It was a Karadashian family affair at Friday's Givenchy runway show, but the night wasn't just huge for the queens of reality TV . The Sept. 11 event was a major night for creative director Riccardo Tisci, as it was the label's first-ever stateside showing at New York Fashion Week.
ET spoke with the iconic fashion designer after the runway show, where he was gushing about all of the love he felt in the room from stars like Nicki Minaj, Julia Roberts and, of course, Kim Kardashian.
Tisci famously designed Kardashian's wedding dress when she married Kanye West last year, and the two have become close friends. In fact, he personally selected the sheer black dress the 34-year-old pregnant mom wore on Friday.
Kardashian, who he described as "a very clever girl and sweet," decided with Tisci that she wanted to really go for it with the gothic look that put her growing belly on display. "She looked stunning!" Tisci said.
But why go for such a barely-there dress? "Pregnancy is so beautiful," he explained. "Why cover it? It's another message of love and life"
Kardashian turned up not just to support Tisci, but also because her little sister, Kendall Jenner, was walking in the show. The sister's support for each other is not surprising, but what is shocking is that Tisci had no idea that Jenner was part of the Kardashian clan at first!
The 41-year-old Italian initially picked Jenner to walk in the show after seeing her model during a visit to Paris. Between that and her photos, Tisci felt she had potential -- but he had no idea who she was. A day after working with Kardashian, the 34-year-old reality star told him, "You just picked my sister for your runway."
"I didn't know that was the sister of Kim, and I'm very close friends with Kim," Tisci admitted.
Luckily, they all know each other very well now. Not only has Jenner become a familiar face at Givenchy, Tisci continues to style the Kardashian crew. The real question now is, will Cailtyn Jenner get dressed by Tisci next?
Though she didn't make it to the show despite rumors of a possible appearance, Tisci said he is looking forward to the day he gets to work with the transgender woman he calls "a very big star and role model," saying, "that's going to be a moment."

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FILE - In this May 17, 2015 file photo, authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant, in Waco, Texas. Bikers and public watchdogs have criticized authorities here for how they’ve handled the shooting investigation, citing the mass arrests of more than 170 people held for days or weeks on $1 million bonds without sufficient evidence to support those arrests four months after the shootings. No formal charges have been made, and it remains unclear whose bullets, including police bullets, struck the dead and injured, or when cases will be presented to a grand jury, which is currently led by a Waco police detective.   (AP Photo/Jerry Larson, File)
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WACO, Texas (AP) — The secrecy that enshrouds the investigation into a biker shootout in May that left nine people dead and led to the mass-arrest of 177 people is hardly surprising in this city, where public scrutiny is rare and unwelcome.
On the banks of the Brazos River in Central Texas, Waco and the surrounding county are largely run by a close-knit circle of judges, prosecutors and law enforcement that defense lawyers complain leads local agencies to close ranks in the aftermath of this most recent calamity.
It's a city where a district judge and district attorney are former law partners, the mayor is the son of a former mayor, the sheriff comes from a long line of lawmen and Waco pioneers and the sheriff's brother is the district attorney's chief investigator.
Bikers and public watchdogs have criticized authorities here for how they've handled the investigation, citing the mass arrests in which people were held for days or weeks on $1 million bonds without sufficient evidence to support such actions four months after the shootings.
No formal charges have been made, and it remains unclear whose bullets, including police bullets, struck the dead and injured, or when cases will be presented to a grand jury, which is currently led by a Waco police detective.
"I don't know of any defense lawyer who hasn't looked at the facts of this case and gasped," said Grant Scheiner, a criminal defense attorney in Houston not connected to the bikers' case.
Waco police, McLennan County prosecutors and judges refused to comment — citing a gag order written by the DA — but law enforcement staunchly defend their actions, including the 12 shots that the police chief said officers fired into the melee after bikers allegedly opened fire on them.
The violence erupted May 17 before a meeting of a coalition of motorcycle clubs that advocates rider safety. Police have said two rival biker gangs got into a confrontation that turned deadly when one group of bikers opened fire on another outside a Twin Peaks restaurant.
Some 177 people were arrested and remained in custody until their bonds were reduced. Defense attorneys have been critical of how the cases have been processed, accusing District Attorney Abel Reyna of writing "fill-in-the-blank" arrest affidavits. A police officer testified a justice of the peace approved the affidavits without making any individual determination of probable cause.
In the criminal case of one of the defendants, Reyna's former law partner, District Judge Matt Johnson, issued a gag order as written by Reyna.
Many bikers who previously told The Associated Press they were innocent bystanders are now reluctant to speak further because of the gag order.
Although police and the district attorney described last spring everyone who was taken into custody as criminals, an Associated Press review of a Texas Department of Public Safety database found no convictions listed under the names and birthdates of more than two-thirds of those arrested.



