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RAMS (8-6) at NEW YORK JETS (4-10) When: 10 a.m. PT Sunday Where: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J. TV/Radio: CBS Ch. 2/710 AM; 93.1 FM; 1330 AM (Spanish); Sirius 385, 230 Line: Rams by 3.5 Notable injury designations Rams: None. Jets: OUT: CB Michael Carter II (back); QUESTIONABLE: OL Alijah Vera-Tucker (ankle), DL Quinnen Williams (hamstring), RB Braelon Allen (back), DL Leki Fotu (knee). What’s at stake? The Jets are long out of the playoff race, but the Rams are in first place in the NFC West by virtue of a tiebreaker. They have the chance to move a game ahead in the standings should they…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes threw for 260 yards and a touchdown while running for a score on his ailing ankle, and the Kansas City Chiefs took a big step toward securing the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs with a 27-19 victory over the Houston Texans on Saturday.The AFC West champion Chiefs (14-1), who have won four straight against the AFC South champ Texans (9-6), can clinch the postseason bye if Buffalo loses to or ties New England on Sunday. If the Bills win, Kansas City can wrap it up by beating Pittsburgh on Christmas Day.Xavier Worthy…

Southern California will have a bright Christmas – mostly sunny skies and high surf beginning on Saturday, Dec. 21, forecasters say.In Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties, temperatures will remain in the low to mid-70s with partly cloudy skies this weekend, then drop into the high 60s starting on Monday. San Bernardino County should stay in the low 70s throughout the week until sharply descending to a high of 64 on Christmas Day, according to National Weather Service meteorologists.Los Angeles County has a 50% chance of rain on Christmas Eve after 10 a.m., but the chance of showers remains slight…

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Dominic DeLuca and Tony Rojas returned interceptions for touchdowns and Penn State toyed with mistake-prone SMU in a 38-10 victory on Saturday in the opening round of the College Football Playoff.The sixth-seeded Nittany Lions (12-2) advanced to face third-seeded Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Eve by hounding Mustangs quarterback Kevin Jennings into three turnovers, including a pair of ill-thrown floaters in the first half DeLuca and Rojas converted into Pick-6s that sent the white-out crowd at wintry Beaver Stadium into a frenzy and SMU (11-3) into a funk from which it never…

LOS ANGELES — They had been beaten at the line of scrimmage for years. They were walled off too often by opposing linemen in 2024. So USC’s primary defensive focus in the transfer portal this winter, as defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn made clear, was on the defensive line.And Lynn didn’t hesitate for a second Wednesday when asked exactly what they were looking for up front.“I would say size is the number one priority,” Lynn said.Check that off the list. After a tumultuous early transfer-portal period, USC is suddenly rolling, defensive line coach Eric Henderson and company landing two massive commitments…

Jonas Never didn’t set out to be a trendsetter.Originally, he set out to be a college pitcher, before his shoulder gave out on him at UC Riverside. But the old adage that if you love what you do for a living it’s not really work has turned out to be so true in his case, because he went from trying to paint the corners, in baseball terms, to painting walls, buildings and canvases with sports art.And his work – the most prominent of which, early on, might have been his depiction of Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly’s pouty face, directed at…

A new record for Southern California employment masks some worrisome hiring trends. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with newly released state job figures that are not seasonally adjusted, found an all-time high 8.11 million people at work in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties in November. However, there’s a “but” in the upswing. November’s hiring pace was 47% below the region’s pre-pandemic job growth for the month. The 34,000 added jobs from October was far below the average 64,100 hires in November between 2015-19. To be fair, the local job market is still growing. The past year’s job growth of…

If you stacked up all of Donald Trump’s legal bills since his election in 2016, they’d reach Mars before Elon Musk does.He’s paying teams of attorneys to defend against the various civil and criminal charges that a majority of voters in seven swing states just dismissed as irrelevant, and he’s suing a bunch of media heavyweights over what he famously calls “Fake News.”Trump sued ABC, ABC News and anchor George Stephanopolous, who said on his March 10 program that Trump was “found liable for rape.” He wasn’t, and a settlement of the case was just announced.  ABC News agreed to…

A person, or perhaps a person of a certain age, can be forgiven for thinking that her or his job is to do the work, do it well, hit deadlines. Shouting to the rooftops about it, mounting it on all available platforms? That’s for the corporate comms department, right? If you are a journalist, the answer in 2024 would be instead “wrong.” In an age of dwindling readership, viewership, listenership, part of your job after you write and edit stories is to social them out: to X, to Threads, to Bluesky, to, heaven help us, Facebook. Beyond the extra work…

By Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald (TNS)People of faith are not more generous than non-religious people — except in one case, a new study found.A study by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden found that religious people are more generous than non-religious people when they know the recipients’ religious beliefs — otherwise there is no difference.The research includes three studies of Christians, Muslims and atheists in different countries, including Sweden, the United States and a combined study in Egypt and Lebanon. About 1,700 people were included in the study published in September by Cambridge University Press.The results are slightly surprising as…