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Rich Rodriguez is still WVU's third all-time winning coach in program history, even after 17 years away from the program. West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez reacts after a fourth quarter score against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl football game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 2, 2006. However, nearly two decades later, the prodigal son returns to his alma mater, per ESPN's Pete Thamel, after serving as a head coach at three different schools. Rodriguez becomes the first Mountaineer coach since William F. Kern to serve two separate terms as the WVU head coach. Rodriguez, a former player for the Mountaineers, spent seven seasons as the head football coach of his alma mater, going 60-26 in that stretch. He left for other opportunities during the 2007 and had never returned to coach in his home state. Rodriguez replaces Neal Brown, who was fired on Dec. 1. Rodriguez has spent the last three seasons leading the Jacksonville State Gamecocks. The Gamecocks, under Rodriguez's watch, went 27-10 and all three being nine-win seasons. Jacksonville State claimed Conference USA supremacy this past weekend after defeating Western Kentucky, 52-12, finishing 9-4 under the West Virginia native's watch this season. West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez greets quarterback Patrick White (5) after White ran for a touchdown against Cincinnati in the second quarter of a college football game, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, in Cincinnati. The Grant Town, Marion County native got his coaching start at Salem University in Harrison County where he spent one season and went 2-8. WVU football: Wren Baker ‘casting a wide net’ in coaching search Doug Skaff Jr.: The case for Rich Rodriguez (Opinion) He then went on to spend seven seasons at Glenville State College where he finished 43-28-2 and two appearances in the NAIA Division 1 title game. Rodriguez's best season with the Pioneers came in 1993 when he led them to a 10-3 record with quarterback Jed Drenning at quarterback. Georgia coach Mark Richt, left, congratulates West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez following the Sugar Bowl football game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 2, 2006. West Virginia beat Georgia 38-35. Rodriguez's best tenure as a head coach came when he led the Mountaineers from 2001-07. WVU won 11 games in 2005 and 2006, finishing with BCS bowl victories against Georgia (Sugar Bowl) and Georgia Tech (Gator Bowl). Marshall coach Mark Snyder, left, and West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez embrace following a college football game Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in Huntington, W.Va. West Virginia won 48-23. His only losing season in Morgantown was his first season after veteran coach Don Nehlen retired. Rodriguez played three seasons for Nehlen as a defensive back in the 1980s. Rodriguez's first Mountaineer team went 3-8 in 2001. The following season WVU won nine games and earned a spot in the Continental Tire Bowl. West Virginia's best season under Rodriguez's watch came in 2007 when the Mountaineers were ranked No. 2 in the nation with a spot in the BCS title game on the line. However, a 13-9 home loss on Dec. 1 to the Pitt Panthers destroyed the Mountaineers championship aspirations. West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez, right, gives a high five to kicker Pat McAfee (40) after they beat Maryland 31-14 in a college football game, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, in College Park, Md. Fifteen days later, Rodriguez informed his team that he was leaving for the vacant position at Michigan. A day later, he was introduced as the Wolverines new head coach. The West Virginia native's tenure in Ann Arbor was short lived as he coached Michigan for three seasons, going 15-22 overall. The former Mountaineer was fired and moved into a brief analyst role with CBS Sports. Like his time in Michigan, it was short lived as he was introduced as the Arizona Wildcats head coach in Nov. 2011. Rodriguez found the winning recipe again with the Wildcats as his first four seasons with Arizona were winning ones, including a 10-4 season in 2014. He spent six seasons in Tucson before being fired in 2018 after a three-month internal investigation regarding his actions in the workplace. Rodriguez went on to serve on the staffs at Ole Miss, Hawaii and Louisiana-Monroe before being tabbed the new coach of Jacksonville State in 2021. Overall, Rodriguez has a record of 190-129-2 and six bowl victories in his coaching career. West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez, center, talks with his players during the second half of a college football game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 in Morgantown, W.Va. West Virginia won, 38-13.

