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Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Florida State Quarterback Taunts Alabama Ahead Of Week 1 Game
Florida State Quarterback Taunts Alabama Ahead Of Week 1 Game originally appeared on The Spun. Florida State had as disappointing a season as you'll ever see last year after entering with a top-10 preseason ranking and finishing with double-digit losses. Advertisement The hyped addition of DJ Uiagalelei from Oregon State was supposed to get the Seminoles over the top, but instead he was benched after a 1-4 start that saw the FSU offense crack 20 points just once. Now with another transfer quarterback in Tallahassee in former Boston College star Tommy Castellanos, the Noles believe they're back. And he had a message for Alabama ahead of their home opener at Doak Campbell Stadium. "I'm excited, man. People, I don't know if they know, but you go back and watch every first game that I played in, we always start fast. I dreamed of moments like this. I dreamed of playing against Alabama. They don't have Nick Saban to save them. I just don't see them stopping me," Castellanos said. "And then the ACC. I feel like I tore the ACC up by my damn self for the last two years, and now I'm with a squad. I hope people don't think that Florida State is going to be the same team it was last year because we have weapons," the junior warned. "People can't just sit back in zone coverage and watch me." Advertisement Castellanos was impressive for the Eagles in 2024 under ex-NFL coach Bill O'Brien with an 18:5 touchdown to interception ratio and 4-1 start before it was derailed a bit by three straight losses to Virginia, Virginia Tech and Louisville. Sep 21, 2024; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA; Boston College Eagles quarterback Thomas Castellanos (1) throws a pass against the Michigan State Spartans during the first half at Alumni Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images© Eric Canha-Imagn Images And while the Crimson Tide certainly didn't live up to expectations in Kaleb DeBoer's first year, there was still a big gap between Bama and FSU. But you can still respect Castellanos' confidence as he takes the Diego Pavia route to this offseason. The Noles and Tide meet Saturday, Aug. 30 at 3:30 PM ET on ABC. Related: 'Stunning' Fan At College World Series Has Been Identified Florida State Quarterback Taunts Alabama Ahead Of Week 1 Game first appeared on The Spun on Jun 23, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jun 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Correction or Not: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is Worth Buying for the Long Haul
Alphabet put AI to good use decades before it was cool. Ongoing innovation and massive resources should keep this company ahead in the AI race. Investors who bought in early have seen huge long-term gains, and the stock still looks affordable. 10 stocks we like better than Alphabet › I thought of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) as an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist long before I saw it as a business or an investment idea. The underlying Google organization started its game-changing search engine in the late 1990s. I studied information science and AI at the time (go Noles!), and was fascinated with Google's search engine. Older alternatives like Lycos, WebCrawler, and Alta Vista could also deliver helpful search results but only if you knew how to tweak your queries just right. It was a lot of work to design search strings like (Motley AND Fool AND investing) AND NOT (scam OR speculation), hoping to find the exact thing I'm looking for The magic of Google's search engine is that it went a step further. The search algorithm has become a meme nowadays as it steers web users in certain directions and content publishers strive to capture interest with various details. But back then, it was a revelation to see Google's search tool anticipate what the user is really looking for. The top results were even ranked in a sensible way without detailed instructions. These unique qualities were later copied in some way by every serious rival. They are built on deep text analysis -- also known as machine learning or artificial intelligence. Not much has changed after more than 25 years. Google kept improving its search engine, surrounded it with other AI-based tools such as Google Translate and the Google Maps navigation functions, and made AI easily available to anybody. Long before adopting the Alphabet moniker, Google was an AI expert for the masses. So I wasn't surprised when the company had a large language model (LLM) ready to go just a few months after OpenAI released its ChatGPT 3 platform. If anything, I can't wait to see what Alphabet still hides behind the AI lab's closed doors today. Alphabet's Google arm remains unbeatable in the online search and advertising market -- to a large extent because of its longtime AI commitment. The Gemini LLM is also a leading ChatGPT challenger, and is already integrated into the popular Gmail and Google Docs tools. The classic Google Search experience got an AI mode in March 2025, too. The Gemini system is going places. Google's AI competence is simply not up for discussion. I'm talking about a proven leader here, with an enormous amount of engineering and financial resources to throw behind the next big idea. Google (and Alphabet) has been very kind to longtime investors. If you invested just $1,000 when Google hit the stock market in August 2004, that investment would be worth more than $63,700 on May 13, 2025. Still, the stock has never looked overvalued. Even now, about two and a half years into the ChatGPT-powered AI boom, Alphabet's valuation ratios look downright affordable. AI rivals like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) can't hold a candle to Alphabet's value-investing appeal: AI Stock Market Capitalization Price to Earnings (P/E) Price to Sales (P/S) Price to Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) Alphabet $1.95 trillion 17.8 5.4 26.0 Microsoft $3.33 trillion 34.6 12.3 48.0 Nvidia $3.19 trillion 44.4 24.4 52.4 Data collected from on May 13, 2025. Alphabet's stock price could double and still compare favorably to Microsoft and Nvidia's valuation ratios. I'll agree that Nvidia has earned its premium price via unbeatable business growth, but Alphabet's sales and earnings are rising faster than Microsoft's. Is Alphabet's stock undervalued or Microsoft's overpriced? You be the judge. Let's just say that I only own one of these two AI stocks, and my choice isn't headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Alphabet has come a long way from the Stanford garage of its youth, and it's still a thrilling growth story. With or without broad market corrections along the way, I'm almost always a buyer of Alphabet's stock. It's only more tempting in times like these, as the stock trades 23% below February's all-time highs. Before you buy stock in Alphabet, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Alphabet wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $613,951!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $796,353!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 948% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 170% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of May 12, 2025 Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Anders Bylund has positions in Alphabet and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Correction or Not: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is Worth Buying for the Long Haul was originally published by The Motley Fool
