Multiple Las Vegas sports books, including the Westgate, William Hill and Caesars, posted 7.5 as their opening number, with the Westgate moving to 8.5 in early wagering. The total opened 49 at all three bet shops. Check our live odds page for updated point spreads and totals from around Vegas. William Hill opened New England as the -360 favorite on the money-line, with Baltimore getting back odds of +300....
Flynn was signed June 11 to add depth behind Jimmy Garoppolo after Tom Brady’s suspension, but an injury kept him from being a factor. He has been on the non-football injury list for the majority of his stay with New England. MORE: Injuries already taking a toll in training camps | Tom Brady’s NFL life in photos ESPN reports Flynn pulled a hamstring before training camp and it hasn’t healed....
“I’ve had it for four or five days,” he said. “My kids got sick, and then my wife’s pretty sick right now, so I brought it, unfortunately, to Phoenix.” MORE: Patriots best team money can buy | Just call him Mr. Special Teams | Rare throwback photos “It’s been lingering, so I’m just trying to get some rest,” he added. “A lot of garlic, old remedies, everything I can.”...
But the night before will be the latest NXT TakeOver event in Phoenix featuring talent from the NXT brand, who have produced some of the best wrestling shows under the WWE umbrella over the past several years. Saturday night’s TakeOver event features five matches, including Tommaso Ciampa defending the NXT championship against Aleister Black, Bianca Belair challenging Shayna Baszler for the NXT women’s championship, and Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly of the Undisputed Era putting the NXT tag team titles on the line against the War Raiders....
The 10-man welterweight grand prix is locked in. British welterweight slugger Paul Daley has agreed to a multi-year, multi-fight deal with Bellator and is the final entrant in the welterweight tournament, which starts at Bellator 206 on Sept. 29. The entire card and tournament will be aired exclusively on DAZN. Sporting News confirmed the news after it was first reported by ESPN.com. SN has learned the plan is to pit Daley (40-16-2) against British rival Michael Page in the first round, though the fight is far from a done deal....
Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) described Ashli Babbitt, the California woman who was fatally shot by an officer during the insurrection after climbing through a broken part of a door, as having “been executed.” Prosecutors have said the officer who shot her will not be prosecuted. Representative Jody Hice (R-Ga.) said that “it was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others....
Gosar’s support for Greene follows her apology for likening coronavirus prevention rules—which included masks being worn on the chamber floor—to the order for Jews to wear “a gold star.” She had been condemned from both sides of the aisle in May for those comments to the conservative outlet Real America’s Voice, in which she also referred to such measures in the same sentence as being “put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany....
Steven Schlein of the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), which represents the industry, insists that payday lenders are only reacting to consumer demand, which “has been huge and growing since the ’90s. There are currently about 24,000 stores. In 2000 there were about 10,000.” Critics may consider the practice predatory, but Schlein says “our customers are extraordinarily satisfied. The only people who are complaining is a consumer group out of North Carolina [CRL] that has spread out across the country....
If they were still at war, what had the combatants agreed to? Essentially, to a starting line for future peace talks–and a dramatically reconstituted idea of statehood. Bosnia would be split into two constitutionally separate “entities,” but would preserve its current borders. The broad outline grants an autonomous Serb republic within Bosnia–ratifying more than three years of brutal facts on the ground and acknowledging a government led by indicted war criminals....
After splitting the first two games of their first-round series with the Suns, the eighth-seeded Pelicans return to the Smoothie King Center for Game 3 on Friday, April 22, but not without a scheduling conflict. As pointed out by Farrah Yvette, an Executive Producer at New Orleans’ NBC affiliate, WDSU, the No Limit Reunion tour was also scheduled to take place on Friday night at the Smoothie King Center....
As rioters ransacked her office at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, the San Francisco Democrat told an aide she wished she “hoped” he would visit the congressional building after Trump’s aides suggested he wanted to come to the Capitol during the peak of the violence. “I want to punch him out,” Pelosi said at the time per footage that aired on CNN last week. “This is my moment....
On Monday Hawley, a Missouri Republican, introduced to the Senate a resolution to update its rules so that articles of impeachment can be dismissed for lack of prosecution by a majority vote unless they are sent up by the House within 25 days of their passage. “This is so important because the House speaker is trying to run the United States Senate. She’s trying to hijack the trial. She’s trying to obstruct the trial,” Hawley told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show Monday night....
John Dennis, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, posted a video on Twitter of his encounter with a man protesting his participation in a cleanup event organized by right-wing activist Scott Presler. Dennis described the man, seen in the video wearing a yellow shirt, as an “Antifa bully.” Newsweek could not confirm if the man is affiliated with the anti-fascist movement, but has reached out to Berkeley Antifa, the nearest local group to San Francisco, for comment....
The Democratic leader said Thursday that codifying Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationally, is a necessary step for Congress to take following this week’s events. “The Court’s cowardly decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health is staggering,” Pelosi wrote on Twitter. “The House will bring up Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America....
Peloton’s stock price has plummeted since the hotly anticipated first episode of And Just Like That… was released on Thursday. Spoilers ahead The at-home stationary bicycle features prominently in the premiere of the HBO Max show—and not in a good way. At the end of Episode 1, John Preston, aka Mr. Big (played by Chris Noth), dies from a heart attack after having completed a workout on a Peloton....
Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, 75.9 percent of the champions — or 22 of the 29 — have been either No. 1 or No. 2 seeds. For those who want to believe in Cinderella, only two teams seeded lower than No. 4 — Kansas (No. 6, 1988) and Villanova (No. 8, 1985) — have won it all in that same stretch. The tournament is still mostly dominated by chalk, a notion supported by looking back at the champions, championship game participants and Final Four teams since 1985....
Rather than get a chance to move up from a wild-card berth and possible meeting with the Montreal Canadiens, the Pens fell victim to a hot team. Saturday saw the Jackets win their franchise-record ninth consecutive game. Nick Foligno had a hat trick, his first in 541 career games. Pittsburgh is on a 3-7-1 slide with four games left in its regular season. MORE: Four teams out to clinch playoff berths | Catch up on games, results | Check highlight video...
Asked if the quick turnaround would help his team, in the midst of a six-games-in-nine-nights stretch, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault nailed it: "Or you could say (the Penguins have) got momentum winning off tonight. Both teams are going to travel. It's going to be the same for both teams." Kris Letang, Jussi Jokinen and Evgeni Malkin were Pittsburgh's goal-scorers. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all 22 shots the Rangers fired at him....
On Saturday, the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions made an attempt to address that concern, acquiring center Riley Sheahan from the Red Wings in exchange for forward Scott Wilson and a third-round draft pick in 2018, the teams announced. Pittsburgh also will receive a fifth-round pick from Detroit in 2018. Sheahan, 25, was once a promising piece to the Red Wings’ core. Drafted 21st overall in 2010, he made his NHL debut at 22 and had 85 points in 202 games from 2013-16....
