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Dedicated Primetime Window Features Elite Matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West Friday Nights on FOX

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Los Angeles – Starting this fall, Fridays are for football as FOX Sports unveils its new special package of elite Friday night college football games on the FOX broadcast network. The primetime slate will feature matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West conferences.

For three consecutive seasons, FOX Sports has laid claim to the most-watched regular season college football game on any network with the BIG NOON SATURDAY window. In 2023, BIG NOON SATURDAY averaged 6,739,000 viewers on FOX – its best season ever and up +8% year-over-year.

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FOX Sports’ 2024 complete college football schedule – including its new Friday night package – and broadcaster lineup will be released at a later date.

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The New York Post reports:

A well-known GOP politico in Alabama has been charged with the “sexual torture” and murder of a man he knew. Kyle Hayden Lewter, 36, allegedly killed Derek Franklin Walls, 54, of Harvest, Alabama, last week during a “physical altercation,” according to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities have released few details about the case, but say the sexual torture charge relates to alleged sexual abuse using an inanimate object.
It’s an eyebrow-raising twist to the tale that has captivated state political circles. Lewter previously served as campaign chairman for Alabama state Sen. Tom Butler and was also listed as vice-chair of the Madison County Young Republicans.

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Finally got to sit down with Will Nolan a couple nights ago and discuss his commitment. Got some evaluation done of his game as well.

STORY:

Posting any Big Ten or relevant national commentary............

Chandler: Thoughts on Nebraska? Another series win and another come-from-behind win down multiple runs. Historically Nebraska is a top 20 or 30 team defensively, but this year they are surrendering way too many errors (eventually going to hurt them I assume). What is your outlook on the team so far? Tough week coming up with two at Wichita State and three at home against a decent Nicholls State team. GBR!

Kendall Rogers: I like the pulse of this Nebraska team a lot. I think I've said this a few times over the past few weeks, but I thought it had a solid, balanced lineup to go with some solid pitching depth at Globe Life a couple of weeks ago. That has proven to be the case since that point. Yes, the Huskers had that stinker in the opener against South Alabama, but ultra-impressed with the way they played the rest of the weekend. Definitely looks like a regional club at this juncture.

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Kyle: How dire is the situation for the Iowa Hawkeyes sitting at 7-8? They have a midweek against Georgia this week and a home series against Western Illinois before Big Ten play.

Kendall Rogers: Kyle -- great question. Iowa is a really odd team. I'm a believer in the offense and the starting pitching, but the bullpen has been a hot mess since day one this season. The issue for the Hawkeyes moving forward is they basically have nothing on their resume in non-conference play. That basically means Iowa will need to just dominate the Big Ten schedule for the most part, which seems like a bold ask considering how well a few Big Ten teams are playing right now. Iowa is definitely in trouble at this juncture.

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Oxford Bald Eagle: Will the committee ever seed the NCAA Tournament correctly? 1 vs. 64 and so on? I'd love to go Stanford or UCLA then get stuck as the 2 in an SEC ballpark when we are a border line host. The boys in Hattiesburg aren't scared but I'd love an Oral Roberts or Stanford path to the tournament.

Kendall Rogers: Privately, anyone who has been on or is on the committee says they want to seed 1-64, but I think I'd be surprised if it happens anytime soon. The issue? Most of the committees in other sports don't have time to follow the sport throughout the season, and baseball is a very long season with 300+ teams. That means there's likely more room for error in seeding 1-64. But again, I'd love to see us make it work as a sport.

Aaron Fitt: I don't think they'll ever do that, because there are good reasons to keep geography as something of a factor -- makes it easier for visiting fans to go to games, for instance. Southern Miss playing Louisiana Tech in Starkville in front of a rocking crowd, for instance. Obviously travel costs are another issue, though the tournament is making money and I don't think that should be the primary driver.

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Guest: Is Nebraska in consideration to be ranked?
Aaron Fitt: Certainly -- I like the body of work so far, with quality series wins at Grand Canyon, College of Charleston and South Alabama. We just didn't have any open spots in the rankings this week, but I'd put Nebraska on the short list of teams just outside the Top 25, along with Florida State, Georgia, Northeastern, Virginia Tech and a few others.

