwards, who finished with 20 points and two steals. Georgia State also got 14 points from Malachi Brown. Zarigue Nutter also put up 14 points and four assists. The Panthers prolonged their losing streak to six straight. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
Russian spy ship 'dropped sensors in the English Channel'The Ministry of Justice has denied that a rule allowing prisoners to be released on parole and detained in their houses was made for the benefit of any individual, especially former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Somboon Muangklam, an adviser to Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong and Department of Corrections (DoC) officials, gave an interview on Friday about the DoC's regulation regarding out-of-prison detention. Mr Somboon said such a regulation was not designed to favour any particular person. He said the announcement to allow the DoC to detain inmates outside of prison was issued in 2023, aiming to alleviate prison overcrowding. He said initial guidelines for its implementation followed the announcement. When asked whether Yingluck, a fugitive since August 2017, would be eligible under these regulations, Mr Somboon said he could not answer as the guidelines were still preliminary and had not been finalised officially. He said that commenting on specific cases was premature, as future decisions must wait until the official regulations are announced. Regarding speculation about the regulation's readiness by the first quarter of next year, which coincides with former premier Thaksin Shinawatra earlier saying his sister might return around the Songkran Festival, he said it was possible. However, Mr Somboon could not tell when Yingluck would return, only saying, "[The process of finalising the regulations] is nearly finished." He also acknowledged public concerns over whether Yingluck might avoid imprisonment like her brother, Thaksin. In response, he said Thaksin was incarcerated while serving time in the Police General Hospital, which is legally recognised as detention. He said all officials are accountable for their actions, adding that an ongoing investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) into the Thaksin case would determine if there were any irregularities. Meanwhile, DoC spokeswoman Kanokwan Jiewcheauphan said public opinions on the regulation are being heard until Dec 17. If 90% of the public expresses disagreement, then revisions will be necessary, she said.
Minutes after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday night, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades, his stunned finance minister knew his priorities: throw everything at defending the currency. By around 11 p.m., Choi Sang-mok, who was among the majority of cabinet members who opposed martial law, had set up an emergency meeting at the Seoul Bankers Club, an unofficial meeting place for top policymakers from the central bank, finance ministry and banking and markets regulators. As soldiers stormed the nation’s parliament, Korea’s top four financial authorities, known as F4, activated an emergency playbook that had been used during past crises, scrambling to head off a crippling selloff in the won before Asian markets awoke. Choi led discussions between the authorities, three people familiar with the meeting told Reuters, with the Bank of Korea responsible for efforts to stabilise the currency. The first announcement came swiftly. South Korea would inject unlimited cash into markets as needed, the finance ministry said, which pulled the won back from lows last seen in 2009 during the global financial crisis. “It was BOK Governor Rhee Chang-yong’s idea to put this message out quickly,” one government official told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity. “Rhee said it was really important to pre-emptively act, as the news should be a bigger shock to foreign investors than for local people.” In the four decades since South Korea was last under martial law, the nation has weathered several crises and significantly evolved its systems to eschew the strongman politics of the past and focus instead on ensuring economic stability. Lessons from the 1998 Asian financial crisis formed the basis for the playbook. That episode ran deepest for South Korea, a country hugely exposed then to short-term debt and a playground for foreign speculators, forcing it into what many Koreans saw as a humiliating rescue package from the International Monetary Fund. Citizens donated their gold to a depleted national coffer. “We have had many crises. We experienced ups and downs through those crises, including the pandemic, and have a set of tools ready,” said one Bank of Korea official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The last time Korea’s four big agencies intervened this heavily in markets was in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic toppled its export-driven markets. Korea’s current struggles with anaemic growth, labour strikes, a budget impasse and the troubles of trade partner China meant authorities were already on heightened alert for sharp currency swings. The won is down 9% this year against the dollar, while the KOSPI index has shed 8%, both lagging their emerging market peers. Foreign money has been leaving Korea’s stock market since August, with outflows in four months topping $14 billion. “They were obviously aware of the fact that there would be a little bit of panic, particularly from foreigners, and so they did the right thing,” said Jon Withaar, who manages an Asia special situations hedge fund at Pictet Asset Management. “This is now really what governments and central banks do now, when they see these types of events, they just offer unlimited liquidity. That was the playbook in COVID.” Until this week, Choi was one of Yoon’s conservative loyalists in the cabinet who served multiple government positions since the president was elected in March 2022, starting as a secretary of the economy division. He advanced to chief economic secretary, a position that allowed him to travel with Yoon around the world, before taking his current job in December 2023. During this week’s chaos, Choi was the “control tower”, sources said, directing the messaging and responses through the next day and even as subsequent developments led to the entire cabinet offering to resign. The detailed contingency plan has a long list of actions to take in every possible market scenario, beginning with the first set of reassuring messages to markets to specific funding and rescue operations, said one former policymaker who handled currency matters in the finance ministry. All the same, martial law was not on the list of possible crises under this plan, other sources said. Choi was at the cabinet meeting Yoon convened between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Tuesday to discuss his martial law plans, which