(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Baltimore 40, Jacksonville 14 Chicago 33, Minnesota 27 Dallas 41, San Francisco 33 Indianapolis 27, Houston 20 Miami 22, New England 12 Seattle 20, Washington 15 Tampa Bay 31, Atlanta 27 Tennessee 46, Detroit 25 Arizona 33, Philadelphia 26 NY Jets 23, L. Rams 20 Kansas City 32, New Orleans 29 Cleveland 20, NY Giants 6 TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Northwestern 79, Michigan St. 65 Houston 88, Alcorn St. 55 Creighton 76, UConn 74 Texas 77, Oklahoma St. 74 Rutgers 91, Illinois 88
Mercury NashvilleFor their new holiday EP, We Need Christmas, Maddie & Tae recorded six songs they love, including two originals they co-wrote themselves.
But it turns out there’s one perennial favorite the duo could do without.
“I really don’t like grandma getting run over by a reindeer,” Maddie protests.
“I don’t like that one other either,” Tae agrees.
“It’s just so gory,” Maddie continues. “It’s just like, ‘Poor Grandma! Dang! Why you gotta run over the granny?’… Poor grandma, you know?”
“By a reindeer?” Tae asks.
“Yeah! By a reindeer! What a savage reindeer! Geez!” Maddie adds, as the two laugh.
“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” dates back to 1979, and was originally recorded by Elmo & Patsy. While the novelty song certainly has plenty of fans, make no mistake: Maddie & Tae aren’t among them.
“It just doesn’t make me feel happy at all,” Maddie asserts. “It kind of does the opposite.”
“Yeah. What were they thinking when they wrote that? Who knows?” Tae chimes in.
“Maybe someone’s grandma really did get like just attacked by a reindeer,” Maddie laughs.
This holiday, Maddie & Tae are more focused on a “Merry Married Christmas,” since they’re both newlyweds.
Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — Following Jim Carey’s announcement that he would no longer play Joe Biden, Saturday Night Live‘s Alex Moffat debuted as the president-elect in a cold open that spoofed Vice President Mike Pence receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’m sure all Americans are excited to see me, the guy who let COVID spread everywhere, get one of the vaccines,” he said Pence, once again played by Beck Bennett.
After getting vaccinated, Bennett’s Pence joined by vice president-elect Kamala Harris — played once again by Maya Rudolph — who, when pressed by Pence about how she got into the White House, answered, “I won more votes.”
Moffat’s Biden then entered wearing a boot on his foot, referencing the recent injury he received while playing with his dog.
“You look different somehow,” Bennett’s Pence noted, referring to the recasting, to which Moffatt explained that, as in the the recent series of KFC commercials, “I’m like Colonel Sanders — every time you see me, I’m a different guy.”
Added Biden, “There’s a good chance the next time you see me I’ll be Mario Lopez.” Lopez has been cast to play Sanders in an upcoming movie about the fast food mogul.
Moffat’s Biden was getting the vaccine because Harris was worried about him, noting, “you’re already in a cast on day minus-40 in office.”
“I just want to let the American people know one thing,” he said. “You’re about to have a real leader again, and you’re going to have the most diverse cabinet in the history of American politics.”
“And I will make sure that Joe never specifies what he means by diverse,” Rudolph’s Harris added.
SNL alum Kristen Wiig hosted Saturday night’s show, with musical guest Dua Lipa.
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(NEW YORK) — The College Football Playoff participants have been announced.
Top ranked Alabama will face fourth ranked Notre Dame in Arlington, Texas at 5:00 p.m. ET on January 1. The game was supposed to be played at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, but was moved because of the growing number of COVID-19 cases in southern California, according to the Rose Bowl.
Second ranked Clemson will face third ranked Ohio State at the Sugar Bowl at 8:45 p.m. ET on January 1.
Both games will be on ESPN.
Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State all won their conference championship on Saturday.
Notre Dame lost to Clemson in the ACC championship.
This is the sixth appearance for both Alabama and Clemson. Both team have won the title twice.
Clemson has beaten Alabama twice in the College Football Playoff Championship game.
This will be the Buckeyes third appearance. They won the first ever title game in 2014.
The Fighting Irish make its second appearance in the playoff. They lost the 2018 Cotton Bowl to Clemson in their first appearance.
The College Football Playoff Championship will be played on January 11 at in Miami.
(NEW YORK) — The potential of a cross-country Christmas week storm hitting the U.S. is increasing.
The storm could cause numerous hazards, especially as it arrives on the East Coast on Christmas Eve. Its sharp cold front could bring Arctic blasts for Christmas.
After a blast of cold air hit the eastern U.S. on Saturday, much of the East is trending a little bit closer to seasonable. There are a couple of quick-moving systems that will travel through the Eastern and Central U.S. over the next few days.
The first one is a frontal system that will bring a quick burst of snow from Ohio to New York. Some of this snow might hang on and bring snow showers to the I-95 corridor Sunday.
The next disturbance will slide in from Canada Monday morning and bring with it a quick burst of snow to the upper Midwest. We are not expecting any significant accumulation, but there could be a couple of slick spots, and visibility may drop briefly.
In the Northwest, a storm is bringing very heavy rain. In areas such as Oregon and Washington, up to 8 inches of rain could fall. This could trigger mudslides, landslides and avalanches. Some flooding may also occur.
Attention will then turn to a storm system that will travel across the country for Christmas week. Unfortunately, even though the precise magnitude of the impacts remain uncertain, the storm looks like it will bring quite a bit of weather drama with it.
The storm could bring powerful winds on Christmas Eve and Christmas in the Northeast, a combination of heavy rain, mild temperatures and melting snow in the Northeast later this week and a potentially brief period of snow on the colder side of the storm — especially in the Appalachian Mountains.
It will arrive in the Northwest by Monday, and then bring some more rain and mountain snow before it races off into the Central U.S. by Wednesday.
On Wednesday, as the storm becomes more organized, a powerful cold front will develop and bring some heavy rain and strong thunderstorms, especially in the Mississippi River Valley.
On the colder side of the storm, snow will likely begin to wrap around the low pressure, causing a burst of snow in parts of the upper Midwest.
By Christmas Eve, the frontal system will approach the Eastern U.S. A tremendous amount of mild air ahead of the system will bring temperatures well into the 50s, and maybe low 60s in the Northeast, where there is a decent snowpack from last week’s nor’easter.
As the front approaches, very heavy rain is likely to develop. The combination of heavy rain and melting snow will likely cause flooding. Areas with high elevations, such as northeast Pennsylvania, New York, and Vermont, where locally over 2 feet of snow fell, are more at risk.
There could be flooding in the region as the storm approaches.
Also on Christmas Eve, there is a chance that along with heavy precipitation, there will be powerful wind gusts, especially in parts of the Northeast Coast. While it is too early to determine how strong the winds will be, power outages may occur.
Heavy rain and strong thunderstorms may also hit the Southeast on Christmas Eve. In the Appalachians and near the Great Lakes, there could be brief periods of accumulating heavy snow as well as low temperatures.
On Christmas Day, cold air will wrap around the storm system and surge into the U.S.
In the Midwest, wind chills could easily be in the -10s and -20s. Wind chills in the teens and 20s may also travel all the way to the South.
Meanwhile, the East Coast may experience very dramatic temperatures over the holidays. Parts of New Jersey could see temperatures near 60 on Christmas Eve, but single digits by Christmas night.
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