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Iowa State didn't wait around to find Matt Campbell's replacement.

Just minutesafter Yahoo Sports reported Campbell had finalized a dealwith Penn State to be the Nittany Lions' next coach, the Cyclones announced they were hiring Washington State coach Jimmy Rogers.

His hire was officially announced by the school before Penn State announced Campbell's hire. It's the second time this coaching cycle that has happened. On Sunday, Ole Miss announced defensive coordinator Pete Golding was Lane Kiffin's replacement before Kiffin was officially revealed as LSU's coach.

"Jimmy Rogers is a rising star in college athletics who has very strong ties to the Midwest both as a player and as a coach," Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard said in a statement. "He has been on my short-list ever since the first time I met him. He immediately impressed me with his interest in Iowa State University and told me during our first visit several years ago that he wanted to be the next head coach at Iowa State.

"Since our initial meeting, I have stayed in close contact with him and have been very impressed with his work ethic and understanding of what it takes to be successful at Iowa State," he added. "He is a proven winner who has demonstrated throughout his career that he will fit our culture."

Rogers led Washington State to a 6-6 record in his first season with the Cougars in 2025.

While that record may not seem exceptional, both Washington State and Oregon State have been at a significant disadvantage since the Pac-12 dissolved at the end of the 2023 season. The two schools were left behind as every other team in the league bolted for either the Big Ten, Big 12 or found a home in the ACC.

Without a real conference for the last two seasons, the two schools have barnstormed all over the country while playing each other twice this season.

Rogers, 38, was the head coach at South Dakota State for two seasons before taking the Washington State job. The Jackrabbits went 15-0 and won the FCS title in 2023 before going 12-3 and losing in the semifinals in 2024.

A former South Dakota State linebacker, Rogers was a defensive assistant with the school for a decade before he became the team's head coach. He was associate head coach and defensive coordinator before he was promoted to head coach.

Rogers has incredible familiarity with the upper midwest as South Dakota State is less than five hours from Ames, Iowa, by car. The Cyclones have 50 players from the state of Iowa on their 2025 roster.

Rogers also takes over for the most successful coach in Iowa State history. Campbell's teams won 72 games in his decade in charge. No other Iowa State coach has more than 56 wins. Iowa State had eight winning seasons in Campbell's tenure and won 11 games in 2024. Iowa State went 11-3 a season ago and lost to Arizona State in the Big 12 championship game.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers says he anticipates Giannis Antetokounmpo missing about a month as the two-time MVP recovers from astrained right calf.

Initial reports indicated Antetokounmpo would be out two to four weeks. Rivers suggested Friday that it would likely be on the higher end of that timeline.

"Let's hope he's back sooner, but I'm going to guess it's more in the four-week range," Rivers said before the Bucks' game with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Rivers emphasized the importance of caution with calf issues to avoid the risk of a player getting hurt more severely.

"And so that may take longer than we want," Rivers said. "That even may make Giannis frustrated over it. But we've just got to try to get that right."

Antetokounmpo injured his calf in the opening minutes of a113-109 victoryover the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday.

He had just assisted on AJ Green's layup less than three minutes into the game when he headed back up the court and slipped in the painted area. Antetokounmpo went down, clutched his right leg and eventually was helped up before walking to the locker room.

Rivers said after that game that he believed Antetokounmpo's injury may have stemmed from contact he made with a Detroit player while driving along the baseline just before passing to Green.

Antetokounmpo entered Friday ranked seventh in the NBA in scoring (28.9), ninth in rebounding (10.1) and 19th in assists (6.1).

His injury looked similar to a calf strain that ended Antetokounmpo's 2023-24 season prematurely. Antetokounmpo was heading up the court during an April 9 victory over the Boston Celtics that season when he grabbed his left calf and took a seat on the floor before being helped off the court.

Antetokounmpo went on to miss the Bucks' final three regular-season games as well as their entire six-game loss to the Indiana Pacers in the opening round of the playoffs that season.

This latest calf injury comes after Antetokounmpo missed four games last month with a left adductor strain. The Bucks lost all four of those games.

Rivers noted that Milwaukee guard Kevin Porter Jr. also didn't play in any of those games while recovering from a knee injury. Porter returned Nov. 29 and is averaging 19.8 points and 5 assists this season.

