Of the 31 primetime NFL games through Week 10, more than half — 16 — were decided by at least 20 points. That is nearly triple the six such blowouts at the comparable point last season, and nearly double last year’s full-season total of nine. NBC’s Sunday Night Football has had a remarkable seven straight 20-point blowouts entering this week’s Colts/Patriots game. Five of the first nine Thursday Night Football games were decided by at least that amount (not including this week’s Bills/Dolphins game, a relative squeaker at just 13 points)....

A veteran of 823 NHL games, Dubinsky has not played a full 82-game season since 2008-09 with the Rangers. Last season, he played in 61 games, netting six goals and eight assists, while missing some time with a hip injury. Two seasons ago he suited up for 62 games; 2016-17 was the last season he hit the 80-game mark. MORE: Auston Matthews issues statement on disorderly conduct charge A hard-nosed forward who’s never afraid to get into the dirty areas and has won 53 percent of the face-offs he has taken in his career, Dubinsky did have surgery on his right wrist back in May 2017....

The team, which can’t play in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, hosted the Marlins at Sahlen Field. The ballpark usually serves as the home of the Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate. While the game did not have the appearance of a typical big league setting, it did the job during the most unsettled time for U.S. sports since World War II. MORE: MLB hammers Cintron with huge suspension Here’s what to know about the occasion and how the Blue Jays ended up in Buffalo:...

In natural medicine, blueberry extract is said to have a number of health benefits, including improved blood vessel health. It is often used to treat or prevent the following conditions: Age-related macular degeneration Alzheimer’s disease Diabetes Heart disease High blood pressure High cholesterol What Is Blueberry Extract Used For? Although research on the health effects of blueberry extract is fairly limited, some studies suggest that blueberries may offer certain potential benefits....

After allowing four goals on 16 shots Tuesday, goalie Brian Elliott stopped all 28 shots the Flyers threw on net in a 1-0 shootout victory. It was his fourth shutout on the season and 20th since signing with the Blues in 2011, placing him in a tie with Jaroslav Halak for most in franchise history. MORE: Graphic Guide to the NHL Season | Kane on mend as Blackhawks gear up for playoffs...

Dustin Johnson overtook Justin Thomas for the outright points lead with his runaway victory in last week’s Northern Trust and also passed Thomas as the world’s top-ranked golfer. Still, they are separated by just 92 points in the FedEx Cup standings (2,571 to 2,479). Webb Simpson is third with 2,163 points. Here was the top five entering play at the BMW Championship: Dustin Johnson 2,571 Justin Thomas 2,479 Webb Simpson 2,163 Daniel Berger 1,917 Collin Morikawa 1,902...

A spokesperson from the Northern Colorado Herpetological Society, which found the 16-pound snake, told Newsweek: “She was originally found by a good samaritan from Animal Friends Alliance in a residential front yard. They were able to get her into a tote bin and bring her to us on the same day she was found without incident, as she has a sweet and docile temperament.” Boas, a group of snakes comprising around 40 species, are large non-venomous snakes often kept as pets....

The team will announce a contract extension for Melvin at a press conference Wednesday afternoon, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Melvin already is under contract through next season but will have more years added to his deal with the new pact. MORE: What managers are on the hot seat? Should they be fired? The Chronicle reported last month that an extension was likely, adding that it also wouldn’t be a surprise to see the A’s follow the lead of other teams by promoting top baseball executive Billy Beane from general manager to president of baseball operations or an equivalent title, with his longtime assistant David Forst becoming GM....

In April, the museum—which is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—released its first Dr. Fauci figurine. Although the museum made 42,020 copies of the figure, it quickly sold out becoming the best-selling bobblehead in the museum’s history. The museum is now selling two new Fauci figurines on pre-order: one $25 figurine shows him smiling and wearing either a red- or blue-tie, and a second $30 figurine shows him making a facepalm gesture, something he appeared to do at an early White House coronavirus briefing after Republican President Donald Trump mentioned “the Deep State Department”—Fauci claimed he was only trying to discreetly eat a throat lozenge....

Where they’re heading Can we answer that question yet? Not quite. The Bobcats did make a move to sign a major free agent, paying a hefty three-year, $41 million contract to big man Al Jefferson. That would cause a shrug and a yawn in many markets, but the Bobcats have not been able to lure quality players in the past, and though Jefferson’s shortcomings are well-noted, he will immediately give Charlotte an offensive focal point....

