KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin said she suffered an abrasion on her left hip and that something “stabbed” her when she crashed during her second run of a World Cup giant slalom race Saturday, doing a flip and sliding into the protective fencing. Shiffrin stayed down on the edge of the course for quite some time as the ski patrol attended to her. She was taken off the hill on a sled and waved to the cheering crowd before going to a clinic for evaluation. “Not really too much cause for concern at this point, I just can’t move,” she said later in a video posted on social media . “I have a pretty good abrasion and something stabbed me. ... I’m so sorry to scare everybody. It looks like all scans so far are clear.” She plans to skip the slalom race Sunday, writing on Instagram she will be “cheering from the sideline.” The 29-year-old was leading after the first run of the GS and charging for her 100th World Cup win. She was within sight of the finish line, five gates onto Killington’s steep finish pitch, when she an outside edge. She hit a gate and did a somersault before sliding into another gate. The fencing slowed her momentum as she came to an abrupt stop. Reigning Olympic GS champion Sara Hector of Sweden won in a combined time of 1 minute, 53.08 seconds. Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia was second and Swiss racer Camille Rast took third. The Americans saw Paula Moltzan and Nina O’Brien finish fifth and sixth. “It’s just so sad, of course, to see Mikaela crash like that and skiing so well,” Hector said on the broadcast after her win. “It breaks my heart and everybody else here.” The crash was a surprise for everyone. Shiffrin rarely DNFs — ski racing parlance for “did not finish.” In 274 World Cup starts, she DNF'd only 18 times. The last time she DNF'd in GS was January 2018. Shiffrin also has not suffered any devastating injuries. In her 14-year career, she has rehabbed only two on-hill injuries: a torn medial collateral ligament and bone bruising in her right knee in December 2015 and a sprained MCL and tibiofibular ligament in her left knee after a downhill crash in January 2024. Neither knee injury required surgery, and both times, Shiffrin was back to racing within two months. Saturday was shaping up to be a banner day for Shiffrin, who skied flawlessly in the first run and held a 0.32-second lead as she chased after her 100th World Cup win. Shiffrin, who grew up in both New Hampshire and Colorado and sharpened her skills at nearby Burke Mountain Academy, has long been a fan favorite. Shiffrin is driven not so much by wins but by arcing the perfect run. She has shattered so many records along the way. She passed Lindsey Vonn’s women’s mark of 82 World Cup victories on Jan. 24, 2023, during a giant slalom in Kronplatz, Italy. That March, Shiffrin broke Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark’s Alpine mark for most World Cup wins when she captured her 87th career race. To date, she has earned five overall World Cup titles, two Olympic gold medals — along with a silver — and seven world championships. In other FIS Alpine World Cup news, the Tremblant World Cup — two women’s giant slaloms at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant scheduled for next weekend — were canceled. Killington got 21 inches of snow on Thanksgiving Day, but Tremblant — five hours north of Killington — had to cancel its races because of a lack of snow. AP Sports Writer Pat Graham in Denver contributed to this report. More AP skiing: https://apnews.com/hub/alpine-skiingSMITHS FALLS, ON , and NEW YORK , Dec. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Canopy Growth Corporation (" Canopy Growth ") (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC ), a world-leading cannabis company dedicated to unleashing the power of cannabis to improve lives, and Acreage Holdings, Inc. (" Acreage ") (CSE: ACRG.A.U, ACRG.B.U)(OTCQX: ACRHF , ACRDF), a vertically integrated, multi-state operator of cannabis cultivation and retailing facilities in the U.S., are pleased to announce that it is anticipated that Canopy USA , LLC (" Canopy USA ") will complete its acquisition of Acreage on or around December 9, 2024 , subject to the satisfaction or waiver of closing conditions set out in the Arrangement Agreements (as defined below). Canopy Growth and Acreage are party to an arrangement agreement dated April 18, 2019 , as amended (the " Fixed Share Arrangement Agreement "), relating to the proposed acquisition (the " Fixed Share Acquisition ") of all issued and outstanding Class E subordinate voting shares of Acreage (the " Fixed Shares ") pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act ( British Columbia ). 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Medical trainees report appalling racism, harassmentThe Simpsons voice actor Pamela Hayden has announced her retirement from the hit Fox sitcom after 35 years. Hayden, who’s credited for featuring in nearly 700 episodes of the long-running animated series, is best known as the voice behind Bart Simpson’s bespectacled friend Milhouse Van Houten; however, she’s also played dozens of other characters, including Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders and Malibu Stacy. Her final episode, Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes , will air on Sunday (November 24). “The time has come for me to hang up my microphone, but how do I say goodbye to The Simpsons ? Not easily,” Hayden, 70, said in a statement. “It’s been an honor and a joy to have worked on such a funny, witty, and groundbreaking show. ... I’ll always have a special place in my heart for that blue-haired 10-year-old boy with glasses.” The Simpsons will begin the search for Hayden’s replacement in the near future, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Pamela’s talent