The candidate who’s practically a sure thing for induction in the Canton Class of 2015 is late Chargers linebacker Junior Seau, the biggest name in the group of players eligible for the first time. Quarterback Kurt Warner, with a NFL MVP award, a Super Bowl win and two other appearances, is likely to make it, too. The returning candidates class is strong, as usual, and heavy with players passed over multiple times....
After previewing NBC’s Olympics coverage, NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus spoke Monday with Sporting News about Rio doomsayers such as Mike Greenberg of ESPN2’s “Mike & Mike,” as well as Michael Smith of ESPN2’s “His & Hers,” who said U.S. Olympians such as NBA star Carmelo Anthony should “seriously consider” boycotting Rio to protest police shootings and gun laws in the U.S. During a one-on-one interview at the studio home of “Saturday Night Live,” Lazarus said it’s “hypocritical” for Americans to call for boycotting global sporting events in foreign countries such....
Two weeks ago, it looked like the Florida primary would be a four man free-for-all: Mitt Romney vs. John McCain vs. Rudy Giuliani vs. Mike Huckabee. Since then, the field has narrowed, and as the voters of Florida finally head to the polls today, it appears they’ll choose either Romney, the economic Mr. Fix-It, or McCain, the national security flyboy. That said, no one has any idea which of the two they’ll choose; the latest surveys show the frontrunners neck-and-neck at about 30 percent....
But he doesn’t ask. “Some man came to pay for your rooms while you were gone,” he offers instead. “I can give you a receipt.” The Ali Baba is that kind of place. It’s where you stay if you want no questions asked. Or if you want to see a rare example of multiethnic harmony in a province that has become a byword for ethnic tension and conflict. So while our translator shouts about renewed fighting near the village of Shoshaj, we race up and down the hotel stairs throwing bags into the car and leaving clumps of gooey brown gunk all over the carpeted stairs....
Mexico is the world’s largest consumer of soft drinks, by a factor of about three to one. (The United States is No. 2.) But here in the southern province of Chiapas, Coca-Cola is more than just a fizzy drink. Around the square in San Juan Chamula, groups of indigenous Indian men, wearing the traditional black wool vests of the Tzotziles, sit around white plastic tables, talking quietly. Each has in front of him a 12-ounce glass bottle of “agua negra,” as they often call it, which they drink slowly and earnestly, holding in the other hand the long wooden sticks, known as toletes, that in Chiapas serve as symbols of authority....
Among those praising Moore was Levante manager Juan Roman Lopez Muniz, who wasn’t surprised to see the 21-year-old fullback play well. “We never had any doubt,” Muniz told reporters after Sunday’s victory. “He’s a player that we’ve said for a long time that he’s young, he comes from the second team, that comes from a lower level, and the level in the first division is high, and he had a rival in front of high of high quality, but we knew he would do well....
“If they didn’t tell me to do it,” Ball said. “It wouldn’t have been in there.” LaVar Ball, LiAngelo’s outspoken father, was next to LiAngelo during the interview and was asked if he any had any say. In other interviews, LaVar Ball has made it clear he’s not sure if Trump did anything to help his son, but said he let his kid make his own decision on the subject....
Hours after pulling off a stunning 48-45 upset over Baylor, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell cancelled all Labor Day classes at the school. MORE: An inside look at Liberty’s FBS transition Falwell and Liberty organized a 2 a.m. student rally to greet the football team as they returned to campus, where the decision to cancel classes was announced. Liberty, which is in the process of transitioning from the FCS into the FBS, had never beaten a Big 12 school prior to Saturday night....
Post writer Taylor Lorenz identified Chaya Raichik as the creator of the account, which has more than half a million followers on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Lorenz wrote Raichik had been working as a real estate agent in Brooklyn when she created the account of Libs of Tik Tok in November 2020. Before The Washington Post’s story on Tuesday, various Twitter users had also named Raichik as the creator of the account, including one person who claimed Raichik was present at the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021....
At least 15 were injured and one migrant was fatally shot during the raid in Gargaresh, the U.N. reported. The western town is a center for migrants in Libya as well as in surrounding areas. The tally from the U.N. showed 215 children and more than 540 women, 30 of them pregnant, were rounded up in the crackdown. Authorities in Libya called the event a security operation against illegal migration and drug trafficking....
The pope’s pronouncement addresses some of the most incendiary moral issues of the moment: abortion, euthanasia (mercy killing of the aged or infirm), use of human embryos for medical research, and capital punishment. All are, for the pope, signs of an encroaching “culture of death” that threatens human dignity and freedom. Indeed, “Evangelium Vitae” is one of those rare documents in church history in which a pope invokes the full teaching authority of the church to declare certain acts - specifically abortion and euthanasia - always evil....
Well, fans, today has arrived. The Street has issued a collective judgment on our three amigos–it’s declared them to be middle-aged. It hasn’t done this formally, of course. But if you look at how the Street has treated these three stocks lately, it’s the only conclusion that you can draw. Let’s start with Microsoft, whose stock took an enormous hit in the spring when it said it would spend $2 billion more than expected on expansion....
Mike Ganim was told his polycystic kidney disease was so advanced that he needed a new kidney around two years ago and, following months of preparation, transplant surgery was scheduled to take place on Wednesday. But his wife Debi Ganim told WKYC that they were informed on Friday that it would not be going ahead because of the clinic’s new policy that requires COVID-19 vaccinations for both transplant recipients and living donors....
Though Necaxa has since moved to Aguascalientes and only returned to the top division in the summer after winning promotion, the teams shared the Estadio Azteca during the late ’60s, then again in the ’80s and ’90s before Los Rayos made the move out of the capital. Necaxa sat in deep and kept reigning champion Pachuca from scoring in the second leg of their quarterfinal tie to win 2-1 on aggregate after Sunday’s scoreless draw....
Brown began his post with a quote from a speech Martin Luther King Jr. recited in Selma, Ala. Brown went to say that his protest has never been about the military or disrespecting the flag, but rather about police brutality, racial injustice and inequality in this country. “It is somethng that I, as well as many others, feel needs to be addressed,” he said. “I love my country, but that doesn’t mean I cannot ackowledge that it is not perfect....
This surgery was filmed last month for OR-Live.com, a Web site that was launched six years ago as a way for doctors to bone up on new techniques by logging on to watch their peers perform surgeries. But recently the site’s been attracting a completely different audience: patients who are curious about new procedures. The Webcasts, which are aired live and later archived, combine the entertainment of TV (it’s a cross between a doctor drama and a reality show) with the usefulness of the Web....
That inventory was relatively small, though. Only 666 pairs of the black and red sneakers were produced in the limited edition run. The $1,018 price attached to them is a reference to the Bible passage Luke 10:18, which reads: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Naturally, all of the devil themes around the shoes have drawn the ire of some conservative pundits. And the controversy over the footwear also comes amid the equally provocative video for Lil Nas X’s new hit single, “Montero (Call Me By My Name)....
Addressing Trump directly, a new video released by the PAC on Monday said, “Mitch McConnell’s Washington consultants are making big money using your name. We don’t know if Mitch gets a cut, but what do you think, Donald?” “You’re getting played,” the voiceover continues. “He’s picking candidates loyal to him. They brought you a little bowl to hold in your little hands and you fell for it. They’re laughing at you, all the way to the bank....
