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USA Today
6 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Where Florida basketball vs Duke ranks among 16 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge matchups
Where Florida basketball vs Duke ranks among 16 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge matchups The matchups for the 2025 edition of the men's basketball ACC/SEC Challenge were announced last week, with the Florida Gators slated to take on the Duke Blue Devils inside Cameron Indoor Stadium on December 2. This face-off between the Rowdy Reptiles and the Cameron Crazies represents a clash of two titans from the 2024-25 campaign, both of whom made it to the Final Four and were among the top-ranked teams in the nation down the stretch. Both programs also won their respective conference tournament championships last spring as well. So, where does the Florida-Duke matchup stand among the 16 total games in this year's edition of the ACC-SEC Challenge? CBS Sports writer David Cobb ranked every game from top to bottom based on competitive value while also offering his personal prediction. It should come as no surprise to fans of either school that the tussle in the Tar Heel State ranks at the top of that list. "Duke will put its top-ranked high school recruiting class to the test against the reigning national champions in a must-see showdown. On a neutral floor, the Gators and their returning convoy of bigs would be the play. At Cameron Indoor Stadium? Well, that's a different story," Cobb begins. "The Blue Devils have enough veteran savvy to combine with the newbies for what would amount to a critical victory in the ACC's efforts. Duke (+1300) and Florida (+1600) currently have the third- and fourth-best odds, respectively, to win the 2026 NCAA Tournament, according to FanDuel Sportsbook." Cobb picks the Blue Devils to prevail on that early December Tuesday. ACC/SEC Challenge matchup rankings Florida at Duke Louisville at Arkansas North Carolina at Kentucky NC State at Auburn Missouri at Notre Dame Tennessee at Syracuse SMU at Vanderbilt Clemson at Alabama Virginia at Texas Oklahoma at Wake Forest Miami at Ole Miss Texas A&M at Pitt Mississippi State at Georgia Tech Georgia at Florida State LSU at Boston College Virginia Tech at South Carolina Follow us @GatorsWire on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.
BBC News
7 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Lyme Regis Cobb: Calls to speed up repairs to iconic breakwater
Calls have been made for an early consultation on proposals to ensure the future of a Grade I listed breakwater after a new hole was Cobb in Lyme Regis is eroding at the seaward base of the wall that supports its Council's harbours consultative committee heard there was uncertainty in the area about the proposals for the next stage of the works and funding for the emergency work has yet to be Marks, from the Lyme Regis harbour Consultative Group, said: "The uncertainty around the funding is still a major concern as is any further slippage to the programme." The group has called for an early public consultation on the stabilisation proposals for the fifth and final phase of the town's environmental protection initial Lyme Regis Phase 5 programme was for construction to start in winter 2026, continuing into spring 2027, subject to available funding and gaining the necessary consents for the this stage, detailed designs for the project have not been completed, with a consultation planned after the summer for Cobb users looking at how their access might be maintained during the historic Cobb has been subject to erosion from wave impact on the outer harbour wall, which has caused the movement of stone blocks, and the deterioration of the structure on the inner harbour wall. Dorset Council's service manager for coastal protection, Matthew Penny, said that during low tide inspections of the seaward high wall in March and April, officers found "further and ongoing deterioration with large, open, scour voids now present at the base of the seaward structure".Councillors previously heard that adequate funding was in doubt, which could result in design changes to make the scheme more Marks said he had been told there would be public engagement and awareness sessions this year but with no indication when they would be said: "It is the view of the harbour consultation group that these sessions should be held as a matter of urgency to let the people know what is happening."Mr Penny said the council had recently submitted a capital bid to the Environment Agency, telling the harbours committee that more financial contributions were said further delays were likely to drive up costs, with some funding available in the current financial year from the regional flooding coastal committee, which would pay for design were continuing between Dorset Council, Historic England, Natural England, South West Water and the Environment Agency about the project. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