and joy and love for her characters has added a magic to The Simpsons that will never be forgotten,” showrunner and executive producer Matt Selman said. “Everything’s coming up Pamela!” “Pamela gave us tons of laughs with Milhouse, the hapless kid with the biggest nose in Springfield. She made Milhouse hilarious and real, and we will miss her,” The Simpsons creator Matt Groening added, while executive producer James L. Brooks praised Hayden as a “model for having a great spirit for every cast she has been a part of.” Hayden has voiced Milhouse since the cartoon’s 1989 inception. She’s also gone on to reprise the character in several of The Simpsons video games as well as The Simpsons Movie (2007). Milhouse was first introduced to the world of The Simpsons in 1989 as part of a Butterfinger advertisement when the show was still just a series of segments on The Tracey Ullman Show. He was named after former U.S. president Richard Milhous Nixon and has been a part of the cartoon series since its debut episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” Besides The Simpsons , Hayden has also voiced characters in the children’s animated adventure series Lloyd in Space , the classic Tom & Jerry Kids Show cartoon spinoff and the biblical series Adventures in Odyssey.
The first thing we learned from the opening round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is there really aren’t 12 teams good enough to compete for a national title. Indiana, SMU, Clemson and Tennessee were all sizable underdogs in their first-round road games, and all proved they weren’t up to the task of competing on the big stage. That led to four boring games in which the announcers spent much of the fourth quarter rationalizing the losing teams’ presence in the CFP and overhyping the teams that handily beat them. Going from four teams to 12 was always a stretch. Six teams, with two getting first-round byes, would have sufficed. Eight teams, with no byes, would’ve been OK. But 12? Well, money talks, and it never shuts up when it comes to college football. And despite all the blather ESPN and TNT delivered in their pregame shows, on which breathless analysts suggested the expanded playoffs was the greatest thing to happen to college football since Red Grange, the games had the feel of another bowl game once the novelty of playing in a non-bowl stadium wore off. In fact, the CFP organizers should’ve just replaced other bowls for first-round action, utilizing the lesser ones already in place that exist for the sole purpose of creating more revenue for Disney Co. and other TV network owners. Notre Dame-Indiana might have made a decent Sun Bowl matchup, replacing wind-chill factor with the actual sun and Touchdown Jesus with Tony the Tiger. Ohio State-Tennessee, a matchup of Power Two powers that couldn’t even make their own conference title games, would’ve been a perfect Citrus Bowl, in which Big Ten and SEC wannabes always meet. Texas-Clemson would’ve felt right at home in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, with Matthew McConaughey eating the Pop-Tart mascot after the Longhorns won while mumbling, “All right, all right, all right.” Penn State-SMU, the least interesting matchup of the four first-rounders, would have been more appropriate for the long-defunct Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, which featured a team from Texas against an out-of-state team whose fans traveled well. Alas, we can only dream. Instead we got overkill about the weather — oh, by the way, did you know it gets cold in late December in the Midwest? Next week’s quarterfinals should provide much better games and a real playoff-type atmosphere for viewers in warm-weather sites and domed stadiums. But we’ll see. At least they’ll all be played in the bigger, traditional bowls — Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Peach — and on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Bowl games before Christmas simply lack the aura of the end-of-year and start-of-year games. The NFL even scheduled two games Saturday opposite the CFP, undeterred by the competition. Two of the lower-seeded quarterfinalists began the week as considerable favorites, with No. 6 seed Penn State a 101⁄2-point favorite over third-seeded Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl and No. 5 seed Texas a whopping 131⁄2-point favorite over fourth-seeded Arizona State in the Peach Bowl. The most interesting game figures to be Ohio State-Oregon in the Rose Bowl, a rematch of the Big Ten thriller in October in Eugene, Ore., where Buckeyes quarterback Will Howard slid a tad too late at the gun to deny his team a shot at a potential winning field goal in a 32-31 loss. Oregon is the top seed but only a 11⁄2-point favorite over the Buckeyes, who also lost to Michigan. Ohio State recovered from its devastating 13-10 loss to the Wolverines in “The Game” with Saturday’s 42-17 pummeling of Tennessee, a game so dull former Buckeyes quarterback Kirk Herbstreit decided to launch into a partisan screed in the final minutes of the broadcast, defending Ohio State coach Ryan Day for the loss to Michigan despite being a three-touchdown favorite. Herbstreit referred to the anti-Day crowd that wants the Buckeyes coach fired for his repeated failures to beat their hated archrivals as “the lunatic fringe.” “I’m sure they’ll be happy tonight, fired up about what Ohio State did,” Herbstreit said. “But God forbid they lose to Oregon, they’ll want to fire him again.” Does Herbstreit understand the importance of beating Michigan to Ohio State fans, or is he just too comfortable acting as a shill for Day? Meanwhile, Notre Dame is coming off a virtual bye — its matchup against overmatched Indiana — to face SEC champion Georgia, the No. 2 seed, in the Sugar Bowl. Notre Dame finally won a “big” playoff game Friday, though it will