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With little at stake, Packers and Vikings take aim at goals Field Level MediaJanuary 2, 2026 at 3:22 AM 0 Green Bay Packers running back Emanuel Wilson (23) scores a touchdown against Minnesota Vikings linebacker Dallas Turner (15) in the third quarter during their football game Sunday, November 23, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORKWisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images) A pair of division rivals have differing agendas as they prepare for their regularseason finale.

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A pair of division rivals have differing agendas as they prepare for their regular-season finale.

The Green Bay Packers want to get healthy heading into the playoffs, where they already have clinched a wild-card berth. This weekend's game will do nothing to change their No. 7 NFC playoff seed.

Meanwhile, the Minnesota Vikings want to put a final stamp on this season as they look toward 2026. They see the final game of this season as an opportunity for players to make a case for prominent roles next season.

So, in the big picture, Sunday's game between Green Bay (9-6-1) and Minnesota (8-8) in Minneapolis means little in the standings but could mean a lot for both teams and their futures, be it short term or long term.

"We're still in that wildly significant time where any and all reps and experience (matter)," said Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell, whose team is on a four-game winning streak. "It's another home game at U.S. Bank Stadium. All those things are important."

Nothing is more important than health for the Packers.

Green Bay has no shot at the NFC North division title after the Chicago Bears claimed that last week. The Packers know they will open the playoffs on the road next weekend, with the opponent and starting time to be determined.

Packers quarterback Jordan Love cleared the league's concussion protocol, but coach Matt LaFleur announced Thursday that third-stringer Clayton Tune will start instead. Backup Malik Willis, who has started with Love out, also is dealing with shoulder and hamstring injuries.

Tune has made 14 appearances in the NFL and is 0-1 as a starter. His lone start came in 2023 as a member of the Arizona Cardinals.

The dual injuries prompted Green Bay to sign quarterback Desmond Ridder to its practice squad on Wednesday. Ridder, 26, has not played this season but has appeared in 25 games with 18 starts across parts of three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and Las Vegas Raiders.

LaFleur said the quarterback plan for Sunday is a work in progress.

"Clayton Tune's going to start, and then as far as the backup, we're kind of working through that process right now," LaFleur said. "Malik's dealing with a hamstring. Obviously just got Desmond Ridder in here. We're kind of taking it a day at a time."

There is far less indecision in Minnesota, where J.J. McCarthy is set to make his 10th start in his first season of NFL action. McCarthy missed all of last season because of a knee injury. An ankle injury cost him five games early in the 2025 campaign, and he sat out another contest while in concussion protocol.

McCarthy was sidelined last week due to a hairline fracture in his throwing hand, but he returned to full practice on Thursday.

The 22-year-old has shown flashes of his ability this season, but he also has struggled with consistency. He has passed for 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his first nine games, and the regular-season finale could help the Vikings determine how much competition they want to bring in to challenge for the starting role in 2026.

McCarthy's top target is Justin Jefferson, who needs 53 receiving yards to reach the 1,000-yard mark for the sixth straight season. Jefferson also is looking for his first touchdown since Nov. 2.

Packers running back Josh Jacobs is 71 rushing yards shy of a 1,000-yard campaign, but he has dealt with a knee injury in recent weeks and could be a candidate to rest. He was a limited participant in practice on Wednesday. Backup running back Emanuel Wilson has 452 rushing yards and three touchdowns on the season.

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Indiana looks like real deal in lopsided Rose Bowl beatdown of Alabama Kevin Skiver, USA TODAY NETWORKJanuary 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM 0 Indiana looks like real deal in lopsided Rose Bowl beatdown of Alabama Pasadena, CA — It's the mark of an overmatched team to use gimmicks to search for a seam. In that sense, old money Alabama was clearly overmatched against new money Indiana at an overcast Rose Bowl on Thursday, Jan. 1. The two teams' philosophies looked diametrically opposed in the first half.

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Pasadena, CA — It's the mark of an overmatched team to use gimmicks to search for a seam. In that sense, old money Alabama was clearly overmatched against new money Indiana at an overcast Rose Bowl on Thursday, Jan. 1.

