magic ocean dive Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola has paid tribute to Ruben Amorim's impact at Manchester United ahead of the Cherries' match at Old Trafford on Sunday. Iraola's side are sixth in the table, seven places ahead of United but just three points clear of their opponents. Brought in after Erik ten Hag was sacked as United boss, Amorim's stint began with a draw against Ipswich. United have since won four games and lost three, with last weekend's derby defeat of Manchester City followed by a League Cup loss against Tottenham. "I think they are different," said Iraola, whose side won the equivalent game 3-0 last season. "I think they play in a different way, different system, different approach to the games," he also told a pre-match press conference on Friday. "I... AFP

Tottenham Hotspur forward Brennan Johnson and Springboks flyhalf Manie Libbok have probably never met. They may not even have heard about one another. But they have something in common. Johnson and Libbok have suffered terrible abuse online this year, singled out by online bullies for their perceived failures on the pitch in their respective sporting codes. Welsh star Johnson recently deactivated his Instagram account following a barrage of abuse for his lack of goals and assists in a Spurs shirt, while Libbok was crucified following his missed penalty earlier this year in the Springboks' Test match against Los Pumas in Argentina. However, both seem to be coping with the online abuse just fine, as Johnson has returned to form for Spurs, while Libbok provided the spark in the Springboks' win over Argentina in the return match at the Mbombela Stadium, where the Boks ended up lifting the Rugby Championship. But not all sports people deal with criticism or abuse in the same way. Some athletes go through rough patches longer than others because it impacts their mental health, which in turn impacts their performance on the pitch or court. The advent of social media has changed the game for sports people, as it is another revenue stream. Influencer marketing is all the rage right now, and sports people are seen as ideal to showcase products and services. But by putting themselves out there, they also become a target for so-called "trolls" who now have direct access to their lives. And most times these fans cross the line, with ugly and personal comments. When asked about the trolling Johnson suffered, Spurs' manager Ange Postecoglou slammed fans who abuse players online, saying "I hate that it's normalised, but unfortunately that's the world we live in". "Criticism is one thing, exasperation at a game, you accept that. To sit down and write something abusive anonymously... say it in front of me, you'll get a punch on the nose, you won't do it again, mate. But they won't... John GoliathDELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A high-speed passenger train collided with a fire truck at a crossing Saturday morning in Florida, injuring three firefighters and at least a dozen train passengers, authorities said. The crash happened at 10:45 a.m. in crowded downtown Delray Beach, multiple news outlets reported. The Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front destroyed, about a block away from the Delray Beach Fire Rescue truck, its ladder ripped off and strewn in the grass several yards away, . The Delray Beach Fire Rescue said in a social media post that three Delray Beach firefighters were in stable condition at a hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue took 12 people from the train to the hospital with minor injuries. Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after hearing a loud crash and screeching train brakes from where he was having breakfast a couple of blocks away. He saw firefighters climbing out of the window of their damaged truck and pulling injured colleagues away from the tracks. One of their helmets came to rest several hundred feet away from the crash. “The front of that train is completely smashed, and there was even some of the parts to the fire truck stuck in the front of the train, but it split the car right in half. It split the fire truck right in half, and the debris was everywhere,” Amaral said. Brightline officials did not immediately comment on the crash. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still gathering information about the crash and had not decided yet whether it will investigate. The NTSB is two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people early this year at the same crossing along the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando. More than 100 people have died after being hit by trains since Brightline began operations in July 2017 — giving the railroad the worst death rate in the nation. But most of those deaths have been either suicides, pedestrians who tried to run across the tracks ahead of a train or drivers who went around crossing gates instead of waiting for a train to pass. Brightline has not been found to be at fault in those previous deaths. has been a concern since a Norfolk Southern in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023, spilling toxic chemicals that caught fire. Regulators urged the industry to improve safety and members of Congress proposed a package of reforms, but railroads have not made many major changes to their operations and the bill has stalled. Earlier this month the two operators of a Union Pacific train were killed after with a semitrailer truck that was blocking a crossing in the small West Texas town of Pecos. Three other people were injured, and the local Chamber of Commerce building was damaged. ___ Associated Press writers Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, Chevel Johnson in New Orleans and Julie Walker in New York contributed. The Associated Press

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Bukayo Saka has vowed to return stronger than ever from injury after sending a message to Arsenal fans from his hospital bed. The England winger suffered a torn right hamstring in the first half during last weekend’s 5-1 win over Crystal Palace in the Premier League. Saka subsequently underwent surgery , with Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta admitting after Friday night’s 1-0 win over Ipswich that his attacking talisman would likely be sidelined for more than two months as he recovers in a major blow to the club’s title hopes. The 23-year-old has now spoken out on his latest injury setback for the first time, posting a picture of himself on social media giving a thumbs up from his hospital bed following the operation on his hamstring. Writing on Instagram, Saka said: “The majority see obstacles, but few see the opportunities. Recovery has begun and I’m coming back stronger. Thank you all for your messages #GodsPlan.” In a new update on Saka’s fitness, Arteta had told reporters at the Emirates Stadium on Friday evening after watching his side labour for a creative spark without arguably their most important player: “He had a procedure. “Everything went well, but unfortunately he will be out for many, many weeks. “I said many weeks so I think it will be more than two months. I don’t know exactly how much longer. “It will depend on how the scar tissue starts to heal, the first week or so, the mobility of that. Let’s see, it’s very difficult to say.”

