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NEVER mind running around like mad dogs – it’s the defending like headless chickens Ruben Amorim needs to worry about. The Manchester United gaffer has demanded his side put in the hard yards if they want to be part of his Red revolution. Advertisement 11 Chris Wood celebrates bagging the decisive goal for Forest Credit: AFP 11 Bruno Fernandes cracked the goal of the game, albeit in vain Credit: Reuters 11 Ruben Amorim saw his Man Utd side suffer a rollercoaster ride Credit: Reuters But it won’t matter how far, how long and how much effort he gets, if the boys at the back drop the schoolboy clangers that gifted Nottingham Forest a win. Andre Onana was the chief culprit, the Cameroon keeper coming up with TWO absolute howlers early in the second half. Yet Bruno Fernandes had a hand in one of the away-day goals, while Matthijs de Ligt didn’t exactly cover himself in glory for another. Throw in the fact that Lisandro Martinez was comprehensively outmuscled and outjumped for Forest’s quickfire opener, and it really was a rude awakening for Amorim. Advertisement READ MORE TOP FOOTBALL 'UNITED LEGEND' Man Utd pay emotional tribute to receptionist Kath Phipps after sad death If last week’s loss at Arsenal was a reality check, this was a boot in the you-know-whats. For all Forest have gone to Anfield and won this season, United gift-wrapped this for them. Nikola Milenkovic is admittedly a man mountain of a centre back, but the challenge on him to meet Elliot Anderson’s early corner was non-existent, never mind powder puff. The Fernandes pass behind team-mate Leny Yoro that gave Forest possession and began the move for their second was shocking as well. Yet nowhere near as bad as Onana’s cock-up in letting Morgan Gibbs-White ’s fizzing strike scoot past him. Advertisement Most read in Football CELTIC 3 HIBS 0 Gray rues missed chances as MOTM Schmeichel racks up ANOTHER clean sheet Breaking STAR CRASH West Ham star Michail Antonio involved in crash as club shares health update 'MADE MY DAY' 'Furious' Doak hailed after calling out ex-Scotland team-mate on the pitch SIMPLY THE BEST Ianis Hagi says the BEST is yet to come from him at Rangers now 11 11 Wood powered home the decisive goal for forest Credit: Getty FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS And worse still was the keeper’s laughable effort in watching Chris Wood ’s looping header float past him for the third. Advertisement If at first you don’t succeed, cock it up again and again and again, clearly, as far as the clowns in United shirts were concerned on Saturday. David Beckham's Heartfelt Farewell to Kath Phipps Barely a minute had gone when they were joining Wolves by leaking a seventh goal from a corner this season, the joint worst record in the Premier League. Milenkovic couldn’t believe the space he had in thumping home his header. Well Amorim DID admit United were no longer a massive team. They certainly looked like small fry when the giant Serbian centre back leapt to thud Forest ahead. Advertisement It was a lead which should have been cancelled out within a couple of minutes, as Alejandro Garnacho curled in such a gift-wrapped cross it should have come wrapped in a bow. Yet inexplicably Rasmus Hojlund had over-run the ball and failed to make a connection from six yards. You could see fans all around Old Trafford scratching their heads at that. They did draw level on 18 minutes through the Danish striker, although it WAS pretty impossible to miss, mind you. 11 Bruno Fernandes gave Man Utd hope but their fine home run ended Credit: Reuters Advertisement 11 Milenkovic enjoyed his quickfire breakthrough for Forest Credit: PA 11 Nikola Milenkovic rose to head Forest in front early on Credit: Reuters 11 Rasmus Hojlund pounced on a rebound for United's 18th minute leveller Credit: Rex Manuel Ugarte slid a perfect pass through to Alejandro Garnacho, and when Matz Sels blocked his point blank effort, Hojlund tapped into an unguarded net from ten yards. Advertisement Now United would would cut loose, you thought. Now they would make the most of their monopoly of possession. But then again...because it was Forest who went closest. First Jota headed across the crossbar from Ryan Yates’ nod back, before de Ligt deflected a shot from the same player over the top. And when another corner caused yet more chaos – will United ever learn? – Milenkovic was a foot away from bagging his second goal in a Forest shirt with a snapped sidefooter. Not that United didn’t have moments of their own, mind, like the Fernandes free kick that clipped the crossbar. Advertisement But really it doesn‘t matter how good you are at one end, if you’re a laughing stock at the other. And yesterday, frankly United were on too many occasions. It’s why they were chasing the game again two minutes after the break, when another flying Forest start brought another Forest goal. This time it ended with the Gibbs-White shot that totally bamboozled Onana, even though it was only a foot away from him. The way he reacted suggested the low strike had bent like a Roberto Carlos free kick, but in truth moved no more