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NFL Picks: The powerful AFC North on display in Week 10 as Cleveland visits Baltimore

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

Around the AFCThe North remembers. The best division in football is the AFC North. At the halfway mark, all four teams would be in the playoffs and three enter Week 10 at 5-3. The other is 7-2 Baltimore. Something’s got to give this weekend, though, as the Ravens host Cleveland in a game featuring maybe the two best defenses in football. Myles Garrett is putting together a dominant season for the Browns. The Ravens are loaded. Can Baltimore’s star quarterback Lamar Jackson be the difference?Wilson’s woes. The Jets made a call to stick with Zach Wilson when Aaron Rodgers got hurt in Week 1 and, half a season later, it’s not looking good. New York’s latest brutal offensive outing came Monday night in a 27-6 loss to the Chargers. That followed three straight wins, to be fair, but the Jets’ terrific defense is doing the heavy lifting. Nathaniel Hackett’s offense, meanwhile, is averaging 16.5 points per game (No. 30 in the NFL) and ranks No. 31 in EPA/play.Now vs. next. Two teams that de...

CU Buffs vs. Arizona football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

No. 23 Arizona (6-3, 4-2 Pac-12) at Colorado (4-5, 1-5)When/where: Saturday noon/Folsom FieldTV/Radio: Pac-12 Network/850 AM, 94.1 FMBetMGM Line: Arizona -10.5, 54 over/underWeather: Mostly sunny with a high of 56 degrees.Five storylinesNo. 2’s health: After getting banged up in the loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl, Buffs QB Shedeur Sanders was hurting in last week’s loss to Oregon State. He was sacked four times for 41 yards, bringing his season sack total to 46 for an FBS-worst 422 yards. Even though he toughed it out against OSU and didn’t miss a snap, his leg injury is clearly affecting his mobility and downfield accuracy. There’s no quick fix, but CU must find a way to keep him from taking big shots.Play-calling controversy: CU named Pat Shurmur co-offensive coordinator last week, and handed the ex-Broncos OC the play-calling reins prior to the loss to OSU. While the Buffs’ offense finally showed some life in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter, ...

CSU Rams vs. San Diego State football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

Colorado State (3-6, 1-4 MW) vs. San Diego State (3-6, 1-4 MW)When/where: 5 p.m. Saturday/Canvas StadiumTV/Radio: CBSSN/1600 AM, 104.3 HD2BetMGM Line: CSU -3.5, 46.5 over/underWeather: 51 degrees, clearFive storylinesBFN roller coaster: CSU QB Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi’s turnover troubles cropped up again last week, with the freshman throwing two picks and fumbling the ball away once in the second half of a 24-15 loss at Wyoming. Going up against an SDSU pass defense that ranks in the bottom third of FBS at 254 yards allowed/game, Fowler-Nicolosi should have himself an evening in FoCo — so long as he avoids adding to his FBS-worst interception total (13).How’s Horton: It’s been painful to watch Tory Horton the past few weeks. CSU’s senior wide receiver has had multiple trips to the medical tent while getting knocked around seemingly every week, including last Friday in Laramie when he managed seven catches for 58 yards on a heavily taped ankle. He’s now 1...

Opinion: Two conservationists — a radical and a rancher — shook up the West with the same goal

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

The West lost two larger-than-life conservationists this year, and while I considered both friends, they couldn’t have been more different. Yet both were radical in their own ways.One was ranching reformer Sid Goodloe, the other the activist and “monkey-wrencher” Dave Foreman. Each changed the way we think about this region.Goodloe, who was almost 93 when he died, bought a badly abused ranch in El Capitan, New Mexico, in 1956. Restoring it to health became a project that lasted nearly 7 decades.Taking his young family to Africa to learn traditional livestock techniques set him on a new land management path. There he met Allan Savory who showed him the wisdom of short-duration, rotational grazing. Once home, Goodloe got Savory invited to range management schools to teach the rest of the West how to restore abused land. He also realized something surprising: His ranch had once been a savannah grassland.Goodloe practiced “restorative ranching” long before there was such a term. He won ...

Letters: Don’t nickel and dime Colorado SUV drivers; target dangerous drivers

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

“Nickel and diming with fees”Re: “Owners of big SUVs, trucks could pay more,” Oct. 28 news storyState Sens. Lisa Cutter and Faith Winter have identified a problem on Colorado’s roads and want to fix it. They identify the problem as vehicle speed causing injury to pedestrians and bicyclists. And their solution? Tax everyone on the front range who drives a vehicle they deem as too heavy. Their bill goes on to lay out some statistics and such to show why this is the solution to the problem. Nowhere in the bill do the sponsors talk about holding people who speed or drive recklessly accountable. No, it’s just tax the people.They talk about the likelihood of death if you are hit by a vehicle traveling 58 miles per hour — 90%. I think it’s safe to say that the likelihood is the same if hit by a Corolla or an Escalade, although I guess there is a prestige factor if flattened by the Escalade.This new tax will be added to your vehicle registrati...