ABORTION PILLS: In a lawsuit announced Friday, Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. It appears to be the first challenge in the U.S. to a shield law Democratic controlled states adopted. CHINA: The U.S. updated a science and technology agreement with China to reflect their growing rivalry for technological dominance. The deal was signed Friday in Beijing after months of negotiations. DETAINEE: The U.S. military transported American Travis Timmerman, 29, out of Syria, where he disappeared seven months ago into former President Bashar Assad's notorious prison system. He was among thousands released this week by rebels, a U.S. official said Friday. CLIMATE: Two weeks of historic International Court of Justice hearings on the threat of climate change wrapped up Friday. The verdict could take up to a year. FRANCE: French President Emmanuel Macron named centrist ally François Bayrou, 73, as prime minister Friday in an effort to address the country's deep political crisis after a historic parliamentary vote ousted the prior government last week. VENEZUELA: The U.N. office on human rights in Venezuela partially resumed operations in recent weeks, the agency's chief said Friday, months after the government of President Nicolás Maduro expelled its staff for allegedly helping coup plotters and terror groups. — Associated Press Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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Richard Parsons, who helped Time Warner divorce from AOL after what was considered one of the worst takeovers in history, has died. He was 76. His death was confirmed by Lazard , where he was a longtime board member. Parsons became CEO of AOL Time Warner in 2002, replacing Gerald Levin, who stepped aside two years after the media giant’s disastrous $165 billion merger with the upstart internet company. As CEO and later chairman, he led Time Warner’s turnaround, dropping “AOL” from the corporation’s name and shrinking the company’s $30 billion in debt to $16.8 billion by selling Warner Music and other properties. “The merger did not work out quite the way many of us expected. The internet bubble burst and we had to fix the leaks,” Parsons told The Independent in 2004. “It was not as monumental a task as many people thought, as the fundamental businesses of the old Time Warner — like publishing, the cable networks and movies — was running well.” He said that after the merger, AOL’s business had collapsed and Warner Music Group was declining, along with the entire music industry. “So we sold our music business, as well as other nonstrategic assets, to strengthen our balance sheet and put in new management.” Parsons stepped down from Time Warner in 2007. The Rockefeller connection Richard Dean “Dick” Parsons was born into a working-class family on April 4, 1948, in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant section and grew up in South Ozone Park in Queens, New York. He was a middle child among five siblings. He attended public school, skipping two grades, and at age 16, the 6-foot-4 Parsons enrolled at the University of Hawaii, where he played basketball and met his future wife, Laura Ann Bush, whom he married in 1968. After graduation, he returned to New York state to attend Albany Law School, moonlighting as a part-time janitor to help pay his tuition and finishing at the top of his class. During an internship at the New York state legislature, he developed ties to moderate Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who became vice president under Gerald Ford in 1974 in the wake of President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Parsons became associate director of President Ford’s domestic policy council. “The old-boy network lives,” Parsons told The New York Times in a 1994 interview. “I didn’t grow up with any of the old boys. I didn’t go to school with any of the old boys. But by becoming a part of that Rockefeller entourage, that created for me a group of people who’ve looked out for me ever since.” After Ford’s defeat by Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election, Parsons returned to New York and joined the law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in 1977, as did his friend Rudy Giuliani. Parsons and his wife and three children moved to Rockefeller country, Briarcliff Manor in Westchester County. Coincidentally, his maternal grandfather had been a groundskeeper on John D. Rockefeller’s nearby estate, Kykuit. Parson’s clients included Rockefeller’s widow, Happy, and the Dime Savings Bank of New York. In 1988, he accepted an offer to head Dime Bancorp, which had been struggling through the savings & loan crisis after aggressively approving high-risk mortgages as housing prices crashed. In 1989, it posted a $92.3 million loss. By the end of 1993, after ordering massive layoffs, Parsons helped the bank complete a $300 million recapitalization. In 1995, he helped engineer Dime’s merger with Anchor Savings, creating one of the nation’s largest thrift institutions. Parsons joined the Time Warner board on the recommendation of Rockefeller’s brother Laurance. He became president of Time Warner in 1995. As a Rockefeller Republican, Parsons considered himself a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. Parsons worked for Giuliani’s campaign for New York mayor but kept a behind-the-scenes profile. ′′I didn’t want to be positioned as the Mayor’s Black guy,′′⁣ he told the Times a few years later. Giuliani put him in charge of the mayoral transition team in 1993 but Parsons turned down an offer to become deputy mayor for fiscal affairs. His relationship with Giuliani later soured after the mayor tried to pressure Time Warner Cable to carry the then-fledgling Fox News Channel in New York. Two years after stepping down from Time Warner, Parsons became chairman of Citigroup in 2009, helping to stabilize the banking giant in the wake of the financial crisis. In May 2014, he was named interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers after the NBA banned owner Donald Sterling for life because he had made racist remarks. “Like most Americans, I have been deeply troubled by the pain the Clippers’ team, fans and partners have endured,” Parsons said. Parsons played down race as a factor of his success. “For a lot of people, race is a defining issue. It just isn’t for me,” he told the Times in 1997. “It is ... like air. It’s like height. I have other things that I’m focused on.′′ He later came out of retirement to briefly serve as CBS chairman in the wake of Les Moonves ’ ouster following sexual harassment and assault allegations during the #MeToo movement. After only a month as CBS’ interim chairman, Parsons stepped down suddenly in October 2018, citing health concerns. “When I agreed to join the board and serve as the interim chair, I was already dealing with a serious health challenge — multiple myeloma — but I felt that the situation was manageable,” Parsons said in a CBS statement announcing he had been replaced by Strauss Zelnick. “Unfortunately, unanticipated complications have created additional new challenges, and my doctors have advised that cutting back on my current commitments is essential to my overall recovery.” Parsons was active in many charities, including playing leading roles for the Jazz Foundation of America, the Apollo Theater Foundation and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. During his years on the Apollo Theater board, he helped the historic Harlem entertainment venue raise nearly $100 million. Parsons and his wife also donated 40 works of art to the American Folk Art Museum in July 2021 to help celebrate its 60th anniversary.

CINCINNATI — From asking someone where they went to high school to "Please?" to having strong opinions about certain culinary items, Cincinnati has its day-to-day quirks. But sometimes something happens that is so Cincinnati it reverberates through the city, sparking hot debates and snarky social media commentary for much longer than that. This year, that happened kind of a lot. Here are the top 9 "most Cincinnati" things that happened in 2024: Is it the most Cincinnati collaboration of all time, or a complete affront to the senses? The jury may still be out on that — though we saw you all commenting "I'd try it" on social media. In October, a listing on Kroger's website seemed to show a Graeter's Skyline Chili ice cream pint being sold for $7. This sparked plenty of online debate about whether or not this product was a very real food item that could be obtained. "A daring fusion of flavors in a Cincy chili-flavored ice cream: the creamy ice cream is infused with warm chili spices. Swirled throughout are crunchy oyster crackers and shreds of cheese that provide a tangy contrast to the sweet treat. This unconventional union offers a bold, adventurous taste experience that combines zesty ice cream with crunchy elements in every bite," the website said. Ultimately, a spokesperson with Graeter's told us the artwork seen on the Kroger site is simply concept art. A spokesperson with Skyline said that while there certainly is a collaboration in the works between Graeter's and Skyline, the ice cream is still in the research and development phase and not yet ready to be sold. Still, not everyone expressed unbridled joy at the very "Cincinnati" collab. "President Trump and I will stop this," Tri-State native and then-Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said on X (formerly Twitter) in response to the news. Even before the Bengals broke the curse and made it all the way to the Super Bowl in 2022, Bengals fans have been annually doing the mental math on the team's path to the playoffs, whether it's been a winning year or not. Now, in the years since that magical 2021/2022 season, Cincinnati Bengals fans are even more fired up about their team's chances. To put it plainly, this...has not been a great year for