The two teams' philosophies looked diametrically opposed in the first half. Where Indiana used a methodical offensive attack to move the ball north-to-south against the Crimson Tide, Alabama leaned on gadgetry to try find cracks in the last undefeated FBS team in the country. It failed miserably, with Alabama falling to Indiana 38-3 in a completely lopsided College Football Playoff matchup.

It was a browbeating so thorough, by the end would-be Alabama tacklers looked completely disinterested in bringing down Indiana ball-carriers.

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Alabama's shenanigans came to a peak with Indiana up 3-0 with 12:44 in the second quarter. On its own 34-yard line, Alabama went up to the line of scrimmage on a fourth-and-1 with Daniel Hill lining up in the wildcat.

Indiana responded with a timeout.

The Crimson Tide subsequently lined up to punt with Ty Simpson as an upback, with Simpson sprinting under center to try to spook Indiana into jumping offsides.

When that didn't work, Alabama took a timeout.

Instead of cutting his losses, however, Kalen DeBoer again sent the offense out, again with Hill in the shotgun. Hill pitched the ball to Germie Bernard in motion on a jet sweep before Indiana swarmed him short of the line to gain, giving the Hoosiers the ball on the Alabama 34-yard line and leaving Crimson Tide fans across the country muttering, "Too cute" under their collective breath.

Indiana capitalized on the opportunity, with Charlie Becker hauling in a 21-yard touchdown pass from Fernando Mendoza on the ensuing possession to procure a 10-0 lead and the first Indiana touchdown in Rose Bowl history.

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"Just felt like it was going to be one of those games where you gotta take advantage of possessions," DeBoer said of the choice to go for it after the game. He later said the choice to hard count before calling a timeout was to buy some time. "I try not to be reckless. I try to be aggressive. … Did the punt slash try to hard count, just give me a little more time to think about what my decision would be. Give some of the guys on the sideline a talk through the play-call. And so I really felt like … I was committed to going for it to try to make it happen."

The sequence took approximately six minutes of real-life time and felt like a microcosm of how both teams approached the CFP quarterfinal matchup. Alabama desperately felt like it had to make something happen. Indiana was ready with a surgical counterstrike.

That's the hallmark of a Curt Cignetti team. Despite his lamentations about poor practices and the challenges of traveling to Southern California, which Cignetti told media members after the game was a message to his team through the television, Indiana showed up when it mattered and never looked off kilter in any phase outside of a poor first series.

When it was 10-0 and Alabama began to put together a drive in answer to Indiana's touchdown, it ended with a shot that left Ty Simpson shaken, causing him to fumble away what was to that point Alabama's best scoring opportunity. Indiana held Alabama to 93 yards in the first half, including 64 passing yards, and was dominant at the line of scrimmage.

The second half opened with much of the same. A screen pass to Ryan Williams was blown up for a loss of two to put Alabama behind the sticks. Then another screen pass with more movement than substance to Josh Cuevas fell incomplete. On third-and-12, Simpson checked down and Alabama punted again, with the Tide's pre-snap window dressing failing once again.

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Entering this game, teams with a bye in the 12-team CFP were 0-6. So how did Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza and company avoid the hangover?

"Coach Cignetti did a fantastic job with the trickledown effect of really making sure there was no complacency," Mendoza told reporters after the game. "Because you have 26 days off, it's very, very tough, especially on the first drive as an offense — myself included — I think we got off to a slow start.

"And then other than that, once we got our feet wet we had the ball rolling and got back to playing Indiana brand of football. And so I think it was great overcoming that challenge as a team having such a long time off, but I think we overcame that challenge and it showed on the field today."

There is no way to twist it: Alabama didn't lose the Rose Bowl. Indiana won it. And did so in dominant fashion.

The Hoosiers entered this game as the better team, and left it in another league. Mendoza vindicated a more disparate Heisman vote than many expected with a nearly flawless game, going 14-for-16 with 194 yards and three touchdowns. Defensive coordinator Kane Wommack tried to dial up pressure, but Mendoza broke the pocket and had multiple scrambles that kept Indiana on schedule.

