The Seattle Seahawks have fired offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb after one season, coach Mike Macdonald confirmed on his Seattle Sports activities 710-AM radio present Monday.

Macdonald stated the Seahawks made the choice Monday morning. It comes a day after the Seahawks completed 10-7 and missed the playoffs in his first season, and after hypothesis had been mounting that Grubb’s job was not protected.

“It is actually so simple as simply I felt just like the course our offense was gong was totally different than the imaginative and prescient that I had for our workforce, and it felt prefer it was only a crucial choice at this level,” Macdonald stated. “Ryan’s a heck of a soccer coach. We did some actually nice issues on offense this 12 months. Geno [Smith] I feel had a bunch of profession highs throwing the ball, and we did some actually cool scenario stuff. I do know [Jaxon Smith-Njigba] had a terrific 12 months.

“So, we did a whole lot of nice issues. It is simply my imaginative and prescient for our offense, I feel … simply in the end was totally different than I believed Ryan thought it was going. So, we respect the heck out of him, want him the most effective. These are robust choices to make. These are actually robust choices to make, however the workforce comes first and simply felt prefer it was greatest for the workforce.”

Macdonald stated the seek for Grubb’s substitute will start instantly. Amongst potential in-house choices, passing sport coordinator Jake Peetz is essentially the most skilled member of the Seahawks’ offensive employees.

“We’ll open it up,” Macdonald stated. “We’ll do our analysis and be thorough with it. We need to be environment friendly. We need to transfer rapidly, however we need to be sensible as nicely. Simply searching for proper match on the kind of person who’s going to come back in and lead our offense. Not that we weren’t aligned with Ryan, however positively searching for alignment and a shared imaginative and prescient for the way we need to function.”

The Seahawks ranked twenty first in offensive scoring (20.0 factors per sport), 14th in complete offense (332.2) and eighth in passing yards (236.5). However the run sport Macdonald wished to depend on as a defensive-minded head coach was a relentless wrestle, with Seattle ending twenty eighth in dashing (95.7) and seventeenth in yards per carry (4.2).

Grubb had by no means coached within the NFL till the Seahawks employed him in February, bringing the OC and offensive line coach Scott Huff again to Seattle after that they had adopted Kalen DeBoer from Washington to Alabama.

Huff’s standing is unclear, with Macdonald saying, “it is nonetheless in consideration.”

Quarterback Geno Smith, a robust Grubb supporter, talked about that truth whereas giving a glowing endorsement of his playcaller after Seattle closed out the season Sunday with a 30-25 win over the Los Angeles Rams.

“I feel Grubb is a superb, wonderful coordinator,” he stated. “Even higher man. Our first 12 months, clearly there was some ups and downs, there was some issues we will enhance on. We’ll work laborious to get these issues fastened, however I imagine on this system. I imagine this can be a actually good system and it may be actually good for a very long time.

“I feel Grubb has precisely what it takes to be a terrific coordinator on this league, and it is his first 12 months; you have to give the man some grace. He is figuring issues out too. I believed he did an impressive job main the group. I like the fervour that he brings to the sport, and he made me a greater quarterback.”

Varied college boards throughout the Better Toronto Space skilled a “cyber incident” after an software they use to retailer scholar and restricted workers info was uncovered to a knowledge breach over the vacation break.

The Toronto District College Board (TDSB) up to date mother and father and guardians a couple of knowledge breach skilled by PowerSchool, which occurred between Dec. 22 and 28, 2024. A spokesperson for PowerSchool confirmed to CTV Information Toronto that they have been conscious of a “potential cybersecurity incident” on Dec. 28, involving certainly one of their community-focused buyer portals, PowerSource.

PowerSchool is utilized by a number of college boards throughout the continent, the TDSB says. That reality is made evident as each Durham District College Board (DDSB) and Peel District College Board (PDSB) say they’ve additionally been impacted by the info breach.

“Our cybersecurity group promptly activated our response plan, taking speedy steps to make sure that our important programs stay operational,” the TDSB says.

The impacted college boards say they’re conducting a radical investigation alongside PowerSchool to “perceive the character of the incident” and decide what private info could have been impacted.

“At this time limit, we’re nonetheless assessing the precise info which will have been accessed or exported from the applying,” Stacey Zucker, TDSB’s Interim Director of Schooling, wrote in her electronic mail to folks.

