On Tuesday morning, Blount is a former Steeler after the team announced his outright relase. As the Steelers featured Bell for 33 carries and he ran for 204 yards in the 27-24 comeback win at Tennessee, Blount was in the game for only two plays and didn’t touch the ball once. According to multiple reports, that prompted Blount to leave the field early, head to the locker room, dress and get out of there before his teammates went there after the victory....

Blue Ivy Carter was seen looking achingly cool as she joined her musician and entrepreneur dad, 52, at the NBA playoff game between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics at San Francisco’s Chase Center on Monday. As 24-time Grammy winner Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, was introduced on the sports venue’s jumbotron, the smiling star reacted by flashing a peace sign at the courtside camera before proudly placing an arm around his daughter....

The deal is worth a total $10.5 million, with an annual salary-cap hit of $3.5 million. MORE: Deadline blog | Daughter predicts father’s trade Atkinson, 25, was set to become a restricted free agent after the season. He had been the subject of trade rumors leading into the weekend as the two sides were at odds over the details of the contract extension. The winger has been one of the Blue Jackets’ top scorers in his second full season, ranking fourth on the team in goals (13) and points (25) in 58 games....

The 31-year-old who has scored six goals in 26 games this season is confident that the Eagles can secure their maiden appearance in the European elite competition. Niko Kovac’s side moved to the fourth place in the Bundesliga table with 45 points from 27 games after their 3-0 win over Mainz 05 in Saturday’s league fixture - thanks to goals from Boateng, Luka Jovic and Ante Rebic. “If we work hard and play like we played [against Mainz 05], I always say everything is possible, but we keep both feet on the ground,” Boateng told Bundesliga website....

Most people watching Game 2 of the Yankees-Guardians ALDS on Friday were likely familiar with Cleveland ace Shane Bieber. The 2020 AL Cy Young winner is one of the game’s elite hurlers who has shown a tremendous proclivity for strikeouts in his career. One would expect Bob Costas, the game’s lead broadcaster for TBS, to recognize the Guardians’ star. Then again, you can never say never. MORE: Costas shreds HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ promo in Guardians-Yankees Game 1...

Per the Associated Press, the Marion County Coroner’s Office confirmed that the bodies belonged to 27-year-old Kyle Moorman and his three children: Kyran Holland, 1; Kyannah Holland, 2; and Kyle Moorman II, 5. Kyle Moorman and his three children were recently reported missing. According to the Indianapolis Metro Police Department, at around 7:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, officers received a call for a report of a possible deceased person in a pond near the 2900 block of Bluff Road....

Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology student at Washington State University, was arrested Friday morning at his family home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, for allegedly stabbing four University of Idaho students—Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20—to death in November. According to a statement from Kohberger’s lawyer, Jason LaBar, to NBC News on Sunday, the suspect’s father had flown from Pennsylvania to Washington to travel back home with his son for the holiday season....

An off-duty Birmingham officer alerted police at about 3:00 p.m. on Monday after someone reported there could be a dead body in an apartment, according to AL.com. Officers said the body was in a closet inside one of the apartments at 14 Watertown Circle, the website reported. Police radio traffic heard by AL.com indicated that someone had been asked to help move the dead body, although that was not confirmed by Sgt....

Police in the Columbus suburb of Dublin are offering a mulligan to whoever took the sculpture of a 3-foot golf ball on a tee this week, The Columbus Dispatch reports. If it's returned undamaged by Saturday at midnight, they say, no charges will be filed and no questions will be asked. After that, any suspects identified could face charges. The $2,500 sculpture is decorated with the Memorial Tournament's logo and weighs more than 200 pounds....

The bolt fell into Section 248 mere minutes before halftime, according to the Indianapolis Star, broken off during the roof-opening mechanism. Fans told the Indy Star that they heard a large pop before a bolt “the size of a half-roll of quarters” struck a wall, then fans. A woman was led away in a wheelchair as medical personnel attended to a head wound. MORE: Evaluating NFL stadiums The team issued a statement via Barney Levengood, who serves as executive director of the Capital Improvement Board of Managers — the government-sanctioned group tasked with financing and maintaining Indianapolis facilities....

20 consulates placed mementos and other tokens from their respective countries into a cylindric time capsule buried in the building’s foundations. The only thing is no one has any idea where it was buried. MORE: Happy 50th, Astros | Historic Cubs debuts | George Springer dazzles Astros historian Mike Acosta has photographic proof that the capsule was buried somewhere in the Astrodome, but the photographs don’t shed any light on exactly where the burial location is....

The town of Norcia was closest to the epicenter of the 6.6-magnitude quake on Sunday - the strongest to hit Italy since 1980 - which has destroyed numerous buildings, with reports suggesting around 20 people suffered injuries. Moses fitting in nicely with Conte There are thought to be no fatalities after the earthquake, which struck close to Amatrice – the town worst affected by a 6.2 tremor in August that left 297 dead, while the regions of Marche and Umbria were subjected to strong seismic activity earlier this week....

The property belonged to 91-year-old Edna Nadine Turnbull, who has been missing since the fire, Denver’s KMGH-TV reported. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said that while Turnbull was told to evacuate, she went back into the home to try to save her dogs. Ever since, investigators had been searching for any sign of Turnbull or the animals. KMGH-TV said the sheriff’s office announced Wednesday the bone fragments were found and would be tested to determine whether they are human or animal....

Milan 6/1 to win Serie A The centre-back had established himself as a cult figure in Turin, playing two Champions League finals, but though Juve fell at the final hurdle again Madrid in May, he felt things had gone as far as they could for him at the club. “When you are part of a group for seven years, you leave something - I hope - beautiful inside each of your former team-mates....

“Cancer Vixen” is hilarious, especially its portrayal of her overbearing Italian mother, whom Marisa calls the Sophia Loren of New Jersey. But at the heart of the book is Acocella’s relationship with her husband, Silvano, who owns Da Silvano, a trendy downtown-Manhattan restaurant. Silvano is a pudgy version of Giorgio Armani with an impenetrable Italian accent. “I always thought in a relationship a woman had to be perfect all the time … and breast cancer is definitely a major imperfection,” Acocella says....

Feiler says the emotions evoked by “ancient sites” are “testaments to the ability of places to mark holy spaces where humans come into contact with their god.” (Places marking spaces? Whatever.) But it seems these emotions testify only to a willingness to feel them: Feiler gets so worked up by the Biblical landscape that he sees a donkey and exclaims, “Abraham’s transportation!” As one fellow pilgrim tells him on another mountaintop (said to be Mount Sinai, where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments), “It doesn’t matter if it’s the real mountain....

The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot. A look at America’s long history of small, undeclared military operations in the name of nation-building and peacekeeping–from the Barbary Wars to Bosnia. Longitudes &Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman. The New York Times columnist’s memoir of the months after 9-11, paired with his Pulitzer Prize-winning writings on the attacks and their political aftermath. A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin....