Ilia Topuria retains his featherweight title after knocking out Max Holloway within the third spherical within the UFC 308 predominant occasion on the Etihad Area, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The UFC 308 card occurred earlier within the day for these watching in the US due to the time distinction.

Topuria improved to a 16-0-0 document, with six of these fights coming by means of (T)KO after tonight’s consequence. What he might have lacked in attain and dimension, he absolutely made up for in a balanced and measured assault.

It was the primary time Holloway had been knocked out throughout his UFC profession.

Listed here are the entire updates and outcomes from the UFC 308 card and the Topuria vs. Holloway predominant occasion.

Locked In:Topuria and Holloway face off in prefight video

Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic headline UFC 309

The UFC will return to ESPN+ for its subsequent huge battle card. Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic will headline the cardboard with the UFC World Heavyweight Championship on the road.

Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler will meet within the co-main occasion.

The UFC 309 takes place from Madison Sq. Backyard in New York on Nov. 16.

Ilia Topuria (c) vs. Max Holloway (featherweight title bout): Outcomes, Evaluation

• Spherical 1: The UFC 308 crowd chanted and confirmed their help for Ilia Topuria because the battle started. Each fighters threw a number of strikes to search out one thing which may be efficient going ahead within the battle. Topuria introduced Holloway to the bottom within the remaining seconds however was unable to capitalize on the positioning.
• Spherical 2: Holloway has managed to get one of the best of Topuria of their boxing exchanges early within the battle. Topuria hooks Holloway, who barely stumbles earlier than regaining his footing. Holloway landed 35% of his vital strikes by the primary two rounds (68 of 192), in accordance with the ESPN+ broadcast. Topuria landed 43% (50 of 115).
• Spherical 3: Topuria with a giant proper hand that rattles Holloway earlier than taking benefit and dropping his opponent down on the mat with a left hook. He turns into the primary opponent to knock Holloway out in a UFC battle.
• End result: Ilia Topuria wins by TKO to retain the featherweight title

Robert Whittaker vs. Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight): Outcomes, Evaluation

• Spherical 1: Chimaev began quick with a double-leg try within the opening seconds of the battle. Chimaev continued to smother Whittaker on the bottom. Whittaker rapidly tapped out after Chimaev bought him in a choke. It seems that Whittaker might have dislocated his jaw based mostly on feedback from Daniel Cormier in the course of the ESPN+ broadcast.
• End result: Chimaev wins by submission

Notable names at UFC 308

Social media persona Hasbulla and fighter Arman Tsarukyan have been seen in the course of the ESPN+ broadcast within the crowd. Comic Steve Harvey and soccer participant Sergio Ramos have been additionally in attendance.

Magomed Ankalaev vs. Aleksandar Rakic (gentle heavyweight): Outcomes, Evaluation

• Spherical 1: Ankalaev and Rakic exchanged some strikes all through the opening minutes. Rakic landed his first 12 leg strikes. The primary spherical involves an finish.
• Spherical 2: Ankalaev turned aggressive along with his method within the again half of the spherical. The fighters discovered themselves up in opposition to the gate earlier than Ankalaev chased Rakic down for a left hook to the face. Rakic’s nook informed him he received each rounds and inspired him to concentrate on one other aggressive method from Ankalaev.
• Spherical 3: Rakic adopted the recommendation of his nook and took a defensive method to the spherical regardless of Rakic touchdown extra vital strikes all through the battle in opposition to Ankalaev. Each fighters go the gap and the battle will likely be determined by the judges.
• End result: Magomed Ankalaev wins by unanimous choice (29-28; 29-28; 29-28)

Lerone Murphy vs. Dan Ige (featherweight): Outcomes, Evaluation

• Spherical 1: Dan Ige rapidly had blood on his face following an elbow strike from Lerone Murphy, however it stays unclear the place the reduce is. Ige takes Murphy to the bottom and locations all his weight on him whereas he is pressed up in opposition to the cage. Ige drops Murphy with a left-handed punch and begins to put in some punches in the course of the remaining minute of the spherical.
• Spherical 2: Each fighters took a extra calculated method by the primary two minutes of the spherical earlier than lastly getting tied up in opposition to the cage with 1:50 left. Murphy has continued to throw high-leg strikes however has been unable to capitalize to this point. Murphy will get one of the best of Ige within the second spherical. The battle seems even by the primary two rounds.
• Spherical 3: The fighters have spent a major period of time on the bottom making an attempt to get the sting over the opposite. Each fights seem exhausted Murphy spending the center a part of the spherical on prime of Ige. Ige manages to flee and each stand as much as trade strikes as time expires. The fighters go a full quarter-hour and the choose should decide.
• End result: Lerone Murphy wins by unanimous choice (29-28; 29-28; 29-28)

Shara Magomedov vs. Armen Petrosyan (middleweight): Outcomes, Evaluation

• Spherical 1: The sensation-out course of begins with each fighters touchdown vital punches on the opposite, anticipate issues to get extra aggressive between the 2 within the second spherical.
• Spherical 2: The referee needed to make two stoppages within the first spherical as the 2 fighters exchanged lower-body kicks. Magomedov seems to be consuming the strikes Petrosyan is throwing at him in an try and counter him. The technique pays off as Magomedov lands a double-spinning again fist that drops Petrosyan within the remaining seconds of the second rebound.
• End result: Magomedov wins by TKO to stay undefeated (15-0-0).

Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway: TV, time, streaming information

Ilia Topuria takes on Max Holloway in the principle occasion for UFC 308 dwell from the Etihad Area, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Here’s what it’s good to know in regards to the battle.

