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LANDOVER, Md. — After plenty of talk in recent weeks about Terry McLaurin lining up only on the left side, the Washington Commanders’ first offensive snap was a throw by Jayden Daniels to his top receiver — on the right side, of course. OK, Kliff Kingsbury. Well played. Beyond that not-so-subtle answer to criticism, Washington’s offensive coordinator went back to a tried-and-true recipe to get his unit back on track: running the ball early and often. Brian Robinson Jr. returned from a sprained ankle to account for 103 of a season-high 267 yards rushing in a 42-19 rout of Tennessee on Sunday that ended a three-game losing streak and showed what this offense can do when clicking in all facets. “It’s a beautiful thing to see,” said Robinson, who had the longest rushing touchdown of his three-year NFL career, a 40-yarder. “It’s a beautiful thing to do. Just glad we were able to really put it back out there and show the potential we have in our room and our running game. We have a serious run game, and we just got to believe in it.” A balanced attack with Daniels handing the ball off 36 times, throwing it 30 and running nine allowed the Commanders to dominate time of possession and improve to 8-5 going into their bye week. “It opens up a lot, obviously, to be able to get guys to move the line of scrimmage and get to the second level and let our backs do what they do,” said Daniels, who ran for 34 yards to go along with 206 yards passing. “We’re getting to those times of the season where in December, January when you’ve got to be able to control the line of scrimmage and run the ball.” Robinson playing makes a big difference. His teammates are 1-2 without him this season, and Austin Ekeler going on injured reserve Saturday because of a concussion put everything on Robinson’s shoulders. Averaging 6.4 yards on 16 carries got the job done. “Man, is he a difference maker,” coach Dan Quinn said. “When Brian can kick through and step and get onto the next level, he’s really difficult to tackle.” What’s working The defense thrived while needing to be on the field for less than 20 minutes, forcing a turnover and keeping Tennessee off the scoreboard until late in the first half. It was already 28-0 at that point. Rookie cornerback Mike Sainristil — who celebrated his alma mater, Michigan, upsetting Ohio State a day earlier by asking McLaurin about the result while the Buckeyes product was forced to sit in the interview room after their game with Sainristil’s Wolverines jersey — forced and recovered Tony Pollard’s fumble in the first quarter. The Commanders made it 21-0 three plays later. “Offense, defense, special teams we all feed off one another,” said six-time All-Pro linebacker Bobby Wagner, who joined London Fletcher as the only players with 100-plus tackles in 13 consecutive seasons. “Whether it’s us getting turnovers, special teams getting turnovers or the offense going down the field and scoring, we all got to feed off of that and I felt like we did a good job of that.” What needs help The kicking game continues to struggle. Zane Gonzalez missed two field goal attempts while filling in for Austin Seibert, who went on injured reserve earlier in the week. Seibert reported a groin injury the day after missing an extra point that would have tied the score in the final minute against Dallas. If there are any Cyber Monday deals on kickers, the Commanders are in the market for a new one. They’ve had six on the roster since March. Stock up With starting right tackle Andrew Wylie out because of a concussion, Cornelius Lucas took his spot and did not miss a beat. Lucas opened the season splitting time at left tackle with rookie Brandon Coleman, and the journeyman lineman’s quick adjustment in Wylie’s absence helped the offense get on track. “I thought that’s a guy that was ready for the challenge,” Quinn said. Stock down Defensive tackle Phidarian Mathis was a healthy scratch against the Titans after Carl Davis was elevated from the practice squad. Quinn called it a coaching decision. Sitting the 2022 second-round pick is another blow to the four drafts Ron Rivera oversaw from 2020-23. Every first-round pick is now gone after cornerback Emmanuel Forbes’ release Saturday, and Mathis already has been passed on the depth chart by rookie Johnny Newton. Injuries Attrition added up through 13 consecutive games, and Ekeler and Seibert are out at least the next three games following the bye: at New Orleans on Dec. 15, against Philadelphia on Dec. 22 and against Atlanta on Dec. 28 or 29. Dealing with a hamstring injury, cornerback Marshon Lattimore has not played since the Commanders acquired him at the trade deadline from the Saints, so his debut for them could come against his old team. Key number 7 — Years since Washington last won a December home game before Sunday, in Week 16 of the 2017 season. The team’s previous December victory of any kind was in 2021. Next steps Rest up. As McLaurin said before leaving the stadium, “I’m going to enjoy this bye week.”Family matters at Kansas governor’s annual Christmas tree delivery
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The celebrity look-alike contest trend continues: Glen Powell and Gordon Ramsay are latest stars to surprise their doppelgängers.American softball greats Cat Osterman and Lisa Fernandez are among the general managers who will lead teams in the new format of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. Athletes Unlimited announced on Monday that four general managers and coaches have been selected for the league, which will start with a new touring format in June before becoming city-based in 2026. Games will be played in several cities in 2025, including Chicago and Wichita, Kansas. Kelly Kretschman will coach Osterman's team and Howard Dobson will coach Fernandez's squad. Jenny Dalton-Hill will be the general manager for a team coached by Stacey Nuveman-Deniz and Dana Sorensen will be the general manager for a squad Alisa Goler will coach. They will be part of an overall leadership group. It includes Kim Ng, the league's senior adviser in charge of launching the league, and advisers Osterman, Jennie Finch, Jessica Mendoza and Natasha Watley. "This unprecedented collection of general managers and head coaches, with their decades of elite softball experience, unique perspectives, and intense drive, sets the stage for AUSL to meet the moment to deliver an action-packed, world-class softball league that this sport has deserved for so long," Ng said. Fernandez, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, is associate head coach at UCLA. The Bruins have won five national titles in her 26 years on the staff, and she won two as a player for the team. Osterman is a three-time Olympian and was a four-time All-American at Texas. She won the Athletes Unlimited individual softball championship in 2020. Athletes Unlimited Softball has featured an individual format since 2020. This will be the first time it will have a traditional team-based league. There will be two seasons next summer, with the second maintaining the individual format. ESPN, the founding broadcast partner of the AUSL, will carry at least 30 games on its platforms. Each team will play 30 games. Team names and logos have not yet been determined.
