Saturday’s best.
STARS
—Lamar Jackson, Louisville, accounted for 525 total yards and six TDs to help the No. 17 Cardinals pull away late and beat North Carolina 47-35.
—Shea Patterson, Mississippi, threw for a school-record 489 yards and five TDs as the Rebels rallied from a second-quarter deficit to defeat UT Martin 45-23.
—Shane Morris, Central Michigan, threw for 467 yards and five TDs in a 45-27 victory over Kansas.
—Will Grier, West Virginia, threw for 352 yards and five TDs in a 56-20 victory over East Carolina.
—Royce Freeman, Oregon, rushed for 153 yards and two scores as the Ducks spoiled Mike Riley’s state homecoming with a 42-35 victory over Nebraska.
—D’Angelo Brewer, Tulsa, rushed for a career-high 262 yards and three TDs to help the Golden Hurricane beat Louisiana 66-42.
—Daniel Jones, Duke, accounted for 413 yards and four TDs, and the Blue Devils cruised to a 41-17 victory over Northwestern.
—Patrick Laird, California, ran for 191 yards and three TDs to help the Bears overcome a lackluster performance with a late rally to beat lower-level Weber State 33-20.
—Josh Mack, Maine, ran for 255 yards and three TDs in a 60-12 win over Bryant.
—Josh Rosen, UCLA, was 22 of 25 for 329 yards and a career-high five touchdown passes as the Bruins defeated Hawaii 56-23.
—Jalen Hurts, Alabama, ran for 154 yards and two TDs, and passed for a third score in the top-ranked Crimson Tide’s 41-10 victory over Fresno State.
—Bryan Schor, James Madison, threw for 304 yards and a career-tying five TDs in a 52-10 victory over East Tennessee State.
—Chris Warren III, Texas, ran for 166 yards and two TDs to help the Longhorns beat San Jose State 56-0.
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STELLAR JACKSON
Lamar Jackson shrugged off preseason questions about his chances of becoming only the second two-time Heisman Trophy winner, saying it wasn’t a focus when he won it last year, nor would it be this fall.
That approach is working just fine, too.
Jackson accounted for 525 total yards and six touchdowns to help No. 17 Louisville pull away late and beat North Carolina 47-35 on Saturday, giving him more than 1,000 yards of total offense in two games.
The junior threw for 393 yards and three scores while also running for 132 yards and three TDs. The last came on a spinning-through-tacklers 11-yard run with 3: 06 left to punctuate a dominant fourth-quarter effort by the Cardinals.
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NUMBERS
14_Straight wins by James Madison, the longest winning streak in FBS or FCS.
60_Years since Maryland scored at least 63 points until a 63-17 rout of in-state foe Towson.
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PENN STATE’S PAYBACK
James Franklin kept trying to downplay the importance of Penn State’s meeting with Pittsburgh. The most important game in the universe to be sure, the coach said in the run-up to the 98th meeting between the two schools just 140 miles apart. But only because it was the only one his team had this week.
Funny, Franklin’s players didn’t quite see it the same way.
A year after a loss to the Panthers ended up playing a role in keeping them out of the College Football Playoff, the fourth-ranked Nittany Lions exacted a bit of revenge with a 33-14 victory that looked more lopsided on the scoreboard than it appeared at times on the field.
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Savannah’s usually bustling City Market, a destination spot for many tourists, was quiet Saturday as the Georgia city hunkered down to take a hit from Hurricane Irma.
Savannah, Ga. — Savannah’s usually bustling City Market, a destination spot for many tourists, was quiet Saturday as the Georgia city hunkered down to take a hit from Hurricane Irma.
Local residents like the Smith Family say this effect from the storm is a welcome change.
«With no one down here and things nice and quiet, my family and I are enjoying our time down here to have the city to ourselves, » said Lee Smith.
Liz Juneau took advantage of empty streets to take a bike ride with friends.
«We are loving it, » she said.
«You appreciate so many things about Savannah, but you’re not able to see them sometimes because of all the tourists and the traffic and the cars parked, so we’re coming out here enjoying everything.»
While they enjoyed their peaceful weekend, Savannahians were also keeping in eye on Irma’s track. The damage to Barbuda and other Caribbean islands has proved that this is a storm not to be taken lightly.
