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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Legendary announcer says Chiefs' Thanksgiving matchup with the Cowboys will set records
During a recent appearance on the Rich Eisen Show, top CBS play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz shared his thoughts on the Thanksgiving game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. The CBS Sports broadcast is expected to break regular-season viewership records, potentially. 'K.C. and Dallas, to put those two gigantic brands together on the most-watched day of the regular season in the NFL, it's gonna set records,' said Nantz. 'That's not what I'm out for it to do. I just hope it's a great football game. It will be a wonderful matchup to call on Thanksgiving. K.C. at Dallas, it's the game we wanted.' The current ratings record was set three seasons ago, as 42.1 million watched Dallas defeat the New York Giants 28-20. The Chiefs have earned a reputation for getting viewers tuned in over their Super Bowl runs, and Thanksgiving this season should set a new standard for the league. Advertisement The Cowboys and the Detroit Lions continue their tradition as Thanksgiving staples, while the Chiefs played on Black Friday last season and will continue their streak of Christmas Day games in 2025. This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: Jim Nantz says Chiefs vs. Cowboys will set Thanksgiving records
USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Legendary announcer says Chiefs' Thanksgiving matchup with the Cowboys will set records
Legendary announcer says Chiefs' Thanksgiving matchup with the Cowboys will set records During a recent appearance on the Rich Eisen Show, top CBS play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz shared his thoughts on the Thanksgiving game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. The CBS Sports broadcast is expected to break regular-season viewership records, potentially. 'K.C. and Dallas, to put those two gigantic brands together on the most-watched day of the regular season in the NFL, it's gonna set records,' said Nantz. 'That's not what I'm out for it to do. I just hope it's a great football game. It will be a wonderful matchup to call on Thanksgiving. K.C. at Dallas, it's the game we wanted.' The current ratings record was set three seasons ago, as 42.1 million watched Dallas defeat the New York Giants 28-20. The Chiefs have earned a reputation for getting viewers tuned in over their Super Bowl runs, and Thanksgiving this season should set a new standard for the league. The Cowboys and the Detroit Lions continue their tradition as Thanksgiving staples, while the Chiefs played on Black Friday last season and will continue their streak of Christmas Day games in 2025.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Domestic violence services are in jeopardy, providers say
K.C., a stay-at-home mother in North Canton, Ohio, knew her husband had hidden multiple guns around their home. He never pointed the weapons at her, but he routinely invoked them to silence her during arguments. "I was always living in fear, walking on eggshells, having to do everything to make him happy and just not saying anything to upset him," said K.C., who asked to be identified only by her initials because of safety concerns. In 2023, days after her husband sexually assaulted her, K.C. said that she discovered a loaded pistol in the closet and two shotguns in the attic. With no family or friends to turn to, she started calling domestic violence shelters, eventually finding a room at the Hope and Healing Resource Center in Akron. "It literally was my saving grace," K.C. said. "If I didn't have Hope and Healing—a place to go, a place of refuge—I would be on the streets." Now, services like these are on the chopping block, a potential casualty of President Donald Trump's effort to shrink the federal government, The Trace reports. Domestic violence groups, already stretched thin, warn that looming cuts to federal grants, coupled with a dwindling federal workforce, are likely to gut resources for survivors seeking to escape abusers. After the Trump administration imposed a widespread pause on federal grants and loans in January, the Office of Violence Against Women, or OVW, abruptly scrubbed its website of grant opportunities and told organizations not to bother finalizing applications. OVW is one of the largest sources of federal grants to combat domestic abuse. Between 2021 and 2025, the office doled out $2.2 billion to support crisis hotlines, provide mental health counseling, and help survivors secure housing. Federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to resume funding to existing grantees, but the president has appealed those rulings, putting the program's future in limbo. "We may be able to breathe in this moment, but we're also holding our breath simultaneously," said Anastacia Snyder, the executive director of Catalyst, a domestic violence group in Northern California. "What this did was sow the seeds of fear and chaos into the fabric of our services." Adding to the uncertainty is the Republican spending package Congress passed in March. Pushed through with some Democratic support to avert a government shutdown, the package empowered the Trump administration to cancel or redirect federal dollars. Domestic violence groups are now bracing for the possibility that Trump will stop the OVW funding once the existing grants expire at the end of the fiscal year in September. "You have to reapply every year for those awards," said Jennifer Pollitt Hill, executive director of the Maryland Network Against Domestic Abuse. "Without those federal funds, most agencies will cease to exist entirely." The Justice Department, which oversees the OVW, declined to comment. Domestic violence groups say the funding uncertainty has them weighing layoffs, reduced hours, and shelter closures. Artika Roller, the executive director of Cornerstone Advocacy Service in Minnesota, said her group may have to close its