LINCOLN – One by one the Central City players had their medals put around their necks, followed by a hug from coach Troy Huebert. The medals were silver and not gold, like the Bison had hoped. “I can’t say enough about our kids. Our commitment from day one when we met this summer and the buy into our vision, we knew we could get here,” Huebert said. “That was our goal coming into the season and we felt like we had the kids to do that. Our senior leadership was phenomenal.” Central City's Jakob Ruhl (21) recovers a tipped pass in the first quarter of the Class C-1 championship game Tuesday at Memorial Stadium. Wahoo defeated Central City 47-7 in the Class C-1 state championship at Memorial Stadium. It was Central City’s first-ever appearance in the state championship and Wahoo’s first title since 2019. The season was historic for Central City despite the loss. It started the year by announcing itself with a 48-20 win at Ord. In week five Central City beat Adams Central which hadn’t been done in over 30 years. Then in week nine the Bison beat Aurora for the first time since 1997. In that game, Central City junior running back Corbin Kyes ran for 433 yards and six touchdowns. While the loss may sting now, it was a remarkable season. The fans came out in support and filled the bleachers at Memorial Stadium like it had all season in Central City. Central City's Parker Zikmund (7) reacts after Wahoo make an interception in the second quarter of the Class C-1 championship game Tuesday at Memorial Stadium. Central City fell to Wahoo 47-7. “I can’t say enough about our community and our fans,” Huebert said. “They love Central City athletics and it’s just so awesome to give them something to cheer about.” Central City came into the game averaging 41.3 points per game and Wahoo, who’s closest game all season was decided by 14 points, was averaging 50.3 points per game. Yet after the first quarter the score was scoreless and Central City’s defense swarmed the explosive Wahoo run game. In the second quarter Wahoo got on the board and at halftime it led 14-0. “The first half we were phenomenal on defense. We had a couple 50-50 calls that didn’t go our way, and put our defense in some tough spots and they rose up,” Huebert said. “I can’t say enough about them. Unfortunately we just could never get a rhythm on offense.” Wahoo's Landon Fye (2) defends Central City's Wyatt Dent (13) as he tries to catch a pass in the first quarter of the Class C-1 championship game Tuesday at Memorial Stadium. Kyes got hurt in the second quarter and his game was done. He finished a big year with 1,997 rushing yards and 27 touchdowns on the ground. As good as the Warriors offense was, it was the defense that came up big. Central City quarterback Parker Zikmund threw seven interceptions with some going through the hands of receivers and Wahoo recovered a fumble. The Wahoo offense came alive in the second half. It scored first, less than two minutes into the half on a 6-yard run by Kip Brigham, who ran for 133 yards. Central City scored its only points in the third quarter when Zikmund found Turner Hanke, who found a small seam in the Warrior defense and busted loose for an 87-yard touchdown. Central City's Truman Ryan (18) tackles Wahoo's Landon Fye (2) in the first quarter of the Class C-1 championship game Tuesday at Memorial Stadium. Then the floodgates opened and the Warriors scored 27 unanswered points. The Bison senior class was 14 deep. It was part of the team that played in a home playoff game for the first time since 2015 and beat Fort Calhoun 49-14. In the next two rounds Central City beat two previously undefeated teams, Columbus Lakeview (19-7) and Sidney (29-12) to make the state championship game. It just couldn’t knock off one more undefeated team in Wahoo, who’d been atop the Class C-1 Omaha World-Herald and Lincoln Journal-Star rankings all season long. “Just a tremendous senior group. Can’t say enough about those guys in Colter Leuders and Bryce Kunz, those guys have started four years for us,” Huebert said. “We’ve just had such great leadership on and off the field, the way they carry themselves, the way they get us prepared for practice, it’s really a special group.” The Bison reached the mountaintop for the first time ever, just didn’t come back with the trophy. But the foundation is set for another run, and the program is in good hands. “Now we’ve finally been here and this is only going to motivate us more to get back to this sport and hopefully finish it off next time,” Huebert said. Wahoo 47, Central City 7 Central City;0;0;7;0 Wahoo;0;14;27;6 Second Quarter WAH – Landon Fye 33-yard fumble return (Zaragoza kick), 5:02. WAH – Kip Brigham 5-yard rush (Zaragoza kick), 0:42. Third Quarter WAH – Kip Brigham 6-yard rush, 10:48. CC – Turner Hanke 87-yard reception thrown by Parker Zikmund (Poland kick), 10:03. WAH – Kaden Christen 48-yard reception thrown by Jase Kaminski, 7:14. WAH – Caden Smart 4-yard rush (2-pt good), 2:31. WAH – Josh Fox 31-yard reception thrown by Noah Bordovsky (Zaragoza kick), 1:27. Fourth Quarter WAH – Eli Shada 2 yd reception thrown by Noah Bordovsky, 6:20. