Only two people survived when a Jeju Air plane crashed at Muan Airport in South Korea on Sunday, the country’s worst aviation disaster in decades. Officials said they were investigating the cause.
Jimmy Carter, former president and peace activist, dies : NPR
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter takes questions from the media during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Aug. 20, 2015.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at age 100. The Carter Center announced he died in his hometown of Plains, Ga.
Carter was president from 1977 to 1981, but he was perhaps more famous for the life he led after leaving office. Carter was one of the biggest advocates for peace, democracy and international human rights.
James “Jimmy” Earl Carter Jr. was born in Plains, Ga., on Oct. 1, 1924, and spent his childhood on a farm just outside that tiny southwest Georgia community. His father was a peanut farmer; his mother, “Miss Lillian,” was a nurse. He was the first president of the United States to be born in a hospital.
“Other than Jimmy Carter, no person from the Deep South since the American Civil War had been elected president,” said Steven Hochman, a longtime assistant to the former president who works for the Carter Center.
Jimmy who?
Growing up on the farm, Carter learned the value of hard work and determination. He qualified for the U.S. Naval Academy and became an engineer, working on submarines. But Carter resigned from the Navy in 1953 after his father died.
Back in Plains, he was elected to the Georgia Senate and became the first Georgia governor to speak out against racial discrimination.
A lifelong Democrat like most Southerners at the time, Carter was a political unknown when he began a national campaign in 1974 and was first referred to as “Jimmy Who?“
But a grassroots effort changed that, Hochman said. “He would campaign on the street corners and go to radio stations. Nobody knew who he was except that he was running for president.”
Carter’s friends and family from Georgia, called the Peanut Brigade, traveled to New Hampshire, Iowa and all over the country talking to voters and campaigning for Carter, the dependable Southerner who wanted to be president.
Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter greets a young supporter as he arrives in Manchester, N.H., on Aug. 3, 1976. Carter was in New Hampshire for a rally and fundraising events.
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During the campaign, Carter told audiences, “I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the trust of those who have confidence in me, and I will never avoid a controversial issue.”
Carter was elected when the mood of the country was bitter and cynical in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. The man from Georgia struck out on a different course on his inauguration day: Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, stepped out of the bulletproof limousine and walked to the White House to demonstrate their connection with the American people.
“It was mainly an attempt to draw a distinction between what he saw as the people’s presidency and the more imperial presidency of Richard Nixon,” said historian Dan Carter (no relation to Jimmy Carter).
The Carter White House
Among Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments were the Camp David Accords, which brought together the prime minister of Israel and the president of Egypt in 1978. They signed peace agreements on the White House lawn, and Carter spoke about the dedication and determination of the leaders who had been enemies for so many years.
The accords led to a peace treaty, but the relationship between the two Mideast countries remained tenuous. While in office, Carter also worked on the SALT II nuclear weapons agreement and signed the Panama Canal treaties, giving control of the canal to Panama.
But Carter’s most difficult challenge was the Iran hostage crisis. Militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979 and took dozens of Americans hostage. People were glued to reports on the crisis for more than a year, as Carter continued to negotiate for the release of the hostages. In 1980, a failed rescue attempt led to the deaths of eight American servicemen.
The administration also battled domestic problems, including an energy crisis and double-digit inflation. Carter held a series of meetings among his Cabinet members that resulted in a blunt television address in 1979 that came to be known as the “malaise” speech.
“It’s clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper — deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as president, I need your help,” Carter pleaded.
Carter established a federal energy policy. He created the departments of Energy and Education. Still, he lost his bid for reelection by a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan. And it wasn’t until moments after Reagan was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 1981, that the 52 remaining hostages were released. Carter was allowed to welcome them home.
“I had received word officially for the first time that the aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first leg of the journey home and that every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free,” Carter said as his voice broke.
