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Banner day for WR Smith as Ohio State crushes Ball State COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jeremiah Smith has said that if he's going to win the Heisman Trophy, he'll need a season like the one Alabama's DeVonta Smith had while winning in 2020. The Ohio State junior started making his case Saturday, ...

WVU fends off late surge from Coastal Carolina

MORGANTOWN — Heading into the locker room at half, West Virginia football looked like it was cruising to a season-opening win. The Mountaineers led 24-0, and Coastal Carolina wasn’t showing much fight. But out of the locker room, the Chanticleers, under new head coach Ryan Beard, showed ...

Chinese theater, promoter fined for altered patriotic song in a comedy show

BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities fined two companies and said that one of China's best-known comedians had caused a "negative impact" on society, after an audience reported him for changing the lyrics of a patriotic song during a performance. The Culture and Tourism Bureau in Wuhan city said Monday they found the comedian Guo Degang "distorted" a patriotic song. It fined the company hosting Guo and the theater for violating rules on commercial performances. It also said it will "deal seriously" with relevant personnel, without specifying what those punishments will entail. Guo is ...

College Roundup: Michigan survives major scare

ANN ABOR, Mich. (AP) — Given an unlikely second chance at a game-ending Hail Mary, Bryce Underwood connected with JJ Buchanan for a 47-yard touchdown pass that lifted No. 16 Michigan over Western Michigan. The Wolverines were 27 1/2-point favorites in coach Kyle Whittingham's debut. The ...

The rarity of freedom

This well-known rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence needs closer consideration. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," it states. Look through history and you'll find little evidence that most people experienced these self-evident truths. Until the West led the way in abolishing it, slavery was an accepted historical institution. Notre Dame Professor Keith Bradley once estimated ...

How to tackle domestic extremists’ foreign enablers

Left-wing terrorism is a serious problem in the United States, though for political reasons it doesn't receive anything like the attention right-wing violence gets. When most people think of violence connected to abortion, they imagine attacks on abortion clinics -- yet lately, pro-abortion extremists have been firebombing crisis pregnancy centers across the country. These centers help women who want to have their babies or who are undecided about having an abortion: In other words, women who are making a choice, just not the choice supposedly "pro-choice" abortion advocates find ...