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New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is still getting mileage out of Cam Newton's diss. The two engaged in somewhat of a back-and-forth ahead of Week 12 after Newton questioned whether the Patriots are actually a good team.

Maye's response to that: "I don't even know what show[Newton is] on."

That feud apparently continued Sunday, as Maye may have taken another shot at Newton. Prior to the game, Maye was approached by wideout Stefon Diggs for a pregame handshake. Diggs walked up and then performed Newton's Superman celebration in front of Maye, who shook his head at Diggs before finishing their pregame handshake.

Maye and Diggs working out their handshake 🤝NEvsCIN -- 1pm ET on CBS/Paramount+https://t.co/HkKw7uXVntpic.twitter.com/66P8V2VG6B

— NFL (@NFL)November 23, 2025

During his career, Newton used the gesture — in which he mimics Clark Kent opening up his shirt to reveal the Superman logo — as his signature touchdown celebration. Newton hit that celebration many times during his 11-year NFL career.

The celebration became so popular ... that even Maye once performed it during a game. After scoring a rushing touchdown against the Carolina Panthers in September, Maye mimicked Newton's Superman move.

Maye spoke about the moment after the game, calling Newton his "favorite player growing up."

Drake Maye on his Cam Newton "Superman" celebration:"The energy he brought. I don't show much emotion probably need to show more. He played the position a different way than a lot of people do. Guys rallied around him...he was my favorite player growing up."@NBC10…pic.twitter.com/XsO8fZAfXw

— Kevin Moore (@KMooreTV)September 28, 2025

That last statement may no longer apply after Newton spoke critically of the Patriots, saying the team has played too easy a schedule. Newton called New England's success "fool's gold," predicting the Patriots would lose their first playoff game this season.

Maye, for obvious reasons, likely took offense to those comments. Thanks to his second-year emergence, the Patriots have turned into one of the best teams in the AFC. Maye has emerged as an MVP candidate, a sign that the team's breakout is real and sustainable.

While that is all true, Maye and the Patriots did feed into Newton's narrative a bit in Week 12. The Patriots struggled to put the Cincinnati Bengals away in the contest,narrowly winning 26-20. Maye turned in an average performance, throwing for 294 yards, a touchdown and an interception in the win.

The story of the 2025 Patriots has yet to be completed, but things are looking up for the franchise. Other than Maye's feud with Newton, there hasn't been too much for Patriots fans to complain about thus far.

Cincinnati Bengals wideout Tee Higgins was carted off the field in Week 12 after slamming his head on the ground while trying to make a catch ina tight lossto the New England Patriots. He was quickly ruled out for the rest of the contest due to a concussion.

The play occurred with under five minutes to play in the contest. With the Bengals trailing the Patriots 23-13, Joe Flacco tried to find Higgins deep down the sideline. The throw was high, causing Higgins to throw one hand in the air. Patriots defensive back Carlton Davis III ran into Higgins at that point, sending both men to the ground. As Higgins went down, he smacked his head on the turf.

He immediately laid motionless on the ground.

TEE HIGGINS INJURED ON THIS PLAY.pic.twitter.com/N9yiKHbXkv

— Aggregate Sports (@AggregateSports)November 23, 2025

After spending quite some time on the ground, Higgins was eventually helped up and placed on a cart before being driven off the field. He walked into the locker room under his own power when he arrived.

Tee Higgins goes into the Bengals locker room after being carted off. His head hit HARD on the turf while trying to catch a deep pass from Joe Flacco.pic.twitter.com/HTb4k8MUyj

— James Rapien (@JamesRapien)November 23, 2025

With Ja'Marr Chase suspended, Higgins was expected to play a bigger role than normal for the Bengals in Week 12. It was a tough matchup, as he was set to see Patriots standout Christian Gonzalez for the majority of the game. Higgins hauled in five catches for 31 yards before leaving the contest.

Following the injury, the Bengals managed to score a touchdown, cutting the lead to three. The Patriots responded with a field goal late, making it 26-20.

That gave Flacco and the Bengals a chance for some last-minute magic. Flacco drove the Bengals down the field with time running out, but had a fourth-and-10 throw knocked away with just 18 seconds remaining.

The Patriots regained possession after the play, took a knee and won the contest.

With Chase back in Week 13, the focus will now fall on Higgins. Given how the play looked in real time, and Higgins' reaction, it could take the wideout at least a week before he's ready to take the field again.