the Bengals. The Bengals started the season with an 0-2 record — for the third season in a row. But, like in recent years, the team has picked up momentum heading toward the end of the season and by the start of Week 17, playoff dreams still aren't completely dead. There's not a big chance of a Super Bowl run — ESPN's projections of a Bengals postseason is at around 6% or so — but in Cincinnati, any chance means hope. There's always a Cincinnati bridge at the center of conversation somewhere. This year, we started off with debates about how to design the new Brent Spence Bridge corridor and ended it with the full shutdown of I-471 south on the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge after it was severely damaged by a fire. Somewhere in between, a chunk of sandstone fell from the Purple People Bridge, prompting a months-long closure to the pedestrian-only crossing. The Big Mac Bridge's closure, however, has had long-lasting consequences for commuters throughout the Tri-State. The suggested detour to avoid I-471 south has been the Taylor Southgate Bridge — which has caused traffic headaches downtown and in Newport — and Cincinnati's favorite functionally obsolete river crossing, the Brent Spence Bridge. In contrast, it's been a little while since the Roebling Bridge and Western Hills Viaduct have made a peep, but we're still knocking on wood. Every so often something uniquely Cincy leaves our little Tri-State bubble and goes viral. That happened a few times in 2024 — and some of it was downright weird. In February, Joey Kinsley AKA Sir Yacht — despite being a Cleveland native — documented himself eating nothing but Skyline Chili for every meal for one week. One month later, we were all marveling over a mystery Covington man at the center of a very odd billboard. The billboard shows a man wearing a Cincinnati Reds t-shirt. "This man consumes over 20 gallons of liquid cheese in a year," read the billboard. "We can not stop him." We spoke to the man behind the billboard about why it ever existed and how he felt about it going viral. In May, a Cincinnati photographer did a photo shoot with a tiny tot who had a mean side-eye . People all around the world shared baby Trent's grumpy little face — and who can blame them? Seniors at Taft High School won the hearts of the world in October with a sweet teacher appreciation video. Athletic Director Austin Gullett shared a video showing what the football team's seniors did ahead of the Senators' Senior Day on Oct. 19. "In honor of Senior Day tomorrow, our senior football players chose one staff member who has had a positive impact on their life to wear their jersey to the game tomorrow afternoon," Gullett wrote in the TikTok's caption. This year, a beloved Cincinnati restaurant chain decided to swap pops and the masses revolted. Wait, what year is it again? Although Gold Star made the swap first, the announcement that Skyline was switching to Coca Cola over Pepsi is what really caught fire. "Power couple," read Skyline's social media post, but Cincinnatians were quickly asking for a break-up. Much of the outrage was over losing Mountain Dew as a pairing to the Cincinnati-style chili offerings. The discourse also went viral after thousands of fans signed a Change.org petition to keep Mountain Dew on the menu at Skyline. Enter Brian Baumgarter from "The Office." Baumgarter's iconic chili-dropping scene is one of the most well-known moments from the popular show; he weighed in on social media that he was "closely following the breaking Cincinnati-style chili news." He teased that Mountain Dew fans would be able to enjoy the soda with the purchase of "any chili, anywhere in Cincinnati." Days later, Mountain Dew announced it was partnering with Camp Washington Chili, Price Hill Chili and Moerlein House to provide free chili and Mountain Dew on March 28. That promotion was a one-day only thing, though. Only time will tell if Cincinnatians will win this soda war, like they eventually were victorious in the 2013-2018 saga against Frisch's . It's a question Cincinnatians love to ponder once in awhile since, you know, we do have two miles of unfinished subway tunnel built within the city. In October, the city of Cincinnati decided to formally ask that question . The council submitted a Request for Information, meaning the city is looking for information from businesses capable of improving the space. The request is not an ask for formal proposals — that could come later after the city has gathered the information it's seeking through this request. "I would, with cost not being a factor, would love a regional subway system," council member Mark Jeffreys told WCPO . "Obviously, we also have to be practical; how would we fund a regional rail plan? So, it comes down to what (is) practical, versus the realistic.” Cincinnati's never-utilized subway system is considered the nation's largest abandoned subway tunnel. For over 50 years, the two-mile stretch has