After Terry McLaurin weaved his way past five defenders for an 86-yard touchdown catch from Jayden Daniels to cut the Cowboys lead to 27-26 with 21 seconds left, Fox's No. 2 broadcast crew captured the chaos before admonishing the audience not to count on anything as a certainty on this helter-skelter afternoon. "Lightning strikes twice in Washington!" Davis shouted in an homage to Daniels' 52-yard Hail Mary to Noah Brown that stunned the Bears last month. "They dropped 11 guys in coverage," Olsen marveled. "If they just tackle him inbounds the game is over. I don't even know what to say. I'm absolutely speechless." Not for long he wasn't. Olsen quickly cautioned the audience that "Automatic" Austin Siebert had already missed an extra point along with a field goal Sunday in his return from a right hip injury. "Before anyone in Washington gets too fired up, remember, we've seen a missed PAT already," Olsen said. "Yeah, you hold your breath with anything special teams-related on this day," Davis agreed. After all, this was the first game in NFL history to feature two kickoff returns for touchdowns, two errant extra points and a blocked punt. In the 41-point fourth quarter that erased the game's snoozer status, Washington allowed KaVontae Turpin's 99-yard kickoff return for a score. Earlier, the Cowboys missed a field goal and saw another one blocked along with a punt. Sure enough, the snap was low ... the hold was better ... "It is no good!" Davis hollered. "And the worst special teams day in history has a fitting finish!" Actually, no. More ruckus remained. Siebert's onside kick bounced twice in front of safety Juanyeh Thomas, who gathered it in and returned it 43 yards for Dallas' second kickoff return for a touchdown. If Thomas takes a knee short of the goal line, he effectively seals the Cowboys' win. Instead, the score, while pushing Dallas' lead to 34-26, also left enough time for Daniels and the Commanders for a shot at yet another miracle touchdown. Austin Ekeler returned the kickoff to the Washington 36 and after a short gain, Daniels' Hail Mary was intercepted by Israel Mukuamu as time expired. And that's how what Davis called the "worst special teams day in NFL history" came to an end. "What a wild special teams moment of blocked punts, kicks, kickoff returns, blocked field goals," Commanders coach Dan Quinn said. In keeping with the not-so-special-teams theme, there were several foibles in the kicking game across the NFL in Week 12, where the Broncos gave up a 34-yard pass completion on a fake punt that Denver coach Sean Payton swore the team saw coming — and not as it was unfolding, either, but five days earlier. "We met Tuesday as a staff. It wasn't a matter of if, it was when they were going to run a fake punt," Payton said. "You're struggling as a team like this, we had it on the keys to victory, so credit them, they executed it." Thanks to AJ Cole's 34-yard pass to linebacker Divine Deablo that set up a second-quarter field goal, the reeling Raiders took a 13-9 advantage into the locker room, just their second halftime lead of the season. In the second half, the Raiders succumbed to surging rookie QB Bo Nix and veteran wide receiver Courtland Sutton in their 29-19 loss. That's seven straight losses for the Raiders, their longest skid in a decade. The Broncos (7-5), who blew a chance to beat the Chiefs in Week 10 when their 35-yard field goal try was blocked as time ran out, also allowed a 59-yard kickoff return that led to Las Vegas' only touchdown Sunday. The Texans (7-5) lost for the third time in four games after Ka'imi Fairbairn shanked a 28-yard field goal try that would have tied the Titans just after the two-minute warning. Like the Broncos, the Vikings (9-2) overcame a special teams blunder and escaped Soldier Field with a 30-27 overtime win against the Bears after allowing Chicago (4-7) to recover an onside kick with 21 seconds left. Caleb Williams followed with a 27-yard pass to D.J. Moore to set up Cairo Santos' tying 48-yard field goal as the fourth-quarter clock hit zeros.SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Primo Spears' 31 points led UTSA over Houston Christian 78-71 on Saturday night. Spears had five assists for the Roadrunners (3-3). Raekwon Horton added 19 points while shooting 6 of 7 from the field and 7 for 7 from the line while he also had nine rebounds. Damari Monsanto finished 3 of 8 from 3-point range to finish with 11 points. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
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NoneBuffalo Bills activate All-Pro star Matt Milano in huge boost as he prepares to play his first game in 14 months READ MORE: Bills clash with the 49ers under threat as team asks fans for help By DANIEL MATTHEWS Published: 21:43 GMT, 30 November 2024 | Updated: 21:45 GMT, 30 November 2024 e-mail 19 shares View comments Matt Milano is this weekend in line to play his first game for the Buffalo Bills since October 2023 after the linebacker was activated from injured reserve. Come Sunday night, when the Bills take on the San Francisco 49ers at a snowy Highmark Stadium, it will have been 420 days since Milano suited up for game. The former All-Pro has been out since the Bills faced the Jaguars in London last season and his return is a huge boost for the Super Bowl hopefuls. Milano missed Buffalo's first 11 games of the NFL season after suffering a bicep tear back in mid-August. It came after the key defensive weapon suffered a season-ending leg injury against Jacksonville. The Bills have also elevated quarterback Mike White and tight end Zach Davidson from the practice squad, with defensive tackle DeWayne Carter downgraded to out. San Francisco, meanwhile, has been boosted by the news that Brock Purdy is set to return for their potentially season-defining game against the Bills . Matt Milano is this weekend set to play his first game for the Buffalo Bills since October 2023 The former All-Pro has been out since the Bills faced the Jaguars in London last season Read More Josh Allen's ex claims she's been hacked after brutal CTE Instagram dig at QB amid his engagement to Hailee Steinfeld Buffalo's Highmark Stadium is caked in snow just a day before this Sunday's showdown against the San Francisco 49ers . Temperatures had already fallen below freezing by Saturday afternoon, with up to 4ft of snow expected before Sunday's NFL clash. But Buffalo was already painted white a day earlier as the weather turned brutal in Western New York. Footage and pictures from Orchard Park showed the area around Highmark Stadium covered in snow, with visibility very limited and cars battling slushy roads. Ahead of Sunday's game, the Bills put a call out for volunteers to help clear the stadium in anticipation of the winter snow. 'The rate of pay will be $20 per hour with food and hot beverages provided,' the team said. London Buffalo Bills Share or comment on this article: Buffalo Bills activate All-Pro star Matt Milano in huge boost as he prepares to play his first game in 14 months e-mail 19 shares Add comment
