David Espinoza and his wife Toni lived on the southern border of Texas, in the city of McAllen, five hours south of Houston.
As Christmas approached, they received the worst news.
Doctors in Houston told David Espinoza that his heart was only working at 10% capacity.
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If he didn’t get a heart transplant quickly, he wouldn’t see his family at Christmas.
Worse, he was told it could take nine months or longer to find a perfect donor.
Just before Christmas, a woman wondered if she and many others were praying for someone to die so that her husband could live. (iStock)
Toni Espinoza, known as a prayer warrior, organized everyone she knew – and hundreds she didn’t know – to pray for her husband to find a heart donor.
But within days she felt conflicted.
She decided to change her strategy.
It seemed like they were praying for someone to die so that their husband could live.
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She decided to change her strategy.
She began to pray fervently that God would miraculously heal her husband completely.
For added comfort, the woman asked God to confirm her answered prayer by making it snow in McAllen, Texas, on Christmas Day.(iStock)
And for added comfort, she asked God to confirm her answered prayer by making it snow in McAllen, Texas, on Christmas Day.
She shared her private decision to pray for these miracles with a trusted childhood friend named Crawford.
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“Toni, have you ever seen snow?” her friend asked her.
“It hasn’t snowed here in 109 years! And never at Christmas.”
She shook her head.
She had lived in McAllen, Texas her entire life.
The average winter temperature on the border was about 75 degrees.
Her friend continued, “The reason you’ve never seen snow is because it hasn’t snowed here in 109 years!” And never at Christmas.”
“I knowledge God will answer my prayers.(Anastasia Krivenok via Getty Images)
Toni Espinoza shrugged, smiled and gave her friend a determined look.
“I knowledge God will answer my prayers.
It was almost midnight on Christmas Eve when one of the Espinoza daughters, home for the holidays, looked into the backyard — and screamed.
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“Mom, it’s snowing!”
Without a coat, Toni Espinoza stormed into the backyard, delighted to see the snow covering her fully bloomed rose bushes.
The best Christmas present of all came three weeks later.
She looked up at the night sky, white snowflakes dotting her dark hair, and whispered, “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
The next morning, children from all over McAllen ran outside bundled up, rolled in the snow, fanned angels and built snowmen for the first time in their lives.
The dramatic story of the Espinozas appears in the bestselling Godwink Christmas Stories by SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt. (Amazon)
A headline in the McAllen newspaper proclaimed the “First White Christmas Ever!”
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But the best Christmas present of all came three weeks later.
David Espinoza’s doctor in Houston looked at the medical records.
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He shook his head and said, “David, I don’t understand how this happened… but you’re going to live a long time. Your heart is completely healed.”
The couple tearfully hugged each other – and praised God for the best Christmas present ever.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan criminal court Monday morning.
Mangione, 26, was indicted on 11 state charges, including first-degree murder, second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism and several weapons charges. If convicted of the most serious charge, he could face life in prison without parole.
Luigi Mangione enters the courtroom of the New York Criminal Court on Monday, December 23, 2024. Magnione is facing federal charges for the alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month.(Rashid Umar Abassi for Fox News Digital)
The charges include one count of first-degree murder, a AI felony; two counts of second-degree murder, a felony of AI; two counts of second-degree possession of a firearm, a Class C felony; four counts of third-degree possession of a weapon, a Class D felony; one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a Class E felony; and one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a Class D felony.
A sign marks the location of a Nordstrom store on March 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Nordstrom on Monday announced It will become a private company after agreeing to a buyout deal worth about $6.25 billion from the founding family of Nordstrom and Mexican department store El Puerto de Liverpool.
The company’s board of directors unanimously approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of 2025.
As part of the deal, the Nordstrom family will hold a majority stake in the company with 50.1%, while Liverpool will own 49.9%. Common shareholders will receive $24.25 in cash for each Nordstrom common share they hold, according to a press release.
“For over a century, Nordstrom has operated with the core principle of making its customers feel and look good,” Nordstrom CEO Erik Nordstrom said in a press release. “Today marks the start of an exciting new chapter for the company. On behalf of my family, we look forward to working with our teams to ensure Nordstrom continues to thrive well into the future.”
