MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Dolphins announced Friday morning that they’ve waived wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., a move that ends his brief career with the team after just nine games. Beckham, the once-spectacular player who was most famous for the one-handed touchdown catch he made while with the New York Giants, would end his time with the Dolphins with just nine receptions for 55 yards and no touchdowns. Beckham, according to a NFL Network report, is hoping for a better opportunity elsewhere. That report said Beckham and the Dolphins “mutually agreed to part ways.” Coach Mike McDaniel confirmed that account. “Conversations led us to determine it was the best for both parties,” to part ways, McDaniel said Friday. McDaniel said he wasn’t surprised by Beckham’s desire to leave because they’ve had an open line of communication all season. “When you communicate transparently, I can kind of know where’s he’s at,” he said. McDaniel, whose team faces the Houston Texans on Sunday, said he has no regrets about signing Beckham. “No regrets,” he said. “My only regrets are we’re not talking more about the Texans.” Beckham, who signed a one-year, $3 million deal with the Dolphins, missed the first four games this season while on the physically-unable-to-perform list. He’s still owed $200,000, according to NFL Network. Beckham, who has battled a few knee problems in recent years, didn’t have his first practice with the Dolphins until Oct. 3 because he was recovering from an offseason knee procedure. Beckham, a 2014 first-round pick of the Giants out of LSU, was supposed to fill the role of No. 3 wide receiver for the Dolphins, playing the slot position to form a dynamic threesome alongside Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle. But that never happened. When Beckham spoke after his first practice he hinted his life had numerous recent complications. “I think a lot of people don’t know exactly what I was going through,” Beckham said. “Ending the season, there was a lot going on in my life, personal life, businesses, all of that. It just kind of had me in a place where football wasn’t exactly a priority. “Then, I had to have a small clean-up, like, of the knee, and just kind of going through that free-agency process, my agent and I went back and forth on whether we do it right after the season or we wait until free agency happens. I just feel like I waited too late.” Beckham’s acquisition was a hopeful reach. Last season with Baltimore he had 35 receptions for 565 yards and three touchdowns and there was a thought he could post similar numbers playing with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and in a system created by coach Mike McDaniel. But that was his best season since 2019, when he totaled 74 receptions for 1,035 yards and four touchdowns in Cleveland. That ended a stretch during which Beckham, known as OBJ, posted 1,000-yard receiving seasons in five of his first six years in the league. Beckham spent his first five seasons with the Giants, where he rose to spectacular popularity. Then it was three seasons with Cleveland, one year with the Rams and last year with Baltimore. Beckham’s best stretch with the Dolphins was the three-game run of the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams and Las Vegas Raiders. During that stretch he totaled seven receptions for 45 yards. Beckham, 32, is the third player over 30 whose signing didn’t work out for the Dolphins, joining edge rusher Shaq Barrett, 32, who suddenly retired before training camp and recently asked to be reinstated to the league, and safety Marcus Maye, 31, who was released a few weeks ago. Defensive lineman Calais Campbell, 38, is an example of a veteran whose signing worked out well. Campbell has been one of the Dolphins’ top performers this season. The other players over 30 signed in the offseason are safety Jordan Poyer (33) and edge rusher Emmanuel Ogbah (31). ©2024 South Florida Sun Sentinel. Visit at sun-sentinel.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Andrew met the individual through “official channels” with “nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed”, a statement from his office said. The businessman – known only as H6 – lost an appeal over a decision to bar him from entering the UK on national security grounds. He brought a case to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) after then-home secretary Suella Braverman said he should be excluded from the UK in March 2023. H6 was described as a “close confidante” of The Duke. Judges were told that in a briefing for the home secretary in July 2023, officials claimed H6 had been in a position to generate relationships between prominent UK figures and senior Chinese officials “that could be leveraged for political interference purposes”. They also said that H6 had downplayed his relationship with the Chinese state, which combined with his relationship with Andrew, 64, represented a threat to national security. A statement from Andrew’s office said: “The Duke of York followed advice from His Majesty’s Government and ceased all contact with the individual after concerns were raised. “The Duke met the individual through official channels with nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed. “He is unable to comment further on matters relating to national security.” At a hearing in July, the specialist tribunal heard that the businessman was told by an adviser to Andrew that he could act on the duke’s behalf when dealing with potential investors in China, and that H6 had been invited to Andrew’s birthday party in 2020. A letter referencing the birthday party from the adviser, Dominic Hampshire, was discovered on H6’s devices when he was stopped at a port in November 2021. In a ruling on Thursday, Mr Justice Bourne, Judge Stephen Smith and Sir Stewart Eldon, dismissed the challenge.
