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Nevaeh Lopez, 9, back, and her sister, Danika Lopez, 12, listen to Tewa instructor Daniel Archuleta of Ohkay Owingeh earlier this month during a meeting of a grief-support group at the pueblo’s community school. In 2021, the school partnered with Gerard’s House, a Santa Fe-based nonprofit, to create culturally responsive meetings for students of the pueblo who had recently lost a family member. Two instructors adapted processes and materials from Gerard’s House to suit the pueblo’s cultural and linguistic traditions.

Pueblo school helps students process grief with support groups steeped in their cultural and linguistic traditions

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OHKAY OWINGEH — Iryen Montoya, 9, supplied the day’s “special question”: What’s your favorite doughnut?

A group of students and school officials sat on a rug in Ohkay Owingeh Community School’s

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Tewa instruction room one morning earlier this month, answering Iryen’s special question and those on a well-used check-in list asking students their names, how they were feeling and who they missed.

Everyone in the circle — including adult facilitators Daniel Archuleta, a Tewa instructor and substitute teacher, and Martha Tenorio, the school counselor — had experienced the death of a close family member, often a parent or sibling.

One by one, the kids and adults answered the Please see story on Page A-8

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Crowds at Farolito Walk get annual dose of holiday cheer, plus a trumpeter in bright (candle) lights

Joe and Michelle could save day for the country

“G

ood lede” are the two best words any writer of newspaper copy can hear. If the opening sentence hooks readers, chances are the story will hold up well.

There are exceptions, though. Frank van der Linden in 1973 crafted one of the more interesting ledes in the long history of the Washington press corps. It also might be the worst lede ever.

Van der Linden wrote: “There is a parallel between Richard Nixon’s bout with viral pneumonia and his feud with the Senate Watergate Committee. In each case the worst is over. In each case it’s apparent the president is coming out on top.”

Nixon resigned from office in disgrace a year after van der Linden called game, set and match.

Once Nixon departed, many people encamped within the Capital Beltway reported the National Republican Party was on life support. Republicans won three of the next four presidential elections.

If nothing else, Watergate proved the public quickly forgets about scandals.

Donald Trump hopes so. He did nothing for hours while watching television coverage of his supporters rioting at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to help Trump steal the 2020 election.

Trump has many other troubles. Most notably, he is under indictment, accused of running a criminal enterprise to rob Joe Biden of victory in Georgia.

But polls show Trump leading by a wide margin for the Republican nomination. With the Electoral College in play for the general election, Trump could lose the national popular vote for a third time but win the presidency in 2024.

Biden was the right candidate to whip Trump in 2016, when Biden didn’t run. And Biden was the correct nominee in 2020, when he unseated Trump by a decisive margin.

At age 81, Biden this round doesn’t match up as well against Trump or Nikki Haley, another potential Republican nominee.

Biden’s insistence on running for a second term might position Trump or Haley to flip two or three of the 10 swing states — just enough for a Republican to prevail in the Electoral College.

I had hoped Biden would end his reelection bid before Christmas Day and clear the way for the candidate who could stomp Trump.

I wanted Biden to recruit and endorse Michelle Obama.

The former first lady would speak plainly while Trump rambled. She would be thoughtful and reasoned while Trump lavished praise on his tyrannical cornerman, Vladimir Putin.

What a campaign 2024 would be with Obama setting the tone. People who seldom or never vote would participate.

More states would be in play for Democrats. Trump’s personal attacks would fall flatter than his claims of election fraud.

After Watergate, Republicans rebuilt their party with celebrity candidate Ronald Reagan, who won two terms as president. Reagan’s wilder claims, such as welfare queens living glorious lives, were as untruthful as Trump’s daily braggadocio.

But Reagan read a teleprompter well, and he had no history of criminality. That leaves Trump especially vul-

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Pablo Pérez entertains the crowds Sunday night with trumpet songs at the annual Christmas Eve Farolito Walk on Canyon Road. Pérez owns one of the galleries that lines the street famous for making the small, brown paper bags filled with sand and a single candle around the holidays. “I love the sense of community, the families, the children who come,” he said. “The farolitos guide the way for letting Christ into your heart.”

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ours before crowds were expected to descend on Canyon Road for the annual Christmas Eve Farolito Walk, Pablo Pérez was warming up.

Not with a luminaria, or small bonfire, but with a trumpet.

He played “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” to a small but appreciative audience strolling along the east-side, gallery-lined road around noon.

“You really are the spirit of Christmas,” one woman told Pérez, who wore a Santa hat on top of a cowboy hat and a jacket best described as classic Doc Severinsen, Please see story on Page A-4 Crowds walk on Canyon Road at the start of the Farolito Walk on Sunday. Many came out despite temperatures dropping below freezing by 7 p.m.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language.

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Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Mass., where she has lived for much of her life. She never saw any street signs honoring Native Americans, nor any featuring Indigenous languages.

She submitted to city officials the idea of adding Native American translations to city street signs. Residents approved her plan and will install about 70 signs Please see story on Page A-4

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IN BRIEF Police in central Florida seek man after shooting at mall killed one OCALA, Fla. — Authorities in central Florida issued an arrest warrant Sunday for a 39-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man at a shopping mall two days before Christmas in which police say the victim was “targeted.”

As of Sunday afternoon, the suspect hadn’t been located, and the Ocala Police Department was offering a $5,000 award for information leading to his arrest. The arrest warrant was for premeditated first-degree murder and attempted premeditated first-degree murder, the police department said on social media.

Ocala Police Chief Mike Balken told reporters late Saturday the victim was killed in a common area at Paddock Mall in Ocala after being shot multiple times. Ocala is about 80 miles northwest of Orlando.

A woman also was shot in the leg. She was treated at a local hospital and expected to recover, Balken said.

The suspect fled the scene and left behind the firearm, Balken said.

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Four killed, 9 injured by shelling as Russia attacks Ukrainian city KYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region killed four people Sunday, including an 87-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife, who died after a strike on their apartment building.

The barrage injured nine other people, including a 15-year-old, sparked fires in homes and at a private medical facility, and set a local gas pipeline alight, the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, said.

“There are no holidays for the enemy,” Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, wrote on social media, commenting on the Kherson attack. “They do not exist for us as long as the enemy kills our people and remains on our land.”

The shelling across Kherson reached the center of the region’s capital city of the same name. The assault took place as Ukraine prepared to officially celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 for the first time. It previously marked the holiday Jan. 7, in line with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Iran summons Russian diplomat over statement on disputed islands DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires after Moscow and Arab countries released a joint statement last week challenging Iran’s claim to disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, state media reported Sunday.

Iran’s official IRNA news agency said the Russian envoy was summoned Saturday and handed a note to deliver to Moscow in which Tehran protested the statement the 6th Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum issued in Morocco that called for a peaceful solution to the conflict between Iran and the United Arab Emirates over the islands.

The diplomatic spat is a rare occurrence between the two countries that have deepened their ties since Moscow invaded Ukraine, with Iran supplying Russia with killer drones that have been used to devastating effect there.

Both countries have also been strong backers of President Bashar Assad in Syria’s civil war.

The three islands dominate the approach to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes.

Report: Inmates were held in cells as fire burned at Rikers Island jail Inmates at New York City’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex were confined to their cells for more than 25 minutes as a fire that injured about 20 spread through an infirmary this spring, a corrections watchdog group found.

On the afternoon of April 6, inmate Marvens Thomas used batteries, headphone wires and a remote control to start the fire in his cell before adding tissues and clothing to fuel the blaze, according to a report released Friday by the New York City Board of Correction, an independent oversight agency.

Four inmates and nine staff members were transported to hospitals, the report said. They complained of difficulty breathing, chest pains and “coughing of black material” after inhaling smoke.

The watchdog group also found staffers stopped patrolling the jail unit two hours before Thomas, 30, lit the fire, they did not perform routine fire safety audits and the unit’s sprinkler system had been shut off sometime between April 1, 2022, and April 6, 2023.

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Gaby Meza Rodriguez, 7, left, prays with other children during a Sunday school session earlier this month in Fort Morgan, Colo. Meza Rodriguez’s parents, who have four U.S.-born children including her, are in limbo as they seek legal immigration status.

In Colo. town, a model for welcoming immigrants Fort Morgan migrant community helps newcomers through challenges

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FORT MORGAN, Colo. agdalena Simon’s only consolation after immigration officers handcuffed and led her husband away was the contents of his wallet, a few bills.

The hopes that had pushed her to trudge thousands of miles from Guatemala in 2019, her son’s small frame clutched to her chest, ceded to despair and loneliness in Fort Morgan, a ranching outpost on Colorado’s eastern plains, where some locals stared at her too long and the wind howls so fiercely it once blew the doors half off a hotel.

The pregnant Simon tried to mask the despair every morning when her toddlers asked, “Where’s papa?”

To millions of migrants who have crossed the U.S. southern border in the past few years, stepping off buses in places across America, such feelings can be constant companions.

What Simon would find in this unassuming city of a little more than 11,400, however, was a community that pulled her in, connecting her with legal counsel, charities, schools and, soon, friends, a unique support network built by generations of immigrants.

In this small town, migrants are building quiet lives, far from big cities like New York, Chicago and Denver that have struggled to house asylum-seekers and from the halls of Congress where their futures are the subject of negotiations.

The Fort Morgan migrant community has become a boon for newcomers, nearly all of whom arrive from perilous journeys to new challenges: pursuing asylum cases; finding a paycheck big enough for food, an attorney and a roof; placing their kids in school; and navigating a language barrier, all while facing the threat of deportation.

The United Nations used the community, 80 miles northeast of Denver, as a case study for rural refugee integration after a thousand Somalis arrived to work in meatpacking plants in the late 2000s.

In 2022, grassroots groups sent migrants living in mobile homes to Congress to tell their stories.

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In the last year, hundreds more migrants have arrived in Morgan County. More than 30 languages are spoken in Fort Morgan’s only high school, which has translators for the most common languages and a phone service for others. On Sundays, Spanish is heard from the pulpits of six churches.

The demographic shift in recent decades has forced the community to adapt: Local organizations hold monthly support groups, train students and adults about their rights, teach others how to drive, ensure kids are in school and direct people to immigration attorneys.

Simon herself now tells her story to those stepping off buses. The community can’t wave away the burdens, but they can make them lighter.

“It’s not like home where you have your parents and all of your family around you,” Simon tells those she meets in grocery stores and school pickup lines.

“If you run into a problem, you need to find your own family.”

The work has grown amid negotiations in Washington, D.C., on a deal that could toughen asylum protocols and bolster border enforcement.

On a recent Sunday, advocacy groups organized a Posada, a Mexican celebration of the biblical Joseph and Mary seeking shelter for Mary to give birth and being turned away until they were given the stable.

Before marching down the street singing a song adaption in which migrants are seeking shelter instead of Joseph and Mary, participants signed letters urging Colorado’s two Democratic senators and Republican U.S. Rep. Ken Buck to reject stiffer asylum rules.

A century ago, sugar beet production brought German and Russian migration to the area. Now, many migrants work in dairy plants. When area businesses were raided several times in the 2000s, friends disappeared overnight, seats sat empty in schools and gaps opened on factory lines.

“That really changed the the understanding of how deeply embedded migrants are in community,” said Jennifer Piper of American Friends Service Committee, which organized the Posada.

Trump now pressing immunity claim in federal court

By Rachel Weiner The Washington Post

With the U.S. Supreme Court declining to intervene early, Donald Trump is now pressing in federal appeals court his claim that sweeping presidential powers protect him from facing prosecution for his efforts to undo the 2020 election results.

In a filing late Saturday night, lawyers for the former president said such immunity is necessary for “bold, fearless Executive leadership” and warned

taking Trump to trial would launch “cycles of recrimination ... that will plague our Nation for many decades to come.”

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to fast-track consideration of the immunity question, which is crucial to determining whether Trump can be tried for his attempt to block Joe Biden’s victory. That means the standard appeals process will play out, with the U.S. Court of Appeals getting first say on whether former presidents have any protection from criminal

prosecution and if so, how much.

The appellate court has signaled it plans to move quickly, but its decision will almost certainly be challenged in the Supreme Court. Either phase of the appeal could delay a trial scheduled to begin in federal court in Washington, D.C., on March 4, a day before the Super Tuesday primaries.

Trump is again running for president, and he leads the Republican field by a wide margin.

The D.C. trial is one of four criminal prosecutions Trump is facing. In the

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At a rural property an hour outside Vancouver in October, Canadian police found 2.5 million doses of fentanyl and 528 gallons of chemicals in a shipping container and a storage unit. Six months earlier, they raided a home in a cookie-cutter Vancouver subdivision packed with barrels of fentanyl-making chemicals, glassware and lab equipment.

Thousands of miles away outside Toronto, police in August found what is believed to be the largest fentanyl lab so far in Canada — hidden at a property 30 miles from the U.S. border crossing at Niagara Falls, N.Y. U.S. authorities say they have little indication Canadian-made fentanyl is being smuggled south in significant quantities. But at a time when record numbers of people are dying from overdoses in the United States, the spread of clandestine fentanyl labs in Canada has the potential to undermine U.S. enforcement efforts and worsen the opioid epidemic in both nations.

Investigators in Canada say the labs are producing fentanyl for domestic users and for export to Australia, New Zealand and, they assume, the United States.

The Canadian labs are a curveball for U.S. authorities, whose efforts to combat fentanyl are focused on the border with Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has installed about $800 million worth of scanning and detection equipment at land border crossings since 2019. Nearly all that technology has been deployed along the U.S. southern border, where CBP confiscated nearly 27,000 pounds of fentanyl during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a record.

Republican lawmakers in recent months have called for U.S. military strikes in Mexico targeting fentanyl traffickers and drug labs. The spread of fentanyl production to Canada suggests traffickers there are poised to benefit if Mexican suppliers get squeezed. The lightly-patrolled U.S.-Canada border spans more than 5,500 miles — the longest international boundary between two nations in the world — and has few physical barriers.

The powerful, intensely addictive drug and other synthetic opioids claim more than 70,000 lives a year in the United States.

A similar proportion of Canadians are dying of overdoses — about 7,000 annually. The two countries remain the only nations where fentanyl poses such a lethal threat.

CBP seized just two pounds of fentanyl along the northern border during the 2023 fiscal year, the agency’s latest statistics show.

“We are not seeing any sort of southbound flow of fentanyl into the United States from Canada,” said Robert Hammer, the top Homeland Security Investigations agent in Seattle, who said he consulted with his fellow agents in Buffalo and Detroit.

“That’s not to say it’s not happening, and not to say it may not happen in the future,” Hammer cautioned.

Hammer said he remains skeptical Canadian-made fentanyl will displace the pills flooding into the United States from Mexico.

“We are down to 45 cents a pill on the wholesale side here in Seattle,” he said. “You have to be pretty damn competitive to beat 45 cents a pill to compete with the Mexican cartels that have entrenched themselves with the distribution network they have set up here in the Pacific Northwest.”

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Police fire tear gas at vote protesters in Serbia

By Dusan Stojanovic The Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia — Riot police in Serbia fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capital’s city council building on Sunday in protest of what election observers said were widespread vote irregularities during a general election last weekend.

The country’s populist authorities have denied rigging the vote and described the election to fill parliament and local offices as fair. Serbian President Aleksan-

dar Vucic said Sunday those claims were blatant ”lies” promoted by the political opposition.

Vucic also suggested the unrest was instigated from abroad. Addressing the nation during the protest outside Belgrade city hall, he called the demonstrators “thugs” who would not succeed in destabilizing the state and said, “This is not a revolution.”

Shielded riot police first barricaded themselves inside the city government building, firing tear gas and pepper spray as hundreds of opposition protesters

broke windows at the entrance. Later, police pushed the crowd from the downtown area and made several arrests.

The protesters shouted, “Open the door,” and “Thieves,” as they pelted the building with eggs and stones. Some chanted, “Vucic is Putin,” comparing the Serbian president with Russia’s leader.

Nebojsa Zelenovic, one of the leaders of the opposition Serbia Against Violence alliance, said police officers swarmed all of downtown Belgrade, including the roofs of buildings. The area is home to the national parliament and the presi-

dential headquarters along with the city government.

Results from the Dec. 17 election showed a victory for Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party in both the parliamentary and Belgrade city ballots. Serbia Against Violence, the party’s main opponent, said it was robbed of a win, especially in Belgrade.

An observation mission made up of representatives of international rights watchdogs reported multiple irregularities, included cases of bought votes and the stuffing of ballot boxes.

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — At least 68 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, health officials said Sunday, while the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 15.

Associated Press journalists at a nearby hospital watched frantic Palestinians carry the dead, including a baby, and wounded following the strike on the Maghazi refugee camp east of Deir al-Balah. One bloodied young girl looked stunned while her body was checked for broken bones.

The 68 fatalities include at least 12 women and seven children, according to early hospital figures.

“We were all targeted,” said Ahmad Turokmani, who lost several family members including his daughter and grandson.

“There is no safe place in Gaza anyway.”

Earlier, the Health Ministry in Gaza gave the death toll as 70. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

As Christmas Eve fell, smoke rose over the besieged territory, while in the West Bank, Bethlehem was hushed, its holiday celebrations called off. In neighboring Egypt, tentative efforts continued on a deal for another exchange of hostages for Palestinians held by Israel.

The war has devastated parts of Gaza, killed roughly 20,400 Palestinians and displaced almost all of the territory’s 2.3 million people. The mounting death toll among Israeli troops — 154 since the ground offensive began — could erode public support for the war, which was sparked when Hamas-led militants stormed communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 and taking 240 hostage.

Israelis still largely stand behind the country’s stated goals of crushing Hamas’ governing and military capabilities and releasing the remaining 129 captives. That’s despite rising international pressure against Israel’s offensive and the soaring death toll and unprecedented suffering among Palestinians.

“The war exacts a very heavy price from us, but we have no choice but to continue fighting,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

In a nationally televised speech, Israeli President Isaac Herzog appealed for the country to remain united. “This moment is a test. We will not break nor blink,” he said.

There has been widespread anger against his government, which many criticize for failing to protect civilians Oct. 7 and promoting policies that allowed Hamas to gain strength over the years. Netanyahu has avoided accepting responsibility for the military and policy failures.

“Over time, the public will find it hard to ignore the heavy price paid, as well as the suspicion that the aims that were loudly heralded are still far from being attained, and that Hamas is showing no signs of capitulating in the near future,” wrote Amos Harel, military affairs commentator for the Haaretz newspaper.

The Israeli military said it had completed the dismantling of Hamas’ underground headquarters in northern Gaza, part of an operation to take down the vast tunnel network and kill off top commanders that Israeli leaders have said could take months.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reiterated U.N. calls for a humanitarian cease-fire.

Amid concerns about a wider regional conflict U.S. Central Command said a patrol ship in the Red Sea on Saturday shot down four drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, a while two Houthi antiship ballistic missiles were fired into international shipping lanes.

The Iran-backed Houthis say their attacks are aimed at Israel-linked ships in an effort to stop the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

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the celebrated jazz trumpeter.

Pérez was also making farolitos — small, brown paper bags filled with sand and a single candle — in anticipation of the evening walk, Santa Fe’s decadesold Christmas Eve tradition.

“I love the sense of community, the families, the children who come,” Pérez said.

He noted a spiritual significance of the event.

“The farolitos guide the way for letting Christ into your heart,” he said.

The Canyon Road Farolito Walk — in which gallery owners and residents on adjoining streets line their properties with farolitos and light luminarias where walkers can gather for warmth and caroling — has come a long way from its humble roots. It began as a neighborhood celebration of a victory against commercial development, said John Pen La Farge, a writer and historian who serves on the board of the Old Santa Fe Association.

The event originated in the late 1970s, he said. At that time, a developer had made an effort to build three-story structures in the historic neighborhood, an initiative residents, with the help of city councilors, managed to stop.

“So on Christmas Eve they put together an event,” La Farge said.

“Everyone decorated houses with farolitos and put luminaries out on the road on Christmas Eve as a thank you to the city and a celebration of having saved the neighborhood from over-intense development. Everyone enjoyed it so much they decided to do it the next year — and then the next year and then the next year.

And then it became a tradition.”

Over time, he said, the event grew into what it is today — a beloved tradition that draws thousands of local residents and visitors.

“Bit by bit they kept coming — first in small numbers and then in droves,” La Farge said.

He added, “It was never intended to be a huge celebration inviting everybody and his brother to come.”

For many Santa Feans, the event has become a must-do City Different holiday festivity, where they visit with friends and family members and enjoy the lights and caroling.

As darkness fell Sunday, people began walking up and down Canyon Road in temperatures that dropped below freezing by 7 p.m.

Couples held hands, friends took iPhone photos of each other and families joined together around bonfires.

Among the celebrants was Whitney Spivey; her husband, Mike Cleveland; and their young twin daughters, Lane and Scout.

All four wore lighted headbands so they could better identify one another in the dark.

Lane and Scout, 6, had never been on the walk before, their mother said.

“It’s so Christmasy,” said Scout, the more talkative of the pair.

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ABOVE: Elijah Akhavan of Denver watches a performance from fire dancer Melanie Roller with the Santa Fe Flow Collective during Sunday’s Farolito Walk on Canyon Road.

RIGHT: Kathy Rivera, known as “The Farolito Lady,” waves and greets people as she makes her way up Canyon Road.