Insider vs. Outsider Matchup Finds Clinton, Trump Near Even
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Insider vs. Outsider Matchup Finds Clinton, Trump Near Even (ABC News)
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump run essentially evenly among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup for president in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, testament to the strength of party loyalty as well as to Trump’s anti-establishment profile and anti-immigration views.

The hypothetical contest stands at 46-43 percent, Clinton-Trump, a gap that's within the survey's margin of sampling error. That compares to a clear Clinton lead among all adults, 51-39 percent, indicating her broad support in groups that are less apt to be registered to vote, such as young adults and racial and ethnic minorities.
See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.
The close result in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, says as much about partisanship as it does about the candidates. Registered voters divide 45-40 percent between identifying themselves as Democrats, or leaning that way, vs. Republicans or GOP leaners. And 82 percent of leaned Democrats say they’d support Clinton, while 76 percent of leaned Republicans say they'd back Trump, were they the party nominees.
That said, Trump also is tapping factors including discontent with the political system, anti-immigration attitudes and dissatisfaction with the Obama administration. He leads Clinton by a broad 64-25 percent among registered voters who prefer a candidate from outside the political establishment and by 49-38 percent among those who strongly distrust politicians.
Trump also leads Clinton by 73-14 percent among those who favor his controversial views on immigration, 74-13 percent among those who disapprove of President Obama’s job performance, 68-22 percent among political conservatives and 52-36 percent among whites, a broadly pro-GOP group in recent years. (They favored Mitt Romney over Obama by 20 percentage points in 2012.) Among evangelical white Protestants, a core GOP group, Trump leads Clinton by 67-22 percent.
This analysis is the first slice of a new ABC/Post poll on the 2016 election. More detailed results on the primaries, views of candidate attributes and attitudes about the political system overall will be released Monday morning.
There are some important provisos in evaluating these results. Early polls are not predictive. They seek to measure preferences if the election were today, but the election is not today, and if it were, voters would have had a full campaign’s worth of information on which to base their choices – including whether to vote in the first place. Campaigns clearly do matter; front-runners have failed in past elections and single-digit candidates have surged to victory. Polls at this stage, then, are best used to understand attitude formation, not eventual election choices.
Statistical analysis shows which factors best predict Clinton vs. Trump preferences, holding all else equal. The biggest by far is whether or not registered voters support Trump’s positions on immigration. That’s followed by partisanship, preferring experience vs. a political outsider, ideology, race and gender.