It’s not the first time the retailer has tried to go private. A previous attempt failed in 2018. In September, the Nordstrom family offered $23 a share for the chain, valuing the company at about $3.76 billion.
Nordstrom shares fell about 1% in early trading. The company’s shares have soared since a Reuters report in March that the family wanted to take the company private.
Nordstrom beat Wall Street’s third-quarter sales expectations in November as sales rose about 4% year-over-year. However, the company gave only a slightly more optimistic full-year sales forecast, anticipating a weak holiday season.
Luxury clothing stores were under pressure, as were retailers Walmart, Best buy And Goal have reported that customers continue to be picky about purchasing items that meet their wants rather than their needs and have paid more attention to price.
Nordstrom was founded in 1901 as a shoe store and then grew into a department store that sells a wide selection of clothing and accessories at more than 350 Nordstrom, Nordstrom Local and Nordstrom Rack locations.
El Puerto de Liverpool operates two other department store chains, Liverpool and Suburbia, and owns 29 shopping centers throughout Mexico.
More than 170 people were rescued from dangling gondolas at a Colorado ski resort after a malfunction left them trapped for hours.
According to media reports, one of the elevators at the Winter Park Resort outside Denver automatically shut down on Saturday afternoon for safety reasons due to a crack in a metal support structure. It then took rescuers five hours to bring 174 people to the ground, according to a resort spokesman KDVR said.
“We were going for our first run, my wife and I, and we stopped. We stopped for about 15 minutes and started thinking if maybe this was unusual,” skier Aleksey Dmitriyev told the station. “I called the line and the line told me if it’s less than 20 minutes, don’t worry, call us back… Then we waited a little longer and saw the ski patrol come down and with the people from the floor to the hut spoke. Like telling how many of you are in the locker room, all that.”
“Everyone was pretty calm, the ski patrol was calm and professional and reassured us,” he added. “It was kind of interesting because he kind of knew what he was doing, but we were a little worried.”
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A stranded gondola passenger is brought to safety at the Winter Park Resort in Colorado on Saturday, December 21st.
“After that we skied a few more runs, of course used a different lift and it was still a good day, but a unique experience,” Dmitriyev also told KDVR.
Dmitriyev recorded a video showing a rescuer lowering himself into the cabin of his stranded gondola.
“We’re going to send a seat up, we’re going to sit on a seat one at a time and slowly lower everyone down again,” the man says.
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It took five hours to rescue all passengers aboard the stuck gondolas Saturday at Colorado’s Winter Park Resort.(Aleksey Dmitriyev)
The footage then shows several people – including a child – being brought to safety.
Winter Park Resort said the lift remained closed Sunday for repairs and inspections and that the gondola manufacturer was on site, according to KDVR.
Skiers are seen at Winter Park Resort in Winter Park, Colorado in March 2017.(Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
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Everyone loves Christ in the cradle. The image of the baby Jesus in the barn of Bethlehem warms our hearts. Every December we relive this moment on our lawns and under our Christmas trees. Shops sell plastic donkeys and wooden mangers. People collect hand-carved images of Mary, Joseph and the newborn child.
We love Christ in the cradle.
We are well with Christ, the gentle Messiah. Children sit on his lap. Sheep gathered around him. The apostle John lies on his chest. Mary anoints his feet. No one has a problem with a nice rabbi who gives wise advice, feeds crowds, and pours wine at a wedding.
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Christ in the cradle? Wonderful. Christ, the good-hearted one? Adorable. But Christ, the coming King? On a stallion? Roaring from the sky? Crowned with the crowns of his enemies? On a mission to destroy those who destroy his children?
The world is less familiar with this view of Jesus. But this is the Jesus the world will soon see.
Did you know that the Second Coming is mentioned more than three hundred times in the Bible, on average once every twenty-five verses?