• Date: Saturday, Oct. 26
• Time: Predominant card: 2 p.m. ET; prelims begin at 10 a.m. ET
• Streaming: PPV on ESPN+; prelims on ESPN+
• Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Catch UFC 308 with ESPN+ subscription and Topuria-Holloway with an ESPN+ PPV

UFC 308 begin time

• Prelims: 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT (ESPN+)
• Predominant card: 2 p.m. ET / 11 p.m. PT (PPV on ESPN+)

UFC 308 odds

All odds are for moneyline bets (as of Friday), in accordance with BetMGM.

• Ilia Topuria (c) (-250) vs. Max Holloway (+200)
• Robert Whittaker (+200) vs. Khamzat Chimaev (-250)
• Magomed Ankalaev (-400) vs. Aleksandar Rakic (+300)
• Lerone Murphy (-300) vs. Dan Ige (+240)
• Shara Magomedov (-175)vs. Armen Petrosyan (+145)
• Raul Rosas Jr. (-1000) vs. Aoriqileng (+650)
• Ibo Aslan (+105) vs. Rafael Cerqueira (-125)
• Geoff Neal (-300) vs. Rafael Dos Anjos (+240)
• Mateusz Rebecki (+240) vs. Myktybek Orolbai (-300)
• Abus Magomedov (-145) vs. Brunno Ferreira (+120)
• Kennedy Nzechukwu (-700) vs. Chris Barnett (+500)
• Farid Basharat (-650) vs. Victor Hugo (+475)
• Ismail Naurdiev (-190) vs. Bruno Silva (+160)
• Rinat Fakhretdinov (-225) vs. Carlos Leal (+185)

UFC 308 battle card

Predominant card

• Ilia Topuria (c) vs. Max Holloway (featherweight title bout)
• Robert Whittaker vs. Khamzat Chimaev (middleweight)
• Magomed Ankalaev vs. Aleksandar Rakic (gentle heavyweight)
• Lerone Murphy vs. Dan Ige (featherweight)
• Shara Magomedov vs. Armen Petrosyan (middleweight)

Prelims

• Ibo Aslan vs. Rafael Cerqueira (gentle heavyweight)
• Geoff Neal vs. Rafael Dos Anjos (welterweight)
• Mateusz Rebecki vs. Myktybek Orolbai (catch weight)
• Abus Magomedov vs. Brunno Ferreira (middleweight)
• Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Chris Barnett (heavyweight)
• Farid Basharat vs. Victor Hugo (featherweight)
• Ismail Naurdiev vs. Bruno Silva (middleweight)
• Rinat Fakhretdinov vs. Carlos Leal (welterweight)

UFC 308 dwell stream

The prelims will likely be obtainable for dwell stream on ESPN+. The pay-per-view predominant occasion could be bought and streamed by ESPN+.

UFC 308 worth

The UFC 308 pay-per-view could be bought by ESPN+ (which requires a subscription) for $79.99.

UFC 308 location

The occasion will likely be held at Etihad Area, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Ethiad Area is nestled simply off the Yas Bay waterfront and has a capability of 18,000.

UFC 308 predictions:

MMAjunkie: Holloway inside the gap

Dan Tom writes “Add in Holloways ridiculous sturdiness and the truth that he’s the extra confirmed and efficient fighter over 5 rounds, and I’ll fortunately take a flier on ‘Blessed’ to outlive the early scares with a purpose to draw back down the stretch for a stoppage win in Spherical 4.”

MMAmania: Topuria def. Holloway by choice

Jesse Holland writes: “The challenger has the conditioning to spam takedowns for all 5 rounds and I’m undecided O’Malley — taken down six occasions by Petr Yan at UFC 280 — has the protection to cease him. I simply don’t really feel snug choosing the champion on the slim likelihood he can land the kill shot earlier than getting double-legged into oblivion.”

CBS Sports activities: Topuria wins

Brian Campbell writes, “However even when this battle goes the gap, Topuria’s uncommon mixture of punching energy, velocity and elegant accuracy needs to be sufficient to self-discipline Holloway out of being the type of dominant self he was in opposition to everybody from Justin Gaetje and Arnold Allen to Yair Rodriguez and Calvin Kattar in current fights. Topuria has too many weapons and the type of mindset that will likely be tough to interrupt.”

Rinat Fakhretdinov vs. Carlos Leal (welterweight): Outcomes, Evaluation

• Spherical 1: Fakhretdinov took a minute to get this battle on the bottom, However Leal did properly to get this again onto his ft. Leal is clearly snug getting out of takedowns and likewise connecting punches to Fakhretdinov’s face.
• Spherical 2: Leal is elusive and is proving to be a problem for the favourite Fakhretdinov who can positive take a punch. Leal has had the higher of great strikes. However the spherical involves an in depth with Fakhretdinov taking Leal to the mat. Too little too late.
• Spherical 3: Each fighters left all of it on the market on this first prelim battle. It is a disgrace that there was however a drizzle of followers to see it unfold on the Etihad Area. Leal was inspiring in his takedown protection and talent to trigger issues along with his strikes.
• End result: Rinat Fakhretdinov wins by unanimous choice (29-28; 29-28; 30-27) – Undecided what the judges noticed, however Fakhretdinov continues his win streak to 23.