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Notably, in the general election matchup, Trump leads by 52-37 percent among men, while Clinton leads by 55-34 percent among women. Fifty-three percent of women in this survey say they're Democrats or lean that way, compared with 36 percent of men.
The results produce a vast 36-point gender gap -– Trump +15 points among men, Clinton +21 among women. The average in general election exit polls since 1976 has been 13 points; the biggest was 22 points in the Gore-Bush contest of 2000. The Clinton-Trump gender gap is more than twice as big as the Clinton-Jeb Bush gender gap in an ABC/Post poll in July, presumably reflecting Trump's controversial remarks about women.
Clinton's support among women is based on her overwhelming backing from college-educated women, 68-20 percent. By contrast, Trump leads Clinton by a broad 55-34 percent among men who aren't college graduates. He runs about evenly with Clinton among women without a college degree and among men who've graduated from college.
The education gap, like the gender gap, is outsized. In exit polls since 1980, there has been little difference in candidate support among those with a college degree vs. non-graduates, an average of just 2 points; the biggest gap was 11 points in 1996, when Bill Clinton's support was higher among non-grads (+14 points) than among college graduates (+3 points). In the Clinton-Trump matchup, there's a vast 35-point gap; it's 57-31 percent, Clinton-Trump, among those with a college degree, vs. 49-40 percent, Trump-Clinton, among those without one. Indeed, even among college-educated leaned Republicans, Trump’s support slips to 67 percent, vs. 80 percent among those without a degree.
This reflects a challenge in Trump's support profile; while he does much better with less-educated registered voters, they're less likely actually to vote.
At the same time, Trump has a 20-point lead over Clinton among senior citizens, 55-35 percent, while Clinton has an even broader advantage among adults under 30, 63-27 percent. In this case it's Trump’s group that has a higher propensity to vote.
Clinton also does vastly better than Trump among nonwhites, 72-19 percent; they’re a core Democratic group and a growing share of the electorate. And there's a strong regional effect, with much better results for Clinton in the Northeast and West, with Trump ahead in the Midwest and South. Again, it's largely partisanship that leads the way.

Bobby Brown gives 1st interview since Bobbi Kristina's death

FILE - In this June 30, 2013 file photo, Alicia Etheredge, left, and Bobby Brown arrive at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. Brown will speak publicly for the first time since his daughter Bobbi Kristina’s death, appearing on Fox’s talk show “The Real,” which airs Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The 22-year-old Bobbi Kristina died in hospice care July 26. She was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub Jan. 31. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this June 30, 2013 file photo, Alicia Etheredge, left, and Bobby Brown arrive at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. Brown will speak publicly for the first time since his daughter Bobbi Kristina’s death, appearing on Fox’s talk show “The Real,” which airs Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The 22-year-old Bobbi Kristina died in hospice care July 26. She was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub Jan. 31. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
ATLANTA (AP) — Bobby Brown said he believes things would have turned out differently for Bobbi Kristina Brown if he had been with his daughter days before she was found unresponsive in her home in suburban Atlanta.
Brown was to speak publicly for the first time since Bobbi Kristina's death in July, in an appearance on Fox's talk show "The Real," which airs Monday. He became emotional several times while sitting next to his wife Alicia Etheredge in video clips of the pre-taped interview released in advance.
"If I could have been there two days before, it wouldn't have went down like that," said Brown, who wore a necklace bearing a photo of him and his daughter.
The 22-year-old Bobbi Kristina died in hospice care July 26. She was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub Jan. 31.
Bobbi Kristina was the only daughter between Brown and the late Whitney Houston. Brown says he thinks Houston was ready for their daughter to be with the singer "in heaven."
Brown said he held out hope for months that Bobbi Kristina would survive.
"We prayed and hoped for six months, you know, for something better to happen," he said. "But when God calls you, he calls you."
His daughter was buried in New Jersey next to Houston.
"I'm pretty sure her mother was. ... had a part with like, 'Come on, let's get her up here,'" he said. "(Houston) was not comfortable by herself, I guess. She just called my daughter with her."
Houston died in a similar fashion. She was found face-down in a foot of water in her bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before the 2012 Grammy Awards. Authorities found prescription drugs in the suite and evidence of heart disease and cocaine in her body but determined her death was an accidental drowning.
Bobbi Kristina was found in the townhome she shared with Nick Gordon, an orphan three years older than her, whom Houston had raised as her own. Bobbi Kristina referred to him as her husband.
A police report earlier this year described the incident as a drowning, and authorities are investigating her death.


