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Idaho Statesman staff The Fiesta Bowl matchup is set between the No. 3 seed Boise State Broncos and No. 6 Penn State Nittany Lions. Both teams are covered by McClatchy Company newspapers. The Idaho Statesman’s coverage of Boise State, the 2024 Mountain West champion and three-time Fiesta Bowl champ, has been headed by beat writer Shaun Goodwin. The Nittany Lions, who narrowly lost the Big 10 championship game to Oregon but routed SMU in the first round of the playoffs, are covered by the Centre Daily Times’ Jon Sauber. The two teams now will meet in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. Kickoff is at 5:30 p.m. Mountain time on Tuesday, Dec. 31. How did both teams get here? Which team is favored, and why? How might the game play out? Shaun and Jon share their thoughts about the matchup. Join our livestream at noon, Monday, Dec. 30, to hear what they have to say and to have your questions answered. You can click here to register and submit your question for Shaun. We’ll also take questions during the livestream on all our social platforms. Watch on IdahoStatesman.com , our Facebook and Instagram pages, and our YouTube channel. Join us What: Idaho Statesman Fiesta Bowl Preview When: Noon, Monday, Dec. 30 How: Click here to register and submit a question. It’s free. Idaho Statesman Boise State sports reporter Shaun Goodwin Centre Daily Times Penn State sports reporter Jon Sauber This story was originally published December 24, 2024, 1:00 PM.

Who Is richer! Swara Bhasker or Her Husband Fahad Ahmad? Their Net Worth Will Surprise YouOlder siblings everywhere could appreciate John Harbaugh’s refusal to concede an inch against his younger brother Jim. Even when his Baltimore Ravens faced fourth down at their 16-yard line in the second quarter, John wasn’t giving up the ball without a fight. The Ravens converted that fourth down and two others on their way to a 30-23 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night, giving their coach a third victory in three matchups against his brother. It was the first time they’d faced off since Baltimore beat San Francisco — then coached by Jim Harbaugh — in the Super Bowl at the end of the 2012 season. “We grew up in the same room and have always lived our life side by side, but that’s not what the game is about,” John Harbaugh said. “The game really is about the players, and the players are always going to win the game or lose the game or whatever.” On this night, it was Baltimore’s players who shined. Specifically Derrick Henry, who rushed for 140 yards. Lamar Jackson threw a couple of touchdown passes, and the defense was solid, allowing touchdowns on the first and last Los Angeles drives but not much in between. RELATED COVERAGE Malik Nabers says calling the Giants ‘soft’ was wrong but he doesn’t regret speaking out Commanders place kicker Austin Seibert on injured reserve Saquon Barkley is the NFL’s version of Shohei Ohtani: Analysis “I’m proud of our guys,” John Harbaugh said. “I’m proud of the way they came out and responded after the first 10 points — we were down 10-0, and our guys stepped up.” After converting fourth-and-1 at their 16 late in the second quarter, the Ravens scored on a 40-yard pass from Jackson to Rashod Bateman, taking the lead for good at 14-10. Baltimore’s other two fourth-and-1 conversions came on a 14-play touchdown drive that spanned the end of the third quarter and start of the fourth. “We’re just confident that we’ll end up converting on those fourth downs, and we did a great job blocking,” said Henry, who converted the last two of the fourth downs. “All we had to do was make a play, and we did.” The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . What’s working The Ravens got back to their identity a bit, rushing for 212 yards. And it wasn’t just Henry and Jackson contributing. Justice Hill broke free for a 51-yard touchdown that made it 30-16 in the fourth. “Nobody wants to stand in front of (Derrick Henry) every single play, every single run,” Hill said. “You can do it one time, two times, three times, but when you have to do it 20 to 25 times, it starts to wear down. I’m glad we stuck with the run game this game, and it played out for us.” What needs help There were still too many penalties, with the Ravens flagged nine times for 102 yards. Baltimore played a pretty clean game until the fourth quarter, so several of those flags came after the Ravens had the game reasonably under control, but this is still an area of concern. Stock up With star linebacker Roquan Smith out because of a hamstring injury, Malik Harrison led the Ravens with a dozen tackles. “It’s a lot of people that doubted me coming into this game, so I’m happy I was able to ball out and show them that I can be in this league, and I can play at a high level,” Harrison said. Stock down There was a time when Isaiah Likely seemed as if he might be supplanting Mark Andrews as Baltimore’s top tight end threat, but Likely went without a catch Monday. He did, however, recover the onside kick that effectively ended the game. Injuries Although Smith was out, DT Travis Jones (ankle) and C Tyler Linderbaum (back) were able to start. Key number Jackson has now thrown 22 touchdown passes with no interceptions on Monday nights, with a passer rating of 124.3. Next steps The Ravens have one more game before their open date, and it’s a showdown this weekend against a Philadelphia team that has won seven in a row. Saquon Barkley (1,392) of the Eagles and Henry (1,325) have both surpassed 1,300 yards rushing already. Nobody else in the NFL has more than 1,000. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflWhether or not Minnesota Wild fans believe in Santa Claus is irrelevant as families all across the State of Hockey gather near their Christmas trees, real or artificial. Whether or not they believe, truly, in the second round of the NHL playoffs is the real factor determining their level of holiday spirit. Save for a recent blip of four straight losses, this has been a hockey season filled with unexpected fun from a team for whom preseason expectations were low. The Wild entered the three-day holiday break in solid contention for the top of not only the Central Division but also the Western Conference with a 21-10-4 record after a 4-3 victory over the Blackhawks on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT As the NHL enjoys a holiday break that comes just a few games shy of the 2024-25 season’s midway mark, we offer a quintet of wishes that would help bring a Merry Christmas and, even more importantly, a Happy New Year to the State of Hockey. The Wild have not seen top-line center Joel Eriksson Ek or veteran defenseman Jake Middleton play a game in weeks. They lost top-line winger Mats Zuccarello for a month. They lost mainstay goalie Filip Gustavsson for a week. They have had live through games without Marat Khusnutdinov, Yakob Trenin, Jakub Lauko, Jonas Brodin, Ryan Hartman and Jared Spurgeon. Even superstar forward Kirill Kaprizov missed a game after a nasty knee-on-knee check during a November win in Edmonton. The injury bug pays a visit to every team at some point, and we hear lots of brave talk about the “next man up” and other cool clichés. But a healthy roster in 2025 could mean the difference between sneaking into the playoffs and contending for a new banner for the Xcel Energy Center rafters. On Dec. 6, the Wild won convincingly in Anaheim by a 5-1 count. Roughly 19 hours after that game concluded, they had to face the powerful Kings in downtown Los Angeles and lost 4-1. Last weekend, a home loss to Utah was followed, less than 24 hours later, by a visit to Central-leading Winnipeg, which won handily. On Jan. 11, they will play in San Jose, then have roughly 19 hours to get to Las Vegas for a night with the Knights. Like injuries, everyone deals with schedule quirks, especially in a season like this when things are condensed due to the two-week break for the 4 Nations Cup in February. But the spate of back-to-backs in different rinks has certainly done Minnesota no favors in the realm of getting healthy and staying healthy. Of the Wild’s 21 wins, two have been notably impressive. In October, they went on the road to Florida and blasted past the defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers 5-1. A month later, in Edmonton, they rallied from an early deficit and beat the Oilers — who were within one win of the Cup last season — by a 5-3 count. Beyond those two games, the Wild have generally beaten the teams they should beat (San Jose, Anaheim, Chicago, Nashville, Columbus, etc.) and have had trouble with the NHL’s elite. ADVERTISEMENT Heading into Friday’s visit to Dallas, the Wild are a collective 1-6-1 versus the others among the top five in the West — Winnipeg, Vegas, Edmonton and Los Angeles. And it’s worth noting that after those signature wins in Florida and Edmonton, both of those foes won handily during visits to Minnesota in December. More wins, and more signature wins, are going to be needed if this team is to contend for anything notable. In the smiling Russian kid that wears number 97, the Wild have their first true contender for NHL most valuable player honors in the quarter-century history of the franchise. His seemingly nightly habit of getting pucks past the opposing goalie — honed by hours and hours of “we need to drag him off the ice” work post-practice — is like nothing Minnesota fans have seen, maybe ever. On July 1, Kaprizov will be a free agent, and Wild owner Craig Liepold vowed in a preseason meeting with reporters that no other team will offer Kaprizov more money or more years on his next contract. That might mean an eight-year pact worth $15 million a season. Having given fans a taste of the good life with a superstar wearing green and Iron Range red, keeping Kaprizov in Minnesota is their most important New Years’ resolution. The entertainment complex that Marcus Foligno dubbed the “Kirill and Zuccy” show is a sight to behold, with numbers 97 and 36 showing off some amazing chemistry as they torment opposing goalies and defenses. But the Wild need more than an amazing top line if they are to play games in May. The holiday break perhaps comes at the best time for a few players mired in some mid-winter doldrums, such as Marcus Johansson (six straight games without a point), Matt Boldy (one assist in the past five games) and Ryan Hartman, who has not appeared on the offensive score sheet in more than a month, going an unexpected 16 consecutive games without a goal or assist. “I’ve had opportunities to score. I think I’ve made plays where some guys have had opportunities, the puck just hasn’t gone in,” Hartman said as he headed into the Christmas break. “Obviously, if they do, it’s going to make you feel much better.” ADVERTISEMENT And as the Wild’s unexpectedly great season moves into 2025, that is something all Wild fans can agree on. ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .

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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CAPE MAY — Even when the city opened its then-state-of-the-art desalination plant more than 25 years ago, it was clear it would not last forever, Nick Asselta told City Council during a meeting this week. The former state senator, who was also on the state Board of Public Utilities, participated in an update on efforts to plan and fund a new plant, presented by the firm Consulting and Municipal Engineers and the consulting firm Triad Associates. “We knew eventually this facility would have to be upgraded,” he said. “There’s been questions about how to fund it.” Council heard plans for a new water treatment plant next to the existing one on Canning House Lane, in a new building next door that will be designed and built to resemble the current plant, which is housed in a century-old structure. There are also plans to seek funding from multiple state and federal sources, including grants and low-interest loans from the state Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S Department of Agriculture, which helped Cape May build the current plant in the 1990s. 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You’re a successful community, there’s no doubt,” Asselta said. He and other speakers said it could be a very expensive project. The plan is to make it as easy on taxpayers as possible, Asselta said. The latest estimates put the cost of the project at about $30 million, Mayor Zack Mullock said Friday, with the project taking 14 to 16 months to complete. Critics and supporters of a $37.5 million plan for the Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area, along with the simply curious, crowded the Lower Township meeting hall to learn more and have their say Thursday evening. “We want to be in a position where by the summer we can go out to bid, provided that the money is lined up,” consultant Michael Zumpino said. He expressed optimism that the funding would come through. “It’s a work in process, but the process is maturing,” he said. CME has been working on plans to expand the current desal plant, which falls short of the recommended capacity for the community it serves. When it was built in the late 1990s, with significant help from state and federal grants, it was an extraordinary step to address saltwater intrusion into the aquifers that serve New Jersey’s southern Cape. The plants are still unusual. A report from 2019 for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation shows about 400 desalination plants have been built since 1970, with a steady increase in the use of the technology. But only about half of those built remain in operation, and most of those are in California, Florida and Texas. The report shows three plants in New Jersey. Similar plants are in use around the world , but some reports indicate American cities and utilities have been slow to adopt them. Cape May officials have long said without the desal plant, the town, some surrounding communities and the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center would not have enough water to function. With salt water on three sides, drawing fresh water from the Atlantic City Sands aquifer and the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer has also drawn in salty water. For years, that just meant digging a new well a little farther inland, but that approach would not have worked indefinitely. The aquifers are hundreds of feet below the surface and contain massive amounts of water, but not infinite amounts. A new water treatment plant may provide millions of gallons of water a day to thirsty Cape May residents, visitors and Coast Guard recruits, if the city can find the money. The current Cape May plant uses revers osmosis to remove the salt. A portion of the water, now a concentrated salt water, is discharged into the already brackish creek, while the rest is treated, including returning some minerals to the mix, and added to the potable water supply. Project manager Mike Dziubeck, an engineer with CME, told council the DEP has concerns about the capacity of the current plant, primarily because the system does not have any built-in redundancy, so if part of the system went down on a summer weekend, there would not be enough capacity to meet the need. The current capacity is 2 million gallons of water a day, while the new system could handle 3.2 million gallons a day. As proposed, the new plant would include space to expand its capacity for the reverse osmosis system and a system to remove iron from water from the well drawn from the Cohansey. The building would also include offices, and plans call for solar panels on the roof to offset the power costs, one of the most expensive elements of the operation. The building, as proposed, would be fairly simple, but with a brick façade at the front that would mimic the existing building. It would be two feet above the level of what is described as a 500-year flood, Dziubeck said. That would be a flood that would have a 1-in-500 chance of happening in a given year. Contact Bill Barlow: 609-272-7290 bbarlow@pressofac.com Twitter @jerseynews_bill Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. Author email {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.