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  1. Jethro Tull founding member dies aged 82

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    Neve Gordon-Farleigh
    Getty Images Mick Abrahams grabbing a microphone while playing guitar at a gig.Getty Images
     
    Mick Abrahams starred on Jethro Tull's debut album, This Way, released in 1968

    Mick Abrahams, a founding member of rock band Jethro Tull, has died at the age of 82.

    Posting on the band's official website, lead singer Ian Anderson said he was sorry to hear of the death of the "strong vocalist and experienced, powerful and lyrical guitarist".

    He said Luton-born Abrahams had "endured worsening ill health for the last 15 years, leaving him finally unable to perform".

    Anderson said Abrahams was "vitally important" to the band's early line-up and developed his musical ideas into a "tour de force display of his instrumental talents for the rest of his performing days".

    Jethro Tull were formed "out of the ashes" of The John Evan Band and McGregor's Engine, the blues band Abrahams formed with Clive Bunker in the Luton/Dunstable area, said Anderson.

    Abrahams played on Tull's first album, This Was, but left shortly after it was finished, and went on to found another successful band, Blodwyn Pig.

    After pursuing a solo career between 1971 and 2017, he retired from performing following a stroke.

    Anderson described him as a "homebody" who "liked to gig around the home counties".

    He said: "We all offer our condolences to Mick's family and close friends, who can feel justifiably proud of his achievements and musical legacy."

     

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    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-zelensky-putin-attack-update-11258377

    Russia-Ukraine War: Zelensky Issues Fresh Putin Demand After Massive Attack

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    Dec 23, 2025 at 03:45 AM EST

    updated

    Dec 23, 2025 at 03:59 AM EST
    Shane Croucher
    By Shane Croucher

    Breaking News Editor
    Newsweek is a Trust Project member

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the world it must apply more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war after he said Moscow's forces had launched a "massive" overnight attack into Tuesday with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, causing at least three deaths, including a little girl.

    "This Russian strike sends an extremely clear signal about Russia’s priorities. A strike ahead of Christmas, when people want simply to be with their families, at home, in safety," Zelensky said in a post on Telegram, originally in Ukrainian.

    "A strike carried out virtually in the midst of negotiations aimed at ending this war. Putin cannot accept the need to stop killing. And this means the world is not applying enough pressure on Russia. Action is needed now. Russia must be forced toward peace and guaranteed security."

    A woman died in the Kyiv region and another person in Khmelnytskyi. A four-year-old girl died in Zhytomyr when a residential building was struck by a drone.

    Zelensky said the strike hit energy and civilian infrastructure. He had earlier proposed a Christmas truce on energy strikes to shield civilians on either side from blackouts and unheated homes during the bitter winter months, which Russia rejected.

    The Kremlin has repeatedly ruled out temporary ceasefires, saying Ukraine would use a pause to regroup and rearm while it is losing on the battlefield. Instead, Russia says it wants a peace agreement that ends the fighting to be comprehensive and permanent.

    During the latest Russian attack on Ukraine, neighboring NATO ally Poland scrambled fighter jets. Poland also put ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems on "the highest state of readiness" to protect NATO territory, Warsaw's military said. Earlier in the year, Poland shot down what it said were Russian drones violating its airspace.

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  3. Moscow probes Kyiv link after bomb kills general
    Russian general killed in car bomb in Moscow
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    Russian general killed in suspected car bomb in Moscow

    By Virginia Pietromarchi
    Published On 22 Dec 202522 Dec 2025

    Al Jazeera

        Russian authorities say a car bomb explosion in southern Moscow has killed Lieutenant General ⁠Fanil Sarvarov.
        Investigators say they are pursuing various lines of inquiry, including the possibility the attack was “linked” to “Ukrainian special forces”.
        
        A Ukrainian drone attack damaged two vessels, two piers, and sparked a fire in a village on the Black Sea coast in Russia’s Krasnodar region, according to regional authorities.

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, William Bludworth said:

    Gut your staff and start over on different position groups? If he keeps Flood it's all for naught.


    Flood is a decent field coach. I wonder if a good portion of his problem is his lack of ability to convince Sark and Banks that he needs more NIL. His inability to recognize his interior line deficiencies is unforgivable, however. 

  5. 33 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    From Mateer's standpoint, if he stays another year, does it help him any at all on his draft stock?

    Right now you are looking at Arch, Sayin, and Raiola. Then you have  Sellers, Lagway, Maiva, Holestein and Carr. 

    Where would you place Mateer on this list? Does anyone think he can "improve" his stock with another year? He isn't going to completely retool his throwing motion in an offeseason going into his make or break season. He has already missed time due to a hand injury and with his play style, getting injured in a real possibility. 

    If I were advising, you go and don't look back. Not worth the risk to stay. 

     

    Yeah, that is the question. If he can get drafted and make more in the draft than through NIL then he should go this year. Next year, no matter how much he improves, he will not be one of the top 5 quarterbacks. 

  6. 30 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    I would disagree that 6A doesn't have the best matchups possible today.  IDGAF about Allen or any other teams' pedigrees.  This is how the slate played out, and those are some badass matchups.  That doesn't mean if a game doesn't end up 38-35, that it wasn't a great game.  I disagree with a lot of that mindset coming from this thread in the past few days too.

    Hell, before long we start slating the games just for TV audiences.  Fuck that.  The current system is great.  Odd years, D-1 plays first.  Even years, D II goes first.  It works. Everyone knows what to expect.

     

    And finals are always in Dallas? 

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