On Wednesday night, his young team had a slightly more difficult opponent on their hands in Miami. With his team trailing 35-34 with under 10 minutes left, Wiliams huddled his team together during an official’s timeout. MORE: Field of 68 | SN All-Americans | Championship Week scoreboard Then Williams, always one to forge his own path, decided to help coach a young girl competing in a free-throw contest rather than coach up his team....
As leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival—a growing mobilization of people on the frontlines of our crisis of systemic poverty in the U.S.—we wholeheartedly support the call for an intergenerational climate strike in solidarity with this youth movement. We recognize the implications of the climate crisis and are clear that the evil of ecological devastation is directly connected to the evils of systemic racism, poverty and inequality, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative that prevents us from adequately addressing these issues....
The No. 2 overall pick in the 2012 MLB Draft, Buxton is a classic five-tool player who has been pegged as a future superstar since his days as a multi-sport prep athlete in Georgia. Odds are we’ll be hearing plenty about the 21-year-old over the next, oh, two decades or so. In the meantime, let’s get to know the man his teammates call Buck: BYRON BUXTON: Called up to Twins | Fantasy impact...
McIlroy and his playing partners Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas looked stunned as the man walks a few paces away and looked like he was about to take a practice swing before security escorted him away. McIlroy was on the 10th tee box for the beginning of the second round of the tournament at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland. As he chatted with Rahm and Thomas, a stranger approached the group....
How will he achieve this smart new world? By placing a wireless device one tenth the size of a watch on your wrist and a tiny speaker in your ear, whispering practical information pulled off the Web. Has your flight home been canceled? A little voice will alert you, book another flight and call your wife, so she won’t wait at the airport. Need a doctor? The little voice will help you find the right one....
PLAYERS Conventional Wisdom Clinton (+) Chicken-fried Kennedy snared in D.C. lovefest. But is it a one-night stand? R.Strauss (-) Caviar emptor. Mr. Fixer trades down–Moscow clout for Wash. irrelevance. P. Harriman (+/-) OK, you won one. But is he really the Churchill of the Ozarks? C. Powell (+/-) JCS chief opposes Clinton on gays, Bosnia, troops in Europe. Wanna be drug czar? Socks (+) No pictures today, boys. Call my agent....
But to the chagrin of Self, the No. 11 Jayhawks allowed the Sooners to go on a 21-3 run out of the locker room to make it a game. Self quickly ridiculed his players for their second half collapse. “You’re playing so soft it’s a joke,” Self said to Frank Mason III for his lack of rebounding. The Jayhawks play in the second half got so ugly that, after giving up another offensive rebound, Self took his frustration out on the scorer’s table LCD screen, punching it three times so hard that the graphics failed to work properly after the beating....
But in a tersely worded 207-page ruling, Judge Jackson seemed to have done just that. In the course of his tome, bound by the Government Printing Office and instantly downloaded by thousands of Internet looky-loos, he slickly mounted one tousle-haired, bespectacled billionaire’s noggin on the halberd of the evidence. Presumably these findings of fact are only a prelude to the actual ruling of law expected early next year. But considering that Judge Jackson documents at length how Microsoft is a monopolistic violator that not only bullies its competitors but also rips off the public by stifling innovation and overcharging for its software, there’s little doubt about his subsequent ruling....
The Federal Election Commission fined Barry Zekelman, a Canadian steel executive, and two of his companies $975,000 for directing $1.75 million to the Trump-aligned America First Action, in violation of America’s ban on foreign nationals donating to federal elections. The fine stems from a complaint filed in 2019 by Campaign Legal Center, an elections watchdog group that cited reporting from The New York Times. The complaint alleged that Zekelman used his companies to direct the money to the super PAC in hopes of influencing Trump’s tariff’s on steel imports....
Palihapitiya was making an opportunity out of American politics’ age-old dream of an enlightened capitalist-turned-populist parachuting in to bridge the partisan divide and rescue the country. But Palihapitiya is not a typical man of the people: beneath the public image is a paradigmatic tech-industry oligarch promoting anti-government ideology, repackaged and updated for the social media age. Whether or not he ends up running for public office—he’s said he’s “not ready” to run for governor—Palihapitiya represents a counter to the resurgent progressive wing of the Democratic Party: a corporate-friendly Third Way centrist, with a sprinkle of social justice rhetoric but also an intense devotion to libertarian free-market triumphalism....