Diane von Furstenberg’s fashion show are always a celebration of women, and her Spring 2016 presentation on Sunday afternoon kicked things up a notch with serious supermodel star power. Karlie Kloss, Kendall Jenner, Gigi and Bella Hadid, Jourdan Dunn, Lily Aldridge, Binx Walton, and Anna Cleveland — daughter of Pat Cleveland, one of the first black supermodels — all graced the runway, giving DVF perhaps the best squad of the week.
As a veteran designer and president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), Furstenberg’s show always commands attention and enlists the hottest models of the moment. But more importantly, her shows, garments, and overall vibe are about empowerment.  
Karlie Kloss opened the show in a red and pink printed wrap dress — the iconic, flattering style that put Furstenberg on the map in 1974. (She originally invented the dress as a way to quietly sneak out the next morning without waking a sleeping man — forgoing noisy zippers. Talk about progressive!) Gigi Hadid closed the show, strutting down the catwalk in a black and gold plunge-neck maxi dress. The models wore beautiful flowers in their hair that Furstenberg sourced from a merchant while on vacation in Ibiza with Sarah Jessica Parker.
Supermodels Jourdan Dunn, Karlie Kloss, Kendall Jenner, and Gigi Hadid celebrate girl power and femininity at New York Fashion Week. (Photo: Getty Images)
The overall look was feminine and confident in part to the hair as well. “Whether in Ibiza, Portofino, Los Angeles, or Bali, I love seeing all the girls head out at night with their natural waves fresh from the beach, just tucked behind their ear with a flower, it reminded me of how I used to wear my own hair back in the 1970s and I wanted Orlando [Pita] to inject that carefree vibe into the show,” says Furstenberg. Prepping for the show, Orlando Pita told Yahoo Beauty that he spotted a photo of Diane von Furstenberg from the ‘70s when she wore her hair curly for the first time —finally embracing her natural texture. He said, “Why don’t we do it like that?” So Pita styled all the models in a similar fashion, using TRESemme Runway Collection Make Waves Shaping Gel to create waves that he pinned up, took down, and brushed out into a perfectly undone coif with a side part. The look is very ‘70s DVF, but it’s also a celebration of natural beauty with a diverse cast of models. “There are shags, afros, and all different textures and hair types [in the show], but all have curls and waves.”


Meet Kelechi Iheanacho, Manchester City's young prodigy.
Manchester City spent a whopping £147 million ($226.8 million USD) this summer, with over £100 million of that going towards attacking players. But while tied 0-0 against Crystal Palace, they brought on Kelechi Iheanacho, a Nigerian youth team star who spent last season tearing it up in City's academy. Kevin De Bruyne and other expensive stars couldn't find a goal, but Iheanacho did.
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Congratulations to Iheanacho on his first senior goal, and good for him for breaking into the team and making the impact despite the team's purchase of much more hyped prospects.



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150806-KELSEYRANDALL-04-435.jpgKelsey Randall
Before graduating with honors from Parsons' fashion department, Kelsey Randall studied art at The Oxbow School, Savannah College of Art and Design, and School of the Art Institute Chicago. Then she worked under Prabal Gurung and Peter Som at Bill Blass before a 7-year stay at the French brand Lilith. Resume: check. But Randall's frilly minimalism speaks for itself -- attracting both zeitgeist-y girl gangs and in-the-know Upper East Side Queen Bees.

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If you know Sandy Liang, you know her shaggy faux fur coats, which were already being worn by East Village cool girls before she graduated from Parsons and launched her collection in 2014 (Kate Foley and Hanneli Mustaparta were first season supporters). But beyond the vibrantly textured outerwear, her full ready-to-wear collection is worth getting into. Liang's use of pale color and '90s silhouettes, offset with baggy wide-leg jeans or a kicky cropped-flare gives major feminine cool. 

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A modern American sportswear brand founded in 2014 by industry alums Alex Gilbert (who previously founded one of the first fine denim brands, Paper Denim & Cloth) and Jennifer Noyes (ex-Prada womenswear director), that harks back to the crisp ease of 1980s Calvin Klein. With a soft launch during June's Resort 2016 market, where they showed a colorful and comfortable collection of elegant separates, M. Martin's New York Fashion Week show this Thursday marks the line's official debut.

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This Harlem-born brand, founded by Rio Uribe, first caught major attention when they staged a guerilla fashion show in Washington Square Park last September at New York Fashion Week. At the first ever New York Fashion Week: Men's this past July, Uribe's sense of streetwear and craft won hearts with a circus-inspired collection.

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Andrea Jiapei Li
If Dover Street Market picked up your graduate collection and Rihanna's already wearing your clothes, you've got to be doing something right. The Bejing-born Parsons grad, and V-Files/ MADE Fashion Week alum Andrea Jiapei Li certainty is. Her geometric volumes, mixed with easy sportswear silhouettes in artful color pairings are crowd favorites.

