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Pregnant mum killed in fatal crash identified
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Pregnant mum killed in fatal crash identified

The tragedy claimed both Ms Dhareshwar, 33, and her unborn child, leaving the local community devastated. The accident unfolded about 8pm on George St, Hornsby, where police allege a Kia Carnival slowed to let Ms Dhareshwar, her husband, and their three-year-old son cross a footpath. A BMW sedan, allegedly driven by Aaron Papazoglu, 19, then collided with the Kia, causing it to surge forward and fatally strike Ms Dhareshwar. Paramedics treated Ms Dhareshwar at the scene before she was rushed to Westmead Hospital, where she and her unborn child later died. Floral tributes and heartfelt messages have since been left at the site, including a poignant card from a witness known only as Laura. “I pray for you and your little one that you are held with love as you leave this world … Words can’t describe how sorry I am that this has happened to you,” the message read. Mr Papazoglu, a P-plater from Wahroonga, was arrested early on Saturday morning. He faces charges including dangerous driving occasioning death, negligent driving occasioning death, and causing the loss of a foetus – death of a pregnant woman, according to court documents seen by NewsWire. He allegedly failed to stop at a red light on the Pacific Highway prior to the collision. During his Sunday appearance at Parramatta Local Court, Mr Papazoglu did not enter a plea. His solicitor, Patrick Schmidt, described the crash as a “tragic outcome to a series of unfortunate events” and said his client was “upset”, expressing sympathy for the victim’s family. Magistrate Ray Plibersek denied Mr Papazoglu bail, citing the seriousness of the charges. The matter will return to court on Tuesday for mention, with a brief of evidence due by January 18. According to the Daily Mail, Ms Dhareshwar and her husband had recently purchased land in Grantham Farm to build their dream home, submitting a development application for a two-storey dwelling just two months ago. The plans were reportedly approved in September. Assistant Commissioner David Driver described the scene as “very confronting” for first responders, highlighting the shocking circumstances of the collision. Police urge anyone with information to contact Hornsby Police or Crime Stoppers. Zoe’s Law, which came into effect in NSW in 2022, allows for harsher penalties for crimes that cause the death of an unborn child, with offenders facing up to three extra years in prison on top of the underlying sentence for dangerous or negligent driving.

Andrew Hedgman,Nathan Schmidt
Chaos unfolds as benches empty following Rangers-Red Wings game
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Chaos unfolds as benches empty following Rangers-Red Wings game

The whole thing started with Rangers starting goalie Jonathan Quick coming off the bench to confront Appleton. Quick started the game and stopped 40 of 42 shots in the loss and was probably extremely frustrated with not getting the result. Seeing Appleton take that shot probably sent him over the edge. The question of whether or not suspensions will come from this is certainly one worth looking at. The thing that might save players, specifically Quick, is that players typically to leave the bench area to go to the locker rooms at Madison Square Garden as the locker room tunnels are not directly behind the benches. Either way, it was a chaotic end to a game between two Original Six franchises with an old-school finish.

Adam Gretz,Yardbarker
Will the Giants fire DC Shane Bowen soon?
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Will the Giants fire DC Shane Bowen soon?

Bowen worked under Mike Vrabel as the Titans’ defensive coordinator from 2021-23. When Tennessee cleaned house at the end of the 2023 slate, Bowen joined the Giants’ staff, though his first year on the job did not go especially well; Big Blue finished in the bottom-10 in terms of total defense and just outside the bottom-10 in terms of points allowed in 2024. Nonetheless, the Giants retained head coach Brian Daboll and his top lieutenants, Bowen and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka, this offseason. Of course, Daboll was fired just last week, and Kafka was elevated to interim HC. According to Hughes, the only reason Bowen was not axed at the same time as Daboll is that the team did not want to put Kafka at a disadvantage. Instead, the Giants wanted him to spend a full week at the controls, attend defensive meetings – which is something he naturally had not done in his capacity as OC – and draw his own conclusions about the current staff. After Sunday’s defeat, which marked the fourth time this season the 2-9 Giants have squandered a lead in the fourth quarter, Kafka certainly did not give Bowen a vote of confidence. “We’ll evaluate everything,” Kafka succinctly stated (via Hughes). In addition to the fourth-quarter collapses, New York has allowed the fourth-most yards per game (383.0), and the club is 28th in points allowed (27.3 points per game). As such, a Bowen ouster would not be surprising. Kafka has been linked to outside head coaching interest in the past, so while the Giants will not be vying for a playoff spot this year, their performance will impact Kafka’s own coaching future. In addition to their interim bench boss, of course, the Giants will also consider a number of other options for the full-time HC gig this offseason. According to Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer (video link), that search – which will be spearheaded by GM Joe Schoen – will not be overly expansive. Schoen will have to determine if he prefers a candidate who will be directly responsible for quarterback Jaxson Dart’s development or if he thinks the so-called “leader of men” profile (e.g., Mike Tomlin, Dan Campbell) is more important. Either way, Glazer does not think a college coach will be under consideration. If true, that would eliminate Notre Dame HC Marcus Freeman from the Giants’ list, which contradicts a recent report naming Freeman as a viable target. Some of the names that Glazer thinks will make the cut (Mike McCarthy, Lou Anarumo, Steve Spagnuolo) have already been linked to the post, while three others (Matt Nagy, Arthur Smith, Chris Shula) have not been publicly connected to New York. Glazer spent extra time considering Shula’s candidacy. The Rams’ defensive coordinator could be yet another member of the Sean McVay coaching tree to receive HC consideration elsewhere, and according to Glazer, McVay has worked more closely with Shula than any of his former proteges. Shula, 39, was recently named as a “prime candidate” to land a head coaching job in the 2026 cycle.

