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The Los Angeles Rams have seen justice served following their loss to the Seattle Seahawks on “Thursday Night Football” in Week 16, but not without experiencing a tremendous loss in the process, specifically with Kevin Dotson.That is in addition to the loss, which cost them the top spot in the NFC and the NFC West.The Rams are already reeling. They lost despite boasting a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter. The news on Dotson is hardly worth what caused it and led to the NFL taking action.NFL Suspends Seahawks’ Derick Hall Over Incident With Rams’ Kevin Dotson Rio Giancarlo/GettyDerick Hall #58 of the Seattle Seahawks reacts during a game against the Los Angeles Rams. “Seattle Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall has been suspended without pay for one game for an act of unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct during Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams,” the league said in a statement, per NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo on December 19.“During the first quarter, Hall unnecessarily stepped on the leg of Rams guard Kevin Dotson at the end of a play while he was on the ground, violating Rule 12, Section 2, Article 8, which prohibits unnecessary roughness and Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, which applies to unsportsmanlike conduct, including ‘any act which is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship.”Hall, who will be eligible to return to play in Week 17, can appeal the decision and will, amid the potential argument that he attempted to avoid Dotson.There was no flag thrown on the play, but the Rams ultimately felt the impact of the game.The Rams emerged with several questions about calls made during their eventual loss to the Seahawks, including a 2-point conversion that tied the game up, allowing Seattle to send it to overtime and notch a big victory in primetime.Dotson’s status in the aftermath complicates what comes next for a Rams team looking to bounce back from a disappointing defeat.He has missed at least two games in every season with the franchise.Kevin Dotson to Miss Time With Ankle Injury GettyKevin Dotson #69 of the Los Angeles Rams is helped off the field during a game against the Seattle Seahawks. Dotson is in his third season with the Rams. Dotson was a fourth-round pick (No. 135 overall) of the 2020 draft. He signed with the Rams in free agency in 2023 from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Unfortunately for the Rams, he was injured on the play involving Hall and did not return.Rams head coach Sean McVay said Hall’s action did not cause Dotson’s injury. McVay also said the actions did not belong in the game, per TheRams.com’s Stu Jackson on December 19.The Rams are already without starting right tackle Rob Havenstein.They replaced Havenstein with Warren McClendon, with little to no drop off. The Rams have several internal options to replace Dotson and figure to turn to one of them. That would allow for a smoother transition with more reliable results than picking up a free agent at this stage.Havenstein is also eligible to return from injured reserve at any time. He has missed the requisite four games due to various ailments, as per McVay.McVay said early in Week 16, when Havenstein was first eligible, that that would not happen. Like Heavy Sports's content? Be sure to follow us. This article was originally published on Heavy SportsThe post Rams Deliver Bad News as League Announces Suspension Over Seahawks Game appeared first on Heavy Sports.

The White Sox aren’t going to be big spenders in free agency.That could change in the coming years, but not handing out huge contracts shouldn’t hinder their ability to develop talent. The Sox, long run like a small-market team, didn’t win on the margins like the Rays — the Sox hired Carlos Rodriguez as their new assistant general manager on Friday — or the Guardians.That inability to find small advantages reared its head as prized prospects — Yoan Moncada, Luis Robert Jr. and Eloy Jimenez — stagnated at the major-league level. With a new slew of prospects either in the majors or knocking on the door, ensuring that they were getting the most out of their young players was the impetus for the Sox this offseason.Prioritizing development informed the team’s coaching additions this season — The Sox had the fourth-youngest pitching staff in the majors last season and the eighth-youngest lineup. Not only did the organization fill their pitching coach (Zach Bove) and hitting coach (Derek Shomon) vacancies, they also added coaches (Bobby Hearn, Chris Denorfia and Tony Medina) who will support the coaches.“As we were coming into this year and trying to be as efficient a staff as possible and really pulling in the same direction and maximizing our ability to develop players and think about this balance –– you always hear about this balance between winning and development,” manager Will Venable said on Zoom Friday morning. “For us, creating a winning culture and winning games is about developing, and so that was kind of at the forefront of what we wanted to do and the way that we structured our staff.“We wanted to gear it toward development. And so really excited about this second pitching coaching job now putting us in this spot where, really, even beyond that, we're kind of structuring things to take some of the game planning stuff off of the head coach's plate.”It surprised many when the Sox fired pitching coach Ethan Katz, who was popular among players and known for tailoring game plans. However, in the second year under Venable, the Sox have reorganized the coaching staff by bringing in new personnel to align with the vision of Venable and general manager Chris Getz.“What is the structure that we find the most beneficial, the flows of communication, the responsibilities and how we're gonna split those up, who's doing what and when throughout the day?” Venable said. “As we reimagined some of these roles and put those things into place, we were then able to kind of follow up and say these will be the types of people [on] the coaching staff, that can carry this structure, that can carry this program and really bring it to life.“It wasn't necessarily like, ‘I need to bring my guys in or anything.’ We just needed to kind of hit the reset button a little bit.”With the coaching staff filled, attention will now turn toward a roster that doesn’t look demonstrably different from last season.“I know that [Getz] and the group are hard at work doing everything they can every day to improve us in whatever way they can,” Venable said. “I anticipate there being a lot of moves here coming up. Just like there will be across the league, knowing there is so much time.“But at the same time, we are really excited about the group we have. There’s been a ton of great work between our coaching staff, between our development group, our players, a lot of communication, a lot of synergy, and excitement in the progress guys have made this offseason.”