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Svetnicka and their little girl — warmly bundled up in a stroller — stopped to huddle around a bonfire and sing a few bars of “Jingle Bells.” Radha said she used to participate in the walk as a child and still “loves the singing of carols, the fires, the atmosphere of fire smoke.”

The entire event is popular, she said, because it is all about “cheer.”

Musicians performed holiday songs at sites along the road — “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” “Joy to the World,” “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” — and, perhaps somewhat incongruously, a rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds.”

Pérez pulled off a mean rendition of “Over the Rainbow” between his holiday trumpeting.

He and his wife, artist and gallery owner Susan Eddings Pérez, kept both of their Canyon Road galleries open into the night to welcome walkers with hot chocolate, biscochitos, live music and a fire pit.

Eddings Pérez said she and her husband have enjoyed hosting open house events on Christmas Eve since 2021, when they opened their businesses.

“Think of it — it’s the one time of year they close Canyon Road for an event,” she said. “And how

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often can we have thousands of people in our galleries?”

On Gormley Lane, just off Canyon Road, Jayne Field was enjoying a roaring fireplace and holiday music while she cooked in her home.

The Texas native, who has lived in Santa Fe for five years, had 120 farolitos lining her property.

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Field said she sometimes hosts Christmas Eve parties during the walk — though not this year — and loves the energy the crowd brings to the neighborhood one special night each year.

“It’s great for Santa Fe, great for the people,” she said. “I enjoy seeing people enjoy it. It reaffirms our humanity.”

In upstate New York, bilingual highway signs in the languages of the Seneca, Onondaga and Tuscarora tribes border highContinued from Page A-1 ways and their reservations.

In Wisconsin, six of the 11 featuring the language of the federally recognized tribes in Massachusett Tribe, which the state have installed dual English settlers encountered language signs. Minnesota has upon their arrival. put up signs in English and the “What a great, universal way Dakota or Ojibwe languages of teaching language,” she said on roads and highways that of the project done in consultraverse tribal lands, while the tation with a a member of the southeast Alaska community Massachusett Tribe and other of Haines this summer erected Native Americans. stop, yield, ‘Children at Play’ “We see multiple languages and street name signs in both written almost everywhere, but English and Tlingit. not on municipal signage,” she In New Mexico, the state said. “Living on a numbered Department of Transportation street, I thought this is a great has been working with tribes opportunity to include Native language with these basic terms for years to include traditional names and artwork along that we’re all familiar with highway overpasses. Travelers around the city.”

Carbone has joined a growing heading north from Santa Fe pass under multiple bridges push around the country to use Indigenous translations on signs with references to Pojoaque to raise awareness about Native Pueblo in the community’s native language of Tewa.

American communities. It also There have also been local is way to revive some Native efforts in places like Bemidji, American languages, highlight Minn., where Michael Meuers, a tribe’s sovereignty as well as open the door for wider debates a non-Native resident, started the Bemidji Ojibwe Language on land rights, discrimination Project. Since 2009, more and Indigenous representation than 300 signs in English and in the political process.

Ojibwe have been put up across “We have a moment where northern Minnesota, mostly on there is a search for some recbuildings, including schools. onciliation and justice around The signs can also be found in Indigenous issues,” said Darren Ranco, chair of Native American hospitals and businesses and are used broadly to spell out names Programs at the University of places and animals, identify of Maine and a citizen of the things such as elevators, hospital Penobscot Nation. “The signs represent that, but by no means departments, bear crossings — “MAKWA XING” — and is that the end point around these issues. My concern is that food within a grocery store, people will think that putting up and include translations for welcome, thank you and other signs solves the problem, when phrases. in fact, it’s the beginning point “Maybe it’s going to open up to addressing deeper histories.” conversations so that we underAt least six states have followed suit, including Iowa, New stand that we are all one peoYork, Minnesota and Wisconsin. ple,” said Meuers, who worked for the Red Lake Nation for 29 Signs along U.S. 30 in Iowa years and started the project include the Meskwaki Nation’s own spelling of the tribe, Mesk- after seeing signs in Hawaiian on a visit to the state. wakiinaki, near its settlement.

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Ken Preuss’s English folder from the early 1980s was recently returned to him as he was eating at a diner in his hometown of Oviedo, Fla.

Remarkable teacher’s influence is felt through the years Reemergence of 1980s schoolwork a poetic twist one Florida English teacher would have loved

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learned something in my high school English class that stuck with me ever since. Coincidentally, it’s about why some things stick with us long after they happen: “A memorable story follows a predictable pattern, unpredictably.”

I came to understand its deeper meaning when a last-minute lunch decision added an unexpected chapter to a story that started at Oviedo High School, near Orlando, Fla., some 40 years ago.

A couple of months ago, an old classmate was visiting and suggested we grab a bite at the Town House, a popular diner that dates back to Oviedo’s days as a one-stoplight town.

My friend and I wondered whether any of our fellow diners might be folks from high school, or how many were related to people we knew. In a place like this, that feels inevitable. As if on cue, a man in his 50s, like us, walked up and greeted me by name.

As I struggled to place his face, he explained he was Craig Wheeler, another OHS graduate, and the son of Helen Wheeler, my all-time favorite teacher. He presented me

with a slightly tattered, faded gold, three-pronged folder filled with loose-leaf notebook paper.

“This is for you,” he said. “I found it in my parents’ house. My mom saved it.”

I opened the notebook and read the title page: “A Complete Poetic Look at the 81-82 Edition of Mrs. Wheeler’s First Period Advanced Excelled Honor’s English Class by Kenny Preuss.”

My first thought was, “I remember writing this.” My second, “Could’ve used a catchier title.”

My third, and the one I said aloud, “Your mom was amazing.”

Helen Wheeler was my English teacher in 10th and 12th grades.

She helped me fall in love with literature. She encouraged me to be a better writer and inspired me to pursue teaching, a career I cherish to this day.

Caring, creative and challenging, she selected works that made students think and feel, encouraging us to express original thoughts while requiring us to support them.

Mrs. Wheeler’s classes sent me to college and the real world ready to delve deeper, write sharper and never settle for the ordinary.

Ten years later and 10 miles away,

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English teacher Helen Wheeler grades students’ papers at home.

SMART BOARD Education news and events ZUNI STEM EDUCATOR SELECTED AS NEW MEXICO TEACHER OF THE YEAR Roy Basa, who teaches science, technology, engineering and math to high schoolers in Zuni Public School District, has been picked as the 2024 New Mexico Teacher of the Year.

Each year since 1963, all of New Mexico’s school districts and charter schools have nominated outstanding teachers for Teacher of the Year, the winner of which acts as a spokesperson for the teaching profession.

Basa succeeds Tara Hughes, a pre-K teacher at Santa Fe Public Schools’ Nye Early Childhood Center, as the best-of-thebest of the state’s teachers.

Originally from the Philippines, Basa has

I became a teacher myself. I had attempted various entertainment jobs but was drawn by steady income, health insurance and a guaranteed audience five days a week. But the biggest factor was a desire to inspire young minds the way Mrs. Wheeler had.

I selected the same stories, shared the same tips and scrawled the same inspirational quotes in erasable marker she had scratched out in chalk.

I developed my own style, cracking jokes and drawing cartoons, but the core of my classroom was channeled from the experiences I had in hers. I found joy and success in my career and saw students genuinely excited about learning.

I hadn’t seen Mrs. Wheeler in decades or told her about this. But when I got the chance, I gave it my best shot.

In 2006, I was at my son’s Little League game when I spied Mrs. Wheeler in the bleachers and began gushing with gratitude.

I was 40, and she invited me to call her Helen, but I couldn’t do it.

She was still sharp and sincere and selfless enough to let me babble about what she meant to me.

She had retired. I confessed that, due to shameless pilfering, her takes on Antigone and Julius Caesar were still thriving in the classroom. She confided that, due to sentimentality, my ramblings on the same subjects were still sitting in her garage.

We laughed about literature and writing and teaching teenagers, reminiscing about our time in her classroom. Then we parted, certain we’d cross paths again. It was a small town, after all.

Almost a decade later, Oviedo’s homecoming football game led to another sports-themed teacher-student reunion, this time with me taking a different role.

Amanda Dickson, a student I’d taught years earlier, recognized me, and told me how my class helped inspire her to become a teacher.

spent more than two decades in education, making it his mission to serve culturally and linguistically diverse students.

He’s served STEM ninth through 12th grade students at Twin Buttes Cyber Academy and Zuni High School for the past three years.

“Our students love him, and they are enamored with the work he does for them,” Zuni Public School District Superintendent Randy Ann Stickney said in a news release.

“He represents our school district in a remarkable way, but he will also do the same for the state of New Mexico.”

SFHS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA NAMED STATE HONOR ORCHESTRA Santa Fe High School’s chamber orchestra, led by teacher and director Gabriel Tafoya, has been selected by the New Mexico Music Educators Association as the state’s 2024 Honor Orchestra.

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Through some distributive property of mathematics (which I might understand had Mrs. Wheeler also taught algebra), the influence Mrs. Wheeler had on me was passed along to my student, who was sharing it with a fourth generation.

It felt like a revelation that was worthy of dissection in Mrs. Wheeler’s class, with its symmetry and coincidence. It was certainly one I wish I could have shared with her.

Instead, I shared it with her family members, a few months later, in May 2015, when I attended Mrs. Wheeler’s memorial service.

But then here I was, in 2023, and Mrs. Wheeler had found a new way to surprise with an epilogue: a notebook she had saved all these years.

Beyond the title page was the dedication: “To Mrs. Wheeler for all that she has taught me ... also to make up two vocabulary tests which I missed.”

With comedic riffs on journals, speeches and vocabulary, the 25 pages that followed were a fun flashback to what Mrs. Wheeler’s class was then and perfect foreshadowing to what my class would become.

Craig told me he had found the folder in a cabinet with his mother’s books and set it aside in case he ever ran into me. His wife, Lori, another Oviedo graduate, recognized me in the restaurant, so he stepped out to his truck to grab it.

“I’d kept it in the passenger side for a while,” he said. “It was sort of like having a bit of my mom with me.”

Thanks to Craig’s kindness and a few twists of fate, I now have a bit of Mrs. Wheeler with me: a book of verse commemorating all she did to shape who I was then and who I am now.

It was an unpredictably poetic ending.

Just the kind Mrs. Wheeler would’ve loved.

Ken Preuss is a playwright and language arts teacher at Florida Virtual School. He lives in Oviedo, Fla.

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N.M. SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS STUDENTS TAKE ALL-STATE HONORS Many students at New Mexico School for the Arts, a public charter school that serves high schoolers from across the state at its Railyard campus, received allstate honors from the New Mexico Music Educators Association this fall. They are: u Cheden Anastasion, jazz ensemble 3 u Phoenix Anastasion, concert band u Xavier Arellano, mixed choir u Narai Armour, symphony orchestra u Angelina Barcena, treble choir u Lily Diaz, treble choir u Terra Donahue, concert orchestra u Steele Dream, mixed choir

CONCORD, Calif. — Aylah Levy had some catching up to do this fall when she started first grade.

After spending her kindergarten year at an alternative program that met exclusively outdoors, Aylah, 6, had to adjust to being inside a classroom. She knew only a handful of numbers and was not printing her letters clearly. To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil.

“It’s harder. Way, way harder,” Aylah said of the new grip.

Still, her mother, Hannah Levy, says it was the right decision to skip kindergarten. She wanted Aylah to enjoy being a kid. There is plenty of time, she reasoned, for her daughter to develop study skills.

The number of kindergartners in public school plunged during the coronavirus pandemic. Concerned about the virus or wanting to avoid online school, hundreds of thousands of families delayed the start of school for their young children. Most have returned to schooling of some kind, but even three years after the pandemic school closures, kindergarten enrollment has continued to lag.

Some parents like Levy don’t see much value in traditional kindergarten. For others, it’s a matter of keeping children in other child care arrangements that better fit their lifestyles. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. school system.

Kindergarten is considered a crucial year for children to learn to follow directions, regulate behavior and get accustomed to learning. Missing that year of school can put kids at a disadvantage, especially those from low-income families and families whose first language is not English, said Deborah Stipek, a former dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Those children are sometimes behind in recognizing letters and counting to 10 even before starting school, she said.

But to some parents, that foundation seems less urgent post-pandemic. For many, kindergarten just doesn’t seem to work for their lives.

Students who disengaged during the pandemic school closures have been making their way back to schools.

But kindergarten enrollment remained down 5.2% in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 20192020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. Public school enrollment across all grades fell 2.2%.

Kindergarten means a seismic change in some families’ lifestyles. After years of all-day child care, they suddenly must manage afternoon pickups with limited and expensive options for after-school care.

Some worry their child isn’t ready for the structure and behavioral expectations of a public school classroom. And many think whatever their child misses at school can be quickly learned in first grade.

Christina Engram was set to send her daughter Nevaeh to kindergarten this fall at her neighborhood school in Oakland, Calif., until she learned her daughter would not have a spot in the after-school program there. That meant she would need to be picked up at 2:30 most afternoons.

“If I put her in public school, I would have to cut my hours, and I basically wouldn’t have a good income for me and my kids,” said Engram, a preschool teacher and mother of two.

Engram decided to keep Nevaeh in a child care center for another year. Engram receives a state child care subsidy that helps her pay for full-time child care or preschool until her child is 6 and must enroll in first grade. She believed her daughter would be more likely to receive extra attention at the child care center than in kindergarten.

“She knows her numbers. She knows her ABC’s.

She knows how to spell her name,” Engram said. “But when she feels frustrated that she can’t do something, her frustration overtakes her. She needs extra attention and care. She has some shyness about her when she thinks she’s going to give the wrong answer.”

Kindergarten is important for all children, but especially those who do not attend preschool or who haven’t had much exposure to math, reading and other subjects, said Steve Barnett, co-director for the National Institute for Early Education Research and a professor at Rutgers University.

“The question actually is: If you didn’t go to kindergarten, what did you do instead?” he said.

Zaidee Stavely of EdSource contributed to this report.

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Dave Hahn, a ski patroller at Taos Ski Valley, tosses a clump of snow in the air as avalanche rescue dog Sadie leaps for it on Highline Ridge in December 2019.

Connecting people and places Vibrant figures fill New Mexico’s outdoors scene with inspiring stories

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ne of my goals as I helped start an outdoors section for The New Mexican with former colleague Olivia Harlow in 2019 was to not out myself as a total newb.

Olivia had worked at Outside magazine, had experience as an endurance athlete and had a good handle on the region’s outdoor offerings.

I had lived in New Mexico only a few months, I’d never written for an outdoors section or publication before and — having spent most of my life in a flat, trail-barren part of the country — I didn’t have a whole lot to offer in the way of knowledge or experience.

My initial contribution to the section was a short list of hiking recommendations for the Fourth of July. Among my suggestions were Atalaya Trail, Nambé Lake Trail and Las Conchas Trail — three of the most popular hikes around that any tourist with AllTrails on their phone would be pointed to.

I was immediately busted. My author tagline might as well have read: Matt Dahlseid is a former sports writer from Nebraska who just moved here, and the three hikes this newb has done so far are Nambé Lake Trail, Atalaya Trail and Las Conchas Trail.

One thing I had going for me was that I had no life or friends outside of work. My free time could be almost entirely devoted to hiking and exploring Northern New Mexico. This allowed me to quickly bone up on the varied landscapes within about 1½ hours of Santa Fe and develop a pretty solid mental map of the top hikes in the region.

Another advantage I had was that, even though my business card said I was a digital enterprise producer (whatever that means), I could now tell people I was an outdoors writer.

Leveraging the power of Google, I could identify cool, interesting and knowledgeable New Mexicans in the outdoors realm, call them up and request they speak with me for a story.

Sometimes they’d even meet with me and show me some of their favorite places while we talked.

My goal of not looking like a newb already blown, I pursued my other

objective of making people’s connections with places the foundation of the Adventure page. I soon realized this region is filled with an endless cast of compelling characters pursuing a wide range of passions.

Approaching the end of 2023, my fifth year at the paper, I’ve thought back on all the people I’ve had the privilege to get to know and be inspired by through working on this little outdoors section. So many have been gracious enough to invite me into their world to show me why they love what they do.

One of my first profiles was of ski patroller Dave Hahn, who agreed to host me for a day at Taos Ski Valley as I peppered him with questions that mostly pertained to his exploits in his other job as one of the most accomplished mountain guides in the world.

At the time, Hahn held the record for most summits of Mount Everest by a non-Sherpa, at 15. He’d spent more than three decades guiding clients up the world’s biggest mountains. Since I couldn’t ski, he guided me up and down the mountain at TSV on a snowmobile and answered my questions while we hung out with the resort’s avalanche rescue dogs.

Hahn was humble, introspective, funny and self-deprecating. In the ski patrol headquarters he was just one of the guys, dishing and receiving jabs about being old with the other veterans on the team.

He gave me more time than he needed to, but in that time I could tell he truly relished the life he’d built for himself in the mountains.

Hiking up from ski patrol headquarters to Highline Ridge with the avalanche dogs, we bumped into one of Hahn’s acquaintances, who I couldn’t quite recognize behind the ski goggles.

The two chatted for a bit before the man took off down the slope.

Hahn told me that was former two-term New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, a TSV regular and endurance sports nut. The two were good friends

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and shared an appetite for scaling big mountains.

Hahn helped Johnson achieve the feat of topping the highest peak on all seven continents. He guided Johnson up Everest in 2003, and in 2014 they tagged Antarctica’s Vinson Massif to cap Johnson’s seven summits dream.

Something Johnson likes to talk about even more than the seven summits, I later discovered, is the hell and the highs of the Tour Divide.

I interviewed Johnson last year after he completed the grueling 2,700-mile self-supported mountain bike race that follows the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta, to Antelope Wells, N.M., on the U.S.-Mexico border. At age 69, Johnson completed the race in just under 28 days. It was the fifth straight Tour Divide he’d finished, impressive considering it’s not rare for about half the field to drop out.

Most of the folks I’ve written about don’t have the lofty profiles of Hahn and Johnson, but their passions resonate just the same.

During the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic, Los Alamos resident Coco Rae introduced me to the backcountry of Valles Caldera National Preserve when I interviewed her about her new trail guide. She’d spent 18 months traversing and mapping the preserve’s entire official trail system and became captivated by the place.

“You can’t really put your finger on it, but it’s hard not to fall in love with it and fall under its spell,” Rae said of Valles Caldera. “The more time you spend up here, the more it becomes part of you.”

Her trail guide has helped unlock this gem in the Jemez Mountains for hundreds of hikers and bikers. Thanks to Rae, Valles Caldera became one of my favorite escapes.

Several of the people I’ve profiled have spent years or decades pursuing a goal, and in that time have gained a deep understanding and admiration of the places they roam.

Every peak is a story to me, and as I drive “through New Mexico, I can ... relive them.”

Retired Albuquerque Public Schools science teacher Phil Robinson

Coco Rae of Los Alamos hikes in Valles Caldera National Preserve in August 2020. In January 2020, Rae published Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve, the first comprehensive trail guide for the preserve.

In her 70s, Liz Aicher hikes off-trail over the wooded volcanic domes of Valles Caldera in search of the largest tree of each species in the preserve.

Another group of citizen scientists combs the caldera to document culturally significant tree carvings made by Hispanic sheepherders who frequented the area in the early 20th century, when the preserve was the Baca Ranch.

Each time I’d go to the caldera for a story, I’d see it in a different light depending on who was leading me through the preserve.

I’ve gotten to take in a lot of Northern New Mexico in the five years I’ve worked at the paper.

Two people I interviewed this past summer made me realize I’ve still barely scratched the surface of what there is to explore.

While some serious hikers head north to take on Colorado’s 14,000foot mountains, retired Albuquerque Public Schools science teacher Phil Robinson has stayed in state to do his peak-bagging.

Ranging from 13,161-foot Wheeler Peak to 10,831-foot Lucero Peak, he’s hiked 188 of the 190 highest peaks in New Mexico since 2006. It’s something no one else has ever done.

The only two peaks he has left on his list are a pair of 12,000-footers in Taos Pueblo he’s still seeking special permission to hike. “Every peak is a story to me, and as I drive through New Mexico, I can kind of relive them,” Robinson said.

Former Taos resident and artist Doug Scott, whom I’d been itching to interview for a couple of years, has possibly seen more of New Mexico than anyone.

Scott is crazy about waterfalls.

Somehow, in a state with the lowest percentage of its surface area covered by water, he’s managed to identify well over 200 locations in New Mexico’s forests where he’s found these brilliant natural features.

Most of the time he’s had to bushwhack through dense trees and brush to get to them.

Scott started a website (dougscottart.com) in the early days of the internet to showcase his artwork and chronicle his outdoor explorations.

In addition to the hundreds of documented waterfalls, the site has grown to include entries on more than 50 arches and natural bridges in New Mexico and over 90 posts on slot and box canyons, many of which require expert canyoneering skills to probe.

Now in his 70s, Scott lives in Minnesota, where he’s fighting cancer and dreaming of returning to New Mexico to make new discoveries.

He still seems to have far more energy than me, though, as every couple of weeks he texts me multiple photos of sculptures of eagles, horses and other animals he’s just completed.

There are so many others I haven’t named whose stories have impacted me in one way or another, from the athletes and volunteers who take part in Adaptive Sports Program New Mexico and the folks who donate hundreds of hours a year to maintain trails to conservationists working to preserve natural spaces and wildlife.

For as much as I’ve been inspired by the incredible landscapes of this gorgeous state, I’ve been even more stirred by the people who have shared their experiences and knowledge with me along the way.

