Today's early games are well underway as of delivery of this newsletter, so here are leans for one game from each of the latter three sets. No. 10 BYU vs. No. 7 Oregon (-5.5, 158.5), West Region, Milwaukee, 3:10 p.m. ET, truTV These teams played at Oregon in December, and the Ducks needed overtime for the 100-96 win, failing to cover the 8.5-point spread. OVER bettors also needed OT to get past the 173-point total (the scored was 84-84 after regulation)....

We’re democracy advocates, and in a typical year, we would be uncomfortable about the private sector stepping in this way. Government should lead on this core public function. But the pandemic poses a national emergency impacting the very foundation of our democracy, and the Senate adjourned until Labor Day without giving states and local officials the funding they need to run safe and fair elections this fall. Without these resources, the risks mount each day....

Burns’ letter, dated December 15, 2021, was released Thursday by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA also released 13,173 documents related to the Kennedy assassination on Thursday, thus meeting a deadline for the release of relevant documents Biden set last year. NARA said that more than 97 percent of the estimated 5 million documents it has collected in all from the CIA and other agencies about the November 22, 1963, assassination have now been released to the public....

I don’t understand why people who go crazy about Pokemon, sip French wine and wear made-in-China sportswear should have any reason to protest against free trade. What the protesters do not realize is that free trade is sometimes the only chance for people living in developing nations to send their kids to school and to have a better quality of life, including, for example, running water and electricity in their homes....

Bailey joined Leverkusen in January 2017 from Genk for a reported €13.5 million and initially struggled to make a consistent impact, making just eight substitute appearances in the Bundesliga. But it has been a different story this season, with the 20-year-old Jamaican scoring six goals and setting up another four in 14 games, establishing himself as a key player in their dynamic frontline. That form has not gone unnoticed, with Chelsea and Manchester United reportedly keeping tabs on the rapid winger and sporting director Voller is well aware that if a big club does come in for him, Leverkusen may not be able to resist a significant offer....

Lewandowski scored in Bayern’s 3-1 win over Cologne on Saturday but the Poland international was less than impressed after being substituted with 13 minutes remaining, refusing to acknowledge Heynckes as he left the pitch. Heynckes was not amused by Lewandowski’s behaviour as the 72-year-old vented his irritation post-match on the weekend. Bayern team-mate and defender Boateng said the Bundesliga’s leading goalscorer should respect the German boss. “The coach [Jupp Heynckes] is the boss,” Boateng told reporters after Bayern unveiled their 2018-19 home kit on Tuesday....

The Marlins outfielder was involved in a controversial moment on Sunday, when he was at-bat on during the Marlins matchup vs. the Rockies; a fan in the stands behind home plate appeared to have shouted the N-word twice, with the epithet caught by on-field microphones. As it turns out, the fan was instead yelling for Colorado’s mascot “Dinger,” trying to get its attention for a photograph with his family, according to the Rockies....

Dario Aguirre, a 64-year-old Mexican-American immigration lawyer based in Denver, had for decades been able to see his own values reflected in those espoused by the Republican Party and its leadership. For Aguirre, a military veteran, Election Day had always represented a fairly straightforward decision—at least, until 2016, that is. “The last election, I didn’t vote,” Aguirre told Newsweek. “I couldn’t even vote.” Afraid that a Donald Trump presidency might bring about the kind of division that is currently tearing its way through the U....

title: “Lifesaver” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-01” author: “James Fox”

While the Brazilian awaits to find out whether his dissent at the end of Barcelona’s 2-0 defeat could cost him dearly, the Real Madrid star is also walking a tightrope. Luis Enrique questions Neymar red With just one game to go before the game which could decide the fate of this season’s Liga title, he sits uncomfortably on four yellow cards. A booking against Sporting would earn Ronaldo an automatic one-match suspension, ruling him out of contention....

The 22-year-old performer—whose given name is Montero Lamar Hill—told his 20-year-old self to believe in himself after he was propelled to worldwide fame in 2019 with his hit “Old Town Road.” “dear 20 year old montero,” he addressed himself in the note posted to Twitter. “i wrote a song for us. i know sometimes you feel like it’s all downhill from here. i know your sexuality has made you feel like an outcast amongst your peers....

The actress wed director Charlie McDowell in a private ceremony over the Labor Day weekend in Colorado. Captioning a picture of the happy couple sharing a kiss on Instagram, Collins wrote: “I’ve never wanted to be someone’s someone more than I do yours, and now I get to be your wife. “On September 4th, 2021 we officially became each other’s forever. I love you beyond.” The 32-year-old wrote that she’d “never been happier” and added: “What started as a fairytale, is now my forever reality....

Wood, a pro-Donald Trump lawyer who is facing sanctions for his dismissed lawsuits claiming the 2020 election was rigged, was one of the main spearheads of a harassment campaign against the Amita Health Resurrection Medical Center prior to the death of QAnon supporter Veronica Wolski. Wolski died early Monday morning, weeks after being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. While announcing her death in Telegram, Wood accused the hospital of committing the “medical murder” of Wolski for refusing to treat her COVID-19 with ivermectin, a drug which has not been officially approved, and advised against as a COVID-19 treatment by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....

The ad, which was released Monday, good-naturedly highlights Biden’s propensity for making public gaffes. “You know he’s got a sense of human and like all of us makes the occasional gaffe,” the female voiceover in the pro-Biden ad says. “You know him as a guy who never forgot his humble blue collar beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania,” the narrator continues. But the focus of the ad is on how Biden has been “shaped by both tragedy and love....

After a poor performance against Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup, Lindelof has been left out of United’s Premier League side for their first three games, failing to even make the substitutes’ bench on two of those occasions. Red Devils 10/1 to win the Champions League The central defensive partnership between Eric Bailly and Phil Jones has impressed as Jose Mourinho’s men have kept three consecutive clean sheets, with Chris Smalling also vying for a starting spot....

In a showcase of the romance football is truly capable of, a team playing only their ninth Premier League match and having scored just once in six games toppled the previously-unbeaten 20-time league champions. West Brom 4/1 to beat Southampton But Jose Mourinho will not see the funny side after watching Lindelof undergo a torrid exam as Manchester City simultaneously kept up their lightning start to the campaign with a 3-0 victory over Burnley....

Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried discussed their hopes for the sought-after follow-up in a conversation published Wednesday by Interview Magazine. Seyfried steered their discussion from banter about career goals and rom-coms—Lohan appears in the Netflix original Falling for Christmas—to chat about whether Mean Girls 2 will ever get made. “I would kill just to do one week, all of us playing our own roles on Mean Girls on Broadway,” Seyfried said....

Graham, like the majority of GOP senators, voted in late January to say that he viewed the second Senate trial for Trump to be unconstitutional. The resolution was pushed forward by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, with just five Republicans voting against the measure alongside 50 Democrats—rejecting the suggestion that the trial would be unconstitutional. During a Sunday interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation, Graham reiterated his opposition to the trial, which will start Tuesday....