Resume builders Oklahoma State 72, Kansas 65. This is one the Cowboys (19-10, No. 49) needed to have, and Marcus Smart helped deliver the win with 20 of his 21 points in the second half. Oklahoma State has won three straight with Smart back in the lineup. With games vs. Kansas State and at Iowa State remaining, the Cowboys have two more chances to make NCAA statements. Dayton 86, UMass 79....
The Line: Oklahoma -8.5, Total: 58 Line movement: The Wynn opened the Sooners at -11 on Sunday, but was down to -8.5 by Monday. As of this Wednesday posting, the spread was between -8 and -8.5 around Las Vegas. For updated spreads and totals, visit our live odds page. Trends that matter: In his second stint at Kansas State, which began in 2009, coach Bill Snyder is 32-12 ATS in conference play....
Oklahoma University wide receiver Spencer Jones was involved in an altercation in a bar bathroom in a video that surfaced on Feb. 19. The video shows Jones telling another, smaller man to “get the f— out” in a bathroom in Norman, Okla., with Jones eating a few punches and getting choked in the video. Another man alongside Jones pushed the assailant, leading to the assailant and Jones getting into it....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released particular guidance for those who may suffer most from exposure, with the elderly considered among those as “your risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19 increases as you get older.” Advice includes precautions such as limiting interactions and social distancing when that is not possible. It also notes that around 80 percent of COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. have been among adults over the age of 65....
In the cells which line this part of the body, children appear to produce fewer of the proteins which SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus which causes COVID-19) uses to invade our body. According to the authors of a research letter published in the journal JAMA, we appear to create more of the protein which SARS-CoV-2 uses as a receptor—an enzyme called ACE2—as we age. The team at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai looked at samples of the nasal epithelium from 305 people aged four to 60-years-old....
Ole Miss' slugger Austin Anderson came up to the plate in the 12th inning against Auburn on Friday night with the score tied 5-5. The Tigers had intentionally walked Anderson in the 9th and 11th innings. The Tigers tried to intentionally walk him again, but the signals got crossed and Anderson made them pay. You just hate to see that happen.
Kenworthy, 24, won the silver medal in the slopestyle event at the 2014 Sochi Olympics (and also came home with five stray dogs). He won bronze at the 2013 Winter X Games in the same event. “I want to be the guy who comes out, wins — and is like, I’m taking names,” he told ESPN.com.
Kitty Chiller, the chef de mission for the Australian Olympic Committee, listed a number of things wrong with the Olympians’ housing. There are blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring. MORE: Rio Olympics venues | Portraits of U.S. athletes OK, anything else? “Water has come through the ceiling resulting in large puddles on the floor around cabling and wiring,” Chiller said. Electricity-and-water combo: safe, right? Not so much. C’mon now....
There are a lot of us here for the Olympic Games: 3,500 athletes, 26,000 staff and volunteers, and more than 70 news agencies. The so-called Main Media Center, where said agencies are based, has its own 800-seat cafeteria, 200-seat bar/lounge and a 75-seat upscale Italian eatery called Tavern 2002. All that’s fine, and we frequent them often. But downtown Salt Lake City offers more than 200 other dining options. And I’d like to try a few dozen before I depart....
After the coronavirus forced the Tokyo Games to be pushed back a year, athletes from across the world traveled to Japan representing their respective nations, hoping to bring home gold medals. And though spectators weren’t allowed at venues, fans of the Olympics tuned in to watch this year’s Games unfold. But how did the final medal tally shape up? Which countries came away with the most gold medals when all was said and done?...
The highly contagious Delta variant had been dominant for months in the U.S. As of the end of November, Delta accounted for more than 99.5 percent of virus infections, according to CDC data. Omicron’s share of infections saw a nearly six-fold increase in just one week, the CDC said. In some areas of the U.S., Omicron accounts for even higher percentages of COVID-19 cases. This includes the New York area, the Pacific Northwest, industrial Midwest and the Southeast, where estimates indicate that the strain is responsible for 90 percent of new infections....
Omicron was first identified in South Africa on November 24 and was deemed a variant of concern two days later. California was the first state to identify the variant in America, on December 1, and in the four days since, cases have been found in Minnesota, Colorado, Hawaii, Nebraska, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Utah, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Wisconsin, and Louisiana. The first case, in California, involved a person who recently returned from South Africa....
Olmert and Abbas, in a joint statement read by Bush, pledged to “make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008” on all outstanding issues separating the Israelis from the Palestinians. Yet when Abbas laid out his proposals for such a deal, Olmert and Bush avoided addressing them, sticking to nice words about “ending the occupation” and establishing “a new nation, a democratic Palestinian state.” That idea—Palestinian statehood—seems as far from reality today as it ever has....
The video, posted to Joe Biden’s official Twitter, has 1.7 million views as of this writing. The video shows the Bidens sharing a couch, addressing the camera. “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Jill and I wish you and your family peace, joy, health and happiness this season. But we know for so many of you in our nation, this has been a very difficult year,” Joe Biden said, opening the video....
But beneath the bitterness lies a new and helpful clarity. It may now be easier to confront both Farrakhan and the larger issue of offensive speech, particularly on campus. The potential of this story to end well depends on whether you trust people-all people-to make better decisions when they have additional information. In the months ahead, college students will learn more about the 10,000-member Nation of Islam, and they will hear more hate speech....
After winning 19 games in two seasons, the Blue Devils have become nationally relevant, making the ACC Championship Game in 2013 after a program-record 10 wins and playing in bowl games the last two seasons. This year, with a new quarterback in Thomas Sirk and a run game ready to prove its worth, questions at ACC Kickoff surrounded how the Blue Devils would keep winning. ACC: All-conference | 10 best games | Coach rankings | Can Jimbo fix it?...
He was one of many empathetic politicians to parade along the broken levees of the Midwest. As White House aides told it, Clinton left the G-7 summit in Tokyo dead tired and determined to take time of in Hawaii with Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea. And as staffers told it, few among the president’s entourage fully grasped the political dangers rising with the muddy Mississippi. Then the news media began to intercut footage of bedraggled flood victims with footage of their president in the surf-and Vice President Al Gore, appearing on a Sunday morning talk show, was badgered about the unseemly symbolism of Clinton’s vacation by NBC’s Tim Russert....
His eyes shift as he speaks, his right pupil still dilated from an injury that had the potential to cut his career short, as he recalls his road to professional hockey that started as a kid back in Villach, Austria. “My mom signed me up when I was five, most of my buddies were playing, school friends and they started a little earlier than me . . . I just liked being around my friends and never really got away from it,” Grabner told Sporting News....
Pharma Fears: There’s been a lot of concern, understandably, over medical personal protection gear being held hostage by overseas suppliers. But one of the under-the-radar stories during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the number of pharmaceuticals and pharma ingredients that are produced overseas. Talk about being held hostage.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has estimated that nearly 40 percent of finished drug products and 72 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) are manufactured outside the United States....