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing - CC, Jacob Brazee 5-18, Zikmund 1-5, Colter Lueders 1-2, Corbin Kyes 8-minus 1, Wyatt Dent 1-minus 3, team 1-minus 4, Jakob Ruhl 1-minus 5, Carter Simonsen 2-minus 6. W, Brigham 24-133, Smart 6-29, Bordovsky 9-26, Fye 1-1, team 1-minus 3, Kaminski 3-minus 11. Passing - CC, Zikmund 10-29-7 172, Simonsen 1-2-0 6. W, Kaminski 7-11-1 111, Bordovsky 2-2-0 33. Receiving - CC, Dent 4-46, Kyes 3-14, Ruhl 2-25, Hanke 1-87, Lueders 1-6. W, Christen 5-106, Fox 1-31, Brigham 1-3, Shada 1-2, Smart 1-2. Tackles (unassisted-assisted-total): CC. Brazee 7-4-11, Truman Ryan 3-6-9, Ruhl 3-4-7, Riley Lavene 2-5-7, Lueders 2-5-7, Josiah Davis 1-4-5, Isaiah Harvill 1-3-4, Conner Erickson 2-2-4, Hanke 1-2-3, Bruce Kunz 0-3-3, Zikmund 2-0-2, Dent 2-0-2, Colby Schneider 0-2-2, Trey Urban 0-2-2, Ryan Brandes 0-2-2, Kaden Van Pelt 0-1-1, Simonsen 0-1-1, Damien Malachia 1-0-1, Bas Luebbe 1-0-1, Tristan Richard 0-1-1, Parker Santin 0-1-1. W, Bordovsky 4-3-7, Harrison Kruege 2-5-7, Shada 2-4-6, Smart 4-2-6, Eli Emerson 0-6-6, Braylon Iversen 3-1-4, Jaymes Gaskins 2-1-3, Christan 1-1-2, Graham Nutzman 0-2-2, Luke Specht 1-1-2, Logan Kelly 1-0-1, Brigham 1-01, Jaden Berggren 0-1-1, Jack Krueger 0-1-1, Jake Scanlon 0-1-1. Sent weekly directly to your inbox! Sports Reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
TikTok is challenging the federal government’s order to shut down its operations in Canada. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * TikTok is challenging the federal government’s order to shut down its operations in Canada. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? TikTok is challenging the federal government’s order to shut down its operations in Canada. The company filed in documents in Federal Court in Vancouver on Thursday. The government ordered the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian business in November after a national security review of the Chinese company behind the social media platform. That means TikTok must “wind down” its operations in Canada, though the app will continue to be available to Canadians. TikTok wants the court to overturn the government’s order and to place a pause on the order while the court hears the case. It is claiming the minister’s decision was “unreasonable” and “driven by improper purposes.” The review was carried out through the Investment Canada Act, which allows the government to investigate any foreign investment with potential to harm national security. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement at the time the government was taking action to address “specific national security risks,” though it didn’t specify what those risks were. TikTok’s filing says Champagne “failed to engage with TikTok Canada on the purported substance of the concerns that led to the (order.)” Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. The company argues the government ordered “measures that bear no rational connection to the national security risks it identifies.” It says the reasons for the order “are unintelligible, fail to reveal a rational chain of analysis and are rife with logical fallacies.” The company’s law firm, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, declined to comment, while Champagne’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A TikTok spokesperson said in a statement that the order would “eliminate the jobs and livelihoods of our hundreds of dedicated local employees — who support the community of more than 14 million monthly Canadian users on TikTok, including businesses, advertisers, creators and initiatives developed especially for Canada.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 10, 2024. Advertisement AdvertisementCracks emerge in Trump's MAGA coalition
