The Duck makes the greatest entrance at the game. He runs out the tunnel like he’s the starting quarterback. When you think about it, this guy is running pretty fast for someone wearing a duck suit. MORE: CFP National Championship photos | Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Mean Tweets’ CFB edition | OSU-Oregon championship mural If that version wasn’t dramatic enough for you, there’s this. If Marcus Mariota gets tired, put Puddles in and no one will know the difference....

The Sooners were fresh off a convincing win over Tennessee, but dropped to No. 4. Inside the Top 5, Florida State and Alabama held their ground at Nos. 1 and 2, with the Seminoles grabbing 50 first-place votes and the Tide with one. MORE: AP Top 25 | Gamecocks create chaos in SEC | Top 25 roundup | Week 3 in photos Meanwhile, the biggest free-fallers from Saturday, Georgia and Southern California, set the stage for a few other opportunists....

Jonathan Lopez, a candidate for Oregon’s Umatilla County commissioner, said he had received the letter via his mailbox on June 23. In a photo posted to his public Facebook account, the typed letter addressed to “Mr lopez” has parts blurred out and appears to contain racial slurs. “Your not welcome here and will never be anything in this community or state,” one part of the letter reads. “Umatilla County kills [redacted] like you and are dumped in the fields and river....

Orexin, also called hypocretin, is part of a class of chemicals called excitatory neuropeptide hormones. There are two different peptides with a similar chemical structure, one is known as orexin-A (or hypocretin-1) and the other is orexin-B (or hypocretin-2). Orexin deficiency may disrupt the body’s ability to maintain wakefulness and sleep, a difficulty that can result in narcolepsy. Orexin and Narcolepsy In people whose sleep is well regulated, orexins are released when they are awake and help to increase activity in neurons that promote wakefulness and suppress REM sleep — the deep sleep when dreams occur....

Economic mythology, Kennedy argued, was obstructing the nation’s progress. “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic,” he said. Specifically, budget deficits were not automatically bad, and the danger of inflation was vastly overstated. But what Kennedy denounced as “myths” were actually valuable traditions and taboos: things we practiced out of habit or avoided out of fear. We had a tradition of low inflation (in 1960, it was 1....

Wieters continues to recover from the Tommy John surgery he had last June. He was catching full games during spring training but suffered a setback March 17 and was shut down the next day with tendinitis in his surgically repaired right elbow. MORE: O’s uniforms all about Baltimore | Barry Bonds could have helped your team in ‘08 While backup Caleb Joseph (.295/.391/.474 in 24 games) has filled in nicely in place of Wieters, having a two-time Gold Glove Award winner return to the lineup may prove to be a catalyst for the AL East’s last-place team....

Officers with Idaho Fish and Game are currently seeking further information about the illegal poaching incident. In a public statement released on Friday, Idaho Fish and Game announced that a mother black bear had been fatally shot on September 8 on Priest Lake in North Idaho. According to the release, “rifle shots near the dumpsters in Hills Resort were heard by residents in the area” between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p....

Ortiz (14-0, 14 KOs) did just that, scoring three knockdowns and finally putting Orozco out of his misery at the 2:16 mark of the sixth round at The Theater in Grand Prarie, TX, live on DAZN. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year Although he did what he was supposed to do by keeping his undefeated record and knockout streak intact, the 21-year-old wasn’t too pleased with his performance....

Causes The deterioration in the discs between the vertebrae of the spine can be caused by: repetitive trauma to the spine from accidents, sports injury, work activities, or poor posture aging of the spinal structures beginning when a person is in their 30s overweight or obesity, which puts more burden on weight-bearing joints like the spine a family history of osteoarthritis, particularly of the spine an association with other diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, gout, diabetes, and infections...

Osteonecrosis can affect any bone but most commonly affects the ends of the femur, upper arm bone, knees, shoulders, and ankles. Osteonecrosis of the jaw is considered rare and has been linked to bisphosphonate use. With osteonecrosis, one bone may be affected or more than one, either at the same time or at different times. Osteonecrosis is also referred to as avascular necrosis, aseptic necrosis, or ischemic necrosis of the bone....

DeSantis on Friday signed legislation to officially dissolve Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District on June 1, 2023, although legal challenges could still stifle the plan. The Republican governor proposed the bill days earlier, escalating a culture war battle that began when the company criticized the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which limits lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida schools. Shortly after the legislation was proposed, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, invited Disney to relocate to his state while accusing DeSantis of “socialist attacks” against the company....

