The Los Angeles Lakers have continued to indicate curiosity in Toronto Raptors guard Bruce Brown after practically signing him as a free agent in the course of the 2023 offseason, in response to Jovan Buha of The Athletic.
“I do know the Lakers like Bruce Brown,” Buha stated on his YouTube channel (47:15 mark). “They thought they had been going to get him earlier than he went to Indiana.”
The 28-year-old signed a two-year, $45 million contract with the Indiana Pacers in June 2023. He was then moved to the Raptors as a part of a blockbuster commerce involving Pascal Siakam in Jan. 2024.
Brown continues to be on the identical contract, which means that he is slated to grow to be a free agent on the finish of the 2024-25 season. With Toronto prioritizing younger gamers surrounding All-Star ahead Scottie Barnes, the Raptors look like fascinated by transferring the veteran as a substitute of watching him doubtlessly depart in the course of the summer season.
For a Lakers workforce looking for a greater supporting forged round stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis, Brown is an attractive possibility.
He is proven that he could be impactful while not having the ball in his fingers, making his presence felt together with his defensive acumen and rebounding instincts. Brown has averaged 6.1 rebounds per 36 minutes all through his profession and has already proven that he can thrive in a rotation with contending aspirations.
Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou lifted the well-known line from the film Gladiator following the wild trip of victory over Manchester United when he requested: “Are you not entertained?”
It was Postecoglou’s means of answering questions on his cavalier method, after Spurs threatened to throw away a 3-0 lead in Thursday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final earlier than profitable 4-3.
The issue is that Postecoglou’s thought of leisure works two methods – as he and Spurs discovered to their value as they have been brutally punished by Liverpool in entrance of their very own supporters.
Liverpool definitely discovered Spurs extremely entertaining in a 6-3 win that was nowhere close to an correct reflection of their superiority.
It demonstrated why Arne Slot’s staff are answerable for the title race with a four-point lead over Chelsea at Christmas, with a sport in hand, whereas Spurs languish in eleventh place, eight factors off fourth.
Leisure isn’t an issue with Spurs underneath Postecoglou. However pleasure is laced with a component of sporting torture when they’re uncovered to a staff of Liverpool’s world-class attacking high quality.
There have now been 30 targets in Spurs’ previous 5 video games. Entertaining all proper, however 10 of these have been scored towards Postecoglou’s staff in successive house league defeats by Chelsea and Liverpool. Within the latter case, the one query was how Liverpool solely scored six whereas someway conceding three.
Liverpool’s anticipated targets whole was 4.6 to Spurs’ 1.2. Slot’s staff, measured by Opta statistics, carved out 9 massive possibilities – testimony to their dominance in addition to the defensive vulnerability Postecoglou reveals little signal of addressing with further pragmatism.
It might be unfair on Postecoglou and Spurs to not level out that he’s lacking first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario in addition to central defenders Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven. These are massive absentees for a staff enjoying in such an open model, particularly Van de Ven, whose tempo is so essential to Postecoglou’s favoured excessive line.
Postecoglou was additionally unable to name on suspended midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur. The influential Uruguayan would have not less than supplied a better diploma of problem in passing via Spurs, one thing which is just too straightforward at current.
Spurs are stretched on numbers, that means Postecoglou fielded an unchanged aspect from that which confronted Manchester United on Thursday.
No such issues for Liverpool, nevertheless, who’ve now received 12 and drawn three of their 16 league video games this season. In addition they have the best objective distinction of plus 21.
Let me begin by saying, I really like “A Christmas Story.” It’s a Christmas traditional. I attempt to watch it a number of instances through the vacation season. Earlier than streaming turned a factor and watching a marathon on TV was one thing of a novelty, the film was my background noise as I wrapped items, or took a nap earlier than baking and cooking. If I missed a scene, I knew I may catch it later.
Once I noticed “A Christmas Story: The Musical” was the ultimate present for the yr at Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, I knew this was one musical I couldn’t miss.
