All public schools in Bay City, Michigan, will be closed on Friday as a result of copycat threats, the school district said on Facebook. “Administrators were made aware of a threat of violence toward Bay City Central High School this evening [Thursday] at approximately 8PM. The threat originated via social media, and appears to be a viral ‘challenge’ for students to post,” the statement said. “The photo and threat has been seen in several other districts....

The 23-year-old, whose deal expires in 18 months, has found regular playing time hard to come this season, starting eight Premier League matches and completing 90 minutes just once in the recent victory over West Ham. ‘Nonsense!’ - Klopp on Ox rumours Oxlade-Chamberlain is aware of Hector Bellerin’s recent contract renewal that saw the Spaniard double his salary to a figure in upwards of £100,000-a-week and the English winger will now be looking for a similar deal....

The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! called the Senate hopeful a “total phony,” explaining that he’d had dinner with Oz and his wife several years ago when Trump was campaigning for president. The Oz’s purportedly told Kimmel about a party they’d once attended at Mar-a-Lago. “A very glamorous older woman walks up to Trump, and he’s telling somebody else how good she looks or something, and she says, ‘Donald, how do I look?...

RVP gets one last chance to shine The Gunners playmaker was in imperious form on Wednesday night as he scored three goals in his side’s 6-0 hammering of Ludogorets in the Champions League. What better way to celebrate than by first posing with his teammates in a post-match snap before filming his grand arrival home, match ball in hand. A photo posted by Mesut Özil (@m10_official) onOct 19, 2016 at 2:02pm PDT...

For the official bracket, click here. MORE: Fultz rises above rest of NBA Draft class Here’s the full Pac-12 Tournament schedule (all times ET): 2017 Pac-12 Tournament schedule Wednesday, March 8: First round Game 1: No. 8 Arizona State 98, No. 9 Stanford 88 Game 2: No. 5 California 67, No. 12 Oregon State 62 Game 3: No. 7 Colorado 73, No. 10 Washington State 63 Game 4: No. 6 USC 78 No....

The tournament’s No. 1 overall seed — Oregon (19-5, 14-4 in Pac-12 play) — wasn’t even determined until the final day of the regular season. The Ducks earned their spot thanks to an 80-67 win over rival Oregon State on Sunday. Oregon and USC might be the top two seeds, respectively, but look for other teams such as 3-seed Colorado and 4-seed UCLA to challenge for the Pac-12 title as well....

Trailing 3-2 after losing at home for the second time in the Eastern Conference series, Indiana was poised for an early summer when the Hawks pushed out to an 84-79 lead with just over 3 minutes remaining, cheered on by a raucous crowd. But, for the fourth time in this back-and-forth affair, the road team won. West seemed to make every big play down the stretch, scoring four straight points and forcing a huge turnover to begin the turnaround....

That was three years ago. A few seasons, 3,726 yards and 32 touchdowns later, Jordy Nelson somehow still “sneaks up on guys.” We’ll spare you the senseless, evasive “deceptive speed” lingo — the Packers wideout “sneaks up on guys” because he’s white. Yet here we are in 2014 and many are amazed Nelson, who’s been a burner since elementary school, continues to dust defensive backs and help Green Bay’s offense maintain its lethal nature....

The incident happened midway through the fourth quarter of the NFC North matchup at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Lions running back D’Andre Swift went down injured after a 2-yard run and medical staff rushed onto the field to assist. First responders at the Buffalo Bills game against the Cincinnati Bengals last Monday night were praised for their quick response after Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field following a tackle....

Heading into Sunday’s telecast on Fox Sports, the NFL was coming off its worst TV performance in years. The league’s overall TV ratings fell 8 percent during the 2016 regular season, sending shock waves through TV networks and Madison Avenue, where live NFL games were viewed as the last DVR-proof programming. Then the wild-card weekend of the playoffs produced mostly one-sided games. They followed a forgettable 2016 season filled with blowouts, poor officiating and political protests by players that turned off some longtime NFL fans....

The deal includes a $12.5 million signing bonus, agent Drew Rosenhaus told The Associated Press. Shields, 26, was among top cornerbacks on the 2014 free-agent market, and his contract is huge for a player who entered the NFL undrafted out of Miami (Fla.). According to NFL.com, the Packers will shell out $15 million on the first season. And the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the contract would make Shields the team's highest-paid cornerback....

Green Bay (6-1) hasn’t lost since a bad performance against New Orleans in Jacksonville in Week 1, but it will be without quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ favorite target. Davante Adams won’t play after landing on the COVID-19 list, and fellow wide receiver Allen Lazard, coming on of late, also won’t be cleared. The Cardinals (7-0) also come in banged up with wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins (hamstring) and J.J. Watt (shoulder) fighting through short-week injuries following the Week 7 rout of their former team, the Texans....

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel uncovered a court report that revealed Packers receiver Geronimo Allison was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana last month after a traffic stop and subsequent arrest in early September. MORE: NFL playoff predictions through Super Bowl 51 Allison, an undrafted rookie from Illinois, was officially charged Dec. 15 by the Manitowoc (Wis.) County district attorney’s office. Allison, who came on late in the regular season with eight catches for 157 yards and a touchdown in the final two games, has a court date scheduled for Jan....

FoxSports.com’s Ken Rosenthal reported Tuesday night that San Diego has hired Rangers assistant general manager A.J. Preller to be its new general manager, replacing the fired Josh Byrnes. Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler told UT San Diego’s Dennis Lin that a hire has not been made. “We are getting close to the finish line; however, we are not there,” Fowler wrote in an email to Lin on Tuesday night. “Much could change in the next 12-15 hours....

The Venezuelan forward netted five goals in all competitions in his first four months with Amakhosi. “Next season I want to score at least 10 goals," Paez told the club’s website. “I think that’s a realistic target, considering I scored five times in half a season,” he continued. Paez hopes to win trophies with Amakhosi next season following the team’s trophless 2016/17 campaign. “I am disappointed we couldn’t win a trophy this season but we definitely plan to win trophies next season....

Dubbed the Huayra Codalunga, the car’s design takes a page from ’60s Le Mans race cars and Italian coachbuilders of old. The company’s Pagani Grandi Complicazioni special projects division and a few choice clients collaborated on the design process. Those clients, two Pagani collectors, asked the designers for this concept in 2018. “There are virtually infinite possibilities for designing and customizing these vehicles,” the division’s chief Lorenzo Kerkoc said in a press release....

More troubling, Pakistani authorities say, the gunmen are holding several hundred women and children as human shields inside. As a result, “Operation Silence,” the army’s code name for the assault, would be a deliberately “slow, step by step process” in order to minimize the loss of innocent lives, says Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, the military’s top spokesman. As the operation began at about 4:30 a.m., he predicted it would be over in four hours or so....

The contested territory of Kashmir, split with a de facto border between India’s Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan’s Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has been the subject of countless deadly skirmishes and several all-out wars between the two neighboring rivals and Islamabad has reacted with outrage to New Delhi’s decision nearly months ago to unilaterally remove the special status afforded to India’s only majority-Muslim region there. Speaking to Newsweek, Azad Kashmir President Masood Khan described the situation on the frontier as “volatile....

Speaking to Newsweek at the United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, Pakistani permanent representative to the U.N. Munir Akram told Newsweek that he and his government were “concerned” with the upward tick in militancy plaguing the region within and near the nation’s borders. Specifically, he named the threat posed by insurgent outfits such as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch separatist movements like the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), both of which have increasingly targeted Pakistani personnel and civilians, but also the regional ISIS Khorasan branch, called ISIS-K or ISIL-K....

WC outright odds here Hernan Dario Gomez’s men looked set to miss out on even an intercontinental play-off spot as they were level 1-1 with Costa Rica in Panama City, the hosts having equalised as Gabriel Torres’ close-range effort cancelled out Johan Venegas’ opener for Costa Rica. That effort proved controversial as the ball looked to have failed to cross the line, but it appeared it would be inconsequential with the draw not enough to overhaul United States and Honduras beating Mexico 3-2....