The Holy Scriptures gush like water with the news of Christ’s return. Jesus assured the depressed disciples, “I will come again” (John 14:3). When Jesus ascended, the angel said to the witnesses, “Jesus will return by the same way as you saw him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). Paul referred to “the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Tim. 6:14). Peter affirmed, “The day of the Lord will come” (2 Peter 3:10). Jude proclaimed, “Behold, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of His saints” (Jude 14).
The image of the baby Jesus in the barn of Bethlehem warms our hearts.(2004 Getty Images)
We are in the season of Advent. Advent takes us to the beautiful climax of Christmas, where we celebrate the incarnation of God.
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Are we ready for the hope of what is to come when Jesus, the child born in Bethlehem, returns to reign for eternity?
We are waiting, but we must be ready.
Ready for the arrival of our coming King. Ready. Wait. Vigilant. Like the soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. The men and women who stand guard there show a level of unparalleled loyalty. They devote eight hours to preparing their uniforms. Gloves are worn wet to improve grip on the rifle. Shafts are attached to the inside of each shoe to allow the soldier to click on his heels.
Pastor Max Lucado and the cover of his latest book “What Happens Next”(MaxLucado.com)
The guard repeats the same walk over and over again: twenty-one steps, then a twenty-one second pause, the rifle is shifted to the other shoulder, then another twenty-one steps. He or she repeats this until he or she is relieved at the changing of the guard.
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In the summer months the soldier is on duty for thirty minutes. In winter 60 minutes. They do their job in the heat of August and the cold of January. The routine never changes, even at night when the cemetery is closed. When Hurricane Isabel passed through the area in 2003, the soldiers didn’t stop. Not once. Trees fell and the wind whipped, but they held their post.
They have maintained this vigilance every day of the year since 1921.
Remarkable.
A U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment soldier, known as “The Old Guard,” walks during the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery November 5, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
Question: If they can show such loyalty to unknown, dead soldiers that they rightly show, can’t we do the same for our living, coming, reigning King? If these guards are willing to patrol in honor of the victims, can’t we do more for our King who made the ultimate sacrifice? We are members of his battalion. We enlisted in his regiment. We’ll return with him one day. Can we not serve him on this day?
Let me be specific. What can you do today to honor your King? What kindness can you show? What offense can you forgive? What temptation can you resist? What gift can you offer? What discipline can you start with? What sacrifice can you make? What act of love can you show?
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Let us act like the people we were called to be, soldiers in the returning army of the King of Kings.
The Christ of the cradle is now the Christ with the crown. He’s coming soon.
Michael Saylor, Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, during an interview at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on Thursday, May 18, 2023.
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On the eve of Microstrategy‘s stock exchange debut In June 1998, founder Michael Saylor stayed in a penthouse suite at the Lotte New York Palace in midtown Manhattan. Saylor, who was 33 at the time, says it was the most exquisite hotel room he had ever seen, paid for by major insurer Merrill Lynch.
The next morning, Saylor went to the Nasdaq trading floor to watch his company’s stock open. He recalled seeing a notice above the ticker warning traders: “Please do not confuse MSTR with MSFT.” The latter was one of them Microsoftthe software giant that had gone public 13 years earlier.
Shares of MicroStrategy rose 76% in their debut, joining the ranks of tech companies benefiting from the dot-com boom.
“It was a good day,” Saylor told CNBC.
More than 26 years later, MicroStrategy and Microsoft were linked again, but for a very different reason. In December 2024, Saylor went before Microsoft shareholders and tried to convince them that the company, now valued at over $3 trillion, should use some of its $78.4 billion in cash, equivalents and short-term Investments should be made in the company Bitcoin.
“Microsoft cannot afford to miss the next wave of technology, and Bitcoin is that wave,” Saylor said in a video presentation published on X last week. The post has more than 3.6 million views.
Saylor has fully implemented this strategy. MicroStrategy has purchased 439,000 Bitcoin since mid-2020, a stockpile that is now worth about $42 billion and the basis for the company’s explosive market capitalization from about $1.1 billion at the time the plan was implemented to 82 billion US dollars.
MicroStrategy’s software unit, which specializes in business intelligence, generates quarterly revenue of just over $100 million. After soaring in 1998 and 1999, the stock collapsed in the dot-com bust and lost almost all of its value. In the decades that followed, the price slowly recovered before rising rapidly due to Bitcoin.