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising toward records Tuesday after Donald Trump’s latest talk about tariffs created only some ripples on Wall Street, even if they could roil the global economy were they to take effect. The S&P 500 climbed 0.5% and was on track to top its all-time high set a couple weeks ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 81 points, or 0.2%, to its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% higher, with less than an hour remaining in trading. Stock markets abroad were down, but mostly only modestly, after President-elect Trump said he plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office. Stock indexes were down 0.1% in Shanghai and nearly flat in Hong Kong, while Canada's main index edged down by just 0.1%. Trump has often praised the use of tariffs , but investors are weighing whether his latest threat will actually become policy or is just an opening point for negotiations. For now, the market seems to be taking it more as the latter. Unless the United States can prepare alternatives for the autos, energy products and other goods that come from Mexico, Canada and China, such tariffs would raise the price of imported items all at once and make households poorer, according to Carl Weinberg and Rubeela Farooqi, economists at High Frequency Economics. They would also hurt profit margins for U.S. companies, while raising the threat of retaliatory tariffs by other countries. General Motors sank 8.2%, and Ford Motor fell 2.6% because both import automobiles from Mexico. Constellation Brands, which sells Modelo and other Mexican beer brands in the United States, dropped 3.9%. Beyond the pain such tariffs would cause U.S. households and businesses, they could also push the Federal Reserve to slow or even halt its cuts to interest rates. The Fed had just begun easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high a couple months ago to offer support to the job market . While lower interest rates can boost the overall economy and prices for investments, they can also offer more fuel for inflation. “Many” officials at the Fed's last meeting earlier this month said they should lower rates gradually, according to minutes of the meeting released Tuesday afternoon. Unlike tariffs in Trump's first term, his proposal from Monday night would affect products across the board. Trump’s tariff talk came almost immediately after U.S. stocks rose Monday amid excitement about his pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. The hope was the hedge-fund manager could steer Trump away from policies that balloon the U.S. government deficit, which is how much more it spends than it takes in through taxes and other revenue. The talk about tariffs overshadowed another set of mixed profit reports from U.S. retailers that answered few questions about how much more shoppers can keep spending. They’ll need to stay resilient after helping the economy avoid a recession, despite the high interest rates instituted by the Fed to get inflation under control. Kohl’s tumbled 17.6% after its results for the latest quarter fell short of analysts’ expectations. CEO Tom Kingsbury said sales remain soft for apparel and footwear. A day earlier, Kingsbury said he plans to step down as CEO in January. Ashley Buchanan, CEO of Michaels and a retail veteran, will replace him. Best Buy fell 4.7% after likewise falling short of analysts’ expectations. Dick’s Sporting Goods topped forecasts for the latest quarter thanks to a strong back-to-school season, but its stock lost an early gain to fall 1.4%. A report on Tuesday from the Conference Board said confidence among U.S. consumers improved in November, but not by as much as economists expected. J.M. Smucker jumped 5.4% for one of the biggest gains in the S&P 500 after topping analysts' expectations for the latest quarter. CEO Mark Smucker credited strength for its Uncrustables, Meow Mix, Café Bustelo and Jif brands. Big Tech stocks also helped prop up U.S. indexes. Gains of 2.8% for Amazon and 2% for Microsoft were the two strongest forces lifting the S&P 500. In the bond market, Treasury yields rose following their big drop from a day before driven by relief following Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary. The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 4.30% from 4.28% late Monday, but it’s still well below the 4.41% level where it ended last week. In the crypto market, bitcoin continued to pull back after topping $99,000 for the first time late last week. It's since dipped back toward $91,600, according to CoinDesk. It’s a sharp turnaround from the bonanza that initially took over the crypto market following Trump’s election. That boom had also appeared to have spilled into some corners of the stock market. Strategists at Barclays Capital pointed to stocks of unprofitable companies, along with other areas that can be caught up in bursts of optimism by smaller-pocketed “retail” investors. AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.