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The Canadian-born, Belgium-based menswear designer -- he received both BA and MA degrees from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp -- lives up to the off-kilter aristocratism his name suggests. MADE Fashion Week and Opening Ceremony have been early supporters of LeFlufy's kaleidoscopic patterns, in perfectly dated styles made with a luxurious hand.

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Founded in New York in 2013 by Laura Vassar and Kristopher Brock, Brock Collection is minimal in aesthetic and conservative in silhouette but eclectic in texture. Their gold lamé dress isn't Studio 54-ready (it has sleeves to the elbow and the hem lands mid-calf) but this sense of eye-catching modesty stops you in your tracks nonetheless.

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Claudia Li doesn't consider herself a designer as much as a sculptor of fabric. It's true, her three-dimensional silhouettes take the idea of draping to a whole new level, but her sense of line creates a tailored, wearable balance. Lady Gaga sported a look from her spring 2014 graduate collection from Parsons, and Li's fall 2015 show last February at New York Fashion Week sent art-leaning publications abuzz. 

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The Moscow-born Natalya Nyn started Toy Syndrome as a label of t-shirts and accessories with three-dimensional toy embroideries like plastic lobsters and lizards, the latter of which Lena Dunham posted to her Instagram and wore in season three of Girls. Now, shoutouts from several inspiring alt-chicks later (including Tavi Gevinson), Nyn has a full collection of toy-embellished ready-to-wear you never knew you wanted.

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A line from Diane von Furstenburg interns Qiaoran Huang and Josh Hupper (who also interned at Thakoon), Babyghost has a playful sense of pattern but with a slouchy, street-wise edge. With support from full-time models and street-style regulars Xiao Wen Ju and Liu Wen, the brand has slowly risen from the blog brigade to MADE Fashion Week status.


Mourinho defiant after Chelsea's 3-1 defeat by Everton at Goodison Park Reuters Updated Saturday, September 12th 2015 at 18:24 GMT +3 0 inShare Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho reacts as his side lose their third game of the season in a 3-1 defeat by Everton A defiant Jose Mourinho said he was the man to salvage Chelsea's season after the champions crashed to a 3-1 defeat at Everton on Saturday, their third defeat in five Premier League games. Everton's hero was substitute Steven Naismith who scored the "perfect" hat-trick with a header and shots with his right and left foot as Everton condemned Chelsea to their worst start to a top-flight campaign since 1986. The champions have lost as many games as they did in the whole of last season, but Mourinho told BT Sports he was not panicking. "The results are too wrong for our quality and our status and the players deserve much more than they are getting," he said. "Right now it's easy for everyone to criticise me and the players that everything is wrong, but I completely disagree. "I am the champion, the players are the champions. "The way we are playing is not as bad as the results suggest because everything is going against us. "But I don't blame the players and I don't blame myself. They are the worst results ever in my career but I am comfortable with the situation. See Also: Naismith treble leaves Chelsea's title defence in turmoil "I do not think there is a better manager than me to come to Chelsea and to do my job. I am the man for the job. I have done so many good things for Chelsea, but now I am the man with the bad results, but give me the responsibility and I will sort this out." Everton manager Roberto Martinez was delighted with his players. "A performance like that makes you very proud, it was an incredible team performance," he said.
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Mourinho defiant after Chelsea's 3-1 defeat by Everton at Goodison Park Reuters Updated Saturday, September 12th 2015 at 18:24 GMT +3 0 inShare Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho reacts as his side lose their third game of the season in a 3-1 defeat by Everton A defiant Jose Mourinho said he was the man to salvage Chelsea's season after the champions crashed to a 3-1 defeat at Everton on Saturday, their third defeat in five Premier League games. Everton's hero was substitute Steven Naismith who scored the "perfect" hat-trick with a header and shots with his right and left foot as Everton condemned Chelsea to their worst start to a top-flight campaign since 1986. The champions have lost as many games as they did in the whole of last season, but Mourinho told BT Sports he was not panicking. "The results are too wrong for our quality and our status and the players deserve much more than they are getting," he said. "Right now it's easy for everyone to criticise me and the players that everything is wrong, but I completely disagree. "I am the champion, the players are the champions. "The way we are playing is not as bad as the results suggest because everything is going against us. "But I don't blame the players and I don't blame myself. They are the worst results ever in my career but I am comfortable with the situation. See Also: Naismith treble leaves Chelsea's title defence in turmoil "I do not think there is a better manager than me to come to Chelsea and to do my job. I am the man for the job. I have done so many good things for Chelsea, but now I am the man with the bad results, but give me the responsibility and I will sort this out." Everton manager Roberto Martinez was delighted with his players. "A performance like that makes you very proud, it was an incredible team performance," he said.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jim Harbaugh is the shiny new object in college football this year, grabbing attention as he starts to rebuild Michigan.
But there is a program in the same state that is already built. It is all grown up. And it has zero interest in playing second fiddle to the transitioning glam program in Ann Arbor.
Michigan State is the undisputed king of this state, until proven otherwise.
"I just think this was the place to be today in this state," Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said, a very pointed remark that he made after his No. 5 team defeated No. 7 Oregon 31-28 Saturday night.
His message – to recruits, to fans, to media members – was unmistakable. It was also accurate. I was in Ann Arbor to see the Wolverines at noon and in East Lansing to see Spartans at night, and there is no question which is the program of the moment in Michigan.
Michigan State is the team with dominant players in the trenches. Michigan State is the team with a playmaking quarterback. Michigan State is the team that has built enough depth to simply reload after losing prominent players, year after year. Michigan State is the team that was poised enough and confident enough to win on the biggest stage of the early season.