Life after Washington
After leaving office, Carter became dedicated to promoting democracy, monitoring elections, building homes with Habitat for Humanity and eradicating disease in some of the world’s poorest countries. In 1982, the president and his wife opened the Carter Center in Atlanta.
In an interview with NPR in 2007, Carter talked about his experiences. “And for the last 25 years, my life could not have been more expansive and unpredictable and adventurous and gratifying,” he said.
In 2002, Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor some said he had earned a quarter century earlier when he negotiated the Camp David Accords. He ended his acceptance speech with a plea for peace.
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children,” Carter said.
The former president continued international peace missions throughout his lifetime, meeting with the leaders of countries that some U.S. presidents refused to acknowledge, including North Korea, Nicaragua and Cuba. In 2008, he met with the exiled leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, despite harsh criticism from the U.S. government.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and other members of the Elders group attend a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow in April 2015. The Elders group comprises global leaders who advocate for peace, justice and human rights — goals that Carter spent a lifetime pursuing after leaving the presidency.
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Historian Dan Carter said that the former president did prove to be a kind of honest broker for peace in many cases and that as Jimmy Carter grew older, he was less afraid of speaking out.
“And his meeting with Hamas, sure it was a provocative thing, but he felt it was the right thing to do,” said Dan Carter.
Jimmy Carter wrote more than 20 books, the most controversial titled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. He was a religious man, attending a Baptist church and teaching Bible school for many years. And he was a statesman — hardworking and plain talking.
The Carter Center’s Hochman said the 39th president was one of the most remarkable leaders in U.S. history. “I think he’ll be remembered as a champion of human rights and peace, both as president and as a former president,” Hochman said.
Carter entered hospice care in February 2023. The longest-lived former president had suffered from a series of health challenges in recent years, including surviving cancer, a broken hip and other recent hospitalizations for a fractured pelvis and a urinary tract infection.
He and Rosalynn celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary in 2023, a few months before she died at the age of 96.
Carter’s wishes were to be buried next to Rosalynn in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
Aaron Rodgers sets dreadful NFL record as Jets crushed against Bills
Aaron Rodgers hoped to achieve milestone touchdown pass No. 500 in a New York Jets win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday afternoon but got the completely opposite result.
Rodgers was sacked four times and threw two interceptions as Buffalo defeated New York, 40-14. It was Tyrod Taylor who threw two touchdown passes in the Jets’ loss.
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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, center, stands on the sidelines after he was pulled from the game during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Instead of reaching the 500-touchdown plateau, Rodgers set a rather negative record. He became the most sacked quarterback in NFL history. He has been sacked 568 times in 247 career games – three more than Tom Brady, who was sacked 565 times in his career. Russell Wilson is right there as well with 556 sacks.
Fran Tarkenton played before the NFL started counting sacks. The stat didn’t become official until 1982. Football researchers started counting sacks before the stat was official, and Fran Tarkenton is credited with holding the unofficial record.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) is sacked by Buffalo Bills defensive end AJ Epenesa, right, in the end zone for a safety during the first half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
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Rodgers could very well catch Tarkenton’s record in the Jets’ final game of the 2024 season. New York will welcome the Miami Dolphins into East Rutherford, New Jersey, next week.
The Jets quarterback has been sacked 37 times this season. He led the league twice in times sacked in his career – both when he was with the Green Bay Packers.
In 2012, he was sacked 51 times. In 2010, he was sacked 50 times.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) is sacked by Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller (40) during the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
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New York fell to 4-12 on the year. The team hasn’t made the playoffs since the 2010 season and hasn’t had a winning record since 2015.
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Lily-Rose Depp wants to preserve her ‘anonymity’
Lily-Rose Depp was born into Hollywood royalty.
The daughter of “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp and French model Vanessa Paradis, she stars in the upcoming “Nosferatu” thriller, but is hesitant to fully embrace the celebrity world despite her affiliations.