VANCOUVER, BC , Dec. 13, 2024 /CNW/ - Progressive Planet Solutions Inc. PLAN ASHXF (" PLAN " or the " Company ") reports that, further to its news release dated November 20, 2024 , due to the ongoing Canada Post strike, the mailing of the Management Information Circular, Notice of Meeting, proxy form or voting instruction form (collectively, the " Materials ") for the upcoming Annual General Meeting, to be held on January 9, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.at Suite 700, 401 West Georgia , Vancouver, BC ,(the " Meeting ") may be delayed. The Company has satisfied all the conditions to rely, and is relying, on the exemption from the requirement under CSA Coordinated Blanket Order 51-931 (the " Blanket Order ") issued by the British Columbia Securities Commission re Temporary Exemption from requirements in National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Requirements and National Instrument 54-101 Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer to send certain proxy-related materials during a postal strike. At the Meeting, shareholders will be asked to vote on the following matters, all as more particularly described in the Materials: a) To fix the number of directors of the Company for the ensuing year at four; b) To elect the four directors of the Company for the ensuing year; c) To appoint the Company's auditor for the ensuing year and to authorize the directors of the Company to fix the remuneration of to be paid to the auditors; d) To consider and, if thought fit, to pass an ordinary resolution ratifying and approving the Company's amended and restated stock option plan; and e) To transact other such business as may properly come before the Meeting. Shareholders can retrieve electronic versions of the Materials from www.progressiveplanet.com/investors/ or www.sedarplus.ca under the profile for Progressive Planet Solutions Inc. or may also reach out to the Company at investors@progressiveplanet.com or by phone at 1 (800) 910 3072 to request copies of the Materials be delivered directly to them via email. The Company has satisfied all the conditions to rely on, and is relying on, the exemption provided by the Blanket Order from the requirement to send proxy-related materials to its shareholders. Registered shareholders can reach out to Computershare at 1-800-564-6253 to request their individual control numbers required to vote their proxy. Registered shareholders should vote by telephone or via the Internet as directed on the form of proxy no later than 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) prior to the Meeting. Beneficial owners can obtain a copy of the voting instructions form from their intermediary. ABOUT PROGRESSIVE PLANET SOLUTIONS INC. Progressive Planet, a CleanTech company based in Kamloops, British Columbia , is redefining sustainability with our Products for a Healthy Planet TM . By leveraging owned mineral assets and recycled materials, we develop patented and patent-pending innovations that promote a healthier planet. Our C-Quester TM Centre of Sustainable Solutions leads advancements in low-carbon cement technologies, while our second on-site lab focuses on sustainable solutions for agriculture and animal care. Progressive Planet's products are proudly available in over 10,000 retail locations across North America . For more information, visit progressiveplanet.com . Progressive Planet provides regular information for investors on its website: www.progressiveplanet.com/investors/ . This includes press releases and other information about financial performance, patents filed, and information on corporate governance. 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NoneJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Greg McGarity had reason to be concerned. The Gator Bowl president kept a watchful eye on College Football Playoff scenarios all season and understood the fallout might affect his postseason matchup in Jacksonville. What if the Southeastern Conference got five teams into the expanded CFP? What if the Atlantic Coast Conference landed three spots? It was a math problem that was impossible to truly answer, even into late November. Four first-round playoff games, which will end with four good teams going home without a bowl game, had the potential to shake up the system. The good news for McGarity and other bowl organizers: Adding quality teams to power leagues — Oregon to the Big Ten, Texas to the SEC and SMU to the ACC — managed to ease much of the handwringing. McGarity and the Gator Bowl ended up with their highest-ranked team, No. 16 Ole Miss, in nearly two decades. “It really didn’t lessen our pool much at all,” McGarity said. “The SEC bowl pool strengthened with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma. You knew they were going to push traditional SEC teams up or down. Texas ended up pushing just about everyone down.” The long waiting game was the latest twist for non-CFP bowls that have become adept at dealing with change. Efforts to match the top teams came and went in the 1990s and first decade of this century before the CFP became the first actual tournament in major college football. It was a four-team invitational — until this year, when the 12-team expanded format meant that four quality teams would not be in the mix for bowl games after they lose next week in the first round. “There’s been a lot of things that we’ve kind of had to roll with,” said Scott Ramsey, president of the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee. “I don’t think the extra games changed our selection model to much degree. We used to look at the New York’s Six before this, and that was 12 teams out of the bowl mix. The 12-team playoff is pretty much the same.” Ramsey ended up with No. 23 Missouri against Iowa in his Dec. 30 bowl. A lot of so-called lesser bowl games do have high-profile teams — the ReliaQuest Bowl has No. 11 Alabama vs. Michigan (a rematch of last year’s CFP semifinal), Texas A&M and USC will play in the Las Vegas Bowl while No. 14 South Carolina and No. 15 Miami, two CFP bubble teams, ended up in separate bowls in Orlando. “The stress of it is just the fact that the CFP takes that opening weekend,” Las Vegas Bowl executive director John Saccenti said. “It kind of condenses the calendar a little bit.” Bowl season opens Saturday with the Cricket Celebration Bowl. The first round of the CFP runs Dec. 20-21. It remains to be seen whether non-CFP bowls will see an impact from the new dynamic. They will know more by 2026, with a planned bowl reset looming. It could include CFP expansion from 12 to 14 teams and significant tweaks to the bowl system. More on-campus matchups? More diversity among cities selected to host semifinal and championship games? And would there be a trickle-down effect for everyone else? Demand for non-playoff bowls remains high, according to ESPN, despite increased focus on the expanded CFP and more players choosing to skip season finales to either enter the NCAA transfer portal or begin preparations for the NFL draft. “There’s a natural appetite around the holidays for football and bowl games,” Kurt Dargis, ESPN’s senior director of programming and acquisitions, said at Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletics Forum last week in Las Vegas. “People still want to watch bowl games, regardless of what’s going on with the playoff. ... It’s obviously an unknown now with the expanded playoff, but we really feel like it’s going to continue.” The current bowl format runs through 2025. What lies ahead is anyone’s guess. Could sponsors start paying athletes to play in bowl games? Could schools include hefty name, image and likeness incentives for players participating in bowls? Would conferences be willing to dump bowl tie-ins to provide a wider range of potential matchups? Are bowls ready to lean into more edginess like Pop-Tarts has done with its edible mascot? The path forward will be determined primarily by revenue, title sponsors, TV demand and ticket sales. “The one thing I have learned is we’re going to serve our partners,” Saccenti said. “We’re going to be a part of the system that’s there, and we’re going to try to remain flexible and make sure that we’re adjusting to what’s going on in the world of postseason college football.”