CMG Deadline Alert: CMG Investors with Losses in Excess of $100K Have Opportunity to Lead Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Securities Fraud Lawsuit Filed by The Rosen Law FirmThe NBA fined the Atlanta Hawks $100,000 for holding Trae Young out of a game earlier this month. Young missed an NBA Cup matchup against the Boston Celtics on Nov. 12. The Hawks ruled out the All-Star guard due to a right Achilles tendinitis injury. It was the second of a back-to-back and Atlanta's fourth game in six days. The league doesn't believe Young had a legitimate injury. Per ESPN's Shams Charania , the NBA fined the Hawks $100,000 for violating its player participation policy. "NBA says its investigation -- including review by an independent physician -- determined that the Hawks held Young out of a game that he could have played in," Charania wrote on social media. Despite missing their All-Star guard, the Hawks pulled off a 117-116 upset at TD Garden behind 28 points from Dyson Daniels. Jalen Johnson posted a triple-double with 18 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists, and Larry Nance Jr. scored 19 points off the bench. Young has played every other game this season for the Hawks, who are currently tied with the Chicago Bulls for the Eastern Conference's final play-in spot at 7-11. The 26-year-old is averaging 21.9 points and league-high 11.9 assists per game in his seventh season. The NBA implemented the player participation policy before the 2023-24 season to deter load management. The rules state that teams "must ensure that star players are available for national TV and In-Season Tournament games." Along with beating the Celtics, the Hawks defeated the Washington Wizards in NBA Cup action. However, they fell 136-122 to the Bulls on Friday despite Young registering 25 points and 13 assists. Atlanta can advance to the knockout round by defeating the other Group C powerhouse. The Hawks play their final group game on Friday against the 17-1 Cleveland Cavaliers, who suffered their only loss in an NBA Cup game against Boston last week. Related: NBA Announces $100,000 Fine For Hornets Star LaMelo Ball
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Former Arizona Coyotes left winger Paul Bissonnette was allegedly assaulted outside a Scottsdale restaurant Sunday night. Scottsdale police say it happened around 7:30 p.m. at the Houston's restaurant near McDonald Drive and Scottsdale Road. According to police, there was an altercation inside the restaurant involving six men and management. Police say Bissonnette tried to help management calm the men and get them to leave, the situation then "escalated to the men assaulting Paul Bissonnette both inside and outside the restaurant." The six men involved were arrested, police say. Bissonnette was taken to a hospital for evaluation for minor injuries. Bissonnette posted on social media saying that the men appeared to be drunk and disorderly, so he approached them to protect restaurant staff members who were allegedly being harassed. He said the incident escalated to a physical fight between the six men and him. The six suspects face charges ranging from misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct to felony aggravated assault. The investigation remains ongoing.
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Nothing about Pat Narduzzi's 10th season should be shocking news for anyone who has followed the passionate coach throughout his time at Pitt. He loves his players. Sincerely, I believe. Many of them love him back, especially the 14 players who have publicly announced their intentions to stay the course and return in 2025. Most notably, that number includes quarterback Eli Holstein and running back Desmond Reid, who amassed 1,700 all-purpose yards this season, many of them secured while at least one of his extremities or muscle groups throbbed with pain. Yes, NIL funding and Alliance 412, Pitt's collective, deserve part of the credit for helping to keep those players on campus. OK, that's the good news. The bad news takes on many layers, starting with the basic win/loss record. There is something to be said for Narduzzi standing No. 2 overall in victories (72) among Pitt's all-time head coaches, behind only the legendary Jock Sutherland (111), whose tenure began 100 years ago. Narduzzi's loyalty to the program matters greatly. Only Sutherland (1924-38) and John Michelosen (1955-65) coached Pitt longer. But Pitt fans — and Narduzzi himself — expected more after winning an ACC championship in 2021 and 20 games over the '21 and '22 seasons. Big picture: Pitt has lost at least five games in eight of the 10 seasons, 15 in the past two when there should have been momentum. Let's take injuries out of the equation. All teams lose good players at some point. And, remember, Holstein was initially hurt while running a keeper against Syracuse in the fourth quarter of a game Pitt was leading 38-6. That's coaching. Holstein started the next game, but he did not play to