NEW YORK (AP) — Three months ago, Andy Green had no aspirations of managing the New York Mets. Now, he's got a three-year deal in the dugout to produce better days ahead. In a surprising change of direction, Green went from interim Mets manager to full-time skipper Tuesday when the club gave him...
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Devon Dampier accounted for four touchdowns, Utah intercepted four Bear Bachmeier passes and the third-ranked Utes remained undefeated with a 28-20 victory over No. 7 BYU on Saturday. Dampier hurt the Cougars with with his arm and legs, finishing with 266 ya...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Perhaps the trouble Texas had against Oklahoma and Florida had something to do with the number in front of those teams' names. Or the lack thereof. Two losses by a field goal apiece to a pair of unranked teams had everyone seemingly writing off Arch Manning a...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Arch Manning threw for 297 yards and three touchdowns, including the go-ahead TD pass to Raleek Brown with just over five minutes to go, and No. 10 Texas rallied to beat No. 19 Missouri 34-20 on Saturday and keep alive its College Football Playoff hopes. Brow...
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Utah and UCLA turned back challenges Saturday to stay unbeaten and Texas won its third straight game to keep its College Football Playoff hopes on track for another week. Utah, No. 3 in both The Associated Press Top 25 and the College Football Playoff rankings, held off BYU, whic...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Gladys Porter Zoo is honoring the brave men and woman of the U.S. Armed Forced by offering a special discounted admission until Wednesday. From Saturday until Wednesday, Nov. 11, the promotional window is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Active-duty se...
parks
It might be too early to start talking about an on-field crisis at Manchester City even though it fell to a third straight Premier League defeat on Saturday. City coach Enzo Maresca was certainly not panicking. After opening the campaign with seven wins in a row, City lost at str...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's Institute for Advanced Manufacturing is hosting "Byte to Bite Restaurant", a robotics competition between high school teams from across South Texas on Saturday. The competition is being held from 9 a.m...
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Baseball was never successful in Harlingen. And despite many tries to build professional baseball there, beginning with the Harlingen Giants, many successive efforts have failed. Still, the 2,400 seat stadium is the only really good baseball stadium in deep south Texas. Perhaps s...
government
By all accounts, the Rio Grande Valley drove, and exemplified, the historic results of the Nov. 3 election. We hope Valley residents recognize their strength, and participate more in our political process in the future. The blue wave, as it’s being called, is unprecedented....
safety
Five days after he called Dana Holgorsen "one of the best offensive minds of our generation,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule fired his offensive coordinator Saturday in the wake of the Cornhuskers' loss at Illinois a day earlier. Co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Glenn T...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX is targeting Friday, Nov. 13 as an early date to launch Starship 15 flight. According to SpaceX, the flight is still pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch will open at 4:45 p.m. on Nov. 13. SpaceX adds that the upcoming flight...
schools
SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — So, you think your team got a bad deal when the initial set of College Football Playoff rankings came out? Imagine how Nathan McCurley, the coach of Gore High School in Oklahoma, must feel. His team’s season ended around midnight on a coin flip in the parki...
