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FOOTBALL

Oregon dropped out of the AP ballot to finish the 2020 season — The Geese (4-3) fell from No. 25 with 126 factors within the last ballot of the common season to 21 factors in what can be No. 29 within the last AP ballot of the 2020 season following their 34-17 loss to Iowa State within the Fiesta Bowl. It’s the second time in three years Oregon will end the season unranked within the AP ballot. No. 21 USC is the one Pac-12 group ranked.

1000’s get together in streets after Alabama win, regardless of virus — 1000’s of College of Alabama soccer followers partied on the street close to campus after the Crimson Tide defeated Ohio State 52-24 for the national championship, ignoring pleas for security on the top of the coronavirus pandemic in a celebration {that a} prime well being official stated Tuesday might worsen illness. College students and others poured out of jam-packed bars close to campus as time expired in Miami late Monday, traffic cameras and pictures posted on social media present. Most of the followers screaming and cheering as they pressed in opposition to one another on the street didn’t put on face masks.

Packers QB Rodgers says he’ll guest-host on ‘Jeopardy!’ — Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he might be a visitor host on “Jeopardy!” through the offseason. The present is at the moment utilizing a series of interim hosts to switch Alex Trebek, who died of cancer on Nov. 8. That course of started when record-holding contestant Ken Jennings made his debut on an episode that aired Monday. Rodgers was a successful “Celeb Jeopardy!” contestant in 2015.

BASKETBALL

NBA, union stiffen virus protocols, one other recreation postponed — With 4 video games known as off this week already and extra groups coping with virus-related points, the NBA and the Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation enacted further guidelines Tuesday within the hope of maintaining the season going safely. Among the many new insurance policies: for “a minimum of the subsequent two weeks,” the league and union stated, gamers and group workers must stay at their residence when of their dwelling markets and prohibited from leaving their resorts or having exterior friends when on the street. Orlando’s recreation in Boston on Wednesday was additionally known as off, the fourth postponement since Sunday and the third involving the Celtics.

SKIING

Shiffrin wins evening race for 1st slalom victory in 1 12 months — Mikaela Shiffrin received an evening slalom Tuesday to finish a year-long victory drought in her strongest self-discipline and earn her one hundredth World Cup podium. Shiffrin, who final triumphed in a slalom in December 2019, held on to her opening-run lead and beat Katharina Liensberger by 0.19 seconds following a near-flawless last run, denying the Austrian her first profession win. Liensberger is the one skier to complete within the prime three of all 5 slaloms to this point this season. The outcome made Shiffrin the eighth skier within the 54-year-long historical past of the World Cup to achieve 100 podium finishes.

— Bulletin wire studies