He was feeling especially happy to get a victory at MetLife Stadium, something he only did 15 times in five years with the Giants. “I’ve lost enough games here, so to leave here with a win is a good feeling,” Beckham said. The Giants traded Beckham to the Browns one season after the wide receiver signed a five-year, $95 million deal with New York. His time with the Giants was plagued by losing and injuries as New York went 31-49 in his time on the team and 25-34 with him on the field....

OBJ might as well save his breath, because he is not going anywhere — except on vacation in two weeks when Cleveland’s season ends far shy of expectations. Beckham is going to have to sit tight for at least one more year unless another team makes a trade offer that’s too good for Browns general manager John Dorsey to refuse. Which is unlikely given Beckham’s reputation as a diva personality who will second-guess his coaches....

The Browns wide receiver will not be playing in a competitive game until September. He did not have any speaking engagements scheduled. Yet Beckham has been a leading sports news story since LSU won the College Football Playoff championship game Monday. His decision to hand out money to winning players put his college team in hot water with the NCAA. Now he could be in trouble as well — New Orleans police issued him an arrest warrant Thursday after he slapped a security guard’s rear end in an incident captured on camera....

A few years ago, the storied purveyor of such authentic Mexican delicacies as Cheesy Beefy Melt and Nachos BellGrande launched an ad campaign based on three simple words: “Change is Good.” At the time the slogan struck me as both sub-literate, like something from a self-help book for cavemen, and unreasonably optimistic–the changes in Michael Jackson’s face, for example, have not been so good. But now four of the leading 2008 presidential contenders are making essentially the same argument to convince us to vote for them....

Hmmmm, I wonder whom you’ve been talking to? A salesperson for load funds? My, my. Who would have guessed? A “load” is another word for sales commission, and I’m happy to pay it to brokers or planners who give smart advice. But I see red if I’m misled, and in your case I’m practically seeing crimson. First, some basics. Load funds can charge commissions three ways: (1) an upfront load, deducted from your investment when you buy; (2) a back-end load, subtracted from your proceeds if you sell within five to seven years; (3) a 12b-1 fee–a percentage of assets paid annually out of your fund account to cover sales and marketing costs....

Arguing is clearly Gingrich’s favorite sport. This week, he launched a second wave of attacks against the State Department by inviting a small group of reporters (not including me) to his office to discuss an article he has written for Foreign Policy magazine. This being Washington, they accepted. The article calls for “culture shock, a top-to-bottom transformation that will make [the State Department] a more effective communicator of U.S. values....

Ever worked on a farm? Not at all. I’ve ruined $20,000 worth of equipment. All the other farmers laugh at me. So why? There’s nothing more American than being on a farm. I was planning to go to India and do the Buddhist-monk thing. But now I live on 155 acres of farmland wilderness. In Manhattan I had a maid. Here, if you leave something around the farm, no one picks up after you....

Dembele shuts down Chelsea rumours The youngster has been linked with a move to several top clubs in the past after becoming West Ham’s youngest ever player when he made his debut at just 16 years and 198 days. However, the 18-year-old committed his future to the Hammers by signing a new four-and-a-half-year deal at the club back in December, which has dampened speculation. Oxford has made just two appearances for West Ham this season, both in the Europa League, and will now spend the rest of the season with Jaap Stam’s side in search of regular football....

Goal understands the Ligue 1 champions will pay €35 million up front for the former Schalke man with the possibility of an extra €10m to be paid in bonuses. “Julian Draxler is to leave VfL Wolfsburg and sign for French club Paris Saint-Germain, pending a medical examination,” a Wolfsburg statement confirmed. Why Alexis must leave Arsenal “The 23-year-old attacker has agreed to a four-year deal with the Ligue 1 titleholders and Champions League participants....

Bradley Smith, 63, and his son, 28-year-old Andrew Smith, had been hunting with a group of friends south of the city of Delaware, in Ohio’s Delaware County, when the shooting took place on December 2, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The father apparently shot his son after mistaking him for a deer at dusk, Tracy Whited, a spokesperson for the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, told the newspaper. Whited said Andrew Smith had not been wearing any orange hunting clothing when the shooting took place, at around 5....