Four years after its Bitcoin buying spree, MicroStrategy is a global leader fourth largest ownerbehind sole creator Satoshi Nakamoto, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust and crypto exchange Binance.
At Microsoft, the shareholder vote supported by Saylor failed resoundingly – less than 1% of investors voted in favor.
But the spectacle gave Saylor, now 59, another opportunity to preach the gospel of Bitcoin and tout the benefits of converting as much cash as possible into this single digital asset. It’s a story that has engulfed Wall Street.
MicroStrategy shares are up 477% this year as of Friday’s close, ranking second AppLovin It ranks among all U.S. tech companies valued at $5 billion or more, according to FactSet data. This follows a 346% increase in 2023.
While the rally was well underway well before November of this year, Donald Trump’s election victory, which was heavily funded by the crypto industry, boosted the stock even more. Stocks have risen 60% since the Nov. 5 election and finally surpassed their dot-com era peak in 2000 on Nov. 11.
Saylor has long spoken about Bitcoin in an evangelical way and co-authored a 2022 book about it called “What is Money?” But his critics have recently become louder than ever, describe Saylor as a cult-like leader and his strategy as “Ponzi loop” This involves issuing debt and equity to buy Bitcoin, watching MicroStrategy’s stock price rise, and then doing more of the same.
“Wash, rinse, repeat – what could go wrong?” wrote Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management, on November 12 Post on X to his 1 million followers.
Saylor, who has 3.8 million followers, addressed the growing chorus of skeptics in an interview with CNBC’s “Money Movers” last week.
“Just like developers in Manhattan, every time the value of real estate in Manhattan goes up, they issue more debt to develop more properties. That’s why the buildings in New York City are so tall,” Saylor said in a clip posted to X by his legion of fans. “It’s been around for 350 years. I would call it an economy.”
Saylor is a frequent guest on CNBC and appears on various programs throughout the year. He also agreed to two interviews with CNBC.com, one in September and one shortly after the election.
The first of these conversations took place at the Lotte, just a few elevator stops from the penthouse where he stayed before his stock went public on the Nasdaq. Saylor gave a conference keynote speech at the hotel and also attended meetings.
He wore a designer suit and an orange Hermès tie to match the Bitcoin color. The election was less than two months away, and crypto companies were pumping money into the Trump campaign after the Republican candidate and former president previously described Bitcoin as a “Fraud against the dollar” began to ensure a much more crypto-friendly administration.
“I think the election year inspired the crypto community to find its voice, and I think it sparked a lot of latent enthusiasm,” Saylor said in the September interview. “When Trump initially expressed positive comments, it was a big boost for the industry. When it came back completely positive, that was another boost.”
Until this year, MicroStrategy was one of the only ways for many institutions to purchase Bitcoin. Because MicroStrategy was a stock, investment firms didn’t need any special regulations to own it. The environment changed in January when the SEC approved spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, allowing investors to purchase ETFs that track the value of Bitcoin.
Since Trump’s victory everything has been on the right side. Bitcoin is up about 41% and BlackRock’s ETF is up 39%. Gensler is preparing to leave the SEC, and Trump has picked deregulation advocate and former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins to replace him.
Venture capitalist David Sacks, an outspoken conservative who hosted a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco, will be the “AI and crypto czar of the White House,” Trump announced in a post on his Truth Social platform earlier this month.
“With the red momentum, Bitcoin is going up with a tailwind, and the rest of the digital assets are going to start going up as well,” Saylor said in a phone interview with CNBC shortly after the election. He said Bitcoin remains the “safe trade” in the crypto space, but as a “digital asset framework” is created for the broader crypto market, “there will be an uptick in the entire digital asset industry,” he said.
“Taxes are going down. All the rhetoric about unrealized capital gains taxes and property taxes is off the table,” Saylor said. “All hostility from regulators toward banks touching Bitcoin” is also disappearing, he added.
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, July 27, 2024.