The college boards did say they’ve obtained affirmation that no matter knowledge the unauthorized consumer accessed has been deleted and that no copies of that info have been shared on-line.

That stated, in the event that they decide any private info was impacted by the cyber incident, the varsity boards say they may alert households as quickly as doable.

“We’ve got taken all acceptable steps to forestall the info concerned from additional unauthorized entry or misuse,” a PowerSchool spokesperson stated in an emailed assertion.

“The incident is contained and we don’t anticipate the info being shared or made public.”

PowerSchool provides that it has engaged its cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized a cross-functional response group, which incorporates third-party cybersecurity specialists and senior management.

The TDSB, the DDSB and the PDSB say they’ve contacted the Info and Privateness Commissioner of Ontario “out of an abundance of warning.” CTV Information Toronto contacted the commissioner for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.

“We all know this information could also be regarding, however please know that we’re doing every little thing doable to study extra from PowerSchool about what occurred and can share that info with you,” the discover to folks reads.

It’s unclear right now what number of college boards are presently impacted by PowerSchool’s knowledge breach.

The Los Angeles wildfires have claimed Cameron Mathison’s house.

The All My Kids alum shared that his Pacific Palisades residence was destroyed by the fireplace ravaging Southern California as he posted video footage of the blaze’s aftermath. Fortunately, he famous that he and his household weren’t harmed within the catastrophe.

“We’re secure,” Cameron wrote on Instagram Jan. 8 alongside a video of his property, which confirmed a number of flames nonetheless burning. “However that is what’s left of our stunning house.”

Within the clip, the 55-year-old—who shares youngsters Lucas, 21, and Leila, 18, with estranged spouse Vanessa Arevalo—confirmed the charred construction and heaps of particles that remained following the devastating fireplace.

“Our house the place our children have been raised,” his caption continued, “and the place they wished to lift their very own sometime.”

The cleaning soap actor thanked his followers for his or her well-wishes, including that he was “sending so many prayers to everybody being affected by these fires.”

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — It took precisely one week on the job for Sergio Conceicao to earn his first trophy as AC Milan’s coach — with two comeback wins no much less.

Milan got here again from two targets right down to beat metropolis rival Inter Milan 3-2 and win the Italian Tremendous Cup on Monday.

Rafael Leao got here off the bench and performed an element in all three of Milan’s targets from Theo Hernandez, Christian Pulisic and Tammy Abraham.

Conceicao was employed to switch the fired Paulo Fonseca final Monday and in addition led the Rossoneri to a comeback win over Juventus within the semifinals.

So what modified with Conceicao?

“We performed with confidence, braveness and starvation,” Abraham mentioned. “We’re a robust workforce.”

Added Pulisic, “He informed us we have to have extra starvation and that that’s extra essential than ways.”

After the semifinals, Conceicao was requested if he embraced his gamers.

“I’m not so good and I’m not somebody who hugs,” he mentioned. “I’m not right here to make buddies. I’m right here to win.”

However after the ultimate, Conceicao was seen dancing along with his gamers and smoking a cigar within the altering room.

It was Milan’s first trophy since successful Serie A in 2022; and eighth Tremendous Cup title however first since 2016.

Lautaro Martinez and Mehdi Taremi put Inter forward with targets on both facet of halftime.

Leao then earned a foul that resulted in a free kick which Hernandez curled in round Inter’s wall.

Then Pulisic completed off a counterattack by taking pictures by way of Augusto’s legs on a play that started with Leao.

For the third aim, Leao offered a by way of ball for Pulisic, who crossed to Abraham, who tapped into an empty internet in stoppage time. The ultimate was moments away from going to a penalty shootout, since there was not going to be any additional time based on the competitors guidelines.

“It’s additionally our fault that Fonseca was fired,” mentioned Hernandez, who like Leao usually clashed with Fonseca. “We didn’t have a lot time to work collectively (with Conceicao) but it surely’s gone effectively in that brief span.”

It was the fifth time within the final seven years that the competitors was performed in Saudi Arabia, and the second 12 months of an expanded four-team format.

A throw-in led to Inter’s opener as Taremi fed the ball inside the realm to Lautaro, who in the reduction of earlier than taking pictures by way of Hernandez’s legs on Inter’s solely actual likelihood of the half.