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Applications are now closed.

How it works: Applications for funding are carefully vetted.

Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs and verify the applicant’s income. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier. Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need.

2023 goal: $399,000.

This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual.

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Man allegedly caused seven-car crash Friday

By Nicholas Gilmore

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A Santa Fe man was arrested Friday night and charged with several counts after he was suspected of causing a seven-car hit-and-run crash on Cerrillos Road while “racing and weaving through traffic” and running a red light.

Irving Valverde, 27, was booked in the Santa Fe County jail on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon, battery, assault on a police officer, reckless driving, failing to report an accident and leaving the scene of a crash, the Santa Fe Police Department said in a news release issued Saturday evening.

Charging documents detailing the incident were not publicly available on the New Mexico court system’s online records site over the holiday weekend.

Police used two stun guns and multiple beanbag rounds before arresting Valverde, who is accused of wielding a kitchen knife, the news release said.

Santa Fe police arrived at Cerrillos Road and St. Michael’s Drive about 7 p.m. Friday after receiving reports of a multiple-car crash.

A witness told emergency dispatchers “a vehicle had hit numerous vehicles on Cerrillos Road while racing and weaving through traffic, before running a red light and causing the crash,” the release stated.

Police reported no injuries from the crash but said debris blocked northbound lanes on Cerrillos Road.

Witnesses told police the person responsible for the crash had left the area.

Police said in the news release investigators identified Valverde as a suspect and spoke with his family to determine his whereabouts.

They found him around 8:30 p.m. while responding to a report of domestic violence at his home in an apartment

complex on Hopewell Street, the release said.

A family member who had confronted Valverde Irving about the hitValverde and-run crash accused the suspect of physically attacking them.

After officers arrived at the apartment complex, Valverde came out of his home armed with a kitchen knife, police said in the news release.

“Officers told Mr. Valverde several times to drop the knife and speak with them about the incident, but he continuously refused their instructions as he walked through the parking lot of the apartment complex,” the release said.

Valverde threw a rock at an officer, prompting police to strike him with two stun guns; both were ineffective, the release said.

Valverde began walking away, toward 3rd Street, according to the news release, and ignored officer’s commands to drop the knife. As he turned and began walking back toward the officers, one of them fired four beanbag rounds, striking him. Valverde then threw the kitchen knife at the officer, the release said.

He tried to escape by climbing over a fence to a residence, but officers found him there and took him into custody “without further incident,” according to the release.

An online search of New Mexico court records shows Valverde has no criminal history in the state but has faced three traffic violations, including speeding, between 2018 and 2022. All three cases were dismissed.

As of Sunday afternoon, he was still being held in the county jail, according to online jail records.

Staff writer Robert Nott contributed to this report.

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LOCAL & REGION

Sheriff says Cannon airman shot at gun range CLOVIS — A man was shot Wednesday morning at the Calibers Shooters Sports Center off U.S. 60 east of Cannon Air Force Base, Curry County Sheriff Michael Brockett said.

Brockett said the man was hospitalized in Lubbock in “extremely critical condition.”

The incident occurred about 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday inside the firing range of the building. There were no witnesses, the sheriff

said. The victim was the only person in the firing-range portion of the building when the incident occurred, he said. The sheriff characterized the event as an “apparent attempted suicide.”

Brockett declined to release the victim’s name but said family members were traveling to Lubbock on Thursday.

The victim is an airman at Cannon, said Capt. Jackie Pienkowski, Cannon’s chief of public affairs.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Airman and their family,” she wrote in a text

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four questions. Discussions of sprinkles and icing blended with the names of lost loved ones.

These days, it’s not uncommon for students to tackle weighty, emotional subjects within the walls of Ohkay Owingeh Community School, Principal Claudia Sena said.

There’s a growing awareness at the tribally run school, which serves over 100 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, that “emotions are OK,” the principal added.

That’s due in large part to relatively new support groups on campus.

In 2021, the school partnered with Gerard’s House, a Santa Fe-based nonprofit that provides support to grieving children, teens and families, to create in-school, culturally responsive grief-support groups for students.

In the past few years, the support groups have flourished, strengthening not only the students involved but the adults leading them, too.

“I just fell in love with Gerard’s House because I needed that support — and I’m sure there’s countless other adults here in the pueblo that could use the same support,” Archuleta said.

By the time they reach 18, 1 in 8 New Mexico children will experience the death of a parent or sibling, according to the Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model, a nationwide data tool that determines the rate of grieving children in the U.S. That figure — the second highest in the nation, trailing only West Virginia — is significantly higher for New Mexico’s Indigenous children, the model shows. One in six Native American kids in the state will lose a parent or sibling by 18, and 1 in 4 will lose an immediate family member by 25.

Such statistics prompted Gerard’s House to consider pilot programs in Native American communities, said Maggie Boyle, the organization’s associate director.

The chance to do that came in 2021, when Sena — at the recommendation of an Ohkay Owingeh Community School parent — reached out to the organization in search of services.

Gerard’s House already had programs geared toward particular groups, including homeless kids, Latino immigrant youth and pregnant or parenting teens.

“We had kind of had on our hearts and minds for a while supporting the pueblos, supporting Indigenous communities,” Boyle said. “But that invitation really helped us to then get together an advisory committee of Tewa leaders and elders and parents and staff from the school.”

The support groups would be led by Archuleta and Tenorio, both of whom are members of Ohkay Owingeh and completed Gerard’s House’s volunteer training, with support from the organization.

The two facilitators adapted the organization’s processes and materials to suit the pueblo’s cultural and linguistic traditions.

They call the weekly sessions wôe bidí — “medicine mound” in Tewa. And each session begins and ends with a prayer, a component that offers the added benefit of allowing students to practice their Tewa.

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ON THE WEB The holiday season can be a particularly challenging time for people grieving the loss of a loved one, said Maggie Boyle, associate director of Gerard’s House, a Santa Fe-based grief support organization that recently expanded their services to Ohkay Owingeh Community School.

“The holidays are a time where everything is about tradition and — for a lot of families — doing things that we’ve always done as a family and nostalgia and a lot of enforced cheer,” she said. “For families that are missing someone, it can really highlight that loss.”

For information about grief-support groups — for children, teens or adults, in Spanish or English — visit gerardshouse.org.

The adaptations also ensure the support groups’ curriculum acknowledges and addresses Ohkay Owingeh cultural expectations surrounding death.

Among the pueblo’s families, Archuleta said, there can be a hesitancy to discuss grief long term, outside the context of a recent death.

“Culturally, it’s not something we do — like we don’t bring up death unless it’s at a funeral. ...

No one really ever gets down to the, I guess, core of death and loss,” he said.

Instead, Archuleta said many members of the pueblo urge people experiencing a loss to “be strong.” That’s not the wrong message to send in the aftermath of a death, he said, but there has to be a safe place for children and families to process their grief and receive resources.

That’s what the support groups offer each week. Students gather together to express their feelings, work on cathartic art projects and play games.

They discuss doughnuts and death at the same time.

“When they’re in a space where it was OK and they were with fellow students, it was safe to grieve,” Tenorio said.

But students aren’t the only ones benefiting from the support groups. Archuleta and Tenorio found themselves starting to heal, too.

When she first started leading support groups at Ohkay Owingeh Community School, Tenorio said she was still reeling from the death of a loved one. She saw the support groups as an opportunity to heal alongside her students.

“You guys also play a big part: You help us heal. So thank you guys,” Tenorio told her students in a session this month.

Archuleta, too, said he “still trying to get a handle on [his] grief and loss” — particularly the death of his father — when the support groups began at the school. The skills he learned from Gerard’s House have helped him manage those emotions.

Now, Archuleta calls healing “infectious,” something he shares as much as he can and something his students impart on family members at home.

He likened each student who has participated in the support groups to a little flame, spreading their sparks to friends and family in the community.

“That’s kind of what my thinking behind that was: Just kind of getting the fire started, just a little small flame,” Archuleta said. “And those little flames will make their own flames.”

He added, “But eventually, I hope that it’ll be a bright fire.”

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Obama could stop Trump once and forever. And Biden could retire after twice having a hand in defeating Trump.

That’s it — a holiday wish in need of a president who puts country first.

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message. “Support to, and the privacy of, the family and loved ones impacted by this incident is our priority.”

The sheriff said employees of Calibers called 911 when the shooting occurred.

“When deputies arrived, the injured person was suffering from a single gunshot wound to the head. The injured person was transported by the Clovis Fire/EMS to the Plains Regional Medical Center, where he ultimately was flown via helicopter to Lubbock,” Brockett said.

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FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS SOLOMON GONZALES

A celebration of Solomon’s life will take place on Thursday, December 28, at Berardinelli Funeral Home, commencing with public visitation at 6pm and a rosary service at 7pm. A funeral mass will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, on Friday, December 29, at 11:45am, followed by a burial and graveside service at the Santa Fe, National Cemetery at 2pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Solomon’s honor to Ambercare, Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Food Bank are appreciated.

To view full obituary www.berardinellifuneralhome.com

BENITA LAURA GUTIERREZ

08/07/1987 - 12/25/2021 Two years have gone by and yet it seems like just yesterday that you left us and gained your Angel wings. Your smile, laughter, loving spirit and memories live with us ALL every single day, Mi Amor.

BERNADETTE V. GONZALES

September 27, 1957–December 4, 2023 Our Loving (Baby) sister went home with our Lord on December 4, 2023, after a lengthy illness. Our Angel gained her wings for sure.

Preceded in death were her parents Miguel and Ursula B. Espinoza, grandparents Juan and Palmedia Benavidez, Juilian and Adelida Espinoza, brothers Jose Arsenio, George, Miguel Thomas, Leroy E. Espinoza. Son’s Iwren B. and Cesar A. Gonzales. Brother–inlaw Peter A. Ortega, Nephew Michael

Espinoza.

Surviving her granddaughters, Unique U, Mercedes, great grandson Anthony Cesar Gonzales, David P. Ortega, raised together as if brother and sister, and many nieces and nephews. Special Friends Pauline, Donna Chavez and the Chavez Family.

Thank you, Pauline, for being there in this time of need, the Daily visits to and caring so much for Bernadette.

Special thanks to Patsy, Jessica and Mary Louis. The hospice for your loving care. Lynn, Donna, Beverly.

Thank you all so much.

Services: December 29, 2023 St. Anne’s Church. Santa Fe, NM 87505.

Rosary at 10:00 am Mass at 11:00 am Burial will follow the Rosario Cometary, Santa Fe, NM Please join us for the Celebration of Life at St. Anne’s Parish Hall after Burial.

ROBERT BOB GALLEGOS

Merry Christmas in heaven! It has been four years today since we have been able to celebrate with you. We miss you every day.

We miss your smile, your cooking and just all the conversations we used to have.

You are gone, but never forgotten. Not a day goes by that we don’t think about you, or your name isn’t brought up.

We love and miss you, Dad and Grandpa.

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus Editor’s Note: Every year, The New Mexican celebrates the spirit of Christmas by publishing this classic editorial confirming the existence of that merry elf, Santa Claus. The editorial ran in the New York Sun in 1897, written by Francis P. Church. The editorial was in response to a letter sent by 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who lived with her parents in Brooklyn.

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EAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.

Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Papa says “If you see it in the Sun, it is so.”

Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

VIRGINIA O’HANLON 115 W. 95TH ST.

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Lawmakers propose pause on issuing cannabis retailer licenses, Dec. 20

As a long-ago state liquor “ director for New Mexico, I

see a lot of warning signs about this licensing system building. Will it get to the point of a quota system, which will automatically invite corruption into the process? Will issued licenses be allowed to be bought and sold on the open market? Will organized crime start controlling those licenses, as they did with liquor licenses? Someone needs to take a look at the New Mexico Organized Crime Report in the late 1970s to see where this could be headed.”

James Baca Frankly, I hope they thin “ this herd; there are too

many marijuana stores right now, and not everyone wants them in their neighborhood.”

Dante Rosamontes

Pot and liquor. Next we’ll “ be hearing proposals to bring back drive-through liquor stores.”

Katherine Martinez

The headline is about “ limiting more retail licenses,

yet the proposal is to allow those with liquor licenses to obtain licenses for cannabis as well. How does that reduce the number of retail licenses? Sounds like a boondoggle for the alcohol industry, which is resisting a tax on retail alcohol sales — a tax this lobby has resisted successfully for decades.” Stefanie Beninato

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 25, 1998: Yes, Santa Claus did take the bypass during his stop in Santa Fe Thursday night.

But apparently he didn’t get stopped on the new semi-open road for speeding. Sgt. Randy Martin at Cornell Corrections said he hadn’t seen Santa at the county jail.

“We have at least one of his elves in here, though,” Martin said.

Police dispatchers throughout Northern New Mexico said that as of about 8 p.m., there had been no Santa sightings in the area.

“But I can pretty much guarantee we’ll get a few,” said the Santa Fe police dispatcher.

“Every year we get those calls.”

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Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as

dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your Papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or

imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond.

Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, maybe 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of children.

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Praying for peace in Bethlehem this Christmas

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othing in my childhood prepared me for this year.

I wrote in a decades-old column there was one family in our West EndFoggy Bottom neighborhood that never put up Christmas decorations or had a tree.

I didn’t know why. They lived in the back of their small grocery store at the corner of 23rd and L streets NW. All I knew was that the Colodnys were white people who never seemed to have the Christmas spirit.

Sometime later, I learned they were Jewish. Even if I had known back then, I’m not sure it would have meant anything, since my ethnic universe in the 1940s consisted of white and “colored” people, neighborhood Chinese laundry workers, the accented Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho on radio, vanquished Japanese soldiers and Germans who were white, too, but because of World War II were in a class all to themselves. That was about it.

The only thing I knew about Jews came from Sunday school. I think they were called Israelites. Jesus was one. That was my childhood worldview.

A baby lying in a manger in a town called Bethlehem was my vision. “O, little town of Bethlehem” was my song.

At Stevens Elementary School, where each day began with the recitation of Bible verses, and the Liberty Baptist Church’s Sunday school, the Christmas season heard us singing our little hearts out with: “Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.” I didn’t quite know what that meant or where Israel was. But we had the Christmas spirit and a place in mind called the Holy Land.

Nothing in my childhood, or in ensuing Christmases, prepared me for this year.

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the Palestinian town in which Jesus was born, have been canceled.

The festive lights and the Christmas tree in Manger Square will be missing. So, too,

crowds of visitors from around the world.

Bethlehem is in the shadow of war.

Church leaders and the small congregations in the West Bank, where Bethlehem is located, will meet and pray at midnight.

But there will be no marching bands or fireworks.

War, in the bloodiest and most destructive means possible, has descended. But its shadow has fallen not just over the Gaza Strip, which is home to more than 2 million Palestinians.

It’s a war that got started while Christians everywhere were preparing for Advent and the Incarnation.

The conflagration was touched off Oct. 7, when the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel, indiscriminatingly shooting, launching rockets, burning homes and committing unspeakable atrocities that left more than 1,200 dead, thousands wounded and savaged, and more than 200 hostages spirited to Gaza.

Celebrate Christmas with children living and dying under rubble? With people desperate for food and mercy?

Dare we now sing “The Holy City” carol? “As the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill. Jerusalem! Jerusalem!

Hark! How the angels sing, Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King! ...

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your gates and sing” with the apocalypse descending on Gaza? Can it be that Israel has actually dropped some 29,000 bombs on Gaza?

Celebrate the arrival of the Prince of Peace?

The consequences of hate spread beyond the battlefield.

Since Hamas’s attack, the Anti-Defamation League has registered the highest number of antisemitic incidents during any two-month period since it began tracking them in 1979.

The ADL is not referring to criticism of Israeli government policies. It cites the

presence of antisemitic rhetoric, open expressions of support for terrorism against the state of Israel and refusal by some people to accept the notion Jews have a historic or spiritual connection to the land of Israel and deserve a state of their own. So, too, by all that’s right and fair, Palestinians.

By that measure, there is an ugliness afoot in our country. As in the Holy Land.

You don’t have to be a Middle East expert to know that the 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank, most of which is under full Israeli control, are treated like dirt by many of the Israeli settlers.

The White House knows it, Congress knows it, the international community knows it. And many Christians know it, too.

And while we’re at it, during this season of “Peace on Earth and good will toward men,” let’s face another reality: Muslims, who are not all of one race, ethnicity, skin tone or language, also get short shrift or worse because they don’t believe Jesus is the sole pathway to God. Which gets me back to the Colodny family and our Christmases.

My goodness. What must it have been like for them?

Our public schools would have made their son, Irving, feel unwelcome and inferior because he wasn’t a Christian.

Our Christmas carols and Easter songs would have told him we thought our religion was better than his. Racially segregated though we were, we weren’t Jews and our Christianity put us among the majority.

Which meant diddly squat. I read somewhere that God’s eternal promise of Christmas is a closeness with humanity, forgiveness of sins and a radical, unconditional love for all. We ain’t there yet.

Despite it all, this Christmas, that’s what I’m praying for.

Colbert I. King is a columnist for The Washington Post.

LE T TERS T O THE EDIT OR

Performance Santa Fe hitting a hard patch

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t is with much sadness that I respond to the article (“Picking up the pieces at Performance Santa Fe,” Dec. 17). As a former finance manager at Performance Santa Fe, I would like to focus attention on the lives disrupted by the mismanagement and a lack of care from the current board. And for what reason? To date, there have been no reasons given for any staff member’s dismissal. It was my pleasure to work with many of the staff members, as recently as November, who were either fired or quit in the follow up to the dismissal of Amy Iwano.

I find it shameful the board has stood behind the decisions of a few. Many hard-working, respected and successful employees have departed what, by all measures, is a financially secure organization with a thriving and successful performance season. It is hard to imagine the board being able to find a new executive director, let alone all new permanent staff to pick up the pieces.

Rachel Brooks

Santa Fe

article (“Picking up the pieces at Performance Santa Fe,” Dec. 17).

Teri Thomas

Santa Fe

Back from the brink?

Is it time, finally, to have a reckoning with so-called “social media”? Do the benefits of “being connected” still outweigh the acknowledged and worsening harms being done to all of us, regardless of age or situation?

How much worse was life before the advent of this forprofit creation? How did we get by, and why couldn’t we manage to do so again? Hint: Many perfectly “normal” people go without social media altogether.

The division and hate permeating social media today threaten us all, from one political pole to the other. We face, in the next year, what former conservative Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney describes as a sleepwalk into dictatorship. If it’s true we don’t care enough to change our habits, then it’s also true we have surrendered our expectations for freedom.

No more After many years of volunteering for Performance Santa Fe, the explosion and subsequent resignation of the entire staff was unknown to me until I arrived to volunteer for an event at the Masonic Temple. I have and never will meet the board of directors. They never introduced themselves during my tenure. As a last act, Katie Rountree called on the best volunteers to operate without guidance — all of whom come from professional backgrounds. What ensued was a seat-ofthe-pants operation. But I, for one, am ending my volunteerism there in solidarity for the resigned and fired staff; they truly were the modicum of professionalism.

Performance Santa Fe will need to train a whole new group. I don’t think it will have volunteers after this

Editorial page editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 505-986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

Dave Wheelock

Demons Class of ’71 Santa Fe

At risk America’s energy future is at risk. Federal and state lawmakers across the country have been working to limit land for oil and natural gas development. New Mexico is joining this unfortunate trend as discussed in (“Drilling restrictions near Chaco extended to state lands,” Dec. 14.) Oil and natural gas are the foundation of American energy, supplying 70% of the energy we use every day. To continue having abundant, affordable energy for our future, it is imperative that we support future development. This requires new oil and natural

gas leases and infrastructure.

New Mexico’s oil and natural gas operators support 92,000 workers. These companies and their professionals generate $16 billion in total economic activity and contribute $327 million to conservation in the state. Energy production has long been an economic engine in the Land of Enchantment. Continued energy development can help ensure future generations have secure energy and a strong economy.

Holly Hopkins

vice president, upstream policy American Petroleum Institute Washington, D.C.

Thumbs up to EVs A response to the My View (“N.M. taking wrong road with EVs,” Dec. 17): The article’s main concern seems to be coercive aspects of New Mexico’s new clean air rules. That’s a legitimate concern, although coercive government regulation is nothing new — we are required to have driver’s licenses, for instance. The article does not mention the upsides of EVs in addition to addressing the climate crisis. As a long-time EV owner, I have enjoyed the benefits of an inherently better, quieter machine with lower maintenance, no oil changes and home charging with no gas stops. Per mile, electricity is cheaper than gas. Imagine Santa Fe without the deafening racket of gas vehicles with exhaust noise amplifiers instead of mufflers; cleaner, healthier air; and no gas and diesel exhaust stink. Considering federal and state subsidies, the cheapest EVs are now competitive with the cheapest gas vehicles.

While price is an issue, compare a mid-size EV with the plague of very expensive, spotless, scratchless, “monster show trucks” popular in Santa Fe. Tom Luebben

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t might be Christmas, but that doesn’t mean your thoughts shouldn’t stray too far from our favorite time of the year — basketball season.

If you’re looking for some good tournaments to check out, we have a couple of suggestions.

Head north to Las Vegas, N.M., for the Stu Clark Tournament that begins Wednesday. It will have a Northern flavor with Pecos, Taos, West Las Vegas, Las Vegas Robertson and St. Michael’s.

