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College football's Hawaii Bowl highlights slowest sports day of 2024

Sports fans can breathe easy on Christmas Eve as there will only be one game played on Tuesday before a full buffet of games on Christmas Day.

College football aficionados will be happy to know there is one bowl game on the slate. The Hawaii Bowl between South Florida and San Jose State. The game will start at 8 p.m. ET.

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The Bulls finished 6-6 on the season and earned a second straight bowl game under head coach Alex Golesh. They had the same record last season before entering and winning the Boca Raton Bowl over Syracuse, 45-0.

The Spartans finished the season 7-5 overall in Ken Niumatalolo’s first season at the helm. The team is on a three-bowl-game losing streak. They lost the Hawaii Bowl last season and the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in 2022. The Spartans also lost the Arizona Bowl in 2020.

San Jose State hasn’t won a bowl game since the 2015 Cure Bowl under Ron Caragher.

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Sports fans looking for some action should take it all in and be able to get some sleep before opening presents and starting Christmas Day at noon ET with NBA games.

The NFL also has games on Christmas Day for the second straight year – a two-game menu featuring the Kansas City Chiefs against the Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 p.m. ET and the Houston Texans hosting the Baltimore Ravens at 4:30 p.m. ET.

College football will return on Dec. 26 and the NHL will be back on Dec. 27.

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Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger, 26, dies in avalanche in Switzerland

Sophie Hediger, a Swiss snowboarder who represented the country in the 2022 Winter Olympics, died following an avalanche at a ski resort, officials said Tuesday. She was 26.

The incident occurred Monday at the Arosa resort in Switzerland, the country’s ski federation said in a statement.

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"We are stunned and in our thoughts with Sophie's family, to whom we express our deepest condolences," Swiss-Ski CEO Walter Reusser said in a statement.

"With the tragic death of Sophie Hediger, a dark shadow has been placed over the Christmas days for the Swiss ski family. We are immeasurably sad. We will keep Sophie an honorable memory," he added.

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Hediger was a participant in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She competed in snowboard cross and in the mixed team snowboard cross. She failed to qualify for the quarterfinals in the singles event and her team lost in the mixed event in the semifinals.

Hediger bounced back in 2023 when she won a gold medal in the FISU World University Games in Lake Placid, New York. She was one of three Swiss participants who won gold medals.

She then achieved two World Cup podium finishes, including a second-place finish in St. Mortiz in January.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown makes his stance on raw milk consumption clear

Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown weighed in Tuesday on the debate between the risks and benefits of raw milk.

He encouraged his followers not to drink it.

"Please don't drink raw milk," Brown wrote in a post on X. "It's filthy. Yours sincerely. (And) Infectious Diseases (too)."

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Brown’s stance on raw milk appeared to break from that of President-elect Trump’s nominee for the top health job in the U.S., Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Both Brown and Kennedy supported Trump during the presidential election.

The former Pittsburgh Steelers player spoke at a rally for Trump in the days before Trump’s presidential election win over Vice President Kamala Harris. Kennedy dropped out of the race and backed Trump.

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The president-elect named Kennedy his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary after the win. Kennedy has said in the past he only drinks raw milk and criticized agriculture departments for cracking down on the product.

But raw milk has been blamed for the spate of bird flu deaths among animals in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued an order earlier this month that all raw (unpasteurized) milk must be tested for bird flu.

Nearly 4.4% of U.S. adults report that they drink raw milk at least once each year. About 1% of adults say they consume raw milk each week, according to a 2022 FDA study.

Raw milk advocates say there are health benefits from it as well as an overall better taste.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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