than six inches. It was a shocker. Advertisement There have been plenty of them in the Cameroon keeper’s time at Old Trafford. Yesterday we got two for the price of one – the only debate was which was worse. For barely three minutes after coughing up one goal to Forest, Onana was handing them another – quite literally. Wood’s looping header at the far post was decent, but really should have posed little threat. Not to a keeper of any standing, anyway. De Ligt watched it arc past, no doubt expecting Onana to scoop it out of the air. Instead the United stopper watched it float just inside the opposite post. It was genuinely unbelievable. Advertisement Oh, and just for good measure, Onana also fluffed a clearing kick so badly that really should have led to yet another goal. It was like a throwback to the days of Massimo Taibi, the Italian who was a byword for joke goalkeeping at one stage of the Fergie era. 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Costco to stop selling books at most US locations starting next yearRico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85. , the players’ association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media on Sunday. No further details on Carty’s death were provided. “Carty was one of the first groundbreaking Latino stars in the major leagues, and he established himself as a hero to millions in his native Dominican Republic, his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, and the city of Atlanta, where he was a beloved fan favourite,” the players’ association said . The Braves said Carty left on the organization. “While his on-field accomplishments will never be forgotten, his unforgettable smile and generous nature will be sorely missed,” the team said in its statement. Carty made his big league debut with the Braves in September 1963. He batted .330 with 22 homers and 88 RBIs in his first full season in 1964, finishing second to Dick Allen in voting for NL Rookie of the Year. The Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season, and Carty got the franchise’s first hit in its new home on April 12, 1966, against Pittsburgh. Carty had his best year in 1970, batting .366 with 25 homers and a career-best 101 RBIs. He started the All-Star Game after he was elected as a write-in candidate, joining Willie Mays and Hank Aaron in the NL outfield. Carty batted .299 with 204 homers and 890 RBIs over 15 years in the majors, also playing for Cleveland, Toronto, Oakland, Texas and the Chicago Cubs. He retired after the 1979 season.
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With one month’s worth of highway deaths yet to be counted, the state is on track to record its second most deadly year in decades. The most significant and preventable reason behind the numbers – driving under the influence – hasn’t changed. But the influence has. Of the 307 who died from Jan. 1 through Nov. 30, about 40 percent were impaired by a combination of illegal and prescription drugs and alcohol or drugs alone. “It’s alarming,” Josh Morgan, Department of Transportation spokesman said of the trend. “Connecticut regularly ranks among the two, three to five most deadly states in terms of impairment causing highway deaths, and we are on course to record our second deadliest year since the 1980s, behind 2022 when 367 people died.” Last year 316 died. Some known and unknown factors are behind the numbers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that young people are trending more toward calling an Uber and designating a driver. A pandemic related shift toward drinking more at home, according to data from the International Wine and Spirits Record, hasn’t shifted back. Across the U.S., 59 percent of consumers say they are going out less, which is believed to be linked to the higher cost of those drinks rather than concerns about the drive home. Polysubstance abuse resulting in combined alcohol and drug impairment is increasing, though no one knows by just how much because drug impairment is more difficult than alcohol to detect. “It’s rare that it’s a single substance impacts the ability to drive safely,” Morgan said. No one knows just how many of the 1,823 drivers arrested by state police for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs from Jan. 1, 2024 until Dec. 4 in Connecticut combined drugs and alcohol, but police spokesman Sgt. Luke Davis also believes it’s an increasing percentage as excessive alcohol use alone declines. ON STATE ROADS, the number of impairment related crashes decreased this year from 428 recorded from Jan. 1 through Dec. 4 of 2023, Davis said, to 404 for the same period this year. But fatalities across the state during that time increased from 281 to 307, in part related to a spike in wrong way and reckless drivers who caused more serious and fatal crashes. Most wrong way drivers are impaired, Davis said. No one knows how much of an influence cannabis plays in violations under the single heading of illegally operating under the influence of one or the other or both, Davis said. But the increase in fatalities followed similiar trends in other states following the decriminalization of