Pro Football Rumors,Rory Parks
‘Indo-Pacific Begins in Ukraine’ – US Think Tank Head Says Trans-Siberian Strike Rewrites Global Strategy
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‘Indo-Pacific Begins in Ukraine’ – US Think Tank Head Says Trans-Siberian Strike Rewrites Global Strategy

WASHINGTON, DC – For years, Ukraine has quietly worked to drag Russia’s invasion far beyond the front lines. Last week, Kyiv’s intelligence network landed its most dramatic blow yet, striking 6,000 kilometers from the Donbas to hit the Trans-Siberian Railway. The result: The critical rail link moving North Korean arms to the front is now frozen, crippling Moscow’s vital east-to-west supply chain. Kyiv confirmed responsibility through HUR, its military intelligence agency, which said the strike in Russia’s Khabarovsk region blocked the rail lifeline Moscow uses to move munitions supplied by Pyongyang – including the ballistic missiles, rockets and the more than 20,000 containers of ammunition that North Korea has poured into Russia’s campaign. For Glen Howard, president of the Saratoga Foundation and one of Washington’s longest-watching Russia strategists, the attack is not simply another daring Ukrainian sabotage operation. It is a geopolitical wake-up call. “The recent attack more than anything symbolizes the connectivity between the Pacific and the Ukraine war,” Howard told Kyiv Post, arguing that the strike decisively disproves the idea – popular among US “restrainers” – that Europe and the Indo-Pacific are separate strategic theaters. “10,000 North Korean soldiers appearing in Kursk and fighting against Ukraine is a manifestation of this connectivity,” he said. “For North Korea the Ukraine war is its own battle lab.” The Indo-Pacific, Howard insists, now begins in Ukraine. Moscow’s East Asian supply chain, cut at the source By hitting the Trans-Siberian – the highest-capacity rail line linking Russia’s Pacific frontier to its European heartland – Kyiv expanded a sabotage campaign that began in 2023 with its audacious demolition of the Severomuysky tunnel on the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). Howard chronicled that earlier strike in his 2023 analysis “Into Siberia,” noting that the BAM attack temporarily reduced Russia to a single functioning rail line to Vladivostok, pinching its trade with China and its east-to-west military logistics. Ukraine didn’t stop there. The next day, SBU operatives hit the Devil’s Bridge bypass – the only alternative to the destroyed tunnel – trapping trains and exposing the fragility of Russia’s Far Eastern infrastructure. It was, in Howard’s telling, a masterclass in strategic sequencing. This newest strike, he argues, shows Kyiv understands that Russia’s “Siberian flank is highly vulnerable” – and that Moscow still has not learned how to defend it. “It is not an operational shift but a specific Russian vulnerability that Ukraine and HUR have shown it can selectively use at the right time to wreak havoc,” Howard said. What makes this possible, he stressed, is the dormant-no-longer Ukrainian presence in the region – the so-called Green Wedge, populated by descendants of 19th-century Ukrainian settlers. Green Wedge reawakens Howard says the sabotage campaign demonstrates that the Green Wedge – long dismissed in Moscow as an ethnographic footnote – has strategic bite. “It also symbolizes the importance of the Green Wedge in Siberia and that it is real, no longer dormant, but able to surface at any time,” he said. Ukraine’s military intelligence “has utilized the Ukrainian diaspora presence in Siberia to build a viable espionage and sabotage network.” That human network matters. Ukrainian drones can strike Russian air bases. But blowing up rail lines in the Pacific wilderness is the kind of operation that requires planning, local access, and teams on the ground. “It takes very careful planning to conduct these attacks,” Howard said, emphasizing, “It also appears to indicate the Russians have not learned how to protect the rail lines effectively.” He adds that Ukraine was likely tipped off about the movement of North Korean arms by NATO