"Now we have 'Scoot' (Porter) andRyan (Rollins)together," Rivers said. "It's a different team than it was even three weeks ago or four weeks ago."

The Bucks entered Friday having gone 1-5 in games Antetokounmpo has missed this season. The only win came in their first game without Antetokounmpo, a120-110 home victoryover the Golden State Warriors on Oct. 30.

But they did rally from an 18-point deficit Wednesday against the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons with Antetokounmpo only playing the first three minutes.

This injury occurred the same day ESPN reported that Antetokounmpo and his agent, Alex Saratsis, had started speaking with the Bucks about the nine-time all-NBA forward's future and whether he's best suited to stay in Milwaukee or play elsewhere.Rivers disputedthe report and said that "Giannis has never asked to be traded – ever. I can't make that more clear."

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Former NASCAR driver Michael Annett has died. He was 39.

JR Motorsports announced Annett's death in a social media post Friday evening. Annett drove for the team in the Xfinity Series for five seasons from 2017-21.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Annett family with the passing of our friend Michael Annett. Michael was a key member of JRM from 2017 until he retired in 2021 and was an important part in turning us into the four-car organization we remain today.https://t.co/oZdMymjBz6pic.twitter.com/PUsCZHkXEg

— JR Motorsports (@JRMotorsports)December 6, 2025

Annett made over 100 starts in NASCAR's Cup Series and over 300 starts in NASCAR's second-tier Xfinity Series. Annett's lone Xfinity Series win came in 2019, when he won the season-opening race at Daytona. He went on to have five more top-five finishes and finished ninth in the points standings that season.

His best season in the Xfinity Series came in 2012 when he drove for Richard Petty Motorsports. Annett had six top-five finishes and 17 top-10 finishes and finished fifth in the points standings.

At JR Motorsports, he never finished outside the top 15 in the points standings.

Annett competed in 106 Cup Series races over the 2014, 2015 and 2016 seasons. He drove for underfunded teams Tommy Baldwin Racing and HScott Racing during his time at NASCAR's top level and had just six top-20 finishes in his Cup Series career. His best finish came in 2015 when he was 13th at the Daytona 500.

Annett retired after the 2021 season after he dealt with a stress fracture in his right leg for much of the season. He missed seven races that year. He also missed races during the 2013 season after he suffered a fractured and dislocated sternum in a crash at Daytona when his car slammed head-on into the wall.

WASHINGTON (AP) —President Donald Trump'sadvisers and Ukrainian officials say they'll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine.

The two sides also offered the sober assessment that any "real progress toward any agreement" ultimately will depend "on Russia's readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace."

The statement from U.S. special envoySteve Witkoff, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner as well as Ukrainian negotiators Rustem Umerov and Andriy Hnatov came after they met for a second day in Florida on Friday. They offered only broad brushstrokes about the progress they say has been made as Trump pushes Kyiv and Moscow to agree to a U.S.-mediated proposal to endnearly four years of war.

"Both parties agreed that real progress toward any agreement depends on Russia's readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace, including steps toward de-escalation and cessation of killings," the statement said. "Parties also separately reviewed the future prosperity agenda which aims to support Ukraine's post-war reconstruction, joint U.S.–Ukraine economic initiatives, and long-term recovery projects."

The U.S. and Ukrainian officials also discussed "deterrence capabilities" that Ukraine will need "to sustain a lasting peace."

Witkoffand Kushner's talks in Florida with Umerov, Ukraine's lead negotiator, and Hnatov followdiscussions between President Vladimir Putinand the U.S. envoys at the Kremlin on Tuesday.

Friday's session took place at the the Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, a high-end private golf and lifestyle destination owned by Witkoff's real estate development company.

Previous diplomatic attempts to break the deadlock have come to nothing andthe warhas continued unabated. Officials largely have kept a lid on how the latest talks are going, though Trump'sinitial 28-point planwas leaked.

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyysaid his country's delegation in Florida wanted to hear from the U.S. side about the talks at the Kremlin.

Zelenskyy, as well as European leaders backing him, have repeatedly accused Putin ofstalling in peace talkswhile the Russian army tries to press forward with its invasion. Zelenskyy said in a video address late Thursday that officials wanted to know "what other pretexts Putin has come up with to drag out the war and to pressure Ukraine."

