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Boston College quarterback Thomas Castellanos will miss Saturday's game against Western Kentucky resulting from an injury, in keeping with a team source.

According to the source, Grayson James, a transfer from Florida International, will make his first start for the Eagles (3-1).

Kickoff against the Hilltoppers (3-1) is scheduled for noon and the sport can be broadcast on the ACC Network.

Here are five things you must know:

1. Castellanos seemed to be limping barely.

Castellanos needed to miss a part of practice on Tuesday and seemed to be limping barely as he watched his teammates practice. Afterwards, he walked around campus without crutches or additional support.

This season, Castellanos has accomplished 45 of 70 passes for 729 yards, with 10 touchdowns and two interceptions. He also had 43 carries for 112 yards and a rating, helping the Eagles get off to a powerful start.

Castellanos threw a successful 42-yard touchdown pass to Lewis Bond at BC 23:19 conquer Michigan State last Saturday.

2. James has a number of experience.

James, a 6-foot-3-inch, 226-pound right-hander from Duncanville, Texas, posted a 58.4 completion percentage and totaled 2,347 passing yards, 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in three seasons at Florida International.

James faced Western Kentucky in 2022 and finished 13 of twenty-two for 85 yards in a 73-0 loss.

On September 4, BC coach Bill O'Brien said James was “doing well” but was “still a long way” from recovering from an injury.

In April, Castellanos called James a “good competitor.” O'Brien also praised James, who was one in every of the Eagles' best players within the spring game.

“He's definitely a much better player compared to what we were when we started with him,” O'Brien said in April. “I'm really glad we have Grayson. He's a great guy. Very smart, calm in the pocket, does not panic. He’s got good size and some good athletic ability too.”

3. Depth at running back is vital.

On Friday, BC running back Kye Robichaux's status for the sport against his former team was unclear.

Robichaux, a senior who spent two seasons at Western Kentucky, has 31 carries for 121 yards and a touchdown this 12 months. He missed most of last Saturday's game against the Spartans, but played one snap on an unsuccessful four-and-goal attempt within the 1st minute.

In his absence, Treshaun Ward caught a season-high 14 carries for 102 yards and a rating. Ward recovered from an early fumble and played a vital role in BC's comeback.

Freshman Turbo Richard, a 5-foot-8-inch, 200-pound man, contributed 10 carries for 46 yards and scored his first profession touchdown.

“It felt really special,” Richard said. “I waited for my number to be called. My number was called and I just took my chance.”

Richard said he models his playing on Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. He said a trainer gave him the nickname “Turbo” when he was 9 years old because he won every race after training.

He gained the trust of the coaches early within the season and appears to have done enough to play a task whether Robichaux is healthy or not.

“I think Turbo is very tough,” O’Brien said. “That's what I like most about him. He’s a very tough young guy.”

4. The defense considers field goals a victory.

BC found the top zone on 9 of 14 trips to the red zone, in comparison with 3 of 10 for its opponents.

O'Brien said the Eagles managed to stop the run within the red zone, which paid off in key moments.

“This is a big, big deal for us,” O’Brien said. “We have to continue to do that. That was a big thing in the Michigan State game, getting those guys to score, so it has to continue.”

The Eagles have allowed 4 total touchdowns, which is the second-fewest touchdowns within the Atlantic Coast Conference. They conceded 10 field goals, essentially the most within the conference.

“Obviously we would like to stop them, but sometimes they get into the red zone and make a field goal,” linebacker Kam Arnold said. “But we consider this a victory because we want to prevent touchdowns at all costs.”

5. O'Brien believes the Eagles can be ready.

A cornerstone of O'Brien's tenure thus far is that the Eagles have been prepared and poised whatever the opponent.

He said there needs to be no trap games.

“If there is disappointment, then we are ashamed,” O’Brien said. “We have to show up and be ready to play.”

The Hilltoppers lost 63-0 of their opener to Alabama, but as O'Brien noted, many teams lose to the Crimson Tide by that margin. Since then, Western Kentucky has won three straight, including a big victory over Toledo last Saturday.

The Hilltoppers rank twentieth nationally in passing offense, so the performance of BC's secondary — which had three timely interceptions against the Spartans — could influence the final result.

“We have a big challenge ahead of us,” O’Brien said. “It can be a really, very difficult game.

“Western Kentucky has done a great job. Like I said, and I'm not trying to be funny, FBS, FCS, CIA, NCIS, I really don't care. I don’t know about the differences.”