his previous standard. Also, there wasn't enough depth on the offensive line to successfully withstand the loss of tackle Branson Taylor and others. That's recruiting. The most puzzling aspects of Pitt's season-ending six-game losing streak, the longest since 1998, were the failures on defense. That's Narduzzi's wheelhouse. That's why Pitt hired him in 2014 after eight seasons as Michigan State's defensive coordinator. Maybe nothing illustrated Pitt's problems on defense more than Toledo quarterback Tucker Gleason standing in the pocket with time to throw for 336 yards, two touchdowns in regulation and four conversion passes in overtime of a 48-46 win Thursday in the GameAbove Sports Bowl. He was sacked only once in a 4-hour, 38-minute game. Then, only hours after the game, freshman defensive end Sincere Edwards, a backup to redshirt senior Nate Matlack, told Rivals he is planning to transfer. Edwards showed promise this season, with three sacks and six TFLs. The five-game losing streak was bad enough — losing to Virginia and Clemson when victory was within Pitt's reach was inexcusable — but now it stands at six after another one that got away. Narduzzi did not coach a good game at Ford Field on Thursday, especially when he ordered a field goal from the 1 in the second overtime when a touchdown would have won the game. He showed no faith in an offensive line that played a big part in the Panthers rushing for 301 yards in regulation. It was almost a repeat of the 2019 Penn State game where Narduzzi also ordered a field goal from the 1 in the final five minutes of a 17-10 loss. That game might have been Pitt's last chance to defeat the Nittany Lions, with no games scheduled in the foreseeable future. He also lived in his fears when he wouldn't let Ben Sauls try a 69-yard field goal at the end of regulation. He said he was concerned about a return for a touchdown if the kick fell short. Julian Dugger was sacked, never getting a chance to throw a desperation pass into the end zone. Yes, 69 is 3 yards longer than the NFL record, and Narduzzi was right to worry about a return. But he allowed the clock to tick down to one second before calling a timeout. The previous play was snapped at 35 seconds. There would have been time for one more sideline pass to create a shorter field goal try. Sauls might have missed, but what a story if Narduzzi had gambled with his most reliable point producer. Sauls ended his final season at Pitt hitting 21 of 24 attempts, including 6 of 7 from 50 yards or longer. He hit from 57 with some yardage to spare earlier in the game, and he had a school-record-tying 58 yarder at Acrisure Stadium this season. Finally, Narduzzi deserves credit for sticking with Dugger, the freshman from Penn Hills, when it became obvious Thursday he was the quarterback best suited to run the offense. He ran for 88 yards, threw two touchdown passes in regulation and got his team across the goal line four times in overtime. Why didn't Dugger start the game over walk-on David Lynch? Narduzzi mentioned Lynch is older, and that's true — by 15 months. He's been in the program only since the spring of 2023, about a year long than Dugger. Both quarterbacks threw a pick-six, but Dugger is clearly more athletic and a better playmaker. After losing two quarterbacks in the transfer portal, did Narduzzi find a quality backup for Holstein? After all, he was performing against a Mid-American Conference defense. That's a question to be answered over the next several months. Dugger played courageously and produced almost as well as Holstein did early in the season. But he's 19 and has much to prove in 2025 — just like each of his teammates and, especially, his head coach.
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SMU wins ACC basketball debut, holds UVA without a field goal in final 10 minutesWilly Adames is headed to San Francisco. The star shortstop agreed to a seven-year, $182 million contract with the Giants on Saturday, according to The Post’s Jon Heyman . The deal is the largest in Giants franchise history, surpassing the $167 million contract Buster Posey, who took over as the president of baseball operations in San Francisco in September, signed in 2013. Adames, 29, is coming off the best season of his seven-year career, hitting 32 home runs with 112 RBIs and 21 stolen bases — all of which were career-highs — for the Brewers. Adames has hit .248/.322/.444 with 150 home runs, 472 RBIs and 51 stolen bases across 880 career games. After spending his first three-plus seasons with the Rays, Adames was traded to the Brewers in May 2021. His career took off in Milwaukee, as he blasted 107 home runs and received National League MVP votes in 2021 and 2024 for the NL Central club. Heyman reported that the Braves and Dodgers were also “active pursuers” of Adames before he reached a deal with the Giants. The Yankees also had interest in the shortstop. Adames was the top shortstop on the market and one of the best free-agent position players this winter.
