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Giants star wideout blasts analyst for questioning sideline behavior during win against Eagles
Win or lose, Malik Naberswill always make sure he gets the last word.
The New York Giants snapped a 13-game skid in Philly on Sunday, grinding through a 19-11 clunker featuring backup versus backup-backup quarterbacks. But as New York closed in on a rare division road win, Nabers — the Giants' star wideout — spent parts of the game pacing away from the huddle, shaking his head in plain view of the cameras.
Fox analyst Greg Olsen spotted Nabers' bad body language on the sideline and called it out during the live broadcast.
"It's not good," he said, "there's a fine line between being demanding and chasing greatness and then being a bad teammate … like if your teammate scores a touchdown for the lead and you're still worried about your touches."
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After the win, Nabers went straight to Instagram postgame.
He said, in part: "[Olsen] calling me a bad teammate when every team I've been on, there's NOBODY I've played with has said dat bout me is crazy! Y'all be trying to create a narrative on me soo bad it's actually crazy!! If you [don't] like the way I play the game, keep the camera off me!! SIMPLE!"
In reality, Nabers had a dud and couldn't hide it. Against a shaky Eagles secondary, he finished with five catches for 43 yards and dropped a walk-in fourth-quarter touchdown from J.J. McCarthy.
Olsen didn't sugarcoat anything, and he didn't have to. Nabers has All-Pro ability, but the diva act and injury baggage are getting impossible to ignore.
Back in November 2024, Nabers openly slammed the offense after seeing zero targets until the game was out of reach. In Week 1 last season, he was back in Brian Daboll's ear on the sideline complaining about touches. Three weeks later, his sophomore year was over with a torn ACL and meniscus against the Chargers.
A dominant October buys goodwill, and 509 receiving yards through a quarterback carousel is legitimately impressive. But getting rattled by a television broadcast only proves the critique right.
The 5-2-1 Giants host the Commanders on Thursday night.
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Trump says he doesn’t disagree with Vance that Iran war fueled GOP losses
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he does not disagree with Vice President JD Vance's assessment that the Republicans' sweeping midterm losses were caused by the Iran war, rising costs and U.S. relations with Israel.
"I don’t disagree with it," Trump said during a CBS 60 Minutes interview.
Asked whether he knew Vance was planning to share his take in a post on X, Trump said the vice president was fully transparent with him beforehand
"He asked me what do I think," Trump said.
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"I said, ‘You write what you want. By the way, what are you going to write?’"
Trump added that the one thing he wished Vance would have done differently was share whether the vice president would have made the decision to strike Iran again, given his role in the administration's decision-making process.
"The only thing I wish he would've said there, if he felt it," Trump said.
"My answer is an emphatic yes, because you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon," Trump said.
He said the administration's decision to engage in war with Iran was far more important than the political consequences of losing the midterm elections, arguing that while the decision may be unpopular, the alternative would have been allowing Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
"I think, historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not," he said.
"I have to go with what's right for our country. If they had a nuclear weapon during my term, I would be excoriated far worse than what's happened."
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On Wednesday, Vance delivered a blunt assessment of Republicans' midterm losses, which allowed Democrats to regain control of both chambers of Congress in a major blow to the Trump administration. Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts.
"The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone," Vance wrote on X. "The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night."
Like Trump, Vance argued that the political consequences of the war were a "worthwhile cost to pay."
"If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so," Vance said. "Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost."
Trump admits immigration enforcement may have been too 'tough' in first interview since midterms
President Donald Trump admitted that he may have been too "tough" in his immigration enforcement in his first sit-down interview since the midterm elections last week.
Trump spoke to CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat about several topics largely related to the Democratic Party's overwhelming wins in last week's midterm elections, which included victories in Republican strongholds like Texas.
During their conversation, Douthat asked whether Trump's strict immigration and deportation enforcement likely contributed to Republican losses.
"I think it both helped and hurt," Trump answered. "I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border…I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out."
In the extended interview posted online, Trump added, "We had 25 million people come in through Biden over a four-year period, and many of those people were — as you know, they were from prisons, they were drug dealers, they were from mental institutions."
However, Trump conceded that many illegal immigrants within the country were "good" people, which likely led to his policies facing backlash.
"But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that — that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases, paying taxes. And there's a large group of people who think that they should be allowed to stay."
"So you think your deportation policy — went too far?" Douthat asked.
"I think it was — too tough…I think it might be too tough, yeah," Trump responded, adding, "And I think ultimately that hurt me."