marijuana in June of 2021. Just 15 state police drug recognition experts are trained to detect the influence of a variety of drugs, especially marijuana. Another 60 such officers are on local roads. In Hartford, a recent Republican led legislative initiative to make it easier for police to pull over drivers suspected of using cannabis was defeated. The odor of cannabis cannot be used as the sole reason for an officer to pull over a driver. Another proposal to lower the legal threshold for impairment from 0.08 % to 0.05 % also failed despite an estimate by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration that lowering the level would lower the fatal crash rate by 11 percent. According to the National Conference of State Legislators, testing for drug impairment hinges on limitated drug detecting technology and the lack of an agreed upon limit for determining impairment. The nationally recognized level of impairment for drunken driving is 0.08 %but there is no similiar national standard for drugged driving. And drugs, they note, don’t have the same measurable affect on people that alcohol does yet both require proof of impairment as the basis for arrest. THE SAFETY ADMINISTRATION claims alcohol remains a larger problem than marijuana even as the use of marijuana plays an increasing role in fatal crashes as more states make it legal. In Connecticut, 30 percent of those who died from 2017-2021 had blood alcohol levels greater than 0.15. Efforts to tackle the problem of polysubtance abuse hit home in January of 2023 when Middletown Democrat Rep. Quentin “Q” Williams died when his car was struck by a wrong way driver shortly after Williams left the governor’s inaugural ball in Hartford. Both he and the driver at fault, who also died, were found to have been legally drunk and had marijuana in their systems. A greater awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving has made a difference. Julian Sawyer, owner of Sawyer’s Restaurant & Bar in Torrington said he has noticed a shift over the past couple of years as more of his customers call for rides when they have had a few too many. On a night before Thanksgiving, a few of his younger customers got rides home from their parents. The eatery staff will often take the initiative and call an Uber. But people over the past couple of years have been calling Uber more often. “And they are more available.” “If I know you and you’re a good customer, I’ll give you a ride home myself,” he said. “I’ve given many rides.” Mothers Against Drunk Driving New England Executive Director Rob Garguilo said the trend in younger drivers acting responsibly has certainly saved lives. “They are making right decision based on a number of things,” he said. “They understand the dangers and they have a solution at their fingertips to call an Uber.” Hope is already in the offing for safer roadways. Within three years the first vehicles equipped with technology able to detect certain telltale habits of impaired driving, such as eye movement but not a breathalyzer, will role off the assembly line. It will help to reverse a startling increase from 10,000 prepandemic national highway deaths to 13,000 as most people stopped driving to work and shed millions of highway miles, Garguilo said. Sloan Brewster contributed to this report.
CARSON, Calif. — The LA Galaxy finished 26th in the 29-team Major League Soccer standings just one season ago, and their biggest supporters boycotted certain matches to protest a decade of poor performance. The most successful club in league history seemed light years away from its luminous prime. When the Galaxy raised the MLS Cup again Saturday amid confetti and fireworks, their spectacular transformation was complete. In only one year, a team that was profoundly lost had rediscovered its peerless championship pedigree. "We won this trophy, and it's finally back where it belongs," striker Dejan Joveljic said. Joseph Paintsil and Joveljic scored in the first half, and the Galaxy won their record sixth MLS Cup championship with a 2-1 victory over the New York Red Bulls. After striking twice in the first 13 minutes of the final, the Galaxy nursed their lead through a scoreless second half to raise their league's biggest trophy for the first time since 2014. MLS' most successful franchise struggled through most of the ensuing years, but everything changed after LA spent smartly in the offseason to build a high-scoring new lineup topped by Paintsil, Joveljic and Gabriel Pec. The Galaxy finished second in the Western Conference and streaked through the postseason with an MLS playoff-record 18 goals in five games to win another crown. "I'm just so proud of this group after the challenges that we (had) and the way they bounced back and competed as a group," Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. "We spent a lot of energy at the start, but I'm just so proud of these guys. They've cemented themselves as legends in this club." The Galaxy even won this title without perhaps their most important player. Riqui Puig, the playmaking midfielder from Barcelona who ran their offense impressively all season long, tore a ligament in