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Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio had reason to smile after the Spartans beat Oregon. (Getty Images)
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio had reason to smile after the Spartans beat Oregon. (Getty Images)
In his ninth season, Dantonio has a fully mature program. One that seems ready to offer a viable challenge to kingpin Ohio State when the two meet Nov. 21 in Columbus. Of course, there is the not-so-minor matter of Michigan in mid-October. But if there is one team Dantonio has figured out how to beat, it's Big Brother Big Blue. He's won six of the past seven meetings, five of them by two touchdowns or more.
The Spartans look perfectly capable of extending their dominance of the Wolverines if they play the way they did against the Ducks. After stumbling in the second half in Eugene last year – a game that catapulted Oregon to the College Football Playoff and quarterback Marcus Mariota to the Heisman Trophy – Michigan State was aching for payback.
"The loss last year sucked," senior quarterback Connor Cook said. "It stuck with me all last season. It stuck with me watching them play for the national championship. It stuck with me all offseason."
Mariota was the difference maker last year. His replacement at quarterback for Oregon, Eastern Washington transfer Vernon Adams, was a mere shadow of Mariota.
Adams threw for 309 yards in just his second FBS start, so it wasn't like he was in over his head. But he displayed none of Mariota's scrambling prescience – more often running into trouble than away from it. His field vision at times seemed limited, and his touch was inconsistent.
Those shortcomings were vividly displayed at game's end, when Oregon had a chance to steal a victory in a game where it had been outplayed most of the night.
With a second-and-6 from the Michigan State 33, trailing by three points, Adams overthrew wideout Byron Marshall at the goal line. On third down, a Spartans blitz panicked him and resulted in a 10-yard sack. And on fourth down, Adams skittered around and underthrew Bralon Addison to effectively end the game.
"He's not Mariota," noted Michigan State defensive end Shilique Calhoun, "so it wasn't the same."

