The hand took place just a couple of hours after final table action began when Busquet committed his entire chip stack preflop with Ace-Two of Spades versus Reichardt’s Pocket Kings. MORE: Negreanu back to No. 2 on GPI World Rankings | Negreanu Player of the Month | WSOP November Nine set When the flop came, it appeared that the poker tournament star would be headed to the rail, as he would need a 249-to-1 miracle in order to survive....

Both competitions operate similarly. Here’s how they work. Qualifying: Participating nations need to qualify for the Olympic soccer tournament from their respective region. Each regional body determines for itself how qualifying happens. Olympic group draw: The teams that qualify for the Olympics are split into different groups based on a random seeded draw. The competition schedule is predetermined in advance of the draw. Olympic roster selection: Each national team head coach picks 22 soccer players to compete at the Olympics based on Olympic roster rules (more below)....

The ceremony always walks a line between the national pride of the host country and the optimism of sport. Nationalism is not an American phenom, but the people of “the only remaining superpower” swagger in their sleep. This year, however, the pre-Games controversy over how to include the World Trade Center flag guaranteed that American jingoism would be on a short leash. Even attempts at the “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” rally chant would fail....

Granato finally got a chance to team up with some of the best of her gender on the ice in Nagano in 1998, when the International Olympic Committee added women’s ice hockey to its roster. As the U.S. captain, Granato led her team to the sport’s first-ever gold medal. Now the 30-year-old Granato is back, hoping for a reprise in Salt Lake. So far, so good. Team USA started by polishing off the Russians (7-0) in exhibition play....

Freshman Omari Spellman, a 6-9 center ranked the No. 21 prospect in the 2016 class by Scout.com, was ruled ineligible to compete this season by the NCAA’s initial eligibility clearinghouse. MORE: College basketball’s most impactful returning players for 2016-17 The NCAA ruled that Spellman can accept a scholarship from the university and train and practice with the Wildcats, but he may not compete this season. Villanova said in its release that a prospective student-athlete must complete initial eligibility requirements by the time his or her high school class officially graduates....

Omicron’s highly transmissible nature, but potential to cause less severe disease had some hoping that the world could be headed toward a SARS-COV-2 endemic, enabling people to largely return to normal life. While the WHO believes the virus will eventually become endemic, officials don’t believe we’re at that point and that COVID-19 still has “quite a few tricks up its sleeve.” When Newsweek asked WHO officials at Wednesday’s briefing if the Omicron outbreak could be the start of the COVID-19 endemic, Dr....

Although Tribal Nations control just 2 percent of all land in the U.S., these lands hold about $1.5 trillion in untapped fossil fuels—around a third of the country’s coal, methane gas, and oil. Fossil fuel companies are impatient to extract, transport, and sell all of it before the renewable energy transition puts them out of business, and tribes like mine are getting in their way. The treaties we signed with the U....

Marty Linsky Clayton Moore, hero to a legion of baby booomers, was best known to the world as the Long Ranger. TV’s Masked Man made legendary the cry of “Hi-yo, Silver! Away! He died of a heart attack at 85. Soul music’s social conscience was Curtis Mayfield, 57, the Chicago-born singer with the famous falsetto, author of “Pusherman” and the “Superfly” soundtrack. A 1990 stage accident left Mayfield a quadriplegic, but he kept recording music; the Rock and roll Hall of Fame inducted him last March....

Doubtless, in another thousand years, historians will look back at our own time and find some similar epochal developments. Don’t ask us what they might be; we’ve frankly no idea. But it’s a little easier-and a lot safer-to predict what will happen in the next few decades. So, just five years before the parties that will celebrate the century’s turn, we asked NEwswEEK writers to have a go. Their brief was to choose something (or someone) specific and use their choice to illuminate a broader theme of tomorrow’s world....

The world’s democracies are now relearning a hard lesson of geo-politics — we cannot depend on adversaries for critical resources, let alone give them leverage to use against us. A similar situation has been evolving for years between the West and China in a more consequential way. Our reliance on lithium, cobalt, and a handful of other strategic minerals, including rare earth elements, grows as we develop new ways to transport people and goods, power America, and create cutting-edge weapons systems that keep us safe....

But that’s where Nebraska is under first-year coach Mike Riley. MORE: SN Week 10 Power Rankings | 25 best November games On Monday, Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst sent out a letter backing Riley and the program. “Your support and patience as Mike Riley rebuilds our storied program one brick at a time means the world to our young me, our staff and our university,” Eichort wrote in comments aimed at the “Husker Family”....

The jackpot grew to $1.28 billion this week as Americans from across the country joined in on the lottery, hoping to score the billion-dollar winnings, which was one of the largest winnings in Mega Millions history. But one lucky player purchased the winning ticket at a Speedway in Des Plaines, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, which came with an immediate cash value of $747.2 million. The jackpot will leave the winner, who has not been publicly identified, with more wealth than some of the richest celebrities, including Bono, who is widely estimated to be worth about $700 million, and Dolly Parton, who has an estimated net worth of anywhere between $350 and $650 million....

And while his first Premier League adventure has not gone entirely to plan thus far, with United sitting in sixth place in the table a full nine points adrift of leaders Chelsea and Zlatan having recently endured a six-game goalless streak, the club are looking forward to seeing 18 more months of Ibrahimovic in the famous red shirt. “Zlatan’s situation is simple, he has a one year plus another year [contract] in the club, we are happy with him, we are going to execute the option of a second season,” manager Jose Mourinho confirmed at a press conference on Wednesday ahead of the Europa League clash with Feyenoord at Old Trafford....

It is not to be confused with country Benin, formerly known as Dahomey and bordered by Togo to the west and Nigeria to the east. Benin the country was under French colonial rule until 1960. This anthology of Benin, first published in 2018, is an extensive narrative of the kingdom’s history as told by its own people and expert analysts and filled with tales of grandeur, creative triumphs and obstacles faced in the empire over the centuries....

Officials from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said in a press release sent to Newsweek that there are several species of the saw-scaled viper, and they are typically found in Asia. Although they are small, these snakes are extremely venomous. RSPCA officials said workers at Manchester Brick Specialist in Salford recently saw the snake in a container of bricks, which was shipped last month....

Good night, everybody. MORE: Who’s getting bumped off NBA’s Mount Rushmore for LeBron? "I was going for the win the whole time," James told reporters. And with the win secured, James threw in some smack talk. "Better offense," James said, "beats better defense every time." Heat coach Erik Spoelstra could only watch as the final play unfolded. "I just told them in the locker room that if I had realized he was going to work that thing all the way down to the end of the clock, I would have ran out there and screamed timeout," Spoelstra told reporters....

In a virtual roundtable with frontline workers, he spoke of his experts’ warnings on limiting gatherings due to the outbreak. “The docs that have been advising me all along are telling me that it’s going to cause problems in my family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, well they said, ‘Joe, maximum ten people in your home, maximum Joe.’ I’ve got a big family, you’ve probably heard a lot about, we do everything together....

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. 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....

He’s the miracle of a man who could have won a million dollars on a half-court shot at halftime of the Notre Dame-Duke game in the ACC tournament last March. But his attempt fell woefully short — it landed around the free-throw line — and within a minute, I had posted a Vine of his miss and introduced him to the world. I was trying to be a bit snarky when I wrote, “This guy had a half-court shot for a million bucks....