Ismail Naurdiev vs. Bruno Silva (middleweight): Outcomes, evaluation

• Spherical 1: Naurdiev is the clear aggressor to kick off the proceedings. He managed to get in a rear bare choke simply earlier than the tip of the spherical however could not fairly end the transfer.
• Spherical 2: One of the simplest ways to explain what we’re seeing out of Silva is lackluster. He is not combating with the identical measure of urgency as Naurdiev who’s clearly dictating issues.
• Spherical 3: Silva got here in trying drained and simply went down from there. Naurdiev seems like he might go one other two rounds. That is Naurdiev’s battle except I am taking loopy capsules.
• Outcomes: Naurdiev wins by unanimous choice (30-27)

Farid Basharat vs. Victor Hugo (featherweight): Outcomes, evaluation

• Spherical 1: The 2 measured up one another and left their very own marks on each other. Hugo bought the higher of Basharat with a leg lock and a again elbow that dominated the proceedings.
• Spherical 2: Basharat has the upper ratio of strikes and it appears to be making a dent in Hugo who was wavering by the tip of the spherical.
• Spherical 3: Save a pleasant connecting strike, Basharat had a number of takedowns to finish the battle. His technical strikes and talent to dominate how the battle performed out make it clear who the winner needs to be right here.
• End result: Basharat wins by unanimous choice (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)

Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Chris Barnett (heavyweight): Outcomes, evaluation

Spherical 1: The battle is stopped after Barnett is clearly in ache. He had been favoring his left leg by the early minutes. It is nonetheless not clear precisely what the difficulty was. Within the waning moments the battle was known as after Barnett was in an excessive amount of ache to defend himself.

End result: Nzechukwu wins by TKO

Abus Magomedov vs. Brunno Ferreira (middleweight): Outcomes, evaluation

• Spherical 1: Shout out to Magomedov, who triggered numerous motion on this prelim middleweight battle. Ferreira began to combine it up in the course of the closing moments of the spherical. However this was largely a ready sport in spherical one.
• Spherical 2: If Ferreira was ready for his second, he really has impeccable timing. Each occasions he launched an assault, he put Magomedov to the mat, solely to see his maintain squandered. However the injury has been executed and Magomedov is exhausted after an action-packed second spherical.
• Spherical 3: Magomedov will get Ferreira to the bottom and locks into an arm triangle. It is over and Magomedov wins by submission.
• End result: Magomedov wins by submission

Mateusz Rebecki vs. Myktybek Orolbai (catch weight): Outcomes, evaluation

• Spherical 1: Rebecki is an influence puncher and also you simply have to ask Orolbai’s proper eye for a sworn statement. There was an equal trade for a lot of the spherical till Rebecki related superbly. Now Orolbai will proceed with an eye fixed that continues to swell.
• Spherical 2: Orolbai landed some good energy punches, particularly an important proper uppercut. His eye continues to swell however he has moved ahead with unrelenting fervor. And it has been rewarded as the 2 come collectively and the conflict of heads opens a critical reduce over Rebecki’s proper eye.
• Spherical 3: Orolbai is on one other stage. After Rebecki bought him to the bottom and labored on his face a little bit extra, he turned the tables by the tip of the spherical. Not fairly positive how he even knew the place his opponent was within the octagon, however he discovered Rebecki and had his face simply as bloody as his personal by the tip of this outstanding bout.
• End result: Rebecki winner by cut up choice

Geoff Neal vs. Rafael Dos Anjos (welterweight): Outcomes, evaluation

• Spherical 1: The battle is over. Rafael Dos Anjos suffered what’s being known as a left knee damage. Neal had been the aggressor and landed a few combos that put Dos Anjos on the mat. Probably throughout considered one of these exchanges, he suffered a knee damage that finally ended the battle early.
• End result: Neal wins by TKO

Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway: Story of the tape

Ilia Topuria	vs.	Max Holloway
15-0-0	Document	26-7-0
Georgia	Nation	USA
5-foot-7	Peak	5-foot-11
144 kilos	Weight	145 kilos
69 inches	Attain	69 inches
37 inches	Leg attain	42 inches

Ibo Aslan vs. Rafael Cerqueira (gentle heavyweight): Outcomes, evaluation

• Spherical 1: Properly, that was fast. Aslan simply unleashed a barrage of punches that began with a left to Cerqueira’s left temple. It appeared as if he was surprised after that and could not recuperate. With unrelenting strikes, it was clear this battle needed to finish abruptly.
• End result: Aslan wins by TKO

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A rising variety of present and former journalists at The Washington Publish are criticizing the legacy newspaper after proprietor Jeff Bezos determined to withhold a deliberate editorial endorsement for president for the primary time in 36 years.

“The Washington Publish’s choice to not make an endorsement within the presidential marketing campaign is a horrible mistake,” stated a joint column that had been signed by 17 Publish columnists as of Saturday afternoon.

The opinion piece, printed on the paper’s web site, argued that presidential endorsements function a reminder to readers of what the Publish stands for. It declared that the paper can’t retreat from the its duty to face up for core democratic values threatened by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Its editorials have repeatedly warned that Trump is unfit for workplace.

“An unbiased newspaper may sometime select to again away from making presidential endorsements. However this isn’t the appropriate second, when one candidate is advocating positions that immediately threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Structure,” the column added. It was signed by a number of the Publish‘s most outstanding writers, together with Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson, David Ignatius and Jennifer Rubin.

NPR first broke information of Bezos’ choice. The column arrived simply hours after writer William Lewis made the announcement Friday afternoon. In his personal opinion piece, Lewis defined that the Publish didn’t routinely make endorsements till 1976. He stated it was time to return to that custom and assist “readers’ potential to make up their very own minds.”