Today is Tuesday, September tenth, the 254th day of the yr 2024. There are 112 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On September 10, 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would turn out to be a turning point in the controversy about sexual harassment when Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas, made allegations against him.

Also on this date:

In 1608, John Smith was elected president of the colonial council of Jamestown, Virginia.

In 1960, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won the Olympic Marathon in Rome barefoot, becoming the primary black African to win Olympic gold.

In 1960, Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm liable for 364 deaths, hit the Florida Keys.

In 1963, 20 black students were admitted to Alabama public schools after a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace.

In 1979, 4 Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950 were released from prison on pardon by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1987, Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was greeted by President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in the beginning of a ten-day tour of the United States.

In 2005, teams of forensic investigators and cadaver dogs fanned out across New Orleans to gather the bodies left behind by Hurricane Katrina.

In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was put into operation for the primary time and the primary proton beam was successfully sent through its 27-kilometer-long underground ring tunnel.

In 2022, King Charles III was officially crowned British monarch in a lavish ceremony two days after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

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Silicon Valley billionaire Thomas Siebel has accused the Italian energy company Enel SpA of copying the mental property of the software company C3.ai, which he runs.

C3, based in Redwood City and known for its data management and analytics software, accused Enel of misuse of trade secrets and breach of contract in an Italian civil case. C3 says it’s owed 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion).

“This is an unfortunate situation,” Siebel said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Thursday. “Enel was a valued customer who accessed many of our technologies. It appears that they copied thousands of lines of our source code.”

Enel declined to comment on the lawsuit or the interview.

However, relations between the 2 corporations deteriorated, and now C3 accuses Enel of stealing its mental property. According to a regulatory notice, C3 turned to Italian courts in February to file suit.

“We have to protect our intellectual property rights for the benefit of our shareholders, and that is what we are doing,” Siebel said within the interview.

The company has also filed a criminal grievance with Italian law enforcement authorities and is “considering” doing the identical with U.S. federal law enforcement authorities, the filing said.

In an interview with Bloomberg in May 2023, Siebel discussed the deteriorating relationship. “Enel has been enormously successful,” he said when asked in regards to the status of his dealings with the Italian energy giant.

“For some reason they decided they wanted to own their own platform and they're trying to build it themselves – we'll see how that goes,” he said on the time.

With a ticker symbol that literally means “AI,” C3 has been a serious subject of investor interest throughout 2023, with its shares doubling in value this 12 months. It was also a heavily shorted name, with sellers expressing skepticism about its technology.

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Originally published: September 6, 2024 at 5:42 am

With his alternative of chalk, United States captain Jim Furyk has created excitement ahead of this month's Presidents Cup.

Furyk selected Nos. 7 through 12 within the team rankings for his six captain's picks, announced Tuesday. The move means Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley will play for Team USA for the primary time in a decade, while longtime American star Justin Thomas will stay home.

The other American picks were Sam Burns, Russell Henley, Max Homa, Brian Harman and Tony Finau. Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala were the team's six automatic picks.

The Presidents Cup will happen from September 26 to 29 on the Royal Montreal Golf Club.

“I'm just trying to put the pieces together,” Furyk said of his alternative, calling it a “tough omission” but otherwise giving Golf Channel no explanation for why he not noted Thomas, the 31-year-old who was No. 19 within the points standings.

Bradley was originally slated to be Furyk's assistant captain, his only probability to achieve experience as a team leader before the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York. Instead, he might be relieved of those duties, Furyk said, and might concentrate on playing as a substitute.

International team captain Mike Weir has chosen Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Corey Conners, Mackenzie Hughes, Si Woo Kim, Min Woo Lee and Taylor Pendrith. Conners, Hughes and Pendrith are all Canadian, adding an actual maple flavour to the team with a Canadian captain and three players. They will join Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day and Byeong Hun An.

What do you concentrate on the US team?