“A Christmas Story” is a kind of films you recognize by coronary heart. You anticipate every scene and chortle each time prefer it’s the primary time. At the least that’s what I do. And, that’s precisely what occurred this time — besides as an alternative of watching on my sofa or in my mattress, I sat at a eating desk in a theater with a whole bunch of different individuals. From their laughter, I feel they had been having an excellent time, too.
“A Christmas Story: The Musical” didn’t disappoint. It aligned with the film, however that didn’t make it really feel stale or overdone. As an alternative, it added a twist that made this traditional really feel recent and enjoyable.
All the long-lasting moments had been there — and I imply all of the moments. I can’t listing each single one, however listed here are a number of to whet your whistle: the pink bunny pajamas, Randy snorting like a pig whereas consuming his dinner, Flick’s tongue and the flagpole, the Outdated Man’s cussing, and naturally the leg lamp.
I questioned if the Santa and Ralphie scene could be included and the way they’d pull it off. All I’ll say is it’s in there, and it labored nicely on the stage.
Ralphie asks Santa for a Pink Ryder BB gun throughout a scene from “A Christmas Story,” displaying via Jan. 5, 2025, at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. Credit score: Supplied picture/Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
I’ve by no means been disillusioned within the expertise I’ve seen at Beef and Boards, and it’s at all times a deal with when a fellow Hoosier is the star. Teddy Wiegand, 11, a sixth grader from Avon, is Ralphie Parker. It’s his Beef and Boards debut, however I couldn’t inform. He owned the stage.
In case you haven’t caught a efficiency but, you continue to have time. “A Christmas Story: The Musical” continues at Beef and Boards till Jan. 5. Don’t overlook, this musical additionally comes with an all-you-can-eat dinner buffet.
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Tottenham scored three targets with out ever trying like profitable, and Liverpool broke file after file. Listed here are eight standout stats from a really loopy Premier League sport.
On Sunday afternoon, Tottenham and Liverpool performed out one of many least thrilling nine-goal video games you may think about.
After Liverpool went forward within the twenty third minute – and with hindsight, most likely even sooner than that – there was solely ever one winner.
Even when Spurs introduced it again from 5-1 to 5-3 with seven minutes to go, any hope of a grandstand end was swiftly banished when Luis Díaz scored Liverpool’s sixth simply two minutes later.
In all, it was about as one-sided a sport as a 6-3 may very well be.
It could not have been the thriller the scoreline might need urged, but when it was to be described as something, ‘loopy’ could be an satisfactory and becoming adjective.
And from a loopy sport got here a hell of loads of loopy statistics. Right here, we’ve put the very best of them collectively.
Salah the Aim and Help Machine: Half 1
Mohamed Salah has scored and assisted in seven totally different Premier League video games for Liverpool this season, already the joint-most by a participant in a single marketing campaign within the competitors.
In order for you standout stats, you want look no additional than Mohamed Salah’s begin to 2024-25.
With out taking part in at his greatest (Díaz was given man of the match and Dominik Szoboszlai might need felt aggrieved to not have been), Salah had 5 photographs by the 18th minute (with out scoring) earlier than racking up two targets and two assists from the forty sixth minute onwards.
It was the seventh sport already this season through which he has each scored and arrange a objective, which equals the Premier League file for an entire season. A reminder that Liverpool are solely 16 video games right into a 38-game marketing campaign.
If Salah fails to do it once more this season, he’ll stay high alongside Alan Shearer in 1994-95, Thierry Henry in 2002-03, Robin van Persie in 2011-12, and Bruno Fernandes and Harry Kane in 2020-21. It’s very seemingly these gamers will drop into second, although.
Salah the Aim and Help Machine: Half 2
Mohamed Salah is the primary participant in Premier League historical past to achieve double figures for each targets and assists for a season earlier than Christmas.
