Chinese club confirm Rooney approach Discussions progressed smoothly over an extended and improved contract for the attacking midfielder, which contains the option of a further 12 months. An official announcement is expected within the next 24 hours. The proposal reflects the importance and influence of England’s Player of the Year to Jurgen Klopp’s objectives at Anfield, with Lallana long being one of the manager’s most trusted leaders within the squad....

But as great as he has been through 2 1/2 seasons, the Ravens quarterback has not found postseason success. He failed to throw a touchdown pass until the final 12 minutes of lopsided losses to the Chargers and Titans, and between those defeats he tossed three interceptions and lost two fumbles through the first three quarters. SN’s WEEK 11 PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread Jackson’s subpar performance against Los Angeles two years ago established an unfortunate narrative about his big-game play....

Linemen Bradley Bozeman and Ronnie Stanley shared videos of their watches on social media. The 22-year-old quarterback, who is the frontrunner to win NFL MVP this season, knows they have played a pivotal role in helping him lead the league with 36 touchdown passes through 15 games. MORE: Ravens will rest Lamar Jackson vs. Steelers in Week 17 From Ravens.com: “Jackson has taken just 23 sacks, which is the third-fewest of any quarterback who has started every game this year....

Now, they might be down to their backup quarterback for “days or weeks” as well, after Lamar Jackson suffered a knee injury during the final play of the first quarter. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports that Jackson suffered a knee sprain on Sunday, leaving his status in doubt for “days or weeks” as head coach John Harbaugh said on Sunday. Jackson is scheduled to undergo more tests on Monday to determine the severity of the injury....

The record, however, has been a formality for a while, given Jackson is now averaging 78.8 rushing yards over 14 games and is now on pace to finish with 1,261 yards. Even if Baltimore rests him in Week 17, should it have the AFC’s top playoff seed in hand, he will end up shattering Vick’s 2006 mark. Maybe, with Jackson officially surpassing Vick on the ground, the focus can turn to what really has made him the heavy NFL MVP favorite in 2019: his passing....

According to the documents, Kardashian’s lawyer, Laura Wesser, filed paperwork Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that had both her and Odom’s signatures asking to dismiss the divorce, which had yet to be finalized. MORE: Odom’s NBA career, in photos | Why you can’t dismiss Kardashian role in Odom’s life Kardashian, who married Odom in 2009 before filing for divorce in 2013, reportedly has not left Odom’s side since he was found unconscious at a Las Vegas brothel last week and rushed to a hospital where he was immediately placed on life support....

Like the Delta variant, Lambda is highly infectious and thought to be more resistant to vaccines than the original version of the virus. Though much remains unknown about the strain, there have been some alarming characteristics detected by researchers. At the moment, the Lambda variant has been mainly spreading through South America after first being identified in Peru in August 2020, but cases have been seen in Texas and South Carolina....

Look no further than “The Last Dance” — an ESPN series that gave Michael Jordan endless hype while limiting criticism of his negative qualities — to understand how the genre is susceptible to favoring pedestals over hard truths. Marina Zenovovich, director of ESPN’s two-part “LANCE” documentary on the career of former cyclist Lance Armstrong, is a staunch critic of deifying subjects. She hopes “LANCE” drills as close to objective truth as possible — a difficult task considering Armstrong’s lifelong penchant for lying....

This from a restaurant inside Bankers Life Fieldhouse: Armstrong might have difficult complying with the League's drug testing policy.

That was the question Charlotte Hornets guard Lance Stephenson made us all ask on Saturday night when he made contact with the Warriors’ Harrison Barnes and slapped himself in his own face. MORE: Love dismisses rumor | Hornets’ struggles | Hideous uniforms Now, Stephenson has a reputation for being a tough player and a solid defender. He’s also one of the bigger on-court personalities and a bit of an embellisher when it comes to drawing fouls....

Chicago officers were alerted after Frances Walker was reported missing from her home in the 5900 block of North Washtenaw at about 7 p.m. on Monday. The caller, a woman who rented a room in the property, told the police she had not seen Walker for a day. According to Fox 32, when police arrived, they were told there was another tenant living at the property whom the others were afraid of, and officers discovered human remains in a freezer....

The latest Langya cases were announced in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In it, Xiao-Ai Zhang, from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, and colleagues said cases had been found in two provinces: Shandong and Henan. As reported by Focus Taiwan, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said it is starting to develop ways to track the Langya virus and that methods of sequencing its genome will be ready within a week....

With Orlando entering the final stage of the season in MLS and chasing a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, Findlay explained that the 21-year-old decided he wanted to remain in Orlando to focus on his club duties, even if none of the upcoming games overlap — Canada plays Mauritania on Oct. 7 and Morocco on Oct. 11; Orlando’s last two games take place on Oct. 16 and 23....

Speaking early in the night to a crowd of his supporters, when it was clear Newsom had defeated the attempted recall convincingly, Elder hinted at his aspirations. “Let’s be gracious in defeat,” Elder said as his supporters booed the mention of Newsom’s name. “And by the way, we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war.” Elder also said: “I’m gonna be asked by all the members of the media, ‘What are you going to do next?...

Mail-in voting is already under way in a state that’s long been considered a Democratic bastion and two polls published on Monday indicate Newsom will remain in office. Poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, which has been tracking Newsom’s chances based on analysis of a wide range of polls and its own system of pollster ratings, shows the option to keep the governor polling at an average of 57.3 percent. FiveThirtyEight reports that support for removing Newsom now stands an an average of just 41....

The three-day event, which in 2019 saw over 465,000 people attend across three days, is going ahead despite its COVID-19 safety plan being denied by the Nevada Department of Business & Industry (B&I). Pasquale Rotella, CEO of event promoter Insomniac, announced Thursday: “We are moving forward as planned & will be working closely with local & state officials to make the show as safe as possible,” in a post on Instagram....

Foley said Monday he’d narrowed his search to two candidates after conducting more than a half dozen interviews last week, with experience being a major criterion. MORE: Sights from the 2016 NHL Draft “I can tell you the people we talked to are all well-known in the hockey community and are well-respected,” Foley told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “They’re all very smart and they’ve done different things for different teams....

Scientists from Seoul, South Korea, have figured out how to transmit 400 milliwatts (mW) of electricity over nearly 100 feet using infrared laser light, according to research published in the journal Optics Express. “The ability to power devices wirelessly could eliminate the need to carry around power cables for our phones or tablets,” research team leader Jinyong Ha from Sejong University in South Korea said in a statement. “It could also power various sensors such as those used for monitoring processes in manufacturing plants....

The sad part is, less and less of it is visible from earth. The Great Wall is vanishing, unable to withstand the destructive forces of nature and economics as deserts, development and tourists spread across China. This year the New York-based World Monuments Fund added the wall to its “most endangered sites” list. “It’s harder for really well-known sites to be selected because there’s skepticism as to whether they really need help,” observes Bonnie Burnham, the group’s president....

The poll found that 39 percent of registered voters supported Trump in his re-election bid when he was being challenged by Sanders, Harris or Warren. But the three liberal senators had more support. The survey found Sanders winning over Trump with 48 percent, Harris winning over Trump with 46 percent and Warren winning over Trump with 45 percent. But it was the former vice president who would beat Trump by the widest margin in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, according to the poll....