The president also suggested an immigration deal with the incoming Democratic Congress could be "doable" outside the more extreme groups who either prefer every illegal immigrant to be deported or prefer not to deport any illegal immigrant.
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Trump also suggested many Democrats are willing to work with him to enforce the border, acknowledging incoming Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico as an example.
In a Fox News voter poll of more than 100,000 registered voters nationwide from Oct. 19 to Nov. 3, 2026, immigration was the only issue that Republicans led Democrats on.
Dallas public defender’s chief investigator charged with wife’s murder after bloody apartment discovery
A Texas investigator who spent years working on capital murder cases is now accused of killing his wife of roughly 35 years, less than two weeks after filing for divorce.
Jimmy Spurger Jr., 54, the chief investigator for the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office, faces a first-degree felony murder charge after his wife, Maria Spurger, was found stabbed to death inside their downtown Dallas apartment Friday night.
Emergency crews found Maria on a couch with a knife in her neck and her husband sitting on a bed in another room, covered in blood, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox 4 Dallas.
Spurger filed for divorce Oct. 26, less than two weeks before the killing, according to Dallas County court records. The case was still open, with a Nov. 3 entry indicating Maria had not been served with the divorce papers.
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Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins said Sunday that he had ordered Spurger suspended and his access revoked.
"Upon notice of this tragic murder yesterday, I instructed Administration to place the employee on suspension and remove his access," Jenkins wrote on X.
Firefighters received a welfare check call around 10:40 p.m. Friday and went to the couple’s apartment on North Akard Street, according to the affidavit.
No one answered their repeated knocks. When firefighters forced the door open, they found furniture blocking the entrance.
They moved it aside and found Maria unresponsive on the couch. Spurger was sitting on a bed in the bedroom, but he did not answer when firefighters asked whether he was OK.
The crews backed out and called police.
Officers arrived around 11:13 p.m. and found Spurger covered in blood, with a small knife beside him. Several empty pill bottles covered in blood were in the kitchen, according to the affidavit. No one else was found inside.
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Maria was pronounced dead at the apartment. Spurger was taken to Methodist Central Hospital, and investigators said they could not interview him because he may have taken multiple pills.
He was booked into the Dallas County Jail Saturday on a murder charge and is being held without bond, according to jail records.
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Before his arrest, Spurger oversaw investigators who helped public defenders prepare criminal cases, according to the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office website. His biography says he served as chief investigator for 11 months.
He spent more than 13 years with the office, primarily in its Capital Murder Division, where his work included examining evidence and interviewing witnesses.
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Before joining the public defender’s office, Spurger spent more than 20 years in law enforcement, specializing in homicide investigations and crimes against people, according to the website. During his final decade in law enforcement, he supervised child abuse and family violence investigations for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
Police have not released a motive and said the killing remains under investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective C. Johnson at 214-671-3584 or chanesia.johnson@dallaspolice.gov.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Dallas Police Department for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
Tensions flare as demonstrators target Jewish restaurants, drawing massive counterprotest
Tensions flared in a Philadelphia neighborhood Sunday after a bike ride organized to boycott several Jewish-owned restaurants sparked overwhelming backlash from the city's Jewish and pro-Israel communities.
The "boycott ride" targeted at least six restaurants in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, labeling them "Zionist establishments" and calling for them to leave, according to pro-Palestinian group Philly Bike On Your Left, which organized the event.
As riders cycled through the streets waving Palestinian flags, hundreds of Jewish and pro-Israel community members turned out to oppose the demonstration, with heated exchanges unfolding across several city blocks. Dozens of diners also lined up outside the targeted restaurants in a show of solidarity with the Jewish-owned businesses.
The boycott also drew sharp criticism for taking place on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria marked by widespread anti-Jewish violence, including attacks on homes, synagogues and businesses.
The Philadelphia police told Fox News that at least three people were arrested in connection with the protest, including a woman accused of assault, a man accused of disorderly conduct and a 17-year-old male accused of assaulting police.
Meanwhile, a female counterprotester reported being assaulted by an unknown individual.
Two officers also sustained minor injuries during the arrest of one individual, according to the outlet. Neither required medical treatment.
No property damage was reported, and conditions returned to normal by late afternoon, police said.
Police said about 500 people participated in total, including roughly 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators, 200 of whom were on bicycles, and 200 pro-Israeli counterprotesters.
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Videos circulating on social media showed demonstrators and counterprotesters shouting at one another.
In one video, a restaurant displayed a Palestinian flag alongside a sign reading "No public restroom" on its entrance door.
