The video posted by TikTok user oteliacarmen has racked up more than 1.3 million views and some 174,000 comments since it was uploaded in November. A message accompanying the video alluded to an earlier post where oteliacarmen showed the hat changing color, with several commenters claiming the clip had been edited. The message read: “Do you believe it now? Brought the hat to my parent’s house to test it out with witnesses....

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In a portrait of progress, it almost looked like a missing tooth. While the U.S. overall was experiencing a significant decrease in new COVID-19 cases, and once-troubled California dropped to the lowest case rate in the nation, two Pacific Northwest states took an abrupt turn in the other direction. It wasn’t subtle. In Oregon, weekly case counts of the virus more than doubled in a month, going from a seven-day rolling average of 419 on April 1 to 861 on May 1, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University....

Junior Chris Seisay decided over the weekend to transfer from the program, and Oregon has granted him a full release, OregonLive.com reported. According to Seisay, he “just wasn’t happy” with the Ducks and felt he wasn’t on good terms with the program. MORE: Pac 12 predictions | 21 questions for 2016 “Just doing what’s best for my future,” Seisay said in a text to OregonLive.com. “All love to the Ducks....

Brown announced an executive order this morning after initially confirming the state of emergency at roughly 8 p.m. local time Saturday night through a verbal proclamation. It will remain in effect for 60 days, unless extended by officials. “I’ve consulted with Oregon Health Authority and I am declaring a state of emergency to make sure we are able to swiftly deploy the personnel and resources necessary to address coronavirus in Oregon,” the state’s governor said at a news conference on Sunday....

Oregon forward Dillon Brooks was apparently punched in the chest by a ghost in the Ducks’ 73-67 win over Utah on Thursday night. Or he wanted to demonstrate what a charge looks like if you actually get hit. Or he’s starting a new dance craze that definitely won’t catch on. MORE: Should Duke, Kansas and Kentucky be alarmed by upsets? Even Chris Paul would tell Brooks, “Come on, man. That’s ridiculous....

More than half of the new cases were reported in Union County, where several cases were linked to the Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Island City, the medical director of the Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention Section of the OHA, Dr. Paul Cieslak, confirmed. Union County reported 99 new infections on Monday, a dramatic increase from 22 recorded Sunday. Authorities did not specify how many cases in the county were associated with the church....

The Oregon Ducks hung 66 points and 771 yards on Nicholls State in the season opener and first game under offensive coordinator-turned-head coach Mark Helfrich. OK, sure, it was against an FCS opponent, but the Ducks clearly looked like a team in midseason form offensively. MORE: Week 1 photos | Scores | Twitter talk | Manziel’s return BOX: Oregon 66, Nicholls State 3 How are these for impressive offensive numbers in the 66-3 victory?...

The Orioles’ pitcher may not have had his best performance of the season, but he certainly won’t forget his return to New York for a long time. Before Harvey took the mound to face the Mets, the former New York ace received a standing ovation from the crowd. That gesture meant a lot to Harvey, who enjoyed the best years of his career with the Mets and was part of the stacked pitching staff that helped carry the team to the World Series in 2015....

After Astros leadoff batter George Springer homered on the first pitch of the game, Adam Jones answered with one of his own to start the bottom of the first. Jones began a string of four homers from the first five Orioles batters. MORE: Most productive baseball names of the past 100 years After a Kim Hyun-soo single off McHugh, Manny Machado, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo all went deep to give the O’s five runs in the first inning....

And this weekend at Camden Yards, the batter’s box won’t be the only place a Mancini will be a star. For Players’ Weekend, the Mancini family peppers will be available at all Roma Sausage locations in the ballpark, atop the Italian sausages. Mancini’s grandfather, Antonio Mancini, founded the company in 1922. MORE: Ranking the 25 best Players’ Weekend nicknames Mancini took a few minutes to chat with Sporting News on the phone Friday afternoon about the family business, Notre Dame football and other assorted topics....

Gordon, who played in all 11 of Orlando’s games so far, was averaging 15 minutes on the court with 5.8 points and three rebounds. The Magic are 4-7 on the season.

While he was making his declaration, he decided to jab today’s fighters. “All these fighters are not of the level that was 15, 20 years [ago], all these fighters are demanding so much money, all these fighters are demanding the moon,” De La Hoya told ESPN. “And they’re forgetting that you must train hard, you must work hard. So that’s a huge advantage for me because I know what it takes to train hard, I know how to train smart....

For the champion runner without legs, who trained himself to overcome all obstacles, nothing else matters now but beating the murder charge against him. Pistorius' family said Saturday that their focus is only on the trial. If found guilty, Pistorius' entire life story will be recast. MORE: Important dates in Pistorus life | Judgment day approaching | News archive When Pistorius walks on his prosthetics into North Gauteng High Court for the start of his trial, seemingly little remains of the Blade Runner, the double amputee who ran alongside the world's best and inspired many by overcoming the loss of his legs before he was a year old....

"'I shot her. I thought she was a burglar. I shot her,'" radiologist Johan Stipp recalled Pistorius saying in the minutes after the fatal shooting for which the celebrated athlete is on trial for murder. MORE: Pistorius news | Key dates | News of the slaying | Shocking moments in sports A few minutes later, Stipp said, Pistorius went upstairs — the area where he had shot Reeva Steenkamp — and then returned....

With 31 nominations (40 if you count its half interest in “The Hours,” which the studio has distributed overseas), the only way it could not come out on top is if everything is won by “The Pianist,” “The Two Towers” and “Road to Perdition.” Ain’t gonna happen. Miramax lives for Oscar season–everyone agrees the company is the best and most ruthless at campaigning–and is spending wildly in support of “Chicago” and “Gangs of New York,” to the point where there is talk of a backlash....

Carlos Salcedo, Nestor Araujo, Miguel Layun, Hector Herrera, Erick Gutierrez and Oribe Peralta are the new faces who were not with El Tri for their Hexagonal matches against Panama and Costa Rica earlier this month. Defender Hector Moreno makes the squad despite suffering a muscle injury at club side Roma, while Salcedo returns to the team for the first time since suffering a shoulder injury at the Confederations Cup this summer....

The drug was identified by Exscalate4CoV, a research consortium backed by the European Union. The supercomputing platform Exscalate was used to test existing drugs against the coronavirus. After screening 400,000 molecules, the osteoporosis drug raloxifene was found to show the most promise, the group announced Thursday. The consortium, composed of biopharmaceutical companies, universities and other organizations, stated that the drug had “shown efficacy in countering the replication of the virus in cells” and may have the potential to “halt the spread” of infections in mildly ill patients....

The 29-year-old has made 118 appearances since joining the club in a reported reported £32 million move from Valencia in 2015. His original contract expired in 2020, with Wednesday’s announcement adding two years to his stay at the Etihad Stadium. Goal reported the extension in December, with City locking down Otamendi ahead of the World Cup in an effort to ward off interest from Europe’s top clubs. Otamendi has started 22 of 23 Premier League matches for City this season as Pep Guardiola’s men have taken a 12-point lead at the top of the table while conceding just 17 goals....