Berrios, Earle guess Derby horse name meanings
Houston Texans wide receiver Braxton Berrios and social media personality Alix Earle guess the name origins of various horses racing in the Kentucky Derby, including Sandman, Burnham Square, Citizen Bull and East Avenue.
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- Yahoo
Nick Chubb embodied Northeast Ohio. Here are his best moments as a Cleveland Browns RB
By now the blue-collar mentality associated with Northeast Ohio is beyond cliché and not as accurate as it once was. Still, every so often something or someone comes along to remind those who are native to the area and old enough to remember the seemingly endless number of factories — whether it was related to rubber, steel or the cars that used both — of that hard-scrabble work ethic that typified the area. Advertisement Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb was that person. With Chubb expected to sign with the Houston Texans, he will be missed. Below are five moments that show why: Nick Chubb announces his presence with authority in loss to Oakland Sept. 30, 2018 To open his rookie season, running back Nick Chubb started the year by splitting time with teammate Carlos Hyde. Amazingly, that lasted for more than a few more games. With Baker Mayfield struggling through a four-interception game in his first start, Chubb announced his presence with authority. The second-round pick scored touchdowns of 63 yards on his first regular-season carry and later 41 yards in a 45-42 loss to help keep the Browns close. 'In the second quarter, Chubb ripped off a 63-yard touchdown run to give the Browns a 9-7 lead with 12:35 remaining in the first half,' then-Browns beat reporter Nate Ulrich wrote in his story of the back-and-forth game. Advertisement Moments later he chronicled another Chubb run: 'Chubb broke loose for a 41-yard rushing touchdown to give the Browns a 42-34 lead with 4:20 left.' Mayfield's debut as a starter was the story, but Chubb was on an equal plane as he began to write his Browns legacy. Nick Chubb runs into the record book with the longest TD run in team history on Nov. 11, 2018 The Browns beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-16 with Chubb scoring on a 13-yard touchdown pass from Mayfield and a glorious 92-yard run at 8:45 of the third quarter. '[He]took a handoff from quarterback Baker Mayfield on second-and-10 at the Browns 8-yard line and dashed off right tackle virtually untouched for a touchdown — the longest run in franchise history (Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell had a 90-yard run in 1959),' according to the Beacon Journal. 'His 92-yard touchdown was also the second-longest run by a rookie in NFL history (Pittsburgh's Bobby Gage had a 97-yard run in 1949). Advertisement The play led to one of Jim Donovan's iconic Browns calls: Chubb gave most of the credit for the run to his teammates, which was always the case with him. '[It was] just a great job up front. Those guys blocked hard the whole game, and it was wide open,' Chubb said. 'I remember running through and seeing the safety left, and then after that, I see [rookie wide receiver Antonio] Callaway blocking the corner, which he did a tremendous job of that. He always does. After that, I am just wide open to the house.' For the game, Chubb ran for 176 yards on 20 carries, at that time the best Browns rushing performance since Peyton Hillis ran for 184 yards on 29 carries against the New England Patriots Nov. 7, 2010. The Browns, Nick Chubb and Denzel Ward boat race the Cincinnati Bengals Nov. 7, 2021 Browns cornerback Denzel Ward got the show started with a record-setting interception return of 99 yards for a score, but Chubb put in work as well with a 14-carry, 137-yard rushing performance that included a touchdown runs of 1 and 70 yards. On second-and-10 from the Cleveland 30-yard line, Chubb broke loose off the left side and ripped off a 70-yard rushing touchdown with eight minutes left in the third quarter. Advertisement Beacon Journal beat writer Ulrich called it a body blow to the Bengals, giving the Browns a 31-10 lead in a game they eventually won 41-16. Nick Chubb showed the Baltimore Ravens he could take over a game Sept. 29, 2019 Chubb scored three touchdowns against the Ravens in a 40-25 win. The game was close at halftime, with the Browns holding a 10-7 lead. Then Chubb showed he could absolutely take over a game if necessary, scoring all of those touchdowns in the second half. They came from 14, 2, and 88 yards, with that final one salting game away with 9:35 left. 