Lily-Rose, 25, has worked in the entertainment and modeling industry for years and has long denied her nepo-baby status.
“Every job comes with a set of circumstances and this [fame] is kind of one of them,” Depp told the Daily Telegraph.
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Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp, wants to protect her anonymity. (Getty Images)
“The importance to me has been to maintain a sense of, like, privacy and groundedness and to protect [what] really belongs to you.”
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She added, “People are interested in things that they shouldn’t necessarily be interested in and . . . the job of an actor is to go into a character and, like, melt into it – and make the audience believe you are this character.
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis dated for 14 years, beginning in 1998. (Donato Sardella/WireImage)
“In order to do that, it’s important to protect a sense of anonymity – they’re not supposed to get to know ‘you’ that well, ‘cause you want them to believe you as other characters.”
When her co-star, Nicholas Hoult, admitted that red carpet appearances were “absolutely terrifying,” Depp reassured him that it “means you’re a good person.”
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“That’s like a sign of like a good, humble human being,” she said. “[Red carpets are part of the job . . . and it’s kind of the opposite of the job. The job is to be someone else and almost leave yourself behind – and go into someone else’s skin and do it in an intimate setting [on set].
“So, in a way, it feels private, like an intimate setting. And then all of a sudden, having to like go out into the world and be very publicly yourself is kind of an interesting paradox.”
Depp portrayed a pop star on “The Idol” struggling with her career and mental health who falls in love with a self-help guru and cult leader. (Eddy Chen/HBO)
Depp has starred in a number of films, including “Crisis,” “Voyagers,” “Silent Night” and “Wolf.” Last year, she headlined the HBO series, “The Idol,” alongside Abel Tesfaye, better known as the singer, The Weeknd.
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Lily-Rose discussed the “nepo-babies” debate in an Elle magazine interview last year.
“The internet seems to care a lot about that kind of stuff,” she said. “People are going to have preconceived ideas about you or how you got there, and I can definitely say that nothing is going to get you the part except for being right for the part.
“The internet cares a lot more about who your family is than the people who are casting you in things. Maybe you get your foot in the door, but you still just have your foot in the door. There’s a lot of work that comes after that.”
Lily-Rose has long denied her nepo-baby status, and previously indicated the term was misogynistic. (Photo by Kurt Krieger)
She also indicated that the “nepo baby” label was misogynistic, and told the magazine that it was interesting how the moniker was rarely applied to men.
“It’s weird to me to reduce somebody to the idea that they’re only there because it’s a generational thing,” she said. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”
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Depp continued, “If somebody’s mom or dad is a doctor, and then the kid becomes a doctor, you’re not going to be like, ‘Well, you’re only a doctor because your parent is a doctor.’ It’s like, ‘No, I went to medical school and trained.’
“I just hear it a lot more about women, and I don’t think that it’s a coincidence.”
Man on vacation goes viral for blunt answer to question: ‘No, I’m not having fun’
Some people may want to consider being a bit more … diplomatic.
That’s the overall assessment of commenters on a viral Reddit thread after a man described the experience of going for a nature hike with his brother while on vacation in Arizona — then shared his blunt response to a question his brother asked him after their hike was done.
“I am a guy who, when I don’t enjoy something, I’ll tell you I don’t,” Reddit user “Ness_Lucas” wrote at the start of his post on the social media site a few days ago.
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As of Sunday, the post had accumulated over 6,000 reactions.
He added, “But if I commit to something, I’ll see it through to the end without complaining.”
A man described the experience of going for a nature hike with his brother (not pictured) while they were on vacation — and social media commenters had a field day with the account. (iStock)
He said the issue “came to a head” when he was “on vacation with my older brother in Arizona, who wanted to do a lot of nature hikes.”
Wrote the man on Reddit, “Nature hikes are fine. I don’t mind them, but I do dislike walking up large hills.”
“Walking uphill … is very draining and leaves me sweaty.”