When I go to synagogue, I always smile and wave at the armed police officers stationed outside. I want them to know they're appreciated, but also, at some level, I guess it's fair to say that I'm trying to ingratiate myself so that the cop will want to put his or her life on the line to save us if a gunman decides to open fire on or torch our congregation, as happened in Pittsburgh (2018), Poway (2019), Miami (2019), Monsey (2019), Halle, Germany (2019), Colleyville (2022), Jerusalem (2023), Djerba, Tunisia (2023), Berlin, Germany (2023), Yerevan, Armenia (2023), Rouen, France (2024), Athens, Greece (2024), Melbourne, Australia (2024), Los Angeles (2024), Manchester, U.K. (2024) and New York (2025).That list contains only the successful attacks on houses of worship in recent years. It omits the thwarted ones, as well as attacks like the sniper killings of a young engaged couple (one an Israeli diplomat, the other an American citizen employee of the Israeli embassy) who were exiting the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., the arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's home, the desecration of cemeteries, the harassment of Jewish students, the Boulder, Colorado, man who attacked a demonstration calling for the release of hostages with a spray of Molotov cocktails or of hundreds of menacing threats like the London demonstration that featured loudspeakers broadcasting, "F--- the Jews. Rape their daughters."Antisemitism is a poison like radon, always present below the surface in low doses, but sometimes rising to lethal concentrations. Except that radon, being colorless and odorless, is hard to detect without special equipment. Antisemitism, by contrast, is unsubtle and requires deliberate choices to unsee.We have whole industries devoted to unseeing antisemitism and other outrages perpetrated by our ideological allies, and those same industries instantly become rage machines ready to exploit every act of violence when committed by ideological foes. Columnists bug ColumnistsIn-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and cultural commentary. In this competitive atrocity era, no good massacre goes to waste. In the hours after the mass killing of Jewish Australians at Bondi Beach on the first night of Hanukkah, right-wing rage merchants like Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Al., called for the mass deportation of all Muslims from the United States. In a characteristically nuanced take, he tweeted: "Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America."Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., blamed Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., weighed in with this analysis: "It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible."It's possible that these guys are letting their amygdalas overwhelm their prefrontal cortexes. Violence does excite the fear/anger receptors in our brains and prepare us to respond in kind. When we see blood, we see red.But people also have judgment and self-control. They aren't lab rats robotically responding to stimuli. So unless they respond to every episode of violence — say, Dylann Roof's murders, or the Christchurch massacre — with similar extreme proposals, it's safe to assume that they are atrocity opportunists.The left's atrocity detectors are tuned to a different channel. They are activated by Israeli wrongdoing (which is real) but quiescent in the face of anti-Israel massacres such as Oct. 7 or the antisemitic attacks that have erupted worldwide in the years since. It wasn't hard to imagine — and many of us warned — that some people who heard and chanted "Globalize the Intifada" had in mind what was done at that Australian beach.Some on the left object that Jews are using the claim of antisemitism to attempt to silence criticism of Israel. But please tell me what Alex Kleytman, the 87-year-old…

Transféré en juillet dernier au Bayer Leverkusen pour 12 millions d’euros en provenance du Hertha Berlin, Ibrahim Maza a clairement changé de dimension. Cette progression se reflète logiquement sur le marché des transferts, où la valeur du jeune milieu de terrain ne cesse de grimper. Plus de cinq mois après son arrivée, l’estimation de Maza a doublé selon le site spécialisé Transfermarkt. Âgé de seulement 20 ans, l’international algérien est désormais valorisé à 25 millions d’euros. Une hausse significative qui fait de lui le troisième joueur algérien le plus cher, derrière Rayan Aït-Nouri et Mohamed Amoura. À l’échelle internationale, Maza intègre également le top 20 des joueurs de 20 ans les plus valorisés au monde, un classement dominé par le Parisien Désiré Doué, estimé à 90 millions d’euros. Cette envolée s’explique avant tout par ses performances récentes. Ibrahim Maza s’est progressivement imposé comme un titulaire indiscutable au Bayer Leverkusen, affichant une régularité et une maturité remarquées. Ses prestations lui ont valu deux nominations aux trophées de meilleur joueur et de meilleur rookie du mois de novembre en Allemagne, avec à la clé la victoire dans la seconde catégorie. Une ascension rapide qui n’est pas passée inaperçue. Sa polyvalence, mise en avant dans le système de jeu de l’entraîneur Kasper Hjulmand, renforce encore son attractivité. Capable d’évoluer à plusieurs postes au milieu, Maza attire désormais l’attention de nombreux recruteurs européens. Place désormais à la CAN 2025 au Maroc, où Ibrahim Maza pourrait franchir un nouveau cap. Appelé à jouer un rôle important avec les Fennecs, le jeune milieu dispose d’une occasion idéale pour confirmer son statut et poursuivre son évolution. LIRE EGALEMENT : ASO Chlef : Abada confirme sa forme post-Coupe Arabe (Vidéo) L’article Bayer Leverkusen : Maza voit sa cote doubler ! est apparu en premier sur La Gazette du Fennec.