In that regard, sometimes just being on time is the difference. Alabama's inability to run the ball caught up to it on one of college football's great stages, with the Crimson Tide finding themselves behind the sticks time and time again. Alabama was just 3-of-11 on third down, whereas Indiana was 9-of-14 thanks in large part to avoiding negative plays.

The game ended with a perfect summation of its tenor: On fourth-and-4 at the two-minute mark, with Alabama about to get the ball back down 35, the Crimson Tide jumped offsides to let Indiana take a knee to kill the clock.

There is no one stat that explains Indiana's dismantling of the Crimson Tide. It was a beatdown, top to bottom, and the score reflected it. Now, Indiana goes into a semifinal matchup against Oregon in a highly anticipated rematch with sky-high expectations. It lived up to its No. 1 seed, shook off the curse of CFP rest, and legitimately looked like the best team in country.

So what will its follow-up performance look like?

"Well I'm not gonna assume anything like, we've bounced back from a number of big wins and we'll be fine," Cignetti said. "Because it's process. So we'll have a very big challenge ahead of us next week, it's very hard to beat a really good football team twice. There's no doubt about that."

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Vikings' J.J. McCarthy (hand) resumes full practice activity Field Level MediaJanuary 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM 0 Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy (9) reacts during a game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium, Dec 21, 2025, East Rutherford, NJ, USA (Yannick Peterhans / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images) Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy was a full participant at practice on Thursday, giving him a strong chance of starting Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.

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Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy was a full participant at practice on Thursday, giving him a strong chance of starting Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.

McCarthy began the week of practice limited thanks to a hairline fracture in his throwing hand he sustained in Week 16 against the New York Giants.

That injury kept him out of the Vikings' 23-10 Christmas Day win vs. the Detroit Lions. Max Brosmer got the start at quarterback and threw for 51 yards.

McCarthy's participation Sunday would be something of a surprise given the game's stakes. Minnesota has already been eliminated from the playoffs at 8-8, while Green Bay is locked into the NFC's No. 7 seed at 9-6-1.

Earlier in the week, Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell was non-committal about McCarthy's status, taking a wait-and-see approach, but he did express interest in having his starter back.

"I'd love to get him one more game, for sure," O'Connell said.

The second-year player who missed his entire rookie season due to injury has gone 5-4 in nine starts this season, throwing for 1,450 yards with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.

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LSU football coach Kiffin attends Tigers' women's hoop game as Ole Miss faces Georgia at Sugar Bowl January 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM 0 1 / 2Kentucky LSU BasketballLSU head coach Kim Mulkey, right, brings head football coach Lane Kiffin, left, out onto the court in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Peter Forest) BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin attended the No.

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1 / 2Kentucky LSU BasketballLSU head coach Kim Mulkey, right, brings head football coach Lane Kiffin, left, out onto the court in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Peter Forest)

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin attended the No. 5 Tigers' women's basketball game on Thursday night as his former team — Mississippi — was taking on Georgia in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game at the Sugar Bowl.

Kiffin and women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey emerged from the tunnel holding hands before the Tigers faced No. 11 Kentucky. Kiffin and Mulkey's appearance on the court drew a roar from the crowd, and Mulkey raised her left hand to point at Kiffin while the pair responded by raising their joined hands in the air.

Kiffin's appearance at the LSU game came at just about the same time as his old team, Ole Miss, was kicking off its CFP game.

Kiffin, after accepting the head coaching job at LSU, said that he wanted to lead the Rebels through the CFP. But, Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter denied his request "despite the team also asking him to allow me to keep coaching them so they could better maintain their high level of performance," Kiffin said in a social media post.

Kiffin's annual salary at Ole Miss was $9 million. LSU offered Kiffin a seven-year contract with an average annual salary of around $13 million and pledged to ensure the football program has ample financial backing to pay players.

Kiffin is taking over for Brian Kelly, who was fired midseason after a 49-25 loss to No. 3 Texas A&M dropped the team to 5-3 overall, 2-3 in the Southeastern Conference.