«We’ve prepared our houses as much as we can. The cars are loaded if we have to go, but there’s no where to go at this point, » said Kim Turner.
Savannah is no longer under a mandatory evacuation order but rather a voluntary one.

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Contestants vying for the Miss America title are displaying some fancy footwear along a New Jersey boardwalk.
Miss Delaware 2017 Chelsea Bruce shows the crowd her shoes during the Miss America 2017 Parade on the Atlantic City, N. J. Boardwalk Saturday, Sept. 9,2017.
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North Korea illegally exported coal, iron and other commodities worth at least £204 million to China and other countries including India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka during a six-month perio
North Korea illegally exported coal, iron and other commodities worth at least £204 million to China and other countries including India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka during a six-month period, in breach of United Nations sanctions, the world body says.
In a report released on Saturday, UN experts said Kim Jong Un’s government continued to flout sanctions on commodities, as well as an arms embargo and restrictions on shipping and financial activities, during the perios which ended in early August.
They said North Korea was also reportedly continuing banned nuclear activities with weapons-grade fissile material production at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, construction and maintenance at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, and at a uranium mine in Pyongsan. The eight-member panel of experts said it was also investigating the widespread presence of North Koreans in Africa and the Middle East, particularly in Syria, «including their involvement in prohibited activities».
The experts said one inquiry is into «reported prohibited chemical, ballistic missile and conventional arms co-operation» between Syria and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official name. They said this included activities on Syrian Scud missile programmes and «maintenance and repair of Syrian surface-to-air missiles (SAM) air defence systems».
The panel noted that two unnamed countries reported intercepting shipments destined for Syria. It did not identify the contents and said Syria had yet to respond to its inquiries.
The 111-page report was written before North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test last Sunday and its latest launch of a powerful new intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan. It was made public two days before the United States has called for a vote on a new sanctions resolution.
The original US draft would impose the toughest-yet sanctions on North Korea including banning all oil and natural gas exports to the country and freezing all foreign financial assets of the government and Kim. The experts said implementation of existing sanctions «lags far behind what is necessary to achieve the core goal of denuclearisation» of the Korean peninsula.
They blamed «lax enforcement» of sanctions coupled North Korea’s «evolving evasion techniques» for undermining the achievement of this goal which would see the North abandon all weapons of mass destruction. On the export of commodities — a key source of foreign exchange for the DPRK — the experts said that following China’s suspension of coal imports from the North in February, the DPRK has been rerouting coal to other countries including Malaysia and Vietnam.
«The panel’s investigations reveal that the DPRK is deliberately using indirect channels to export prohibited commodities, evading sanctions, » the report said. The panel said imports of DPRK coal, iron and iron ore violate UN sanctions unless the countries have received an exemption.
Between December 2016 and May 2017, for example, the DPRK exported more than £60 million of iron ore to China, the report said. And between October 2016 and May 2017, it exported iron and steel products to Egypt, China, France, India, Ireland and Mexico, valued at £231,000. There are no exemptions for importing silver, copper, zinc, nickel and gold from the DPRK. And since December 2016, the experts said China, Sri Lanka, and India imported one or more of these minerals in breach of sanctions.
As for violations of the arms embargo, the panel said it was conducting investigations in Angola, Congo, Eritrea, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda as well as Syria. In Mozambique, for example, the experts said they were looking into the reported supply of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, air defence systems, other surface-to-air missiles and radar by a North Korean trading company. They are also investigating reports that the same company is repairing and upgrading Tanzania’s surface-to-air missile systems.
When it comes to financial sanctions, the panel said the DPRK continues to evade and violate them in a number of ways. Many DPRK financial institutions maintain representatives overseas who conduct transactions that facilitate prohibited programmes; many foreign financial institutions wittingly or unwittingly provide banking services to DPRK front companies and others engaged in prohibited activities; and foreign investments in DPRK banks or joint ventures give those banks access to funding and the international financial system. In addition, the experts said: «DPRK officials and entities have engaged in deceptive financial practices, including opening multiple bank accounts in the same country and in neighbouring countries in their own names, under family members’ names, and in the names of front companies.»
As for shipping, the experts said the number of foreign-flagged DPRK vessels has been «dramatically reduced» in response to UN sanctions. But they said North Korea «continued to hone its evasion tactics» by increasing the number of DPRK-flagged ships by a corresponding number. AP
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