The first-round matchup between West Las Vegas and Pecos might be the best of Wednesday’s action as the undefeated Dons take on the reigning Class 2A champion Panthers.

Thursday could see an all-Northern semifinals, provided Taos beats Bernalillo, St. Michael’s downs Belen and Robertson takes down Socorro for the second time in a week. That would set up the matchup many in 3A are dying to see: Horsemen-Cardinals.

St. Michael’s has struggled to a 2-4 start this season, but almost pulled off the upset of Santa Fe High on Dec. 15 before falling 44-42. Robertson, meanwhile, is 5-1 and looking like the team to beat in 3A. If that doesn’t entice you, head south to the Rio Rancho Invitational, where Santa Fe High and Española Valley will take part in the tournament. The Demons get a first-round matchup with Albuquerque St. Pius X on Wednesday, and a win there would set them up against the host Rams. Rio Rancho is 4-2 and won the City of Champions Tournament in Artesia earlier this month.

Meanwhile, the Sundevils get a doozy of an opener when they take on an Albuquerque Hope Christian squad that is 2-3, but three of those games were against 5A competition. uuu

Santa Fe High head boys basketball coach Cisco Rivera said Saturday his program is exploring the possibility of playing out of state over the next season or two.

The Demons play in three tournaments this season: their own Capital City Tournament, this week’s Rio Rancho Invitational and the APS Metro Tournament in early January. Rivera did not indicate where Santa Fe High might go, but he does have coaching roots in California, having been an assistant under current Rio Rancho Cleveland head coach Zack Cole at Ramona from 2014-16.

“It’s about giving our boys an experience,” Rivera said. “Most of them have never left the state and just some different basketball would be good for them.”

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Miami Dolphins place kicker Jason Sanders kicks a field goal during the second half of Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Dolphins won 22-20 and secured a berth in the playoffs.

By Alanis Thames

The Associated Press

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. ason Sanders had waited all season for this moment. On a Miami Dolphins team that scores more touchdowns than any other in the NFL, the former All-Pro kicker hadn’t needed to attempt many field goals.

Sanders entered Sunday’s matchup against the Dallas Cowboys with just 21 field goal attempts on the year, but Miami needed his booming right leg in its biggest game of the season, and he delivered.

Sanders kicked his fifth field goal of the day, a 29-yarder as time expired, and the Dolphins secured a playoff berth with a 22-20 victory over the Cowboys.

“Not every year can be an All-Pro year,” said Sanders, who is 22 of 26 on field goals and 5 of 7 from 50-plus yards. “I think I’m still hitting the kicks. I’m still right where I need to be.”

Tua Tagovailoa threw for 293 yards and a touchdown for the AFC East-leading Dolphins (11-4),

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who beat a team with a winning record for the first time this season. He connected with Tyreek Hill twice on the decisive drive, which covered 64 yards and took the final 3:27 off the clock.

Hill, who leads the NFL in receiving yards, had nine catches for 99 yards after missing last week’s victory over the New York Jets with an ankle injury.

Miami has the NFL’s top passing and scoring offense, as well as a top-five rushing attack and an ascending defense. However, all the Dolphins’ wins entering Week 16 came against teams that were .500 or worse.

“It’s always big when you do something that, internally, you know that you’re capable of,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said. “When it comes to fruition, it’s pretty satisfying. ... Nobody on this team thought we were going to lose that game, and that’s pretty cool when everyone tells you that you can’t do X, Y or Z.” Dak Prescott went 20 of 32 for 253 yards and two touchdowns for the Cowboys (10-5), who have already clinched a playoff spot but fell a half-game behind Philadelphia in the NFC East.

TODAY ON TV 11 a.m. CBS — Las Vegas at Kansas City 11 a.m. Nickelodeon — Las Vegas at Kansas City (Nickelodeon’s NFL Nickmas Game) 2:30 p.m. FOX — N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia 6:15 p.m. ABC — Baltimore at San Francisco

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Prescott put Dallas in front 20-19 with an 8-yard touchdown pass to a leaping Brandin Cooks in the corner of the end zone. But the Cowboys were haunted by their red-zone struggles earlier in the game, including a fumble by Prescott on first-andgoal from inside the 1 on Dallas’ first possession.

“We’re not taking any moral victories from this,” Prescott said. “We will take some confidence. We’re committed to one another and holding each other accountable in our goal.”

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Lions beat Vikings for 1st division title since ’93

By Dave Campbell

The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Dan Campbell towered over the lectern in a black T-shirt commemorating Detroit’s first division title in 30 years, reveling in the moment as the bass from the locker room next door pulsated through the walls.

When the Lions played at Minnesota two years ago in Campbell’s first season, the 6-foot-5 head coach cried during his postgame news conference in the emotion of a crushing loss.

The NFL’s most famously losing

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A season ago, the Northern New Mexico College women’s basketball program made it to the Continental Athletic Conference Tournament with just six players on the roster.

A season late, the Eagles have a much

franchise has made major progress in so many ways.

Jahmyr Gibbs had two rushing touchdowns, Amon-Ra St. Brown had 106 receiving yards and a third-quarter go-ahead score and Ifeatu Melifonwu had the game-sealing interception at the 5-yard line with 49 seconds left to lead the Lions past the injury-ravaged Vikings 30-24 on Sunday.

“I’m proud of all the Lions fans out there who’ve been dying for this for years,” Campbell said. “That was for you, too.”

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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown breaks a tackle by Minnesota Vikings safety Theo Jackson during Sunday’s game in Minneapolis. The Lions won 30-24 for their first division title since 1993. ABBIE PARR/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NBA

Teams insist it’s special to be picked for annual Christmas slate

By Tim reynolds

The Associated Press

MIAMI — Erik Spoelstra was part of 12 Christmas games as a staff member, assistant coach or head coach in his first 20 seasons with the Miami Heat.

And in the eight seasons that followed, the Heat played on Christmas only once.

Here’s what he realized: For an NBA team, playing on Christmas beats not playing on Christmas.

The Heat return to the league’s holiday slate for the first time since 2020 on Monday, when they play host to the Philadelphia 76ers as part of the NBA’s traditional Christmas quintuple header.

The other games: Milwaukee at New York, Golden State visits defending champion Denver, Boston visits the Los Angeles Lakers in the rekindling of the NBA’s greatest all-time rivalry and Dallas goes to Phoenix.

“It is an honor to have that opportunity to play on Christmas,” Spoelstra said. “The whole league doesn’t play on the holiday and there were several years in a row where we were never even considered for playing on Christmas. And then you go back, you almost took it for granted that we were always playing on Christmas.”

Other teams also insist they don’t take it for granted.

Golden State playing on Christ-

TODAY ON TV 10 a.m. ESPN — Milwaukee at New York 12:30 p.m. ABC, ESPN — Golden State at Denver 3 p.m. ABC, ESPN — Boston at L.A. Lakers 6 p.m. ESPN — Philadelphia at Miami 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Dallas at Phoenix

mas has become a holiday tradition; the Warriors are on the Dec. 25 schedule for the 13th time in the last 14 years. And Warriors guard Stephen Curry still gets excited about what awaits.

“Marquee games on Christmas, it’s going to be a great atmosphere,” Please see story on Page B-2

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Eric J. Hedlund, ehedlund@sfnewmexican.com

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra celebrates as his team plays the Orlando Magic on Wednesday in Orlando, Fla. The Heat return to the league’s holiday slate for the first time since 2020 today.

KEVIN KOLCZYNSKI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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SCOREBOARD

Monday, December 25, 2023

TODAY ON TV

Fresno Pacific at Nevada, 10 p.m.

Southern Cal at Oregon St., 10 p.m.

UC Irvine at CS Bakersfield, 10 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 31 EAST

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S) 4 a.m. Tuesday NHLN — World Junior Hockey Championship Group Stage: Slovakia vs. Czech Republic, Group B, Gothenburg, Sweden NBA 10 a.m. ESPN — Milwaukee at New York 12:30 p.m. ABC, ESPN — Golden State at Denver 3 p.m. ABC, ESPN — Boston at L.A. Lakers

Kickoff Returns 1-33 2-39 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-33-0 16-30-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-4 1-8 Punts 4-44.25 3-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-2 Penalties-Yards 10-126 8-85 Time of Possession 37:16 22:44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Coastal Carolina, Vasko 17-50, White 9-40, Bennett 5-26, Graves 3-16, Simpkins 2-9, Balthazar 2-0, (Team) 2-(minus 4). San Jose St., Robinson 12-67, Cordeiro 7-59, Q.Conley 4-33, Jernagin 1-2, (Team) 1-(minus 2).

PASSING: Coastal Carolina, Vasko 20-33-0-199.

San Jose St., Cordeiro 16-30-0-215.

RECEIVING: Coastal Carolina, S.Pinckney 8-123, Duplessis 2-19, Graves 2-15, Karr 2-7, Bennett 2-2, Tucker 1-28, Simpkins 1-3, Alaimo 1-2, White 1-0. San Jose St., Olson 4-96, Ross 3-47, Miller 3-37, Q.Conley 2-5, Nash 1-24, Rogers 1-5, Robinson 1-1, Jernagin 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: San Jose St., Halvorsen 32.

Emerson at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m.

Morgan St. at NJIT, 4:30 p.m.

6 p.m. ESPN — Philadelphia at Miami 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Dallas at Phoenix

SOUTH

NFL 11 a.m. CBS — Las Vegas at Kansas City 11 a.m. NICKELODEON — Las Vegas at Kansas City (Nickelodeon’s NFL Nickmas Game) 2:30 p.m. FOX — N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia 6:15 p.m. ABC — Baltimore at San Francisco

Bethune-Cookman at Mississippi St., 3 p.m.

Ecclesia at Southern U., 3 p.m.

Bryant at Mississippi, 4 p.m.

Trevecca Nazarene at Jacksonville St., 5 p.m.

MIDWEST

New Hampshire at Iowa St., 1 p.m.

Robert Morris at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Cleveland St. at IUPUI, 2 p.m.

Detroit at Fort Wayne, 2 p.m.

Oakland at Youngstown St., 2:30 p.m.

North Dakota at S. Dakota St., 3 p.m.

Omaha at South Dakota, 3 p.m.

UMKC at St. Thomas (MN), 3 p.m.

Wright St. at Milwaukee, 3 p.m.

S. Indiana at Lindenwood (Mo.), 3:30 p.m.

Morehead St. at SE Missouri, 4:15 p.m.

W. Illinois at SIU-Edwardsville, 4:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

HOCKEY

FAR WEST

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

Monmouth (NJ) at Oklahoma, 3 p.m.

SC State at Oklahoma St., 3 p.m.

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC

W

L

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

22 20 16 14 11

6 8 12 15 18

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

17 17 12 7 5

11 12 17 20 23

Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit

22 17 14 13 2

7 13 14 18 27

SOUTHEAST

W

CENTRAL

PCT

L

W

L

W

PCT

PCT

L

PCT

Minnesota Denver Oklahoma City Utah Portland

22 21 18 12 7

6 10 9 18 21

Sacramento L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Golden State Phoenix

17 17 16 15 14

11 12 14 14 14

W

GB

.759 .567 .500 .419 .069

L

12 13 12 19 24

PACIFIC

— ½ 5½ 9½ 12

GB

PCT

17 17 15 9 4

W

.607 .586 .414 .259 .179

L

Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis San Antonio

NORTHWEST

— 2 6 8½ 11½

PCT

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST

GB

.786 .714 .571 .483 .379

AWAY

CONF

GB

L10

STR

HOME

AWAY

CONF

.786 .677 .667 .400 .250

— 2½ 3½ 11 15 — ½ 2 2½ 3

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SUNDAY’S GAMES

.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

11-5 11-4 10-3 9-6 7-8

10-5 10-8 8-4 4-13 4-11

6-6 6-8 6-11 6-8 7-6

15-3 13-8 12-8 8-14 3-16

14-10 14-9 13-9 11-12 10-10

FAR WEST

Kent St. at Saint Mary’s (Cal.), 8 p.m.

Oral Roberts at UMKC, 8 p.m.

Washington St. at Utah, 8:30 p.m.

Adams St. at Colorado St., 9 p.m.

E. New Mexico at New Mexico, 9 p.m.

San Diego St. at Gonzaga, 9 p.m.

Utah Valley St. at Boise St., 9 p.m.

Washington at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Westcliff at Pepperdine, 9 p.m.

Fresno St. at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Tarleton St. at Loyola Marymount, 10 p.m.

Arizona at California, 10:30 p.m.

Arizona St. at Stanford, 11 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 30 EAST

W

10 10 9 8 6 6 5 5 5

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L-1 L-2 W-1 W-5 L-2

12-1 11-2 10-5 8-5 3-10

New Orleans at Stephen F. Austin, 7:30 p.m.

SW Oklahoma at Tulsa, 8 p.m.

UNC-Greensboro at Texas, 8 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE USA

Utah St. Colorado St. Nevada New Mexico San Diego St. Boise St. Air Force Wyoming San Jose St. Fresno St. UNLV

6-4 8-2 5-5 6-4 3-7

W-2 W-4 L-1 W-2 L-2

12-10 11-11 14-8 6-16 4-16

SOUTHWEST

Phila. at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

PCT

8-2 7-3 7-3 5-5 1-9

9-6 8-7 3-10 7-8 2-12

18-7 11-7 12-10 8-12 2-18

Wright St. at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Aquinas College at W. Michigan, 4 p.m.

Kennesaw St. at Indiana, 6 p.m.

E. Kentucky at Purdue, 7 p.m.

Evansville at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.

Maine at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

McNeese St. at Michigan, 7 p.m.

N. Illinois at Iowa, 7 p.m.

N. Kentucky at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.

Wilberforce at Miami (Ohio), 7 p.m.

SC State at Nebraska, 7:30 p.m.

Denver at Omaha, 8 p.m.

Jackson St. at Northwestern, 8 p.m.

Robert Morris at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

South Dakota at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

St. Thomas (MN) at North Dakota, 8 p.m.

E. Illinois at SIU-Edwardsville, 8:30 p.m.

S. Indiana at SE Missouri, 8:30 p.m.

Fairleigh Dickinson at Illinois, 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

L

CONF

HOME

8-6 9-6 12-2 2-11 2-12

6-5 8-6 6-7 4-10 1-14

12-8 14-10 8-14 7-15 3-18

STR

Brooklyn at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Washington, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Houston, 6 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Utah at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.

Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

W

AWAY

CONF

L10

W-1 L-1 W-2 W-3 L-4

16-2 9-7 8-7 9-8 1-13

6-8 9-6 8-9 3-9 3-15

19-4 15-6 12-7 12-9 7-15

GB

TUESDAY’S GAMES

.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

HOME

AWAY

CONF

CONF

6-4 6-4 7-3 4-6 1-9

W-7 W-1 L-2 L-1 L-26

11-3 8-6 4-8 4-11 2-8

8-6 8-4 9-8 5-8 3-9

AWAY

Milwaukee at New York, 10 a.m.

Golden State at Denver, 12:30 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Lakers, 3 p.m.

Phila. at Miami, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

STR

HOME

AWAY

HOME

MONDAY’S GAMES

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

W-1 W-2 L-2 L-7 L-1

14-0 12-4 7-4 9-7 8-9

STR

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Liberty W. Kentucky Louisiana Tech UTEP Jacksonville St. Sam Houston St. Middle Tennessee FIU New Mexico St.

L10

STR

HOME

L10

— ½ 1 7½ 12½

No games scheduled.

PCT

4-6 6-4 3-7 1-9 2-8

W-2 W-2 L-1 W-1 L-3

GB

Milwaukee 130, New York 111 Boston 145, L.A. Clippers 108 Denver 102, Charlotte 95 Orlando 117, Indiana 110 Houston 106, New Orleans 104 Utah 126, Toronto 119 Memphis 125, Atlanta 119 Brooklyn 126, Detroit 115 Cleveland 109, Chicago 95 L.A. Lakers 129, Oklahoma City 120 Dallas 144, San Antonio 119 Golden State 126, Portland 106 Minnesota 110, Sacramento 98

L

L10

STR

9-1 6-4 4-6 6-4 0-10

SATURDAY’S GAMES

W

8-2 8-2 5-5 4-6 2-8

— 5½ 7½ 10 20

.586 .567 .556 .321 .143

.607 .586 .533 .517 .500

L10

W

12 11 11 11 10 8 7 7 7 6 5

L

PCT

L

PCT

3 3 4 5 7 7 8 9 9

1 1 1 1 2 4 5 5 6 6 5

.769 .769 .692 .615 .462 .462 .385 .357 .357

.923 .917 .917 .917 .833 .667 .583 .583 .538 .500 .500

Nevada vs. Georgia Tech at Honolulu, late

SCORES AND SCHEDULE Sunday, Dec. 24

FAR WEST

Temple 55, Portland 54 UMass 87, Old Dominion 65 TCU at Hawaii, late Nevada vs. Georgia Tech at Honolulu, late

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 SOUTH

Morgan St. at Virginia, 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Bethesda vs. Grand Canyon at Glendale, Ariz., 3 p.m.

Chicago St. at Cal Baptist, 10 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 28 EAST

Albany (NY) vs. LIU at Brooklyn, N.Y., 7 p.m.

Coppin St. at Maryland, 7 p.m.

SOUTH

Fort Valley St. at Jacksonville St., 7 p.m.

UALR at Tennessee Tech, 8:30 p.m.

UT Martin at Tennessee St., 8:30 p.m.

MIDWEST

Oakland at Cleveland St., 7 p.m.

Truman St. at Bradley, 8 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Cent. Arkansas at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

College of Biblical Studies Ambassadors at Texas Southern, 7 p.m.

Prairie View at UTSA, 8 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

Hofstra at St. John’s, Noon Mount St. Mary’s at Delaware St., Noon Pittsburgh at Syracuse, Noon Stonehill at Rutgers, Noon William & Mary at Navy, Noon Columbia at Fordham, 1 p.m.

Northeastern at Rhode Island, 1 p.m.

Saint Elizabeth at CCSU, 1 p.m.

Siena at UMass, 1 p.m.

Arcadia at Towson, 2 p.m.

Cleary Cougars at Duquesne, 2 p.m.

Howard at La Salle, 2 p.m.

Iona at Harvard, 2 p.m.

Le Moyne at Fairfield, 2 p.m.

Lehigh at Marist, 2 p.m.

Merchant Marine at Army, 2 p.m.

Mercy at Sacred Heart, 2 p.m.

Merrimack at Boston U., 2 p.m.

Princeton at Delaware, 2 p.m.

St. Peter’s at Bucknell, 2 p.m.

Marywood at Binghamton, 3:30 p.m.

Campbell at St. Francis (Pa.), 4 p.m.

Colgate at Cornell, 4 p.m.

Louisiana-Lafayette at Marshall, 4 p.m.

Md.-Eastern Shore at George Washington, 4 p.m.

Wagner at Manhattan, 7 p.m.

SOUTH

Lipscomb at Florida St., Noon Louisiana-Monroe at Appalachian St., 1 p.m.

Quinnipiac at Florida, 1 p.m.

Toccoa Falls at The Citadel, 1 p.m.

Anderson (SC) at Furman, 2 p.m.

Arkansas St. at Georgia St., 2 p.m.

Florida A&M at South Carolina, 2 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at VCU, 2 p.m.

Johnson & Wales (NC) at Presbyterian, 2 p.m.

Liberty vs. Alabama at Birmingham, Ala., 2 p.m.

Mobile at Nicholls, 2 p.m.

NC A&T at George Mason, 2 p.m.

Queens (NC) at Duke, 2 p.m.

Texas St. at James Madison, 2 p.m.

Troy at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.

Virginia Tech at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.

Alabama A&M at Georgia, 2:30 p.m.

Abilene Christian at W. Kentucky, 3 p.m.

Erskine at Jacksonville, 3 p.m.

Loyola (NO) at SE Louisiana, 3 p.m.

Southern Miss. at Georgia Southern, 3 p.m.

Coker at SC-Upstate, 4 p.m.

King (Tenn.) at W. Carolina, 4 p.m.

Lafayette at Richmond, 4 p.m.

Middle Tennessee at Murray St., 4 p.m.

UT Martin at Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.

UALR at Tennessee St., 4:30 p.m.

Dartmouth at Vanderbilt, 5 p.m.

Austin Peay at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Bellarmine at High Point, 7 p.m.

FAU at Florida Gulf Coast, 7 p.m.

South Alabama at Old Dominion, 7 p.m.

Chattanooga at Auburn, 9 p.m.

MIDWEST

Montana St. at Idaho St., 9 p.m.

Montana at Weber St., 9 p.m.

Portland St. at E. Washington, 9 p.m.

Sacramento St. at Idaho, 9 p.m.

Southern Cal at Oregon, 9 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara at UC Davis, 9 p.m.

CS Bakersfield at UC San Diego, 10 p.m.

CS Northridge at Cal Poly, 10 p.m.

Long Beach St. at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m.

UC Riverside at UC Irvine, 10 p.m.

UCLA at Oregon St., 10 p.m.

Virginia at Notre Dame, Noon Northwood (Mich.) at E. Michigan, 1 p.m.

Davidson vs. Ohio at Cleveland, 1:30 p.m.

Cent. Michigan at Loyola Chicago, 2 p.m.

Creighton at Marquette, 2 p.m.

Indiana St. at Michigan St., 2 p.m.

Longwood at Dayton, 2 p.m.

Cent. Arkansas at Missouri, 3 p.m.

Chicago St. at DePaul, 4 p.m.