If he needs to miss a game, it would be a significant absence. The Bengals take on the division rival Baltimore Ravens on the final game of a Thanksgiving Day tripleheader.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Emanuel Wilson always believed he could make it in the NFL even while he was breaking into the league as an undrafted free agent from Division II Fort Valley State.

Given the opportunity to make his first career start Sunday, Wilson went out and proved to everyone else what he already knew.

Wilson rushed for a career-high 107 yards and two touchdowns while filling in for the injured Josh Jacobs to back up a dominating performance from Green Bay's defense as the Packers trounced the Minnesota Vikings 23-6 on Sunday.

"I just kept it the same," Wilson said. "I approached it today just like it's another game. This is my first start since college, so I just tried to go out there and take advantage of it."

Wilson provided all the offense Green Bay needed on a day when the Packers forced three turnovers and produced five sacks, including two each from Micah Parsons and Devonte Wyatt. The Vikings totaled 4 net yards and three turnovers in the second half.

The Vikings (4-7) hadn't finished a half with as few as 4 yards of total offense since at least 1991, which is as far back as Sportradar's research goes on the subject.

"We did not play in any way, shape or form the type of (second) half that would give us a chance to compete," Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell said.

The Vikings were attempting to beat the Packers on the road for a third straight season, something they last accomplished in 1991-93. They instead fell for the fifth time in their past six games.

Green Bay (7-3-1) improved to 2-0 in divisional games after going 1-5 against NFC North foes last season. This started a stretch of three straight divisional matchups for the Packers, who visit Detroit on Thursday and host the Chicago Bears on Dec. 7.

Because Green Bay's defense was so dominant, the Packers didn't need to show much imagination on offense. Jordan Love completed 14 of his season-low 21 passes for 139 yards, another season low.

"I've never called the same run so many times consecutively," Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. "It was like 3 yards and a cloud of dust, but it was effective. Bottom line, I just thought the way our defense was playing, we just took the air out of the ball and said, 'Go win it for us.' "

That meant Wilson got a heavier workload than even he expected.

Wilson acknowledged he was a little nervous when he woke up. Jacobs, who was unavailable because of a bruised left knee, offered a pregame message that helped settle him.

"Josh just was in my corner telling me to believe in myself and telling me he believed in me, so I just went out there and did what I did," Wilson said.

Wilson's 28 carries and 107 yards rushing represented the highest single-game totals by any Packers running back this season. He had two 1-yard touchdown runs.

"I think mentally he was preparing all week to be the guy," Love said. "And to find out and come out here and have over 100 yards and break off some of the runs he did was pretty cool."

The Vikings trailed 10-6 but stopped Green Bay on the opening drive of the second half when a special teams turnover helped the Packers break the game open.

Daniel Whelan's punt bounced inside the 10-yard line and then hit the body of Minnesota's Myles Price, who was blocking a Green Bay player at the time. Zayne Anderson recovered at the Minnesota 5 to give Green Bay first-and-goal, and Wilson scored two plays later.

"That punt was huge," Parsons said. "Huge. Changed the whole momentum of the game."

Minnesota spent the first half relying on running backs Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones to lead a ball-control attack that took the pressure off struggling quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Once Green Bay opened up a two-score lead, the Vikings needed to rely more on McCarthy but couldn't handle the Packers' pass rush.

McCarthy went 12 of 19 for 87 yards. Minnesota's last two series ended with McCarthy throwing interceptions to Isaiah McDuffie and Evan Williams.

"We like playing with a lead because you just get to let the big dogs eat," Williams said. "We definitely felt comfortable, smelled a little blood in the water coming into the second and knew that we could just let loose and play fast."

The Vikings' only points came on a pair of Will Reichard field goals from 52 and 59 yards. Reichard became the first player in NFL history to have four field goals of at least 59 yards in one season.

Green Bay's Brandon McManus had field goals of 32, 30 and 40 yards.

Vikings: guard Donovan Jackson (ankle) and OT Christian Darrisaw (foot) left in the second half. OLB Jonathan Greenard (shoulder) missed a second straight game.

Packers: CB Keisean Nixon left with a stinger in the first half. RB Josh Jacobs (knee), CB Nate Hobbs (knee), LB Quay Walker (neck) and WR Matthew Golden (shoulder) didn't play.

Vikings: Visit the Seattle Seahawks next Sunday.

Packers: Visit the Detroit Lions on Thursday.