Salah now has 15 targets and 11 assists for 2024-25. He’s the primary participant within the Premier League period to achieve 10+ in each columns earlier than Christmas Day.
He has additionally equalled Harry Kane’s file because the joint-quickest by way of appearances by a participant to hit double figures for each in a single marketing campaign, with the previous Tottenham ahead doing it in 2020-21 (when the season’s begin was delayed resulting from COVID-19 so he didn’t handle it by Christmas).
Salah the Aim and Help Machine: Half 3
That is the sixth Premier League season through which Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has each scored and assisted 10+ targets; probably the most of any participant within the competitors’s historical past.
Salah reaching double figures for each targets and assists in a season is nothing new. He’s performed it extra instances than another participant in Premier League historical past, additionally doing so in 2017-18, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Wayne Rooney (5) had beforehand held the file, however as lengthy as Salah extends his keep in England past this season, he’s more likely to additionally prolong his lead.
Slot’s Report-Breaking Begin
Arne Slot has 21 wins from his first 25 aggressive video games as Liverpool supervisor – greater than anybody else has managed of their first 25 matches as a Premier League supervisor
Prime of the league at Christmas, an ideal file within the Champions League, and into the EFL Cup semi-finals; no one may have predicted this begin for Arne Slot, however they only carry on going.
He has now acquired extra wins from his first quarter-century of matches in command of a Premier League crew than anybody else has ever managed. Antonio Conte is the one different supervisor who has achieved as many as 20, and he didn’t have Champions League soccer to take care of when he joined Chelsea.
Liverpool are the favourites to win each the Premier League and the Champions League based on the Opta supercomputer.
No Dwelling Comforts for Tottenham
Tottenham have conceded the opening objective in 14 totally different house video games within the Premier League in 2024; the joint-most ever by a crew in a calendar 12 months.
To interrupt this file, it’s a must to concede plenty of targets. However you can also’t concede so many that you simply get relegated.
So, you might be more likely to be a relegation-threatened crew who survive however then begin the next season badly, too.
It truly is one thing for Tottenham to have equalled a file additionally held by Crystal Palace in 2017 and Ipswich and Spurs themselves in 1994 when additionally harbouring hopes of getting again into the Champions League and ending their trophy drought. However that is Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham, and they’re right here to entertain.
It’s truthful to say they’re doing simply that.
Postecoglou’s Report Aim Provide
Tottenham’s Premier League matches below Ange Postecoglou have seen a median of three.6 targets scored per sport (each groups mixed). Amongst these to take cost of fifty+ video games within the competitors, that is the very best goals-per-game price by any supervisor.
“Are you not entertained?” Postecoglou requested after Tottenham practically threw away a three-goal lead of their eventual 4-3 EFL Cup win over Manchester United on Thursday night time.
Effectively, sure, Ange, after all we’re. And with a median of three.6 targets per Premier League sport throughout his 18 months as Tottenham supervisor, there could be no justification for calling his matches something aside from entertaining.
The one downside is, manner too a lot of these targets are getting into on the improper finish so far as Spurs are involved.
Tottenham’s Logic-Defying Goalscoring
Tottenham are the highest-scoring crew within the Premier League this season and solely three groups have a greater objective distinction. They’re additionally eleventh.
Spurs have outscored everybody else within the Premier League this season. With 39 targets in 17 video games, they’ve scored at the very least 10 targets greater than 14 of the opposite 19 groups, together with Manchester Metropolis, Newcastle, Brighton and Aston Villa. In addition they have the very best objective distinction exterior the present high three (+14).
They’ve now scored 3+ targets in additional Premier League matches this season (9) than another crew. They’re additionally within the backside half of the desk.
The bottom place that the top-scoring crew in a Premier League season has ever completed is fourth (Blackburn in 1992-93 and Metropolis in 2015-16). Spurs may very well be heading in the right direction to smash that file.
Report-Breaking Likelihood Creation for Liverpool
Liverpool’s xG whole of 5.63 on this match is their largest ever recorded in an away Premier League match.