Kansas vs. Wichita St. at Kansas City, Mo., 4 p.m.

St. Bonaventure vs. Akron at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Ill.-Chicago at S. Illinois, 7 p.m.

West Virginia vs. Ohio St. at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Elms at Holy Cross, 2 p.m.

Rider at Penn St., 2 p.m.

Brown at Stony Brook, 6:30 p.m.

Loyola (Md.) at Saint Joseph’s, 7 p.m.

Niagara at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

American at UMBC, 7:30 p.m.

LSU-Shreveport at North Texas, 2 p.m.

Schreiner at Texas A&M-CC, 4:30 p.m.

UNC-Wilmington at Arkansas, 5 p.m.

Paul Quinn at Lamar, 6 p.m.

Penn at Houston, 7 p.m.

Prairie View at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Seattle at UTEP, 9 p.m.

FAR WEST

FRIDAY, DEC. 29 EAST

SOUTH

Dillard at Tulane, 2 p.m.

Southern Wesleyan at Wofford, 2 p.m.

Talladega Tornadoes at Mercer, 2 p.m.

Valparaiso at Elon, 2 p.m.

Toccoa Falls at Winthrop, 4 p.m.

North Florida at Miami, 6 p.m.

Alabama St. at South Florida, 7 p.m.

Bethune-Cookman at UCF, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Stetson, 7 p.m.

ETSU at East Carolina, 7 p.m.

Illinois St. at Kentucky, 7 p.m.

Montreat at Coll. of Charleston, 7 p.m.

Radford at Clemson, 7 p.m.

Charleston Southern at North Carolina, 8 p.m.

Northwestern St. at LSU, 8 p.m.

UNC-Asheville at UAB, 8 p.m.

MIDWEST

Detroit at IUPUI, Noon

SOUTHWEST

FAR WEST

CS Northridge at Long Beach St., 4 p.m.

Montana St. at Weber St., 4 p.m.

N. Arizona at N. Colorado, 4 p.m.

UCLA at Oregon, 4 p.m.

Cal Maritime at Pacific, 5 p.m.

Cal Poly at UC Davis, 5 p.m.

FIU at Utah Tech, 5 p.m.

Portland St. at Idaho, 5 p.m.

Sacramento St. at E. Washington, 5 p.m.

MVSU at San Francisco, 6 p.m.

Montana at Idaho St., 6 p.m.

Wyoming at BYU, 6 p.m.

Yale at Santa Clara, 7 p.m.

Incarnate Word at Texas Rio Grande Valley, 7:30 p.m.

Louisiana Tech at Grand Canyon, 8 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara at UC Riverside, 8 p.m.

Antelope Valley at S. Utah, 8:30 p.m.

Cal Baptist at New Mexico St., 9 p.m.

ATLANTIC

Cal St.-Fullerton at Hawaii, 12 a.m.

Washington St. at Colorado, 2 p.m.

Carroll College at UNLV, 3 p.m.

Arizona at Stanford, 4 p.m.

Westcliff at San Diego, 4 p.m.

Oral Roberts at Denver, 5 p.m.

Washington at Utah, 6 p.m.

Arizona St. at California, 8 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia Washington Carolina New Jersey Pittsburgh Columbus

Myrtle Beach Bowl Conway, S.C. Ohio 41, Georgia Southern 21 Celebration Bowl Atlanta Florida A&M 30, Howard 26 New Orleans Bowl New Orleans Jacksonville St. 34, Louisiana 31, OT Cure Bowl Orlando, Fla. Appalachian St. 13, Miami (Ohio) 9 New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, N.M. Fresno St. 37, New Mexico St. 10 LA Bowl Hosted Inglewood, Calif.

UCLA 35, Boise St. 22 Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Texas Tech 34, California 14

Famous Toastery Bowl Charlotte, N.C. W. Kentucky 38, Old Dominion 35, OT

TUESDAY, DEC 19

Frisco Bowl Frisco, Texas UTSA 35, Marshall 17

44 100 85 40 115 105 40 96 87 39 118 120 36 121 113 35 95 112 32 106 121 24 100 103

32 23 8 33 16 8 33 18 11 31 17 9 34 17 13 32 17 13 32 15 13 35 11 18

1 9 4 5 4 2 4 6

47 108 89 41 104 108 40 101 92 39 77 86 38 111 110 36 109 115 34 93 90 28 108 128

CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

32 34 32 34 33 33 32 33

20 21 20 19 17 17 15 10

L OT PTS

8 11 9 15 14 15 13 22

4 2 3 0 2 1 4 1

44 44 43 38 36 35 34 21

L OT PTS

GF GA

114 125 109 107 103 100 100 80

100 104 82 104 95 111 103 123

GF GA

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Dallas 3, Nashville 2 Florida 4, Vegas 2 Toronto 4, Columbus 1 New Jersey 3, Detroit 2 Minnesota 3, Boston 2 Tampa Bay 2, Washington 1, SO Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 4, OT N.Y. Islanders 5, Carolina 4 N.Y. Rangers 4, Buffalo 3, OT St. Louis 7, Chicago 5 Seattle 3, Anaheim 2 Colorado 4, Arizona 1 Vancouver 7, San Jose 4 Los Angeles 5, Calgary 3

THURSDAY, DEC. 21

Boca Raton Bowl Boca Raton, Fla. USF 45, Syracuse 0

FRIDAY, DEC. 22

Gasparilla Bowl Tampa, Fla. Georgia Tech 30, UCF 17

SATURDAY, DEC. 23

Camellia Bowl Montgomery, Ala. N. Illinois 21, Arkansas St. 19 Birmingham Bowl Birmingham, Ala. Duke 17, Troy 10 Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Air Force 31, No. 24 James Madison 21 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise, Idaho Georgia St. 45, Utah St. 22 68 Ventures Bowl Mobile, Ala. South Alabama 59, Eastern Michigan 10 Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas Northwestern 14, Utah 7 Hawaii Bowl Honolulu, Hawaii Coastal Carolina 24, San Jose St. 14

SUNDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

MONDAY’S GAMES No games scheduled

TUESDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Columbus at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Boston at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Vegas at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY, DEC. 26

Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Bowling Green vs. Minnesota, noon First Responder Bowl Dallas Texas St. vs. Rice, 3:30 p.m.

Guaranteed Rate Bowl Phoenix Kansas vs. UNLV, 7 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27

Military Bowl Presented Annapolis, Md. No. 23 Tulane vs. Virginia Tech, noon Duke’s Mayo Bowl Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina vs. West Virginia, 3:30 p.m.

Holiday Bowl San Diego, Calif.

No. 16 Louisville vs. Southern Cal, 6 p.m.

Texas Bowl Houston No. 22 Oklahoma St. vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 28

Fenway Bowl Boston No. 17 SMU vs. Boston College, 9 a.m.

Pinstripe Bowl New York Rutgers vs. Miami, 12:15 p.m.

Pop-Tarts Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 19 NC State vs. Kansas St., 3:45 p.m.

Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas No. 12 Oklahoma No. 14 Arizona, 7:15 p.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 29

Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Clemson vs. Kentucky, 10 a.m.

Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas No. 15 Notre Dame vs. No. 21 Oregon St., noon Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Memphis vs. Iowa St., 1:30 p.m.

Cotton Bowl Arlington, Texas No. 7 Ohio St. vs. No. 9 Missouri, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 30

Peach Bowl Atlanta No. 10 Penn St. vs. No. 11 Mississippi, 10 a.m.

Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Maryland vs. Auburn, noon Orange Bowl Miami No. 4 Florida St. vs. No. 6 Georgia, 2 p.m.

Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz.

Toledo vs. Wyoming, 2:30 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 1

ReliaQuest Bowl Tampa, Fla. No. 13 LSU vs. Wisconsin, 10 a.m.

Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. No. 20 Iowa vs. No. 25 Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 18 Liberty, 11 a.m.

Rose Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal Pasadena, Calif.

No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 5 Alabama, 3 p.m.

Allstate Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal New Orleans No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas, 6:45 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 8

CFP National Championship Houston Semifinal winners, 5:30 p.m.

HAWAII BOWL SATURDAY COASTAL CAROLINA 24, SAN JOSE ST. 14 7 0

0 0

7 0

10 14

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24 14

First Quarter CCAR: Alaimo 2 pass from Vasko (Hensley kick), 3:16.

Third Quarter CCAR: Karr 2 pass from Vasko (Hensley kick), 3:19.

Fourth Quarter CCAR: FG Hensley 49, 14:16.

SJSU: Olson 35 pass from Cordeiro (Halvorsen kick), 12:27.

SJSU: Q.Conley 12 run (Halvorsen kick), 8:30.

CCAR: S.Pinckney 8 pass from Vasko (Hensley kick), 2:43.

A: 7,089.

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns

6 6 2 5 4 5 4 0

Vancouver 35 23 9 3 49 135 89 Vegas 35 21 9 5 47 122 96 Los Angeles 30 19 7 4 42 107 73 Calgary 34 14 15 5 33 102 115 Seattle 35 12 14 9 33 95 112 Edmonton 31 15 15 1 31 108 106 Anaheim 33 12 21 0 24 86 111 San Jose 34 9 22 3 21 73 140 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

MONDAY, DEC. 18

COASTAL CAROLINA SAN JOSE ST.

32 19 7 31 17 8 33 19 12 35 17 13 34 16 14 33 15 13 35 14 17 29 12 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas Colorado Winnipeg Nashville Arizona St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

CCAR

22 336 40-137 199 1--2

SJSU

22 374 25-159 215 0-0

FAVORITE

at KANSAS CITY at PHILADELPHIA at SAN FRANCISCO

OPEN

BASEBALL Major League Baseball National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with LHP Yuki Matsui on a five-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with C Tom Murphy on a two-year contract with an option for 2026.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Promoted WRs Dan Chisena and Kaden Davis to the active roster from the practice squad.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Promoted P Pat O’Donnell and OL John Legiue to the active roster from the practice squad. Placed FB Keith Smith on injured reserve. Signed TE Tucker Fisk to the active roster.

BUFFALO BILLS — Promoted RB Leonard Fournette to the active roster from the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Promoted G Gabe Jackson ad J.D. DiRenzo to the active roster from the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed K Cairo Santo to a four-year contract extension. Promoted WR Collin Johnson to the active roster from the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Promoted S Tanner McCallister and LB Charlie Thomas III to the active roster from the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Promoted DT Carl Davis and RB Malik Davis to the active roster from the practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS — Promoted K Michael Badgley and TE Anthony Firkser to the active roster from the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Promoted WR Bo Melton and S Benny Sapp III to the active roster from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Promoted OT Jared Veldheer and WR Ethan Fernea to the active roster from the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Promoted CB Ethan Bonner and LB Melvin Ingram to the active roster from the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted CB Jaylin Williams and WR Lucky Johnson to the active roster from the practice squad. Activated LB Jordan Hicks. Waived LB Nick Vigil.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed OT Conor McDermott on injured reserve. Promoted CB Breon Borders and TE Matt Sokol to the active roster from the practice squad. Signed C James Ferentz to the active roster.

NEW YORK JETS — Promoted FB Nick Bawden and LB Marcelino McCrary-Ball to the active roster from the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Promoted CB Kelvin Joseph and S Ty Okada to the active roster from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed LB JoJo Domann, T John Ojukwu and OL Andrew Rupcich to the active roster. Placed LBs Jack Giddens and Luke Gifford and DT Jeffery Simmons on injured reserve. Promoted DB Shyheim Carter and CB Tay Gowan to the active roster from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Promoted LS Tucker Addington and C Nolan Laufenberg to the active roster from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Activated C Trevor Zegras from injured reserve.

BOSTON BRUINS — Recalled D Ian Mitchell from Providence (AHL) loan.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reinstated D Damon Severson to the active roster.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Simon Edvinsson from Grand Rapids (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled D Jacob Moverare from Ontario (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Reassigned F Reece Newkirk to Bridgeport (AHL) from Worcester (ECHL).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Returned C Rhett Gardner to Lehigh Valley (AHL). Reassigned G Cal Peterson to Lehigh Valley.

Minor League Hockey American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Henderson F Grigori Denisenko two-games for a charging incident in a game on Dec. 22 against San Jose. Suspended Manitoba F Jeffrey Viel one-game for a roughing incident on Dec. 22 against Iowa.

CALGARY WRANGLERS — Loaned RW Mark Duarte to Rapid City (ECHL).

CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Loaned C Mark Senden and F Wilmer Skoog to Florida (ECHL).

IOWA WILD — Released C Gavin Hain from his professional tryout contract (PTO).

ONTARIO REIGN — Loaned D Max Martin to Greenville (ECHL).

TODAY

9½ 7½ 4½

10½ 13½ 6

O/U

(40½) (43½) (46½)

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL TUESDAY QUICK LANE BOWL DETROIT FAVORITE

Minnesota

OPEN

FIRST RESPONDER BOWL UNIVERSITY PARK, TEXAS

FAVORITE

Texas State

FAVORITE

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA

BOWL SCORES, SCHEDULE SATURDAY, DEC. 16

NFL MONDAY

7

OPEN 6½

GUARANTEED RATE BOWL PHOENIX

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Toronto Florida Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

SPORTS BETTING LINE

Kansas

WEDNESDAY MILITARY BOWL ANNAPOLIS, MD. FAVORITE

Virginia Tech

DUKE’S MAYO BOWL CHARLOTTE, N.C. FAVORITE

West Virginia

FAVORITE

3½

TODAY 3½

OPEN

TODAY

OPEN

TODAY

OPEN

TODAY

12½

5½

3½

HOLIDAY BOWL RANCHO SAN DIEGO, CALIF.

Louisville

TODAY

OPEN 6½

12½

9½

6½

TODAY

PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Recalled D Ethan Ritche from Maine (ECHL) loan.

ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Loaned D Nicolas Savoie to Jacksonville (ECHL).

ECHL ADIRONDACK THUNDER — Activated F Nicholas Blachman from reserve. Placed D Devon Becker on reserve.

ALLEN AMERICANS — Released D Matthew Sredl.

ATLANTA GLADIATORS — Activated F Nolan Burke from injured reserve and F Dylan Vander Esch from reserve. Placed D Luke Prokop on reserve and F Michael Marchesan on injured reserve, effective Dec. 21.

CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Activated G Talyn Boyko from injured reserve. Released G Spencer Taylor to the emergency backup goalie list (EBUG).

FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Placed D Aidan Sutter on reserve and D Shane Kuzmeski on injured reserve, effective Dec. 21.

FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Activated G Bret Brochu from reserve. Placed G Franquois Brassard on reserve.

GREENVILLE SWAMP RABBITS — Placed D Bobby Russell on reserve.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Activated D Cooper Jones from reserve. Place D Ben Zloty on reserve.

IOWA HEARTLANDERS — Recalled F Gavin Hain

7

O/U

UNDERDOG

(39½)

Bowling Green

O/U

UNDERDOG

O/U

UNDERDOG

O/U

UNDERDOG

(59½)

(67½)

(44½)

O/U

Rice

UNLV

Tulane

UNDERDOG

(54½)

North Carolina

O/U

UNDERDOG

(58½)

USC

from Iowa (AHL), Placed F Pavel Novak on reserve.

KALAMAZOO WINGS — Activated F Brad Morrison from reserve. Placed F Collin Adams on reserve.

MAINE MARINERS — Activated F Wyllum Deveaux from reserve. Placed D Connor Doherty on reserve.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS — Activated F Brandon Osmundson from reserve. Placed F Justin Young on reserve.

RAPID CITY RUSH — Placed F Ty Enns on reserve and G Jason Pawloski on injured reserve, effective Dec. 21.

TROIS-RIVIERES LIONS — Activated D Marc-Antoine Pepin from reserve. Placed F Anthony Beauregard on reserve.

TULSA OILERS — Placed F Davis Codd on injured reserve, effective Dec. 21.

WICHITA THUNDER — Activated G Trevor Gorsuch from injured reserve and F Aaron Miller from reserve. Place F Nick Nardella on reserve.

WORCESTER RAILERS — Activated F Todd Goehring from reserve. Placed F Zach White on reserve. Released D Jake Schultz from his standard player contract (SPC).

COLLEGE UConn — Named Tyson Brown football’s director of strength and conditioning.

Teams insist it’s special to be picked for annual Christmas slate Continued from Page B-1

Mostly the same teams

Curry said. “You know, we’ve been in that environment before, so I understand what it’s going to be like. On the road, it’s going to be fun to just compete.

It’s a test.”

The Christmas slate was long considered the unofficial point in the NBA schedule where more fans start paying attention.

Football is winding down, and the NBA games are all shown nationally either on ABC or ESPN. LeBron James will pay attention, too — but not until certain other Christmas business is complete. The NBA’s all-time leading scorer has played more games on Dec. 25 than anyone in league history, though his top priority entering the holiday is watching 9-year-old daughter Zhuri light up when she rips the wrapping paper off what’s coming her way.

“The only thing I care about Monday right now is my daughter waking up and opening her gifts,” James said Saturday after he and the Los Angeles Lakers beat Oklahoma City.

The Heat planned a short practice for Christmas Eve morning. They were getting most of Sunday off, along with Christmas morning. Players aren’t due at the arena until Monday afternoon for the game, with Spoelstra trying to make sure everyone gets time to celebrate as they wish.

“These are a bunch of wins,” Spoelstra said, “but we’ve just got to make sure we get the win.”

Of the 10 teams picked for Christmas this year, nine also played on Dec. 25 last year.

The exception is Miami — the Eastern Conference champion Heat are back on the Christmas schedule, and Memphis is off after debuting last year.

The Lakers are on the Christmas schedule for the 25th consecutive year while Golden State is playing for the 11th straight year.

Boston got a Christmas game for the eighth consecutive year, Milwaukee for the sixth straight and Dallas for the fourth in a row.

New York and Phoenix have been picked in each of the last three years, and Denver and Philadelphia are back on the Christmas schedule for the second straight season.

Most and least The Lakers have the most Christmas wins with 24, one more than the Knicks. The Knicks will play on Christmas for the 56th time, extending their record.

The teams without a Christmas win are Charlotte (0-0), Memphis (0-1) and Toronto (0-2).

James will aim for his 11th win on Christmas, which would break a tie with former teammate Dwyane Wade for the most by a player in NBA history.

James will play in his 18th Christmas game, extending his record; Kobe Bryant played in 16 for the league’s second-highest total.

Among active players, Kevin Durant has the second most and is set to play on Christmas for the 11th time when the Suns meet the Mavericks.

Spoelstra — who is 8-0 as a head coach on the holiday — will try to become the fifth coach with nine Christmas wins.

He would join Jack Ramsay (113), Phil Jackson (11-7), Gene Shue (9-4) and Red Auerbach (9-6).

Milestones await Dallas’ Luka Doncic will arrive in Phoenix 11 points shy of reaching 10,000 for his career. If he gets there Monday against the Suns, the milestone will come in his 358th career game — tying Bob McAdoo for the sixth-quickest trip to 10,000 points in NBA history.

The others who got there faster: Wilt Chamberlain (236 games), Michael Jordan (303), Elgin Baylor (315), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (319) and Oscar Robertson (334).

Meanwhile, for the Suns, Durant needs one point to become the fifth player in history with 300 on Christmas.

He’d join James (460 entering Monday), Bryant (395), Robertson (377) and Wade (314) on that list.

Christmas droughts Charlotte has not played in a Christmas game, and a few other franchises have been waiting a long time to be part of the holiday lineup.

Sacramento’s last Christmas game was 2003, Indiana’s was in 2004, Detroit’s was in 2005, Orlando’s was in 2011 and the most recent ones for Chicago and San Antonio were in 2016.

Quotable Warriors guard Klay Thompson told the team’s television broadcast Saturday night what awaits his prized English bulldog Rocco this year: “He does have a stocking. He’s got some rabbit jerky in there. He’s got some good stuff. So, Rocco’s well taken care of.”

But did Thompson get all of his teammates gifts? Evidently not. “The rookies just get to be benefited with my presence,” Thompson said.