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MW: Does the Big Ten still run through Maryland? They haven't seemed to have lost a step under Swope.

Aaron Fitt: Heck, maybe so, huh? Iowa was the clear favorite heading into the year but obviously the Hawkeyes have not gotten off to a good start, albeit against a tough schedule. I still like Indiana and Rutgers also, but there's Maryland at 12-4 with solid series wins at Charlotte and Georgia Southern, plus decent wins against Pitt and Georgetown. I certainly don't think Maryland is as good as it was the last two years, but it does appear the Terps will remain right there in the hunt for the Big Ten title. Plenty of talent on that roster, especially in the position player group.

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Hardball Fan: Indiana has sputtered after a nice start down at Coastal. Hoosiers haven't played well at home, either. What do you make of them? Likewise, what do you make of Indiana State this season? Very Early RPI has them at 33 and Indiana in the 50s.

Kendall Rogers: The common denominator for Indiana in all of those losses has been very iffy pitching to say the least. That'll need to improve as Big Ten play nears. As for Indiana State, the Sycamores went on the road a lot in non-conference and played some good teams in the process. Thankfully for ISU, it won some of those games. I actually think the Sycamores are in a pretty solid spot right now.

quick glance looks like 4 of 5 weights that have two Hawkeyes are on opposite sides of the bracket.

Sad to see Aaron Jones go, their offense was much more dynamic with him playing but he will be turning 30 and missed 6 games last year.

A group seeking to oust the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly over his handling of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection loss in the state submitted signatures Monday in hopes of forcing a recall election.

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The group, Recall Vos, said it had collected 10,700 signatures, more than the roughly 7,000 signatures required from voters in the district Speaker Robin Vos represents. The deadline was Monday.

“The people of Racine County have spoken,” recall leader Matt Snorek said in a statement. “With more than 10,000 signatures on our recall petition, they’ve said it loud and clear: They’re tired of the status quo and demand new representation.”

Trump supporters have been persistently targeting Vos since the 2020 election, when Trump narrowly lost Wisconsin, a crucial battleground state, after winning it four year earlier. While Vos launched an investigation into the results, he resisted Trump’s pressure to figure out a way to overturn the outcome, calling it impossible and unconstitutional. Biden’s 2020 win has endured throughout, and there has been no evidence of widespread fraud in the election.


In 2022, Trump backed a primary challenger to Vos, who prevailed by a slim margin.
After attacks and primary challenge, Wisconsin GOP leader still stands by Trump
Snorek filed the recall petition in January, saying Vos is “blocking fair elections.” Snorek also cited Vos’s December 2022 comment that he will “try as hard as I can to make sure Donald Trump is not the nominee” in 2024. Vos has since said he will vote for Trump, now the likely nominee, in November.

Vos did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. But he has called the recall effort a “waste of time, resources and effort” and blasted the organizers as “hateful liars who will say anything” to get a signature.

Under Wisconsin law, recall organizers are required to collect a number of signatures that equals at least 25 percent of the most recent gubernatorial vote in the district. The target of the petition has 10 days to challenge the signatures once they are submitted.


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Vos, who first became speaker in 2013, is the longest-serving speaker in Wisconsin history. He represents a district in southeastern Wisconsin, south of Milwaukee.

AP Top 25 (3/11)
1. Houston (52) (28-3)
2. Connecticut (6) (28-3)
3. Purdue (4) (28-3)
4. North Carolina (25-6)
5. Tennessee (24-7)
6. Arizona (24-7)
7. Iowa State (24-7)
8. Creighton (23-8)
9. Kentucky (23-8)
10. Marquette (23-8)
11. Duke (24-7)
12. Auburn (24-7)
13. Illinois (23-8)
14. Baylor (22-9)
15. South Carolina (25-6)
16. Kansas (22-9)
17. Gonzaga (24-6)
18. Utah State (26-5)
19. Alabama (21-10)
20. BYU (22-9)
21. St. Mary's (24-7)
22. Washington State (23-8)
23. Nevada (26-6)
24. Dayton (24-6)
25. Texas Tech (22-9)

Others Receiving Votes
Boise State, South Florida, San Diego State, Drake, James Madison, Texas, Florida Atlantic, Florida, Princeton, Nebraska, New Mexico, McNeese State, Colorado, Indiana State, Wake Forest, Colorado State

Dropped Out
San Diego State (#21), South Florida (#24)

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Coaches Top 25 (3/11)
1. Houston (29) (28-3)
2. Connecticut (28-3)
3. Purdue (2) (28-3)
4. North Carolina (25-6)
5. Tennessee (24-7)
6. Creighton (23-8)
7. Arizona (24-7)
8. Iowa State (24-7)
9. Kentucky (23-8)
10. Marquette (23-8)
11. Duke (24-7)
12. Auburn (24-7)
13. Baylor (22-9)
14. Illinois (23-8)
15. Gonzaga (24-6)
16. South Carolina (25-6)
17. Kansas (22-9)
18. Utah State (26-5)
19. Alabama (21-10)
20. St. Mary's (24-7)
21. BYU (22-9)
22. Nevada (26-6)
23. Texas Tech (22-9)
24. Dayton (24-6)
25. Washington State (23-8)

Others Receiving Votes
Boise State, James Madison, San Diego State, Florida, Drake, South Florida, Nebraska, Florida Atlantic, Oklahoma, Colorado, Indiana State, Princeton, Northwestern

Dropped Out
San Diego State (#19), South Florida (#24), Florida (#25)

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NCAA NET (3/11)
1. Houston
2. Purdue
3. Connecticut
4. Arizona
5. Tennessee
6. Auburn
7. North Carolina
8. Alabama
9. Iowa State
10. Duke
11. Creighton
12. BYU
13. Marquette
14. Baylor
15. Illinois
16. Gonzaga
17. St. Mary's
18. Kansas
19. Kentucky
20. San Diego State
21. Dayton
22. Wisconsin
23. Boise State
24. Texas
25. Michigan State
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37. Nebraska
50. Northwestern
54. Ohio State
60. Iowa
77. Maryland
86. Minnesota
89. Penn State
93. Indiana
102. Rutgers
132. Michigan

She was MVP not Caitlin

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A lot of them tonight! Effort was there but man, hard to watch. ( Not Fran’s fault)

And 250 industry Jews wrote a letter to Hollywood about it.

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Iowa -1.5
O\U 170.5

Big final game of the regular season! Not sure if I’ll stay up for this one but I like the hawks 88-82

The story was told to me over 30 years ago in a small Southeast Texas church, where I joined regular folk and former NFL stars at the funeral of Willie Ray Smith Sr. The legendary Texas high school football coach, it was said, had for a decade refused to let his players go to White Southern college football teams after they acceded to suit up Black players. Instead, he continued to steer his best players north, particularly to Michigan State, where his middle son, future NFL Pro Bowl defensive lineman and actor Bubba, helped the Spartans win a national championship.


It was a protest born as a sort of athletic underground railroad, as sportswriter Tom Shanahan accurately described it, referencing the escape route north for enslaved Africans in the antebellum South. Because for more than a generation in which Smith coached, those Southern White schools for which his sons and the sons of other Black families dreamed of playing didn’t believe in diversity, equity or inclusion.
It was as if such policies of fairness were “toxic” and had “no place” in the South’s public universities.



Which over half a century later, if you can believe it, is how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) described diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. This was after the University of Florida announced last week the sacking of all things DEI, something for which the reactionary governor has been clamoring.
“I’m glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI,” DeSantis wrote last week, “and I hope more states follow suit.”