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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles’ most senior staffer has launched legal action against him and the Prime Minister’s chief-of-staff Tim Gartrell for allegedly ousting her out of the job after she complained of workplace bullying. Jo Tarnawsky, chief-of-staff to Marles, made her allegations public six weeks ago, and on Monday morning, announced she would be taking her complaint to the Federal Court of Australia. “It has now been over 200 days since I raised concerns privately with the Deputy Prime Minister about bullying behaviour in his office,” Tarnawsky in a press conference at Parliament House on Monday. “I was then exiled as a result. My workplace situation remains unresolved. Today, after untenable delays and inaction from the government, I am launching legal proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia.” Tarnawsky’s lawsuit involves Marles, Gartrell and the Commonwealth as respondents. The parties are yet to respond to the allegations, and a defence to Tarnawsky’s claim has not yet been filed to the court. Here’s what you need to know. What happened? Jo Tarnawsky began her role as the chief-of-staff to Deputy Prime Minister in June 2022. It is the most senior staffer role in a minister’s office, with a salary of $270,000. According to court documents, staff in the Deputy Prime Minister’s office began bullying Tarnawsky in May 2023. She claims she was gradually iced out in an “abrasive, hostile and exclusionary manner”. In early 2024, Tarnawsky said she could hear staff gossipping about her, and they allegedly refused to engage with her about team outings and trips, including a trip to Ukraine. On April 30, Tarnawsky made a private complaint to her boss about the workplace bullying, which then sparked further deliberate exclusion of her from the rest of the staff. According to her claim, Tarnawsky stopped receiving team emails, she had a restricted view of Marles’ diary, and an image of her pet was removed from the staff’s shared pet wall. What is her claim to the Federal Court of Australia? Tarnawsky’s claim does not accuse Marles nor Gartrell of workplace bullying. Rather, Tarnawsky alleges they mishandled the situation, and iced her out of the job. After Tarnawsky returned from a period of leave in May, she was informed by another government employee that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s chief-of-staff, Tim Gartrell, worked with Marles to oust her from the job. According to the claim, she was refused entry to her old office without receiving 24 hours’ notice. Tarnawsky, she claims, was allowed back into Parliament House during the May Budget week, allegedly to network, to find another job outside of Marles’ ministerial office, and to have “agency” in her “story about leaving”, as allegedly described by Gartrell. Following the budget, on May 16, Marles and Gartrell reportedly told Tarnawsky to take six months’ leave “off the books”. In October this year, Tarnawsky made her allegations public and spoke out about how Marles and Gartrell allegedly handled the situation. Now, she is taking her claim to the courts. “As far as I know, there has been no investigation into the behaviours I reported, nor regarding the actions taken by the deputy prime minister against me,” she said in the press conference on Monday. “Not a single member of the government has reached out to check on my wellbeing.” What happens next? Tarnawsky told reporters on Monday that she had written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, asking him to “intervene and to hold the Deputy Prime Minister to account for the way that I had been treated”. Tarnawsky said the Prime Minister is yet to respond. “Instead, my complaint has been passed around – first to the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service, more recently to Comcover – both claim to be independent agencies, but both chose to engage lawyers, the same lawyers from the same law firm, who were also clearly taking instructions from the Deputy Prime Minister,” she said. “They have not been able to assure me that my private information and psychological safety will be protected, and they cannot deal with the most important issue I have raised – that is, for those who did this to me to be held accountable, and to ensure that nobody else in this place is ever treated this way again.” Ahead of the 2022 election, the Labor government pledged to “set the standard” of workplace safety, and whilst in government, they have proposed parliamentary workplace reforms to do so. Tarnawsky said she feels “let down” by the “inaction” of the government and the contradictory behaviour from senior leaders in Parliament House. “If the government won’t hold its own poor behaviour to account, then I will ask the courts to do that,” Tarnawsky said. A defence to her claim is yet to be filed to the Federal Court of Australia. “To my fellow staffers,” Tarnawsky said at the press conference, “we give countless hours of our lives to these jobs, in support of the ministers and MPs we serve. In return, we should not be tossed aside abruptly, after such loyal service. “Good exits are possible. It should not be unreasonable for any of us to expect to depart our roles with dignity, to walk away better from our time working in this building, rather than carrying lifelong trauma from the poor treatment we have endured here.”
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