his knee last week in the conference final. Puig watched this game in a suit, but the Catalan catalyst's teammates hadn't forgotten him: After his replacement, Gastón Brugman, set up LA's opening goal with a superb pass in the ninth minute, Paintsil held up Puig's jersey to their roaring fans during the celebration. "I was really waiting for this moment," said Paintsil, who scored his 14th goal of an impressive season. "I'm much more, 10 times faster than them, and Gaston saw the space. ... It was really a good thing. We did it for Riqui, and we did it for our family that came, and our supporters." Just four minutes later, Joveljic sprinted past four New York defenders and chipped home his 21st goal. Brugman was named the MLS Cup MVP after a commanding performance in midfield. The Uruguayan hadn't started a match for the Galaxy since Oct. 5 after an injury-slowed season, playing only as a postseason substitute before the final. "I dreamed of that yesterday, of something I could give to the team," Brugman said of his pass to Paintsil. "Today, it happened." Sean Nealis scored for the seventh-seeded Red Bulls, whose improbable postseason charge ended one win shy of their first Cup championship. With the league's youngest roster, New York fell just short of becoming the lowest-seeded team to win the tournament under first-year German coach Sandro Schwarz. "I love these guys," Schwarz said. "Some guys, they are crying. In the big picture, that's a start. Sometimes when you lose the final, it's tough, but you use this experience to create the next energy, the next intensity." Galaxy goalkeeper John McCarthy made four saves to win his second MLS title in three seasons, but Nealis beat the 2022 MLS Cup MVP in the 28th minute when he volleyed from the penalty area. The second half was lively: Red Bulls captain Emil Forsberg hit the outside of the post in the 72nd minute, while Pec and Galaxy substitute Marco Reus nearly converted chances a few moments later. The ball got loose in the Galaxy's penalty area in the third minute of extra time, but two Red Bulls couldn't finish. After Galaxy owner Phil Anschutz received the MLS Cup that bears his name because of his steady financial support of the league during its shaky years, Galaxy captain Maya Yoshida carried the trophy to his teammates for the celebration. The Galaxy extended their lead over DC United (4) for the most MLS Cup championships in league history. The Red Bulls remain one of three original MLS franchises never to win the title, along with FC Dallas and the New England Revolution. The Galaxy finished 17-0-3 this season at their frequently renamed suburban stadium, where the sellout crowd of 26,812 for the final included several robust cheering sections of Red Bulls supporters hoping to see their New Jersey-based club's breakthrough. But this season was about the Galaxy's rebirth. The club famous for employing global stars from David Beckham and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Robbie Keane and Javier "Chicharito" Hernández swiftly turned itself into a contender again by acquiring young talents without international fame. The Galaxy signed Pec from Brazil and grabbed Paintsil, a Ghanaian playing in Belgium. The duo combined with Joveljic to form a potent attack with orchestration from Puig, one of MLS' best players. "Losing a guy like Riqui after the performance he put in all season was devastating," McCarthy said. "Even if he wasn't on the field, we did it for him." Get local news delivered to your inbox!None
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Donovan Newby had 18 points in UNC Wilmington's 78-69 victory over Marshall on Saturday. Newby shot 5 for 10 (0 for 3 from 3-point range) and 8 of 11 from the free-throw line for the Seahawks (7-2). Sean Moore scored 14 points while shooting 6 for 11, including 2 for 3 from beyond the arc and added 16 rebounds. Khamari McGriff shot 5 of 6 from the field and 3 for 3 from the line to finish with 13 points, while adding six rebounds. The Thundering Herd (5-4) were led in scoring by Mikal Dawson, who finished with 12 points and two steals. Marshall also got 10 points and nine rebounds from Nate Martin. Dezayne Mingo also had 10 points, eight rebounds and five assists. UNC Wilmington took the lead with 12:17 to go in the first half and did not give it up. The score was 44-34 at halftime, with Moore racking up 12 points. UNC Wilmington was outscored by Marshall in the second half by one point, with Newby scoring a team-high 12 points after halftime. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company's collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron's new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand's tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that "We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company's website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. This story was corrected to fix the spelling of Ken Lay’s first name, which had been misspelled “Key.” Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70Hackers who inflitrated South African financial system reveal data for a large number people