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It was enough to spur Emmitt Smith, the Pro Football Hall of Fame running back who is arguably the greatest football player in the history of Florida’s flagship institution of higher learning, to respond to DeSantis that he was “ … utterly disgusted by UF’s decision and the precedent that it sets. … We cannot continue to believe and trust that a team of leaders all made up of the same background will make the right decision when it comes to equality and diversity. History has already proved that is not the case. We need diverse thinking and backgrounds to enhance our University and the DEI department is necessary to accomplish those goals. …



“To the MANY minority athletes at UF,” Smith continued, “please be aware and vocal about this decision by the University who is now closing doors on other minorities without any oversight.”

Smith, who I’ve never known as a particularly remonstrative person, didn’t conclude with a plan of action. But his message alluded to one. The same one that Willie Ray Smith Sr. took against such intolerant action decades ago.
Black coaches like him, and every Black parent or guardian of a Black college football or basketball recruit, can let wishful college coaches know that those boys-to-men aren’t going to work — which is what playing college sports is — at places where people of color, women and other marginalized folks are not otherwise supported.

Young Black athletes can go elsewhere, rather than to those Southern state universities that are moving to mimic the days they refused Willie Ray Smith Sr.’s graduates. The same goes for Northern states that are implementing policies no different. And then, let any governor or state legislative body defend their retrograde decision-making to coaches who start losing recruits and to university officials who witness waning revenue as a result. The NAACP on Monday even suggested Black college athletes consider boycotting predominantly White schools in Florida.


After all, Florida’s athletic department made more than $190 million during its 2022 fiscal year, the most-recent public financial reporting period detailed by an annual USA Today Sports analysis of the most lucrative college athletic programs. Only seven schools earned more.
In the previous two fiscal years, football accounted for 47 percent and 53 percent of annual athletic revenue, according to the school, while men’s basketball comprised 10 percent and 7 percent, respectively.

And who disproportionately predominated Florida’s football and basketball rosters? Young Black men. In fact, when USC professor Shawn Harper last updated his study of Black male athletes at Power Five conferences in 2018, he found that Black male athletes were more overrepresented at Florida than any other school. “Black men were 2.2% of undergraduates at Florida,” he found, “but comprised 77.7% of football and men’s basketball teams.”


In short, Florida didn’t really have much use for young Black men unless they were playing revenue-generating sports. It’s safe to say not much has changed.
Florida isn’t alone in this discrepancy of dependency on young Black men. But those Southern schools that for so long dismissed Willie Ray Smith Sr.’s players — especially those in the Black belt South that team up with Florida to make the Southeastern Conference — lead the way. Smith was a head coach at three segregated Texas high schools, most famously Charlton-Pollard in Beaumont from 1957 to 1975. Smith won 235 games, won state championships and sent more than 20 players to the pros on his railroad out of the South. But schools like the University of Texas, where Bubba longed to play, weren’t having Black players then. DeSantis’s equally reactionary gubernatorial peer, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), last summer signed into law a bill similar to Florida’s, outlawing DEI at Texas colleges and universities.

The impact that parents and guardians of Black recruits could have on state schools so dependent upon the labor of their kids by avoiding places with regressive racial rules like DeSantis’s Florida would be immeasurable. It’d be like the opening scene that makes for one of my favorite plays, Douglas Turner Ward’s brilliant satire on Southern racism, “Day of Absence,” from 1965, just about the time Southern schools started wising up to the benefits of no longer discriminating against Black athletes. A stereotypical Southern town of the time wakes up to find that all its Black folks have disappeared. Chaos ensues. There’s no one to take care of the babies, cook the food, wash the clothes. The town is paralyzed without its Black labor force.
That’s the kind of pain young Black men could affect on states and schools threatening to turn back the clock. Just find Willie Ray Smith Sr.’s footsteps, and walk in them.

While Dodge revealed its all-new, all-electric Dodge Charger Daytona earlier this week, the American performance won’t be silently sneaking onto the streets. Instead, Dodge continues to boast about the patent-pending ‘Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust’ system to ensure that their electric Charger roars with the attitude of a HEMI® V8 engine.

However, the catch is that nobody knows what it will sound like yet.

During the press reveal, Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis spilled the beans, admitting that the debate on the Charger’s sonic identity is still ongoing. “We’ve changed it 100 times,” Kuniskis confessed, shedding light on Dodge’s meticulous process to find the perfect sound for their electric powerhouse.

The Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust technology employs a series of chambers strategically placed underneath the Dodge Charger Daytona. In conjunction with woofers and mid-range speakers, these chambers generate the “exhaust” notes, which are then channeled through dual pipes akin to those found in internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. The system utilizes a combination of digital sounds and basic filtering, with an emphasis on fine-tuning the sound in the acoustic domain rather than relying solely on digital manipulation. This approach, according to the patent filing, aims to create a more authentic auditory experience for drivers.

To further enhance the illusion of a conventional muscle car experience, Dodge has incorporated “force generators” into the chassis. These devices are designed to transmit vibrations throughout the EV, intensifying in response to the driver’s inputs. The resulting tactile feedback is intended to be felt through the steering wheel and seats. Additionally, these force generators have the capability to generate their own sounds, adding another layer to the sensory experience.

While Dodge’s Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust technology may appeal to die-hard muscle car enthusiasts, it has not been without its share of criticisms. Many within the automotive community argue that this approach could potentially mislead consumers and undermine the essence of EVs, which are celebrated for their efficiency and environmental benefits. Some purists view this as an attempt to mask the true nature of electric propulsion.






With the two-door Charger Daytona R/T and Scat Pack to start production in the upcoming months, it will be interesting to see what the end result will sound like once these new electric muscle cars hit dealer showrooms.



Good grief. "Fake engine noise"... so freaking stupid.

This is some pretty concerning stuff. He just took $90 million from a company with deep Russian connections to pay off his rape case, he is draining the RNC to pay his other legal bills, God knows what countries he is talking to desperately pay off his half a billion dollar deep legal problems. Trump is the definition of a compromised candidate. Everything he is doing right now seems aimed at selling any and all favors in exchange for dark money.

This is a common refrain among GOP attacks on Biden. It's also a fear expressed by Dems should Trump be reelected.

What do you think?

when we went on the road in a hostile environment and beat the # 2 ranked team pretty handily and in decisive fashion we were on the rise....then this weekend we had a tough tournament but the team wrestled their butts off and now we are looking to heat up the TAR and start plucking the chickens for all the feathers we will need for TNT... Damn it is hard to watch some of the fair weather fans do their deal on here... I heard that PSU sells their hoodies online pretty cheap if you would rather go worship at the temple of Cael.

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Associate editor|
March 11, 2024 at 1:47 p.m. EDT



“Disgusting.”
So says Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) about criticisms that she misled viewers in her response to the State of the Union address when — in condemning President Biden’s border policies — she raised an episode of sex trafficking that occurred during the George W. Bush administration.

“To me, it is disgusting to try to silence the voice of telling the story of what it is like to be sex trafficked when we know that … is one of the things that the drug cartels are profiting most off,” Britt told Fox News’s Shannon Bream.

And “disgusting” was the word used by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to justify her endorsement of former president Donald Trump, given her experience as a rape survivor. “I live with shame, and you’re asking me a question about my political choices trying to shame me as a rape victim, and I find it disgusting,” Mace told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos.



You know what I find disgusting? Women who have achieved such levels of political prominence stooping to play the gender card on a matter as important as sexual violence. It’s important to have women in positions of power, not least because they might be more focused on such issues — more inclined to take them up and more attuned to the imperative of dealing with them in a way that reflects the sensitivities of the situation.


This was not what Britt and Mace brought to the Sunday talk-show table. Instead, they used gender and the subject of sexual violence to shut down discussion — a shield intended to stifle perfectly reasonable criticism. It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that both women used that same charged word: disgusting. It is designed to preempt, not to convince.
Britt first. She deployed a powerful anecdote to underscore her point about how Biden “didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days.”



Britt then launched into the account of a woman she met at the border, who described having been sex-trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. “She told me not just that she was raped every day but how many times a day she was raped. The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoe box of a room, and they sent men through that door, over and over again, for hours and hours on end,” Britt said. “We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it.”
And then, pointing fingers, she said, “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.”
Here’s what Britt left out: This terrible episode didn’t happen under Biden — it took place between 2004 and 2008. It didn’t happen in the United States but in Mexico. There’s no indication that drug cartels were involved. Britt just hijacked the tragedy for her own partisan purposes, on the biggest political stage of her lifetime.



