Today is Friday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2025. There are 54 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman elected to either chamber of Congress.

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In 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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In 1940, Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic.

In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

In 1972, President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

In 1989, L. Douglas Wilder won the governor’s race in Virginia, becoming the first elected Black governor in U.S. history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City’s first Black mayor.

In 1991, basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring.

In 1996, NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the agency’s first mission to the red planet in about two decades. The orbiter became the longest-operating spacecraft sent to Mars before NASA lost contact with it in November 2006.

In 2011, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, of involuntary manslaughter for supplying a powerful anesthetic implicated in the pop star’s 2009 death. (Murray was sentenced to four years in prison. He served two years and was released in October 2013.)

In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden clinched victory over President Donald Trump as a win in Pennsylvania pushed Biden over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes. Trump refused to concede.

Today’s Birthdays:

Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Kaat is 87.
Former Singer Johnny Rivers is 83.
Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 82.
Retired Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus is 73.
Actor Christopher Knight (TV: “The Brady Bunch”) is 68.
DJ-producer David Guetta is 58.
Actor Yunjin Kim is 52.
Rock singer Lorde is 29.

The transitive property of equality is that if two things are each equal to a third thing, they must be equal to each other.

If one were to use that fundamental mathematical principle — often referenced as if A=B and B=C then A=C — entering Thursday’s Class 4A state football quarterfinal, things did not look promising for Hill-Murray but did for Kasson-Mantorville.

That’s because the KoMets overcame an 11-point halftime deficit to take down top-ranked Byron 31-28 in last week’s section title game. Byron crushed Hill-Murray by 36 points in mid-September.

At Stillwater High School, the principle held up.

Jeremiah Peterson ran for two scores and had a touchdown catch, Keymoni Bent returned an interception 100 yards for a touchdown and Kasson-Mantorville beat the Pioneers 35-21.

With the win, the KoMets (10-1) will play Grand Rapids in a state semifinal at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 14 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Grady Buettner ran for 204 yards and a touchdown for Hill-Murray (9-2), which also got a touchdown reception from Caden Harrington.

The game’s biggest play came in the final 30 seconds of the opening half.

Trailing 14-6, Hill-Murray looked for the equalizer from the Kasson-Mantorville 9-yard line. Brayden Hartmann’s throw was headed for a receiver in the end zone, but Bent got in the way.

With the ball in his arms and plenty of green in front of him, the sophomore sped down the KoMets’ sideline, made a move inside the Pioneer 40 to deke a final tackler and dashed across the other goal line.

Hill-Murray’s first five drives of the first half all got inside the Kasson-Mantorville 25, but the Pioneers scored just six points via 40- and 30-yard field goals from Evan Curtis. They lost a fumble at the 2 on their third drive, had a field-goal attempt blocked on the fourth and then came Bent’s pick-6.

Bent returned the second-half kickoff into Hill-Murray territory. Three plays later, Logan Louks scored from 41 yards out on 3rd-and-11 to make it 28-6 KoMets.

Buettner scored from the 1 to get the Pioneers within 28-14 with 3:21 left in the third quarter, but Peterson went for 65 yards to the end zone on the opening play of the ensuing Kasson-Mantorville drive.

Harrington’s 55-yard touchdown reception opened the fourth.

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Being road warriors isn’t quite as hard when you have a Jett.

That would be junior Jett Feeney, the dynamic Moorhead quarterback who rushed for two touchdowns and threw for two more as the Spuds defeated Centennial 35-21 in a Class 6A state quarterfinal matchup on Thursday night at Spring Lake Park High School.

The Spuds (7-4) — who have now had to make the three-and-a-half hour-plus drive to the Twin Cities metro seven times in their first season in Class 6A — advance to meet the winner of Friday’s quarterfinal between Maple Grove and Lakeville South (scheduled for 6 p.m. at Eastview High School) in the semifinals at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

The Cougars finished their season 9-2 overall.

It was a neutral site Thursday, but the trip from Centennial High School to Spring Lake Park was just 6.8 miles. Moorhead, meanwhile, traveled just over 228 miles.

Yet, the Spuds showed no signs of travel lag on their first possession. After taking over on the Cougars’ 38-yard line following a shanked punt, Feeney kept the drive alive with a 24-yard pass to junior Taye Reich.

Two plays later, the quarterback scored untouched from 7 yards out to put his team on top 7-0.

Centennial answered back, tying the score on a 50-yard touchdown run by senior Calvin Coopersmith with 2:55 to play in the first quarter.