NFL

NFLWEEK 16 STANDINGS

AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST W

x-Miami Buffalo e-N.Y. Jets e-New England

L

11 9 6 3

SOUTH

4 6 9 11

W

Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville e-Tennessee

NORTH

x-Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati Pittsburgh

7 7 7 10

W

L

11 10 8 8

WEST

T

PCT

T

PCT

L

T

5 7 8 10

W

SOUTH

Tampa Bay Atlanta New Orleans e-Carolina

NORTH

y-Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago

WEST

L

10 10 5 4

4 5 9 11

W

L

8 7 7 2

7 8 8 13

W

L

11 7 7 6

PCT

T

PCT

L

T

PF

.786 .533 .533 .200

AWAY

AFC

NFC

DIV

HOME

AWAY

HOME

4-3-0 4-3-0 5-3-0 2-6-0

3-4-0 5-3-0 5-2-0 1-6-0

6-1-0 3-4-0 3-4-0 3-3-0

AWAY

4-3-0 5-3-0 4-3-0 2-5-0

PF

5-2-0 4-3-0 2-5-0 4-3-0

PA

234 332 352 403

HOME

5-1-0 5-3-0 5-2-0 2-5-0

AFC

6-2-0 3-5-0 5-3-0 2-6-0

NFC

AFC

NFC

AFC

AFC

DIV

3-1-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 1-3-0

NFC

DIV

6-3-0 7-3-0 4-5-0 2-8-0

3-1-0 4-1-0 2-2-0 0-5-0

NFC

2-3-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 1-3-0

DIV

6-4-0 4-6-0 4-6-0 1-10-0

AFC

3-1-0 3-2-0 2-2-0 1-4-0

NFC

4-1-0 2-3-0 1-4-0 1-4-0

DIV

7-3-0 5-5-0 6-4-0 5-5-0

AFC

6-2-0 3-4-0 3-5-0 1-7-0

DIV

3-2-0 3-2-0 0-5-0 4-1-0

2-3-0 3-2-0 2-3-0 2-3-0

4-1-0 3-2-0 1-4-0 2-3-0

AWAY

2-2-0 3-2-0 4-1-0 0-4-0

4-0-0 3-2-0 5-0-0 2-2-0

7-2-0 4-5-0 4-5-0 3-7-0

5-3-0 3-5-0 2-6-0 3-6-0

4-4-0 2-5-0 3-5-0 0-8-0

3-2-0 2-3-0 2-2-0 2-3-0

7-3-0 7-3-0 3-7-0 6-5-0

5-2-0 3-4-0 1-5-0 3-4-0

HOME

5-1-0 7-0-0 3-3-0 1-5-0

5-5-0 6-4-0 6-5-0 3-7-0

AWAY

PA

2-2-0 2-3-0 2-2-0 1-4-0

3-2-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 2-3-0

NFC

DIV

9-1-0 6-4-0 6-5-0 2-8-0

5-0-0 4-1-0 1-4-0 0-5-0

GREEN BAY 33, CAROLINA 30

GREEN BAY CAROLINA

7 3

16 7

0 6

10 14

Pittsburgh 34, Cincinnati 11 Buffalo 24, L.A. Chargers 22

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta 29, Indianapolis 10 Cleveland 36, Houston 22 Detroit 30, Minnesota 24 Green Bay 33, Carolina 30 N.Y. Jets 30, Washington 28 Seattle 20, Tennessee 17 Tampa Bay 30, Jacksonville 12 Chicago 27, Arizona 16 Miami 22, Dallas 20 New England at Denver, 6:15 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Las Vegas at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 2:30 p.m.

Baltimore at San Francisco, 6:15 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 28

N.Y. Jets at Cleveland, 6:15 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 30

Detroit at Dallas, 6:15 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 31

Arizona at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

Las Vegas at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Miami at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

New England at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Washington, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 6:20 p.m.

CLEVELAND 36, HOUSTON 22 6 0

8 15

DETROIT 30, MINNESOTA 24

DETROIT MINNESOTA

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36 22

First Quarter Cle_J.Ford 4 run (Hopkins kick), 13:18.

Second Quarter Cle_Cooper 75 pass from Flacco (Hopkins kick), 11:54.

Hou_Pierce 98 kickoff return (Fairbairn kick), 11:51.

Cle_Njoku 21 pass from Flacco (Thompson-Robinson run), 4:16.

Third Quarter Cle_Cooper 7 pass from Flacco (run failed), 2:35.

Fourth Quarter Cle_Hunt 1 run (Cooper pass from Flacco), 12:31.

Hou_N.Collins 5 pass from Mills (N.Collins pass from Mills), 6:08.

Hou_Beck 1 pass from Mills (Fairbairn kick), 4:12.

A_70,831.

CLE

HOU

7 7

10 7

6 7

7 3

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30 24

First Quarter Det_Montgomery 1 run (Badgley kick), 7:13.

Min_Chandler 2 run (G.Joseph kick), 2:51.

Second Quarter Det_FG Badgley 37, 5:05.

Det_Gibbs 14 run (Badgley kick), 1:48.

Min_Ju.Jefferson 26 pass from Mullens (G.Joseph kick), :29.

Third Quarter Min_Osborn 6 pass from Mullens (G.Joseph kick), 11:56.

Det_St. Brown 1 pass from Goff (kick blocked), 4:38.

Fourth Quarter Det_Gibbs 3 run (Badgley kick), 11:07.

Min_FG G.Joseph 26, 5:19.

A_66,932.

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards

DET

28 389 36-143 246 0-0 0-0 4-33 30-40-0 1-11 3-47.667 2-1 9-52

MIN

19 390 11-17 373 1-5 2-39 0-0 22-36-4 4-38 2-50.0 2-0 8-64

GB

INDIANAPOLIS ATLANTA

CAR

7 7

0 6

3 7

0 9

Dolphins nip Cowboys Continued from Page B-1

Sanders’ first field goal was a career-long 57-yarder in the first quarter. He added kicks of 52, 54 and 35 yards to help the Dolphins take a 19-10 lead late in the third.

Dallas got back into the red zone early in the fourth quarter, but Miami’s defense held and the Cowboys settled for a field goal to get within 19-13.

Prescott’s dynamic playmaking kept Dallas in it. On the go-ahead drive, he completed a pass to Michael Gallup as Miami linebacker Duke Riley was pulling him to the ground at the 21.

After Miami safety DeShon Elliott was flagged for defensive holding in the end zone on

fourth-and-goal, Prescott got the ball to Cooks, who hauled in the ball over All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey.

CeeDee Lamb caught six passes for 118 yards for the Cowboys, including a 49-yard score in the first quarter.

Raheem Mostert scored his NFL-leading 21st touchdown of the season on a grab from Tagovailoa just before halftime.

The 31-year-old, who was undrafted out of Purdue in 2015 and bounced around the league earlier in his career, had 46 yards rushing Sunday to put him over 1,000 yards for the first time in his career. He’s the Dolphins’ first 1,000-yard rusher since Jay Ajayi in 2016.

Miami defensive coordinator

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First Quarter Ind_Taylor 1 run (Gay kick), 9:24.

Atl_Pitts 24 pass from Heinicke (Koo kick), 7:42.

Second Quarter Atl_FG Koo 23, 3:23.

Atl_FG Koo 47, :05.

Third Quarter Atl_Allgeier 31 run (Koo kick), 11:13.

Ind_FG Gay 33, 4:23.

Fourth Quarter Atl_FG Koo 41, 14:06.

Atl_FG Koo 35, 5:46.

Atl_FG Koo 25, 1:57.

A_69,221.

IND

ATL

First downs 20 23 Total Net Yards 262 406 Rushes-yards 25-92 30-177 Passing 170 229 Punt Returns 0-0 3-11 Kickoff Returns 0-0 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-37-1 23-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 6-31 1-0 Punts 4-48.25 3-44.667 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 4-29 4-35 Time of Possession 30:36 29:24 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Indianapolis, Taylor 18-43, Minshew 4-31, Goodson 1-15, Sermon 2-3. Atlanta, Robinson 12-72, Allgeier 9-69, Patterson 7-26, Heinicke 2-10.

PASSING_Indianapolis, Minshew 20-37-1-201. Atlanta, Heinicke 23-33-0-229.

RECEIVING_Indianapolis, Downs 6-39, Granson 5-62, Mallory 4-47, Pierce 3-30, Goodson 1-15, Montgomery 1-8. Atlanta, Robinson 7-50, J.Smith 4-32, Pitts 3-49, D.London 3-39, Patterson 2-7, Allgeier 1-19, Miller 1-15, Jefferson 1-13, Hodge 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Atlanta, Koo 49.

SEATTLE 20, TENNESSEE 17 SEATTLE TENNESSEE

0 0

3 10

3 0

14 7

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20 17

Second Quarter Ten_Okonkwo 12 pass from Henry (Folk kick), 14:15.

Sea_FG Myers 28, 10:48.

Ten_FG Folk 33, 3:18.

Third Quarter Sea_FG Myers 27, 9:53.

Fourth Quarter Sea_Metcalf 11 pass from G.Smith (Myers kick), 12:10.

Ten_Henry 2 run (Folk kick), 3:21.

Sea_Parkinson 5 pass from G.Smith (Myers kick), :57.

A_60,181.

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PASSING_Seattle, Smith 25-36-0-227. Tennessee, Tannehill 18-26-0-152, Henry 1-1-0-12.

RECEIVING_Seattle, Lockett 8-81, Smith-Njigba 6-61, Metcalf 4-56, Parkinson 3-17, Bobo 1-8, Dissly 1-6, Walker 1-2, Charbonnet 1-(minus 4). Tennessee, Okonkwo 6-63, Spears 5-27, Burks 2-25, Hopkins 2-20, Henry 1-11, Moore 1-9, Kinsey 1-6, Dowell 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

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PASSING_Green Bay, Love 17-28-0-219. Carolina, Young 23-35-0-312.

RECEIVING_Green Bay, Doubs 4-79, Kraft 4-60, Melton 4-44, Wicks 2-29, A.Jones 1-8, Heath 1-0, Taylor 1-(minus 1). Carolina, Chark 6-98, Thielen 6-94, Tremble 4-59, Sullivan 3-21, Smith-Marsette 1-18, Mingo 1-9, Hubbard 1-8, Sanders 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

N.Y. JETS 30, WASHINGTON 28

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper catches a pass as Houston Texans linebacker Denzel Perryman defends during the second half of Sunday’s game in Houston.

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Car_FG Pineiro 52, 5:24.

Second Quarter GB_Love 1 run (kick failed), 14:57.

Car_Smith-Marsette 20 run (Pineiro kick), 10:29.

GB_FG Carlson 53, 7:51.

GB_Wicks 21 pass from Love (Carlson kick), :49.

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Car_Chark 11 pass from Young (kick failed), 7:14.

Car_Chark 10 pass from Young (Blackshear run), 4:05.

GB_FG Carlson 32, :19.

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ATLANTA 29, INDIANAPOLIS 10 First downs 26 20 Total Net Yards 418 250 Rushes-yards 30-54 16-72 Passing 364 178 Punt Returns 2-18 2-15 Kickoff Returns 1-36 6-183 Interceptions Ret. 2-9 2-0 Comp-Att-Int 28-44-2 26-49-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-10 3-33 Punts 3-49.333 6-44.333 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 9-55 10-76 Time of Possession 33:34 26:26 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Cleveland, J.Ford 15-25, Strong 5-22, Hunt 7-11, Flacco 2-1, Thompson-Robinson 1-(minus 5). Houston, Singletary 9-44, Mills 2-9, Woods 1-7, Ogunbowale 1-6, Pierce 3-6.

PASSING_Cleveland, Flacco 27-42-2-368, Thompson-Robinson 1-2-0-6. Houston, Mills 15-32-0-149, Keenum 11-17-2-62.

RECEIVING_Cleveland, Cooper 11-265, Njoku 6-44, Moore 2-19, Akins 2-18, Tillman 2-13, Hunt 2-5, Da.Bell 1-6, Bryant 1-6, J.Ford 1-(minus 2).

Houston, Schultz 8-61, N.Collins 4-18, Brown 3-38, Singletary 3-19, Jordan 2-27, Woods 2-14, Beck 2-6, Hutchinson 1-18, Pierce 1-10.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

L.A. Rams 30, New Orleans 22

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PASSING_Detroit, Goff 30-40-0-257. Minnesota, Mullens 22-36-4-411.

RECEIVING_Detroit, St. Brown 12-106, Williams 5-43, Gibbs 4-20, LaPorta 3-18, Raymond 2-29, Montgomery 2-14, J.Reynolds 1-16, Peoples-Jones 1-11. Minnesota, Jefferson 6-141, Osborn 5-95, Hockenson 4-58, Powell 3-53, Oliver 1-33, Mundt 1-23, Ham 1-6, Addison 1-2.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

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First Quarter NYJ_FG Zuerlein 25, 13:00.

NYJ_Brownlee 8 pass from Siemian (Zuerlein kick), 11:29.

NYJ_Bre.Hall 36 run (Zuerlein kick), 9:37.

Second Quarter NYJ_FG Zuerlein 27, 9:10.

Was_Rodriguez 12 run (Slye kick), 6:48.

NYJ_Bre.Hall 2 run (Zuerlein kick), 1:42.

Third Quarter Was_L.Thomas 15 pass from Brissett (Slye kick), 3:31.

Fourth Quarter Was_Rodriguez 1 run (Slye kick), 9:36.

Was_Gibson 2 run (Slye kick), 4:55.

NYJ_FG Zuerlein 54, :05.

A_67,470.

Vic Fangio opted to not have Ramsey shadow Lamb, and it initially looked like the dynamic fourth-year receiver would make him pay for it. Lamb torched the rest of Miami’s secondary early for 93 yards on four catches in the first quarter.

Prescott hit Lamb on a crossing route that went 22 yards on the Cowboys’ second possession.

A few plays later, Lamb beat second-year cornerback Kader Kohou in the slot for a catch-andrun touchdown that put Dallas ahead 7-3.

After giving up more than 150 yards on Dallas’ first two drives, Miami’s defense settled in.

Fangio dialed up more pressures, and it worked. The Dolphins sacked Prescott four times, which gave them a franchise-best 50 on the season and forced four straight Cowboys punts.

Monday, December 25, 2023 WAS

TAMPA BAY 30, JACKSONVILLE 12 0 3

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First Quarter TB_FG McLaughlin 24, 7:22.

Second Quarter TB_Evans 3 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), 12:53.

TB_FG McLaughlin 31, 2:27.

TB_Evans 22 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin kick), :45.

Third Quarter TB_R.White 2 run (McLaughlin kick), 11:30.

TB_FG McLaughlin 51, 3:49.

Jac_Ridley 18 pass from Lawrence (pass failed), :50.

Fourth Quarter Jac_Ridley 1 pass from Beathard (pass failed), 4:36.

A_62,547.

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First downs 23 22 Total Net Yards 305 335 Rushes-yards 13-37 36-70 Passing 268 265 Punt Returns 2-10 1-6 Kickoff Returns 5-106 1-17 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-10 Comp-Att-Int 28-44-2 26-35-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-37 2-18 Punts 1-65.0 2-50.5 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 0-0 Penalties-Yards 2-20 6-44 Time of Possession 22:53 37:07 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Jacksonville, Lawrence 4-29, Etienne 6-12, Beathard 1-6, D.Johnson 1-2, Ridley 1-(minus 12). Tampa Bay, R.White 20-39, Edmonds 1025, Mayfield 5-5, Godwin 1-1.

PASSING_Jacksonville, Lawrence 17-29-2-211, Beathard 11-15-0-94. Tampa Bay, Mayfield 2635-0-283.

RECEIVING_Jacksonville, Engram 10-95, Ridley 6-90, Cooks 3-38, T.Jones 3-32, Etienne 3-19, Washington 2-19, Agnew 1-12. Tampa Bay, Evans 7-86, Godwin 6-78, R.White 6-38, Palmer 4-42, Durham 1-25, Moore 1-7, Otton 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_Jacksonville, McManus 52.

CHICAGO 27, ARIZONA 16

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First Quarter Chi_Fields 3 run (Santos kick), 6:16.

Second Quarter Chi_Herbert 11 run (Santos kick), 12:54.

Chi_Lewis 1 pass from Fields (Santos kick), 7:12.

Ari_Conner 16 pass from K.Murray (Prater kick), 2:27.

Third Quarter Ari_FG Prater 55, 12:12.

Chi_FG Santos 49, 1:04.

Fourth Quarter Ari_Dortch 38 pass from K.Murray (pass failed), 6:37.

Chi_FG Santos 29, 1:02.

A_59,978.

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First downs 16 22 Total Net Yards 306 420 Rushes-yards 20-93 39-250 Passing 213 170 Punt Returns 1-4 1-11 Kickoff Returns 3-87 1-26 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 24-38-0 15-27-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-17 1-0 Punts 6-52.167 5-52.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 2-8 5-35 Time of Possession 25:28 34:32 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Arizona, Conner 12-45, Murray 5-32, Demercado 2-10, Moore 1-6. Chicago, Herbert 20112, Fields 9-97, R.Johnson 9-37, V.Jones 1-4.

PASSING_Arizona, Murray 24-38-0-230. Chicago, Fields 15-27-1-170.

RECEIVING_Arizona, Demercado 7-40, McBride 6-31, Conner 5-67, Dortch 2-45, Moore 2-30, Higgins 2-17. Chicago, Kmet 4-107, Moore 3-18, R. Johnson 3-16, Mooney 2-5, Tonyan 1-14, Herbert 1-9, Lewis 1-1.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

MIAMI 22, DALLAS 20 DALLAS MIAMI

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First downs 18 26 Total Net Yards 245 381 Rushes-yards 22-102 36-164 Passing 143 217 Punt Returns 4-43 1-9 Kickoff Returns 1-6 3-82 Interceptions Ret. 1-52 2-16 Comp-Att-Int 16-35-2 27-49-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-13 0-0 Punts 8-36.75 6-48.667 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 8-68 14-150 Time of Possession 23:44 36:16 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Washington, Rodriguez 10-58, Gibson 9-30, Brissett 1-10, Samuel 2-4. N.Y. Jets, Bre.Hall 20-95, Abanikanda 9-43, Siemian 4-18, Gipson 1-16, Conklin 1-0, G.Wilson 1-(minus 8).

PASSING_Washington, Brissett 10-13-0-100, Howell 6-22-2-56. N.Y. Jets, Siemian 27-49-1-217.

RECEIVING_Washington, Thomas 5-36, McLaurin 3-50, Bates 3-14, Dotson 2-31, Samuel 1-16, Rodriguez 1-7, Gibson 1-2. N.Y. Jets, Bre.Hall 1296, G.Wilson 9-76, Conklin 4-36, Brownlee 1-8, Gipson 1-1.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

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First Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 57, 2:50.

Dal_Lamb 49 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), 1:41.

Second Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 52, 4:31.

Mia_Mostert 4 pass from Tagovailoa (J.Sanders kick), :21.

Third Quarter Mia_FG J.Sanders 54, 8:59.

Dal_FG Aubrey 43, 5:28.

Mia_FG J.Sanders 35, 1:24.

Fourth Quarter Dal_FG Aubrey 33, 12:31.

Dal_Cooks 8 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), 3:33.

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First downs 19 22 Total Net Yards 339 375 Rushes-yards 25-97 26-91 Passing 242 284 Punt Returns 1-2 2-32 Kickoff Returns 1-1 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-32-0 24-37-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-11 1-9 Punts 3-59.333 2-55.5 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 6-38 5-33 Time of Possession 31:02 28:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Dallas, Pollard 12-38, Prescott 5-25, Lamb 2-14, Cooks 1-9, Turpin 1-4, Dowdle 2-4, Luepke 2-3. Miami, Mostert 11-46, Achane 7-24, J.Wilson 5-21, Waddle 1-2, Tagovailoa 2-(minus 2).

PASSING_Dallas, Prescott 20-32-0-253. Miami, Tagovailoa 24-37-0-293.

RECEIVING_Dallas, Lamb 6-118, Ferguson 4-45, Tolbert 2-51, Cooks 2-14, Gallup 2-4, Luepke 1-8, Pollard 1-5, Schoonmaker 1-4, Turpin 1-4. Miami, T.Hill 9-99, Smythe 5-56, C.Wilson 3-42, Ingold 2-12, Waddle 1-50, Chosen 1-19, Achane 1-7, Mostert 1-4, J.Wilson 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

“It’s just finally good to get over that hump of the narrative and changing the narrative to be what we want it to be,” linebacker Bradley Chubb said, “and it’s just been dope to see this team come together, not worry about the outsiders, the naysayers and just do what we do and prepare like we’re a championship team each and every week.”

INJURIES Dolphins: WR Robbie Chosen left in the first quarter to be evaluated for a concussion and did not return. ... WR Jaylen Waddle left briefly after being poked in the eye in the second quarter. He returned, but then limped off the field after a tackle in the third quarter. He was ruled out with a shin injury.

UP NEXT Cowboys: Host Detroit on Saturday night.

Dolphins: At Baltimore on Sunday.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans, center, runs past Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell, right, and safety Andre Cisco after a reception during the first half of Sunday’s game in Tampa, Fla.

Surging Bucs beat reeling Jags for 4th straight win The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. — Baker Mayfield threw for 283 yards and two touchdowns to help the NFC Bucs 30 South-leading Tampa Bay Jaguars 12 Buccaneers beat Trevor Lawrence and the reeling Jacksonville Jaguars 30-12 for their fourth straight victory on Sunday.

The Jaguars (8-7) lost their fourth game in a row, this time with Lawrence starting but struggling to find a rhythm after spending the past week in the NFL’s concussion protocol. The third-year quarterback threw a second-half TD pass to Calvin Ridley before spending the fourth quarter on the bench with what the Jaguars announced was a shoulder injury.

A week after having a perfect passer rating of 158.3 in a road win at Green Bay, Mayfield threw a pair of TDs to Mike Evans in building a 20-0 halftime lead. In both cases, the Bucs cashed in on interceptions Lawrence tossed on two of Jacksonville’s first three possessions.

Evans finished with seven receptions for 86 yards. The touchdown catches were his 12th and 13th of the season, and the 10th-year pro joined Hall of Famers Jerry Rice (8), Terrell Owens (7), Marvin Harrison (6) and Randy Moss (6) as the only players in NFL history to have at least 12 TD receptions in five different seasons.

The victory, combined with New Orleans’ loss to the Los Angeles Rams last Thursday night, left the first-place Bucs (8-7) alone atop the NFC South with two weeks left in the regular season. The Saints (7-8) visit Raymond James Stadium on Sunday.

Despite losing four straight, the Jaguars remain tied for first place in the AFC South with the Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans, who also lost on Sunday.

BROWNS 36, TEXANS 22 In Houston, Amari Cooper set a franchise record with 265 yards receiving and scored two touchdowns and a 2-point conversion as Cleveland beat the Texans to move closer to a playoff berth.

