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OU notepad: Zach Schmit delivers against Auburn in 'redemption' game

The Sooners led 24-21 with 58 seconds remaining. To help seal the win, OU coach Brent Venables sent out a player who hasn't always been the most reliable option — Zach Schmit — for a 39-yard field goal. The Sooners defense held up, securing the 27-21 win on Saturday.
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Everything Kalen DeBoer said following Alabama's win over Georgia

In arguably one of the greatest college football games of all time, No. 4 Alabama and Kalen DeBoer fought off No. 2 Georgia, who came back in the fourth quarter down 19-points. The Crimson Tide advance to 4-0 on the season; here's everything Kalen DeBoer said after his first SEC victory at Alabama.
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‘Real Time’ Host Bill Maher Gives Bold Election Night Prediction

Millions of Americans are worried about the upcoming presidential election results, but Bill Maher said he isn’t one of them. Maher made the admission on the Friday episode of his HBO show, Real Time With Bill Maher, to the shock of his guest panelists, who included Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, writer Fran Lebowitz, and political consultant Ian Bremmer.“You’re not even worried about it?” said Lebowitz.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get the Daily Beast's biggest scoops and scandals delivere
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In Alabama, Trump goes from the dark rhetoric of his campaign to adulation of college football fans

As Donald Trump railed against immigrants Saturday afternoon in the Rust Belt, his supporters in the Deep South had turned his earlier broadsides into a rallying cry over a college football game as they prepared for the former president’s visit later in the evening. “You gotta get these people back where they came from,” Trump said in Wisconsin, as the Republican presidential nominee again focused on Springfield, Ohio, which has been roiled by false claims he amplified that Haitian immigrants a
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Former College Track Star Shelby Daniele Dead at 23: ‘Truly One of a Kind’

Former collegiate track star Shelby Daniele has died. She was 23. Daniele was previously a sprinter for California Polytechnic State University’s track and field team. Her death was announced by the school’s athletic department on Friday, September 27. She died three days earlier. “Cal Poly Athletics was deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing
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Pompeo draws contrast between Zelensky visits with Trump, Biden

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “very different” meeting with former President Trump compared to President Biden and his opponent in the 2024 election. “In one case he was meeting with the vice president, who was in charge when tens of thousands of Zelensky’s people in Ukraine were…
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Carville suggests Democrats should embrace ‘autocracy’ ahead of November

Veteran political strategist James Carville suggested that Democrats should embrace “autocracy” ahead of the November election, arguing not everyone should have “a seat at the table.” “I would always tell people in campaigns: If you want a democracy after the election, you have to have an autocracy before the election,” Carville said during his Friday…
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A tiny tribe is getting pushback for betting big on a $600M casino in California's wine country

For decades a small, landless tribe in Northern California has been on a mission to get land, open a casino and tap into the gaming market enjoyed by so many other tribes that earn millions of dollars annually. The Koi Nation's chances of owning a Las Vegas-style casino seemed impossible until a federal court ruling in 2019 cleared the way for the tiny tribe to find a financial partner to buy land and place it into a trust to make it eligible for a casino. Now the tribe of 96 members has teame
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‘SNL’ Rips Trump for Calling Kamala Harris ‘Mentally Disabled’

Although Colin Jost and Michael Che talked a bit about the major political shakeups they missed over the summer, when it comes to making fun of Donald Trump, the last few weeks alone gave them plenty of material.“Two hours ago, Donald Trump called Kamala Harris ‘a mentally disabled person,’” Jost said. “Which is amazing: I cannot believe Trump admitted he lost the debate to a mentally disabled person.”Colin added, “You can really tell Trump is worried about this election because now he’s just la
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Jada Smith Once Said Will Smith Hits Up Strangers For Money, But The 'The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air' Claims Otherwise

Will Smith once had to address the allegations made by his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, that he tends to ask strangers for money. The “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” then narrated his side of the tale during a late-night talk show. What Happened: In December 2017, Will Smith contradicted his wife’s version of an event where he supposedly asked a stranger for money. Jada had initially narrated this incident during a May 2017 appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Will Smith explained that the incident took pl
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Russia's Lavrov rejects restart of global cooperation

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has unequivocally rejected a restart of international relations. "What global cooperation can we really speak of when the West has trampled on all these unwavering values of globalization, which it has been telling us about from this podium for so many years," Lavrov said in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Recently, Russia distanced itself from the United Nations' future pact, which was supposed to be adopted unanimously by 193 UN
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Brian Williams Set to Make Shock Return to Anchor Chair

Brian Williams’ surprise return to the anchor chair is “imminent,” and the veteran newsman is set to sign a deal with Amazon Prime Video for an Election Night special, a source close to the discussions told the Daily Beast. Williams, 65, has not anchored a program since he abruptly resigned from NBC in 2021. Now, his surprising return from the television wilderness appears set to take place at Amazon as the streaming giant makes its first foray into the breaking news space.“It’s a reimagining of
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