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As we reach the home stretch of Super Bowl week, the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks held their final practices on Friday, and both teams had some positive news to share. Both quarterbacks are healthy and good to go, as Patriots quarterback Drake Maye was a full participant at practice for the third straight day as he deals with a right shoulder injury. Advertisement Seahawks QB Sam Darnold was also a full participant for the second straight day after being limited Wednesday while dealing with an oblique injury from a few weeks ago. On the other side of the ball, Seahawks rookie safety Nick Emmanwori was a full participant in practice and has no injury designation for Sunday. Emmanwori went down with an ankle injury in practice Wednesday and was held out of Thursday’s session. For the Patriots, linebacker Harold Landry was limited Friday after missing Thursday’s practice, while fellow LB Robert Spillane was a limited participant for the second straight day. And on Thursday night, at NFL Honors, the top awards for the 2025 season were handed out. Advertisement Here were the notable winners : MVP — Matthew Stafford, Rams QB Offensive Player of the Year — Jaxon

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February 5, 2026 - 10:11 PM AUSTIN – Texas forward Madison Booker paced the fourth-ranked Longhorns offensively with 18 points en route to a 77-64 victory over the fifth-ranked LSU women’s basketball squad inside the Moody Center on Thursday night. With the loss, LSU fell in its first game since January 4, dropping its record to 21-3 overall and 7-3 in Southeastern Conference play. With the victory, Texas improved its record to 22-2 overall and 7-2 in league play. LSU returns to action Sunday at Auburn in Neville Arena as the Tigers battle at 1 p.m. CT on SEC Network with Tiffany Greene (pxp) and Carolyn Peck (analyst) on the call. Fans can listen into the LSU Sports Radio Network with Patrick Wright and Shaeeta Williams calling the action. Junior guard Mikaylah Williams led the LSU scoring attack with 20 points in addition to her two rebounds and one assist. She went 7-of-11 from the field, knocked down three threes, and converted on 3-of-5 free throw attempts. At the first media timeout, Texas held the 10-8 lead through the opening five minutes of the quarter. LSU opened the scoring right away with a layup from freshman Grace Knox on the

The 15th annual NFL Honors program took place at Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Actor Jon Hamm hosted the proceedings three days before the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks were set to play Super Bowl LX. Here's a look at all of the award winners, finalists, voting results and Twitter reaction. AP Most Valuable Player Winner: Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford Finalists: Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen, Jacksonville Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence New England Patriots QB Drake Maye, San Francisco 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Winner: Washington Commanders LB Bobby Wagner Finalists: List here via Pro Football Hall of Fame Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 Modern-Era Players: WR Larry Fitzgerald, LB Luke Kuechly, K Adam Vinatieri, QB Drew Brees Senior Player: RB Roger Craig AP Offensive Player of the Year Winner: Seattle Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba Finalists: New England Patriots QB Drake Maye, San Francisco 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey, Los Angeles Rams WR Puka Nacua, Atlanta Falcons RB Bijan Robinson AP Defensive Player of the Year Winner: Cleveland Browns DE Myles Garrett Finalists: Green Bay Packers DE Micah Parsons, Denver Broncos LB Nik Bonitto, Detroit Lions DE

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There are some great what-ifs in Duke Basketball history. What if Bob Verga hadn’t gotten sick just before the 1966 Final Four? What if Duke had played Texas Western instead of Kentucky? Could Mike Lewis have dealt with Big Daddy Lattin? We’ll never know. What if Bob Bender hadn’t had appendicitis during the 1980 NCAA tournament? Again, we’ll never know. Here’s one of the best: would Duke have gone undefeated and won back-to-back championships if Kyrie Irving hadn’t gotten hurt in his one-and-done year? Duke was loaded. Irving was in the backcourt with Nolan Smith and Seth Curry along with Irving. Up front they had Mason and Miles Plumlee, Kyle Singler and an emerging Ryan Kelly. But Irving was amazing. He was limited to seven games after his foot injury but we got a hint of things to come with his performance against Michigan State. Irving shredded Michigan State. At one point, the Spartans triple-teamed him and he just destroyed that attempt. You began to get the idea at that point that this guy was…different. Take a step into the way-back machine and enjoy Irving’s brief Duke brilliance. Truly an amazing player.

Feb 3 : A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Elon Musk's bid to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that claimed he waited too long to disclose his purchases of Twitter shares in 2022. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., said none of Musk's arguments warranted a dismissal, including his claim that the SEC overreached in order to punish him for criticizing the agency. Lawyers for Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment. An SEC spokesperson declined to comment. The SEC sued Musk in January 2025, saying his 11-day delay in revealing his initial 5 per cent Twitter stake in late March and early April 2022 let him buy more than $500 million of shares at artificially low prices. It wants Musk to repay the $150 million he allegedly saved at the expense of unsuspecting investors, plus a civil fine. Musk has called the delay inadvertent. He also said the SEC case amounted to "selective enforcement" of federal securities laws, designed to target him for criticism of "government overreach” that is protected speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Musk also called a $150 million payout an excessive fine that violates the Constitution's Eighth

Last week X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, made an allegation of enormous consequence with remarkable casualness: China controls millions of spam accounts used to censor the platform during periods of political unrest. Responding publicly to user complaints that Chinese-language search on X had become unusable, Bier alleged that the Chinese government flooded the platform with pornographic advertising content during periods of political unrest, deliberately drowning out real-time information. He added that X believed Beijing controlled a pool of 5 million to 10 million accounts, created before the company tightened sign-up controls. Such a pool would give Beijing a ready-made capability to manipulate search results at scale. It was a striking claim, not only because of its scale but because of how it arrived—not via a transparency report, technical briefing, or regulatory filing, but in a reply post. For many Chinese-language users, it marked the moment when a daily experience of interference, long suspected to be state-directed, was acknowledged by the platform itself. We should not have to rely on the occasional tweet from X executives, however candid, to understand how one of the world’s most important information ecosystems is being manipulated. Casual executive pronouncements are replacing formal transparency mechanisms—a

Business Published: Feb. 02, 2026, 3:07 p.m. This financial boost is one Americans won’t report on federal tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury have confirmed that the $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” payments distributed to approximately 1.5 million service members in December 2025 are officially tax-free. The IRS designated the one-time payment as a “qualified military benefit,” a classification that excludes the funds from gross income on federal tax returns. President Donald Trump announced the supplemental payments on Dec. 17, choosing the $1,776 figure to honor the 250th anniversary of the United States, according to CNN. The $2.9 billion initiative was authorized by Congress through the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” passed earlier that year, according to the IRS. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stated that the payments are designed to improve the living conditions of military personnel and acknowledge 250 years of national protection, according to the U.S. Department of War. “This Warrior Dividend serves as yet another example of how the War Department is working to improve the quality of life for our military personnel and their families,” Hegseth said. “All elements of what we’re doing are to rebuild our military.” Decades after Boston mall