She’s certainly not the first politician to do that. Nor is she the first to insist that her obvious effort to mislead the audience didn’t reflect any such intent. But it takes some nerve — it takes a particular willingness to misuse the issue of sexual violence — to suggest that fact-checking her remarks constitutes a “disgusting” attempt “to silence the voice” of those telling the story. Seriously? The Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler awarded Britt a maximum score of four Pinocchios. Is there an extra available — one for chutzpah after you’ve been caught?
Mace made Britt look restrained. Mace made headlines as a state lawmaker in 2019, as the South Carolina legislature was debating an abortion ban without exceptions for rape and incest, when she shared her previously untold account of having been raped 25 years earlier. Good for her. That can’t have been easy.
But there was Mace on Sunday, being questioned — and reasonably so — about how she could square her experience as a survivor of sexual assault with her endorsement of Trump, who has been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll.



Mace went straight to the best defense: offense. She used the word “shame” 22 times, “offensive” 13, “disgusting” five. As in, “You’re trying to shame me this morning, and I find it offensive. And this is why women won’t come forward.”
Stephanopoulos persisted, for a good five minutes, a Sunday talk-show eternity. “Women won’t come forward because they’re defamed by those who perpetrate rape,” he replied.
Mace: “They are judged, and they’re shamed, and you’re trying to shame me this morning. I think it’s disgusting.”
Here’s another word: pathetic. It’s pathetic that Mace’s defense of Trump, such as it was, boiled down to that fact that he was held liable in a civil case brought by Carroll rather than found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal prosecution.
It’s pathetic that Mace — desperate to secure Trump’s backing in her own race in South Carolina — herself went after his victim, accusing Carroll of having been “offensive” when the writer joked about what she would buy with the money awarded.
It’s pathetic to see gender used this way, by women who ought to know better.

A German regional court on Monday convicted U.S. citizen Troy Philipp B. of murder, rape and attempted murder for an attack on two American tourists and sentenced him to life in prison.
The man, 31, who attacked two female U.S. tourists close to Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria last June, admitted to the crimes at the start of the trial in February. His lawyer told the court that he was “deeply ashamed” of his actions. His full name was not released due to Germany’s privacy laws.


Man arrested in killing of U.S. tourist on cliff near German castle
The man lured the two women, ages 21 and 22, away from the main route near the Marienbrücke bridge — a popular tourist viewpoint for the castle — before pushing the 21-year-old to the ground to try to rape her. After her friend intervened, he pushed the 22-year-old down a 165-foot drop, which she survived.
The defendant hides his face as he is led into the courtroom at the regional court in Kempten, southern Germany, on Feb. 19. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP)
According to investigators, he raped the 21-year-old and strangled her with a belt while he filmed the act. Interrupted by two other tourists, the man threw the unconscious woman down the gorge.



Both women were taken by helicopter to a hospital, where the younger woman died. The women’s names also were not released by German authorities. However, relatives and associates have identified them as Illinois residents Eva Liu, who died, and Kelsey Chang, who survived.
Police launched a search of the area and the suspect was arrested near the scene shortly after the attack.
The presiding judge at Monday’s sentencing noted the “particular severity” of guilt, meaning that parole after 15 years — the earliest possible time for someone who receives a life sentence in Germany — is unlikely.
Neuschwanstein Castle, famed as the inspiration for Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty castle, was built in the 19th century by Bavarian King Ludwig II. Today, the tourist attraction pulls in about 1.5 million visitors every year.

What is everyones best guess at where our guys will be seeded?

Obviously, 2-0 would have been preferred, however...

If it had to be 1-1, then the right team won their game.

Amirite?

Chicago shootings: At least 14 shot, 2 killed in weekend gun violence across city, police say.​

14 people were shot, two fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said.


No arrests were made in any of the incidents.