2024 has proven to be a wretched year for Boeing . It lost millions of dollars in its contract with NASA to SpaceX , more than 200 whistleblowers reported it to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and two Boeing 737-800s crashed within a day of each other in Norway and South Korea. Now, experts are scrutinizing the American company's fall from grace. Boeing's year started with a series of publicized incidents such as a quality control flaw that led the panel of a 737-9 Max to detach during an Alaska Airlines flight . An investigation later showed it was missing four bolts that were removed during production at a Boeing factory located in Renton, Virginia. By August, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), Boeing's most lucrative client, chose to modify its contract with the plane manufacturer due to schedule concerns and continuity issues. The decision came after astronauts became stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) after experiencing a series of issues on Boeing 's Starliner . Elon Musk 's SpaceX intervened, and as a result, NASA awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to bring ISS out of orbit by 2030. Boeing had to pay a $250 million charge against its earnings to cover cost overruns on its Starliner program, reported Space Policy Online . Over the last year, the FAA says it received more than 200 reports from whistleblowers citing safety concerns at Boeing. Since 2017, attorney Rob Turkewitz, who has worked with dozens of Boeing employees in the last ten years, has heard similar stories showcasing Boeing's alleged history of cutting corners. Boeing has a history of retaliating against whistleblowers who address their safety concerns through the proper channels. Turkewitz represents John Barnett, a quality manager who worked for 30 years at Boeing who also talked about the company's alleged fast and loose practice when safety's concerned. Barnett told Turkewitz that managers pressured workers to ignore regulations by the FAA. Boeing had two high-profile fatal 737 Max crashes: Lion Air in 2018, killing 189 people and Ethiopian Airlines in 2019, killing 157 people. Both crashes were linked to faulty software designed to reduce costs, according to reports . Sam Mohawk, a quality investigator who worked at Boeing's Renton factory for 13 years, spoke in an interview with CBS News where he alleged that the safety issues continue. "The whole system was just in shambles," he said of the period between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. "It [had] kind of just broken down." Mohawk outlined Boeing's internal practice of using defective, damaged parts that are supposed to be stored in "parts jail." Instead, he said they're being taken and used on jet planes that advertise having a 30-year lifespan. "So, there's, in order to get the plane built and out the door in time," Mohawk said to CBS News. "I think unfortunately some of those parts were recycled back onto the airplanes in order to build keep building the airplane and not stop it in production." Mohawk said Boeing has a "desperation of parts" issue that its currently undergoing due to "problems with our parts suppliers." Mohawk believes that the faulty parts are bolts and "non-confirming" rudders. He said he has "thousands of missing parts" that are unaccounted for in his parts jail. Mohawk described Boeing as playing a game of "Russian roulette" by ignoring safety concerns like incomplete inspections, poor manufacturing and parts mismanagement. Barnett passed away to a self-inflicted gunshot wound but his mother, Vicki, and brothers, Michael, Robby and Rodney, continue to fight his legal case against Boeing. Boeing is currently under multiple investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), FAA and the Senate subcommittee on investigations. By November, Boeing had undergone seven weeks of a strike by a union and cut 17,000 jobs . Between December 28 and 29, two crashes took place in less than 24 hours in Norway and South Korea involving Boeing 737-800 jets. On the South Korean flight , 179 people were killed. However, everyone on the Norway flight deplaned unharmed. Originally published by Latin TimesJuric explains why 'incredible talent' Dibling dropped to bench against West HamSignificant milestones in life and career of Jimmy Carter