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(The Center Square) – The September jobs report was a look in the rear-view mirror in more ways than one. Because of the 43-day government shutdown, we didn't get the numbers until late November – nearly two months after the data were collected. By then, the story on the ground had already moved on.

On paper, the report looked surprisingly strong: employers added 119,000 jobs in September, more than double the roughly 50,000 economists had expected. Yet the unemployment rate still ticked up to 4.4%, the highest in about four years. Most of the new jobs came from the same places that have been carrying the labor market all year – health care and social assistance – while transportation and warehousing shed about 25,000 positions.Dig a little deeper, and the foundation looks less solid. Earlier months were revised down by about 33,000 jobs, and a separate revision earlier this year knocked roughly 900,000 jobs off the prior 12-month total. That pattern of downward revisions suggests September's "beat" may not look as impressive once the data are fully updated. In other words, this late report confirms what we already knew: job growth has been slowing for months.More timely private-sector data paint an even cooler picture. Workforce-analytics firm Revelio Labs estimates the U.S. economy actually lost about 9,000 jobs in October, with job losses in government and retail offsetting gains in education and health care. ADP's October payroll report shows private employers adding only a modest 42,000 jobs for the month, and its new weekly data suggest firms were shedding more than 11,000 jobs a week late in October. Layoff trackers and WARN notices – especially in high-paying tech and corporate roles – have also turned higher, even as overall layoff rates remain low by historical standards. That's the classic late-cycle pattern: hiring freezes first, then more visible job cuts.So far, consumer spending has held up thanks largely to higher-income households, who entered this period with stronger balance sheets and less credit-card debt and have kept swiping even as borrowing costs rose. But spending is increasingly concentrated at the top, and lower- and middle-income households have already pulled back. When job prospects dim and prices stay uncomfortably high, eventually even well-off consumers start to flinch.That's why this week's delayed September retail sales report matters. The Census Bureau will finally release the numbers on Tuesday, after the shutdown pushed the original October release date into late November. Early estimates point to flat sales in dollar terms and weaker volumes once you adjust for inflation. A soft retail number would confirm what the real-time labor indicators are already telling us: the job market has continued to cool since September, and the slowdown could start to show up in household spending.

The woman convicted of brutally stabbing her sixth grade classmate to please the fictional horror character "Slender Man" has gone missing in Wisconsin, officials said.

Morgan Geyser, 22, cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and left a group home Saturday night, theMadison Police Departmentsaid.

She was last seen in the area of Kroncke Drive around 8 p.m. local time with "an adult acquaintance," police said.

Madison police were notified that she was missing Sunday morning and her current whereabouts are unknown, officials said.

Officials released a recent image of Geyser from security footage this last month. Anyone who sees her is asked to call 911.

Her disappearance comes 11 months after a judge in January ruled for herrelease from a psychiatric hospital. She had spent nearly seven years inside the Winnebago Mental Health Institute and was then moved to a group home.

Geyser was 15 when she wassentenced to a maximum of 40 years in a mental hospitalfor the 2014 stabbing attack. She and another girl lured a classmate to a suburban Milwaukee park and attacked the girl, with Geyser stabbing her.

At the time all three girls were 12 years old, and the victimbarely survived.

Geyser and her classmate believed they had to attack the victim or riskSlender Man,the fictional boogeyman, coming after their families, defense lawyers said at the time.

Anthony Cotton, Geyser's attorney, shared avideostatement on social media urging for Geyser to turn herself in.

"We just heard the news that Morgan has walked away from the group home that she was housed at. Obviously it's in her best interest to turn herself in immediately and not continue with this course of action," he said. "If anybody has contact with Morgan, hears from her, or if Morgan happens to see this, turn yourself in. Do not continue to remain on the run like this."

A 39-year-old man was fatallyshotearly Sunday near a Midtown Manhattan nightclub, and the New York City Police Department said the shooter remains on the run.

The incident happened a week after New York Jets player Kris Boyd wasshot and woundedoutside of a Midtown Manhattan restaurant.

NYPD officers were alerted around 4:13 a.m. on Sunday that a person had been shot near a nightclub on West 46th Street and 12th Avenue in the Midtown West neighborhood, less than a block east of the Intrepid Museum.

"Upon arrival, officers observed a 39-year-old male with gunshot wounds to the back and groin," according to an NYPD statement.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was taken by ambulance to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.

No arrests have been announced and police are working to identify the suspect.

