It also means that there will be few easy outs. Oklahoma State found that out against West Virginia, and Markel Brown proved to be the savior. Brown nailed the go-ahead 3-pointer with 12 seconds left, and the Cowboys beat the Mountaineers 73-72 in Morgantown. Brown nailed that bucket courtesy of an assist from do-everything point guard Marcus Smart, who had 22 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists in the game....
The draw is out and Malaysia will go up against Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in Group C of the 2018 AFC Under-23 Championships in China next year. Malaysia’s group will be based in Changshu, an area that is located within the Suzhou province on the western side of China. Put in Pot 4 at the start of the draw, Malaysia avoided the big guns in China, South Korea and Japan....
Most of the time, this is fun stuff, but sometimes it’s cringe-worthy. That turned out to be the case Saturday at Ole Miss’s Swayze Field, when the Rebels hosted Tulane in an elimination game of the NCAA baseball tournament. MLB MOCK DRAFT: Who will the Phillies take with the No. 1 pick? Nola.com reports that before the game, an Ole Miss fan threw a baseball on the field at the Green Wave players....
He's a hockey player, not a boxer. Hopefully the wait on shipping will be brief. His main goal is still a Cup. No word on whether his training regimen includes push-ups. PUNS! From OEL of Sweden's website: "The brand will target the younger generation who is inspired by Oliver Ekman Larsson and see themselves as inspirers or have the dream of going where Oliver himself is today." Nothing says "inspiration" like a $30 pair of underpants....
MORE: Skier Gus Kenworthy breaks thumb, takes jab at VP Mike Pence “It was the tiniest kiss in the world. I could’ve made out with him had I known,” Wilkas said to reporters. “I think it’s positive, I think it’s great exposure, a great thing for our community, but I also partly think, ‘what’s the big deal?’” The moment was shared by NBC’s broadcast during its Olympic coverage throughout the United States....
A coalition of groups that represent Hong Kong residents, Tibetans, Uyghurs and others, issued a statement Monday to call upon “all governments and people, including all National Olympic Committees and Olympic athletes” to boycott the 2022 Winter Games. “The Chinese government is committing genocide against the Uyghur people and waging an unprecedented campaign of repression in East Turkistan, Tibet and Southern Mongolia, as well as an all-out assault on democracy in Hong Kong,” the group called Boycott Beijing 2022 wrote....
This is China’s moment of truth. As the electronic clock on Beijing’s busy Wangfujing Street shows, there are still more than 140 days before July 13, when the IOC selects the host for the 2008 Olympic Games. But the IOC inspection team–which could make or break Beijing’s Olympic dreams–is in town this week before visiting the other four cities vying for the Games: Paris, Toronto, Osaka and Istanbul. Being awarded the Olympics is a coup for any city, for it promises a sustained dose of pride, prestige and economic development....
Organizers said in a statement that some volunteers, most of whom won’t be vaccinated since very few will have contact with athletes and officials, decided not to participate because of COVID-19 fears. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) anticipates 80% or more of athletes and Olympic Village inhabitants to be fully vaccinated in time for the Games, just between 2% to 3% of the overall population in Japan is currently fully vaccinated....
So it is hardly surprising that when last night’s pairs competition-with its dueling Russian and Canadian teams-came down to a debatable finish, NBC pronounced it a hose job and stirred up the controversy for all its worth. The network’s announcers were hardly alone; most of the self-styled experts thought that the world champion Canadians, Sale and Pelletier, had skated stylishly and without error in their romantic program, while the Russians, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, had a few minor bobbles....
Miller has been closely watching the accomplishments of this year’s female gymnasts, who romped over the rest of the competition to win the team event. She has been supporting Hershey’s #HelloFromHome campaign, which seeks to deliver messages from back in the U.S. to the athletes competing here in Rio. She spoke with Sporting News on Thursday, covering the magnificence of Simone Biles, her battle with cancer and whether she still has that white scrunchy....
The soldiers came under some small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars as they rolled up to the airport. The battalion took some of its first casualties on the way; I understand that there were three or four, but the number is still unclear at this point. Some kind of explosive, probably an RPG, hit the back of the Bradley I’m riding in around at noon (4 a.m. EST), but it didn’t do much damage....
The other problem is balancing the goal of safety with everything else. As one of Ridge’s deputies puts it, “We can protect the homeland so much that we bankrupt it.” For example, we are poised to spend about $5 billion next year on aviation security, so that every passenger is screened by a new, well-trained 45,000-person army of Transportation Security Agency screeners (a force larger than the entire FBI, Customs Service and Secret Service combined) and all luggage that is checked into cargo compartments is screened for explosives....
Father appeal is being used to sell everything from cookies to cologne to household cleaning products. “We’re redefining success,” says Mal MacDougall, chairman of The MacDougall Co., a New York advertising agency. “The ultimate hero of the ’90s will be the best dad. The Yuppie, the macho man are all dead.” MacDougall’s agency created a print ad for Quorum cologne that shows a pin-striped Yuppie carrying a baby instead of a briefcase, under the headline “Success is knowing which appointments to keep....
“When you brush your teeth or when you take a shower or you wash your hands, if you’re thinking about that and you try to use as little water as possible, I think that can make a big difference,” Cosgrove told podcast host Naveed Jamali. “If everybody did that, that would make a really big difference.” Cosgrove first gained fame in the early 2000s for the roles she played on the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh and iCarly, the latter of which was recently rebooted on Paramount+....
He's sure to have an impact in fantasy baseball leagues. That's not the troublesome part. Ramirez ranked fifth among shortstops in our Roto Rater last season.MORE: Dodgers sleeper | 30 teams, 30 sleepers | Join Fantasy Source today Ramirez hit .345 with 20 HRs, 10 SBs and 57 RBIs last season in just 86 games while battling hamstring, shoulder and ribs. Injuries do cause some of that uncertainty; Ramirez has four DL stints since 2011....
When Barry Rothfuss set out from his home in Peekskill, N.Y., for a little road trip last month, he didn’t pack light. In the back of his bright yellow, 10-wheel Ryder moving van, rented for the occasion, were sacks of dog food, piles of lumber, bottles of disinfectant-and 37 raccoons. Rothfuss, 32, is a licensed wildlife “rehabilitator” whose job includes preparing injured or abandoned animals to return to the wild....
Today, the Jazz’s defense takes the spotlight. Context: The Mavericks bounced back from their Game 1 loss to the Jazz in a big way. Led by Jalen Brunson’s 41 points, the Luka Doncic-less Mavericks defeated the Jazz to even the series and avoid going to Utah down 2-0. Maxi Kleber added 25 points off the bench in the win, and Spencer Dinwiddie overcame a rough shooting night to make some big plays down the stretch....
If you’ve sought a refined forum to ask if “The Apprentice” project managers should have confessed mistakes before blaming others, the Garden of Forking Paths (gfp.typepad.com) fits the bill. Or log onto University of Texas professor Brian Leiter’s blog (webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter) to explore Nietzsche, legal realism and veep pick John Edwards. You don’t need a Ph.D. to participate, but don’t fake it: draw on real-life experience to show ivy-tower academics the light....
That’s the story Waldman would most like to see this magazine print. And the other story? Ads for dating services that have run on Beliefnet have done noticeably well–they generated 850,000 clicks in 2003. So a marriage between Beliefnet and dating was inevitable. But the good news is that Soulmatch gets it right. Instead of lumping all Jews or all Roman Catholics into one category, a questionnaire teases out the differences within the faith through queries about political preferences and churchgoing habits....
