Bob Stoops enters his 19th season with another team that could make a run at the College Football Playoff. Heisman Trophy contender Baker Mayfield’s decision to stay in school should help with that, and Oklahoma can build off an impressive 35-19 victory against Auburn in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The Sooners are ranked No. 6 in Sporting News’ Way-Too-Early Top 25, and here’s a preview of Oklahoma’s 2017 schedule, roster and biggest questions entering the season....

Bosworth signed autographs in Atlanta as part of a sponsorship with Panini in advance of the College Football Playoff championship game between Alabama and Georgia at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday night (8 p.m. ET, ESPN). Bosworth is surprised the fame of “The Boz” phenomenon lives on. “It’s been 30 years since I played,” Bosworth said. “For a kid to come up to me and ask for an autograph; it’s an honor....

Just hours after his Sooners stunned Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, Stoops, a Youngstown, Ohio native, didn't rule out the possibility of jumping to the NFL. On Dan Patrick's national radio show, Stoops said he's not looking to pursue a pro job but "you never know down the road." MORE: Top 10 head coaching jobs | Sooners stun Tide | Bowl gallery Later, Stoops would not discuss rumors tying him to the Browns' job with Oklahoma writers and again said "you never know" when pressed on the subject....

Oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis is further subdivided into: Persistent oligoarthritis: There is no additional joint involvement beyond the initial six months of illness and symptoms. Extended oligoarthritis: Additional joint involvement occurs after the initial six months of illness and eventually more than four joints are involved. While there is no solid way to predict which children will go on to develop the extended type, there are disease characteristics that seem to increase the likelihood, including symmetric joint involvement, ankle or wrist involvement (or both the ankle and wrist), and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate in the first six months....

Rodrigo, 18, is a hugely popular star. She gained fame as a teenager for her appearance on Bizaardvark and High School Musical: The Musical-The Series, both of which were Disney Channel television series. She gained additional attention earlier this year with the release of her smash single “drivers license.” Less than three months after its release, the song became the first single to total 1 billion streams around the globe by late March, according to Billboard....

Woolley, 22, wrote on his Instagram account that he has been hospitalized following the attack and is now undergoing facial reconstructive surgery. The Olympian shared selfies from his hospital bed on Saturday morning. “Last night I went for a meal with my friend…heading back along the River Liffey a gang of roughly 8-12 men and women in their 20’s began violently attacking people along the boardwalk. Unfortunately I was victim to these random attacks as I was just walking by before I was punched in the face by one of these group members,” Woolley wrote....

Poile, also the general manager of the Nashville Predators, needed three operations on his face after a puck struck him in on Feb. 14. On Thursday, appearing publicly for the first time since the incident, he spoke to the Predators' website. "The U.S. clearly has been the best team. They're playing well in all areas," Poile said. One of those areas: The shootout. T.J. Oshie, specifically, went 4-for-6 against Russia and made national news in the process....

Fast. The Czechs will face the Swedes on Wednesday, just four days after Boston beat Ottawa 7-2 in one of the NHL's last matchups before its Olympic break. David Krejci and Loui Eriksson both had two assists for the Bruins in the rout. On Wednesday, the forwards will be playing against each other and for their countries — Krejci for the Czech Republic and Eriksson for Sweden. Most of the 18 preliminary-round games will feature NHL teammates as temporary opponents....

The variant was discovered in a person who returned to Israel from Malawi. Two cases of other returnees from abroad were also suspected to be infected with the variant, the ministry said. Genetic tests are being carried out to determine whether the other two people are also infected. All three people are in quarantine. All three people were vaccinated, and the Health Ministry said that the details of their vaccination are being verified....

Both countries were practicing gunboat diplomacy on a grand scale. Last week China held live-fire air and naval exercises in the Taiwan Strait and fired medium-range missiles into impact zones alarmingly close to the island’s coast. The Chinese made no secret of their purpose: to intimidate independence-minded Taiwanese voters. U.S. officials thought China’s next round of maneuvers, which will come within 11 miles of some small Taiwanese islands, would include such pointedly high-profile exercises as amphibious landings and parachute drops....