Liverpool tore Tottenham aside on Sunday, creating possibilities price 5.63 anticipated targets. It’s their highest whole in an away Premier League sport on file (since 2015-16), and probably the most by any crew in a match this season.
Salah alone had possibilities price 2.38 xG. Szoboszlai racked up 2.11 xG. Spurs managed 1.27 in whole.
This actually was as one-sided as a sport that ended 6-3 may have been. The stats show it was as loopy as they arrive, too.
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Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart star in “It is a Fantastic Life.”
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When he was requested in 1984 if he thought It’s a Fantastic Life contained autobiographical components, the director of the movie, Frank Capra, replied, “That’s not such a profound assertion, for Christ’s sake, that it seems just like the man who made it. What the hell — who ought to it seem like?”
The way in which during which Capra answered this query, in its context and supply, says quite a bit in regards to the auteur behind not solely It’s a Fantastic Life however the Oscar-winning The Finest Years of Our Lives, in addition to MeetJohnDoe, It Occurred One Evening, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, amongst many others. It’s a Fantastic Life got here out in 1946.
In Joseph McBride’s biography of Capra, he examines the complexity of the person who many nonetheless contemplate one of the crucial influential administrators for his potential to mix darkish and light-weight components in his storytelling.
The over 700 web page ebook, revealed in 1992, entitled “Frank Capra: The Disaster of Success” explores the director’s multifaceted emotions about his work.
In discussing Capra’s identification with George Bailey, the central character of It’s a Fantastic Life, McBride factors out that those that knew Capra can be astonished as a result of his profitable public picture to know that Capra felt, “a loneliness that was laced with a worry of failure,” as he ready the movie, which was to be his large comeback after World Struggle II.
McBride writes, “In strains he wrote for the movie however didn’t use, Capra had George sat after leaping into the river, ‘I used to be a 4-F. In my case, it didn’t stand for 4 Freedoms, it meant 4 Failures. Failure as a husband, father, businessman — failure as a human being.’”
This sense is attributed to Capra’s pessimism post-war, triggering his consciousness of the fragility of his artwork,” says McBride. He goes on to say, “Like his surrogate on display, George Bailey, [Capra] was present process a secret metaphysical disaster, questioning whether or not he ‘had put an excessive amount of religion within the human race.’”
As such, it doesn’t really feel like an excessive amount of of a stretch to say that though Capra had his reservations about mankind, he managed to supply a movie that for a lot of restored their religion within the motives of others (besides perhaps Mr. Potter, who represents the worst in folks and, sadly, doesn’t face any penalties for his actions within the movie.)
In an fascinating twist, as Capra’s profession was waning within the Eighties, he was pitched a TV collection entitled It’s Nonetheless a Fantastic Life, a sequel mission with authentic stars Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed enjoying their characters of their later years.
The mission was proposed by a producer, and Joseph McBride. Sure, the identical McBride who authored Capra’s large biography.
True to his nature, Capra responded, “That’s the form of god-damn factor a producer would counsel. They will go f*ck themselves.”
‘It’s a Fantastic Life’ airs December 24th at 8pm e/p on NBC, and is offered for streaming on Prime.
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MADRID (AP) — Kylian Mbappé added to his scoring streak with an excellent strike in Actual Madrid’s 4-2 win over Sevilla within the Spanish league on Sunday to complete the 12 months on a optimistic observe after hitting what he known as “all-time low” in early December.
Mbappé despatched a right-footed shot into the higher nook 10 minutes into the match for his fourth objective in as many video games with Madrid in all competitions. It was Mbappé’s sixth objective in his final eight matches with Madrid.
He struggled early on along with his new membership, and Mbappé mentioned his lowest level got here when he missed a penalty kick within the crew’s 2-1 league loss at Athletic Bilbao on Dec. 4.
“I do know I’ve much more to offer,” Mbappé mentioned Sunday. “The previous couple of video games I’ve performed higher, I took plenty of positives from the Bilbao recreation, once I hit all-time low.”