government official sources said most members opposed, or expressed concerns about. Just hours earlier, Choi had been at a forum for global and local investors celebrating South Korea’s inclusion in the FTSE Russell’s benchmark WGBI bond index. By 11 p.m. he had summoned his team to the Seoul Bankers Club. Choi was at the venue before everyone else, an official who went to the meeting said. “Finance Minister Choi came from the presidential office cabinet meeting. He was fiercely opposed to this absurd plan,” said another. Kang Youngkyu, spokesman at the ministry, declined to comment when asked whether Choi had attended the cabinet meeting and opposed Yoon’s martial law plans, but said he “led the F4 meetings around 11 p.m. on Tuesday and reviewed contingency plans with his colleagues throughout the night.” Announcements from the F4 followed in quick succession. The BOK said it will hold an extraordinary monetary policy board meeting in the morning, and the Financial Supervisory Service said it will deploy measures to stabilise markets. By 1 a.m. in Seoul, parliament had declared the martial law decree invalid. The F4 persisted with measures, held overnight meetings with their deputies, met again at 7 a.m. and pledged to keep markets functioning normally while the financial regulator said it was ready to deploy a 10 trillion won ($7.06 billion) stock market stabilisation fund. The plan mostly worked. The won is off its two-year lows and Korea’s stock market, one of the emerging world’s worst performers this year, has lost just over 2.5% over the past three days. BOK Governor Rhee expressed relief on Thursday. “The good thing is that it could have really worsened how foreigners view (South Korea) if martial law had been in place for a very long time,” he said at a press conference. “But this changed in just six hours.” Source: Reuters (Additional reporting by Jihoon Lee in Seoul and Ankur Banerjee in Singapore; Writing by Vidya Ranganathan; Editing by Sam Holmes)None
Hillenbrand Inc. stock rises Wednesday, still underperforms marketENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — John Elway says any remorse over bypassing Josh Allen in the 2018 NFL draft is quickly dissipating with rookie Bo Nix's rapid rise, suggesting the Denver Broncos have finally found their next franchise quarterback. Elway said Nix, the sixth passer selected in April's draft, is an ideal fit in Denver with coach Sean Payton navigating his transition to the pros and Vance Joseph's defense serving as a pressure release valve for the former Oregon QB. “We’ve seen the progression of Bo in continuing to get better and better each week and Sean giving him more each week and trusting him more and more to where last week we saw his best game of the year,” Elway said in a nod to Nix's first game with 300 yards and four touchdown throws in a rout of Atlanta. For that performance, Nix earned his second straight NFL Rookie of the Week honor along with the AFC Offensive Player of the Week award. “I think the sky’s the limit," Elway said, “and that’s just going to continue to get better and better.” In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Elway also touted former coach Mike Shanahan's Hall of Fame credentials, spoke about the future of University of Colorado star and Heisman favorite Travis Hunter and discussed his ongoing bout with a chronic hand condition. Elway spent the last half of his decade as the Broncos’ GM in a futile search for a worthy successor to Peyton Manning, a pursuit that continued as he transitioned into a two-year consultant role that ended after the 2022 season. “You have all these young quarterbacks and you look at the ones that make it and the ones that don’t and it’s so important to have the right system and a coach that really knows how to tutelage quarterbacks, and Sean’s really good at that,” Elway said. “I think the combination of Bo’s maturity, having started 61 games in college, his athletic ability and his knowledge of the game has been such a tremendous help for him,'" Elway added. “But also Vance Joseph’s done a heck of a job on the defensive side to where all that pressure’s not being put on Bo and the offense to score all the time.” Payton and his staff have methodically expanded Nix’s repertoire and incorporated his speed into their blueprints. Elway lauded them for “what they’re doing offensively and how they’re breaking Bo into the NFL because it’s a huge jump and I think patience is something that goes a long way in the NFL when it comes down to quarterbacks.” Elway said he hopes to sit down with Nix at some point when things slow down for the rookie. Nix, whose six wins are one more than Elway had as a rookie, said he looks forward to meeting the man who won two Super Bowls during his Hall of Fame playing career and another from the front office. “He’s a legend not only here for this organization, but for the entire NFL," Nix said, adding, "most guys, they would love to have a chat with John Elway, just pick his brain. It’s just awesome that I’m even in that situation.” Hall of Fame Orange Crush linebacker Randy Gradishar joined Elway in the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, something Elway called “way, way overdue.” Elway suggested it's also long past time for the Hall to honor Shanahan, who won back-to-back Super Bowls in Denver with Elway at QB and whose footprint you see every weekend in the NFL because of his expansive coaching tree. Sanders & Hunter Elway called University of Colorado stars Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders “both great athletes." He said he really hopes Sanders gets drafted by a team that will bring him along like the Broncos have done with Nix and he sees Hunter being able to play both ways in the pros but not full time. Elway said he thinks Hunter will be primarily a corner in the NFL but with significant contributions on offense: “He's great at both. He's got great instincts, and that's what you need at corner." Hand condition It's been five years since Elway announced he was dealing with Dupuytren’s contracture, a chronic condition that typically appears after age 40 and causes one or more fingers to permanently bend toward the palm. Elway's ring fingers on both hands were originally affected and he said now the middle finger on his right hand is starting to pull forward. So, he’ll get another injection of a drug called Xiaflex, which is the only FDA-approved non-surgical treatment, one that he's endorsing in an awareness campaign for the chronic condition that affects 17 million Americans. The condition can make it difficult to do everyday tasks such as shaking hands or picking up a coffee mug. Elway said what bothered him most was “I couldn't pick up a football and I could not imagine not being able to put my hand around a football." ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl Arnie Stapleton, The Associated Press