shelter, displacing approximately 30 survivors. "If those services are not available for victims and survivors, then they may have to make decisions of staying with someone that is doing harm," she said. The turmoil coincides with a Trump administration push to establish a process for people with criminal convictions, including those for domestic abuse, to legally own guns again. Federal law bars gun ownership by people found guilty of felonies or certain misdemeanor domestic violence crimes. But a rule the Justice Department proposed in March would allow the attorney general to restore gun rights based on a person's "past criminal activity and their subsequent and current law-abiding behavior." On April 3, The New York Times reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi had approved allowing the actor Mel Gibson to own guns again after he pleaded no contest in 2011 to misdemeanor battery against a former girlfriend. Domestic violence advocates have decried the proposed rule. "It's taken us decades to get to the place where we recognize the risk associated with firearms, and I cannot fathom making a decision that would undo that," said Anna Harper, the executive vice president of Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse in Tucson. About 75 percent—$7 million—of the Emerge Center's annual budget comes from federal funding, Harper said. That money supports a range of services, including a program in which the center works with police and the local domestic violence court to monitor gun-related cases. An OVW grant pays for court advocates to shepherd the survivors through the legal system and create safety plans when their abusers are about to regain access to guns. Harper now says she might have to lay off the advocates. "When we talk about intervening and domestic violence fatalities," Harper said, "those advocates and the services they provide are really critical." While groups are seeking to court new donors, Leeann Luna, the CEO of Monarch Services, a domestic violence group in Santa Cruz County, California, said there is not enough private funding to go around. "Unfortunately, it's really tricky because, while we are creating partnerships and relationships for funding with, say, private foundations, it still isn't going to rise to the amount that the federal government gives us," she said. Even if the White House renews the grant programs, Luna said the administration's staffing cuts could hinder groups' access to the money. "All of these grants are reimbursement-based," she said. "If he (Trump) continues to let people go, is that going to then impact our ability to receive payment in a timely manner, or even at all?" Several advocates expressed concern about federal funding losses jeopardizing efforts to disarm abusers. In January, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, published a study showing that 85 percent of men who self-reported committing domestic abuse also owned a gun. Previous research has found that abusers with access to firearms are five times more likely to kill their partners. OVW has funded programs to help survivors obtain court orders to temporarily remove guns from their abusers. But Jennifer Wagman, co-associate director of UCLA's Center for Gender and Health Justice, said many survivors are still unaware of the process, and even when such orders are issued, enforcement is lackluster. "These funding cuts can make an already challenged system even less effective," Wagman said. At the Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center, where K.C. received help, CEO Teresa Stafford-Wright, said her group was trying to reapply for funding for its court program when the grant opportunities disappeared from OVW's website. Now, she is worried about keeping that program running. "We are already at capacity with the work that we're doing with the funding that we have," Stafford-Wright said. K.C. credits Hope And Healing with landing her a job and an apartment for her and her kids. Without federal funding, she said, other survivors won't get the help they need. "Nobody should continue to live in abuse," she said. "Pulling funding definitely would alter the dynamics and enable abusers to continue the cycle over and over." This story was produced by The Trace and reviewed and distributed by Stacker.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Talkin' controversy over UNC's NCAA entry, Duke's chances, High Point University
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Pull up a chair, because we are '' on Tuesday, March 18! FOX8's and are ditching the script and telling you their real thoughts on topics all across the athletic world. They've got plenty of hot takes, and you can catch it all on K.C. & Danny Talkin' Sports Tune in using the video player above or stream it live on , and . You can also watch it on the on Roku, AppleTV and Fire TV. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
12-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Chiefs free agency: K.C. re-signs LS James Winchester, bolstering special teams unit
Chiefs free agency: K.C. re-signs LS James Winchester, bolstering special teams unit On Wednesday, the Kansas City Chiefs announced that they had officially signed veteran long-snapper James Winchester to a new contract. Winchester has played for the Chiefs since 2015 and played a role in all of Kansas City's Super Bowl championships during the Patrick Mahomes era. He played collegiately at the University of Oklahoma from 2008 until 2011 and initially entered the NFL when he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2013. Winchester was cut by Philadelphia shortly after he joined the Eagles and had to wait until 2015 to get his shot to play with the Chiefs, who picked him up and never looked back: Though fans only tend to see Winchester on the field a few times every game, his contributions to Kansas City's special teams unit are routinely a crucial aspect of the Chiefs' dominance. Stay tuned to see how much Winchester will make on his new contract with Kansas City.