The Publish had drafted an editorial endorsement for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris earlier this month. But it surely was finally scrapped by the paper’s billionaire proprietor Bezos, additionally the Amazon founder, the Publish reported. The Publish’s revelation got here simply days after it was reported that the Los Angeles Occasions proprietor Patrick Quickly-Shiong blocked the paper’s Editorial Board from endorsing Harris.

Two different columns printed on Friday expressed frustration with the Publish’s choice. “I’ve by no means been extra upset within the newspaper than I’m in the present day,” wrote editor and columnist Ruth Marcus. “This isn’t the time to make such a shift. It’s the time to talk out, as loudly and convincingly as potential, to make the case that we made in 2016 and once more in 2020: that Trump is dangerously unfit to carry the very best workplace within the land.”

Editor and columnist Karen Tumulty wrote, “Editorial boards exist to make judgments and to talk for the establishment. If this alteration in coverage relating to presidential endorsements was a stand on some long-ignored precept of our previous, why did the newspaper wait till simply 11 days earlier than the election to announce it?”

In a chilling cartoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Ann Telnaes depicted broad strokes of black paint with the title “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

“I used to be in the midst of finishing the ultimate of one other cartoon and texted my editor that I needed to vary my concept,” she wrote on Substack. “Grabbing a bit of bristol and a big brush, I painted what I felt.”

The Washington Publish Guild management additionally stated they have been deeply troubled by the choice and the way administration interfered with the work of the Editorial Board. “We’re already seeing cancellations from as soon as loyal readers. This choice undercuts the work of our members at a time after we must be constructing our readers’ belief, not dropping it,” they wrote in an announcement.

Readers on social media stated they’d canceled their subscriptions to the Publish they usually got here at a quick clip after information of the choice broke. Greater than 1,600 individuals canceled digital subscriptions within the first three hours, in line with inner exchanges reviewed by NPR.

Publish editor-at-large Robert Kagan additionally introduced his resignation on Friday following the non-endorsement. In an interview with CNN, Kagan stated the transfer indicated Bezos’ regarding relationship with Trump. “That is clearly an effort by Bezos to attempt to get on Trump’s good facet prematurely of his presidency,” he stated.

Bezos holds important enterprise pursuits earlier than the federal authorities that contain billions of {dollars} annually, from Amazon’s transport enterprise and cloud computing providers to his Blue Origin area firm.

When Trump was in workplace, he threatened to personally overview Amazon’s submission to the Pentagon for a cloud computing contract price $10 billion — out of frustration of the Publish’s protection of him. The Protection Division as a substitute awarded the contract to Microsoft, shocking exterior trade analysts. It was later divvied up amongst 4 firms, together with Amazon, after it filed a lawsuit.

On Friday, simply hours after the Publish’s announcement to not endorse, The Related Press reported that Trump met with executives of Bezos’s Blue Origin, which has a multibillion-dollar contract with NASA.

Publish reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who cracked the Watergate scandal, wrote in a joint assertion: “We respect the standard independence of the editorial web page, however this choice 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Publish’s personal overwhelming reportorial proof on the menace Donald Trump poses to democracy,” CNN’s Brian Stelter reported.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor David Maraniss — who has been on the paper since 1977 and describes himself as a “Washington Publish lifer” — wrote on X: “The choice on this of all years to not endorse when democracy is on the road is contemptible.”

He later added, “The paper I’ve liked working at for 47 years is dying in darkness.”

NPR’s David Folkenflik contributed reporting.

HOUSTON — In a star-studded night earlier than an electrified crowd of tens of 1000’s of supporters, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday implored men and women to forged their ballots on Nov. 5 in protection of their freedoms and as a rejection to former President Donald Trump’s insurance policies.  

“Texas, what we’re experiencing here’s a well being care disaster, and Donald Trump is the architect of it,” Harris mentioned. 

“We all know freedom is to not be given. It’s not to be bestowed. It’s ours by proper, and we’re ready to combat for it,” she added. “We have to be loud. We should manage. We should mobilize. We should energize.”

The biggest occasion that Harris has held throughout her abbreviated run for president featured cameos from Houston native Beyoncè Knowles-Carter and Texas legend Willie Nelson.  

Beyoncé despatched the stadium right into a frenzy when she took the stage with Kelly Rowland, who was within the group Future’s Baby together with her. The celebrity, whose music “Freedom” has served as an anthem to Harris’ marketing campaign, didn’t carry out. She mentioned she there not as an entertainer or a politician however as a mom. 

“Think about our daughters rising up, seeing what’s potential, with no ceilings, no limitations,” she mentioned, including that she wished a world the place “my youngsters and all of our kids, we now have the liberty to manage our our bodies, a world the place we’re not divided.”

“It’s time for America to sing a brand new music. Our voices sing a refrain of unity. They sing a music of dignity and alternative. Are y’all prepared so as to add your voice to the brand new American music?” she mentioned to cheers earlier than introducing Harris to the stage. 

With simply 11 days left within the race and Democrats and Republicans competing to interrupt by means of to voters, Harris’ group noticed the Friday rally as a option to seize the eye of voters throughout the nation. 

On the identical time, the vice chairman used the occasion to underscore what she mentioned is the intense alternative for Individuals on the poll field, and that included sending former President Donald Trump a message for pushing by means of Supreme Court docket justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. Selecting the crimson state of Texas because the stage for the occasion was meant to focus on that it has among the most stringent legal guidelines limiting abortion within the nation. 

The night was partly somber, focusing closely with reference to reproductive rights and first-person tales about how restrictive legal guidelines practically brought on ladies’s deaths — or had brought on them. At one level taking the stage was a big group of medical doctors sporting white medical coats who mentioned they have been on the entrance traces of reproductive care.

They mentioned ladies’s well being was at stake and urged the gang to vote. In between audio system, clips have been performed of Trump taking credit score for the autumn of Roe, which elicited boos. 

Harris’ group believes that the deal with reproductive rights additionally speaks to males, citing a marketing campaign advert that examined effectively with males.

On Friday, Harris particularly known as out males, saying they didn’t need to see their daughters or wives’ lives put in danger due to restricted well being care selections. 

“I see the boys right here and I thanks!” Harris mentioned. “The boys of America don’t need this.” 

Harris at one level famous that Trump has refused to reveal his medical data however some locations like Texas, after Roe was overturned, wished to enact necessities that girls should report if they’ve an abortion or miscarriage. 

“Merely put, they’re out of their minds!” Harris mentioned. 

A part of the evening was meant to shine a lightweight on Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, who’s in a decent race in opposition to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. 

Chants of “Beat Ted Cruz! Beat Ted Cruz!” erupted after the congressman requested the gang for his or her vote. 

“All the things is huge in Texas, however Ted Cruz is simply too small for Texas,” he mentioned to a different crowd eruption. 

The tens of 1000’s streamed into the world for hours and reworked the venue into a large dance social gathering, transferring alongside to a DJ. The marketing campaign estimated that roughly 30,000 folks confirmed up. 

Within the crowd, Vicki Lewis was sporting a crimson, white and blue shirt that learn “Vote” in giant letters. Lewis mentioned her message to different voters was to vote early.

“You haven’t any proper to be on the fence. It’s best to already know. It’s best to vote for who represents you and your future,” mentioned Lewis, who already voted for Harris. She cited well being care, reproductive rights and concern about her retirement. “I want any individual who’s going to combat for me and symbolize me.”

She took challenge with Trump bashing Harris and calling her “dumb.” 

“She has a resume. He wants to take a look at her resume,” she mentioned. “He’s the one who’s unqualified. She serves the folks. She is a folks individual and he doesn’t. It’s all about him and his cronies.”

Austin Valdezstapp mentioned he turned out particularly to fortify ladies. 

“It’s a big cause I’m right here is to assist ladies, and ensure that the issues and the rights that they’re speculated to have proceed to be put in place, and I feel these are in risk right here in Texas proper now so it’s very important,” Valdezstapp mentioned.

One other attendee, Michael White,, mentioned he had grown bored with the outrageous issues Trump says and does.

“Among the stuff he will get away with — if I mentioned what he mentioned, if Obama mentioned what he mentioned, if Harris did — do you assume we’d get away with it?” White mentioned, saying it particularly bothered him that Trump was “disrespectful to ladies.” 

CORRECTION (Oct. 26, 2024, 11:13 a.m.): A earlier model of this text misstated who appeared onstage with Beyoncé. It was Kelly Rowland, whom Beyoncé known as her sister, not her precise sister.

LOS ANGELES — Lengthy after the shockwaves settled within the Coliseum from Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam 6 miles up the freeway in Chavez Ravine, lengthy after a primary half with zero mercy spared to Rutgers, USC discovered itself again dangling in the identical place it all the time had.

The group on the Coliseum, pocketed because it was with the truth of a jam-packed night time in Los Angeles sports activities, was used to this script. Maybe that’s why it by no means fairly felt joyous, in that first half, whilst USC took a two-score lead. The cardinal-and-gold loyalists have been used to being sucked in, and spat proper again out in incomprehensible endings – at Michigan, in Minnesota, towards Penn State, at Maryland.

It performed out, once more Friday night time, as Rutgers quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis launched a 45-yard bomb after which hit on a 25-yard landing move to shave what had been an 18-point USC result in eight with 8:11 left within the third quarter. Momentum crashed, once more. Basis crumbled, once more.

After which within the span of 1 play, the Trojans (4-4 general, 2-4 Large Ten) and Coach Lincoln Riley turned proper again round and set their season straight, bludgeoning Rutgers and emphatically closing out a 42-20 win.

“Yeah, we actually wanted that unhealthy,” working again Woody Marks stated afterward, “simply to come back out and play dominant all 4 quarters.”

These Trojans had returned dwelling wounded, each bodily and in ego, after a handful of debilitating cross-country journeys. Riley, accepting blame with nowhere else to place it, wanted a shining second as a play-caller. Quarterback Miller Moss, calling Monday for critics to “hold that very same vitality,” wanted a mistake-free night time. And this system, most of all, wanted to complete a soccer sport, bungling away 4 shut video games.

“We’ve had some alternatives to separate in some video games, and we haven’t,” Riley stated Monday.

They discovered these alternatives, usually Friday, within the positive fingers of sophomore receiver Makai Lemon.

For weeks, since getting back from an damage suffered on a particular groups play towards Michigan, Lemon had been slowly creeping his method up in USC’s gamut of wideouts. The sophomore caught six passes towards Penn State. Then eight towards Maryland. In opposition to Rutgers, he was tabbed – with fellow sophomore Zachariah Department seeming embroiled in his personal head on returns – with kickoff duties, and promptly responded within the first quarter with an explosive 80-yard return that arrange a Marks landing.

And Lemon stamped his breakout on Friday, careening over the center on the identical crossing sample that had baffled Rutgers (4-4, 1-4) all night time.