The Browns (10-5) are all but guaranteed to secure their second postseason appearance since 2002. It’s the third time since 1999 that they’ve reached double-digit wins, doing so in 2007 and 2020.

Joe Flacco threw for 368 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions in his fourth start for the Browns, who built a 22-7 halftime lead and cruised to their third straight victory.

Cooper broke the Browns record previously held by Josh Gordon, who had 261 yards receiving against Jacksonville on Dec. 1, 2013. Cooper has 1,250 yards receiving, making him the first receiver in team history with consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.

The Texans (8-7) saw their playoff chances diminish. Case Keenum threw for 62 yards with two interceptions in his second start in place of star rookie C.J. Stroud, who remains out with a concussion. Keenum was replaced

by Davis Mills late in the third quarter.

SEAHAWKS 20, TITANS 17 In Nashville, Tenn., Geno Smith threw his second touchdown pass of the fourth quarter, a 5-yarder to Colby Parkinson with 57 seconds left, and Seattle beat Tennessee to remain in playoff contention.

The Seahawks (8-7) have won two straight but still need to win out and get some help to clinch their second playoff berth in three seasons. The Titans (5-10) lost consecutive games for the third time this season.

Smith, who missed the past two games with an injured groin, gave the Seahawks their first lead at 13-10 when he found DK Metcalf

in the left corner for an 11-yard TD with 12:10 left.

Derrick Henry put Tennessee back up 17-13 with a 2-yard TD run with 3:21 left.

Smith responded by driving the Seahawks 75 yards over 14 plays for the decisive score.

FALCONS 29, COLTS 10 In Atlanta, Taylor Heinicke provided turnover-free leadership at quarterback, passing for 229 yards and a touchdown to lead the Braves past Indianapolis.

The Falcons (7-8) benched Desmond Ridder this week for the second time this season following two straight losses. Heinicke delivered, completing 23 of 33 passes, including a 24-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Pitts. Tyler Allgeier added a 31-yard touchdown run.

The Falcons set a season high in scoring.

The Colts (8-7), who had won five of six, struggled offensively after opening the game with a long drive capped by Jonathan Taylor’s 1-yard scoring run. Gardner Minshew for 201 yards and was intercepted by Jessie Bates in the fourth quarter.

Younghoe Koo kicked five field goals for Atlanta.

PACKERS 33, PANTHERS 30 In Charlotte, N.C., Jordan Love threw for two touchdowns, ran for one and made two big completions to set up Anders Carlson’s 32-yard field goal with 19 seconds left, and Green Bay survived a fourth-quarter rally by the Panthers.

Love threw touchdown passes of 21 yards to rookie Dontayvion Wicks and 5 yards to Romeo Dobbs and scored on a quarterback sneak as the Packers snapped a two-game losing streak. Aaron Jones became the first Packers player this season to exceed 100 yards rushing or receiving in a game, rushing for 127 yards on 21 carries.

The Packers (7-8) remain one game behind the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams in the NFC wild-card race.

Bryce Young threw for a careerhigh 312 yards with two touchdown passes to DJ Chark for the Panthers (2-13). Carolina trailed 30-16 in the fourth quarter before rallying to tie the game, but Love came through for Green Bay in the closing minutes.

JETS 33, COMMANDERS 30 In East Rutherford, N.J., Greg Zuerlein kicked a 54-yard field goal with 5 seconds left, and New York beat Washington after blowing a 20-point, third-quarter lead.

Jacoby Brissett replaced the benched Sam Howell in the third quarter and led the Commanders on three straight touchdown drives, including Antonio Gibson’s 2-yard run that put Washington ahead 28-27 with 4:52 remaining.

The Jets (6-9) got the ball back with 1:41 remaining, and Trevor Siemian marched New York into range for Zuerlein’s kick. It was the second win in eight games for the Jets.

Siemian finished 27 of 49 for 217 yards with a touchdown pass and an interception in his first start in place of the injured Zach Wilson.

Breece Hall ran for 95 yards and two TDs and caught 12 passes for 96 yards.

Brissett was 10 of 13 for 100 yards and a touchdown in relief of Howell, who was benched for the second straight game. Howell was 6 of 22 for 56 yards and two interceptions with a 1.7 rating for the Commanders (4-11), who have dropped six straight.

BEARS 27, CARDINALS 16 In Chicago, Justin Fields threw for a touchdown and ran for a score, and the Bears beat Arizona.

Tight end Cole Kmet caught four passes for a career-high 107 yards despite missing the second half because of a knee injury.

Khalil Herbert ran for a season-high 112 yards and a touchdown, and the Bears (6-9) bounced back after a late collapse at Cleveland a week earlier.

Chicago scored touchdowns on three straight possessions in the first half to take a 21-0 lead and held on from there.

Kyler Murray threw for 230 yards and two touchdowns for the Cardinals (3-12).

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deal to sell part of club to billionaire fan Jim Ratcliffe

Eagles fans have long turned the page on 1968 snowball fiasco

By Dan Gelston

The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA t’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

You know what that means in Philadelphia: Santa and snowballs and a time of month that cursed Philly fans for almost six decades with a reputation that they are the most belligerent and boorish in all of sports.

You’ve surely heard the annual Christmas tale before, of how fans near the end of one of the worst seasons in Eagles history dipped their fingers into snow at Franklin Field on a frigid December afternoon, cupped their hands and pelted poor ol’ Santa Claus with snowballs — long before anyone was beaten at Dodgers Stadium, or a Kansas City Royals coach was assaulted on the infield, or the “Malice at the Palace” occurred, or any of the other countless incidents of abominable behavior that surely would stain any other team’s fanbase — except they weren’t from Philly.

The Eagles, only six years removed from an NFL championship, started 0-8 in 1968 under coach Joe Kuharich and seem poised to finish with the worst record in the league and earn the No. 1 draft pick in the draft. That meant a chance at selecting USC running back O. J. Simpson.

Only once the Eagles won two straight games — hadn’t anyone heard of Tankadelphia? — essentially surrendering the top spot to Buffalo, disillusioned fans were fed up headed into the finale. And when the Eagles needed a pinchhit Santa to fill in for the real-deal halftime act either stranded elsewhere in a snowstorm or simply no-showing because of one, they plucked a fan out of the stands who happened to dress as Saint Nick to toss candy canes into the crowd.

As instructed, 20-year-old Frank Olivo ran downfield past a row of elf-costumed “Eaglettes” and the team’s 50-person brass band playing “Here Comes Santa Claus.” Only fans turned on him in his disheveled outfit, angry over another lost Eagles season, and cold, tired and feeling a bit churlish, they booed and chucked snowballs at the woeful Santa impostor.

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Philadelphia Eagles fan Frank Olivo, center, known as the Santa who was booed and dodged snowballs during halftime at a Dec. 15, 1968, game the Eagles lost to the Minnesota Vikings, believes the infamous snowball episode launched the Eagles’ reputation for boorish fans.

Didinger, sitting at the Snowball Game in Row 24, “no one was trying to hurt Santa Claus.”

Yet, here they are, 55 years later, still atop the naughty list for sports fans everywhere.

The Eagles themselves sure don’t hate Christmas — they sing all the holiday classics instead.

Led by Lane Johnson, Jason Kelce and Jordan Mailata, the Eagles have released Christmas albums in consecutive seasons.

The snowball story, though, stuck to Philly, so when the Eagles host the New York Giants on Monday, the incident surely will be recycled on the TV broadcast, or on local news, or on national sports highlights — Hey! The city that hates Santa played on Christmas!

“It’s never going to go away,” said Didinger, a journalist who went on to cover the Eagles for 53 years. “Just don’t let it bother you anymore. If you don’t think the Philadelphia fans are like that, and I don’t, then just sort of say, ‘oh well.’ It’s not me. It’s not the way I approach things.”

Imagine a 2023 world following the Dec. 15, 1968, game.

Fans among the 54,535 listed at Franklin Field would shoot video of the snowball hurlers, social media haters would take off like Rudolph in the sky and local newspapers and websites

would blast tabloid headlines like “Rough Sledding” with a photo of Santa taking one on the chin.

Only in 1968, the incident was barely a footnote in the Eagles’ 24-17 loss to Minnesota.

Buried deep in the Philadelphia Inquirer game story was a note that “fans amused themselves by pelting both benches with snowballs.”

On Dec. 17, 1968, Ray W. Kelly of The Camden Courier Post wrote: “The man who was pelted by the fans was a Philly rooter who thought he’d go to the game dressed as Santa just for the fun of it. He went onto the field only as a favor. Another good Samaritan bites the dust.”

The Dec. 27 Standard-Speaker (of Hazleton, Pa.) noted: “Eagles fans took out their season-long frustrations on Santa Claus a week ago Sunday when they fired snowballs at the old gent at Franklin Field.”

And a TV columnist for the Minneapolis Star wrote fans throwing snowballs at Santa was only “understandable in January when the Christmas bills come in.”

“There was no sidebar about it. The columnists didn’t write about it,” Didinger said. “It was no big deal. If you look at the Monday papers, it was proof it was no big deal.”

But much like any urban legend, how Olivo’s plight snowballed into a national story is a bit of a mystery. He’s not named in any stories in the immediate aftermath. There’s a theory the story exploded when Olivo’s antics, rather than game highlights, were beamed around the country on Howard Cosell’s national sports show, though no footage exists (or of any snowball throwing).

“When I hit the end zone, and the snowballs started, I was waving my finger at the crowd, saying ‘You’re not getting anything for Christmas,’ ” Olivo told The Associated Press for a 2005 story.

“It became a thing that Philadelphia sports fans became famous for doing, and it will never die, I guess. Look how many years it’s been.”

Olivo died at 66 from heart disease in 2015, his unwitting role in making “Santa & Snowballs” shorthand for unruly behavior forever etched in Philly cultural lore.

“We probably are the only fanbase that threw snowballs at Santa Claus,” Didinger said.

“That’s probably true enough.

But if that’s all people know of Philadelphia fans, they’re getting a very distorted picture of things.”

Lions beat Vikings for 1st division title since ’93 he tried to let a pass go, the ball tumbled out and Cam Bynum scooped it up for what would have been an 82-yard touchdown return. The call was overturned to an incompletion, and the Lions continued on for a field goal.

Continued from Page B-1

Nick Mullens was intercepted four times to offset two touchdowns on 411 passing yards, none more crushing or cringe-worthy for Minnesota than the underthrown ball to an open Justin Jefferson three plays after his leaping grab in double coverage on third-and-27 kept the last-minute drive alive.

“Losing the turnover battle, you’re most likely going to lose every time,” Jefferson said.

Jared Goff passed for 257 yards without a turnover and David Montgomery had a rushing touchdown for the Lions (11-4) in another prolific performance by one of the NFL’s most potent offenses. Detroit secured a home playoff game for the first time in 22 seasons at Ford Field, where an NFC North champions banner will soon hang. The last one was for winning the NFC Central in 1993.

“I can’t even imagine it because I’m only 24,” Melifonwu said.

As the players danced and the music blared in the raucous locker room afterward, Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp joined the celebration. Campbell gave a shoutout to offensive linemen Taylor Decker and Frank Ragnow, and the team’s two longest-tenured players teared up.

“You don’t realize how much it means to you until it happens,” Ragnow said.

The Lions reached 11 wins for the first time in nine years. Their 20 victories since the start of the 2022 seasons are the most in franchise history in a two-year span.

“This was the chance,” St. Brown said. “We couldn’t let it slip.”

Mullens threw for two scores, a diving 26-yard catch by Jefferson with 29 seconds left in the first half and a 6-yard toss to K.J. Osborn that gave the Vikings a 21-17 lead early in the third quar-

there have always been available MANCHESTER, England — funds to win After failing to win the Premier trophies at League in the last 10 years, the highest Manchester United announced level, this Sunday that it had agreed to sell potential has a minority stake in the storied not been fully Jim Ratcliffe club to Jim Ratcliffe in a deal unlocked in that would also see the British recent times. billionaire and boyhood fan take We will bring the global knowlcontrol of its soccer operations. edge, expertise and talent from “We all want to see Manthe wider INEOS Sport group to chester United back where help drive further improvement we belong, at the very top of at the club, while also providing English, European and world funds intended to enable future football,” Ratcliffe said Sunday. investment into Old Trafford.”

The record 20-time league The transaction will be champions have not won the funded by Trawlers Limited — title since former manager a company wholly owned by Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, Ratcliffe — without any debt, prompting increased anger United said. United fans have toward the Glazer family, Unitbeen critical of the leveraged ed’s American owners. nature of the Glazers’ buyout The announcement of a deal that loaded debt onto the club, came more than a year after the as well as a perceived lack of club was put up for sale. investment and the dividends Ratcliffe, who owns petrotaken out by the owners. chemicals giant INEOS and is Trawlers was named after a one of Britain’s richest people, has famous quote by former United secured a stake of “up to 25%” in great Eric Cantona. The FrenchUnited and will invest $300 milman said at a news conference lion in its Old Trafford stadium.

Ratcliffe will provide $200 mil- in 1995: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they lion upon completion of the deal think sardines will be thrown and a further $100 million by the into the sea.” end of 2024, United said. In total Avram Glazer and Joel Glazer, the deal will be worth around $1.6 billion, including the $300 million United executive co-chairmen and directors, said in the stateof funding. ment: “Sir Jim and INEOS bring a The deal is subject to approval by the Premier League. wealth of commercial experience as well as significant financial United is currently eighth in commitment into the club. ... the league and has already been eliminated from European com- Manchester United has talented petition. Under-fire manager Eric people right across the club and our desire is to always improve at ten Hag watched his team lose every level to help bring our great 2-0 at West Ham on Saturday, fans more success in the future.”

United’s 13th defeat in 26 games In November last year, the in all competitions this season.

Glazers announced plans to seek Ratcliffe, who was born in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, new investment and instructed U.S. merchant bank Raine to overhad originally bid to buy the see the process, which included entire majority share of around the potential of a full sale.

69% held by the Glazers.

Ratcliffe had been in compe“As a local boy and a lifelong tition with Qatari banker Sheikh supporter of the club, I am very pleased that we have been able to Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani to agree a deal with the Manchester buy out the Glazers, who also own the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

United Board that delegates us But after months of protracted management responsibility of negotiations Sheikh Jassim the football operations of the withdrew his bid in October to club,” Ratcliffe said. leave Ratcliffe in position to take “Whilst the commercial a minority share in the club. success of the club has ensured

By James Robson

The Associated Press

For the record Jefferson (5,648 in 58 games) passed Michael Thomas (5,512 in 63 games) for the most receiving yards in a player’s first four seasons in history.

St. Brown (2022, 2023) joined Herman Moore (1995, 1996, 1997) as the only players in Lions history with multiple seasons of 100-plus receptions.

BRUCE KLUCKHOHN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Nick Mullens passes as he is pressured by Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson during the second half of Sunday’s game in Minneapolis.

ter one play after a 47-yard heave to Osborn.

But like the week before in an overtime loss at Cincinnati, the turnovers weighed heavily on the outcome. Kerby Joseph’s first of two picks gave the Lions the ball at the Minnesota 33 in the second quarter, and they reached the end zone in three plays.

Goff was sharp in a redemptive game for him against Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores, whose schemes had given him plenty of trouble in previous matchups with New England and Miami when Goff was with the Los Angeles Rams, including Super Bowl 53.

Jefferson played at home for the first time since Oct. 8, when he hurt his hamstring and missed seven games, but the Vikings have had their depth tested more than ever. Wide receiver Jordan Addison (ankle, second quarter), tight end T.J. Hockenson (knee, third quarter), cornerback Mekhi Blackmon (shoulder, third quarter) and edge rusher D.J. Wonnum (quadriceps, fourth quarter)

left with injuries. That’s on top of the torn Achilles tendon suffered on Oct. 29 by quarterback Kirk Cousins, a problem the Vikings have yet to solve.

“Proud of our guys for the way they battled,” Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said. “Got to tip your hat to Dan and his group over there.”

Pivotal calls The Vikings wore all-white uniforms as part of their annual winter-themed promotion, which fell on a 54-degrees-and-rainy afternoon outside U.S. Bank Stadium. That made the yellow flags on the field stand out even more, particularly during a pivotal sequence in the second quarter.

One play after he sacked Goff for an 11-yard loss, Patrick Jones was called for a dubious roughing-the-passer penalty that made the Vikings livid. The crowd howled when Blackmon took a hand to the facemask that wasn’t called.

Then later on that same drive, when Jordan Hicks hit Goff as

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larger roster (16 players) and some impressive performances so far in the 2023-24 season.

The NAIA school has wins over NCAA Division II schools Fort Lewis College and New Mexico Highlands University.

On Dec. 19, Northern New Mexico added a victory over an NCAA Division III school in Sul Ross State. The Eagles outscored the Lobos 26-16 in the fourth quarter to produce a 67-62 win in Alpine, Texas, and improve to 9-8 on the season in the process.

Down 50-41 early in the

fourth, Northern New Mexico used a 16-2 scoring run, fueled by six points, two rebounds, a steal and a block from 2021 Capital graduate Ethena Silva. It was her transition layup with 5:15 left that gave the Eagles a 54-52 lead.

Silva finished with 12 points, 12 rebounds, five steals and four blocks, while Española Valley graduate Miranda Salazar had a team-high 14 points.

Northern New Mexico will get another shot at adding a win over an NCAA school when it takes on Western New Mexico on Thursday.

“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of ~ Washington Irving charity in the heart.”

The Santa Fe New Mexican’s offices at 150 Washington Avenue will be closed Monday, December 25, and reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday, December 26. Distribution and home delivery will operate normally during the Christmas holiday.

The Distribution Center will close Monday, December 25, and reopen at 6 a.m. Tuesday, December 26. The newsroom can be reached at 505-986-3035.

Have a safe and wonderful holiday!

Monday, December 25, 2023 • Christmas

THE WEATHER ALMANAC

Midnight through 6 p.m. Sunday

Santa Fe Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.19" .... .Month . . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.65" .... . . . . .to Year . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11.97" .....

AREA RAINFALL

Albuquerque Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.22" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.34" ....

Tonight

Today

Sunny.

Clear.

32

Humidity (Noon)

Sunny.

12

POLLEN COUNTS Santa Fe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper Allergens ......

Albuquerque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Juniper Allergens ......

Source: https://pollen.com

TODAY'S UV INDEX + 10 8 6 4 2 0

Extreme Very High High Moderate Low

The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

39 / 20

Humidity (Noon)

Mostly Sunny.

40 / 22

Partly Cloudy.

42 / 23

Humidity (Noon)

Sunday

Mostly Sunny.

41 / 24

Humidity (Noon)

40 / 21

Humidity (Noon)

Humidity (Noon)

36%

38%

45%

45%

47%

55%

Wind: N 20 mph

Wind: WSW 15 mph

Wind: W 10 mph

Wind: W 10 mph

Wind: WSW 10 mph

Wind: W 10 mph

NATIONAL WEATHER

NEW MEXICO WEATHER Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows.

Taos 30 / 1

Farmington 37 / 13

Raton 31 / 9

~ ola Espan 37 / 7

San Francisco 59/48

Las Vegas 37 / 12

Pecos 33 / 12 Albuquerque 43 / 16

Ruidoso 40 / 23 Truth or Consequences 51 / 26

H

Las Vegas 59/40

Denver 31/19

L

Atlanta 62/56

Dallas 50/34

New Orleans 67/50

Mérida 91/69

Guadalajara 71/52

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Carlsbad 49 / 25

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64° in Jal 14° in Sanostee

Thunderstorms

Snow

Ice

Jet Stream

Warm

Cold

Stationary

The Northeast will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 63 in South Point, Ohio. The Southeast will experience cloudy skies with scattered showers, highest temperature of 79 in Pembroke Pines, Fla. In the Northwest there will be partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers, highest temperature of 58 in Coos Bay, Ore. The Southwest will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with the highest temperature of 72 in Palm Springs, Calif.

WEATHER HISTORY

NEW MEXICO CITIES

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W City 47/26 s 45/21 s 28/2 s 56/24 s 57/26 s 32/7 s 40/20 s 42/25 pc 29/17 s 48/25 s 37/21 s 55/23 s 40/14 s 40/16 s 50/23 s 42/14 s 42/15 s 53/29 s 55/26 s

Las Vegas Lordsburg Los Alamos Los Lunas Portales Raton Red River Rio Rancho Roswell Ruidoso Santa Rosa Silver City Socorro T or C Taos Tucumcari Univ. Park White Rock Zuni

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W 40/27 s 37/12 s 40/30 pc 51/22 s 35/27 s 32/13 s 49/33 s 44/19 s 47/37 s 43/21 s 37/25 pc 31/9 s 29/22 mc 26/-3 s 41/32 s 40/17 s 60/37 s 47/22 s 45/34 s 40/23 s 50/37 s 42/22 s 48/32 s 47/25 s 54/37 s 46/22 s 54/37 s 51/26 s 36/25 mc 30/1 s 46/32 pc 41/18 s 53/37 s 53/26 s 35/27 s 34/12 s 39/23 s 41/9 s

42/18 s 52/23 s 34/19 s 46/20 s 50/22 s 38/19 pc 28/6 s 43/22 s 56/28 s 41/24 s 46/23 s 48/26 s 50/23 s 54/27 s 33/9 s 47/20 s 55/27 s 37/17 s 42/17 s

Dec. 25, 1987 - Residents of Tucson, Ariz. awoke to a white Christmas for the first time in 47 years of records as a winter storm blanketed the area with up to four inches of snow.