Tawauna Averette, who had six children and was pregnant with a seventh, became ill with coronavirus earlier in the fall. When her symptoms worsened she was admitted to hospital where doctors performed an emergency c-section. Her daughter was delivered safely, but that would be the only time Averette saw the newborn. Friend Kellye Albes-Fisher told local news network WHIO TV 7: “[Nurses] took the baby out of the room—that was it....

Glenn Goss Jr., who worked in the city of Rossford, resigned Tuesday after Emily Hackler posted screenshots of messages he sent her, accusing him of harassment. Hackler said that Goss, who is the son of the city’s former police chief, followed her part of the way home from the gym and later messaged her directly. “So some creep decided to follow me on my way home from planet fitness. Turns out he works for the rossford police department and used my plate number to figure out who I was, to message me personally and tell me how hot I was....

Of course, there are several arguments left on the table heading into those conference championship matchups. There are Playoff debates that those five games will solve – or at least attempt to solve. With that in mind, here are five predictions for the weekend. BENDER: 6 scenarios for final CFP rankings, from chalk to chaos Utah vs. Oklahoma turns into ‘American Idol’ On Wednesday’s edition of “Get Up,” ESPN’s Paul Finebaum put it out there....

Ohio State has won the last eight meetings between these Big Ten foes, dating back to 2001, and covering the spread in six of them. The Line: Ohio State -13, Total: 56.5 Line movement: The Wynn opened the Buckeyes at -13 on Sunday, but dropped them to -12 on Monday. Midweek, OSU ranged from -12 to -13 around Las Vegas. The total at the Westgate LV SuperBook moved from 57....

The West Geauga High School teacher showed the image of the popular cartoon character with a black eye and posing for a police mugshot. In the picture, Dora—a Latino character who speaks Spanish—is shown following an arrest for illegal border crossing and resisting arrest. The image was placed alongside what appears to be a white convicted felon with several face and neck tattoos, reports Fox 8 Cleveland. Both images are meant to show examples of people who are ineligible to vote....

In December 2019, Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) granted Cholla Petroleum permits to dig six exploratory wells 13,600 feet to 14,200 feet deep in a floodplain between Dead Lakes and the Apalachicola River in Calhoun County, around 15 miles south of the city of Blountstown, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. The wells will punch into the Floridan aquifer—the primary source of drinking water for much of central and northern Florida, as well as parts of Georgia....

Then Boston Bruins general manager, Peter Chiarelli, was in Sochi, Russia, to represent the eventual gold medal-winning Team Canada while Hitchcock was an assistant coach. “I had the experience of working with Ken in Sochi, I got to know him fairly well in that short period of time,” now Oilers general manager Chiarelli told reporters during a press conference on Tuesday. “What I saw was a high level of input in a short period of time....

Advocates say anti-feeding ordinances are the latest in a series of municipal efforts to legislate against homelessness. A report this year by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) found double-digit increases since 2002 in laws prohibiting begging, sitting and lying in public places. A week before Orlando passed its ordinance, Las Vegas outlawed giving food to even a single indigent in any city park. The law defines an indigent as a person who appears “to be entitled to apply for or receive” government assistance....

The Sooners are still looking for their first College Football Playoff victory, now 0-3 all-time in the CFP after Saturday night’s rout at the hands of No. 1 Alabama. Two of those games — both in the Orange Bowl — were not that close. But a 20-point loss to Clemson in 2015 probably didn’t hurt as much as this year’s 45-34 loss to the Crimson Tide. MORE: Alabama beats Oklahoma at its own game...

Grant would be the first inmate put to death in Oklahoma since 2015 if his execution goes ahead on October 28. He was convicted of killing prison worker Gay Carter in November 1998 while serving sentences for four armed robberies. His clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board is on Tuesday. In the clemency petition, his attorneys contend that Grant suffered years of abuse and neglect at home and in state-run institutions starting when he was a child....