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SportsOXFORD, Miss. — No. 12 Ole Miss gets an early Halloween start on Saturday, hosting Auburn at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford with kickoff set for 11:45 a.m. Central time. The Rebels are 5-2 and come home after a seven-point loss at Texas, a game that…
SportsOXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss men's basketball tips off a season in Oxford it hopes will wipe away a losing year when Alcorn State comes to the Sandy and John Black Pavilion for a 7:30 p.m. Central tipoff Monday. Coach Chris Beard won 20 or…
SportsOXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss men's basketball starts the regular season Monday night at home, hosting Alcorn State in a 7:30 p.m. tipoff on the Rebels home floor, the SJB Pavilion in Oxford. The Rebels have never lost to Alcorn State. They are 6-0 in…
From the HERE City National DeskVATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV welcomed the men's and women's basketball teams from Villanova and Notre Dame to a private audience Saturday, one day before the two Catholic schools open the college basketball season in Rome. Roughly 7,000 people filled the Paul VI audience…
From the HERE City National DeskOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without big man Chet Holmgren into the holidays after the team announced Friday that he has a small tear in the patellar tendon of his right knee. Holmgren first felt discomfort in the knee on…
From the HERE City National DeskST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays turned down 2027 mutual options Friday on right-hander Nick Martinez and center fielder Cedric Mullins, a widely expected move that sends both players into free agency. Martinez had a $20 million mutual option for next season. The…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — LeBron James took over the last two minutes Friday night, and the Philadelphia 76ers held off the defending champion New York Knicks 98-93 to start Emirates NBA Cup group play at 1-0. Philadelphia had built a double-digit cushion in the fourth quarter…
From the HERE City National DeskMIAMI — The Miami Marlins exercised Sandy Alcantara's $21 million club option for 2027 on Friday, keeping their ace off the open market on a busy day of contract decisions across Major League Baseball. Declining the option would have cost Miami a $2 million buyout.…
From the HERE City National DeskSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Golden State dug out of a 25-point hole Friday night and pulled away to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-95 at Chase Center in the opening game of Emirates NBA Cup group play for both teams. Luka Doncic started like he…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO — Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has drawn a second NFL fine for wearing cleats from Caddix, a small Baltimore company that is not one of the league's approved shoe partners, and the company says it will cover the cost. The newest penalty, $23,882, came…
From the HERE City National DeskBROOKLYN, N.Y. — A third quarter that turned into a rout carried the Detroit Pistons to a 110-94 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night at Barclays Center, opening Emirates NBA Cup group play for both teams. Brooklyn led 28-21 after one quarter and…
From the HERE City National DeskORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Goo Goo Dolls, a band that got its start in Buffalo, will headline the halftime show of Buffalo's Thanksgiving night game against Kansas City, the team announced Friday. The Nov. 26 game is the first Thanksgiving contest the Bills have…
Events
OXFORD, Miss. — The University of Mississippi will host a one-day public forum in Oxford on Nov. 16 about how the state should get ready for artificial intelligence, as large data center projects pour money into Mississippi. The event is the Mississippi stop on AI Across America, a tour by…
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HOUSTON, Texas — The two biggest U.S. oil companies said Friday that their refineries, not their oil fields, did much of the heavy lifting in a quarter of soaring profits, as diesel prices stayed high and overseas buyers leaned on Gulf Coast fuel. Exxon Mobil posted a third-quarter profit of…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, a federal judge in California on Friday ordered the Trump administration to stop warning state and local election workers that they could face criminal charges over ballots from voters it suspects are not citizens. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department has sent out a fresh round of subpoenas in its criminal investigation of Alaska's U.S. Senate race, focusing on whether allies of Democratic candidate Mary Peltola helped recruit a second Dan Sullivan to share the ballot with Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. A U.S. official…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A divided federal appeals panel on Friday turned down the Trump administration's emergency request to make California pull aside mail ballots from roughly 20,000 voters that federal officials say may not be citizens. The 2-1 decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals leaves in…
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