Nowadays the news is full of examples of the expansion of freedom by the multiplication of rights. A Miami judge has struck a mother lode of hitherto undiscovered rights. Seems homeless people have a right to “safe zones” where they can sleep, cook, eat, defecate and do other things the judge calls “harmless” and “inoffensive” involuntary and life-sustaining acts. He says anti-vagrancy laws and some other measures by which the community tries to maintain order violate the homeless peoples’ rights to equal protection, due process and freedom from cruel and unusual punishments....

If you have a health plan that’s compliant with the ACA, your out-of-pocket maximum for in-network care is no more than $8,700 in 2022. If you have more than one person covered on your plan, the combined family out-of-pocket maximum can’t exceed $17,400, although the plan must have an embedded individual out-of-pocket maximum that can’t exceed $8,700. This limit applies to all plans in the individual/family, small group, and large group insurance markets—including self-insured group plans—as long as they’re not grandfathered or grandmothered (before the ACA changed the rules, health plans were free to set their own out-of-pocket limits as they saw fit, and plans that pre-date the ACA are allowed to continue to use their pre-ACA out-of-pocket caps)....

The stunt was broadcast not just in tiny Hong Kong but across southern China, where news from the former British colony is carried on local Chinese stations. And there Chen’s antics had far more than entertainment value. Homosexuality, for decades considered a disease by authorities, is one of the most enduring taboos in China. But in the industrial south especially, where some of the country’s greatest social and economic changes are occurring, a vocal gay community is beginning to assert itself....

But will GOP candidates take his advice? Bush’s name may not be on the ballot, but in an election that many Republicans believe is shaping up to be a referendum on the president’s policies, the question is obvious: if Bush were running today, would he be winning? And would other candidates do well to associate themselves with the president? For Republicans, the Bush blueprint offers a mixed bag. Like the White House, many GOP candidates have been trying to gain momentum by running on the economy, since a slim majority of Americans believe it is on the right track....

Inside a neglected home occupied by an elderly couple, a 91-year-old woman and her 77-year-old husband, authorities found “completely unsanitary” living conditions. Complaints had been filed to the Société Protectrice des Animaux (Animal protection Society), and the morbid discovery was made on Tuesday by police. Officials described mounds of trash, animal and human excrement, plus dozens of dead cats labeled in plastic bags and stored in the freezer. According to news outlet Selon l’Est Républicain (Republican East), the two residents had been sleeping in the kitchen....

Ida hit near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, just before noon local time on Sunday, with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles an hour. Extremely strong hurricane-force winds extended up to 50 miles from the storm’s center, which was moving northwestward, and will likely reach from central Louisiana all the way to Biloxi, Mississippi. According to PowerOutage.us, 754,070 outages were recorded across the state by 8:42 p.m. ET Sunday. Most of the outages occurred in southeast Louisiana, with multiple counties—including Plaquemines and Terrebonne—facing nearly 100 percent of customers without power....

Signs and Symptoms Many of the symptoms of OAB may interfere with your day-to-day activities. You may experience: Urinary urgency: This is an intense sensation to urinate, which may be difficult to stop or ignore. Urge incontinence: This is an involuntary loss of urine following a strong urge to urinate. Some people may leak small amounts of urine, while others may experience an unintentional loss of a large volume of urine....

And all corporations should have professional eavesdroppers to hang around supermarkets, department stores, auto showrooms and other places where goods are considered, and rejected. Market research, focus groups, staff meetings–none is a substitute for hearing one person tell another, “That new fat-free yogurt tastes like Elmer’s glue.” But no professional needs to hire eavesdroppers as much as elected officials do, particularly those who live and work in Washington, a snow globe of a city in which real public opinion rarely penetrates the plastic shell....

Let’s first stipulate that Carano’s post (which, it must be reiterated, is now deleted) was over-the-top. As bad as cancel culture is in the United States in the year 2021—and it is very, very bad, and will only get worse—it is both rhetorically inflammatory and dishonorable to the memories of exterminated European Jews to compare the present plight of us American conservatives with the nightmarish regime of Kristallnacht (to say nothing, of course, of the Shoah itself)....