Kelly went 34-14 with the Tigers, even taking LSU to the 2022 SEC title game. But LSU did not qualify for the College Football Playoff in his first three seasons.

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Mickey Rourke Served with Notice to Pay $59,100 in Back Rent or Vacate Home Within 3 days Natalia SenanayakeJanuary 2, 2026 at 12:12 AM 0 Paul Archuleta/Getty Mickey Rourke in June 2022 Mickey Rourke was served with a notice to pay his landlord the $59,100 he allegedly owes in pastdue rent on his L.A.

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Mickey Rourke was served with a notice to pay his landlord the $59,100 he allegedly owes in past-due rent on his L.A. home or vacate the premises

After Rourke allegedly failed to comply with the terms of the notice, his landlord requested the back rent he claims Rourke owes as well as compensation for attorney fees

His landlord is also requesting to terminate Rourke's rental agreement on the property, which the actor started leasing in March 2025, per documents obtained by PEOPLE

Mickey Rourke allegedly owes his landlord nearly $60,000 in past-due rent on his L.A. home, according to a complaint filed on Dec. 29 and obtained by PEOPLE.

The 73-year-old actor and former boxer, whose real name is Philip Andre Rourke Jr., was served a notice on Dec. 18 to pay the $59,100 he allegedly owes his landlord, Eric Goldie, in back rent or vacate the property within three days, according to the filing.

The notice, which Rourke allegedly "failed to comply with the requirements of," per the complaint, was posted on the premises and mailed to him as he was not home at the time to receive it, the documents claim.

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Per the filing, Rourke started leasing the property in March 2025 with the monthly rent initially starting at $5,200. The rent was later increased to $7,000 a month.

Goldie is requesting the $59,100 Rourke allegedly owes in past-due rent as well as compensation for attorney fees, the documents state. He is also asking for the "forfeiture" of their rental agreement.

PEOPLE reached out to a representative for Rourke, as well as Goldie's attorney, but did not immediately receive a response.

According to the property's listing on Zillow, the nearly 1,600-square-foot home includes three bedrooms and two full bathrooms.

The 1926 build is described as a "nicely upgraded Spanish bungalow" with an open floor plan and access to a "grassy" backyard.

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Rourke began renting the property shortly before he decided to pursue legal action against Celebrity Big Brother UK over an alleged pay dispute following his controversial exit from the show in April.

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At the time, Rourke's manager, Kimberly Hines, addressed his early departure from the show in a statement shared with PEOPLE, and claimed the series had disrespected the star by "publicly embarrassing him" and refusing to pay him his dues.

"There's no question that when Big Brother booked Mickey Rourke, they were fully aware of both his public persona and how it aligned with his Hollywood rebel image," Hines wrote at the time, adding that the show knew his presence would be "explosive, controversial and attention-grabbing — and that's exactly what they got, and more."

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The Inauguration Style of New York City's New First Lady Brooke BobbJanuary 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM 0 The Inauguration Style of New York City's New First Lady ANGELA WEISS At the stroke of midnight on the first day of the new year, Zohran Mamdani officially became the first Muslim and South Asian mayor of New York City.

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At the stroke of midnight on the first day of the new year, Zohran Mamdani officially became the first Muslim and South Asian mayor of New York City. Joined by a small group of close family and campaign members in the City Hall subway station, Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, who is also one of the city's youngest mayors to ever be elected, was sworn into office by State Attorney General Letitia James, joined by his wife, Rama Duwaji, an artist and illustrator whose chic style has quickly become a point of focus of Mamdani's run and his win–a signifier of a "out with the old, in with the new" mentality. Mamdani, dressed in a suit and printed tie, used his grandfather's Quran for the ceremony, held proudly by Duwaji who was dressed in a tailored black coat, culotte-style shorts, and a pair of boots from cool shoe label Miista, similar styles of which have been worn by the likes of other women in her generation like Charli XCX and Kendall Jenner. Her earrings were chandelier style and gold.