The France star mentioned that made him notice “I’ve to offer my all for this jersey and play with persona.”
Mbappé mentioned he feels his interval of adjustment with the membership is lastly over.
“I feel we now know one another higher,” he mentioned. “I’ve joined the crew and that modified plenty of issues. The settling-in interval is over, because the coach says. I really feel very snug within the crew and I play higher with the others on the sphere. The crew is enjoying significantly better.”
Federico Valverde, Rodrygo and Brahim Díaz additionally scored within the snug house victory that allowed Madrid to complete the 12 months one level behind Spanish league chief Atletico Madrid.
Atletico rallied to shock Barcelona 2-1 Saturday with a stoppage-time objective by Alexander Sorloth. Third-place Barcelona is 2 factors behind Madrid, having performed an additional recreation.
Valverde scored within the twentieth and Rodrygo within the thirty fourth earlier than Sevilla acquired on the board with Isaac Romero within the thirty fifth. Díaz prolonged Madrid’s lead within the 53rd and Dodi Lukebakio acquired the guests’ different objective within the eighty fifth on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
“It was a well-played recreation, with many scoring conditions, finish to the 12 months,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti mentioned. “That was what we needed, to be close to the highest and get some good relaxation for 2025.”
Madrid subsequent faces Valencia on Jan. 3 in a match postponed due to the lethal floods that hit Valencia in October.
Sevilla, sitting in 14th place, had received two of its final two video games in all competitions.
Navas’ farewell
It was the final recreation for Sevilla and Spain nice Jesús Navas, who’s formally retiring on the finish of the 12 months. The defender was honored by Sevilla and Madrid gamers and followers on the Santiago Bernabeu.
Gamers from each groups made a guard of honor for Navas earlier than the match, lining up as he entered the sphere, and Madrid’s veteran midfielder Luka Modric handed him a jersey of the membership signed by gamers. Followers gave Navas a standing ovation in the course of the ceremony.
Substitute Navas got here on halfway by the second half.
“What occurred as we speak was spectacular,” the 39-year-old Navas mentioned after the match, unable to carry again tears. “I had by no means seen something prefer it in my life on a rival discipline. It was loopy. In these previous few minutes I couldn’t see something. I used to be trying on the floor recalling all of the moments I’ve went by and the enjoyment I’ve been capable of give to Sevilla and the nationwide crew.”
Navas helped Sevilla win 4 Europa League titles and Spain clinch the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 and 2024 European Championships. He was with Manchester Metropolis when it received the 2014 Premier League.
“Navas actually deserves it,” Ancelotti mentioned. “Navas is an instance for everybody.”
Valencia attracts late
Second-to-last Valencia salvaged a 2-2 house draw with Alaves, due to a objective by Dani Gómez eight minutes into second-half stoppage time after the guests had taken the lead with Joan Jordán within the 88th.
The setback drew extra protests from Valencia followers who’ve been sad with the administration of crew proprietor Peter Lim.
Different outcomes
Thierno Barry scored a hat trick and Gerard Moreno and Pau Cabanes added one objective every as fifth-place Villarreal received 5-2 at Leganes, whereas Las Palmas received 1-0 in opposition to 18th-place Espanyol. Ninth-place Actual Betis was held by Twelfth-place Rayo Vallecano to a 1-1 draw at house.
Somebody’s Christmas want may need been granted because the Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot reached an estimated $1 billion for the Christmas Eve drawing.
The final Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot claimed was again on Sept. 10, when $810 million was gained in Texas. Since then, the jackpot has been climbing ever increased and has change into one of many largest of all time.
Heading into Christmas Eve, the jackpot was value $1 billion or an estimated $448.8 million lump-sum fee after taxes, in accordance with the lottery. If gained, it might have been the seventh-largest jackpot in Mega Thousands and thousands historical past.