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FREIBURG, Germany (AP) — Freiburg survived a late comeback to beat Wolfsburg 3-2 and move into fifth place in the Bundesliga on Friday. The sides started the day equal on points and Wolfsburg had won its last five games in the league and cup. But Lukas Kübler scored an opportunist opener three minutes before the break and added a second with his head six minutes into the second half to put Freiburg in the driving seat. Michael Gregoritsch added the third in the 62nd. Jonas Wind came off the bench to score his third goal in two games and Mattias Svanberg cut the deficit seven minutes from time as Wolfsburg desperately looked for a way into the game. But it was too late, and Freiburg moved above Wolfsburg to fifth place on the table and equal on points with Leipzig, which has a game in hand. The match was an important one for two teams vying for a Champions League place next year. Although Bayern Munich have a six-point advantage over second-placed Eintracht Frankfurt, only eight points separate the next nine clubs. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerBayan al-Hinnawi, who spent years behind bars in Bashar al-Assad's Syria, joined crowds in the heartland of the Druze minority on Friday to celebrate the president's fall, "a dream" come true for the former prisoner. Hundreds of people descended on Sweida's main square, singing and clapping in jubilation, just days after Islamist-led rebels took the capital Damascus, sending Assad fleeing. The Druze-majority city in Syria's south has been a focal point of renewed anti-government demonstrations over the past year and a half. On Friday, residents waved Syria's pre-Assad flag of white, green and black with three stars, and raised olive branches in a sign of peace. Some of them have lost family members during the anti-government uprising that began in 2011 and spiralled into civil war. Others, like Hinnawi, had languished in prison under the Assad family's five-decade rule. "It was a dream," said 77-year-old Hinnawi of Assad's ouster. Decades ago, a few years after Hafez al-Assad seized power -- which he later handed over to his son Bashar -- a 23-year-old Hinnawi was jailed. He was released 17 years later. The grey-haired man said he had "dreamed that one day the regime would fall", but did not believe that he would live to see the day. "It's a wonderful sight. Nobody could have imagined that this could happen", he said. But his joy was incomplete, remembering the many who have died in jail. "I wish that those who died when I was imprisoned in Mazzeh or Saydnaya could see this scene," said Hinnawi. Since Assad's fall, rebel forces and residents have broken into both detention centres, freeing political prisoners and searching for long-missing loved ones. Activists and rights groups say the Assad government tortured and abused inmates at both facilities. "I got out when I was 40, I missed out of my whole life," said Hinnawi, who served in the Syrian army before being jailed. Recalling torture behind bars, he said that "no oppressor in history has done what they did to us." Since Sunday, the ousted government's security forces were nowhere to be seen in Sweida, and the office of Assad's Baath party has been abandoned, as have army checkpoints on the road to Damascus. Local armed men are present, but not the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which spearheaded the rebel offensive against Assad. Siham Zein al-Din, who lost her son in 2014 after he defected from the national army to join rebel fighters, said he had "sacrificed his life... for freedom, for dignity". The family was still searching for Khaldun's remains, said his 60-year-old mother. Like her son, some members of the Druze community took up arms against Assad's forces during the war. The Druze, who also live in Lebanon, Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, make up about three percent of Syria's population, around 700,000 people. Beyond defending themselves from attacks in the areas where they live, Syria's Druze largely stayed on the sidelines of the civil war. Many managed to avoid compulsory conscription since 2011. Residents of Sweida have long complained of discrimination and the lack of basic services. Many buildings in the city are constructed from black volcanic stone that can be found in the area, and its roads have fallen into disrepair. Sheikh Marwan Hussein Rizk, a religious leader, said that "Sweida province has been marginalised" for decades, with most of its residents living in poverty. But, surrounded by the joyful protesters, Rizk said better days may be coming. "Today, we look to the future and ask for a helping hand... Our hand is extended to all Syrians." Next to him, resident Hussein Bondok held up a poster of his brother Nasser, a journalist and opposition activist who was last heard from in 2014 when he was arrested. Bondok, 54, said he believes his brother was likely killed under torture in one of Damascus's prisons. Nasser struggled for freedom, Bondok said. "I want to congratulate him now, because the seeds he had planted with his brothers-in-arms has become a tree." lk/ami/itMysterious Drone-like Orb Sightings in Victor Valley Raise Concerns