Sydney Morning Herald
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Why Christina Hendricks turned 50 and changed her attitude
This story is part of the June 15 edition of Sunday Life. See all 15 stories. B ang on time, Christina Hendricks Zooms in from her sunlit Los Angeles living room. Cheekbones like summer peaches. Famous hair loosely scraped back. Disarming smile. Oh, and there's a small dog with its paws on her shoulder, a cockapoo named Triscuit. 'I just woke from a little afternoon nap,' says Hendricks, casually fabulous in a striped T-shirt. 'Today has been a lot of life maintenance. Getting the dogs groomed, a friend dropping by with styling things, dealing with the pool. Stuff that catches up with you.' It feels like Hendricks is cataloguing a non-glamorous day to put me at ease. It's 6am where I am, in a Thai hotel room, coming live with ghoulish lighting to one of the world's most-celebrated beauties. She waves away apologies for my wrinkled sundress and bed-hair: 'Don't worry. I'm flattered you got up so early to talk to me.' The warmth feels authentic. While her most famous character, Mad Men 's Joan Harris (née Holloway), moved through the world like a shark, Hendricks is charming, generous and funny. Old-school vivacious. Interesting and interested. The domestic admin is happening ahead of Hendricks and her husband, cinematographer George Bianchini, heading to their other home, in New York City. While Bianchini is nowhere to be seen when Hendricks twirls her screen to showcase their home – a wall of framed posters and photos, books, a comfortable sofa – he's on his wife's mind. 'We spend nearly every waking moment together and never get tired of each other,' she says. 'He leaves for an hour and I'm like, 'I miss you.' He's my absolute best friend.' The pair met on the set of crime-comedy Good Girls, in which Hendricks starred from 2018-21, but Bianchini is 'quite serious at work so we didn't really talk'. In 2020, they had a Cobb salad lunch at New York institution Barneys, and 'that's when the romance started'. Initially long distance, the relationship surprised them, she says. 'We didn't expect it.' With matching tastes in music, food and humour, they proposed to each other in 2023, and their New Orleans wedding in April 2024 was, the bride says, 'gothic, moody and sexy'. 'We spend nearly every waking moment together and never get tired of each other. He leaves for an hour and I'm like, 'I miss you.' He's my absolute best friend.' CHRISTINA HENDRICKS The couple's first wedding anniversary was followed weeks later by another milestone for Hendricks – she turned 50. Girlfriends threw a small party that left her weepy, 'looking around, seeing the support I've had for 20 years', then Bianchini masterminded a three-day extravaganza in Las Vegas. The birthday itself? Less great. Hendricks was 'not super pleased. I'm not like, 'Yeah, woo, 50!' I'm like, 'All right, here we are. Here we go.' ' For the dual Screen Actors Guild Award winner and six-time Emmy nominee, a half-century means 'a lot of introspection about where and how I want to be. I'm still unpeeling it.' The bittersweet part is less ''Oh, I look or feel older' and more, 'I really like it here. How do I want to spend the rest of this beautiful time?' ' Instead of a clichéd glow-up, Hendricks is letting go. 'There's been a shift – an 'I don't give a f---edness'. I'm less concerned about what other people think.' Along with a rich personal life, Hendricks is buoyant about season two of The Buccaneers, Apple TV+'s bold feminist drama. Based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, The Buccaneers follows five rich American girls crashing 1870s British society. Think corsets, chaos and estates, with a mostly female cast, all-female soundtrack and a female director, Susanna White. Filming took place in Spain and Scotland, and Hendricks says falling back into a rhythm with her younger co-stars, including Kristine Froseth, Aubri Ibrag and Mia Threapleton, was easy. 