A winner on Dec. 24 is uncommon as Mega Thousands and thousands stated that there is solely been one fortunate jackpot winner on Christmas Eve thus far. The billion-dollar query is, did anybody win the Mega Thousands and thousands on Christmas Eve? Here’s what we learn about Tuesday’s successful numbers.
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Did anybody win the Mega Thousands and thousands?
Nobody gained the Jackpot on Christmas Eve.
However 4 folks obtained an early Christmas reward, successful $1 million within the Match 5 lottery.
These winners hail from:
California
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
The following Mega Thousands and thousands drawing on Dec. 27 shall be value an estimated $1.15 billion.
To view the checklist of previous winners, go to the Mega Thousands and thousands web site.
Mega Thousands and thousands successful numbers for 12/24/24
The successful numbers from the Tuesday, Dec. 24 Mega Thousands and thousands drawing had been: 11, 14, 38, 45, 46 Megaball: 3
Megaplier: 3X
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MADRID — Kylian Mbappé added to his scoring streak with an excellent strike 10 minutes right into a Spanish league match as Actual Madrid beat Sevilla 4-2 on Sunday to complete the yr one level behind chief Atletico Madrid.
It was the final recreation for Sevilla and Spain nice Jesús Navas, who’s formally retiring on the finish of the yr. The defender was honored by Sevilla and Madrid gamers and followers on the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
Mbappé despatched a right-footed shot into the higher nook for his fourth purpose in as many matches with Madrid in all competitions. It was Mbappé’s sixth purpose in his final eight video games with Madrid.
Federico Valverde, Rodrygo and Brahim Díaz additionally scored within the snug residence victory.
Atletico rallied to shock Barcelona 2-1 Saturday with a stoppage-time purpose by Alexander Sorloth. Third-place Barcelona is 2 factors behind Madrid, having performed an additional recreation.
Valverde scored within the twentieth and Rodrygo within the thirty fourth earlier than Sevilla bought on the board with Isaac Romero within the thirty fifth. Díaz prolonged Madrid’s lead within the 53rd and Dodi Lukebakio bought the guests’ different purpose within the eighty fifth on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
“It was a well-played recreation, with many scoring conditions, an excellent finish to the yr,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti stated. “That was what we wished, to be close to the highest and get some good relaxation for 2025.”
Madrid subsequent faces Valencia on Jan. 3 in a match postponed due to the lethal floods that hit Valencia in October.
Sevilla, sitting in 14th place, had gained two of its final two video games in all competitions.
Gamers from each groups made a guard of honor for Navas earlier than the match, lining up as he entered the sphere, and Madrid’s veteran midfielder Luka Modric handed him a jersey of the membership signed by gamers. Followers gave Navas a standing ovation through the ceremony.
Substitute Navas got here on halfway via the second half.
“What occurred right now was spectacular,” the 39-year-old Navas stated after the match, unable to carry again tears. “I had by no means seen something prefer it in my life on a rival area. It was loopy. In these previous few minutes I couldn’t see something. I used to be trying on the floor recalling all of the moments I’ve went via and the enjoyment I’ve been capable of give to Sevilla and the nationwide crew.”
Navas helped Sevilla win 4 Europa League titles and Spain clinch the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 and 2024 European Championships. He was with Manchester Metropolis when it gained the 2014 Premier League.
“Navas actually deserves it,” Ancelotti stated. “Navas is an instance for everybody.”
Second-to-last Valencia salvaged a 2-2 residence draw with Alaves, due to a purpose by Dani Gómez eight minutes into second-half stoppage time after the guests had taken the lead with Joan Jordán within the 88th.
The setback drew extra protests from Valencia followers who’ve been sad with the administration of crew proprietor Peter Lim.
Thierno Barry scored a hat trick and Gerard Moreno and Pau Cabanes added one purpose every as fifth-place Villarreal gained 5-2 at Fifteenth-place Leganes, whereas Thirteenth-place Las Palmas gained 1-0 towards 18th-place Espanyol.
