The pair have been performing at the pinnacle of their profession for the past two decades and have the greatest respect for one another. Barcelona fans turn on Luis Enrique Indeed, Casillas recently reacted to a video of the duo in action by taking to Twitter to ask his colleague, “What do you think? For me, you’re the best.” Buffon responded, “I don’t choose. We are both the best!”...
Ha-ha. Just kidding, guys. I love Little League games, the earlier on Saturday morning the better. They remind me that it’s always been hard to be a man. That was true even for my father, in the heyday of American malehood, the 1950s, when he would haul his weary suitbound hide off the bus every day at 6 p.m. and, responding to the invariable question, mutter, ““Every day is hard when you’re trying to make a living....
While most of America searches for a Tickle Me Elmo doll or a Nintendo 64, the capital is gripped by its own holiday-gift obsession: who gets what administration job. This isn’t about ideology. The liberals are long gone, and Clinton insists that h is second four years will be a centrist affair aimed at balancing the budget. Holbrooke, it turns out, was swimming upstream. First he forgot that Clinton still wants a team that “looks like America....
A Texas company that sells survival gear, including bulletproof backpacks, said its orders skyrocketed over the weekend after the deadly mass shootings occurred in both El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Roman Zrazhevskiy of ReadyToGoSurvival.com told the Houston Chronicle that orders over the weekend were more than just unusually high. “Our baseline is 100 units a month,” Zrazhevskiy said. “We sold 300 units just over the last few days.”...
Dunleavy went 12 for 19 from the field, including a career-high eight 3-pointers on 10 attempts, for the Bulls, who are attempting to become only the fourth NBA team to win a seven-game series after losing the first two at home. Game 4 is Sunday in Washington. Bradley Beal scored 13 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter for the Wizards. Nets 102, Raptors 98 NEW YORK — Joe Johnson scored 29 points, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett brought a charge to their first playoff game in Brooklyn, and the Nets earned a 2-1 lead in their first-round series....
NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) As the weeks wore on, Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant, Denver’s Nikola Jokic and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo have all put their names in the race, with Durant taking out top spot in last week’s Sporting News MVP Ladder. DeRozan missed three games after entering the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols, but in his first two games back, he’s sent a timely reminder that his name belongs among that elite group fighting it out for the award....
Last year, the fast-food chain hosted a contest to give away the elusive PlayStation 5, making it one of the only ways to receive the next-gen console at the time. For 2021, the home of the Whopper is giving customers a chance at the Nintendo Switch and one of the console’s most-anticipated games. Beginning February 1 and running through March 15, King Jr. Meals at participating Burger King locations across the U....
Then came Los Angeles-and now Weed and Seed is hot. In visits to troubled cities last week, President Bush touted it as the centerpiece of his renewed urban program, a package that also includes tenant ownership of public housing and “enterprise zones” with tax incentives for firms that locate in the inner city. Last month Weed and Seed was extended to 16 other cities, and Bush is asking Congress for $500 million to fund and expand the program next year....
Pique’s unfortunate mistake handed Madrid the lead in the first leg at Camp Nou on Sunday before further goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Marco Asensio secured a commanding 3-1 advantage, after Lionel Messi’s penalty had levelled the scores. Barca 7/4 with dabblebet to beat Madrid Segura stated afterwards that the error by the centre-back “changed the game completely” but Busquets has defended his team-mate and insisted it was wrong for a club official to criticise a player in public....
DECOURCY: Smith inspired with love for hoops, life | MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 “The Butler community appreciates the outpouring of support from those who share our love for Andrew and the Smith family,” the website states. “Thanks to the generosity of some of Andrew’s biggest fans, we are establishing the Andrew Smith Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarship support for future Butler Bulldogs on the men’s basketball team....
Line: Texas -2.5 Total: 124 ( current NCAA Tournament point spreads and totals ) Butler Record: 22-10 ATS: 17-13 OVER/UNDER: 11-18 Overview: The tournament’s lovable underdogs from 2010 and 2011 are back in the Big Dance, where they have faired exceptionally well. Since the start of the 2010 NCAA Tournament, the Bulldogs have gone 12-2-1 against the spread in tournament games. This year’s team boasts a solid ATS record, but beware picking the OVER in Butler games — the Bulldogs’ last seven games have been UNDER the point total....
Already in London, the buy-to-let bubble is beginning to burst. American expat Liza Llewellyn and her husband, Stephen, had to lower the rent on their two-bedroom Kensington flat from [Pound sterling]895 to [Pound sterling]800 per week before they found a tenant. In the end, the property stayed on the market for four months. “There are simply too many landlords chasing too few tenants,” says Jeremy Leaf, a spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors....
Consumers bought into conservation after the energy shocks of the 1970s and early ’80s. We not only turned down thermostats and insulated the attic, we embraced government intervention and technological change. Federal energy standards brought forth more efficient refrigerators and air conditioners. Under new building codes, homes and offices became cheaper to heat, cool and light. Rebate programs helped people buy better light bulbs and appliances. Electricity use grew more slowly than the economy did....
The rampage began just before 2 p.m. Friday at a conference on prisoner rehabilitation hosted by Learning Together, a prison education program. The alleged assailant, Usman Khan, was an attendee at the event, which was being held in Fishmongers’ Hall, next to London Bridge on the north bank of the River Thames. Khan served six years in British prison on terrorism charges before his conditional release last year. At the conference, Khan allegedly produced a bladed weapon and revealed himself to be wearing a fake suicide vest....
The Line: Boise State -7, Total: 59 Line movement: The Wynn opened Boise State at -6 on Sunday and moved steadily up the ladder to -7.5 by midweek, when most shops were at the key number 7. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page. Trends that matter: BYU is 0-5 ATS in its last five games after starting 2-0 ATS. The OVER is 4-0 in BYU’s last four games after the UNDER started 2-0-1....
Lionel Messi secured Argentina’s place at Russia 2018 with a hat-trick in the crucial 3-1 win over Ecuador in their final qualification game last October. The South American giants are two-time World Cup winners and finished as runners-up in 2014, beating Belgium and Netherlands before being denied the trophy by Mario Gotze’s extra-time winner for Germany in the final. Chelsea goalkeeper Caballero thinks Argentina’s reputation for performing on the big stage holds more sway than one tough qualifying campaign that was overseen by three different coaches....
Comcast quickly proclaimed its victory the turning point in broadband’s frustrated history. “If you think broadband has a great future, this [transaction] accelerates it,” Brian Roberts, president of Comcast and the CEO-designate of the proposed AT&T Comcast, told a packed New York press conference. Microsoft, which enabled Comcast to boost its bid by several billion dollars, also believes the new AT&T Comcast is critical to the software giant’s Internet ambitions....
Maher suggested Democrats were too concerned about issues like political correctness, a topic he’s covered before, and they’d put off too many voters by being “woke.” While the party will keep control of the House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is almost certain to be re-elected, their majority has been unexpectedly reduced. Two runoff elections in Georgia in January will decide control of the Senate, but Democrats appear unlikely to prevail....
The Real Time With Bill Maher host on Friday criticized several of the country’s top media publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, for repeatedly running bombastic headlines about COVID-19 instead of covering the health care battle with a more sober, purely informative tone. Maher told viewers he refuses to be “hope-shamed” now that several parts of the country appear to be “flattening the curve” of coronavirus cases....
