“I had a vision,” Miller told the Plain Dealer after the game. “I was telling my teammates all week I was gonna catch a pick, I was gonna score.” He was right. MORE: Opening line | Buckeyes prove they belong | Oregon vs. Ohio State should be fun Late in the third quarter, Miller dropped into coverage and picked off a Blake Sims pass intended for Heisman Trophy finalist Amari Cooper....
Quarterback C.J. Stroud was explosive at Ohio Stadium and completed 32 of 35 passes for 432 yards. His performance against the Spartans tied the single-game passing touchdown record with six in just the first half. Wide reciever Chris Olave and tight end Garrett Wilson both caught two passes from Stroud in the end zone. Olave led Ohio State with seven catches for 140 yards with two touchdowns while Wilson made seven catches for 126 yards and two touchdowns....
COCHRANE: What’s the significance of making Indonesia your first presidential visit, given its brutal occupation of East Timor from 1975 to 1999? RAMOS-HORTA: I always place enormous importance on our relationship with Indonesia since the changes that occurred in 1999—changes for the better. Ever since, I have made every effort to normalize and gradually cement relations with our giant and powerful neighbor. Given the history, is it difficult to come here and be friends?...
Why? Well, it doesn’t hurt that the golden retriever’s dad, Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, is home full-time. “She’s the only one that’s probably happy that the little quirky things going on,” he said on a video call with reporters on Thursday. “She gets lots of intention and lots of walks right now so she’s been happy.” It’s a moment of respite in what has been a tumultuous time....
The Edmonton Oilers haven’t been playing games, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t making moves. The team announced Saturday that it has signed 2019 draft pick Raphael Lavoie to an entry-level deal, getting another promising prospect into the fold. Lavoie, taken 38th overall by the Oilers, is coming off a split season in the QMJHL. The Chambly, Que., native racked up 82 points (38 goals) in 55 games split between the Halifax Mooseheads and Chicoutimi Sagueneens before the three leagues that make up the CHL canceled the remainder of their regular season earlier this week....
The team did not release the details of Collison’s deal, but it is reportedly worth $8 million over two years, Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports reports. MORE: Pelicans snap Hawks streak | Training like Stephen Curry | Rubio’s return Collison has averaged 3.8 points and 3.4 rebounds in 16.0 minutes as a backup forward.
“The University of Oklahoma and The University of Texas at Austin notified the Big 12 Athletic Conference today that they will not be renewing their grants of media rights following expiration in 2025,” the two schools said in a joint statement. “Providing notice to the Big 12 at this point is important in advance of the expiration of the conference’s current media rights agreement.” The joint statement continued, “The universities intend to honor their existing grant of rights agreements....
The Wooden Award is given annually to college basketball most outstanding men’s and women’s players. MORE: Sights from the Final Four | Women’s title game in photos Hield, who was also Sporting News Player of the Year, was second in the nation this season with 25 points per game while leading the Sooners to the Final Four. He led the country with 12 30-point games, including two during the NCAA Tournament....
Murray received 2,167 total points from Heisman voters to claim the trophy, becoming the second consecutive Sooners quarterback to win, following Baker Mayfield in 2017. Four of Oklahoma’s last eight starting quarterbacks (Murray, Mayfield, Sam Bradford and Jason White) have taken home college football’s most prestigious award. Murray certainly was deserving of the honor; the junior led the 12-1 Sooners to the College Football Playoff while posting 4,945 total yards and 51 touchdowns as a dual-threat quarterback....
According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the digestive tracts are one of the oldest known fossilized anatomical structures, shedding new light on the evolution of animal life. Between around 580 and 540 million years ago, toward the end of the Ediacaran Period, a group of bizarre, soft-bodied creatures emerged in Earth’s oceans, representing the first major group of complex, multicellular life on the planet. Ediacaran organisms represent an important milestone in the evolution of life on Earth as they immediately precede the Cambrian Explosion—a rapid increase in biodiversity after 540 million years ago when most of the major animal groups we know today appear in the fossil record....
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin revealed last weekend that the newest punter on the roster, Charlie Pollock, was discovered somewhere probably near fraternity row. Pollock is listed at 6-foot-1, 250 pounds, and Kiffin joked about how they found him. “I don’t know a whole lot about him. I think he was down at the frat house, like at a keg party or something, where they got him from,” Kiffin said....
After signing an exclusive deal with DAZN, Joshua has cemented himself as one of the most profit-making boxers in and out of the ring. Usyk was recently in Ukraine, defending his country against Russian aggression. The two will clash in Saudi Arabia, with Joshua looking to avenge a loss. Usyk is not looking to be dethroned from his titles. The Sporting News looks into how much the two will make for their rematch and how it may affect their wallets in the long run....
In Group E, which also housed Uganda and Congo, the Pharaohs held their own, impressively finishing four points clear at the top to return to the global showpiece for the first time since 1990. Hector Cuper’s men won four of six matches, drawing one and losing one. ‘‘I will like to congratulate all the Egyptians," Kingson told Egyptian TV ON Sport. “They deserve to be the there and we Ghanaians will support them with our prayers and everything from the beginning to the end....
On Thursday, nine days after surgery and a few minutes after Maatta’s second practice session with the team, those odds became 100 percent. Maatta, indeed, played the first month of the season with cancer, he told media in Toronto. Pittsburgh plays the Maple Leafs on Friday, but Maatta won’t be in the lineup; coach Mike Johnston said next week is more likely. So, the 20-year-old defenseman, who wants to play against Toronto, will likely miss about two whole weeks....
Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson have confirmed plans to test their vaccines against the Omicron coronavirus variant. These announcements come as the new variant is confirmed to have 32 possible mutations in the spike protein, which is the part of the virus that many vaccines try to attack. All three companies have commenced testing against the strain, which is projected to be up to 500 percent more transmissible than any other variant seen since the pandemic began....
The cluster of CJD cases has turned Leicestershire into a test-bed for research on the disease. Last July the Leicestershire Health Authority (LHA) launched an investigation, but scientists have yet to turn up anything conclusive. Said Arthur Beyless, whose daughter Pamela succumbed to the disease in 1998 at the age of 24, “I don’t think we will ever work out how she caught it unless they come across a piece of paper saying, ‘This was infected beef’....
Fifty years ago we were at war with Germany. An 18-year-old college student George Bush-volunteered to serve in the United States Navy. Somewhat older, I was a young professor at Harvard teaching in an officer-candidate program. Although I was deferred from the draft, both on occupational grounds and because I had a 14-month-old daughter, I volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Both George Bush and I believed then, and I am sure each of us believes today, that every citizen has an obligation to serve his nation in peace and war....
Republicans have been against the introduction of new witnesses into the trial, claiming the facts already presented by Trump’s legal defense team is enough to pass judgement. Some members of the Senate have said that hearing new testimony from potential witnesses like former National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would be relevant to the case. “Tomorrow, we’ll take a crucial vote on whether we will debate having witnesses and documents in this trial,” Schumer tweeted....
In response to last week’s warning that Kenya was at high risk of another terror attack, Greeley, an American, has told the school’s 630 pupils–30 percent of them from the United States–that they will start their summer break earlier than scheduled. The school has also installed new “Jersey” barriers–long heavy plastic slabs filled with water–in the front driveway, so, she says, “there’s no straight shot into the school.” But these are all just new additions to a broader security plan for ISK....