'Everyone came in wanting to make this series even better than season one.' Hendricks plays the unconventional, strong-willed Patti St. George, whose social standing as the mother of the Duchess of Tintagel clashes with her midlife reckoning with divorce, status and independence. 'Patti's story is a modern take on what someone in the 1800s would experience,' she says. 'But showing it in a relatable way to shed some light on how difficult it has been for women for this long. We are in 2025, seeing a very familiar courtroom-drama type of behaviour: the scrutiny, the doubt, the power play that can happen between men and women in the legal system.' Hendricks knows first-hand how staggeringly hard divorce is. She split from her first husband, Geoffrey Arend, in 2019 after a decade together. 'I've had that moment of being under someone else's sky and feeling disconnected from your heart,' she says. 'But there's also something empowering in saying, 'All right, we have made this decision. And now we have to move forward.' ' Resilience runs through her story. Born in Tennessee to a psychologist mother and a forest ranger father, Hendricks grew up in Oregon and Idaho. Her first jobs were in a beauty salon and menswear store, and by 18, her 'unusual and quirky' looks led to modelling work in Japan and Italy. Acting lessons helped her transition from commercials to TV. That's her hand (but not her stomach) on the poster for the 1999 Best Picture Oscar winner American Beauty. Early roles in TV series such as Beggars and Choosers and The Court led to her 2007 breakout part of Joan in Mad Men. At first, the character terrified her. 'I called [creator] Matt Weiner and asked, 'Is she just a bitch?' He said, 'No, she's trying to help.' Once I could see how hard she worked to be a wife, mother and great at her job, I started to relate to her more.' Audiences didn't just relate – they adored Joan. 'They were like, 'Go girl!' They found her honesty refreshing,' says Hendricks. 'I thought maybe this strong woman could be me, too. She gave me confidence.' That confidence helps Hendricks navigate an industry she believes is a struggle. She doesn't elaborate but says, 'Some things happened a few years ago that I'm still dealing with emotionally. I didn't feel I had power. I wasn't being heard. That's a power-play women still face.' Tougher now, Hendricks is more open and less afraid to speak her mind: 'I stick up for myself.' She does this for others, too, through supporting LA's rape-treatment centre, and mentoring women in film. Some of her best career advice came from Carol Kane, her co-star on Beggars and Choosers, Hendricks' first TV series, when the cast was told to run and form a tableau in front of the camera. 'She told me, 'Honey, you're just as important. Get up front and show your face.' ' The bigger life message from that moment? 'Be respectful of people who've been there longer. Learn from them,' Hendricks says. 'But also, you're there for a reason. Don't be afraid to say it out loud. Ask the questions you need to ask.' It's a cue to say I want to ask questions that might feel reductive, but what the hell – when will I get the chance again to find out what skincare products Christina Hendricks uses? She laughs and says she'll shut me down if we veer into 1950s housewife territory. Style first. Audiences have seen Hendricks in everything from 1960s chic to corsets. At home, it's 'easy-breezy, French girl' wide-leg jeans and striped tops. 'And you wouldn't believe how many silk floral soft things I own,' she says. That snowy complexion takes work, she says. 'I have dry skin, so I use balm, not cleanser. Thick, creamy things – I pile 'em on.' Exercise? 'The worst. I studied dance for many years so I respond to Pilates, as it uses body positions and stretching and strength that I understand.' While she works in an industry that worships youth, Hendricks doesn't feel she's judged or lost work because of her age, although she's self-aware enough to only go for roles she's right for. 'But I have noticed a difference [between cast members of various ages] when I'm on The Buccaneers set. We communicate differently, relate differently, work differently.' Loading One role she's played often is that of a mother. In real life, Hendricks is child free by choice (kids are 'a lot of work', she's said previously) but speaks with clarity and care about motherhood, especially as it relates to the mother-daughter relationships portrayed in The Buccaneers.