He added, “Walking downhill is the easiest thing ever. It’s like being nature’s passenger princess. You just put your foot forward and let gravity do all the work.”
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He went on, “Walking uphill, conversely, is very draining and leaves me sweaty.”
He continued, “I don’t make a point to complain about something when I do it, so when I was walking uphill, despite not liking it much, I held [a] basic conversation with my brother.”
“When I was walking uphill, despite not liking it much, I held [a] basic conversation with my brother,” wrote a man on social media as others weighed in on his dilemma. (iStock)
However, once the pair began to head back down, the man said his brother “asked me if I was having fun — and I said no.”
He added, “Not because of any fault of my brother. I just didn’t find the activity fun. Not even bad, just satisfactory.”
“I don’t like it when people ask for my opinion and get upset when I give my honest answer.”
Later, when the brother was driving the Reddit poster to the airport for his flight home, the man said his brother told him, “If I ask you if you’re having fun, don’t say ‘no.'”
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Wrote the Redditor, “I understand that it can be demoralizing to hear someone’s not having fun.”
However, “I don’t like it when people ask for my opinion and get upset when I give my honest answer,” he said.
“Sometimes in life you have to walk uphill to get to where you’re going,” wrote one responder on the viral Reddit thread. (iStock)
“If I’m not having fun, I’ll just say I’m not having fun.”
Responders on the Reddit page known as “Am I the a–hole” had a field day with the post — rendering their general assessment that the man was indeed the “a–hole” for the way he replied to his family member.
“People want to hear that you’re enjoying their company.”
Wrote one commenter in the top-rated response, “‘It’s been a fun day hanging with you, but, man, this hike is steep’ [or] ‘I’m looking forward to the downhill bit!’ That’s the sort of polite answer people are looking for.”
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The same person added, “You acknowledge you’re enjoying your brother’s company, which was what he was looking for, but you can also acknowledge the hike is hard/difficult etc. It doesn’t matter how much the activity sucks — people want to hear that you’re enjoying their company.”
A man turned to Reddit for insights into his personal dilemma — and was blasted by most people for his blunt comments to his brother. (iStock)
Another individual put it this way, responding to the first commenter, “Exactly! It’s a small social nicety that expresses that ‘I’m happy to spend time with you, even if I don’t enjoy the activity.'”
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Yet another person said pointedly, “You are perched on your self-anointed pedestal and expecting everyone to treat you like a little princess. Your brother probably regrets ever going on a hike with you. Sometimes in life you have to walk uphill to get to where you’re going.”
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A different commenter let the Reddit poster off the hook, but shared this suggestion: “Not everyone is into hiking. That’s a personal choice. But a better option would be to talk with your brother and compromise on doing something you will BOTH enjoy.”
Fox News Digital reached out to a psychologist for thoughts.
South Korea plane’s final moments captured on video before hitting concrete barrier, triggering explosion
The moment a Jeju Air flight skidded off a runway before crashing into a concrete barrier and bursting into flames at an airport in South Korea was caught on camera.
The crash on Sunday killed 179 people on board. Only two survived, a man and a woman who were both crew members.
Footage aired by South Korean television channels showed the plane skidding — and apparently without its landing gear deployed. The jet overran the runway and hit a barrier, triggering a fiery explosion. Footage showed thick plumes of smoke billowing from the plane, which was engulfed in flames.
The plane involved was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 passenger jet. It was arriving from Bangkok when the crash happened at 9:03 a.m. local time near the town of Muan, which is about 180 miles south of Seoul.
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Firefighters and rescue team members work near the wreckage of a passenger plane at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Kyle Bailey, former a FAA safety team representative in the U.S., told Fox News that it appeared to him that the aircraft was traveling too fast as it skidded on the runway before striking what he believed was a structure that housed instrument landing equipment.
“I think that’s pretty much what spelled disaster for that airplane,” he said.