Precisely zero seconds of game-clock after Kaliakmanis’ landing toss received Rutgers inside 28-20, Lemon caught a drag from Moss, shed a tackler, and zipped. Vanished away, into skinny air on thick turf, skidding 70 yards earlier than he was lastly knocked out of bounds. Moss tied a bow on the drive, strolling into the tip zone on a 7-yard keeper a couple of performs later.

With momentum swung, Lemon put the sport out of attain on a subsequent drive, snaring one other move over the center from Moss and turning it right into a 40-yard landing.

“There actually hasn’t been panic with this group in any of those video games, and there wasn’t tonight,” Riley stated. “And I assumed it was simply – we had an ideal mindset, and we did an ideal job closing it out.”

The Trojans bludgeoned Rutgers from the primary kick Friday night time, turning swaths of open turf into one other victory for the West Coast on a momentous sports activities night time for Los Angeles. Regular-as-ever Marks offered the primary punch, scoring three first-half touchdowns. Moss threw a relentless flurry of jabs from kickoff to buzzer, ending 20-of-28 for 308 yards. Lemon was the knockout, ending with 256 all-purpose yards (134 receiving on 4 catches with the TD) in a real breakout.

The toughest these Trojans needed to pressure on Friday night time, in the end, got here by the hands of defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn, put in an unenviable place with a rash of accidents that depleted his unit, particularly within the secondary. Security Kamari Ramsey, cornerbacks Jaylin Smith and Jacobe Covington, and nickel again Grasping Vance Jr. all have been scratched Friday, leaving USC down 4 erstwhile starters – and shortly 5, as defensive deal with Nate Clifton exited within the first quarter on an already-thin defensive position.

Within the second quarter, after Ford’s get-off-me landing prolonged USC’s result in 21-3, Lynn threw a heavy dosage of sentimental protection on the Scarlet Knights. Kaliakmanis entered Friday’s matchup commandeering one of many poorer passing assaults within the FBS, hauling in a 53% completion charge. However chunk-yardage cushions gave him sudden consolation, and he marched Rutgers down the sphere on a pair of 22- and 15-yard completions earlier than the Scarlet Knights’ Antwan Raymond punched it in from 3 yards to chop USC’s result in two scores.

Once more, USC got here out of the second-half gates flat. Kaliakmanis, after lacking a few deep photographs within the first half, hit on a 45-yard bomb to Dymere Miller after which a 25-yard landing strike to Christian Dremel. All of the sudden, after a nifty two-point conversion (a move to the quarterback from Chris Lengthy on a trick play), Rutgers had reduce USC’s result in a rating, and one other sport appeared prepared to slide.

After which Riley schemed, Lemon struck, and in the end USC closed out a victory.

“We’re a no-excuses program,” Riley stated afterward, talking in response to USC’s rash of accidents. “We’ve received a no-excuses mentality proper now.

“Like, no matter’s stacked up towards us, we actually don’t give a rattling. Like, we’re simply going to maintain going.”

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The Trojans recorded a season-high 4 sacks. … Kaliakmanis ended up with 313 yards passing, and Kyle Monangai had 86 yards on 18 carries. … Rutgers has misplaced 4 straight and its protection has fallen aside over the previous three video games, giving up 119 factors to Wisconsin, UCLA and USC. The Trojans gashed the Scarlet Knights for 8.7 yards per play.

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Boise St. at 08:07 1st and 10 at BSU14 Boise St. drive begin at 08:07. 1st and 10 at BSU14 (08:09) Jeanty,Ashton rush proper for 3 yards acquire to the BSU17 (Grimes,Tony). 2nd and seven at BSU17 (07:42) Shotgun Jeanty,Ashton rush left for 3 yards acquire to the BSU20 (Woodard,Jackson; Ware,Jarvis). third and 4 at BSU20 (06:57) Shotgun Madsen,Maddux cross incomplete brief proper to Strachan,Prince thrown to BSU26 PENALTY NLV Holding (Grimes,Tony) 10 yards from BSU20 to BSU30, 1ST DOWN. NO PLAY. 1st and 10 at BSU30 (06:50) Shotgun Madsen,Maddux cross full brief left to Jeanty,Ashton caught at BSU35, for 7 yards to the BSU37 (Catalon,Jalen). 2nd and three at BSU37 (06:13) Shotgun Jeanty,Ashton rush center for 1 yard acquire to the BSU38 (Woodard,Jackson; Martinson,Tatuo). third and a pair of at BSU38 Timeout Boise St., clock 05:34. third and a pair of at BSU38 (05:34) Shotgun Jeanty,Ashton rush center for 3 yards acquire to the BSU41 (Elad,Jett; Camac,Fisher), 1ST DOWN. 1st and 10 at BSU41 (04:56) Shotgun Madsen,Maddux cross full brief left to Crowe,Tyler caught at BSU44, for 4 yards to the BSU45 (Baldwin,Johnathan). 2nd and 6 at BSU45 (04:16) Shotgun Jeanty,Ashton rush center for 10 yards acquire to the NLV45 (Camac,Fisher), 1ST DOWN. 1st and 10 at NLV45 (03:37) Shotgun Jeanty,Ashton rush center for five yards acquire to the NLV40 (Baldwin,Johnathan; Elad,Jett). 2nd and 5 at NLV40 (02:54) Shotgun Crowe,Tyler rush left for 3 yards acquire to the NLV37 (Woodard,Jackson). third and a pair of at NLV37 (02:10) Shotgun Jeanty,Ashton rush left for 1 yard acquire to the NLV36 (Baldwin,Johnathan; Woodard,Jackson). 4th and 1 at NLV36 (02:00) Madsen,Maddux rush center for two yards acquire to the NLV34 (Doyle Jr.,Antonio), 1ST DOWN. 1st and 10 at NLV34 Timeout UNLV, clock 01:56. 1st and 10 at NLV34 (01:53) Kneel down by Boise St. at NLV36 for lack of 2 yards. 2nd and 12 at NLV36 (01:19) Kneel down by Boise St. at NLV37 for lack of 1 yard. third and 13 at NLV37 (00:32) Kneel down by Boise St. at NLV38 for lack of 1 yard. 4th and 14 at NLV38 Finish of recreation, clock 00:00.