The Age
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Why Christina Hendricks turned 50 and changed her attitude
This story is part of the June 15 edition of Sunday Life. See all 15 stories. B ang on time, Christina Hendricks Zooms in from her sunlit Los Angeles living room. Cheekbones like summer peaches. Famous hair loosely scraped back. Disarming smile. Oh, and there's a small dog with its paws on her shoulder, a cockapoo named Triscuit. 'I just woke from a little afternoon nap,' says Hendricks, casually fabulous in a striped T-shirt. 'Today has been a lot of life maintenance. Getting the dogs groomed, a friend dropping by with styling things, dealing with the pool. Stuff that catches up with you.' It feels like Hendricks is cataloguing a non-glamorous day to put me at ease. It's 6am where I am, in a Thai hotel room, coming live with ghoulish lighting to one of the world's most-celebrated beauties. She waves away apologies for my wrinkled sundress and bed-hair: 'Don't worry. I'm flattered you got up so early to talk to me.' The warmth feels authentic. While her most famous character, Mad Men 's Joan Harris (née Holloway), moved through the world like a shark, Hendricks is charming, generous and funny. Old-school vivacious. Interesting and interested. The domestic admin is happening ahead of Hendricks and her husband, cinematographer George Bianchini, heading to their other home, in New York City. While Bianchini is nowhere to be seen when Hendricks twirls her screen to showcase their home – a wall of framed posters and photos, books, a comfortable sofa – he's on his wife's mind. 'We spend nearly every waking moment together and never get tired of each other,' she says. 'He leaves for an hour and I'm like, 'I miss you.' He's my absolute best friend.' The pair met on the set of crime-comedy Good Girls, in which Hendricks starred from 2018-21, but Bianchini is 'quite serious at work so we didn't really talk'. In 2020, they had a Cobb salad lunch at New York institution Barneys, and 'that's when the romance started'. Initially long distance, the relationship surprised them, she says. 'We didn't expect it.' With matching tastes in music, food and humour, they proposed to each other in 2023, and their New Orleans wedding in April 2024 was, the bride says, 'gothic, moody and sexy'. 'We spend nearly every waking moment together and never get tired of each other. He leaves for an hour and I'm like, 'I miss you.' He's my absolute best friend.' CHRISTINA HENDRICKS The couple's first wedding anniversary was followed weeks later by another milestone for Hendricks – she turned 50. Girlfriends threw a small party that left her weepy, 'looking around, seeing the support I've had for 20 years', then Bianchini masterminded a three-day extravaganza in Las Vegas. The birthday itself? Less great. Hendricks was 'not super pleased. I'm not like, 'Yeah, woo, 50!' I'm like, 'All right, here we are. Here we go.' ' For the dual Screen Actors Guild Award winner and six-time Emmy nominee, a half-century means 'a lot of introspection about where and how I want to be. I'm still unpeeling it.' The bittersweet part is less ''Oh, I look or feel older' and more, 'I really like it here. How do I want to spend the rest of this beautiful time?' ' Instead of a clichéd glow-up, Hendricks is letting go. 'There's been a shift – an 'I don't give a f---edness'. I'm less concerned about what other people think.' Along with a rich personal life, Hendricks is buoyant about season two of The Buccaneers, Apple TV+'s bold feminist drama. Based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, The Buccaneers follows five rich American girls crashing 1870s British society. Think corsets, chaos and estates, with a mostly female cast, all-female soundtrack and a female director, Susanna White. Filming took place in Spain and Scotland, and Hendricks says falling back into a rhythm with her younger co-stars, including Kristine Froseth, Aubri Ibrag and Mia Threapleton, was easy. 'Everyone came in wanting to make this series even better than season one.' Hendricks plays the unconventional, strong-willed Patti St. George, whose social standing as the mother of the Duchess of Tintagel clashes with her midlife reckoning with divorce, status and independence. 'Patti's story is a modern take on what someone in the 1800s would experience,' she says. 'But showing it in a relatable way to shed some light on how difficult it has been for women for this long. We are in 2025, seeing a very familiar courtroom-drama type of behaviour: the scrutiny, the doubt, the power play that can happen between men and women in the legal system.' Hendricks knows first-hand how staggeringly hard divorce is. She split from her first husband, Geoffrey Arend, in 2019 after a decade together. 'I've had that moment of being under someone else's sky and feeling disconnected from your heart,' she says. 'But there's also something empowering in saying, 'All right, we have made this decision. And now we have to move forward.' ' Resilience runs through her story. Born in Tennessee to a psychologist mother and a forest ranger father, Hendricks grew up in Oregon and Idaho. Her first jobs were in a beauty salon and menswear store, and by 18, her 'unusual and quirky' looks led to modelling work in Japan and Italy. Acting lessons helped her transition from commercials to TV. That's her hand (but not her stomach) on the poster for the 1999 Best Picture Oscar winner American Beauty. Early roles in TV series such as Beggars and Choosers and The Court led to her 2007 breakout part of Joan in Mad Men. At first, the character terrified her. 