Taremi, who was taking part in instead of the injured Marcus Thuram, completed off a counterattack proper after the break.

Milan performs its first Serie A match beneath Conceicao towards Cagliari on Saturday. The Rossoneri are in eighth place with solely seven wins in 17 matches however will return to league motion with far more confidence.

Inter misplaced for less than the third time this season throughout all competitions, and for the second time to Milan, which received the Serie A derby 2-1 in September. The Nerazzurri’s different loss was to Bayer Leverkusen within the Champions League.

“Inter stopped taking part in when it was 2-0,” Lautaro mentioned. “You pay for that in video games like these. We knew that Milan’s finest weapon is their counterattacks.”

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In fact, the PWHL additionally presents alternatives to gamers who’ve but to crack their senior nationwide groups. Montreal’s Jennifer Gardiner, a 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Girls’s World Championship gold medalist from the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, received an enormous cheer throughout the pre-game introductions.

“Enjoying in Vancouver in my hometown is so surreal, and doing it with this group that we’ve is so particular,” Gardiner mentioned. “I used to be wanting across the crowd, and to see the quantity of little women on the market who’ve dreamed of taking part in in knowledgeable girls’s hockey league their complete life and can get to do it someday is so particular.”

And there are PWHL gamers who nonetheless have a window of alternative to make their dream of sporting a nationwide group jersey come true.

Take Mikayla Grant-Mentis, the now-defunct NWHL’s 2021 MVP. The 26-year-old Canadian energy ahead received in behind the Toronto defence to open the scoring lower than 5 minutes in. Within the second interval, from behind the web, Grant-Mentis despatched a unbelievable again move to Claire Dalton to double the lead. Pulling off performs like that in entrance of Troy Ryan – head coach of each the Sceptres and Canada’s nationwide group – shouldn’t be a nasty strategy to make an impression.

Regardless of falling quick versus Montreal, Ryan was impressed by the eagerness and starvation for girls’s hockey in Vancouver.

“I often exit within the warm-up for most likely 5 minutes to simply get a bit of little bit of a really feel for the ambiance,” Ryan mentioned. “And I stayed the complete warm-up. I like sitting again and watching our gamers benefit from the ambiance, but in addition watching lots of the younger youngsters and the indicators they create. It’s simply distinctive. You recognize you’re in a fantastic hockey atmosphere when two groups are battling in opposition to one another and nearly all of the followers are cheering for either side.”

The “Scream when you love girls’s hockey!” exhortation on the large video dice was a straightforward promote. Scores of ladies’ hockey groups packed the stands, their exuberance bringing to thoughts the present U18 Girls’s Worlds in Vantaa, Finland. A Barbie dance cam and mass sing-along to Shania Twain’s “Man! I Really feel Like A Lady!” additionally overrated the ambiance.

Native professional sports activities golf equipment got here out in pressure, too, together with members of the MLS Vancouver Whitecaps, BC Lions (Canadian soccer), and Vancouver Warriors (lacrosse). The UBC Thunderbirds girls’s hockey group was there to root for longtime teammate Rylind MacKinnon, now a rookie Sceptres blueliner.

MATCH REPORT
Prudence and give attention to the restart. Within the sixth minute, Bastoni picked out L. Martínez and Thiaw did properly to get there first. Within the tenth minute, Reijnders collected the ball from Pulisic however crossed badly. Then the possibilities sport: within the twelfth minute, Taremi headed a ball from Barella broad and Reijnders had a pleasant transfer within the fifteenth minute although didn’t get the shot away. Within the twenty second minute, Maignan put in a superb cease on a harmful ball from Dimarco. AC Milan have been organised and created alternatives: within the thirtieth minute, E. Royal tried a shot from distance however was blocked. Mkhitaryan had a go within the thirty eighth minute however it was a weak and imprecise shot. Within the forty first minute, Jiménez put the ball into the center, and Bastoni stopped Morata able to shoot. Proper earlier than the break, Inter opened the scoring: an aggressive counter, Taremi for L. Martínez who shot previous Maignan.

AC Milan have been dealt one other blow in the beginning of the second half because the Nerazzurri doubled their benefit within the forty seventh minute: De Vrij performed a ball excessive for Taremi, who calmly slotted residence to make it 2-0. Nonetheless, the Rossoneri responded instantly: within the 52nd minute, Hernández curled a free-kick low into the underside nook to get AC Milan again in it. It was a vigorous affair: Maignan denied Mkhitaryan (54’) at one finish, whereas Thiaw couldn’t fairly convert on the different (55’). We have been definitely trying threatening, with Sommer preserving out a Pulisic header (61’) and Bastoni making a last-ditch block to foil Reijnders after some good work by Leão (62’). There was an enormous alternative within the sixty fifth minute as Sommer did brilliantly to save lots of a Morata header. With 71 minutes on the clock, Inter broke ahead and C. Augusto hit the publish, with Maignan stopping the ball from crossing the road. The Diavolo continued to show actual coronary heart and have been rewarded for his or her efforts on the 80-minute mark: Hernández pulled it again for Pulisic, who took a contact earlier than drilling into the far backside nook to degree the match. Within the 84th minute, Dumfries volleyed over from a nook, whereas Maignan smothered an effort from Taremi two minutes later. With three minutes of regular time to go, Maignan thwarted Dumfries with a superb cease after Thiaw had slid in to cease Frattesi in his tracks. It appeared like the ultimate was heading to penalties, however then the winner arrived: in stoppage time, Pulisic performed in Leão, who rolled it throughout for Abraham to win it for the Rossoneri. Full-time!

MATCH DETAILS

INTER 2-3 AC MILAN

INTER (3-5-2): Sommer; Bisseck, De Vrij (84′ Darmian), Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella (84′ Frattesi), Çalhanoğlu (35′ Asllani), Mkhitaryan (65′ Zieliński;), Dimarco (66′ C. Augusto); Taremi, L. Martínez. Subs: Calligaris, J. Martínez; Aidoo, Alexiou, Palacios; Berenbruch, Buchanan; Arnautović, Correa, Thuram. Coach: Inzaghi.

AC MILAN (4-2-3-1): Maignan; E. Royal (87′ Calabria), Tomori, Thiaw, Hernández; Musah (77′ Abraham), Fofana; Jiménez (50′ Leão), Reijnders (77′ Loftus-Cheek), Pulisic; Morata (Abraham). Subs: Sportiello; Bartesaghi, Gabbia, Pavlović, Terracciano; Bennacer, Vos, Zeroli; Camarda, Jović, Traorè. Coach: Conceição.

Referee: Sozza from Seregno.
Targets: 45’+1 L. Martínez (I), 47′ Taremi (I), 52′ Hernández (M), 80′ Pulisic (M), 90’+3 Abraham (M).
Booked: 51′ Mkhitaryan (I), 54′ Dumfries (I), 57′ Tomori (M), 72′ Barella (I), 89′ Bastoni (I).

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Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice as her Montreal Victoire downed the Toronto Sceptres 4-2 Wednesday within the first Skilled Girls’s Hockey League sport in Vancouver.

Mikyla Grant-Mentis added a objective and an help for the Victoire (4-1-2-1) and Claire Dalton additionally scored.

Jesse Compher had a objective and an help, Darryl Watts scored and Renata Quick registered two assists for the Sceptres (2-5-0-1).

Montreal goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens stopped 29 of 31 pictures. Kristen Campbell made 21 saves for Toronto.

The sold-out sport was the second cease within the PWHL’s nine-city “Takeover Tour” criss-crossing North America to develop the league’s viewers and check potential enlargement markets.

Different neutral-site locations on the tour embody Quebec Metropolis, the place Montreal takes on the Ottawa Cost on Jan. 19, and Edmonton, the place Toronto faces Ottawa on Feb. 16.

Video games can even be held in Denver, Detroit, St. Louis, Buffalo, N.Y. and Raleigh, N.C.

Takeaways

Sceptres: After falling behind 3-0 halfway via the second, Toronto labored its manner again into rivalry, beginning with Watts’ power-play objective 9:29 into the center body.

The Sceptres pushed within the third, outshooting the Victoire 13-11 throughout the interval, however could not discover the equalizer.

Poulin sealed the win with an empty-net strike with 51 seconds left on the clock.

Victoire: The workforce’s energy play continues to wrestle, going 0-for-2 on the evening.

Montreal got here into the sport with its energy play clicking at league-worst 10.71 per cent.

Key second: Poulin gave Montreal a 3-0 cushion with a shocking objective 7:48 into the second interval.