The Grinch had his method as no tickets bought for the $1 billion Mega Hundreds of thousands Christmas Eve jackpot matched the six balls wanted to win: 11, 14, 38, 45, 46, and a Mega Ball of three.
The subsequent estimated grand prize is a gargantuan $1.15 billion, with a money choice of $516.1 million, lottery officers mentioned. It will be the fifth greatest Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot ever if somebody wins. (All of the totals are earlier than taxes are taken out.) The subsequent drawing can be Friday evening.
The prize for Tuesday evening’s drawing grew from an estimated $970 million on Monday to $1 billion, or $448.8 million for the money choice, as increasingly more tickets have been bought through the day and on Christmas Eve.
The $1 billion jackpot would have been the seventh largest Mega Hundreds of thousands prize ever received. A participant in Florida obtained the greatest, $1.602 billion, in an Aug. 8 drawing.
Two successful Powerball jackpots prime all of them: an estimated $2.04 billion in California in November 2022 and $1.765 billion, additionally in California, in October 2023.
The Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot has been rolling because it was final received at $810 million in Texas on Sept. 10. No ticket matched all six numbers through the earlier drawing on Friday evening, with white balls 2, 20, 51, 56 and 67, plus the gold Mega Ball 19.
If somebody had received Tuesday evening, it could have been simply the second Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpot received on Christmas Eve. Somebody received a $68 million jackpot in New York on Christmas Eve in 2002, however that prize went unclaimed.
13 Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpots have been received in December for the reason that recreation started in 2002.
Solely three Mega Hundreds of thousands jackpots have been received this yr — the fewest in any yr for the reason that recreation began. The chances of successful the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.
Winners have two decisions: a 30-year annuity that pays the complete jackpot quantity or a one-time money lump sum, which is way smaller. However many winners go for it to get the cash upfront.
Mega Hundreds of thousands tickets can be found in 45 states together with Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $2 per play. Drawings are performed at 11 p.m. EST on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Be careful for lottery scams
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“Whereas folks must be vigilant always, that is very true in periods of bigger jackpots,” based on the lottery’s web site.
Modifications coming to Mega Hundreds of thousands
Mega Hundreds of thousands tickets are set to get costlier subsequent yr. It would price $5 per play beginning in April, greater than double the present $2.
The ticket worth change will result in greater jackpots and higher odds of successful, based on Mega Hundreds of thousands. The change in April will mark the second worth enhance since Mega Hundreds of thousands was launched.
“We’re making a recreation that each our present gamers and other people new to Mega Hundreds of thousands will love and get enthusiastic about enjoying,” Joshua Johnston, lead director of the Mega Hundreds of thousands Consortium, mentioned when the information was introduced. “We anticipate extra billion-dollar jackpots than ever earlier than, that means creating extra billionaires and plenty of extra millionaires because the jackpots climb, plus this recreation will proceed the necessary legacy of supporting nice causes in every single place Mega Hundreds of thousands is performed.”
Correction: This story has been up to date to notice that Mega Hundreds of thousands started in 2002, not 2022.
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DexCom and Abbott Diabetes Care entered a settlement and patent cross-license settlement, resolving all excellent litigation between the businesses.
The businesses have been concerned in world patent litigation, with each having accused the opposite of infringing sure patents, and every has filed counterclaims and actions to invalidate the opposite get together's patents, DexCom stated in a Securities and Alternate Fee submitting Monday.
On Friday, the businesses entered a settlement, beneath which each granted the opposite "a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, totally paid-up license to sure patents and patent functions referring to analyte sensing." This license extends to all of the patents asserted within the litigation, DexCom stated.
Additionally beneath the phrases of the settlement, which doesn't obligate both firm to pay royalties or some other type of monetary compensation, each events agreed to not sue till Dec. 20, 2034, and won't problem the patents and patent functions licensed beneath the settlement, based on DexCom.
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