Unseasonably mild weather prevailed in the southeastern part of the nation.

NATIONAL EXTREMES SUNDAY High

84° in Brownsville, Texas

NIGHT SKY

Low

-29° in Peter Sinks, Utah

Sunrise Today Tuesday Wednesday

Mercury 7:11 a.m.

7:11 a.m.

7:12 a.m.

Rise Set

6:35 a.m.

4:32 p.m.

4:56 p.m.

4:56 p.m.

4:57 p.m.

Rise Set

Mars

4:07 a.m.

2:32 p.m.

Rise Set

6:26 a.m.

4:05 p.m.

3:39 p.m.

4:33 p.m.

5:32 p.m.

Rise Set

1:23 p.m.

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6:09 a.m.

7:11 a.m.

8:05 a.m.

Rise Set

Uranus

10:41 a.m.

9:34 p.m.

Rise Set

2:01 p.m.

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Sunset Today Tuesday Wednesday Today Tuesday Wednesday

WIND TRACKER

Moonset Today Tuesday Wednesday

8 p.m.

2 a.m. Tue.

Full Dec. 26

Last Q. Jan. 3

Venus

Jupiter

Moonrise

Weather (w): cl-cloudy, fg-fog, hz-haze, mc-mostly cloudy, pc-partly cloudy, r-rain, rs-rain & snow, s-sunny, sh-showers, sn-snow, ss-snow showers, t-thunderstorms

2 p.m.

80s

Fronts:

High Low

8 a.m. Mon.

Cancún 84/74

Mexico City 69/54

-0s

Miami 78/71

Monterrey 67/60

Hobbs 47 / 28

Alamogordo 48 / 25

York 49/41

Washington D.C. 56/42

St. Louis 59/36

Hermosillo 72/55 La Paz 71/65

H New

Detroit 53/48

Chicago 53/44

Omaha 34/25

Albuquerque 43/16 Phoenix 62/42

Roswell 47 / 22

STATE EXTREMES SUNDAY

Alamogordo 54/32 s 48/25 s Albuquerque 45/36 s 43/16 s Angel Fire 29/22 mc 25/-9 s Artesia 59/37 s 48/23 s Carlsbad 63/43 s 49/25 s Chama 37/18 mc 27/-5 s Cimarron 29/22 mc 35/9 s Clayton 43/28 pc 37/18 s Cloudcroft 54/32 s 31/14 s Clovis 47/37 s 41/20 s Crownpoint 38/18 s 36/11 s Deming 52/36 s 53/22 s 35/27 s 37/7 s Espan~ ola Farmington 38/24 s 37/13 s Fort Sumner 49/35 s 43/22 s Gallup 41/23 s 39/7 s Grants 42/25 s 40/10 s Hobbs 57/39 s 47/28 s Las Cruces 53/37 s 53/25 s

Los Angeles 69/50

Clovis 41 / 20

Las Cruces 53 / 25

City

Boise 36/26

Boston 49/42

Minneapolis 51/38

Billings 36/17

Santa Fe 32 / 12

Gallup G 3 /7 39

Sillver City 47 7 / 25

Seattle 48/43

Clayton 37 / 18

Los Alamos 32 / 13

AIR QUALITY INDEX

Source: www.airnow.gov

Partly Cloudy.

Saturday

69%

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe's Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: No outside watering from 10am to 6pm from May 1 to October 31.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation

0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301-500, Hazardous

Friday

Wind: WNW 15 mph

WATER STATISTICS

.Sunday's . . . . . . . .rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 .. . . . . . . . .Forecast Today's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 ..

Humidity (Noon)

Thursday

51%

Los Alamos Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.06" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.56" ....

The following water statistics of December 23rd are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.995 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.947 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.041 Total production: 5.983 Total consumption: 6.371 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 1.36 Reservoir storage: 296.55 Estimated reservoir capacity: 23.21%

Sunny.

34 / 19

Humidity (Mid.)

Wednesday

Wind: W 15 mph

Las Vegas Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.33" ....

Taos Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.10" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.94" ....

Tuesday

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

B-5

NATIONAL CITIES

7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE

Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42°/29° ......

Normal . . . . . . . high/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43°/18° ...... . . . . . . .high Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60° . . . in . . 1955 .... . . . . . . .low Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0° . . in . . 2004 ....

Santa Fe Airport Precipitation .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... .Month . . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.92" .... . . . . . . . month Normal . . . . . .to . . date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.63" ....

Year . . . . .to . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.46" ....

Normal . . . . . . . year . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13.36" .....

Last . . . . year . . . . .to. .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11.81" .....

Monday, December 25, 2023

New Jan. 11

Saturn

First Q. Jan. 17

City Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Bangor Billings Bismarck Boise Boston Charleston,SC Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Flagstaff Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland,OR Richmond Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Sioux Falls St. Louis Tampa Trenton Tulsa Washington,DC

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W 34/19 sn 18/3 mc 10/4 mc 65/39 mc 62/56 sh 65/46 sh 51/43 mc 57/44 mc 54/50 ra 45/21 mc 42/34 cl 45/33 mc 30/19 s 36/17 s 40/23 s 34/27 mc 29/23 mc 31/21 sn 38/21 pc 36/26 pc 37/27 mc 45/37 cl 49/42 ra 50/40 mc 72/48 mc 69/60 sh 68/58 sh 67/37 pc 59/54 sh 60/55 sh 56/50 mc 53/44 ra 47/34 sh 61/44 mc 58/51 ra 59/37 sh 55/45 cl 57/48 mc 56/44 sh 66/57 ra 50/34 s 56/37 s 30/24 sn 31/19 s 39/24 mc 58/46 ra 50/30 ra 36/28 mc 48/45 fg 53/48 sh 55/43 sh 29/9 mc -4/-21 mc -9/-20 mc 45/18 s 44/10 pc 47/20 s 32/14 s 27/13 s 36/21 mc 82/71 pc 80/70 s 81/68 pc 68/57 mc 56/41 pc 58/43 pc 61/45 mc 58/48 ra 53/34 sh 61/55 ra 41/30 cl 37/31 sn 55/39 s 59/40 s 60/42 pc 67/54 pc 69/50 s 68/51 pc 67/50 mc 59/51 sh 57/35 sh 64/54 mc 62/36 sh 51/37 s 79/69 mc 78/71 t 79/68 t 51/45 fg 50/44 ra 46/32 ra 55/45 cl 51/38 ra 43/31 ra 67/63 ra 67/50 mc 58/46 mc 49/40 cl 49/41 mc 52/45 cl 64/43 cl 44/31 s 47/32 mc 57/36 ra 34/25 sn 33/26 sn 72/57 mc 73/65 sh 75/61 t 50/39 cl 52/40 mc 53/44 ra 64/46 mc 62/42 pc 63/43 s 54/46 mc 62/47 pc 56/49 ra 46/34 cl 48/42 ra 50/44 sh 59/33 pc 59/46 pc 58/48 mc 36/25 pc 34/19 pc 35/24 pc 76/62 pc 60/40 pc 61/41 s 66/50 mc 66/50 s 67/51 mc 57/44 pc 59/48 pc 60/51 mc 44/27 mc 48/43 ra 50/45 ra 56/34 ra 33/27 sn 32/20 rs 67/51 mc 59/36 ra 47/37 s 79/59 mc 75/66 sh 76/62 sh 47/35 cl 53/39 mc 54/42 cl 63/59 ra 44/31 mc 46/32 mc 52/42 mc 56/42 mc 54/48 ra

WORLD CITIES City Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Bermuda Bogota Cairo Copenhagen Dublin Frankfurt Guatemala City Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Nassau New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio Rome Seoul Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vienna

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W 54/49 ra 68/53 s 70/54 ra 32/13 pc 49/34 ra 65/61 ra 68/48 ra 72/60 pc 45/30 ra 56/52 ra 51/48 ra 77/55 mc 57/47 ra 54/51 ra 84/68 ra 75/66 s 58/51 ra 53/36 s 69/50 pc 32/26 sn 75/66 ra 75/50 s 23/3 sn 54/48 ra 87/76 ra 58/55 ra 34/18 sn 24/15 pc 71/67 ra 67/59 ra 49/38 pc 40/36 ra 51/47 ra

53/51 ra 64/53 s 70/60 pc 27/14 s 53/49 ra 66/64 ra 64/51 ra 71/59 s 46/41 ra 51/49 ra 52/49 ra 77/56 pc 56/52 s 60/49 s 66/61 ra 74/69 cl 56/53 ra 52/37 s 69/54 cl 31/11 mc 76/75 ra 76/54 s 25/20 sn 54/50 cl 90/76 pc 61/54 cl 33/24 sn 33/30 sn 80/65 ra 67/58 s 49/38 s 42/38 cl 55/53 ra

51/46 ra 63/54 pc 69/57 s 32/19 cl 52/47 ra 67/66 ra 65/51 ra 73/59 s 44/37 ra 46/43 mc 50/49 ra 78/56 s 57/52 s 61/51 s 71/58 ra 75/69 cl 51/45 ra 52/39 s 65/55 cl 34/23 sn 76/74 ra 77/63 mc 19/10 mc 53/49 cl 89/77 ra 59/55 ra 38/27 mc 31/22 sn 75/66 ra 72/62 s 53/43 s 42/40 ra 53/50 mc

Substack refuses to ban extremism Platform earns revenue from newsletters, including some pushing Nazi views

By Eduardo Medina

The New York Times

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

George Michael, left, and Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! perform in the capital of China, then called Peking, on April 7, 1985.

1984 Wham! hit tops Christmas chart

By Andrea Salcedo

The Washington Post

George Michael wanted to be remembered as one of pop’s best songwriters, but Wham!’s late singer did not intend “Last Christmas” to be the song most people — for better or for worse — associate him with, former manager Simon Napier-Bell said last week.

“He was always slightly upset by the fact [that] he naggingly knew it was the best thing he ever wrote,” Napier-Bell told The Telegraph. “George, above all, really wanted to be remembered as a great songwriter. And I think at the bottom of his mind ... it was rather annoying that the song he got so perfect was a Christmas song.”

The iconic hit made it to the top of Christmas No. 1, the British holiday list and one of the most unpredictable charts of the year, 39 years after its release. Last week, according to Official Charts, the song was played 13.3 million times on streaming platforms, CDs and vinyl.

Andrew Ridgeley, the other half of Wham!, who once deemed the 1984 song the “essence of Christmas,” told People magazine Michael achieved what he always wanted. “[George] said that he wrote ‘Last Christmas’ with the intention of writing a Christmas No. 1,” he told Official Charts.

“It’s mission accomplished! George would be beside himself [that] after all of these years, [we’ve] finally obtained [it].”

When Michael, who wrote the song, first played it to Ridgeley, his bandmate knew it would be an absolute “knockout,” Ridgeley recalled to People. So when the song didn’t top the Christmas No. 1 chart in 1984, the year of its release, both were deeply disappointed, Ridgeley told Official Charts. That year, Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” beat them.

“In our opinion, it was nailed-on,” Ridgeley said. “Had it not been for Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ it probably would’ve been No. 1. Thwarted for many years subsequent to that — the perennial bridesmaid — over recent years

it seems it’s become part of the fabric of Christmas for a lot of people.”

Wham! rose to fame between 1982 and 1986 with songs including “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Edge of Heaven,” “Everything She Wants,” “Careless Whisper” and “Freedom.” Michael was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year. But in four years together, Wham! never achieved one of its main goals: to top Christmas No. 1 with “Last Christmas.”

Ridgeley referred to Michael as “Yog,” and also called him his best friend in his memoir Wham! George Michael & Me. “Christmas No. 1 has been a long-held ambition for Yog and I,” Ridgeley told Official Charts. “And for the fans, too.

It’ll mean a lot to Wham!’s legacy — it’s the crowning glory. ‘Last Christmas’ was conceived as a Christmas No. 1. Lofty ambitions, but Yog set lofty ambitions for himself as a songwriter. Our fans will have a real sense of achievement and pride in the fact it’s become Christmas No. 1.”

Under pressure from critics who say Substack is profiting from newsletters that promote hate speech and racism, the company’s founders said Thursday they would not ban Nazi symbols and extremist rhetoric from the platform.

“I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either — we wish no one held those views,” Hamish McKenzie, a co-founder of Substack, said in a statement. “But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away — in fact, it makes it worse.”

The response came weeks after The Atlantic found at least 16 Substack newsletters had “overt Nazi symbols” in their logos or graphics, and that white supremacists had been allowed to publish on, and profit from, the platform. Hundreds of newsletter writers signed a letter opposing Substack’s position and threatening to leave. About 100 others signed a letter supporting the company’s stance.

In the statement, McKenzie said he and the company’s other founders, Chris Best and Jairaj Sethi, had arrived at the conclusion censoring or demonetizing the publications would not make the problem of hateful rhetoric go away.

“We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to open discourse is the best way to strip bad ideas of their power,” he said.

That stance elicited waves of outrage and criticism, including from popular Substack writers who said they did not feel comfortable working with a platform that allows hateful rhetoric to fester or flourish.

The debate has renewed questions that have long plagued technology companies and social media platforms about how content should be

moderated, if at all.

Substack, which takes a 10% cut of revenue from writers who charge for newsletter subscriptions, has faced similar criticism in the past, particularly after it allowed transphobic and anti-vaccine language from some writers.

Nikki Usher, a professor of communication at the University of San Diego, said many platforms are confronting what is known as “the Nazi problem,” which stipulates if an online forum is available long enough, extremists will appear.

Substack is establishing itself as a neutral provider of content, Usher said, but that also sends a message: “We’re not going to try to police this problem because it’s complicated, so it’s easier to not take a position.”

More than 200 writers who publish newsletters on Substack have signed a letter opposing the company’s passive approach.

“Why do you choose to promote and allow the monetization of sites that traffic in white nationalism?” the letter said.

The writers also asked if part of the company’s vision for success included giving a platform to people like prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer.

“Let us know,” the letter said.

“From there we can each decide if this is still where we want to be.”

Some popular writers on the platform have already promised to leave.

Rusty Foster, who has more than 40,000 subscribers, wrote Dec. 14 readers often tell him they “can’t stand to pay Substack anymore,” and he feels the same.

“So here’s to a 2024 where none of us do that!” he wrote.

Other writers have defended the company. A letter signed by roughly 100 Substack writers says it is better to let the writers and readers, not social media companies, moderate content.

Alexander Hellene, who writes sci-fi and fantasy stories, signed Griffin’s letter. In a post on Substack, he said a better approach to content moderation was “to take things into your own hands.”

“Be an adult,” he wrote. “Block people.”

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15 Some high-end headwear 20 Congeal 22 Mario’s brother 26 Series of steps 27 Neighbor of Bolivia 28 Bob, buzz or beehive 32 Bit of smoke 33 “Your wish ___ command” 34 Computer debut of 1998 35 Toothpaste holder 36 Wait till morning to decide something 37 Cunning 38 Spanish suffix with señor 39 Be kind, follow the rules, etc.

69 Embedded pieces 70 ___ sauce DOWN 1 Audibly shocked 2 Large size at Starbucks 3 Room under a roof 4 Toward the back, at sea 5 Manufacture 6 Sure thing 7 Zellweger of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” 8 Half of duo9 Masthead figs.

10 Curl up and cuddle together 11 Congressional V.I.P. 12 Meanie 13 ___ and pans

41 Condo, for one 42 In the shape of a rainbow 47 Hors d’oeuvres spread 48 ___ Tax (Monopoly square) 50 Midday meal 51 Journalist Gwen 52 Drink served with marshmallows 53 Unexpected problems 54 Ice house?

55 High, as goals 56 Some “Italian” desserts 57 Act dejected 61 Sci-fi film tech, for short 62 Color of khakis 63 French for “your”

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Dec. 25, 2023: You have great strength and energy of purpose. You bring energy to everything you do.

You are also a dreamer. Next year you finish a nine-year cycle.

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions after 11:30 p.m. PST today. The Moon is in Gemini.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Naturally, today is a mixed bag. It’s easy to be irritable with

others. Therefore, zip thy lip and be patient. Think of your objective. Your objective is that you want to have a pleasant day.

Tonight: Conversations!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Squabbles about shared property, money or possessions might take place today. These disputes also might be about shared responsibilities. FTonight: Check your belongings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Today the Moon is in your sign at odds with fiery Mars, which can make you impatient with those who are closest to you. Tonight: You win.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You need more rest.

You might be sleep deprived. If so, patience is your best friend.

CRYPTOQUIP

Issues at work might create annoying situations. Feelings of sympathy are strong today.

Tonight: Solitude.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Be patient with children today. Very likely, they have eaten too much sugar. Likewise, you might be disappointed, annoyed or impatient with a romantic partner. Be tolerant.

Let this go. Tonight: Friendships.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH The key today is to be patient with parents and patient with family members. Furthermore, people have expectations, which can lead to disappointment. Tonight: You’re appreciated.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Take the high road today

TODAY IN HISTORY

and avoid silly, irritating squabbles and differences with others. Instead, smile and be cooperative so everyone can have a pleasant day. Tonight: Explore!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Even if there are some squabbles about money and possessions, you will rise above this today because fair Venus is in your sign with a steady influence from Saturn. Tonight: Check your finances.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Today the Moon is opposite your sign, while fiery Mars is in your sign. You might be impatient with spouses, partners and close friends. What’s the upside? Tonight: Cooperate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Despite an undercur-

rent of irritation or tension, which is to be expected on busy holidays, relations with friends, especially someone older, will be mutually supportive. Tonight: Work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Bosses, parents and VIPs are sympathetic and patient with you today. Therefore, in turn, you can be patient with friends and groups even if you feel irritated. Pass on the good vibes. Everybody wants to have a pleasant day. Tonight: Relax.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH If you can travel or get away on a vacation, this will be your first choice. Nevertheless, you’ll find it easy to be patient with others, even if tension with a parent or a boss might occur.

Tonight: Cocoon.

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Wishing Merry Christmas to all Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Hope you enjoy these poems for the holidays.

“Christmas in the Heart” by Paul Laurence Dunbar “The snow lies deep upon the ground, / And winter’s brightness all around / Decks bravely out the forest sere, / With jewels of the brave old year. / The coasting crowd upon the hill / With some new spirit seems to thrill; / And all the temple bells achime. / Ring out the glee of Christmas time. / In happy homes the brown oak-bough / Vies with the red-gemmed holly now; / And here and there, like pearls, there show / The berries of the mistletoe. / A sprig upon the chandelier / Says to the maidens, ‘Come not here!’ / Even the pauper of the earth / Some kindly gift has cheered to mirth! / Within his chamber, dim and cold, / There sits a grasping miser old. / He has no thought save one of gain, — / To grind and gather and grasp and drain. / A peal of bells, a merry shout / Assail his ear: he gazes out / Upon a world to him all gray, / And snarls, ‘Why, this is Christmas Day!’ / No, man of ice, — for shame, for shame! / For ‘Christmas Day’ is no mere name. / No, not for you this ringing cheer, / This festal season of the year. / And not for you the chime of bells / From holy temple rolls and swells. / In day and deed he has no part — / Who holds not Christmas in his heart!

An excerpt from “Christmas in War Time” by Richard Le Gallienne “O pray with all your hearts that war may cease, / And who knows but that God may hear the prayer. / So it may come about next Christmas Day / That we shall hear the happy children play / Gladly aloud, unmindful of the dead, / And watch the lovers go / To the old woods to find the mistletoe.”

An excerpt from “Old Santeclaus” by Clement Clarke Moore “Old Santeclaus with much delight / His reindeer drives this frosty night, / O’er chimney-tops, and tracks of snow, / To bring his yearly gifts to you. / The steady friend of virtuous youth, / The friend of duty, and of truth, / Each Christmas eve he joys to come / Where love and peace have made their home.”

“Love Came Down at Christmas” by Christina Rossetti “Love came down at Christmas, / Love all lovely, Love Divine, / Love was born at Christmas, / Star and Angels gave the sign. / Worship we the Godhead, / Love Incarnate, Love Divine, / Worship we our Jesus, / But wherewith for sacred sign? / Love shall be our token, / Love be yours and love be mine, / Love to God and all men, / Love for plea and gift and sign.”

SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: ENDS IN “MAS” Each answer ends

Cuba.

Answer________ 5. Cass Elliot was

in “mas.” No answers

a member of this

are plural words. (e.g.,

folk-rock group of the

Dec. 25. Answer:

1960s.

Christmas.)

Answer________ 6. Surname of the

Today is Monday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2023. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 25, 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J., during the American Revolutionary War.

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. One of the “Twelve Apostles”.

author of “The Three Musketeers.”

Answer________

Answer________ 2. Nightclothes for sleeping.

PH.D. LEVEL 7. A Christian feast

Answer________

observed on Sept.

3. Billy Crystal

29 in honor of an

parodied this actor

archangel.

in his recurring

Answer________

“Fernando’s Hideaway”

8. Feb. 2, a day

sketch.

Answer________

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commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple.

GRADUATE LEVEL

Rules

4. An island country

• Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

• The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

• Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida and

Answer________ 9. Emotionally painful experiences.

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. Thomas. 2. Pajamas. 3. Fernando Lamas. 4. Bahamas.

5. The Mamas & the Papas. 6. Dumas (Alexandre).

7. Michaelmas. 8. Candlemas. 9. Traumas.

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2023 Ken Fisher

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