Erin Ambrose’s shot bounced off of Campbell and out towards Poulin within the faceoff circle.

From her knees, the Canadian hockey legend corralled the rebound and snapped a blistering shot into the into the highest proper nook of the online.

Key stat: An introduced crowd of 19,038 took within the sport, eclipsing the Vancouver Canucks’ season excessive of 18,940.

Up subsequent

Sceptres: Go to the New York Sirens on Sunday.

Victoire: Tackle the Frost in Minnesota in Denver on Sunday.

— This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 8, 2025. 

Pressley Will Vote to Certify Outcomes of 2024 Election Later Right now

WASHINGTON – Right now, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the next assertion on the four-year anniversary of the January sixth rebellion. Congresswoman Pressley will vote to certify the outcomes of the 2024 presidential election later at the moment and proceed her work to make sure accountability.

“4 years in the past, threatened by a violent mob incited by Donald Trump, our democracy was beneath assault. And at the moment, our democracy continues to be threatened by the hurt he has promised to ship in his subsequent time period.

“Trump’s return to the very best workplace within the land, regardless of his central function within the rebellion, is a intestine punch to anybody who cares about our democracy—however it doesn’t absolve us of our accountability to pursue accountability and proceed telling the story of what occurred that day. Our Capitol was violently attacked. Law enforcement officials misplaced their lives that day and within the aftermath. So, as we replicate on the anniversary of the January sixth assault and vote to certify the 2024 presidential election, I stay as dedicated as ever to utilizing each device at my disposal — laws, oversight, and mobilization — to just do that.

“For everybody impacted that day — together with the Congressional employees, amenities employees, Capitol Police, members of Congress, and the general public writ massive — we mustn’t ever get complacent, by no means again down in our pursuit of accountability, and by no means cease working to forestall a damning occasion like that from ever taking place once more.”

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Consultant Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) launched the next assertion recognizing 4 years because the lethal riot on January sixth, 2021:

“Immediately, Members of Congress return to the U.S. Capitol to do one in every of our most necessary constitutional duties — certify the outcomes of the Presidential election and guarantee a peaceable switch of energy. What we do in the present day shall be in stark distinction to what occurred 4 years in the past, when insurrectionists—fueled by sitting President Donald Trump — attacked the U.S. Capitol in probably the most violent assault because the Warfare of 1812. That day, U.S. Capitol Cops have been killed, and lots of — together with over 140 regulation enforcement officers—have been injured. Immediately, we keep in mind their braveness and bravado at the same time as Republicans have refused to place up a Congressionally mandated plaque to honor these officers. 

“I do know that many People throughout the nation are nonetheless processing how it’s potential {that a} President, who resisted the peaceable switch of energy 4 years in the past and can be the primary ever convicted felon elected, might enter the Oval Workplace. Whereas I intend to do every thing potential to proceed to guard our democracy and to face up for weak People who stand to lose Social Safety and Medicare and struggling People who will see their grocery costs rise whereas billionaires get one other Trump tax rip-off, I do know that the survival of our democracy will depend on our willingness to uphold the outcomes of our elections, whether or not we like them or not.  

“However as we certify the elections in the present day, allow us to always remember how shut we got here 4 years in the past to dropping our democracy utterly.  As somebody who was trapped within the Gallery that day, I keep in mind vividly how shut we got here to not making it out alive. I’ll always remember the pounding on the doorways, the shouting and screaming of each these attempting to overrun our democracy and people placing their lives on the road to defend it. I’ll always remember that, regardless of the violence, we returned that evening to do the very factor we have been elected to do: to certify the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I additionally will always remember the handful of courageous Republicans who, within the weeks following, stood as much as put nation over get together throughout Trump’s impeachment trial. 

“If Donald Trump strikes ahead with pardoning the January 6 rioters, as he has pledged to do, he’ll as soon as once more be doing violence to our nation and our democracy and inspiring it once more sooner or later. Regardless of these or every other efforts to rewrite historical past, that day won’t ever be forgotten for its horrific violence, for simply how shut we got here to dropping our democracy, and for the power and bravado of so many who fought to verify we revered the outcomes of a good and free election.

“That day confirmed me simply how fragile our democracy is. We are able to by no means take this as a right and we should work to guard and strengthen our democracy each single day, in opposition to all threats to it. I pledge to do precisely that.”