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Ohio State vs. Maryland | Growing pains come with Terrapins' rebuilding effort

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 09 Nov 2016
The medieval torture rack Maryland’s football team is strapped on actually serves as a measuring stick for how far the Terrapins must go under first-year coach DJ Durkin to catch the Big> Ten’s flagship programs ... The Terrapins are flush with revenue since leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big Ten ... The big picture glow doesn’t alleviate current struggles....

Florida voted down an anti-solar initiative.

Edit Grist 09 Nov 2016
The amendment, with big support and big money from utility companies, would have changed the state constitution in a way that threw up barriers for solar, like allowing utilities to charge solar customers with new fees. Installed solar capacity in Florida, literally named the Sunshine State and third in the country for solar potential, pales in comparison to other states....

A man's epic tumble on live TV is the election relief we all needed

Edit AOL 09 Nov 2016
For this brief moment of relief, we thank this unfortunate fellow, who took a big, big on-camera tumble while navigating the slippery "Democracy Plaza" at Rockefeller Plaza ... Like any good big tumble, it happened in several steps ... That guy that fell on NBC just united the country....

Are we putting Sierra Leone first – asks SLPP veteran Yvonne King Odigboh

Edit Sierra Leone Telegraph 09 Nov 2016
Our forefathers chose the “One country, one people’’ motto which reflects its mission to unify the country and its people ... A Party that will promote the core values of our dear country ... We should be proud as our forefathers were at the centre of the making of our country ... It is our duty, our responsibility to put the right people in place to do the big job....

#USElection2016: Exit poll — Americans cast ballots while holding their noses

Edit Jamaica Observer 09 Nov 2016
Just 1 in 10 voters said immigration was the most important issue facing the country. As for Trump's plan to build a "big, beautiful" wall, more than half of voters opposed the idea. Further, 7 in 10 Americans thought immigrants now in the country illegally should be allowed to stay, and just a quarter thought they should be deported. That despite Trump's tough talk about removing those who are in the country illegally....

Clinton or Trump? Suspense builds as race gets closer

Edit Deccan Chronicle 09 Nov 2016
If Florida goes to Clinton, the next big challenges will be Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia -- states that will likely decide the result of the long, bruising contest for the right to lead the world's biggest economy ... "So many people are counting on the outcome of this election, what it means for our country," the 69-year-old former secretary of state said....

Robert Snodgrass: ‘You want every team to beat England’

Edit Scotsman 09 Nov 2016
Snodgrass, who has made a miraculous recovery from injury to put himself in contention for Friday's Wembley meeting of the ancient adversaries, considers the enmity between the two a fact of life ... “I think the full country does, to be honest ... That's sad, actually, when you think about it, when everyone up here is rooting for you being Scottish and wanting the country to do well....

Jokowi scrambles to keep nation stable

Edit The Jakarta Post 09 Nov 2016
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo should have been on a state visit to Australia this week, but instead spent the past two days visiting the country’s armed forces and major Islamic organizations in a bid to maintain stability in the country amid public outrage involving blasphemy allegations made against the Jakarta governor ... “The National Police is a big institution with 430,000 personnel....

St. Louis is average for job growth: Analysis

Edit Business Journal 09 Nov 2016
St. Louis adds an average of 12 jobs per day, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics from 2006 to 2016, ranking it 42nd among the 106-largest U.S. metro areas ... 32. No. 1? New York City, with 224 per day. That’s the pace of private-sector job creation in the Big> Apple over the past decade, qualifying the New York metro area as the fastest-expanding job market in the country since 2006. The rankings are part of a nationwide… ... ....

The U.S. cities adding (and shedding) the most jobs by the day

Edit Business Journal 09 Nov 2016
Austin's a job magnet, but five other cities are more attractive ... Another day, another 224 jobs are added to the Big> Apple. That’s the pace of private-sector job creation there over the past decade, qualifying the New York metro area as the fastest-expanding job market in the country since 2006, according to the U.S ... Compare that to the Austin area's average gain of 63 jobs per day. The statistics are part of a nationwide analysis… ... ....

Canadians gather for season finale of the US election reality show

Edit Toronto Sun 09 Nov 2016
the U.S ... Neals said she was especially excited at the possibility Hillary Clinton could become the first female president in the U.S., which would become the 60th country — including Canada — to have a woman in charge ... “This is less of a ’drink and yell at the big screen viewing’ party and more a ’sit down and watch’ with a politics-loving crowd,” the consulate says....

Georgia Democrat party turns to “watch” party

Edit Atlanta Journal 09 Nov 2016
By 9 p.m., the big Democratic Watch Party in Atlanta had settled down and turned into, well, very much a “watch” party. People who had been cheering and socializing focused intently on the big TV screens showing CNN ... There were several rows of people doing that in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta ... “I don’t like the way Ohio is looking. I don’t like the way Florida is looking....

UCLA men’s basketball preview: 5 things to watch

Edit LA Daily News 09 Nov 2016
4 recruit in the country ... Welsh is accomplished enough to be one of just 20 in the country to land on a preseason award watch list this year for the nation’s best center ... 16 recruit in the country thanks to versatility that includes power inside and range outside. Anigbogu is the lone physical big man on the team and seems like UCLA’s most obvious answer to defensive concerns in the paint....
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