'Chubb isn't flashy. He's not a quote machine like quarterback Baker Mayfield, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. or free safety Damarious Randall. He doesn't get caught up in any drama. He's just a relentless competitor who's always working and never stops fighting,' Ulrich wrote in his game story. 'That's why Chubb is a fitting hero for the Browns' 40-25 road victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. The Browns desperately needed to tap into new levels of focus and determination to rebound from their sluggish start to the season and to respond to their critics as well as the Ravens. Advertisement 'The big answer came when Chubb delivered a backbreaking 88-yard touchdown run off the right side, giving the Browns a 30-18 lead with 9:35 left in the fourth quarter.' Chubb finished with 165 yards and three touchdowns on 20 carries (8.3 average) to go along with three catches on four targets for 18 yards. "I do what I can to help us win. Today it showed a little more, just the determination," said Chubb, the first Browns player to rush for three touchdowns in a game since Hillis on Nov. 28, 2010. "I wasn't going to let anyone tackle me. "Honestly, I had nightmares last week [against the Los Angeles Rams] when I got hit on fourth-and-9 because one man tackled me, and that kind of drove me this week to not let one person tackle me." Gamblers probably weren't happy but Nick Chubb proved to be a team player Nov. 15, 2020, against the Houston Texans With the Browns hanging on to a 10-7 lead over the Houston Texans, Chubb broke free for a 59-yard gain with 1:07 left in the game and promptly ended the run by walking out of bounds with 56 seconds left, allowing the offense to down the ball twice and claim the win. Advertisement "That is the natural instinct to get into the end zone," Chubb said in his postgame news conference. "Something came in my head and said, 'let's go out of bounds.' I should have just taken a knee or slid to keep the clock running, but it was a split [second] decision.' It was also the right decision and indicative of Chubb's football smarts and respect for his teammates. George M. Thomas covers a myriad of things including sports and pop culture, but mostly sports, he thinks, for the Beacon Journal This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Nick Chubb's best moments, highlights as Browns running back
Chicago Tribune
3 hours ago
- Chicago Tribune
Column: Was horse's loss a metaphor for journalism's future?
Journalism took another hit on Saturday. The big bay horse, named for the profession of reporting and editing, came in a close second at the Belmont Stakes after being the favorite. Sort of like the career many of us have chosen over the years. Close, but no cigar in the winner's circle as the number of news operations and organizations continues to wane and lose their track records. I was so certain that Journalism, the thoroughbred, would take the eight-horse field at the Belmont, the third leg of horse racing's vaunted Triple Crown, that I wagered an amateur's $10 across the board, meaning to win, place or show. That Journalism would win its second Triple Crown outing would be a celebration of the business, a vindication of unwarranted attacks on a free press. A resurrection at the very least. It was in the cards. Turned out, it was a punter's Runyonesque dream. Journalism's rival, Sovereignty, came from behind into the final eighth of a mile of the race at the track at Saratoga Race Course in New York, drew even and surged past onto victory. The race was a mirror of the Kentucky Derby, where Sovereignty bested my three-year-old, who had smashingly won the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel in the Triple Crown. Even naming a horse Journalism is an odd choice among breeders, who usually anoint clever puns or cute monikers for their equine charges. Co-owner Aron Wellman, a one-time sports editor at his high school newspaper at Beverly Hills High, gave the horse its name. 