When the late Henry Kissinger — who died a year ago, on Nov. 29 — published his essay “How the Enlightenment Ends” in June 2018, many were surprised that the elder statesman’s elder statesman had a view on artificial intelligence. Kissinger had just turned 95. AI was not yet the hot topic it would become after OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022. As Kissinger’s biographer, however, I wasn’t surprised that AI gripped his attention. He had, after all, come to prominence in 1957 with a book about a new and world-changing technology. “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy” was a book so thoroughly researched that it won the approval even of Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project. Contrary to his unwarranted reputation as a warmonger, Kissinger was strongly motivated throughout his adult life by the imperative to avoid World War III. He understood that the technology of nuclear fission would make another world war an even greater conflagration. Early in the book, Kissinger estimated the destructive effects of a 10-megaton bomb dropped on New York and then extrapolated that an all-out Soviet attack on the 50 largest US cities would kill between 15 and 20 million people and injure between 20 and 25 million. A further 5 to 10 million would die from the effects of radioactive fallout. Yet Kissinger’s youthful idealism did not make him a pacifist. The question was not whether war could be avoided altogether by disarmament, but whether it was “possible to imagine applications of power less catastrophic than all-out thermonuclear war.” It was on this basis that Kissinger advanced his doctrine of limited nuclear war. Many people recoiled from Kissinger’s seemingly cold-blooded contemplation of a limited nuclear war. Yet both superpowers went on to build battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons, following precisely the logic that Kissinger had outlined. Indeed, such weapons exist to this day. The Russian government has threatened to use them on more than one occasion since its invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, today’s decisionmakers in Washington, DC, seem to have forgotten the lessons Kissinger taught them during the Cold War. If one side threatens to use a nuclear weapon against the United States or one of its allies, we must always make it clear that we would not hesitate to retaliate in kind. The amnesia of the Biden-Harris administration on the basics of nuclear deterrence has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives. Henry Kissinger never retired. Such a man was hardly going to ignore one of the most consequential technological breakthroughs of his later life: the development and deployment of generative artificial intelligence. Indeed, the task of understanding the implications of this nascent technology consumed a significant portion of Kissinger’s final years. “Genesis , ” Kissinger’s final book, co-authored with two eminent technologists, Craig Mundie and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, contains a stark warning about the dangers of an AI arms race. “If . . . each human society wishes to maximize its unilateral position,” the authors write in the book published earlier this month, “then the conditions would be set for a psychological death-match between rival military forces and intelligence agencies, the likes of which humanity has never faced before.” The “techno-optimists” of Silicon Valley may dismiss this as mere doom-mongering. But the central problem of technological progress manifested itself in Henry Kissinger’s lifetime. Nuclear fission was first observed in Berlin by two German chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, in 1938. The possibility of a nuclear chain reaction was the insight of the Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd. Yet it took less than four years for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, whereas it was not until 1951 that the first nuclear power station was opened. Today there are approximately 12,500 nuclear warheads in the world, and the number is rapidly rising as China adds to its nuclear arsenal. By contrast, there are 436 nuclear reactors in operation. Artificial intelligence is far different from nuclear fission. But it would be a grave error to assume that we shall use this new technology more for productive than for potentially destructive purposes. While it may not be widely realized—except, perhaps, by Elon Musk — the biggest risk Donald Trump’s administration will face is not Russian (or North Korean) missiles. Nor is it Iranian-backed terrorists. The danger is that Chinese scientists are currently conducting AI experiments as reckless as their “gain-of-function” research on coronaviruses five years ago. Unlike in the 1950s, there is more than one arms race going on today — and the most dangerous may prove to be the AI arms race. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is right to be hostile to the spread of DEI through the US armed services. But those are not the capital letters he should be most worried about. AI is a lot scarier than DEI. And our generation awaits its Kissinger: someone with the intellect to understand what this new technology means for our foreign policy. Niall Ferguson is the Millbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and the author of “Kissinger, Volume 1: 1923-1968: The Idealist.”