Israeli strikes on Iran, in retaliation for Iran’s missile assaults earlier this month, have killed 4 Iranian troopers, Iran’s military mentioned.

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned it focused missile factories and different websites close to Tehran and western Iran early on Saturday.

Iran’s Overseas Ministry mentioned it has a accountability to defend itself, however added that Iran “recognises its obligations in the direction of regional peace and safety,” an announcement considered as comparatively conciliatory.

Israeli retaliation for an Iranian barrage of just about 200 ballistic missiles fired in the direction of Israel on 1 October had been extensively anticipated for weeks.

Tehran had mentioned the assault was in retaliation for the killing of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil in July. Many missiles have been shot down by Israel and its allies however a small quantity struck central and southern Israel.

Iranian authorities mentioned websites in Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam provinces have been attacked. The navy claimed that the assaults had been efficiently countered, though there was “restricted harm” in some areas.

Following the Israeli strikes, Iranian state media carried footage exhibiting visitors flowing usually in a number of cities, whereas college and sports activities actions have been reportedly being held as scheduled.

The Israeli navy introduced Saturday’s operation shortly after explosions have been reported in Iran. IDF spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari mentioned the navy had demonstrated its preparedness “to defend the state of Israel”.

He additionally warned if Iran began a brand new spherical of escalation, Israel can be “obliged to reply”.

The US and Britain have each urged Iran to not strike again following the newest strikes, with President Joe Biden’s administration calling for an finish to the cycle of violence.

Senior US administration officers mentioned the US was knowledgeable of Israel’s strikes beforehand, and that Washington had no involvement in them.

The assaults didn’t embrace Iranian oil infrastructure or nuclear amenities – targets the Biden administration had urged Israel to not hit – an official mentioned.

The official mentioned the US had inspired Israel for weeks to conduct a response that was “focused and proportional with low threat of civilian hurt” and instructed that was “exactly what transpired” on Saturday night.

Nonetheless, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace issued an announcement saying Israel selected its targets “in accordance with its nationwide pursuits, and never in accordance with American dictates”.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer mentioned Israel had the appropriate to defend itself in opposition to “Iranian aggression” and echoed requires Iran to keep away from retaliation, saying the UK would work to “de-escalate the scenario throughout the area”.

However Russia and different international locations within the area, together with US allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia, accused Israel of escalating the battle.

Qatar expressed “deep concern concerning the critical repercussions that will end result from this escalation”, whereas Jordan described the assault as a “harmful escalation”.

Russian overseas ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned “what is required is to cease frightening Iran to retaliate, and to get out of the spiral of uncontrollable escalation”.

The extent of the Israeli strikes and their exact targets have been nonetheless unclear on Saturday morning.

Iran’s aviation authority briefly suspended flights however introduced that they might restart from 09:00 native time (06:30 BST).

Hooman, a 42-year-old manufacturing facility worker, was working in Tehran when he heard the blasts, he advised information company AFP.

“It was an echoing sound… horrible and horrifying,” the company quoted him as saying. “Now that there’s conflict within the Center East, we’re afraid that we’ll be dragged into it.”

Israeli air strikes additionally focused websites in central and southern Syria, Syrian state media reported.

Following the Israeli strikes, Hezbollah fired 80 projectiles throughout the border into Israel on Saturday afternoon, in accordance with the IDF.

Later, AFP information company reported the Iran-backed group fired a collection of rockets at 5 residential areas in northern Israel, together with the outskirts of Krayot close to Haifa.

Reuters

Trump on his ‘greatest mistake’

Trump says he advised Kim Jong-un ‘go to the seashore’

On 2020 election -‘I misplaced by, like, I didn’t lose’

Harris ‘very low IQ’

On extraterrestrial life

On The Apprentice

His well being is ‘unbelievable’

In one of many lengthiest interviews he’s executed as a candidate, former President Donald Trump’s three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan Friday supplied an prolonged model of the meandering and generally fact-adjacent rally speeches Trump has delivered currently.

Trump, who left 1000’s of rally goers in Traverse Metropolis, Michigan ready an additional three hours Friday night time due to his additional time with Rogan, attacked Vice President Harris as somebody who “couldn’t put two sentences collectively” in interviews and touted his personal oratorical abilities that recurrently whirl via a number of diverging subjects in a short while.

“I like to offer a protracted — the weave,” Trump stated on The Joe Rogan Expertise. “However while you do the weaves, and it’s important to be very sensible to do weaves, while you do the weave, have a look at this, simply on this one factor, we’re speaking about little items..”

“Gotta get it again dwelling,” Rogan interjects.

“No no, it comes again dwelling for the proper folks,” Trump continued. “For the incorrect folks, it does not come again dwelling and so they find yourself within the wilderness, proper?”