allies, possibly the US, enabling HUR to position saboteurs in time. “This attack is right out of an Alistair MacLean novel… a Ukrainian version of Where Eagles Dare,” he said. Eurasian World War in slow motion For Howard, the strike also exposes a deeper truth: Russia’s “pivot to Asia,” loudly marketed as a civilizational shift, is driven by logistical desperation. Moscow needs North Korean manpower and ammunition – “cannon fodder,” as he puts it – because its war economy cannot meet battlefield demand. But that pivot comes with a geopolitical boomerang. “Moscow relying and pivoting to North Korea is doing so at the risk of damaging its relations with Beijing,” Howard said. Putin turned to Kim Jong Un precisely because China would not provide the level of military aid Moscow expected. “So he said to hell with it… It is a very Asiatic form of Russian decision-making,” he added. Beijing, he notes, has signaled discomfort. Kim Jong Un’s recent trip to China “was quite cool.” North Koreans are fighting in Kursk, not Chinese troops. DPRK munitions – not Chinese – are flowing to Russia’s front lines. The irony is sharp: China and Russia boast a partnership “without limits,” but those limits are now testing the reliability of Russia’s role as Beijing’s overland gateway to Europe. With both the BAM and Trans-Siberian proven vulnerable, Beijing is forced to reassess whether Russia can guarantee the physical security of its own Belt and Road corridor. Next front in Siberia The Trans-Siberian attack is not war-ending. But in Howard’s view, it is war-shaping. It strikes at the timing of Russia’s dependence on North Korean shells – which he says are already running low – just as Moscow tries to sustain offensive pressure on the Pokrovsk front. And it is unlikely to be the end. “Ukraine has already shown it has the capability to disrupt Russian logistical infrastructure in the Far East,” he said, noting earlier strikes on oil refineries and munitions plants deep in the Urals. “These are the twin pillars of Russian military logistical transport in the Far East… an amazing feat.” Asked what comes next, he offers a hint: not a specific target list, but a pattern. Ukraine will continue going after the infrastructure that Russia cannot easily replace — ports, refineries, pipelines, strategic factories — “deep in the heart of Siberia.” And he adds, with the enthusiasm of a Cold War thriller writer: “I just hope Budanov sells me the film rights.” War that starts in Donetsk, ends in the Pacific Ukraine’s strike on the Trans-Siberian is more than a tactical disruption. It forces Washington, Brussels and Asian capitals to confront the emerging strategic reality of the conflict: The Ukraine war is no longer a regional war. It is a Eurasian war. Its front lines run from Avdiivka to Vladivostok. And as long as North Korean shells detonate in Ukrainian cities – and Ukrainian saboteurs detonate trains in Siberia – the dividing line between Europe and the Indo-Pacific is not the Urals, nor the South China Sea. As Glen Howard argues, maps must be redrawn. The Indo-Pacific now begins in Ukraine.

Alex Raufoglu
‘Initial concern’ on Aaron Rodgers’ Week 11 injury does not sound good
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‘Initial concern’ on Aaron Rodgers’ Week 11 injury does not sound good

The Pittsburgh Steelers may need to power through without Aaron Rodgers for at least the next week or two. Rodgers appeared to hurt his left wrist late in the first half of the Steelers’ Week 11 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pa. The four-time MVP tried to break his fall with his arms after taking a huge hit while trying to extend a play deep in Bengals territory. You can watch the play here. Mason Rudolph replaced Rodgers in the second half as Pittsburgh cruised to a 34-12 victory. Rodgers is reportedly expected to undergo further testing on Monday to determine the true severity of the injury, but the “initial concern” points to a potential multi-week absence. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Steelers QB1 is feared to have suffered “a slight break” in his left wrist.