'I called [creator] Matt Weiner and asked, 'Is she just a bitch?' He said, 'No, she's trying to help.' Once I could see how hard she worked to be a wife, mother and great at her job, I started to relate to her more.' Audiences didn't just relate – they adored Joan. 'They were like, 'Go girl!' They found her honesty refreshing,' says Hendricks. 'I thought maybe this strong woman could be me, too. She gave me confidence.' That confidence helps Hendricks navigate an industry she believes is a struggle. She doesn't elaborate but says, 'Some things happened a few years ago that I'm still dealing with emotionally. I didn't feel I had power. I wasn't being heard. That's a power-play women still face.' Tougher now, Hendricks is more open and less afraid to speak her mind: 'I stick up for myself.' She does this for others, too, through supporting LA's rape-treatment centre, and mentoring women in film. Some of her best career advice came from Carol Kane, her co-star on Beggars and Choosers, Hendricks' first TV series, when the cast was told to run and form a tableau in front of the camera. 'She told me, 'Honey, you're just as important. Get up front and show your face.' ' The bigger life message from that moment? 'Be respectful of people who've been there longer. Learn from them,' Hendricks says. 'But also, you're there for a reason. Don't be afraid to say it out loud. Ask the questions you need to ask.' It's a cue to say I want to ask questions that might feel reductive, but what the hell – when will I get the chance again to find out what skincare products Christina Hendricks uses? She laughs and says she'll shut me down if we veer into 1950s housewife territory. Style first. Audiences have seen Hendricks in everything from 1960s chic to corsets. At home, it's 'easy-breezy, French girl' wide-leg jeans and striped tops. 'And you wouldn't believe how many silk floral soft things I own,' she says. That snowy complexion takes work, she says. 'I have dry skin, so I use balm, not cleanser. Thick, creamy things – I pile 'em on.' Exercise? 'The worst. I studied dance for many years so I respond to Pilates, as it uses body positions and stretching and strength that I understand.' While she works in an industry that worships youth, Hendricks doesn't feel she's judged or lost work because of her age, although she's self-aware enough to only go for roles she's right for. 'But I have noticed a difference [between cast members of various ages] when I'm on The Buccaneers set. We communicate differently, relate differently, work differently.' Loading One role she's played often is that of a mother. In real life, Hendricks is child free by choice (kids are 'a lot of work', she's said previously) but speaks with clarity and care about motherhood, especially as it relates to the mother-daughter relationships portrayed in The Buccaneers.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Regional airports say they haven't been contacted about anticipated influx of flyers for World Cup
We're one year away from the FIFA World Cup matches here in Atlanta. Fans will come in from all over the world, and while most will fly commercial, many will come in on corporate or executive jets. The Metro Atlanta Chamber said nearly 1,600 private jets flew into metro Atlanta for the Super Bowl. Considering each one of these matches is a potential Super Bowl, those jets have to get parked somewhere. But so far, the airports around metro Atlanta say they haven't heard of a plan. Matthew Smith is not only the airport division director for Gwinnett County's Briscoe Field, he's also the president of the Georgia Airport Association. He's anticipating corporate and executive jets will fly into metro Atlanta for the big FIFA World Cup matches. TRENDING STORIES: Metro Atlanta parents 'made a dumb decision' by giving 1-year-old beer, report says SCOTUS rules on lawsuit from Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI Family finds someone else buried alongside their loved one in southwest GA cemetery 'Those jets have to go somewhere,' Smith told Channel 2's Richard Elliot. 'We can handle quite a bit. During the Super Bowl, we had well over 50 jets here.' The major regional airports in the Atlanta area include Fulton's Charlie Brown, DeKalb's PDK, Cobb's McCollum, Gwinnett's Briscoe and the Atlanta Speedway's airport. Smith said, so far, the Atlanta World Cup Hosting Committee hasn't reached out to any of them, but he expects they will. 'I'm sure at some point they'll include us just to make sure we have the capacity to handle what they expect to come in on the private side,' Smith said. Hartsfield-Jackson said it's prepared to handle some through signature and private suites, but any overflow would have to go elsewhere. Cobb's McCollum Field right now said it's more focused on handling flights for this summer's MLB All-Star game than the World Cup, but they added, 'Airport management is currently working with local, state and federal partners to coordinate planning efforts for the upcoming significant special events.' Smith said the regional airports are standing by to help. 'We've handled things like this before. We've had the Super Bowl. We've had the Olympics. We've had the NCAA Finals, and you know, football championships here. So, it's not something we're not used to. We typically can handle it with existing personnel and operations,' Smith said. Smith said Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton County's regional airports all have customs agents if needed.