been silent, its doors blocked by steel fences that have been vandalized over and over throughout the years. Social media reactions predominantly favored a front-runner idea for what to do with those tunnels: Build the subway. It remains unclear what proposals city council may have received, or what next steps the city may take toward reclaiming this most Cincinnati of things. The four-day arts and lights festival made its biennial return in the fall and the year's celebrations were a big success. The event brought 17 new murals to Cincinnati and drew in record-breaking crowds. The Asianati Night Market alone closed out its inaugural year at the festival estimating over $200,000 in sales for the businesses that participated. Thousands of people flooded the streets of Downtown, Over-the-Rhine, the Banks and Northern Kentucky to see the hundreds of installations created by artists from all around the country, and from the region. BLINK executive director Justin Brookhart told WCPO after BLINK ended that attendance at this year's festival was higher than in 2022 — and plans for BLINK 2026 are already in the works using lessons learned from this year's event. BLINK attendees had the opportunity to visit the Asianati Street Market , a fashion show and skate park project. The event also featured new attractions like projection mapping at Eduardo Kobras' Neil Armstrong mural on Fifth Third Bank headquarters and expanded even further into Northern Kentucky with installations and events in Newport. The Queen City has been a star in many a Hollywood production in recent years and 2024 was no exception. The Ohio Department of Development announced state support of more than $44 million in tax credits for filming TV shows and movies in Ohio this year — a large chunk of that for the Cincinnati area. Perhaps most notably, film crews were spotted at Union Terminal, where we spied a very specific flag flying atop the outside flag pole. While the recently released teaser trailer for the new "Superman: Legacy" movie didn't show us any satisfying or identifiable glimpses of Cincinnati, we know they likely shot in the region. Aside from the Metropolis flag spotted outside of Union Terminal, Warner Bros. crews also shut down the Lytle Tunnel for filming — and while the studio didn't say what was being filmed, there have been clues . Sylvester Stallone also chose the Greater Cincinnati region to film two of his upcoming movies . Both "Alarum" and "The Epiphany" were granted multi-million-dollar tax credits by the state of Ohio. Also receiving tax credits to film in Cincinnati is "Oscar's Options." IMDb describes the film directed by Cincinnati native Jon D. Wagner as a movie about a series of midlife mishaps that force a writer to abandon his dreams and return home. The film "Stained Glass" will also be shot in Southwest Ohio. The movie's contact as listed on the state's tax credit database is Karri O'Reilly, a Dayton native who was previously a production manager on "Carol" and co-producer of "Goat." "The Marshal," a movie that the state's database shows is connected to the Traveling Picture Show Company, will also be filmed in Southwest Ohio. There were no details on the plot or exact filming locations. Rough House Pictures, the production company co-founded by Danny McBride, will film "Nutcracker's Mustache" in Dayton and Cincinnati. M. Night Shyamalan also received tax credits last year for the film "Trap," which filmed in Cincinnati and released in theaters in August. This year marked the end of an era for one very Cincinnati staple. While not every Frisch's restaurant is in danger of closing its doors forever , many neighborhoods lost their beloved location in 2024. More than 20 Frisch's Big Boy locations have permanently closed since October when the local franchise's owners, Florida-based company NNN REIT LP, began filing eviction notices against them. The WCPO I-Team's research shows Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. has at least eight different landlords in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana — but only one of them is actively pursuing evictions right now: NNN REIT LP, or National Retail Properties. Most recently, the iconic Mainliner location closed its doors for good. According to Frisch’s website , the Mainliner restaurant was Cincinnati’s first year-round drive-in named after the first tri-motor passenger airplane. To this day, a replica of that plane remains on the restaurant’s sign. Now, amid the eviction hearings, several vendors have also filed lawsuits against Frisch's. FC Cincinnati alleges the company owes $150,000 in unpaid sponsorship fees . Schreiber Foods based in New Jersey claims the restaurant owes them $18,547.20 in unpaid invoices. Joffrey’s Coffee and Tea based in Florida also claims Frisch’s owes them in total $30,166.63 with interest.Stock market today: Wall Street rallies ahead of Christmas

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