Larry Brown Sports,Renzo Pocholo Salao
Aaron Rodgers injury update: Adam Schefter reveals ‘initial concern’ surrounding Steelers QB
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Aaron Rodgers injury update: Adam Schefter reveals ‘initial concern’ surrounding Steelers QB

Aaron Rodgers exited in the second quarter of the divisional win for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Now, he, per reporting since this evening, could potentially be out for an extent of time as this season comes down the stretch. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Rodgers suffered an apparent “slight break” of the wrist of his left hand. He’ll now undergo testing tomorrow with the results of that to determine how long he could now be out for Pittsburgh, with Schefter since adding that it’s “shaping up to be Steelers QB Mason Rudolph vs. the Bears next week”. “The initial concern is that Aaron Rodgers has, in the words of one source, “a slight break” his left wrist, but the Steelers quarterback will undergo further testing Monday to determine the full extent of the injury and how long he’ll be sidelined, per league sources,” Schefter tweeted out on Sunday evening. Those at the NFL Network have since reported further on the injury for Rodgers. Tom Pelissero noted that what they’ve determined at this point as “a small fracture” is believed to be “nothing long term”, while Ian Rapoport added that Rodgers has supposedly said himself to people that he doesn’t expect to be out for long. “Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers will undergo more tests Monday on his left wrist, but the initial belief is it’s nothing long term, sources tell me and @RapSheet,” tweeted out Pelissero. “X-rays at the stadium showed a small fracture. They won’t know more until further scans.” “Aaron Rodgers has indicated to people close to him that he’ll be back soon. Initial testing would support that, but more coming,” Rapoport then wrote in a follow-up post. Before his exit, Rodgers was 9-15 (60%) for 116 yards and a touchdown, which brings him to, on the season, a completion rate of 66.4% for 196.9 passing yards per game with 19 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Rudolph then checked in, making his third appearance of this season as their backup still, for him to finish the game, being 12-16 (75%) for 127 yards and another touchdown to help complete a 34-12 win at home over the Cincinnati Bengals this afternoon. That victory, ending a skid over the last four where they went 1-3, moved Pittsburgh to 6-4 overall, which allowed them to hold on to their lead in the AFC North as they sit a game ahead of the Baltimore Ravens (5-5). The Steelers will know more tomorrow or so as far as the status of their starting quarterback. That said, Rodgers himself is seemingly hoping not to be out for too long, although the results of those tests could at least put his availability in question for their next game when Pittsburgh goes on the road in Week 12 to play one of his oldest foes in the Chicago Bears.

5 GOATs,Sam Gillenwater
Aaron Rodgers Has ‘Slight Break’ In Left Wrist
Sports

Aaron Rodgers Has ‘Slight Break’ In Left Wrist

The plan from here is for Rodgers to undergo an MRI on Monday to determine the severity of the injury as well as how much time he’ll end up missing. Mason Rudolph took over in relief of Rodgers on Sunday and would, obviously, handle starting duties while he’s out. Rodgers, 41, is a former first-round pick of the Packers back in 2005. He agreed to a four-year, $134 million extension that included over $100 million guaranteed in 2018. Rodgers was owed a base salary of $25 million in the final year of his deal in 2022 when he agreed to a three-year, $150 million extension with $101 million of the deal guaranteed. After one year, the Packers traded him to the Jets for a package that included a second-round pick in 2023 and a conditional 2024 second that could become a first. He played just four snaps in 2023 before tearing his Achilles in Week 1 but returned as the Jets’ quarterback for the 2024 season. New York released him with a June 1 designation after the season. He then went on to sign a one-year deal with the Steelers. Entering today’s game, Rodgers had appeared in nine games for the Steelers and completed 66.8 percent of his passes for 1,853 yards, 18 touchdowns and seven interceptions.

Nate Bouda,NFLTradeRumors.co
Cardinals' Jacoby Brissett makes NFL history in loss to 49ers
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Cardinals' Jacoby Brissett makes NFL history in loss to 49ers

The 2025-26 NFL season has been one to forget for the Arizona Cardinals. A 41-22 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday dropped Arizona to 3-7 on the season and has it headed toward another season below .500. There was, though, a bit of a bright spot in Sunday's loss. Veteran quarterback Jacoby Brissett set an NFL record that will be tough to match in the future. Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett makes NFL history In the loss, Brissett made NFL history, completing 47 of his 57 pass attempts. Before Sunday, the previous record for completions in a game was 45, held by both Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff. Ben Roethlisberger also completed 47 passes in a game, but it came in a postseason game, making it ineligible to qualify for history.

Andrew Wright,Yardbarker
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