The payoff of a first National League title since 1945 and a first World Series win since 1908 almost certainly will not come this year, as the Cubs are not making sweeping upgrades to a team that lost 96 games in 2013, finishing with a 31-game deficit in the National League Central. Instead, Chicago is waiting on a bumper crop of elite prospects, led by shortstop Javier Baez, third baseman Kris Bryant, and right-hander C....
“Eat some gator before you go eat the Gators,” read the card placed before the silver serving dish. Trolling has never been tastier.
The flags started flying with a call against Rebels linebacker Mark Robinson for his hit on the Cardinals running back Hassan Hall near the end of the first quarter. Robinson’s targeting wasn’t egregious, though he did lower his helmet as he made the tackle, resulting in his ejection. MORE: Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly butchers John McKay quote, says ’entire team needs to be executed' Minutes following Robinson’s ejection, officials made a more clear targeting penalty against Louisville: Two players — linebackers Monty Montgomery and Jack Fagot — lowered their heads and made helmet-to-helmet contact with Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral, who was in the act of sliding....
In what could prove a defining fight for both boxers, Ukrainian stylist Usyk defends the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles he took from Joshua in London in September 2021. Joshua is desperate to regain the belts he lost on points in an enthralling scrap at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the second defeat of his stellar career. Vengeance against the unbeaten Usyk, though, will probably require the Londoner’s finest ever performance....
Baseball is back on a global stage in 2021, the first time that baseball is in the Olympics since 2008, and it’s going to be a doozy. This year, a six-team field faces off for the gold medal on the penultimate day of the 2021 Olympic games, with the United States, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Israel and the Dominican Republic sending their best ballplayers to Tokyo to prove dominance over the baseball world....
Alright, quiz time. Calgary, 1988. Name the ski jumper who won gold. Okay, if you said Matti Nykanen, then you, too, were probably consulting with pages 288 and 295 of David Wallechinsky’s “The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics.” Now try this: Calgary, 1988. Name the ski jumper who finished dead last, and who described his first run-in with the sport like this: “When I looked from the top of the jump I was so frightened that my bum shriveled up like a prune....
Two months after the Iraqi invasion, Kuwait’s rulers decided they needed a bit of investigatory work. There had long been rumors that Saddam Hussein had billions of dollars squirreled away in secret accounts and companies. Even before they got their country back, the Kuwaitis wanted a detailed accounting of that hidden wealth so they would know where to find it. Whom did they call? That was easy–the thugbusters. Kuwait hired Kroll Associates, a New York-based firm of sophisticated business gumshoes who have built a record of high-profile cases....
I got a telegram that said: YOU HAVE BEEN INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED. COACH PAUL W. BRYANT. The next day, I got one from Joe Namath. It said: HE MEANS IT. He had done the same thing to Joe two or three years earlier when Joe was a hot-rod player. I went back to school, went to summer school. Then I had to do the hardest damn thing that I’ve ever had to do in my life....
The TikTok was shared by Ashley Grames, who was employed by Salem Health, which includes multiple hospitals and healthcare clinics. Buzzfeed reported the nurse’s name and said that she worked in Oncology. Grames shared the since-deleted TikTok under the handle @LoveisKind05, which has also been deleted. It features audio from 2005 live-action movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas, featuring Cindy-Lou Who screaming, and Jim Carrey’s Grinch announcing that he was the Grinch....
The 31-year-old returned to his former ground with Everton in his first appearance against United, with whom he spent a successful 13 years, since re-joining his boyhood club in July. United ran out 4-0 winners, but Rooney was substituted with eight minutes remaining when the deficit was just one and was afforded a huge ovation by the home supporters, as well as receiving a handshake from Mourinho on the touchline....
The video in question was new music by singer and former The X Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson, not the beloved boyband. The British reality television show propelled Ferguson to fame in 2010 when she reached the final alongside One Direction and that year’s winner, Matt Cardle. The 35-year-old also famously dated Zayn Malik for a short time. One Direction has been on hiatus for a number of years with all members pursuing solo projects....
In a survey of over 2,500 people, almost half of those questioned endorsed to some degree the idea that “COVID-19 is a bioweapon developed by China to destroy the West” and around one-fifth endorsed to some degree that “Jews have created the virus to collapse the economy for financial gain”. Nearly 20 percent of those asked also agreed to some extent with the statement that “Muslims are spreading the virus as an attack on Western values....
The find, reported in the journal Science, came courtesy of a Department of Defense satellite named Clementine. Sent to the moon in 1994 to test the space-readiness of “Star Wars” technology, Clementine spotted a large dark region in an ancient crater called the South Pole-Aitken Basin. Since 1961, scientists have suspected that areas of permanent darkness on the lunar surface might be cold enough to retain volatile substances like water that otherwise boil off into space....
Undecided voters helped propel Donald Trump to the White House in 2016 and they’re partially credited with why his victory was such a surprise. Now the president once again has a chance to sway those who are undecided, but it may not be enough to overcome Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s lead. “Undecideds know Trump and they’re undecided because they don’t like him. They may end up voting for him but it’s unlikely the vote goes heavily his way,” John Geer, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, told Newsweek....
Perhaps, but only to the perpetual children who populate the world of pro sports. Others were dismayed by Steinbrenner’s sanctimony and ripped the Yankees. “They are sending the worst possible message to the youth of America,” said former New York City police chief Lee Brown, now the White House drug czar. “It’s no wonder that kids may think star athletes are into drugs and that there are no real penalties....
While The Lancet’s editorial mentions neither President Donald Trump nor his Democratic competitor Joe Biden by name, it takes care to stress the stakes of the November 3 election, particularly when it comes to the pandemic and health care. “With so much loss and still more at stake, the 2020 presidential election is the opportune moment for the American electorate to embrace change for the better, to reject the stagnancy of complacency, to exchange a view bereft of intention with a vision of progress, and to rejoin the global community in the pursuit of a more equitable and sustainable future,” the editorial reads....
Malaysia U22 head coach Datuk Ong Kim Swee has dropped two men from the squad, following the team’s return from their friendly match series in China on Friday. Kim Swee told the press that the two men dropped from the squad are Felda United’s Ali Imran Alimi and Negeri Sembilan’s Kalaiharasan Letchumanan. Ali had joined the team’s centralised training camp since the initial June call-up, while Kalaiharasan arrived slightly later, as one of the replacements for the injured initial squad members....
Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, U.S ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad tried to reassure an audience of Iraqi government officials and journalists that the “aftermath” of the U.S midterms wouldn’t bring sweeping changes. “It does look like there will be a change in the balance of power in Congress between our two leading parties,” he said in written statements on Wednesday. “The American people know that this is very difficult. They are concerned about the killing of innocent on the streets of Baghdad....
As we near the second anniversary of the pandemic, the virus is still rapidly spreading. But instead of remaining vigilant in the face of new variants, many people have become complacent. People are eager to return to “normal,” whether that’s in business, school, work, or their social lives. But many of us can’t do that. There’s the overwhelming sentiment that COVID-19 is something that we are all going to have to learn to live with, and that we’ll all catch Omicron eventually....