Feeney put the Spuds back on top early in the second quarter, connecting with junior Zak Walker on a 44-yard pass before scoring again on a 3-yard touchdown run.

But once more, the Cougars responded, marching 75 yards to score on a 5-yard touchdown run from senior Caleb Melser that tied the score 14-all with 4:45 to play in the second.

However, Feeney and the Moorhead offense struck again just before halftime, helped by a costly pass interference call against the Cougars that set the stage for a touchdown pass to junior David Mack on 4th-and-1 at the Centennial 4. That sent the Spuds into the locker room leading 20-14.

And the momentum continued to start the second half when Reich returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown. The 2-point conversion expanded the Moorhead lead to 28-14.

Centennial again had an answer, scoring on a 28-yard touchdown run by sophomore Edwin Ekah to cut the gap to seven.

Yet, the Cougars just couldn’t slow down the Spuds’ offense. Moorhead scored again late in the third when Feeney connected with senior Jaimeson Dunlap on a 14-yard touchdown pass.

Centennial had the ball inside the Spuds’ 20 in the fourth but ended up turning it over on downs. Feeney and company then ran out the clock to move on to the semifinals and yet another road trip to the Twin Cities.

Moorhead is trying to win its first state championship since beating Winona 13-7 in the old Class AA classification in 1987.

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RALEIGH, N.C. – After a promising start in a tough environment, the Carolina Hurricanes found an answer for everything the Minnesota Wild could throw at them.

Matt Boldy had a pair of goals to snap out of a notable drought, and Minnesota’s special teams continued a strong stretch, only to see the Hurricanes rally for a 4-3 win. Brock Faber got his second goal of the season.

Looking for a third consecutive win, the Wild twice held one-goal leads and also came back to forge a 3-all tie in the second period. But the Hurricanes stormed back at every turn.

Filip Gustavsson, making his 12th start in goal for the Wild, had a shaky start. Carolina scored four times on its first eight shots. After that, the goalie settled in and finished with 23 saves in the loss

Minnesota fell to 5-7-3 with the loss, and are now 0-6-1 when trailing after the first period.

The Wild got the game’s first power play but could not muster a shot on goal. But with the teams back to even strength a short time later, Kirill Kaprizov got loose in the middle of the offensive zone and made a rush to the net that was thwarted. Boldy was able to punch the loose puck in before Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen could cover it.

Boldly had scored just once in the Wild’s previous 10 games.

After the Wild killed their first penalty of the game, fourth line winger Tyler Pitlick leveled Carolina defenseman Jalen Chatfield with an open-ice check. After a brief fight, Chatfield was helped off the ice and Pitlick was ejected from the game for the illegal hit to the head.

Chatfield did not return to the game, officially listed as dealing with an upper body injury.

With the teams skating four-on-four, Carolina’s Jackson Blake made a coast-to-coast rush with the puck and snapped a low shot past Gustavsson to tie the game. But the Wild answered 31 seconds later, reclaiming the lead at 2-1 via a Brock Faber wrist shot after a set up pass from Kaprizov.

The lead was brief, as Andrei Svechnikov fooled Gustavsson with a low shot on the next shift. The trio of goals in 52 seconds was the fastest three-goal span in the NHL this season.

The Wild killed the rest of the extended penalty only to see Carolina take the lead on a long shot through a crowd in front of the Minnesota net five seconds after the teams were back to full strength.

Minnesota had three shots in the first period, and Andersen stopped one of them.

Opening the middle frame on a power play, the Wild needed 37 seconds to tie the game as Vladimir Tarasenko fed Boldy for a tap-in goal. The tie was again brief, as Carolina scored on the ensuing faceoff, nine seconds later, to lead 4-3.

With just over eight minutes left in regulation, Kaprizov looked to have an open net for the tying goal, only to have Hurricanes defenseman Sean Walker disrupt the play. Minnesota made a furious final push with Gustavsson on the bench but could not get the equalizer.

Andersen finished with 19 saves for the Hurricanes, who make their only visit to St. Paul this season on Nov. 19.

The Wild’s current two-game Eastern road swing concludes on Friday night when they visit the New York Islanders for the only time this season. Their game at UBS Arena on Long Island faces off at 6 p.m. CT.

Briefly

The Hurricanes lineup featured three veterans of Minnesota prep hockey: K’Andre Miller (Minnetonka), Mike Reilly (Holy Angels) and Blake (Eden Prairie). But the Wild lineup featured the only player from the Carolinas. Ryan Hartman was raised in suburban Chicago, but he was born in 1994 in Hilton Head Island, S.C. and was the first NHL player born in South Carolina.

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