This past week, the White House unveiled a new proposed framework for Democrats’ proposed reconciliation bill, which would provide substantial funding for a range of new social programs as well as attempt to curb the worst impacts of climate change. The new price tag comes in at about $1.75 trillion, a large sum that is still significantly less than the more than $2 trillion billionaires have gained during the pandemic....
“(Josh Allen) is my second favorite quarterback,” Wilson tweeted. The Bills’ QB replied soon after beating the 49ers, putting his own spin on a classic line from “The Office”: “Assistant favorite Qb, or assistant to your favorite Qb?” In “The Office,” Schrute decides to embrace his assistant to the regional manager role by calling himself the “assistant regional manager,” and Allen played into that fun. It makes sense that Allen was in good spirits, because he’d just completed 32-of-40 passes for 375 yards and four touchdowns in a 34-24 win for Buffalo (9-3) over San Francisco (5-7)....
Naturally, the reaction to the team’s new rules has been less than kind … but entertaining. First-round pick Shaq Lawson underwent shoulder surgery after aggravating an existing injury while practicing on a tackling dummy during rookie minicamp. MORE: 40 of the NFL’s most hated | Best chance to go from bottom to top? ESPN also reported that receiver Sammy Watkins underwent surgery to repair a broken bone in his foot....
Dareus will miss four games for violating the policy as a repeat offender; he also missed the first game of the 2015 season for the same reason. He issued a statement on his upcoming rehab stint, via the Bills’ website. MORE: 2016 defense fantasy football rankings “After careful consideration of recent events within my life, I have made the decision to enter a rehabilitation facility,” Dareus said in the statement....
The team is planning to cut the defensive end after Sunday’s final regular-season game against the Jets, The Associated Press reported Thursday. MORE: Best and worst NFL money moves of 2015 | Will Josh Norman play for Panthers in 2016? According to the report, there is no timetable as to when Williams will be released, though Sunday’s finale in Buffalo is expected to be his last as a member of the Bills....
During the windy “Monday Night Football” matchup, running back Damien Harris dominated the league’s top-ranked defense. The 24-year-old rushed for 111 yards and a touchdown before he exited the matchup with a hamstring injury. Running back Rhamondre Stevenson also helped drive down the field and recorded 24 carries for 78 yards. While wind gusts whipped through Highmark Stadium at around 40-50 mph — according to the National Weather Service — Mac Jones attempted just three throws....
Lotz’s mother Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of Billy Graham, revealed her son’s condition while urging her followers to pray for him in social media posts over the weekend. “Fifty years ago I could hold my son in my arms,” Anne Graham Lotz wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. “Now I have placed him in the arms of Jesus. He has been hospitalized with COVID and is in critical condition....
The plane, which took off from Manchester, England was meant to fly to Lanzarote before the bird flew into its engine. It landed in Liverpool, approximately 35 miles from where it originally took off from. “The aircraft landed normally, and customers were transferred to a replacement aircraft which departed to Lanzarote following a short delay of approximately one hour,” a statement sent to Newsweek read. BBC reported that a representative with Liverpool John Lennon Airport confirmed that a Ryanair flight requested to make an unscheduled landing....
In their one-bedroom apartment in Hyde Park, a collegiate affair down to the cinder-block bookshelves, Steven and Lori, now both 24, have developed an almost telepathic relationship. If anyone tells one of them anything. they joke, the other knows about it immediately. But during their freshman year, Steven says, he used to go off on his own every so often. “I think I told you I was going to a Democratic Socialist meeting,” he recalls to Loft....
Some of the early cuts, though, are revealing, or intriguing or indicative of what a team has in mind for the season — or all the above. A few recognizable names are temporarily available. Here are the five most interesting, and why. MORE: Teams in worst quarterback situations RB Bishop Sankey, Titans: Just two years ago, the Washington product was the first running back drafted at No. 54 overall, seemingly signaling the further de-emphasis on the rushing game as a priority in the NFL....