A man confronted the restaurant on camera, accusing it of sending a message that the Jewish community was not welcome.
The protest, organized in late October, targeted six businesses whose owners organizers accused of being "Zionist business owners."
"We see them for the disgusting humans they are," the group said.
"There are business owners in our community who have raised funds for the Israeli military, hosted Israeli soldiers, were praised by Benjamin Netanyahu, or expressed support for Israel," the group added.
The demonstration prompted the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia to call for a counter-demonstration in early November.
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"This is antisemitism. It is Jew-Hatred, plain and simple," the organization said.
"The ride falls on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, when Nazi-organized mobs destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues in Germany and Austria, while thousands of Jews were beaten, assaulted and sent to concentration camps. The public targeting of Jewish businesses should alarm every person of conscience. We cannot allow such hatred to become normalized in Philadelphia."
The organizers, however, pushed back against the criticism, claiming their ride had been "grossly misrepresented" and describing themselves as a nonviolent social cycling group.
Donna Mills on why she never married despite decades-long romance: 'I was always so independent'
"Knots Landing" star Donna Mills is revealing the reason that she has never walked down the aisle despite her 25-year romance with actor Larry Gilman.
During a recent appearance on the "Still Here Hollywood Podcast with Steve Kmetko," the 85-year-old actress, who has been in a relationship with Gilman, 76, since 2001, opened up about why she has chosen to avoid marriage.
"I was always so independent," she told Kmetko. "I’m still very independent."
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"I just didn’t ever want to be subject to whatever you have to do when you get married," Mills continued. "I also didn’t want to say I was going to love somebody forever."
"I don’t know if I would do that or not," she admitted with a laugh.
Mills shared the topic of marriage had also come up between herself and her daughter Chloe, who recently tied the knot herself.
"It’s funny because my daughter asked me that. My daughter just got married," Mills said. "And she just had a baby."
After Kmetko told her that she didn't "look like a grandmother," Mills pointed to a necklace she was wearing that was inscribed with the word "Grandma," which she said was a gift from Chloe.
"She gave me this, and I wear it all the time," Mills said.
Mills explained that she and Chloe have had many conversations about what name her grandson would call her.
"And I said, "'Oh, I know. Glamma,'" Mills told Kmetko with a laugh. "But she didn't like that."
The Daytime Emmy Award winner Chloe adopted as a newborn in 1994 when she was 54. Seven years later, Mills began dating Gilman, whom she has described as an "incredibly kind, funny, wonderful man."
"I love him," she told The Daily Beast in 2022. "I’m lucky to have found him. I found him late, but I found him. Everybody loves him. He’s great."
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Prior to meeting Gilman, Mills and advertising executive Richard Holland, who was previously married to singer Chaka Khan, had an on-and-off relationship for around 20 years starting in 1979.
When asked why she has never married, Mills said, "I don’t remember anyone ever getting down on one knee."
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The "Nope" star also cited her independent streak and explained why she and Gilman never felt the need to marry after meeting later in life.
"I am so freaking independent. I just am. I’m very independent and by the time Larry and I met we were both pretty established," she said. "To combine everything at that point is really difficult. So we just combined our lives but not our finances and stuff like that. It’s much cleaner, much better."
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Mills shared that maintaining her independence had always given her a sense of security, even while sharing her life with a partner.
"I’ve always felt a woman being independent was important," she said. "It made me feel safer, I guess, to know that I can take care of myself. I want someone to be in my life to love and be with, to be a companion and to go places and all that, but if I have to I can take care of myself."
"And really, I had enough marriages as Abby!" she added, referring to the character she played on "Knots Landing."
Mills became a television sensation playing the glamorous and ruthless Abby Cunningham on "Knots Landing" from 1980 to 1989.
Abby tied the knot four times over the course of the hit primetime soap, though one union was annulled almost immediately after the wedding.
Mills and Gilman share a home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood, where they have a vineyard. In 2015, Mills told Closer Weekly that the vineyard was a gift from her longtime partner.
"Larry planted a vineyard for me last year," Donna shared. "He’s really such a good guy."
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The couple went on to launch Mandeville Vineyards, a small-scale wine brand produced from grapes grown on their vineyard in Brentwood's Mandeville Canyon.
Mills, who surprised her fans when she announced that she had launched an OnlyFans account in July, previously discussed how she had received some unusual requests from subscribers, including one involving her vineyard.
In August, Mills appeared on "Creators Inc. Podcast," which is hosted by Andy Bachman, the CEO of the talent agency Creators, Inc., which manages her OnlyFans account.
