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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for two scores in the first half as No. 1 Georgia demolished No. 3 TCU 65-7 Monday night to become the first team to win consecutive College Football Playoff national championships.The Bulldogs (15-0) became the first repeat champs since Alabama went back-to-back a decade ago and left no doubt that they have replaced the Crimson Tide as the new bullies on the block.TCU (13-2), the first Cinderella team of the playoff era, never had a chance against the Georgia juggernaut. Unlike Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal, the Bulldogs…

For the first time in 15 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday released new guidelines for treating childhood obesity, emphasizing a need for early and intensive treatment.The guidance comes as childhood obesity rates have continued to rise over the past decade and a half, increasing from 17% to 20%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the 1980s, obesity rates have tripled in children and quadrupled in adolescents. The pandemic made matters worse, said Dr. Joan Han, a professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, who was not…

An old-fashioned Georgia Bulldogs beatdown resulted in the most points ever scored in a national championship game, as quarterback Stetson Bennett was responsible for six touchdowns in the 65-7 win over the TCU Horned Frogs. The win kept the national title in Athens, as the Bulldogs have won back-to-back championships. But this one was never a doubt compared to this bout with Alabama last year. Georgia head coach Kirby Smart called a timeout with 13:25 left in the fourth quarter, with his Bulldogs up 52-7, to allow Bennett a curtain call as he was done for the night. Smiling, Bennet hugged Smart…

This year has started remarkably well in Europe — from an energy perspective at least.After cold, still December days caused fears of blackouts, this year’s mild, gusty arrival has helped wind generation set new records and prompted roughly a halving in the gas price over the past month. Consumers and businesses have cut gas usage. On the continent, the warm winter, so far, has enabled opportunistic refilling of gas storage facilities, almost unheard of in January, with record back-up levels providing comfort not just for this winter, but for next.This is good news — but it’s notable that the UK…

The chairman of Tata Sons group, which owns Air India, has expressed “anguish” over an incident in which a drunk man allegedly urinated on a female passenger on a flight.  The man was arrested by Indian police on Saturday (Jan 7). He was later fired as vice president of US banking giant Wells Fargo. The incident on an Air India flight between New York and New Delhi on Nov 26 came to light after the 72-year-old female passenger sent a complaint letter to the airline. Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran said in a statement that the matter has been “a matter of personal anguish to me and…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Talent won. After 10 days of TCU playing the plucky underdog and the first college football Cinderella of the playoff era, the glass slipper got smashed into a million pieces by halftime. The national championship game looked like varsity against JV, starters against backups and yes, SEC against everybody else. Georgia put an exclamation mark on an all-time great season with a 65-7 beatdown of Texas Christian on Monday night, the largest margin of victory ever in the national title game. That secured Georgia a 15-0 record, its third national championship and second straight title. It turned…

Blue and yellow covered the crowd at Canada Life Centre as thousands of fans came together for a game between the University of Manitoba Bisons and the Ukrainian men’s national team. It was an event bigger than hockey alone. “It’s going to be a great cause for humanitarian aid for Ukraine, it’s a magnificent opportunity for the Under-25 to get some experience before the university games,” fan Taras Luchak said. “It’s all good.”Many Ukrainian players and coaches have temporarily left their families at home while they chase their hockey dream in the Hockey Can’t Stop tour.“It’s hard mentally of course…

It sounds like if Jets offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur is back for the 2023 season, he’ll have some help.  Jets coach Robert Saleh said Monday that he will “definitely” bring in an experienced coach to join the offensive staff as a senior assistant. Saleh hired Greg Knapp in 2021 to be a senior voice on the offensive staff but Knapp was tragically killed while riding his bike before he ever got to coach a game with the Jets. The Jets replaced him with veteran coach Matt Cavanaugh, but chose not to bring him back for the 2022 season. Saleh seemed…

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador challenged U.S. President Joe Biden to end an attitude of “abandonment” and “disdain” for Latin America and the Caribbean as the two leaders met on Monday, making for a brusque opening to a summit of North American leaders. The comments were a stark contrast to the public display of affection between Lopez Obrador and Biden shortly before, as they smiled and embraced and shook hands for the cameras. But once the two sat down in an ornate room at the Palacio Nacional, flanked by delegations of top officials, it didn’t take long for tensions…

International lenders and governments have pledged more than $9bn to help Pakistan recover after catastrophic floods last year displaced tens of millions and hit the country’s already struggling economy, which is facing an energy crunch and dwindling foreign reserves. After a donors’ conference in Geneva on Monday hosted by UN secretary-general António Guterres and Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, Islamabad said it had lined up pledges of $4.2bn from the Islamic Development Bank, $2bn from the World Bank and $1bn from Saudi Arabia to help it rebuild from the floods, which affected more than 33mn people.The calamity was the latest…