The two schools as well as the Big Ten agreed on moving up the opener by two days. MORE: Big Ten football should be reserved for Saturdays It will mark the seventh time the Buckeyes will open a football season on a day other than Saturday, and it will be the third Thursday evening opener. The game will mark the first time in 41 years that Ohio State has opened with a conference game....
When police arrived at the house on Saturday at 4:05 p.m., they discovered seven young men sitting on the porch, drinking and listening to music without masks. A total of 20 people were at the gathering. One house resident confirmed to police that he had recently tested positive for COVID-19. When asked whether he was supposed to be in quarantine, the student responded, “Yeah, that’s why I’m at my house,” and then claimed that everyone else in attendance had tested positive for COVID-19 as well....
From the Times-Herald (via @JapersRink): Young had been arrested Thursday after he allegedly assaulted his 20-year-old girlfriend. He was arraigned Friday and released with a no contact order. The same day, he visited his girlfriend’s home in the 2700 block of River Road, Buelow said. Upon learning that his girlfriend wasn’t home, Young allegedly forced his way into the home and entered the parents’ bedroom, and then proceeded into the kitchen....
This was a vote of self-confidence in Australia, one the nation almost surely would have lost only a few years ago. Ever since their nation’s founding as a colony for exiled prisoners from Britain, Australians have been fighting the sense of inferiority they call the “cultural cringe.” Content for much of the 20th century to fight under Britain or America in World Wars I and II, and to look up to any culture not their own, Australia later struggled to assert an identity....
The Sooners started the season with preseason Heisman Trophy favorite Spencer Rattler. Then he struggled, and they brought in five-star freshman Caleb Williams, who inserted his name into the Heisman race with a series of strong performances. On Saturday, No. 8 Oklahoma went right back to Rattler after Williams struggled against No. 13 Baylor in the third quarter. Rattler started his afternoon by heaving up a 50/50 deep ball that went uncaught, and went three-and-out in his first drive as Oklahoma continued to trail Baylor 10-7....
OU fans wasted no time in letting the projected first-round NFL Draft pick have it after that play. They booed and asked that Rattler be replaced by freshman backup Caleb Williams. The interception was Rattler’s third in four games this season. MORE: SEC officiating facing scrutiny yet again Doubts about Rattler have crept in after he threw two interceptions in a 40-35 win over Tulane and mustered just 73 yards in the first half against West Virginia on 7-of-11 passing....
On Tuesday, the Sooners honored Griffin by retiring his No. 23 jersey at halftime of their 73-71 win over Baylor. MORE: Field of 68: Fierce battle for final No. 1 seeds | Most hated players in NCAA history Griffin average 22.7 points and 14.4 rebound during the 2008-09 season and led the Sooners to the Elite Eight. He is just the fifth Oklahoma player to have his jersey retired, joining Alvan Adams, Mookie Blaylock, Stacey King and Wayman Tisdale (who also wore No....
“We, at the outset, determined that, when it came to the president’s culpability, we needed to go forward, only after taking into account the OLC opinion that indicated that a sitting president cannot be indicted,” the former special counsel said. A major focal point for Democrats at Wednesday’s hearing has been why Mueller could not charge Trump with any crimes, something they allege would have occurred with any other individual....
Thursday night, he was at his most direct as he discussed his basketball mortality with reporters. Earlier in the week, Lakers coach Byron Scott suggested Bryant could be shut down for the season if the Lakers are still out of contention in March. MORE: Kobe, LeBron appreciate meeting | Countering Kobe on youth basketball Believe it or not, Kobe’s OK with that. Well, not OK with it, but accepting of it....
The reason? Kentucky’s band faced winter weather conditions and didn’t make the trip to Little Rock, so members of the Ole Miss band learned the fight song and filled in for the absence. MORE: DeCourcy: UK’s depth unparalleled | Bender: Meet wide receiver Willie Cauley-Stein PHOTOS: Kentucky’s dominance “The people at Ole Miss were good enough to participate,” Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell said, via The Clarion-Ledger. “We were very, very grateful and appreciative....
Hype video? No. Guest speaker? No. Fake funerals? Naturally. Coach Hugh Freeze told reporters Monday he staged a mock funeral for himself to motivate his players to work for the results they want this season and in life. MORE: SEC predictions | SEC coach rankings “The whole purpose is understanding that whatever you believe drives your behaviors and your behaviors drive your performance and your performance will give you some result,” Freeze said....
Olive oil is made from crushing olives—small fruit that grows on olive trees. The oil from the olives is then extracted through a manufacturing process. The result is a tasty liquid with lots of health benefits, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing cancer risk. This article discusses olive oil allergy symptoms, causes, and treatment options. Olive Allergy Olives grow in temperate, dry climates, mainly around the Mediterranean. They’re also farmed in some U....
The two musicians sang her song “Deja Vu” together, as well as duetting Joel’s 1983 classic hit “Uptown Girl.” Following the surprise performance, Rodrigo took to Instagram to share some footage of the show and a selfie with the Piano Man. “I sang with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden today are you kidding?” she captioned one story. In a later story, the 19-year-old captioned her and Joel’s selfie: “Biggest honor ever, still crying, thank you Billy!...
The International Olympic Committee said Peng spoke to officials, including IOC President Thomas Bach, in a 30-minute video call from Beijing. According to the organization’s statement, she reassured them that she was well and thanked them for their concern but asked for her privacy. “The statements make the IOC complicit in the Chinese authority’s malicious propaganda and lack of care for basic human rights and justice,” Global Athlete, a lobby group for athletes, said in a statement....
Among the 4,000 permanent residents, about half are impassioned esoterics. New Age pastimes abound, from feng shui to chromotherapy. There are some 40 sects and cults, a few of them apocalyptic. But instead of Armageddon, most of the people in Alto Paraiso are bracing for a boom in tourism to mark the millennium. A decade ago this was an impoverished patch of Brazilian nowhere. Now, there are about 30 small hotels and 40,000 visitors in a normal year....
While the announcement aligned with a September 17 recommendation by experts at the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), it directly contradicted a key CDC advisory panel, which had advised against approving boosters for people under 65. The panel in turn contradicted President Joe Biden. On August 18, he declared to all Americans, “Get a booster shot…. It will make you safer, and for longer. And it will help us end the pandemic faster....
Unable to fix the joint, cash-starved officials did the next best thing: they sold it last January, for a mere $52 million. Now the new owner, Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America, is working overtime to bring the crumbling jail up to code. It’s the first time a prison has been sold outright (although under a lease-back agreement, ownership is supposed to revert to D.C. after 20 years), and the result could have a huge impact on dozens of urban prison systems that are flirting with privatization, from Texas to South Africa....
“Rough & Ready Vol. l.” Led by the throaty bedroom boasts “Mr. Loverman,” “Wicked in Bed” and “Hard and Stiff,” this is a sundae of slackness and hard, sophisticated rap beats. “Don Dada.” Guest rapper Heavy D provides a New York flavor, as Super Cat mixes hard-core ghetto toasting with a sweet lyricism and an easy sense of humor. “The Stopper.” No relation to Shabba (dancehall is full of performers who use the adopted last name Ranks), Cutty is strictly criminal-minded....
With Tom Wilson’s recent suspension for his hit on Pittsburgh’s Zach Aston-Reese in Game 3 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, Sporting News reached out to May for his perspective on Wilson as a player, the three hits that have gotten attention during Washington’s playoff run, as well as what it’s like to skate into Pittsburgh wearing a target on your back in a Capitals sweater....