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To greet the public after the ceremony, Duwaji changed into a chocolate brown, A-line coat with a funnel neck and faux fur trim. She swapped her gold earrings for a pair that were silver, sculpted into the shape of a thick tusk. Both of the First Lady's looks were ones you might see someone in downtown New York wearing for a dinner with creative friends at a Manhattan hotspot, or to an independent gallery opening in Tribeca. Maybe she's meeting a date at a natural wine bar in Brooklyn. To analyze Duwaji's fashion is to say something about how a large chunk of urban-dwelling, current generation (she is Gen-Z) New Yorkers like to dress. They favor a mostly-black palette, crop their tops, buy a lot of vintage, and wear, like the Miistas, sharp little boots made for kicking through the political bullshit of our time. Duwaji is dressing like herself, she has been throughout the campaign and the election, but she is also smart and keenly aware that, no matter how staid a lot of political fashion cues may be, the cues still exist, and, especially in the age of social media, they matter.

When Mamdani won the election, Duwaji, as a sign of support, chose to wear a laser-cut denim top by the independent Palestinian designer Zeid Hijazi, and she has since posed for an editorial in New York Magazine's The Cut, wearing several independent and local New York City brands including Diotima (she attended the fashion show back in September). She dresses radically different than first ladies who have come before her, which feels fitting for the incoming administration that has promised to bring revolutionary change to New York City. Gone are the strict dress codes and the boring dresses and pantsuits of yore. Her fashion, and her approach to dressing, is entirely owned by her and that is what is inspiring. At the start of the 250th anniversary of this country in 2026, when political hope has been hard to come by over the last few years, a little inspiration can go a long, long way, even in manners of style.

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Zach Bryan gets married, shares first look at wedding: 'Tougher than the rest' Ryan ColemanJanuary 1, 2026 at 11:40 PM 0 Samantha Leonard/Instagram; Zach Bryan/Instagram Zach Bryan and Samantha Leonard Zach Bryan is officially a married man! The "Something in Orange" singer tied the knot with Samantha Leonard, his girlfriend of just a few months, in a lavish ceremony in San Sebastian, Spain, on Wednesday.

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Zach Bryan is officially a married man!

The "Something in Orange" singer tied the knot with Samantha Leonard, his girlfriend of just a few months, in a lavish ceremony in San Sebastian, Spain, on Wednesday.

Fans suspected as much after a video circulated on New Year's Eve showing the country star in black shades carrying Leonard, clad in a frothy wedding gown and wearing her own black shades, through a crowd of cheering onlookers over cobblestone streets and into a dark green convertible with a "Just Married" banner fanned out across the trunk.

Now Bryan has confirmed their nuptials with an official wedding portrait, which he shared to Instagram with the caption, "Tougher than the rest."

The couple look overjoyed in the photo, which again features Bryan holding his bride in his arms, her elegant gown spilling down outside the frame. The second slide in Bryan's carousel shows Bryan and his band decked out in tuxedos and playing the Bruce Springsteen song he quoted in his caption.

"Well, 'round here, baby / I learned you get what you can get," Bryan croons in the video, channeling the Boss in his 1987 Tunnel of Love era. "So if you're rough enough for love / Honey, I'm tougher than the rest."

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Bryan and Leonard have been dating for only a handful of months. The country star was romantically linked with Hannah Duncan in March 2025 and went through a highly publicized breakup with Barstool Sports podcaster Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia late last year.

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Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia in 2024

The 29-year-old musician confirmed their breakup in October 2024, a little over a year after they got together. A month later, LaPaglia accused Bryan of emotional abuse, alleged that he makes his exes sign nondisclosure agreements to prevent them from speaking about him, and said she's "scared of him."

Bryan and Leonard first sparked relationship rumors back in July, when Leonard shared a photo to her Instagram of her with Bryan at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

The country singer caused a stir in September after scaling a fence at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Okla., during a heated exchange with Gavin Adcock, and a viral video showed him baiting the fellow crooner, saying "Hey, do you want to fight like a man?" and telling him to "come open the gate."

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