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Correction or Not: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is Worth Buying for the Long Haul
Alphabet put AI to good use decades before it was cool. Ongoing innovation and massive resources should keep this company ahead in the AI race. Investors who bought in early have seen huge long-term gains, and the stock still looks affordable. 10 stocks we like better than Alphabet › I thought of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) as an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist long before I saw it as a business or an investment idea. The underlying Google organization started its game-changing search engine in the late 1990s. I studied information science and AI at the time (go Noles!), and was fascinated with Google's search engine. Older alternatives like Lycos, WebCrawler, and Alta Vista could also deliver helpful search results but only if you knew how to tweak your queries just right. It was a lot of work to design search strings like (Motley AND Fool AND investing) AND NOT (scam OR speculation), hoping to find the exact thing I'm looking for The magic of Google's search engine is that it went a step further. The search algorithm has become a meme nowadays as it steers web users in certain directions and content publishers strive to capture interest with various details. But back then, it was a revelation to see Google's search tool anticipate what the user is really looking for. The top results were even ranked in a sensible way without detailed instructions. These unique qualities were later copied in some way by every serious rival. They are built on deep text analysis -- also known as machine learning or artificial intelligence. Not much has changed after more than 25 years. Google kept improving its search engine, surrounded it with other AI-based tools such as Google Translate and the Google Maps navigation functions, and made AI easily available to anybody. Long before adopting the Alphabet moniker, Google was an AI expert for the masses. So I wasn't surprised when the company had a large language model (LLM) ready to go just a few months after OpenAI released its ChatGPT 3 platform. If anything, I can't wait to see what Alphabet still hides behind the AI lab's closed doors today. Alphabet's Google arm remains unbeatable in the online search and advertising market -- to a large extent because of its longtime AI commitment. The Gemini LLM is also a leading ChatGPT challenger, and is already integrated into the popular Gmail and Google Docs tools. The classic Google Search experience got an AI mode in March 2025, too. The Gemini system is going places. Google's AI competence is simply not up for discussion. I'm talking about a proven leader here, with an enormous amount of engineering and financial resources to throw behind the next big idea. Google (and Alphabet) has been very kind to longtime investors. If you invested just $1,000 when Google hit the stock market in August 2004, that investment would be worth more than $63,700 on May 13, 2025. Still, the stock has never looked overvalued. Even now, about two and a half years into the ChatGPT-powered AI boom, Alphabet's valuation ratios look downright affordable. AI rivals like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) can't hold a candle to Alphabet's value-investing appeal: AI Stock Market Capitalization Price to Earnings (P/E) Price to Sales (P/S) Price to Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) Alphabet $1.95 trillion 17.8 5.4 26.0 Microsoft $3.33 trillion 34.6 12.3 48.0 Nvidia $3.19 trillion 44.4 24.4 52.4 Data collected from on May 13, 2025. Alphabet's stock price could double and still compare favorably to Microsoft and Nvidia's valuation ratios. I'll agree that Nvidia has earned its premium price via unbeatable business growth, but Alphabet's sales and earnings are rising faster than Microsoft's. Is Alphabet's stock undervalued or Microsoft's overpriced? You be the judge. Let's just say that I only own one of these two AI stocks, and my choice isn't headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Alphabet has come a long way from the Stanford garage of its youth, and it's still a thrilling growth story. With or without broad market corrections along the way, I'm almost always a buyer of Alphabet's stock. It's only more tempting in times like these, as the stock trades 23% below February's all-time highs. Before you buy stock in Alphabet, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Alphabet wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $613,951!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $796,353!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 948% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 170% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of May 12, 2025 Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Anders Bylund has positions in Alphabet and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Correction or Not: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is Worth Buying for the Long Haul was originally published by The Motley Fool Sign in to access your portfolio
USA Today
08-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
One of FSU's top freshmen is helping recruit several top targets
One of FSU's top freshmen is helping recruit several top targets The Florida State Seminoles are in the mix for some of the country's best offensive line prospects, and one freshman is doing his best to help them close the deal. Offensive lineman Mario Nash Jr., who signed with FSU last season as a four-star prospect, took to social media on Saturday to try and persuade Lamar Brown and Canon Picket to join him in Tallahassee. "Man stop playing and come on home," he wrote, tagging both players. "FSU @Seminoles let's show some love to these future Noles!" Brown, one of the best players in the country, recently named FSU one of his final four schools with the Miami Hurricanes, LSU Tigers, and Texas A&M Aggies and set a commitment date of July 4. He is set to officially visit all four programs and FSU will need to make a move to catch up with the hometown Tigers and Aggies. He is the No. 15 overall player, No. 1 interior offensive lineman, and No. 1 player from Louisiana in the 247Sports composite rankings. While he has never visited FSU, he is close with offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn and offensive line coach Herb Hand, giving the Seminoles a shot with him. Pickett is a three-star prospect from Tampa, Florida, and named FSU one of his top 10 schools back in February. He attended one of FSU's Junior Days in January and they will need to get him back on campus for a spring visit and an official visit as they work to catch the Miami for Pickett, which is where several members of his family members went to school.