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During her appearance, Bachman noted that some "foot kink people" had asked to see the actress "stomping on grapes" with her bare feet in her vineyard.
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"I’m gonna do it," Mills said. "I tried to shoot it myself. But you can’t shoot something while you’re stomping, it just doesn’t work."
"I'm going to uh… I'm going to do that very soon… and do it right so that you know people can… really enjoy it," she continued. "I think it's really funny and fun and uh it's the kind of thing that I want to be able to share with the fans."
Ann-Margret seen in wheelchair outside Los Angeles hotel months after breaking elbow in fall
Hollywood icon, Ann-Margret, was recently photographed outside a Los Angeles hotel in a wheelchair.
The 85-year-old actress was spotted arriving to a hotel for an event, where her staff met her outside and helped her get out of her car.
She was seen smiling as she was being wheeled into the event by her staff, in an all-black outfit, which she paired with a green blazer, glasses and a necklace.
Her appearance at the event occurred only a few months after the actress shared she suffered a fall in her home in April, which led to a broken elbow.
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"I fell the other day and so now my right elbow is broken," Ann-Margret told Parade magazine at the time. "That’s OK. … I have fallen so many times. I don’t intend to, but I do! What can I say?"
Although she was forced to cancel a fan event at the time during which she would be signing autographs, she assured the outlet that she was on the mend, telling them, "Yes I am. I sure am!"
Dubbed "The Female Elvis," Ann-Margret had her breakout performance in the 1963 movie musical, "Bye Bye Birdie," which established her as a leading lady early in her career. She then starred alongside Elvis Presley in the 1964 movie, "Viva Las Vegas."
Her transition to dramatic films came in the 70s, with the actress receiving her first of two Academy Award nominations in 1972 for her role in "Carnal Knowledge."
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Throughout her career, the sex-symbol received five Golden Globe Awards, one Emmy Award, two Academy Award nomination and two Grammy Award nominations.
When speaking with Fox News Digital in June, Ann-Margret shared her love for motorcycles, revealing she rode one for the first as a child in Sweden with her uncle, saying after that "I had to have one of my own." After all these years on a bike, the actress said she has never been scared.
"Isn’t that something?" she said. "I never have been. I love the speed. I try not to go too fast, although I do love the speed. I’m joyful when I get on that bike. I don’t get scared. That’s the problem!"
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She previously spoke to People magazine in February 2024 about her love for motorcycles, noting, "I love speed. Not the drug."
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The performer also spoke to the outlet about her decades-long career in Hollywood, saying she had zero plans to slow down. Ann-Margret described how she took dance lessons early on in life to prove to her parents she was born to entertain.
"I remember wanting to be in show business all my life," Ann-Margret told the outlet. "And I remember one day I said to mother and daddy, ‘I want to talk to you. It’s a very, very important thing for me and I want to get into show business.’"
Bojangles opens Las Vegas Strip restaurant with feature never before offered by chain
Charlotte, North Carolina-based fast-food chain Bojangles opened a new restaurant complete with a full-service bar on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 7, marking the company's first foray into alcohol sales.
LV Petroleum, the chain's Las Vegas franchisee, has about 20 Bojangles locations in the works for the Las Vegas market, Nation's Restaurant News reported.
Aside from the bar, the restaurant is outfitted with a stage for live music, a covered patio and TVs throughout, which "give the restaurant a distinctly Vegas vibe," the company's news release stated.
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"We are ecstatic about adding another Bojangles to the Vegas Strip and bringing our unique Southern charm to this location," Jeanette Davis, senior vice president of LV Petroleum, said in a statement.
The company also operates franchises of brands such as Jimmy John's, Arby's, Starbucks and Dunkin'.
Founded in Charlotte in 1977, Bojangles' menu centers on Southern classics like fried chicken, biscuits and sweet tea, among others.
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At the Vegas restaurant, guests can order from the chain's regular menu, which features items including dirty rice, baked macaroni and cheese, chicken tenders and milkshakes.
Breakfast is sold every day until 2 p.m., with options like breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and gravy and hash browns.
Over the years, Bojangles has grown to include 890 restaurants in 24 states, according to the company.
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A primarily Southeastern chain, the company has extended its reach in recent years to states like Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and New York.
In 2025, Bojangles opened 43 new restaurants nationwide, according to QSR Magazine.
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The expansion into Las Vegas marks a big move in the chain's growth plan, the news release noted.