Mathews: California kids should take over their school boards

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

California kids, do you follow the news about the culture wars over local school boards?If you do, you’ll see these wars portrayed as political contests between groups that want to take education in different direction: progressives and right-wingers, and fights between parents’ groups and teachers’ unions.But you won’t hear much about the role of students in these debates. Because there isn’t one.There’s a big reason way you’re being left out. The adults in your lives, for all their performative disagreements over your schools, share a unity of purpose in the education wars: They want to trample on your already very limited rights as students.They just attack you from different flanks.On the right, conservative parents and their political allies seek to take away your right to read what you want. Groups with Orwellian names — like Moms for Liberty — are pursuing bans on books and curricula.  Banning books limits what your teachers can teach, and which of your questions ...

Amazon Fresh expands delivery, free pickup to all customers

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

Amazon has expanded its grocery delivery and free pickup service to all customers where Amazon Fresh is available.The retailer said it also updated its technology and grocery offerings at Amazon Fresh stores in Pasadena, Irvine and Woodland Hills.The services were previously available only to Amazon Prime members.Delivery fees for Amazon Fresh orders online range from $4.95 to $13.95 for customers without a Prime membership. That’s $4 more than Prime members pay per delivery. Prime members also get free delivery on orders over $100.In its Thursday, Nov. 9 announcement, Amazon said customers also can order delivery from a variety of grocery and specialty retailers available on Amazon.com. Locally, that includes Bristol Farms and Cardenas Markets.Amazon plans to expand grocery delivery and free pickup to all of its Whole Foods Markets. (Photo courtesy of Amazon) Amazon said it plans to expand grocery delivery and free pickup to all of its Whole Foods Markets, too.Legal headwindsD...

Review: The Games are ever in its favor with ‘Songbirds and Snakes’

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

By Jake Coyle | Associated PressTwo hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you?Concision was never much in favor in the four “Hunger Games” films, which reached a seeming finale with 2015’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.” The intervening years have done nothing to shrink the ambitions of this unapologetically gaudy dystopic series where the brutal deaths of kids are watched over by outrageously styled Capitol denizens with names like Effie Trinket.That clash of YA allegory and color palette is just as pronounced, if not more so, in “The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel set 64 years before the original books, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ 2020 book of the same name.“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which opens in theaters Nov. 16, is an origin story o...

Woman suspected of hate-crime vandalism after crashing vehicle through the gates at California synagogue

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

A 54-year-old woman was arrested for suspected hate-crime vandalism after using a vehicle to crash through the gates of a Tarzana synagogue early Thursday, Nov. 9, police said.Around 12:30 a.m., a vehicle plowed through two gates at the Eretz Synagogue and Cultural Center, located along the 6100 block of Wilbur Avenue, according to Los Angeles Police Officer Angie Moran. No injuries were reported as a result of the crash.The woman was found near the site of the crash two hours later and was taken into custody, Moran said. The woman was being held on a $25,000 bail.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Investigation finds school administrators failed to respond to antisemitism at East Bay high school Crime and Public Safety | Stanford campus hit-and-run investigated as hate crime after Muslim student struck, injured Crime and Public Safety | In Concord, a push to reopen 1985 case of young Black man found hanging from a tree at BART stati...

Southern California confirms 1st human case of mosquito-borne St. Louis Encephalitis since 1984

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:50 GMT

The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the city’s first case of St. Louis Encephalitis — a mosquito-borne virus with symptoms akin to West Nile virus — on Thursday, Nov. 9.It’s the first documented case of St. Louis Encephalitis, or SLEV, in Long Beach since 1984, the health department said Thursday. The city’s announcement came a little more than a week after it confirmed a case of dengue fever.The person who was infected is recovering after being hospitalized, the announcement said, and no other cases have been identified in the city to date.SLE is rarely seen in Los Angeles or in California generally. The state has identified 12 human cases of the disease in 2023 as of early November, according to the health department.SLE is a disease that is caused by the St. Louis Encephalitis virus and is spread to people by the bites of infected culex mosquitoes. It is in the same virus family as West Nile virus, with similar symptoms and transmission, but is less c...