New England traded Mallett to Houston, where former Pats offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien is now head coach, on Sunday for a conditional 2016 seventh-round draft pick, according to NFL.com. The Texans had to trade for Mallet rather than claiming the 6-6, 240-pound QB because the Cowboys wanted him too, according to the report. It’s not immediatly clear what kind of action Mallett will see with the Texans. The 26-year-old is still a mystery in the NFL, having completed just one pass in three years of regular-season action behind Tom Brady....

When the COVID-19 outbreak ground the NBA and NHL seasons to halt in mid-March and forced the MLB to postpone Opening Day indefinitely, football felt somewhat sheltered with the collegiate and NFL seasons still over five months away. As recently as May, Ohio State’s athletic director Gene Smith suggested the Buckeyes could welcome between 20,000 to 22,000 fans while adhering to social distance measures put in place by the U....

Copeland was stabbed during an altercation at a New York City nightclub early Wednesday morning and continues to recover from the attack. Wednesday night’s game against the Knicks marks just the second game back for George since suffering a gruesome leg injury over the summer with Team USA.

Justin Alexander, the team’s race engineer, will replace Labbe as crew chief for Menard, who is 20th in the Cup standings, starting in two weeks at Talladega Superspeedway. MORE: Drivers joke about Bowyer baby | Harvick not worried about Vodoo | Chasers wary of Round 2 “I’m looking forward to slowing down in my NASCAR career a little bit and spending more time with my family,” Labbe said. “This is a good move for RCR, Paul and the No....

NBA.com’s David Aldridge writes that there’s talk around the league that Pierce will opt out of his contract and go to his hometown Los Angeles for his 18th season: MORE: Why Clippers likely will stick with core | ‘I Called Game’ T-shirts on sale After the Wizards’ loss to the Hawks in the playoffs, Pierce’s mind was on retirement as he said, “I don’t even know if I’m going to play basketball anymore....

No love for Ronaldo - Neymar reveals who he’d sign from Real Madrid The four-time Ballon d’Or winner was a pivotal part of the Portugal side that ended Payet’s dreams of international glory as they beat France in the final, though he was forced off in the first half due to injury. And while the West Ham star admits his kids are big fans of Ronaldo and his Barcelona counterpart Lionel Messi, the attacker insists they are not allowed to mention the former....

Anatomy The pectineus originates from the pectineal line of the pubic bone, which is also known as the pectin pubis. The pectineus muscle continues downward and in a posterolateral direction (behind and to the side) and inserts into the pectineal line of the femur (thigh bone). The pectineus muscle is a hip adductor, one of a group of five large muscles on the medial (middle) thigh that adduct the leg. The other hip adductors include the adductor longus, adductor brevis, adductor magnus, and gracilis muscles....

Messi’s stunning early free kick was followed by two assists for the Barcelona maestro in his team’s 3-0 victory Tuesday. Maestro Messi, but problems persist Pekerman lamented conceding the early goal against an Argentina team that came into the clash on the back of a four-game winless run. “They scored the first goal and that strengthened them,” he said. “We started the game well and thought it was going to have another way....

The game went into double overtime, the Pelicans went on a 21-2 run to turn a 17-point deficit into a 2-point lead in the fourth quarter and, to top it all off, DeMarcus Cousins finished the game with 44 points, 24 rebounds and 10 assists. As if that weren’t enough, the NBA announced on Wednesday that it had assessed Pelicans point guard Rajon Rondo a postgame technical foul for trying to distract a Bulls player during his free throw attempts late in the fourth quarter....

MORE: Top NBA free agents and team salary cap situations The trade capped a tumultuous 2018-19 season that featured the drama of Davis requesting a trade. Before the Pelicans’ final home game, the six-time All-Star wore a shirt that read, “That’s All Folks,” a reference to Porky Pig’s famous line. Davis later said that he has “no control” over what he wears to games. On Saturday, Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry had the final laugh....

The New Orleans Pelicans, in their second year under the moniker, held off a late Spurs rally to come away with a 108-103 victory Wednesday, securing their playoff spot and knocking the Thunder out of playoff contention. The Thunder beat the Timberwolves 138-113 behind 37 points from Russell Westbrook, who locked up the league’s scoring title but was unable to get his team to the postseason. Both teams finished 45-37, but the Pelicans won the head-to-head tiebreaker by beating the Thunder in three of four matchups....

In a Saturday CPAC panel with Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp, McCarthy said that he’s so confident that Democrats will lose their majority in the House in 2022 that he would wager his own house on it. “We’re going to get the majority back. We’re five seats away,” he said. “I would bet my house. My personal house. Don’t tell my wife, but I will bet it....

The Serbian side did not take too kindly to seeing the referee in their First Division game with Spartak Subotica pointing to the spot, and decided to take drastic action. So infuriated were they with the decision that two players saw red and were ordered from the field. Those remaining then proceeded to park themselves on the turf at the start of the second half and refuse to take any further part in the contest....

With the Penguins skating with a 5-on-4 advantage, Pittsburgh worked the puck around the zone. With Crosby parked in front of the goal, Evgeni Malkin sent the puck in his direction, before Crosby, perhaps on pure hockey sense, or perhaps with eyes in the back of his head, threw a no-look- through-the-legs pass to Phil Kessel, to continue a tic-tac-toe sequence that ended in a Jake Guentzel goal. The assist was Crosby’s eighth of the season, and third on the power play....

Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday that the process will resume next week because the team failed to land its “targeted choice.” That’s a major shift from Thursday, when general manager Jim Rutherford said “the process is coming to an end.” “I’m still checking a few points with the lead candidate, but a decision is coming real soon," Rutherford said. Not long after he said that, the Carolina Hurricanes hired ex-Red Wings assistant Bill Peters....

James Franklin began his third season as head football coach at Penn State this fall. He accepted the job well aware he was moving to a program damaged by NCAA sanctions that undermined the program’s recruiting and kept the Nittany Lions from bowl games the prior two years. MORE: College football Week 6 picks He won seven games and went to a bowl his first season. He won seven games and went to a bowl his second....

Nikolay Lukyanchikov, 49, was arrested around 7 a.m. on April 30 outside of his home in Northampton Township after police were called to the scene for reports of an open fire. Upon arrival, police found Lukyanchikov sitting on a bench outside of his home watching the couch and fire pit in flames, with a firearm located next to him. “Once the fire was under control, patrol observed an unknown animal badly burned and charred on top of a small metal charcoal grill,” Northampton Township police said in a statement....

“A number of evacuations occurred overnight,” Army Major General Hank Taylor, a logistics specialist on the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Tuesday. “As we speak, we are continuing our air operations, and they continued throughout the night.” The United States has stationed at least 3,000 troops in Kabul to help evacuate Americans and the Afghans who have aided them over the nearly two decades since the war began after the September 11 attacks....