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MicroStrategy has become even more aggressive in its Bitcoin purchases. Saylor said in one post On December 16, he announced that his company had purchased 15,350 Bitcoin for $1.5 billion in six days from December 9.
So far this year, MicroStrategy has purchased 249,850 Bitcoin, with nearly two-thirds of those purchases occurring since November 11th.
“We wanted to do it anyway,” said Saylor, referring to the election results. “But the headwind has turned into a tailwind.”
A week before the election, MicroStrategy announced in its quarterly issue Results publication a plan to raise $42 billion over three years. This included a stock sale worth up to $21 billion by financial firms such as TD Securities and Barclays, freeing up significantly more liquidity for Bitcoin purchases.
Saylor told CNBC it was “probably the most important earnings release in the company’s history.”
No possession is too much for Saylor, who predicted in September that Bitcoin could reach $13 million by 2045, which would represent annual growth of 29%.
“We’re just going to buy higher up forever,” he said in the same television interview in which he compared Bitcoin to real estate in New York. “Every day is a good day to buy Bitcoin. We think of it as cyber Manhattan.”
Saylor speaks enthusiastically about Bitcoin as the foundation of a new digital economy that will only get bigger. But even since he launched his Bitcoin strategy in 2020, investors have faced major problems – the stock lost 74% of its value in 2022 before rising sharply over the past two years.
Nevertheless, he advises companies to imitate his strategy. Microsoft didn’t listen, but Saylor said there were a lot of “zombie companies” with core businesses that weren’t going anywhere and could put their money to better use.
“The traditional advice would be: When you do a transformational acquisition, you realize you need a merger partner. “You’re dead. Find someone to merge with,” Saylor said at Lotte in September. “Bitcoin is the universal merger partner, right? The real appeal of digital capital is that you can fix any company.”
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When you win, everything feels great when you go back to the locker room after the game.
But for Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy, any win at the end of the regular season could mean a contract extension. And a warm hug with owner Jerry Jones has football fans wondering if that’s in the cards.
McCarthy and Jones were seen sharing a big hug after the Cowboys defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26-24 on “Sunday Night Football.”
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones answers questions with new head coach Mike McCarthy during a press conference at the Ford Center at the Star.(Matthew Emmons-USA Today Sports)
There were big smiles as they hugged, but Jones also appeared to get serious as he spoke to McCarthy, although the microphones couldn’t pick up what he said. From the looks of it, it was one of those good, serious conversations as the Cowboys got to 7-8 on the year.
The reality of this season now is that the Cowboys are eliminated from the playoffs, something neither Jones nor anyone in the organization expects to happen by the end of Week 17.
However, McCarthy has revitalized the team that was once depressed after losing to the 7-3 Houston Texans on Nov. 18.
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Dallas has won four of its last five games while without franchise quarterback Dak Prescott, whose hamstring injury Nov. 3 against the Atlanta Falcons required surgery and ended his 2024 season early.
Jones was thrilled with what he saw in his owner’s box over the past few weeks.
“These guys came out and played like they were in the championship game fighting to get to the Super Bowl,” Jones said after the win, according to Yahoo Sports. “I can’t say how proud I am of them and the coaching staff. It really shows me something.”
Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy watches the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
During his media appearance, McCarthy spoke about the locker room he was in and how he feels like his group is still playing like it’s the last game of the season, even if there are no playoffs on the horizon.
“I just think it shows who they are,” McCarthy explained. “I think everyone says the coach is always raving about the dressing room – well that’s what I’m talking about. When I say, ‘It’s a great locker room,’ that’s the definition of it. This is it. This is what a great locker room looks like.”
Quite a turnaround for McCarthy, who seemed all but out as the Cowboys inched closer to a top draft pick rather than a playoff spot. But despite the difficulties of 2024, McCarthy has received approval from Prescott and others for a contract extension.
Jones himself even recently commented on McCarthy’s contract status, saying just before Thanksgiving that he felt a contract extension was “not crazy at all.” After all, McCarthy went 12-5 in each of the last three seasons prior to this one, which could still be a year over .500.
Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy stands on the sidelines during the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at AT&T Stadium.(Tim Heitman-Imagn Images)
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McCarthy has two weeks left on his current contract, and if Dallas finishes strong against the NFC East’s two likely playoff teams – the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders – he may continue to lead “America’s Team.”
As the saying goes, end the year on a good note. McCarthy lets his boys play accordingly.
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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers reflected on the team’s narrow loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday and how the team remains focused on the final two games of the regular season.
Rodgers had 256 yards and a touchdown pass as the Jets lost 19-9 to the Rams. He was asked how the team will maintain a positive attitude when the season comes to an end and New York is no longer contending for the playoffs.
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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers waits for the snap during the Los Angeles Rams game in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Sunday, December 22, 2024.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
“I think we’ve long since moved past the ‘positive attitude’ thing,” Rodgers said. via SNY. “I think it’s all about perspective. Perspective shapes your truth and your truth shapes your reality.”
“So the reality of the situation is what it is, but your perspective is what you can change every day. Therefore, what you focus on now is the most important thing. It’s not about changing the reality of the situation – being 4-11, eliminated from the playoffs and beginning an unknown offseason.”
Rodgers then talked about what the next two weeks will mean in building the future of the organization.
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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers speaks at a press conference after the Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday, December 22, 2024.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
“You have to figure out what it means to be a professional,” he said. “This is an important part of the building culture. Over the last two weeks we’ve really been able to see who’s on board and who’s ready to get out. That’s just part of the game. I’ve been on a few teams that were eliminated.” It’s interesting to watch the practice habits and the preparation habits.
“Hopefully we do the right thing and that means a lot to us because everyone is watching and it’s a business where everyone knows who it is. There will be interesting conversations over the next few weeks, but just focus on the relationships we have with each other and try to finish things off like a pro.”
The Jets saw dramatic changes throughout the season, from firing their head coach and general manager to a major move by Davante Adams.
The team could see more changes as Garrett Wilson has remained non-committal about his future with the team.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers reacts on the sideline during the Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday, December 22, 2024.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Brooke Slusser, star of the San Jose State women’s volleyball team, warned the NCAA after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the organization over transgender inclusion in women’s sports.
Paxton filed the lawsuit on Sunday, accusing the organization of deceptive marketing practices that allowed transgender women to compete with biological women. Paxton said in a news release that the NCAA violated the Texas Trade Practices Act, “which is designed to protect consumers from companies that attempt to mislead them or entice them to purchase goods or services that are not correspond to the advertising.”
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San Jose State Spartans player Brooke Slusser has filed a lawsuit against the team.(Courtesy of San Jose State Athletics)
Slusser, who was involved in a lawsuit against her own school and the NCAA for adding a transgender woman to the Spartans’ roster this season, posted about Paxton’s lawsuit.
“Hey NCAA, in case you haven’t noticed, this fight is only going to get harder for you until you make a change!” Slusser wrote about X.
Slusser and other plaintiffs asked a judge last month to issue a temporary restraining order to ban Blaire Fleming from participating in the Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament, but were denied.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit on Sunday.(Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
San Jose State reached the finals of the tournament, but lost to Colorado State.
Paxton accused the NCAA of “engaging in false, deceptive and misleading practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions, only to then offer consumers mixed-gender competitions pitting biological men against biological women.”
“The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly endangering the safety and well-being of women by fraudulently converting women’s competitions into co-ed competitions,” Paxton said in a statement. “For example, when people watch a women’s volleyball game, they expect to see women playing against other women – not biological men pretending to be something they are not. Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports.”
Paxton said he is seeking a court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction to prohibit the NCAA from allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports in Texas or “incorporating Texas teams,” or, alternatively, requiring the NCAA to stop hosting events as “women’s” when they are actually mixed sex competitions,” the press release states.
NCAA President Charlie Baker speaks during a news conference Aug. 13, 2024, at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis.(Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar/USA Today Network)
The NCAA released a statement to Fox News Digital later Sunday.
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“College sports are the premier stage for women’s sports in America, and while the NCAA does not comment on pending litigation, the association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports, and ensure fair competition at all NCAA championships ensure.” “said the organization.
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