MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — John Love and Andy Borregales sent Virginia Tech and No. 7 Miami into halftime with a little bit of fireworks Friday night.
They're the kickers — and they connected on career-longs 20 seconds apart to end the first half.
Love made a 57-yarder for Virginia Tech, and Borregales answered with a 56-yarder for Miami on the final play before halftime. The Hokies took a 24-17 lead into the locker room in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams.
It was the first FBS game this season where both teams connected on a field goal of at least 56 yards. There were 14 such field goals at the FBS level in the entire 2023 season, the NCAA said, and Love and Borregales pushed the number of such kicks in 2024 to 10 already.
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Miami place kicker Andres Borregales (30) watches after kicking a field goal during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Ball State, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
NEW YORK (AP) — Stone-faced authorities stepping up to a podium. A scrum of reporters jostling for a quote. Popping flashbulbs and pandemonium.
The spectacle played out across a public plaza from the federal courthouse where New York City Mayor Eric Adams was arraigned on federal bribery charges Friday morning — but it had nothing to do with the stunning indictment.
Instead, it was a far more familiar city occurrence: a film crew shooting an episode of “Law & Order,” one that happened to feature actors dressed as law enforcement officials briefing TV cameras and uncommonly attractive journalists.
“It’s just pure coincidence,” said one Law & Order crew member, who’d already informed several curious passersby that the clamor had nothing to do with the newly announced charges against Adams. “People have been asking us all day if the mayor is here. He is not," said the crew member, who declined to give his name.
Still, the scene offered an uncanny simulacrum of the fast-moving corruption scandal that has created a political crisis, prompting the resignations of the real police commissioner and schools chancellor in recent weeks.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Adams, making him the city's first sitting mayor to be arrested since the 19th century.
“Cause of all the craziness that’s been happening in New York, it’s an easy mistake to make,” said Pat Quigley, a South Carolina resident visiting the city, as she took a photo of the film set.
Daniel Bhagat said he’d traveled to Manhattan from New Jersey in part to look at the nearby courthouse where Adams pleaded not guilty that morning — and was briefly thrilled to be so close to a potentially historic moment.
“I didn’t see the production equipment. I really thought it was Eric Adams,” he said, letting out a sigh after learning the truth. “I don’t want to say I was disappointed. I do love the show.”
Like the long-running TV show, the federal inquiries around the Adams’ administration features its own ensemble cast.
Federal investigators have charged the mayor with accepting illegal campaign contributions and expensive overseas trips from a Turkish diplomatic official seeking to leverage his influence.
There are believed to be separate ongoing investigations that involve the former police commissioner and his brother; a different brother of the deputy mayor and schools chancellor; and the mayor’s director of Asian Affairs. On Friday afternoon, one of the mayor’s closest advisers was met at the airport by both federal and state investigators, who seized her phone and served her a subpoena.
Following his arraignment, Adams stood silent as his attorney, Alex Spiro, told throngs of reporters that his client was innocent of wrongdoing. “This isn’t even a real case,” Spiro said.
A few minutes later, on the other side of the bustling plaza, a passing man shouted his own assessment in the direction of the Law & Order set: “Eric Adams is going to jail!”
Bruce Altman and Tony Goldwyn film an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Tony Goldwyn films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Tony Goldwyn films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Tony Goldwyn films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Bruce Altman films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Bruce Altman films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Bruce Altman films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Bruce Altman films an episode of Law & Order, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