"Our recent expansions into markets have been met with tremendous enthusiasm, and we are confident that the community will embrace our delicious offerings with the same excitement," Davis said.
Will College Football Playoff committee drop LSU Tigers out of playoff picture after blowout loss?
The release of the first College Football Playoff poll recently was treated with shock, disdain, and outright anger from many fans across the sport. Unless they root for the SEC.
SEC teams were shockingly, and consistently overrepresented and overranked, to the point that prominent rival coaches openly speculated about a connection between ESPN, the SEC, and the committee's willingness to abandon any pretense of objectivity.
Defending national champion Curt Cignetti, as one example, was blunt about his perception of the committee's bias.
"SEC gets a lot of love from ESPN and all their writers that they don't technically pay but march to their drum," he said. "That's why you see all these SEC teams up there, and some good two-loss teams from the Big Ten not quite as high. But like I said, it's all going to be played out on the field."
"Come on. These people, and there’s a whole bunch of them, they march out of the tent, and they’re given instructions on what to say," he added. "And they follow the company line. Right, and I don’t need to go any further."
There's little doubt that the SEC's marketing efforts have been extremely effective at ensuring voters ignore results and focus on perception instead. And the biggest winner might have been the conference's most effective marketer: LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin.
Kiffin has been loudly decrying the conference's move to nine games, correctly realizing that the extra losses , which put the SEC on equal footing with the Big Ten and Big 12, will be tough to overcome when evaluating resumes. To combat this, he's spent most of the past year campaigning for the benefit of the committee. Saying, incorrectly, that the SEC is Just Different and deserves to be treated like special snowflakes relative to other conferences.
"The conferences are so different," he said recently. "They are. They’re different stadiums, they’re different environments, they’re different middle to bottom of them. So you’re not playing equal schedules, they’re not even close. If you took an SEC team and gave them another one of those conference’s schedules, they’d average two more wins. Well, that’s a big deal. So, I say all that to say you had to go to more teams, because the system’s broke in how they pick them."
Pretty much all of that is wrong. But his propaganda efforts, based on the first week's poll, clearly worked. Losses in the SEC simply don't matter as much as they should, a trend that was obvious in 2025 when the Alabama Crimson Tide were blown out by Georgia in the conference championship game and didn't drop a single spot. The committee decided ahead of time that they should be in, so they determined that the SEC Championship Game could only help the winner, and not hurt the loser.
Will that same preferential treatment be given to the loser of a, say, Utah-BYU Big 12 Championship Game? Of course not. Because of the stadiums or something. Returning to Kiffin's diatribe though, one stat that he curiously never brings up is the SEC's recent performance when the games actually matter. And unfortunately for him and them, it's not very good.
In 2025-2026, the SEC went 1-8 in bowl games. They were 0-3 in the College Football Playoff against non-SEC P4 opponents. Texas A&M went 7-1 in the SEC and was a tiebreaker away from reaching the conference championship game, then scored all of three points against a lowly Miami Hurricanes team at home. In their awe-inspiring temple of an SEC stadium.
Houston beat LSU in their bowl game. Virginia beat Missouri. Illinois beat Tennessee. Iowa beat Vanderbilt. Then Alabama, the team gifted a spot in the playoff thanks to their conference patch, was obliterated by Indiana 38-3 in the Rose Bowl. So two of the top three teams in the SEC, Texas A&M and Alabama, lost their non-SEC playoff games by a combined score of 48-6. Six points combined.
"They're not even close." "They'd average two more wins." And people actually believe this stuff.
Since the expanded playoff format started, SEC teams are 2-5 against other P4 conference teams. They're 5-7 overall, while the Big Ten is 8-5. "They're not even close."
There's another part of Kiffin's ridiculous posturing that he never brings up: travel. This isn't the SEC's fault, of course, but the conference's geographic alignment gives them a tremendous advantage over the Big Ten or ACC. LSU is in the Central Time Zone. Of their 12 games, just two were or are scheduled for any other time zone, Kentucky and Tennessee. They already lost to the Wildcats.
USC, by contrast, plays four games in other time zones, including three in the Eastern Time Zone. USC, despite being based in Los Angeles, plays more times in the Eastern Time Zone than LSU does. UCLA has six games in time zones other than its home Pacific time zone. That's a massive advantage for the Tigers and for most SEC teams. Their travel schedules simply don't match up to the grueling gauntlet of the Big Ten. Just imagine how many more losses Kiffin and his marketing group would have if they had to travel like their peers. But stadiums or something.
