With the Rams rolling, there are 10 other teams battling for five spots, including a notable squad currently under .500. NFL playoff picture: NFC Who would be in: Rams (6-0), first in NFC West The Rams are making their methodical march toward home-field advantage. Their biggest concern in that regard is their game against the surging Saints on the road in three weeks. Even a 14-2 record might not be enough to lock up this seed....

The sixth-year defensive tackle reportedly suffered a torn bicep, an injury that will cost the Packers’ 2009 first-round draft pick his season. STEELE: Packers must ride potent offense Letroy Guion and rookie Mike Pennel are the listed backups on Green Bay’s depth chart. On the surface, the loss of a big body — 6-2, 337 pounds, to be exact — hurts the Packers, whose run defense was among the NFL’s worst in 2013....

Indeed, Green Bay was in dire straits after a 27-17 loss against the Bills on “Sunday Night Football,” and it seemed like the 2022 NFL trade deadline could provide it. Instead, the Packers decided to do nothing, much to the chagrin of their fans… and probably their quarterback. Green Bay stood pat on a record-breaking NFL trade deadline day that saw teams across the NFL agree to 10 total trade....

When the teams met in Week 12 in Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers dominated the Nov. 24 Sunday night matchup, leading 23-0 at halftime on the way to a 37-8 rout. The Packers held off the Seahawks 28-23 in the divisional round. The 49ers smashed the Vikings 27-10 last Saturday in the same round. Here’s everything to know about betting on Packers vs. 49ers in the NFL playoffs, including updated odds, trends and our expert’s prediction for the NFC championship game....

The teams were tied at 14 heading into the half, and that’s when the Vikings’ defense took over. MORE: Week 12 updates, highlights The Vikings held Aaron Rodgers and Co. to just three second-half points. Kirk Cousins threw for 342 yards and three touchdowns while Adam Theilen caught eight passes for 125 yards and a score. Sporting News provided live updates and highlights from the NFC North matchup below....

Update: The deal has been signed and the fight is on At William Hill U.S., more than 96 percent of the money wagered has been on the Filipino underdog. In terms of ticket count, Pacquiao has accounted for about 71 percent of bets placed, while 29 percent of tickets written have been on Mayweather. The betting line opened Mayweather -250/Pacquiao +210 at William Hill U.S., with action prompting an adjustment to odds of -240/+200....

Upton will join recently acquired Matt Kemp , Wil Myers and Derek Norris in the Padres lineup in a deal first reported by Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal . Upton, 27, hit .270/.342/.491 with 29 home runs and 102 RBIs last season for the Braves. MORE: New faces, new places | Braves’ questionable moves | Padres stack lineup with Kemp Upton is entering the final year of his contract. He’ll be paid $14....

San Diego will announce the hiring of Diamondbacks third base coach Andy Green as manager on Thursday. It was first reported by Bleacher Report’s Scott Miller. Without confirming the hire, the Padres said they would introduce their new manager at 6 p.m. ET. MORE: Every team’s worst manager the last 50 years | MLB’s winningest skippers Green, 38, was a utility infielder who played in 140 big-league games, and he was stellar in three years as a minor-league manager before joining Arizona’s big-league staff for this season....

Studying the problem anew in the wake of 9/11, Younger has concluded that “everything we thought we knew turned out to be wrong.” He had assumed, for instance, that a nuclear explosion in an American city would produce the most casualties. Not so: the biggest killer would be a biological attack, which could claim upwards of one million victims, he says. A chemical attack is the next-worst scenario, spreading a lethal cloud that humans cannot outrun....

The UFC fighter appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show Monday and said she makes more money posting pictures on Instagram than she does in the octagon. MORE: Tyrell Fortune once pronounced dead attempting to cut weight “With endorsement deals and everything that I pull in from social media, I would actually be at a loss [financially] just taking a fight,” said VanZant. The 25-year-old, who has 2.2 million Instagram followers, has only fought twice since 2016....

The Eye of The Serpent recently premiered at an international conference called “Art on the Run from Hitler” (“L’Arte in Fuga da Hitler”), which took place in the Castle Brancaleoni in the town of Piobbico in the region of Marche, Italy. The painting was presented by a series of experts who consider the work to be a masterpiece of the 20th century and features a caricature of Hitler with a snake twisted around his face and a cigar pipe sticking out of his mouth....

Shortly after his wife’s assassination on Dec. 27, Zardari named his and Bhutto’s 19-year-old son, Bilawal, party chairman and indicated that the party’s prime-ministerial candidate would be PPP vice chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim. But in a phone interview with NEWSWEEK on Monday, Zardari suggested he might be interested in the job himself if the scheduled Feb. 18 national vote brings the PPP to power, saying that he has the widest name recognition in the party....

Musharraf’s core constituency, of course, is the Pakistani military. The conventional wisdom is that he’s firmly in control of his uniformed friends. But he’s reshuffled his military commanders three times in six months; the first, Oct. 7, was on the eve of the U.S. bombing campaign against Afghanistan. Conservative Army leaders cannot be happy about U.S. forces operating inside the country, especially in North Waziristan, a tribal area near the Afghan border....

In a conversation with Newsweek, Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision earlier this month to repeal Indian-administered Kashmir’s decades-old special status and a subsequent crackdown “a crime against humanity.” Echoing Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, he called for global intervention, including from President Donald Trump. “India should be stopped and it’s the duty of the United States of America,” Haider told Newsweek....

Though not entirely unexpected, the UAE has become only the third Arab government to restore ties with Israel since the 1948 war that displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from land in what is now Israel. The development hands both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu valuable foreign policy wins, much needed for two leaders facing domestic political turmoil and accusations of criminality. But for the Palestinians—already marginalized from the Middle East peace negotiations and increasingly disregarded by the regional power players—the announcement was a “blow to the Arab Peace Initiative and the decisions of the Arab and Islamic summits, as well as an aggression against the Palestinian people,” according to Nabil Abu Rudeinah, the spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas....

The 29-year-old, who is married, saw FootballFrance.fr suggest that he was getting close to the American actress. He has been able to laugh off the rumours, with his family as understanding as he is that gossip will always be concocted in a modern world driven by social media. Messi, Pogba and footballers on holiday Roux told France Football: “I do not know what guy pulled out that, but congratulations to him....

Pancreatitis is the most common reason for gastrointestinal-related hospital stays in the United States.  The Role of the Pancreas Your pancreas is a large gland behind your stomach and close to your duodenum, the first section of your small intestine. The pancreas secretes powerful digestive enzymes that enter the small intestine through a duct that then flows into the duodenum. These enzymes help you digest fats, proteins, and carbohydrates....

Described on the company’s site as their “signature dish,” Orange Chicken is by far Panda Express’ top-selling item. As of 2017, reported Delish, over 50 percent of orders contain Orange Chicken, and the fast-food chain sells 70 million pounds of the dish each year. The clip, found here, begins with TikToker @theycallmevero_ announcing: “How to make Orange Chicken at Panda Express.” Beside her in the restaurant’s kitchen area are several coworkers, all of whom are visibly wearing Panda Express uniforms....

A study published in the American Heart Journal found that rates of blood pressure increased during the early months of the pandemic. For the study, researchers analyzed home blood pressure data from 72,706 people enrolled in a digital health hypertension control program. The data was split into two sets—January 2019 to March 2020, from before the pandemic to the beginning of the pandemic, and April 2020 to August 2020, when it was already ongoing—and then compared the two groups....