Speaking at a church in Chicago’s South Side on Tuesday, Pritzker announced that he pardoned over 11,000 low-level, nonviolent marijuana convictions, clearing the records of thousands of misdemeanor offenses ahead of marijuana becoming legal in the state on January 1, 2020. Pritzker said that such pardons will improve the convicted’s chances at getting financial aid, jobs and housing. The expunged convictions are cases involving 30 grams or less of the drug, including possession, according to a press release from the Governor’s office obtained by Newsweek....

The old distinctions among art, pop and outright schlock don’t matter to some fans. But they matter to record companies, for a simple reason: crossover sells, the pure product doesn’t. These are tough times for art music, both classical and jazz, once called “America’s classical music”–a sobriquet that sounds more and more like an epitaph. (The jazz world’s equivalent of Classical Crossover is the Smooth Jazz of such musicians as saxophonist Kenny G....

The decision had resonance far beyond dirty pictures. This was the first time that the highest court had contemplated the status of the key medium of the next century. Instead of regarding the Net with the caution the court usually shows while exploring new frontiers, the justices went out of their way to assure that this most demo- cratic of mediums (where ““any person… can become a town crier… [or] pamphleteer,’’ the court gushed) would receive the highest level of protection....

““Now you are finding out there aren’t a lot of people waiting in line to take in someone who would put a baby in a microwave oven,’’ Lydia’s caseworker scolds. ““You know she never did anything remotely like that!’’ Courter retorts. She’s still fighting the system. After five years as a part-time guardian, Courter, a 50-year-old novelist, filmmaker and mother of two, has emerged as one of the most articulate voices in the growing debate over how to make the nation’s child-welfare system more responsive to children....

Well, the 20th century is over and the kooks won. All of those trendy lefty intellectuals turned out to be clueless about politics, economics and human nature, though of course many could never admit it. Whatever their excesses, the hard-liners were closer to the mark. I thought of Captive Nations Week last week when I was in Miami interviewing people in the crowd outside the Gonzalez house. These Cuban-Americans are wrong to resist returning Elian to his father and, despite Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia, decidedly unhip....

Legends are made and legacies are cemented. Unknown players become heroes. What will happen this October? Who knows? That’s part of the fun. But before the 2014 playoffs kick off, let’s take a look back at the best moments for each of the 10 franchises in this year’s postseason. For the purposes of this piece, we’re just looking for singular moments in time, five-to-10-second snippets. That means you won’t see Bob Gibson’s 17-strikeout performance for the Cardinals in the 1968 World Series opener on this list, and Mickey Lolich’s three complete-game victories for the Tigers in that same series are absent, too....

After a summer that gave us record airport delays, a new crop of wireless services is helping passengers take control of their schedules. “The travel arena is one of the first areas where wireless is really starting to make a difference,” says David Eastman, vice president for wireless business at the Internet consulting company Agency.com. Earlier this month Travelocity became one of the first sites to allow travelers to book flights via Web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs....

The optimism was quickly shattered by gunfire. With the vote running strongly for independence, pro-Jakarta militiamen appeared to panic. They shot wildly in the street outside the headquarters of U.N. election workers. They swaggered through the surrounding slum of Balidi, firing into the air with homemade guns and automatic guns, which they got from the Indonesian Army. The thugs threatened to kill people who voted for independence. When a handful of teens gathered to jeer at them, the militiamen opened fire, as Indonesian police stood by....

The ABC/Ipsos poll, released on the anniversary of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, found that now only 20 percent of respondents are “very confident” in the integrity of the U.S. election system, with an additional 39 percent saying they feel “somewhat confident.” That’s down from last year, when a poll by ABC News and The Washington Post conducted days after the Capitol riot found that 37 percent of respondents were “very confident” in the integrity of the election system, while 26 percent reported feeling “somewhat confident....