Rescue team carry the body of a passenger at the site of a plane fire at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the plane’s black box have been retrieved by workers. They will be examined by government experts investigating the cause of the crash and fire, Senior Transport Ministry official Joo Jong-wan said.
While it will likely take months to determine the cause of the crash, Lee Jeong-hyeon, chief of the Muan fire station, said workers were looking into various possibilities, including whether the aircraft was struck by birds.
Firefighters and rescue team members work at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (Cho Nam-soo/Yonhap via AP)
Transport Ministry officials said the airport control tower had issued a bird strike warning to the plane shortly before it intended to land and had given its pilot permission to land in a different area.
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The plane was destroyed with the tail assembly being the only recognizable part among the wreckage, the fire chief told a televised briefing.
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Chris Pandolfo and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
ESPN broadcasters face pro-Colorado bias accusations as Buffaloes blown out in bowl game
The BYU Cougars picked up a huge season-ending win over the Colorado Buffaloes on Saturday night, thwarting the perfect sendoff for Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter.
The Cougars blew out the Buffaloes in the Alamo Bowl, 36-14. BYU running back L.J. Martin had two touchdowns to go with 93 rushing yards, and Sione I Moa added another score on the ground to help BYU to the win.
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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, center, takes the field with his team before the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game against BYU, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
College football fans who tuned into the ESPN broadcast of the game got pretty upset with the spotlight being heavily on Colorado, and they made their voices heard on social media.
BYU offensive lineman Connor Pay even told the broadcasters to talk more about the team, according to broadcaster Dave Pasch.
“He walked up out there (the production meeting) yesterday and said to us, ‘Talk about BYU just a little bit, would you?’ Well, we’re talking about Connor Pay, and we’re talking about BYU now,” Pasch said in the fourth quarter with the Cougars up 33-7, via Awful Announcing. “I’m sure the fans in Provo would love us to talk about BYU the whole night.”
Pasch’s broadcast partner Dusty Dvoracek added that BYU “gave us plenty to talk about.”
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, left, and BYU head coach Kalani Sitake, right, meet at midfield following BYU’s win in the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Pay was among those who weighed in on the call.
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For what it’s worth, Colorado’s Sanders and Hunter are set to become first-round picks in the upcoming draft. Not to mention, Deion Sanders is the head coach of Colorado and has rebuilt the program into one of the most captivating in the nation.
Sanders said it was “tough” knowing that some of the players he’s been coaching for the last two or three years are going to be leaving his side for the next part of their journeys.
BYU finished the season 11-2, producing their third 10-win season in the last five years. They haven’t had a run like that since the mid-2000s when they won at least 10 games from 2006 to 2009 and then again in 2011.
Kalani Sitake had the team go from a meager five wins in their first season in the Big 12 Conference last year to 11 wins and a bowl appearance.
BYU head coach Kalani Sitake, center, reacts after being doused as he and his players celebrate after their win over Colorado in the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Sitake is 5-2 in bowl games since taking over the program in 2016.
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East Carolina-NC State fight mars end of Military Bowl, ref left bloodied
The Military Bowl featured a matchup of in-state rivals East Carolina and N.C. State and the game’s temperature heated up before the end, which left an official bloodied.
The Pirates were about to wrap up a 26-21 win over the Wolfpack. East Carolina had just intercepted an N.C. State pass on defense and all they had to do was run out the clock. Running back Rahjai Harris ran the ball up the middle with 44 seconds left, but a fight ensued close to the Pirates’ sideline.
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Dec. 28, 2024; Annapolis, MD: North Carolina State Wolfpack and East Carolina Pirates players fight during the second half of the Go Bowling Military Bowl at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. (Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)
East Carolina wide receiver Yannick Smith appeared to swipe a towel from N.C. State defensive back Tamarcus Cooley. The Wolfpack played and then chased Smith and pushed him to the ground. Two other East Carolina players jumped into the fray to defend Smith.
