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LOS ANGELES — It certainly seems calculated. Pete Carroll, scheduled to begin teaching at USC this spring, has reportedly expressed interest in the Chicago Bears' head coaching job. Likely of no coincidence is that the Seattle Seahawks — the team Carroll coached for 14 seasons — visit the Bears on "Thursday Night Football." The broadcasters are spoon-fed a talking point while noting that the Bears have lost nine games in a row, including all three under interim coach Thomas Brown. A delicious detail is the shared USC history of Carroll and Bears rookie quarterback Caleb Williams. Carroll coached the Trojans from 2001-2009, posting a 97-19 record and winning national championships in 2003 and 2004. Williams was an appendage to new Trojans coach Lincoln Riley, transferring to USC as a sophomore in 2022 and winning the Heisman Trophy. Although 2023 didn't go as well, Williams was the first pick in the NFL draft. Chicago needs an impact coach. Carroll is one, or at least was for a long time, leading the Seahawks to nine consecutive winning records, 10 playoff berths and a Super Bowl title. He is one of four head coaches — Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson and Jim Harbaugh are the others — to have led teams to a college national championship and a Super Bowl appearance. But Carroll is 73 and appeared done when he was nudged out the door by the Seahawks after the 2023 season — although his contract paid him $15 million through this season. In August, he seemed lukewarm, replying to a question about his coaching future on a Seattle radio station by saying, "I could coach tomorrow. I'm physically in the best shape I've been in a long time. I'm ready to do all the activities I'm doing and feeling really good about it. I could, but I'm not desiring it at this point." Yet sitting at home watching 17 weeks of football apparently rekindled the fire. Carroll initiated this story. He wants it known. He's interested in coaching the Bears, according to a report by ESPN's Adam Schefter. Carroll declined to comment when reached by The Los Angeles Times. Remember that in his final days in Seattle he repeatedly said he wanted to continue coaching, putting an exclamation point on his intentions shortly after his last game by saying those comments were "true to the bone." NFL head coaches have been skewing younger. If Carroll were hired, he'd be seven years older than the current oldest NFL head coach, Andy Reid, although it bears mention that Reid's Kansas City Chiefs are 15-1 and defending Super Bowl champions. Carroll has always appeared younger than he is, exhibiting boundless energy and enthusiasm in a profession that can jade men. The Bears are one of at least three teams — the New Orleans Saints and New York Jets are the others — that will be shopping for a head coach when the season ends. Chicago fired Matt Eberflus on Nov. 29, one day after a 23-20 loss to the Detroit Lions that concluded with perplexing clock mismanagement by the coach and his quarterback. Williams has had a roller-coaster season, mixing brilliant plays with poor decisions. He's been sacked a league-leading 60 times yet hasn't thrown an interception in nine games. Working under Carroll, who developed Russell Wilson even though the pair had their share of differences, could accelerate Williams' improvement. All of a sudden, the USC class Carroll is scheduled to co-teach this spring is in jeopardy. The Marshall School of Business offering is called "The Game Is Life: a new course designed to help students develop their personal game plan for life after graduation, while using their USC education to conquer challenges along the way." Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit can unpack it all Thursday night while the Bears try to win for the first time since Oct. 13 against the Seahawks, whose sideline still seems strange without Carroll bounding, grimacing and grinning. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Research and surveys are being conducted to provide better rail transport services to the people to run electric trains to ensure smooth and swift transport of commodities and passengers. Plans are underway to operate Battery Electric Locomotives (BELs) instead of diesel locomotives which are being used on long trips. Myanma Railways uses Rail Bus Engine-RBE on short trips. The services of Myanma Railways will be aligned with the advancement of technologies to benefit public transport. Recently, Diesel Electric Multiple Units (DEMU) have been used in running the transport service of the Yangon Circular Railway. These carriages were imported from Spain as part of improving the rail transport services. In this regard, new carriages are facilitated with air-conditioners, automatic lighting changing systems and communication systems for the safety of passengers. These trains can run 60 kilometres per hour on their trips. The Yangon City Circular Railway upgrade project was implemented with preliminary engineering works from 2015 to 2016 and the construction process in 2017. Now, the railway will host 20 RBE trains and 15 DEMU trains on a daily basis for the convenience of passengers. Now is the time to improve rail transport services despite the possibility of costing a large sum of budget. Whatever it may be, it is necessary to build an electric train network with the use of power lines along the railways as well as the use of battery electric locomotives (BELs). In this regard, RBE carriages can be transformed into BEMUs for the city circular railways whereas diesel locomotives can be shifted into battery electric locomotives for long journeys. Diesel locomotives need costs of fuel but battery electric locomotives do not need fuel charges to carry out the least cost in transport services. Moreover, as BELs are speedier than diesel locomotives, it is necessary to take care of driving for traffic safety on priority with the use of advanced signals and communication equipment. The initiatives to transform diesel locomotives into battery electric locomotives are a great step for Myanma Railways to improve its services for the people. Hence, emphasis must be placed on upgrading rail tracts and overpasses aligned with running advanced carriages and locomotives on railway sections for the safety of transport. On the other hand, passengers and people residing not far from railways need to take care of traffic safety to minimize accidents. As the Myanma Railways manages more than 3,800 miles of railways in total and 962 railway stations nationwide, its improvement projects need to cover all rail transport facilities comprehensively.HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Jamal Mashburn Jr.'s 12 points helped Temple defeat Hofstra 60-42 on Sunday. Mashburn shot 4 for 14 (0 for 3 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Owls (6-4). Quante Berry added 10 points while going 4 of 6 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) while he also had five rebounds. Lynn Greer III had nine points and went 4 of 8 from the field. The Pride (8-4) were led by Jean Aranguren, who finished with 16 points, 14 rebounds, five assists and three blocks. Hofstra also got nine points and two steals from Kijan Robinson. Silas Sunday finished with five points, 11 rebounds and three blocks. Temple took the lead with 15:04 remaining in the first half and did not give it up. The score was 33-20 at halftime, with Mashburn racking up 12 points. Temple outscored Hofstra by five points over the final half, while Greer led the way with a team-high seven second-half points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

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