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Mark Schlabach

Vols' record-setting RB Sampson entering draft

Tennessee running back Dylan Sampson, who set school single-season records for rushing yards and touchdowns this season, is foregoing his final season of eligibility and will enter the 2025 NFL draft, he announced on his Instagram account Friday.

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Jackson calls DSU job a 'once-in-a-lifetime' shot

Former Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson has been hired as the new football coach at Delaware State, the school announced.

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32 Products That Are Gonna Stay On Your Mind Until You Make Them Yours

You didn't know you needed a banana duck plush toy until right now.

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Raja Abdulrahim and Ivor Prickett

Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ouster of Syria’s dictator.

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Adam Rasgon

Israeli Military Forces Patients and Staff to Leave Hospital in Northern Gaza

The hospital, Kamal Adwan, has been caught in the middle of Israel’s monthslong offensive against Hamas militants in northern Gaza.

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Rob Copeland and Maureen Farrell

Wall St. Is Minting Easy Money From Risky Loans. What Could Go Wrong?

Everyone from Jamie Dimon to the International Monetary Fund is ringing alarms about the shadowy world of private credit. But the money keeps rolling in.

Fast Company

Grace Snelling

The 5 biggest branding flubs of 2024

These companies had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.

Building a successful brand is difficult. It requires the fine-tuned execution of a myriad of parts, which will appear in nearly as many contexts: packaging with just the right shelf appeal, a fine-tuned, scalable logo, clicky-yet-authentic copy, and visuals. Nearly every company is bound to make a mistake at some point. But this year, a few big names really messed up.

ESPN.com

Jesse Rogers

Gleyber union: Tigers to add Torres, sources say

The Tigers and Gleyber Torres have reached agreement on a one-year, $15 million deal, sources told ESPN's Jesse Rogers. Torres is expected to play second base.

Wired Top Stories

Matthew Korfhage

Simplify Your Morning With a One-Step Coffee-Weighing Cup

You can get whole seconds back every morning by measuring your coffee beans in the Subminimal Subscale dosing cup.

SBNation.com

James Dator

Rutgers fooled everyone with their fake ‘Tush Push’ in the Rate Bowl

This simple trick play was devastatingly effective.

Rutgers pulled off one of the best trick plays we’ve seen this year, and it was so effortlessly simply. Preying on the explosion of the ‘Tush Push’ throughout football, the Scarlet Knights made Kansas State completely fall for a fake — only to haplessly watch as running back Antwan Raymond scored.

??TOUCHDOWN RUTGERS??@aajk_23 and @antwanraymond8 execute the FAKE TUSH PUSH for the 1yd Scarlet Knights score!

RU: 41 || KSU:...

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James Dator

Eric Dickerson doesn’t think Saquon Barkley will break his record. He’s wrong

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Barkley is on pace to break one of the NFL’s oldest records. Here’s why.

One of the longest-held individual records in the NFL could fall in the next two weeks as Saquon Barkley needs 268 yards to break Erick Dickerson’s single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards — which has held since 1984.

Dickerson doesn’t think his mark is going to fall this season, telling the Los Angeles Times:

“I don’t think he’ll break it, but if he breaks it,...

SBNation.com

Ricky O'Donnell

The Pistons dug out of the NBA’s worst situation and finally gave their fans hope

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There’s hope for the Pistons for the first time in a long time.

The Detroit Pistons came home from Christmas a year ago looking like one of the most pathetic teams in NBA history. Detroit fell to 2-28 on the season when it lost to the Brooklyn Nets the day after Christmas as part of an eternal losing streak that tied a league record for consecutive defeats. A franchise that had averaged more than 58 losses per season over the season three years was...

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From Moo Deng To "Brat", This 2024 Pub Quiz Will Get You Seriously Thinking

Let's see how well you remember 2024!

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The Verge

Andrew Webster

9 great Game Pass games for your Xbox

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From postapocalyptic wastelands to cozy sci-fi futures, there’s a lot to dig into on Microsoft’s subscription service this year.

Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge

Vjeran Pavic

The Canon R5 Mark II is everything I love about this camera line

I’ve finally had a chance to test out the new hybrid powerhouse from Canon, the R5 Mark II. The camera comes with much-improved autofocus powered by the new Digic X processor, new eye-controlled autofocus, a backside illuminated sensor capable of faster readout and better low-light performance, and stunning video specs like recording in 8K internally with Canon Log 2 color profile.

But as much as those specs sound impressive (and they are), using the R5 Mark II also brought back...

Wired Top Stories

Rhett Allain

How Does a Movie Projector Show the Color Black?

There’s no such thing as black-colored light. So how can we see Darth Vader on a screen?

The Verge

Ash Parrish

2024’s best games channeled the heart and soul of the ‘90s

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After years of of chasing live-service and open-world blockbusters, games like Astro Bot and Balatro showed that old formats could be a solution to modern industry problems.

Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge

Emma Roth

OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company

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OpenAI has laid out plans to become a for-profit company. In a blog post published on Friday, OpenAI’s board said it will replace the company’s existing structure with one that puts control into the hands of its for-profit arm.

Going into 2025, OpenAI plans to become a Public Benefit Corporation? (PBC), which is a for-profit company meant to operate for the good of society. This division will “run and control OpenAI’s operations and business,” while...

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There Are 6 Universal Types Of Color Tones — Here's Your Personal Match

Discover your inner sparkle! ????

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Mashable

NASA solar probe survives dramatic plunge into the sun

NASA's spacecraft has reported back after making a plunge into the sun.

The Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone, indicating it's operational and in good health, NASA confirmed just after midnight on Friday, Dec. 27.

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The probe broke several records on Christmas Eve as it arrived just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the surface of the Sun, seven times closer than any other probe. Protected from the extreme heat by a...

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