Speaking to Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Friday, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov praised Kushner as potentially playing an important role in ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ushakov also took part in Tuesday's talks at the Kremlin.

"If any plan leading to a settlement is put on paper, it will be the pen of Mr. Kushner that will lead the way," Ushakov said.

The flattering comments about Kushner by the senior Russian official come as Putin has sought to sow division between Trump and Ukraine and Europe at a moment when Trump's impatience with the conflict is mounting. Putin said hisfive-hour talks this weekwith Witkoff and Kushner were "necessary" and "useful," but some proposals were unacceptable.

Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, was a senior adviser to Trump during his first term and was the president's point person on developing the Abraham Accords, which formalized commercial and diplomatic ties between Israel and a trio of Arab nations.

Kushner has played a more informal role in Trump's second go-around, but he helped Witkoff close out ceasefire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas this fall. Trump tapped Kushner again to pair up with Witkoff to try to find an endgame to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The European take on the peace talks

Ushakov, who accompanied Putin on avisit to India on Friday, repeated the Russian president's recent criticism ofEurope's stanceon the peace talks. Kyiv's European allies are concerned about possibleRussian aggressionbeyond Ukraine and want a prospective peace deal to include strong security guarantees.

Kyiv's allies in Europe are "constantly putting forward demands that are unacceptable to Moscow," Ushakov told Russia's state-owned Zvezda TV. "Putting it mildly, the Europeans don't help Washington and Moscow reach a settlement on the Ukrainian issues."

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that he made progress during avisit to Beijingon getting Chinese leader Xi Jinping's support for peace efforts.

"We exchanged deeply and truthfully on all points, and I saw a willingness from the (Chinese) president to contribute to stability and peace," Macron said.

The French president said he stressed that Ukraine needs guarantees that Russia won't attack it again if a settlement is reached and that Europe must have a voice in negotiations.

"The unity between Americans and Europeans on the Ukrainian issue is essential. And I say it, repeat it, emphasize it. We need to work together," Macron said.

The latest drone attacks

Russian drones struck a house in central Ukraine, killing a 12-year-old boy, officials said, while long-range Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted a Russian port and an oil refinery.

The Russian attack on Thursday night in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed the house where the boy was killed and also two women were injured, according to the head of the regional military administration, Vladyslav Haivanenko.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 137 drones of various types during the night.

Ukrainian drones attacked a port and an oil refinery inside Russia overnight as part of Kyiv's campaign to disrupt Russian logistics, Ukraine's general staff said.

The drones struck Temriuk sea port in Russia's Krasnodar region and the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region, starting blazes, a statement said. Syzran is about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the border with Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said only that its air defenses intercepted 85 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. John Leicester in Paris and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine athttps://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

At least 14 cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported in central Florida.

In an email to state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the Florida Department of Health revealed the outbreak is linked to a gym, reported ABC News affiliateWFTV.

The letter from the department did not list the name of the gym, but WFTV reported that a Crunch Fitness in Ocoee -- 12 miles west of Orlando -- had members reporting cases of Legionnaires' disease.

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Crunch Fitness told the station it is working with the health department, has closed off parts of the gym and is testing its pool and spa systems "out of an abundance of caution."

Neither the Florida Department of Health nor Crunch Fitness immediately returned ABC News' request for comment.

Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumoniacausedby inhaling the Legionella bacteria in small droplets of water mixed in the air or contaminated water accidentally going into your lungs.

Legionella bacteria are found naturally in freshwater but typically grow best in warm water and in warm to hot temperatures, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).

The disease does not spread from person to person, but outbreaks can grow if the bacteria get into a building's water supply, including in shower heads, sink faucets, hot water tanks, heaters and other plumbing systems.

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Legionnaires has increased in prevalence over the last decade, reaching a peak of 2.71 cases per 100,000 in 2018, theCDC said. Cases dropped during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and then rebounded in 2021.

Although most people recover from Legionnaires' disease with antibiotics, certain patients -- including those who are immunocompromised or who suffer from chronic lung diseases --can develop complicationsthat can be fatal.

About one out of every 10 people who develops Legionnaires' disease will die due to complications, according to the CDC. Among those who develop Legionnaires' disease during a stay in a health care facility, about one out of every four people will die, the federal health agency added.