That's each not surprising and incredibly disappointing. Furyrk, who takes on players ranked seventh through twelfth, avoids criticism because he can say, “That's fair,” but it surely does mean the U.S. has a team that’s failing each in current form and in current form. And usher in young talent. Max Homa has dropped to 86th on DataGolf while enduring a chaotic season, and Brian Harman has just one top-10 finish since March. Justin Thomas, however, is a U.S. Cup legend and is having a a lot better season than those two. Thomas is 9-3-2 in Presidents Cups and finished T14th on the Tour Championship, and Akshay Bhatia won the Texas Open this yr. Bringing the 22-year-old rising star onto the team for the long run might have been invaluable. It all seems like a missed opportunity that neither produces the most effective team nor helps the team move forward. —

Furyk could have gone straight down the list and picked the subsequent six players on the U.S. Presidents Cup leaderboard, but a few of those selections are still confusing. Harman and Homa were outmatched by several players who would have been great suits within the team — including Thomas, who’s widely often known as among the finest American match play players of this generation. Harman was likely chosen for his shot accuracy in preparation for a good and shut Royal Montreal, and Homa will bring the fireplace and spirit that comes naturally to him in team settings. But consider Bhatia, and even someone like 20-year-old Nick Dunlap. This yr's Cup might have been the proper opportunity to groom young blood for future team events, and as a substitute Furyk went with an older selection that isn't even necessarily playing that well right away. In addition to partner fit, statistics probably played an enormous role in those decisions. But you’ll be able to't ignore recent form, and it seems that Furyk has done just that. —

What do you concentrate on the international team?

Weir is giving his native Canadians love, but possibly not in the best way we thought. It would have been inconceivable for Weir to depart out Lee or Kim – two of his top talents – or Bezuidenhout, who’s having a fantastic yr, in order that left essentially three decisions to make. You could argue that Conners is a top five international player, so it's a no brainer. The same goes for Pendrith, who jumped to twenty fifth within the DataGolf world rankings with a profession yr. It's the choice for Hughes over potentially higher talents like Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor that’s so hard to make. Both Hadwin and Taylor have struggled badly in recent months, so I get it, but Taylor is a killer with two wins as an enormous boy on the 2024 Phoenix Open and 2023 Canadian Open, until absolute chaos in the summertime. That hurts. (Leaving out Australian Cam Davis is the appropriate move. His beautiful win in Detroit was more of an outlier.) —

Weir considered plenty of aspects when choosing his captain. Still, Canada's home-court nature and emphasis on recent form appear to have dominated his decision-making process. Of Weir's captain selections, the three Canadians will enjoy playing on familiar turf in front of a supportive crowd. Hughes – who finished fifteenth within the international team rankings – was notably not included within the 2022 squad. He can also be known to welcome leadership roles and needs to be a fantastic fit within the team room. Pendrith and Conners got the nod, seemingly ahead of Hadwin and Taylor, who’re perhaps the better-known and more fiery Canadians. The alternative showed that Weir prioritized consistency and up to date tournament results. Then there's Kim: He brought a memorable heat to the 2022 Games and was little doubt a natural for the energy within the locker room. Plus, Weir specifically mentioned Kim's putting, which has been shaky of late but appears to be improving with a putter change. Bezuidenhout has snuck into the FedEx top 30 and put together an underrated season, and Lee has emerged as among the finest drivers on the PGA Tour and established himself as a transparent fan favorite. Overall, there aren't too many surprises here, other than the curveball from Hughes and Davis being omitted for No. 8 within the rankings. Weir's picks are strong and represent a deliberate, multifaceted strategy. —

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Celts

In his first press conference for the reason that Celtics won their long-awaited 18th championship last month, head coach Joe Mazzulla began his remarks by praising the various players and staff in Boston's organization who laid the inspiration for the 2023-24 squad's eventual triumph.

“I think the main thing that's really been on my mind throughout this process is you can't lose sight of the people who came before us,” Mazzulla said. “And I want to make sure that everyone who worked for the Celtics, who played for the Celtics who didn't win, knows that their work and what they did didn't go unnoticed or have no impact on where we are today.”

When reflecting on Mazzulla's comments, several former Celtics come to mind. Former mainstays like Marcus Smart and Isaiah Thomas played key roles in rebuilding Boston's position as a contender over time.

In conversation with Noa Dalzell from SB Nation in Las VegasThomas was grateful for Mazzulla's comments and said he was happy with the role he played in helping the Celtics regain their status as NBA champions.

“I understand that I was a stepping stone in the right direction,” Thomas said. “It's still a great feeling. Even though I'm not part of their championship team, I helped get them to where they are today. I will always love the city of Boston. I love the organization and am very grateful for the love they have shown me.”

Thomas, 35, remains to be a valued figure in Boston for his commitment to the Celtics and his rise to stardom on a team in transition from 2014 to 2017. In his final 12 months with Boston in 2016-17, Thomas averaged 28.9 points per game and finished fifth in voting for NBA MVP that season.