By the way, O.J. Simpson wasn’t on trial last week. The riveting courtroom scenes were actually nothing more than a legal scrimmage-a preliminary hearing designed to convince a judge that enough evidence exists to try Simpson for the June 12 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. It usually doesn’t take much to meet the threshold. But prosecutors from the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, eager to establish their dominance over Simpson’s “Dream Team” of defense lawyers (page 26), wasted no time in going after the defendant, attempting to place a murder weapon in his hand and strongly suggesting that he acted with premeditation....

The Reds have positioned themselves among the leading pack, with Jurgen Klopp’s side currently perched seven points off the pace in third. They have been the great entertainers of the English top-flight campaign to date, boasting the division’s best goal return and a leaky defence that always keeps things interesting at the other end of the field. Klopp furious over Matip problem Consistency has been maintained throughout 21 fixtures so far, with only two defeats suffered, but the exploits of others have ensured that they remain locked in a fierce battle for a top-four finish....

The Line: Boise State -4.5, Total: 51 Line movement: Boise State opened as a 2, 2.5-point favorite as most Las Vegas shops, and MGM Resorts stood alone opening BSU -1.5. The line has moved in Boise’s favor, and -3.5 is the prevailing number as of Thursday. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page. Trends that matter: Boise State is 1-4 ATS in its last five road games....

In The Room Where it Happened—released on Tuesday—Bolton paints a picture of a chaotic and nepotistic White House in which Kushner and Ivanka Trump, his wife and the president’s oldest daughter, wielded undue influence over career staffers and experts. Kushner has been given an expansive White House portfolio, at different times directed to oversee the administration’s Middle East peace efforts, the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, criminal justice reform, trade negotiations with China and Mexico, and immigration issues, among others....

That said, the books do draw out what could be a problem for Clinton in a general election campaign: her perceived weakness as a manager. Bernstein’s book, in particular, offers a harsh recounting of Clinton’s disastrous turn running her husband’s 1993 effort to provide universal health care. In this portrait, she is politically tone deaf, secretive and polarizing—and alienates Senate allies she needs to get the bill passed. Bernstein argues that many of the non-Monica scandals of the Clinton White House, like Whitewater and the firings of travel office staff, were exacerbated by Hillary’s weak executive impulses....

McBride is a solid fan of this Ford film about an embittered man’s hunt for his niece who’s been kidnapped by Comanches in 1868. He unhesitatingly calls the movie “a masterpiece,” and to bolster his case, he invokes the testimony of critics like Andrew Sarris and filmmakers like John Milius and Martin Scorsese. On the other side of the argument stand dissidents like Scott Eyman, another Ford biographer, and the critic, filmmaker and Ford buff Lindsey Anderson, perhaps the most eloquent naysayer, who called the movie “an impressive work, the work of a great director; but it is not among John Ford’s masterpieces....

His introduction to the Library of America’s “American Religious Poems” anthology (the source of that quote) is a typical Bloom performance. The book, coedited by Jesse Zuba—not only a Yale Ph.D. candidate but a multi-instrumentalist with the jazz-funk jam band Alcibiades Jones—covers more than 200 poets; but Bloom’s introduction is mostly a celebration of Walt Whitman: “a new kind of religious bard,” “our prime shaman,” a writer more “vital and vitalizing” than Proust or Joyce, and author of the single greatest American poem (“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”)....

The film is kinder to Schulz than the book, but anyone expecting a Schulz in “happiness is a warm puppy” mode will likely be disappointed. NEWSWEEK’s Sharon Begley spoke to Michaelis last month in his second-floor brownstone apartment overlooking a quiet street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You essentially lived with Schulz for seven years. Did you wind up liking him? David Michaelis: “Good grief” is the answer....

Boomer Esiason told SI.com that the NFL should fine Richard Sherman for his comments on Deflate-gate and the relationship between commissioner Roger Goodell and Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Sherman claimed New England won’t be punished and that Goodell’s friendship with Kraft is a “conflict of interest.” MORE: The worst people of media day | SN’s Super Bowl quiz | All-Pro team “Should the NFL fine Richard Sherman for attacking the commissioner and the integrity of the league?...

The 29-year-old last featured for the Swans in February against Leicester City in the Premier League owing to a lingering knee injury. Despite returning to training, the attacker has yet to convince his coach Graham Potter of his readiness for action and subsequently missed their ties against Reading and Rotherham United. However, on Thursday, the gaffer confirmed that the former Manchester City man will be available for selection when they take on Phil Parkinson’s men....