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Northern Iowa announced that tight end Parker Sutherland died Saturday morning.

Sutherland was a freshman in 2025 and played in four games. He was a native of Iowa City, Iowa.

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"I'm heartbroken," Northern Iowa coach Todd Stepsis said in a statement. "No words can express my condolences to [parents] Adam, Jill and [sister] Georgia. Parker embodied everything we look for in a UNI Football Panther. His talent and potential excited us on a daily basis, but it failed to compare to the type of person and teammate he was. His character, humility, toughness and genuine love of others are what champions are made of. While I'm saddened that our time together was short, we will celebrate the bright light that he brought to our football team for the rest of our lives."

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Northern Iowasaid in a statement to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courierthat "Cedar Falls Fire & Rescue responded to a call at the UNI Athletics facilities on Thursday. There are no further details that can be shared at this time."

Saturday morning,CBS 2 in Cedar Rapids reportedthat "multiple sources tell Iowa's News Now that Sutherland collapsed during a workout that day."

Sutherland appeared in games against Utah Tech, North Dakota, Illinois State and Murray State. He was a second-team all-state player at Iowa City High School as a senior in 2024.

"It is a heartbreaking day for our Panther Athletics family with the passing of Parker Sutherland," athletic director Megan Franklin said. "He embraced the opportunity to play Panther football and represent the university through sport. We are devastated — just devastated. The blessing is that we have a Panther family who will hold the Sutherland family, our football team, and our athletics staff close as we grieve."

Akshay Bhatia said he knows the task won't be easy as he deals with the windy conditions in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Bhatia shot 4-under-par 68 in the third round on Saturday to carry a two-stroke lead into the final round at Pebble Beach, Calif.

Bhatia lost some of his commanding lead by playing the final seven holes at 2 over after a sizzling start at windy Pebble Beach Golf Links.

"It's brutal," Bhatia said of the unpredictable winds. "It's just so hard to get settled in, especially when it gets late in the day."

He's at 19-under 197 heading to Sunday. He leads or co-leads a tournament for the fourth time after 54 holes, with a victory in one of the three previous situations.

"I'm excited for (Sunday) no matter what the challenge is," Bhatia said. "... (Sunday) is going to be hard for everyone."

With tee times moved up due to an inclement weather forecast, golfers will tee off in threesomes for the final round using No. 1 and No. 10 as starting holes.

Collin Morikawa made a big move, shooting 62 to share second place with Jake Knapp (66) and Austria's Sepp Straka (67). Jacob Bridgeman (68) is in fifth place at 16 under and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (67), who played without a bogey in the third round, is sixth at 15 under.

Bhatia, who was the tournament's leader at the midway mark through Friday, began with birdies on six of the first seven holes Saturday. He finished with a par on the last hole after bogeying the 12th and 17th holes.

"Happy to make 5 on (No.) 18 with how the weather was," Bhatia said.

The top six golfers on the leaderboard have played all three rounds with sub-70 scores.

That comes with increasingly tough conditions as winds are impacting nearly every shot, including putts.

"Any of those back pins, it gets really tough to fly it all the way back there," Knapp said.

Morikawa's 10-under round Saturday came with 11 birdies and one bogey. He hit every green in regulation, something he had done only twice previously on the PGA Tour.

The last golfer to hit every green in regulation at Pebble Beach Golf Links was Bhatia in the first round of the 2021 tournament.

Knapp's round included eagles on Nos. 1 and 18. He became the first golfer in a non-major at Pebble Beach Golf Links to bookend a round with eagles.

"Starting your day out with a hole-out like that isn't what you expect," Knapp said, referring to his fairway shot from 130 yards out finding the cup on the par-4 layout.

He sank a putt from about 13 feet away for the eagle on the last hole.

Straka, who led after the second and third rounds of the tournament last year, notched six birdies on the back nine Saturday.

"Once we turned to the back, I got the wind off to my left and was able to kind of hook it into the breeze," Straka said. "I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it worked out."

Defending champion Rory McIlroy isn't in contention after Saturday's 72 put him at 9 under and tied for 39th place.

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Providence was up by one point before bedlam erupted in Amica Mutual Pavilion less than six minutes into the second half of the Friars' Saturday afternoon game against No. 17 St. John's.

Friars graduate forward Duncan Powell committed a Flagrant 2 foul on a driving Bryce Hopkins, a Red Storm graduate wing who spent the previous three seasons at Providence.