'So journalism is something that I value very much, and I appreciate responsible and diligent journalists,' he told USA Today. Besides a few members of the administration of President Donald Trump, who doesn't? They might have placed their bets on Sovereignty. Yet, finding a place to lay down that $30 bet turned out to be harder than expected. Traveling to the Circa sportsbook at The Temporary casino in Waukegan's entertainment zone at Fountain Square was a wasted trip. Seems at the Circa you can wager various parlays on all sorts of sporting events, but not horse racing. That monopoly belongs to the Hawthorne Race Course, with the closest betting shop in Prospect Heights. I know where Mount Prospect is and Round Lake Heights, but Prospect Heights? Where's Arlington Park when you need it? Gone to perhaps becoming a football stadium. Next, a check of some of the online betting sites, like Twin Spires, owned and operated by Churchill Downs, Inc., where the Kentucky Derby is held. Too many questions to fill out and fees. Fortunately, Highrollin' Pete from Libertyville was on his annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas, staying at the iconic pyramid-shaped Luxor on The Strip. He placed the bet through the hotel's sportsbook. The one-time favorite, Journalism, paid $3.20 to place and $2.30 to show, on a $2 across-the-board wager. My meager math skills translate that into $27.50 in winnings on a $30 bet. A loss. Which is what is happening to newspapers and journalism in general. It's acknowledged that the U.S. has lost 3,200 newspapers, more than one-third, since 2005. That's when advertisers began turning to online marketplaces instead of print advertising, which at one time generated about 80% of a newspaper's revenue. Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative has reported that obituaries for 127 newspapers were written in 2024. You've heard of food deserts? Some communities are now considered news deserts, especially in rural areas, where local news outlets have gone the way of rotary-dial phones. A study from the Evanston university discovered that almost 55 million Americans have limited access to local news. That's a scary number to consider when these same folks are left to rely on information from biased cable news programming, online and social media privateers, and Artificial Intelligence-generated news and feature stories. Newsies at one regional newspaper — through no fault of their own — were embarrassed recently after a features syndicate provided a special section with AI-generated material, some of it downright false. That should be a wake-up call for the profession. Along with the loss of print newspapers, an estimated more than 7,000 journalism jobs, including some in broadcast media, disappeared between 2022 and 2023. Many editors and reporters have taken buyouts as companies seek to trim payrolls in the face of declining readership and advertising. Lester Holt, a former Chicago television news anchor, signed off on his last NBC Nightly News offering at the end of May after a decade anchoring the network's half-hour evening news segment. 'Around here, facts matter, words matter, journalism matters,' he said on his last broadcast. That's also true around here, too. Despite Journalism coming in a sad second-place finish, for journos, there's always the next race and the possibility of winning on the nose.
USA Today
4 hours ago
- USA Today
AFC South team expected to sign RB Nick Chubb
Former Georgia Bulldogs running back Nick Chubb is close to finding a new home. He is expected to sign with the Houston Texans on a one-year deal, according to Ian Rapoport. His physical is still pending. Chubb was a five-star running back when he was recruited by the Georgia Bulldogs in 2014. He would go on to have one of the most legendary careers by a Georgia running back ever. Through four seasons, he ranked second among all running backs in yards (4,769) and touchdowns (44) in school history. Chubb's injury concerns popped up in 2015, when he tore his PCL, MCL, and LCL against Tennessee. Despite the injury, the Cleveland Browns selected him 37th overall in the 2018 draft. Early on, Chubb looked like he could be one of the greatest running backs of all time. In his first five seasons, he totaled 6,341 yards and 48 touchdowns on just 1,210 attempts. He had more yards than Pro Football Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett, Edgerrin James, Jerome Bettis, and Thurman Thomas did through their first five seasons. Unfortunately, injuries caught up with him again. He suffered a torn MCL in 2023 vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football. That took him out for the rest of the 2023 season and six games of the 2024 season. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle When he came back, he wasn't the quite same running back, but he still showed flashes of his immense talent in a two-touchdown game against the Steelers on Thursday Night Football in Week 12. Unfortunately, against the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 14, he suffered a broken foot. With his contract expiring in 2024, Cleveland did not re-sign him. Chubb now is expected to join a crowded backfield with solid veteran Joe Mixon, youngster Dameon Pierce, and fourth-round pick Woody Marks.