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Madre London ran for 103 yards against the Ducks. (Getty Images)
Madre London ran for 103 yards against the Ducks. (Getty Images)
Replacing a Heisman winner is a tall task. But so is replacing a 1,500-yard rusher, a 1,200-yard receiver and your top two tacklers. Michigan State had those holes to fill, and has done so impressively.
Coming into this season, senior receiver Aaron Burbridge hadn't had a game with more than five catches or 57 yards since October of his freshman year. Then he had 117 receiving yards in the opener against Western Michigan, and followed that up with eight catches for 101 yards against the Ducks.
"His confidence is very large right now," offensive coordinator Dave Warner said.
So is the confidence of young running backs Madre London and LJ Scott. Michigan State has churned out Le'Veon Bell and Jeremy Langford in recent years, and these two look like the next studs in the assembly line. London, a redshirt freshman, ran for 103 yards. Scott, a true freshman, went for 76 and two touchdowns.
"It's pretty amazing to see them grow up," Cook said.
The whole Michigan State program has grown up, rapidly, in the past two-plus seasons.
In 2013 the Spartans went 13-1, upset Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game and won the Rose Bowl. Last year they were beaten by Oregon and the Buckeyes, but still went on to win the Cotton Bowl over No. 4 Baylor with a miracle comeback.
Now they have hung another major skin on the wall – or feathers, if you insist. Winning this game could give Michigan State a chance to be a playoff team even if it loses to Ohio State on Nov. 21.
"Maybe at the end of the season [this win] pays you dividends and moves you forward, when people talk about strength of schedule and things like that," Dantonio said.
There isn't much strength in the next eight weeks, at least as it stands now. Air Force and Central Michigan round out the non-conference schedule and will not present quality win opportunities. Then Michigan State's first six Big Ten opponents all have a loss already: Purdue, Rutgers, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska and Maryland. So does the last opponent, Penn State.
Which leaves Ohio State.
The Buckeyes and Spartans are likely to spend the next two months eyeing each other from afar, wondering how they'll match up. For the third straight year, the winner of that game figures to be the winner of the league.
And even with all the talent at Urban Meyer's disposal in Columbus, Michigan State won't back down from that fight when it comes. The Spartans have grown up enough that they're ready for this season of great promise, ready to be part of the national championship conversation for the long haul.
Maybe someday that program down the road in Ann Arbor can get to this level, too.


This model of a female Sydney funnel-web spider at Jamberoo Action Park in New South Wales, Australia just set a new record for Largest Spider Sculpture.
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The mighty 19.7 metres (64 ft 7.59 in) high arachnid made of steel, fibreglass and concrete took a year to construct. It was created to accompany the park's Funnel Web water slide ride and is over 420 times larger than the spider it depicts.
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The spider is 22.2 m (72 ft 10.01 in) in width and 15 m (49 ft 2.55 in) in length and was manufactured in Malaysia. To put it in perspective, each fang is an incredible 3.5m long. The spider weighs 7.5 tonnes in total, with 52.8 tonnes of concrete supporting the steel frame structure.
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The ride itself opened in December 2012 with construction of the sculptured spider commencing in February 2014, completed 12 months later in February 2015. It was officially measured in July and approved by our records team early this month.
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The spider was anatomically designed based on the venemous female Sydney Funnel Web Spider, which is larger than the male of the species and is found locally in the Australian state of New South Wales. A bite from the spider can result in serious injury or death. The spiders live in silk-lined tubular burrows set with trip lines to capture prey.
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The previous record holder was ‘Maman’ (1999) by the French artist Louise Bourgeois. Measuring 9.27 m (30 ft 4.96 in) high and 10.2 m (33 ft 5.57 in) across, the steel and bronze sculpture is over 36 times larger than the world’s largest real spider, the bird-eating Theraphosa blondi from Venezuela, which can reach 28 cm (11 in) across its leg span. The original steel version is owned by the Tate Modern in.

The most popular couple in Nigeria’s music industry, Tunde and Wunmi Obe (T.WO.) are set to release two new visuals off their latest T.W.O Plus album.
The new videos  for ‘Te Amo’ and ‘Ire’ were directed by ace music video director, Clarence Peters on location in Lagos.
 
The release dates of the videos have been fixed with ‘Te Amo’ set to debut on, September 15, a song with Spanish-flavoured up-tempo Afropop tune which tells the story of two lovebirds expressing love for each other through music and dance.
And in the second video, Ire, the couple engages the services of an upcoming act, Brace,  with whom they made a passionate plea for a blessed lifetime.  The video also celebrates the lives of T.W.O as couple over the years, is billed to debut in November.
Check out photos from behind the scenes of the shoot:
         
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