Johnson wrote about the injury on Facebook and put a picture of the post on Twitter under the heading “Minor setback for a major comeback.” MORE: SN Power Rankings | SEC rankings | Best cases for unbeatens “The best thing I love about playing sports is that it challenges your guts and determination,” Johnson wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday. “When the game knocked you down you get up and keep fighting....
Faced with a competition to determine Bo Wallace’s successor, Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze chose a different route to open the Rebels’ spring practices this week. MORE: Top 10 programs in college football | Spurrier joins Twitter | SEC West becomes $4M Club That’s right. The three quarterbacks — sophomore Ryan Buchanan, incoming junior college transfer Chad Kelly and sophomore DeVante Kincade — literally drew straws to determine who would start practice with the rest of the first team....
To celebrate their “southern heritage and strong historical background,” some KA chapters host formals where guests go in full Civil War regalia, with the men in Confederate uniforms and the ladies in full “southern belle” hoop skirts. “Old South is the one formal that all sorority girls want to go to,” according to one excited blogger on a greekchat.com forum. “Who wouldn’t love to dress up like Scarlett O’Hara and have her size waist and Rhett Butler’s shoes under their bed!...
Education regulators in New York and California said they didn’t get a straight answer when they asked for student enrollment data. According to one senior academic who worked at Olivet University, that is because the numbers are manipulated and bear no relationship to academic programs. The senior academic’s description, documents reviewed by Newsweek and the accounts of several former students raise questions over the extent to which Olivet functions as a learning institution at all....
The 30-year-old suffered a muscle injury in the Thrylos’ loss to Atromitos in the Greece Super League at the start of October. And without the former West Ham forward Takis Lemonis’ men have won two of their last three games without the forward, losing only to Barcelona in the Champions League. Emenike has scored three goals for the Greek champions this season since joining from Fenerbahce in the summer....
Why? MORE: Top U.S. athletes you need to watch The weakness of the decathlon as an event has always been its incomprehensible scoring system, which robs viewers of any real investment in the competition. NBC has been the broadcaster of record for the Olympics since 1988, and still the network treats field events like a nuisance, as if they’d prefer to show you another episode of Sean Saves The World....
When I walked into the media center and found a plastic baggie full of NEWSWEEK pins in my desk drawer, I stuck one to my ski jacket and tucked a few others into my backpack. I figured I’d hand some out to eager kids who would appreciate this year’s design-an upside-down snowboarder. The other pins would probably wind up with my leftovers from Nagano: gathering dust at the bottom of my box of winter clothes....
Speaking to the Max & Herc podcast, co-hosted by former U.S. national team striker Herculez Gomez and fellow ESPN personality Max Bretos, Jones made it clear that he believes he is still the best option to start in the U.S. midfield despite his age, and stated that, at the moment, nobody can take his starting job away from him. Jones fires back at U.S. critics “Bring me the guy who is better in that position, and show that week to week in the league, against me, against other teams,” Jones said Monday....
Last week, Schiff released a lengthy report on the findings of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry in the House Intelligence Committee. That 300-page document included phone records obtained through a subpoena to AT&T and Verizon. The records revealed calls between Representative Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. According to the records, Nunes also spoke with Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who has been indicted over a scheme to funnel foreign funding to American political candidates....
There was no Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram, not even MySpace. There were no podcasts. There were no apps because there were no smartphones. Texting was barely a thing. The modern internet was, well, much less modern. The year was 2002 — and that was a long time ago, longer ago than a lot of people, especially Braves fans, care to admit. FAGAN: Dansby Swanson was ready for his big NLDS moment...
The total number of turtles belonging to species, which are notable for their spikey shells and their wormy lure, is decreasing rapidly. The agency said that the looming presence of turtle soup has resulted in “decades and decades of exploitation,” according to an attorney representing the Center for Biological Diversity. “Alligator snappers are some of the fiercest, wildest creatures in the Southeast,” said attorney Elise Bennett in a news release by the Center, “but overexploitation and habitat destruction have put their lives on the line....
Bryan, 23, died Tuesday after being shot in the head with a pistol in Macon, Ga. He was found in the driver’s seat of a Monte Carlo in a parking space at a convenience store. MORE: Ranking the best states for college hoops Miller was also shot and critically wounded, possibly by the at-large suspect. He was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest or neck and listed in stable condition, investigators said....
The CDC said that from July 30 to July 24, the state reported 110,724 new COVID-19 cases. Florida’s COVID-19 case data for July 31 and August 1 was not readily available on the CDC’s tracker. During the same time frame, the entire U.S. reported 509,530 new COVID-19 cases, indicating that Florida accounted for around 20 percent of the total number of new cases reported across the country. According to CDC data, as of August 1, Florida was reporting around 12,000 new daily cases over the past week....
Schools, teachers and parents are being forced to decide how safe they feel their schools are as the Omicron variant continues to represent a larger portion of cases detected in New York and across the country. Experts say Omicron appears to be more transmissible than past variants, but it is yet to be seen if it causes illnesses as severe as Delta, according to medical experts. The highly transmissible variant could cause havoc among schools and health systems even if the cases are milder simply from the number of cases it could produce....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new COVID data on Wednesday, which showed Florida had reported a new daily case record on Monday with 24,753 positive tests. According to data shared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, Florida also has the highest number of children hospitalized from COVID of any state in the country, with 232 currently being treated in medical facilities....
Why is that notable? A couple of reasons. One, it’s when DeRozan, who currently ranks fifth in the league in scoring with 26.8 points per game, is doing the bulk of his damage. Two, it’s the most in the league by a not-insignificant margin. The players closest to DeRozan in fourth-quarter scoring are Giannis Antetokounmpo (7.3), Kevin Durant (7.0) and Cole Anthony (7.0), followed by Jayson Tatum (6.8), LeBron James (6....
The poll comes one month after the president announced and then changed his primary residency from New York, a state he had lived in since birth, to the Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. The data was collected between November 13 and November 18 with support for the president split clearly along party lines. The poll says 85.5 percent of Republicans nationwide and 84 percent of Florida Republicans said they support the president, while 39....
Baserunners: Short on steals? Look for stolen base threats to take advantage of these catchers this week (stats as of 6/20): MORE FANTASY BASEBALL: Cardinals’ injured SPs | Quirky schedules
On Aug. 5, 2013, MLB announced 50-game suspensions for Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta, Everth Cabrera, Antonio Bastardo, Jesus Montero, Francisco Cervelli, Jordany Valdespin, Fautino De Los Santos, Jordan Norberto, Cesar Puello, Fernando Martinez and Sergio Escalona. MORE: Feds charge Bosch | ‘Free pass’ remark angers Ortiz | Infamous MLB moments Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera, Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon and Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal, all of whom had served 50-game suspensions as a result of their violations of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program stemming from their connections to Biogenesis, did not receive additional discipline....
At the time of publication, the U.S. had 4,772,027 confirmed cases of COVID-19—the highest number in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. From these cases,156,840 people have died and 1,528,979 have recovered. In the graphic below, provided by Statista, California has the highest number of cases out of the 50 U.S. states. To help shoppers keep a safe distance from one another, grocery stores such as Walmart, Aldi and others are offering curbside pickup....