If you've been keeping track of automotive news in the past year or so, you know that U.S. Automaker Chrysler is in a tough spot. Its parent company, Stellantis, continues to face serious financial struggles, and while Stellantis claims that it has no plans to kill off or sell Chrysler, one has to imagine that could change if times continue to be tough for the company. Of course, this is hardly the first time Chrysler itself has faced such troubles, with the brand narrowly surviving the 2008 financial crisis through a merger with Fiat. However, when the company faced financial troubles in the early 1980s, Chrysler was ultimately able to save itself by releasing a successful run of new cars that were essentially based on the same platform. Those vehicles would be dubbed K-Cars in Chrysler's marketing materials, with the company boasting that the vehicles were the product of years of development, as well as a rash of technological advancements and some serious design ingenuity. Upon their 1981 release, gearheads and everyday consumers alike were no doubt curious about what the K in K-Cars actually stood for. More than 40 years later, many people still do not know what that K actually stands for, and we'd wager that one and all will be a touch disappointed to learn it doesn't really stand for anything. Instead, K is just the letter designation assigned by Chrysler to the platform on which the vehicles were built. [Featured image by IFCAR via Wikimedia Commons | Cropped and scaled | Public Domain] For a point of reference, the platform and vehicles that directly preceded K-Cars in the Chrysler lineup were called L-Cars. Despite the ' alphabetical designations, the K-Car was far from a step backward for Chrysler, with the company and then boss, Lee Iacocca, instead eyeing the vehicles as a necessary pivot from the smaller L-Car towards a line of fuel-efficient, front-wheel drive mid-size builds that focused on performance and comfort. Over its production run, the K-Car platform would prove both inexpensive to make and incredibly versatile, with Chrysler shaping and reshaping it for more than a decade to produce builds of every shape and size across several of its then subsidiaries, including Dodge and the now defunct Plymouth badge . When the platform debuted in 1981, there were just a pair of options available on the K-Car platform in the Plymouth Reliant and the Dodge Aries. Once those vehicles hit showroom floors, both builds were popular with consumers, reportedly accounting for 36% of vehicles sold under the greater Chrysler shingle. Those sales figures continued to grow over the ensuing years and eventually led Chrysler back from the brink of financial ruin. Emboldened by the success of the K-Car, bosses at Chrysler Corporation continued to lean on the platform in several other builds, including the Chrysler Le Baron, the Dodge 400 and 600 models, and even the revival-ready Chrysler Executive Limousine . The K-Car platform also served as the base for the O.G. Dodge Caravan. Successes aside, Chrysler eventually moved on from the platform in the mid-1990s, with the turbo-charged Dodge Spirit and Plymouth Acclaim closing out the line in 1995.Jimmy Spithill introduces his new Red Bull Italy SailGP Team

Kuwait City, Dec 22 (PTI) India and Kuwait on Sunday vowed to enhance counter-terror cooperation while unequivocally condemning terrorism in all its forms, including cross-border terrorist activities. Ways to deal with the challenge of terrorism figured in talks between the two sides during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Gulf nation. "The two sides unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross-border terrorism and called for disrupting of terrorism financing networks and safe havens, and dismantling of terror infrastructure," a joint statement said. The reference to cross-border terrorism comes amid Pakistan's support to terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. On Sunday, Modi held extensive talks with Emir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Crown Prince Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah with a focus on giving new momentum to the overall bilateral ties. The joint statement said the two sides discussed ways and means to promote cooperation in cybersecurity, including the prevention of the use of cyberspace for terrorism, radicalisation and for disturbing social harmony. It said it was agreed to enhance cooperation in counter-terror operations, information and intelligence sharing and exchange experiences and best practices. "Expressing appreciation of their ongoing bilateral cooperation in the area of security, both sides agreed to enhance cooperation in counter-terrorism operations, information and intelligence sharing, developing and exchanging experiences, best practices and technologies, capacity building and to strengthen cooperation in law enforcement, anti-money laundering," according to the statement. Following talks between Modi and the Emir, the two sides elevated their ties to a strategic partnership. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)India, Kuwait unequivocally condemn terrorism in all its forms