It was another eight minutes before everyone could calm down, and the final play could occur.
At least one official was seen with his face bloodied. Eight players were ejected from the game.
“I’m embarrassed as a coach,” N.C. State coach Dave Doeren said. “I know our players are, too. That is not how people of this program, the players of this program, staff of this program, want anything to do with something like that.
“To me, it was a terrible response to something that happened to one of our players, and there’s no excuses for it. So I apologize to ECU and their team for the way we responded.”
Dec. 28, 2024; Annapolis, MD: Officials huddle during the second half of the Go Bowling Military Bowl between the North Carolina State Wolfpack and the East Carolina Pirates at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. (Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)
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East Carolina head coach Blake Harrell said there was “no place in sports for that.”
He seemed to challenge other in-state schools to add them to their schedules. East Carolina and N.C. State are only about 80 miles apart and have each other on their schedules for next season.
“I don’t think you can look at our fans and tell them it’s not a rivalry. It’s an hour and 15 minutes up the road,” Harrell said. “And there’s a couple of other schools about the same distance. Maybe they should put us on their schedule as well, instead of trying to take our players. They want to call our players and take our players. Well, how about put us on the schedule?
“We’re going to be looked at like a little step-brother, that’s fine. These guys are going to compete, they’re going to take up the challenge. I know we got to go play these guys again next year, at the beginning of the year. But we’re going to celebrate this one tonight.”
Dec. 28, 2024; Annapolis, MD: East Carolina Pirates hoists the Go Bowling Military Bowl trophy after defeating North Carolina State Wolfpack at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. (Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)
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East Carolina finished the season 8-5 and N.C. State ended the year 6-7.
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Miami’s Cam Ward opts out of bowl game in 2nd half after setting TD record, ignites social media debate
Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward, a potential top pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, set the NCAA Division I record for touchdown passes during his bowl game appearance on Saturday and then sat for the second half.
Ward and the Hurricanes played the Iowa State Cyclones in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Ward set the mark with a touchdown pass in the first quarter to Jacolby George. It brought him to 156 career touchdown passes. Emory Williams started the second half, and Miami went on to lose the game, 42-21.
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Miami quarterback Cam Ward (1) throws a pass during the first half of the Pop Tarts Bowl NCAA college football game against Iowa State on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Miami head coach Mario Cristobal was asked about the decision after the game.
“All meetings with players, and decisions like that, we made them in private, we keep them in private,” Cristobal said, via ESPN. “So, I’ll prefer not to answer any questions as it relates to that. But I know he played his best while he was in there.”
Ward’s decision caught the attention of social media as well.
The quarterback broke Case Keenum’s record. Keenum set the Division I – FBS and FCS – record from 2007 to 2011. He had 155 touchdown passes with the Houston Cougars.
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Dec. 28, 2024; Orlando, Fla.: Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward (1) stands on the sideline during the first half against the Iowa State Cyclones at Camping World Stadium. (Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images)
“Just blessed, man,” he told WQAM Radio. “I think I’ve grown so much as a person this year, outside of football. This is the best team that I’ve been around . . . I was just blessed to be here.”
Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel is on the cusp of passing Keenum’s mark as well. He has 153 touchdown passes in six seasons. He could get close to breaking the mark in the College Football Playoff.
Ward may be one of the first of a few talented quarterbacks taken off the board in the spring when the draft begins. Shedeur Sanders, Quinn Ewers and Carson Beck are among the top prospects.
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Dec. 28, 2024; Orlando, Fla.: Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward (1) gestures during the second half against the Iowa State Cyclones at Camping World Stadium. (Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images)
“I think Cam’s DNA, his upbringing, everything that he is made of and stands for is the right kind of stuff; the stuff you want your team made of,” Cristobal said. “He’s had a tremendous impact on our community, our team, our program, alumni.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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DAVID MARCUS: MAGA’s H-1B ‘civil war’ is exactly how politics is supposed to work
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There are two pieces of very good news that have come out of the infighting over H-1B visas for foreign skilled workers in Trump World this week. The first happy accident is that tensions are already easing, much to the chagrin of liberals who hoped they were witnessing a permanent schism.