Very similar to his rally speeches, Trump’s discuss with Rogan touched on a variety of topics with little connection, like an episode of The View he was on throughout his first marketing campaign, internet hosting The Apprentice, UFOs, lifeless whales and a historic detour about Abraham Lincoln.

“Lincoln had a, I do not know. I’ve by no means learn this, I heard it from folks within the White Home who actually perceive what was occurring with the entire lifetime of the White Home,” he stated. “However Lincoln had the yips about, in a method, because the golfers would say, he had a phobia about [Confederate General] Robert E. Lee. Mentioned, ‘I can not beat Robert’ as a result of Robert E. Lee received many battles in a row.”

He additionally repeated a number of anecdotes and arguments central to his presidential marketing campaign which can be additionally staples of his stump speech, like a name to decrease the company tax charge to fifteen%, enact stiff tariffs on overseas autos imported into the nation, and he continued to falsely declare fraud price him the 2020 election.

“I received by like — I misplaced by like — I did not lose, however they are saying I misplaced, Joe,” Trump stated, repeating the lie that he received that election. He didn’t.

In passing, Trump additionally appeared to endorse eliminating revenue taxes and solely counting on tariffs to fund the federal government, although earlier than absolutely elaborating on what he meant and the way that might work, he pivoted to discussing billionaire Elon Musk, how Musk endorsed him within the election and joked that Rogan wouldn’t be a Harris supporter, however reasonably a “Khabib individual,” referring to corridor of fame UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov.

“Your weave is getting vast,” Rogan exclaimed.

Within the closing days of his third presidential run, Trump has change into more and more erratic together with his public appearances and dire together with his rhetoric. On Rogan’s podcast, Trump repeated his view that there’s an “enemy from inside” that’s worse for the nation than foes like North Korea. Trump additionally beforehand floated utilizing the army in opposition to home enemies.

“Now we have a much bigger drawback, in my view, with the enemy from inside, and it drives them loopy once I use that time period,” he stated. “However we’ve got an enemy from inside. Now we have folks which can be actually unhealthy, those who I actually suppose need to make this nation unsuccessful.”

He additionally stated he actually doesn’t “imagine an excessive amount of” in polls, earlier than touting his newest numbers and baselessly claiming, once more, there may be widespread fraud in elections.

When Trump lastly made it to Michigan, he seemed and sounded visibly drained, repeating a number of the identical subjects and anecdotes from the Rogan interview hours earlier than however with a lot much less power and cohesion.

He took the stage to the theme music from WWE wrestler The Undertaker, standing silently on stage because the ominous track performed earlier than apologizing for the delay..

“Here is what they wished to do: We bought so tied up, and I figured you would not thoughts an excessive amount of, as a result of we’re attempting to win,” he stated.

He then talked about ballot numbers and early voting turnout, falsely claiming that he’s main in all seven swing states, earlier than attacking Harris for holding a marketing campaign rally in Texas that featured world famous person Beyoncé.

“You understand the place she is tonight? She’s out partying,” he stated. “So Israel is attacking, we bought a warfare occurring, and he or she’s out partying. No less than we’re working to make America nice once more, that is what we’re doing.”

The Pacers franchise has made 37 playoff appearances whereas enjoying in each the ABA and the NBA. Whereas they haven’t but gained an NBA title, they gained three championships within the ABA. Let’s dig into their franchise leaders and spotlight their prime 5 all-time main rebounders.

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1. Mel Daniels: 7,643

Daniels was a seven-time All-Star within the ABA and was twice named ABA MVP whereas enjoying for Indiana. He led the ABA in rebounding in three of his first 4 seasons, together with when he averaged 18.0 rebounds in the course of the 1970-71 season. In every of his first 4 seasons with the franchise, he averaged at the least 15.6 rebounds per sport. He undertook a heavy workload, averaging 37 minutes per sport with the franchise. Regardless of enjoying in simply 479 profession video games with the franchise, he’s their main rebounder because of him averaging 16.0 rebounds per sport.

2. Dale Davis: 6,006

Davis performed for 4 totally different groups throughout his time within the NBA. He made his lone All-Star look with the Pacers in the course of the 1999-00 season. His finest season on the boards got here in the course of the 1993-94 marketing campaign when he averaged 10.9 rebounds per sport. That was the one season of his profession through which he averaged double-digit rebounds. Over 671 profession video games with the Pacers, he averaged 9.0 rebounds.

3. Rik Smits: 5,277

Smits spent all 12 seasons of his profession with the Pacers. His solely All-Star look got here in the course of the 1997-98 season. Over 867 profession video games with the Pacers, he averaged 27 minutes and 6.1 rebounds per sport.

4. Jeff Foster: 5,248

Like Smits, Foster spent his total profession with the Pacers. He averaged at the least 8.1 rebounds in a season 4 occasions. That included two seasons through which he pulled down at the least 9.1 rebounds per sport. Most of Foster’s contributions got here on the boards contemplating that he solely averaged 4.9 factors per sport for his profession.

5. George McGinnis: 5,219

McGinnis first performed within the ABA, making three All-Star groups with Indiana. He gained his lone MVP award in the course of the 1974-75 season when he averaged 29.8 factors, 14.3 rebounds, 6.3 assists and a pair of.6 steals per sport. After stints with the 76ers and the Nuggets, McGinnis returned to the Pacers to complete his profession. He assumed a small position in his remaining season, averaging 18 minutes over 76 video games. Over 487 video games with Indiana, he averaged 10.7 rebounds. His achievements in each the ABA and the NBA landed him within the Corridor of Fame.