That led to a fight that resulted in six of the game's seven ejections. A raucous Friars student section had front-row seats to the unhinged altercation, which eventually shifted toward the Red Storm bench and then, notably, saw Powell try to swing on St. John's forward Dillon Mitchell, who ducked out of the way beneath the basket just in time.

Hopkins had been hearing jeers from the Providence crowd well before Powell took a hack at him on the break. Following a stoppage in play that lasted close to 20 minutes while the referees sifted through the punishments, St. John's (20-5, 13-1 Big East) took control of the game and took down Providence (11-15, 4-11) 79-69 in the testy affair.

The seventh ejection came later in the second half when Providence's Jamier Jones was thrown out after he was called for a Flagrant 2 foul on St. John's forward Zuby Ejiofor.

Here's the complete list of ejected players:

• F Dillon Mitchell (St. John's)

• G Kelvin Odih (St. John's)

• F Ruben Prey (St. John's)

• F Sadiku Ibine Ayo (St. John's)

• G Jaylin Sellers (Providence)

• F Duncan Powell (Providence)

• F Jamier Jones (Providence)

The six-ejection scuffle headlined the heated Big East contest, though. Four St. John's players were booted, and two Providence players got the hook because of that skirmish.

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In the wake of the lengthy delay, the officials informed the coaches of the appropriate mid-game discipline, and Friar faithful chanted, "Duncan Powell!"

As for the game itself, St. John's rebounded from Providence's rally that started at the end of the first half and continued into the beginning of the second.

The Red Storm, who have now won 11 games in row, were led by Dylan Darling's 23 points.

St. John's head coach Rick Pitino, who led Providence to a Final Four in 1987,told reporters postgamethat the league will handle Saturday's altercation and that he didn't want his players to be asked about it.

But, naturally, there was still some reflection.

"I feel like we responded in the best way possible," St. John's forward Zuby Ejiofor said,per The Associated Press.

"Coming into this game we knew exactly how rowdy this environment was going to be — not only for [Hopkins], but for all of us. We knew it was going be tough. You have to have a great mindset to come in here and win, and I think that's what we did."

Former President Barack Obama spoke out a week after President Donald Trump's social media account posted a video depicting him and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, condemning behavior on television and social media as a "clown show."

Obama was asked about the social media post, which was taken down followinggrowing callsfrom both sides of the aisle hours after Trump shared it, during an interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen posted on Saturday.

"Well, first of all, I think it's important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling," Obama said.

He added, "And there's this sort of clown show that's happening in social media and on television ... What is true is that there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety, and respect for the office, right? So, that's been lost."

Trump hasn't disciplined or fired staffer he says posted video with racist image of Obamas

The minute-long video was posted on Trump's social media platform on Feb. 5 at 11:44 p.m. It largely focused on debunked claims about the 2020 election, but near the end abruptly showed the Obamas' faces on the bodies of apes without explanation and the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing over it.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt first brushed off criticism of the video the next morning as "fake outrage" and said the racist animation of the Obamas was from an "internet meme" that depicted Trump as king of the jungle and Democrats as various animals.

But later a White House official claimed a "staffer erroneously made the post."

Several hours later, Trump maintained he "didn't make a mistake" and that he didn't see the entire video before he gave it to "the people" to have it posted to his account.

Trump told reporters this week that the unidentified staffer who allegedly posted the videohad not been disciplinedfor posting the video on his account.

Video Trump faces backlash for racist Obama post

Asked by ABC News' Fritz Farrow on Feb. 6 if he condemned the racist portion of the video, Trump said, "Of course I do."

Asked if he had any message to Americans who were offended by the post, Trump said, "Well, I have no message. I didn't know about it, so I mean, it went up. I really have no message."

Trump has not publicly apologized for the post.

-ABC News' Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.

Feb 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter ‌to lawmakers regarding redactions in ‌the files pertaining to convicted sex offender ​Jeffrey Epstein, Politico reported on Saturday.

The letter, required by law, includes a general description of the types of ‌redactions made, ⁠and a list of notable people mentioned in the files in ⁠any way.

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The letter also includes an extensive list of high-profile people ​or "politically exposed ​persons" referenced ​in the files, ‌even if they had no interactions with Epstein or his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, but were mentioned in sources such as press clippings. The ‌letter, sent to ​the leaders of the ​Senate and ​House Judiciary committees, does ‌not state in what ​context a ​name appears.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request ​for ‌comment.

(Reporting by Christian Martinez in Los ​Angeles; Editing by Sergio Non ​and Matthew Lewis)