Oregon returned to the top five ofThe Associated Press Top 25 college football pollSunday, five Atlantic Coast Conference teams were ranked for the second time this season and Georgia Tech took the biggest fall after its second loss in three games.

Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M remained the top three teams for a sixth straight week, and Georgia was No. 4 for the second week in a row.

Oregon jumped over idle Mississippi to No. 5, its highest ranking since it was No. 3 in the Oct. 5 poll. The Ducks strengthened their College Football Playoff resume with a15-point victory over then-No. 16 Southern California, extending their winning streak to five games.

Mississippi was followed by Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Alabama.

Ohio State is No. 1 for a 13th straight week going into its game at No. 15 Michigan. The Buckeyes received 58 first-place votes and were 53 points ahead of Indiana, which was listed first on seven voters' ballots. Texas A&M got the remaining first-place vote.

Miami, whichbeat Virginia Tech by 17 pointson the road, moved up a spot to No. 13 and was the highest-ranked of five ACC teams. Virginia climbed two spots to No. 17. Georgia Tech,beaten 42-28 at home by Pittsburgh, dropped eight rungs to No. 23.

Pittsburgh, which has three losses, was one spot behind the two-loss Yellow Jackets. No. 25 SMU re-entered the poll for the first time since Sept. 2.

No. 20 James Madison of the Sun Belt Conference remained the highest-ranked Group of Five team in the AP poll. The Dukes, up one spot from a week ago, came from behind tobeat Washington State 24-20.

No. 21 North Texas of the American Conference was one spot ahead of Tulane. The Green Wave were the only Group of Five team in the CFP selection committee's rankings last week, at No. 24.

— No. 24 Pittsburgh bounced back from its 22-point home loss to Notre Dame and returned after a one-week absence.

— No. 25 SMUbeat Louisville by 32 pointsfor its third straight win and can return to the ACC championship game with a win at California.

Missouri (No. 23) and Houston (No. 25) dropped out.

Poll points

— Five teams from the state of Texas are ranked for a second straight week. The Lone Star State hadn't had five teams in back-to-back polls since 2016.

— The ACC, in addition to this week, had five teams in the poll on Nov. 9. That makes this the fourth straight year the ACC has had five teams ranked in two or more polls.

Conference call

SEC (8 ranked teams): Nos. 3 Texas A&M, 4 Georgia, 6 Ole Miss, 8 Oklahoma, 10 Alabama, 12 Vanderbilt, 16 Texas, 18 Tennessee.

ACC (5): Nos. 13 Miami (Fla.), 17 Virginia, 23 Georgia Tech, 24 Pittsburgh, 25 SMU.

Big Ten (5): Nos. 1 Ohio State, 2 Indiana, 5 Oregon, 15 Michigan, 19 USC.

Big 12 (3): Nos. 7 Texas Tech, 11 BYU, 14 Utah.

American (2): Nos. 21 North Texas, 22 Tulane.

Independent (1): No. 9 Notre Dame.

Sun Belt (1): No. 20 James Madison.

Ranked vs. ranked

No. 1 Ohio State (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten, No. 1 CFP) at No. 15 Michigan (9-2, 7-1, No. 18), Saturday: Buckeyes have lost four straight to Michigan. They haven't dropped five in a row to their archrival since they lost six straight from 1922-27.

No. 3 Texas A&M (11-0, 7-0 SEC, No. 3 CFP) at No. 16 Texas (8-3, 5-2, No. 17), Friday: Aggies lock up spot in SEC title game with a win; they would need lots of help to get to Atlanta if they lose. Arch Manning'ssix-touchdown day against Arkansasgives the Longhorns mojo for this rivalry game.

No. 4 Georgia (10-1, No. 4 CFP) at No. 23 Georgia Tech (9-2, No. 16), Friday: Bulldogs have won seven straight in the series and haven't lost to Yellow Jackets in Atlanta since 1999.

No. 12 Vanderbilt (9-2, 5-2 SEC, No. 14 CFP) at No. 18 Tennessee (8-3, 4-3, No. 20), Saturday: Commodores are going for a 10th win for first time in program history. They're 12-41-2 all-time in Knoxville, and only four of those wins have come in the last 50 years.

No. 13 Miami (9-2, 5-2, No. 13 CFP) at No. 24 Pittsburgh (8-3, 6-1), Saturday: Both teams still have narrow paths to the ACC title game. Miami clinging to playoff hopes. Pitt trying to land best possible bowl.

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