The second, even better development, is that both sides of the admittedly zesty debate have listened, compromised, and arrived at a better and clearer set of positions for the Republican Party moving forward.
A side-by-side of Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. (Getty Images/AP Images)
In the red corner, we had the twin heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk who appeared at first to call for expansion of the H-1B visa program that allows employers to use foreign labor when they cannot find qualified Americans.
In the other red corner, we had Steve Bannon and a host of prominent America Firsters all but calling for an end of the skilled foreign worker program, a policy that would no doubt cause considerable chaos and disruption.
On Saturday, President-elect Trump weighed in, sort of, telling the New York Post that he likes the visa program and uses it himself, but not endorsing any expansion. And this is of course the same Trump who fired board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority for using foreign workers over Americans.
By Sunday morning, as parents quietly sipped coffee and spied the news on their phones, the kids getting a little more sleep before church, things had calmed down considerably in this impromptu intramural immigration debate.
For his part, Ramaswamy, after an ill-advised X post this week criticizing American families for having more sleepovers and movie nights than their South Asian counterparts, has backed off of his cultural high hill and retrained his sights on the real issue at hand.
The only real losers in the wake of this kerfuffle are the Democrats and liberal talking heads who hoped that they were watching MAGA tear itself apart.
Meanwhile, Musk arguably moved even further to the center of the issue, posting late Saturday night that the excesses of the H-1B visa program are “easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H-1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.”
Or as Musk ally and head of Trump’s office of Artificial Intelligence David Sacks put it, ‘Elon has said that H1B should be overhauled, that it should focus on exceptional talent in high-value areas, and that the scams and low-pay jobs should end. This is not to say there aren’t still differences but less than it first appeared. Time to move forward as one team.’
This is music to the ears of the America First crowd and great news for the young American architect or graphic designer who just wants a level playing field, one where they don’t lose again and again to cheap foreign competition.
Meanwhile, the Bannonistas, who have been by Trump’s side from the very beginning a decade ago, are easing their attacks on newcomers Ramaswamy and Musk, and appreciating that they are all on the same team.
The only real losers in the wake of this kerfuffle are the Democrats and liberal talking heads who hoped that they were watching MAGA tear itself apart. As Republicans work out their differences, instead of munching on popcorn, the left is eating crow.
There are some lessons to take from the recent unpleasantness. At one point, some in the pro H-1B crowd, and some on the left, accused those in opposition of anti-South Asian racism, a terrible lie and an even worse message. Thankfully, this did not last long.
And it is important that the generally leftist tactic of pointing and yelling racism did not work because these are exactly the fights that make our foreign foes with their trolling social media bot farms drool, and they were working overtime to divide Americans this week.
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Thankfully, it failed.
In the end, as tempers cooled and discourse bent back in the direction of congeniality and good faith. What we are left with is a fructive and fulsome debate over a nuanced issue.
Of course, the United States wants to attract the best and the brightest to help chart out a technological course forward, but we also don’t want to tell a truck driver that the kid he sends to college is going to get passed over for cheaper foreign counterparts.
The opportunity to balance these concerns over attracting the best from elsewhere, while not burdening our own citizens’ ability to achieve is upon us. Compromise really is possible. It might not always look like a church social, it might get a little rough around the edges, but as a wise man once said, ‘politics ain’t beanbag.’
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Trump takes office in about three weeks, and it bodes well for his upcoming four years as president that those who serve and support can not only argue with pointed vigor, but also come together with an honest give and take when called for.
The battle of the H-1B turned out not to be a crisis in MAGAland, but rather a roadmap for compromise and competent governance.
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