This isn't the first time the SEC boosters have done their fake superiority performance. And yet they learn nothing from it.
December 2024 - Lane Kiffin: "The SEC is just different, it's totally different. You might as well be in different leagues, not different conferences, different leagues."
June 2025 - Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia: "You want to play with the best — you don’t want to play with the Big Ten. … You ignore those calls."
July 2025 - Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko: "It’s a gauntlet going into the SEC season."
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October 2025 - Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer: "This is our third game in a row in the conference against a ranked opponent. That’s life in the SEC."
October 2025 - Paul Finebaum: "I’d like to see Indiana go through the gauntlet that Alabama has gone through…"
November 2025 - Lane Kiffin: "Texas A&M being [No.] 3 — what more do you want them to do to be [No.] 1?"
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December 2025 - SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey: "I actually think we deserve seven in," he said referring to the number of SEC teams that should be in the playoff. "I think the seven teams that are in the top-14, half of the top 14 teams are from the SEC. That's an indication that this league is different, the expectations are different, the competition is different, and the rewards should respect each of those elements."
December 2025 - Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea: "This should be about the 12 best teams in the country and a 10-2 team in the SEC … look, obviously we love our league. It just means more here and all that kind of stuff, but there’s a level of respect that needs to be held for the gauntlet we’ve been through and how we’ve met the match and done the things we need to do," Lea told OutKick. "I mean, it is just absurd the idea that we’re going to open the door to teams that play in conferences that aren’t the SEC that have the same record we have. I mean, it’s crazy."
December 2025 - Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian: "If you really look at the body of work, and you look at the Southeastern Conference of what we have to go through every week, you look at the non-conference schedule we played, to go to Ohio State in Week 1 and lose by seven when we outgained them by nearly 200 yards—we got a really good football team. It would be a disservice to our sport if this team is not a playoff team when we went and scheduled that non-conference game."
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December 2025 - Alabama QB Ty Simpson: "In general, we think that... actually we know we have the best offense in the country."
This is why it's so galling that the committee listened to Kiffin and Sankey and Sark and the relentless propaganda: it's just wrong. It's been proven wrong. It is not accurate.
Kiffin's Tigers were blown out by Alabama on Saturday night, to the point where their awe-inspiring stadium was mostly empty halfway through the fourth quarter. Will the committee keep them without shouting distance of the top-12? Or will they do what they would to another team and conference, and drop the Tigers to the bottom of the top 25 or out of it entirely?
This is why Kiffin made these comments, because he hoped that the standards will be lower for him than they are for other schools. Lose three times? It's because of stadiums or some nonsense. Lose four times? It's because of Nick Saban in 2015. There can never be consequences for the SEC, because they're just special.
Kiffin's right, the system they use to select teams is broken. We'll just have to see how broken, in his favor, it actually is.
Joe Biden says cancer slowed him down, limiting memoir promotion tour
Former President Joe Biden said on Sunday ahead of the release of his presidential memoir that he would need to limit the promotional events due to his cancer battle slowing him down at times.
The memoir, titled "Promise Me, America," is set to be released on Nov. 17. The book reflects on Biden's four years in the White House, covering the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, domestic legislation, global diplomacy and his decision to run for re-election before later stepping aside in 2024. The memoir also details the personal deliberations behind his decision to end his 2024 re-election bid.
"My presidential memoir, PROMISE ME, AMERICA, is coming out on November 17th. I hope you'll read it. It covers my years as President. The challenges we faced, the decisions I made, and why I made them. It's about who we are as a nation. What we stand for. And America's role in the world. More than anything, it's about my faith in the American people and the great American experiment in self-governance and democracy," Biden said on X.
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The former president was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones in May 2025, which he said has not stopped him but has sometimes slowed him down.
"While writing the book, I was diagnosed with cancer, a disease known all too well to millions of Americans and their families. My doctors continue to be encouraged by how I've responded to treatment. And the prayers and kind words and well wishes from so many of you have meant more to me and Jill and our family than you can ever know," Biden said.
"Some days are better than others. It hasn't stopped me. But sometimes it slows me down. What that means is, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do as many conversations about my book as I’d hoped. However, I’m hopeful the words on the page speak for themselves," he continued.
Biden recalled his father telling him, "When you get knocked down, get up."
"It's a good lesson for me. And for America," Biden said.
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"We are blessed. America is the most unique nation on earth. Unlike other countries, we're built on an idea. An idea bigger than any ocean. More powerful than any army. Stronger than any tyrant or dictator. That idea? All of us are created equal," he added.