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By Dana O’Neil, CNN

(CNN) — When the play ends, as Kris Jenkins bends over a bit at the waist to watch his work of art swish its way into history, Mikal Bridges dashes onto the court and Josh Hart full scale piggy backs onto Phil Booth. Somehow, Jalen Brunson ends up on the floor, the back of his jersey showing in the dogpile to celebrate Villanova’s 2016 national championship.

Now 10 years later, those three of those guys could make history. Should Hart, Bridges and Brunson lead the New York Knicks to the NBA Championship, they will become the first trio of teammates to play on the same college and NBA title-winning teams.

Three guys from the same championship-winning college squads have won NBA crowns. In 1951, Frank Ramsey, Lou Tsioropoulos and Cliff Hagan won it all for Kentucky, and in 1960, Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek and Larry Siegfried were part of Ohio State’s title-winning team.

None have done both together. Ramsey and Tsioropoulous partnered for two titles with the Celtics, Hagan’s championship was with the Hawks. Meanwhile Lucas’ NBA crown with the Knicks came a full decade after Havlicek and Siegfried won it all in Boston.

That they could do it in New York, a city that bills itself as basketball’s playground and has nothing but five decades of empty sandlots to show for it, would only add to the legend of the so-called “Nova Knicks.”

Except if you unspool it, if you watch that 2016 shot, you’ll see that the Nova Knicks are more than a clever and convenient nickname. In those final 4.7 seconds, in a play designed to win a national championship, the three active players on that roster who are still in the NBA had little or nothing to do with the play called Nova.

Hart was well away from the action, setting a screen. Bridges and Brunson weren’t even in the game. They were on the bench watching.

It serves as an example of what college basketball used to be.

This week, with Kentucky signing Iowa State’s Milan Momcilovic for millions of dollars, the college basketball portal more or less closed. More than 4,000 guys entered, seeking to change location. Some sought playing time, others bigger opportunities. Most wanted extra cash and almost all with the same end game: finding the best route to get to the NBA.

Somehow adversity, that thing one used to overcome, has instead become the thing to avoid. Parents put pillows over potholes and kids learn how to navigate away from hard.

The Nova Knicks took a bumpier road – and still ended up in the desired location.

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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN

(CNN) — The ultraprocessed food industry is yet again under attack, and it’s not just MAHA moms or scientists who study food calling for change.

Some 77% of frustrated Republicans, Democrats and Independents are now calling for mandated “large warning labels” on all packages of ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, according to a new poll.

Up to 70% of Americans want companies banned from advertising ultraprocessed foods on children’s television, while up to 87% want government safety testing for all laboratory-made chemicals long before they can be used in any food product, according to the survey published Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health.

“Families are asking important questions about how food is made, marketed and regulated and how they can be a part of change,” said the survey’s senior author Ashley Gearhardt, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

A campaign to reduce ultraprocessed foods

To answer those questions, Gearhardt and a group of leading researchers have launched a public awareness campaign for Americans they call “Fed UP!” The website will provide consumers with explainers, research summaries, videos, social media content and practical resources to both understand ultraprocessed foods and advocate for healthier food environments.

The campaign will offer tips on petitioning local and state representatives for regulatory action and how to sway school board officials to reduce ultraprocessed foods in schools. Seventeen studies, editorials and reviews from a new UPF-focused edition of the American Journal of Public Health will also be available.

Corrective action by both industry and regulators is long overdue, said Fed UP! scientific contributor Laura Schmidt, a professor in the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco.

“I started working on one of the nation’s first sugary soda taxes in 2009. It’s 2026, and as a society we are still not doing anything significant around this issue,” Schmidt said. “We are not regulating enough chemical additives that go into ultraprocessed foods. We don’t have transparency into how these foods are created. We don’t have a consumer warning label.

“Yet governments in South America and around the world have successfully been doing this and much more for years. In that sense, I’m fed up.”

While nutritionists found US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements on reining in ultraprocessed food companies encouraging, experts say the few actions taken so far have been disappointing. The Make America Healthy Again or MAHA Commission promised decisive action on ultraprocessed food by August 2025. However, the final report, released in September, only promised the government would “continue efforts” to define ultraprocessed foods.

“Unfortunately, the final MAHA report is all promises and has no teeth,” Barry Popkin, the W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health told CNN at the time. “In my opinion, it shows the food, agricultural, and pharmaceutical industries got to the White House and won the day.”

Change may be difficult, Gearhardt said, due to the enormous amount of money spent by industry on lobbying efforts. In the 23 years between 1999 and 2020, ultraprocessed food companies spent Read more