be completely forgotten in a month if Georgia stifles quarterback Riley Leonard and the Irish running game, as many expect. The Irish could use some help in New Orleans from comedian Shane Gillis, who might be their version of Matthew McConaughey, the uber-Texas fan. Gillis went on ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Friday and called analyst Pat McAfee a “real scumbag” for picking Indiana. He was joking, of course, but there was applause for the gesture in many living rooms around the country. Gillis then called cocky Indiana coach Curt Cignetti “disgusting” for coming out on the field before the game without his players to “get some camera time for himself.” “It was disgusting, and I thought, ‘Wow, what a sad, disgusting program,’ ” Gillis said of Cignetti and Indiana. Knute Rockne couldn’t have given a more stirring pregame speech. The Irish will need that kind of bravado to beat the Bulldogs, so hopefully Gillis will be at the Superdome to talk smack at Georgia coach Kirby Smart. Despite its uninspiring opening weekend, there’s plenty of time for the CFP to provide memorable games and big moments that make college football what it is. Now if we can only find a way to get rid of McAfee.Minnesota will try to bounce back from two straight losses when it hosts Bethune-Cookman on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis. The Golden Gophers (5-3) are coming off a 57-51 loss against Wake Forest on Friday, which followed a 68-66 overtime loss against Wichita State on Thursday. Both games took place at the ESPN Events Invitational in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Minnesota coach Ben Johnson cited inconsistency on offense as the main reason for his team's recent skid. "We're painfully figuring that out," Johnson said. "I thought our defense, though, (Thursday and Friday) has proven this is a top-40 or top-30 defense. We've got to be able to show up with offense and free throws." Golden Gophers starter Lu'Cye Patterson said he and his teammates remain confident in their potential as the Big Ten conference season approaches. "We just have to keep doing what we're supposed to do and keep our level of defensive play up," Patterson said. "It's going to win us a lot of games. The offense is going to come." Bethune-Cookman (2-5) will try to play spoiler on the road. The Wildcats have split their past two games as they beat North Dakota 79-67 on Tuesday and lost to Gardner-Webb 79-64 on Wednesday, both games played in the Cancun Challenge in Cancun, Mexico. Four players for Bethune-Cookman scored in double digits in their most recent game. Reggie Ward Jr. and Daniel Rouzan led the way with 14 points apiece, Trey Thomas scored 13 and Brayon Freeman chipped in 10. Bethune-Cookman is coached by Reggie Theus, who enjoyed a long NBA career and coached the Sacramento Kings for parts of two seasons. Theus said the Wildcats were in better position to compete this season compared with a season ago. "We've got a lot of depth, and we have age and experience," Theus said. "One of the biggest differences in our team is that we have great size now, where last year we were pretty small." Dawson Garcia leads Minnesota with 18.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Patterson is next with 10.1 points per contest. Bethune-Cookman is led by Freeman, who is averaging 15.9 points per game. Thomas (11.7 points per game) and Ward Jr. (11.0) also are scoring in double digits. --Field Level MediaOTTAWA — The House of Commons Speaker has intervened to end a parliamentary impasse, ruling that opposition business will happen later this week after the Conservatives blocked their own ability to try and bring down the government this morning. Greg Fergus has scheduled opposition days for Thursday and Friday, meaning the government could face another non-confidence vote as early as Monday. His decision follows an unsuccessful attempt this morning by Liberal House leader Karina Gould to temporarily stop a filibuster that has taken up much of the Commons' time for nearly two months. The Conservatives signalled an intent to introduce a non-confidence motion quoting NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's criticism of the Liberals, in a bid to get his caucus to vote to bring down the minority government. But the Tories rejected Gould's offer to have that motion heard today, with the party saying it would only end its filibuster if the Liberals provide documents they're demanding, or if the NDP agrees to vote non-confidence in the government. The filibuster is part of an ongoing privilege debate related to a Conservative demand that the Liberals provide unredacted documents to the RCMP about allegations of misspending at a now-defunct green technology fund. Opposition parties must be given four days to introduce their own motions before Dec. 10 — also the deadline for the House to vote to approve billions of dollars in spending, without which some government departments risk running out of money. Two Conservative opposition motions declaring non-confidence in the government were defeated in September with the Bloc Québécois and the NDP voting against them. The Bloc has since pledged to work with the other opposition parties to defeat the government after the Liberals refused to adopt a Bloc bill to raise old age security payments for seniors under age 75. However, Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said his party would only vote in favour of non-confidence motions that are deemed to be in the best interests of Quebec. Singh has said his party will take each non-confidence vote on a case-by-case basis, and has said that while his party is ready for an election it does not want to push for one immediately. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 2, 2024. Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press