“They didn’t feel it was fair that certain teams that probably wouldn’t have made the playoffs would have a chance to make the playoffs in a best-of-five series,” Killorn told The Athletic. “My team also felt it was unfair that the teams with a bye would not be as well prepared for a playoff series as the teams that had already basically played a playoff series to get into the playoffs....
Predators forward Mike Ribeiro was the robbery victim here. Granted, Ribeiro failed to lift the puck, but how the heck did Vasilevskiy get his leg to twist like that? MORE: Martin Brodeur in photos | Nabokov expected to retire | Blackhawks miss game-winner by millimeters “I just tried to find the puck on my left side and I just kicked my leg out … just reaction,” he told reporters, according to The Tampa Tribune’s Erik Erlendsson....
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos faced the Montgomery Biscuits on Saturday. One team plays another team in a minor league baseball game. Seems normal — except for the fact that the scoreboard didn’t work at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium because it got struck by lightning. MORE: Worst All-Star Game performances | Minor league managers fight | All-Star snubs Mother Nature calmed down enough to let the Blue Wahoos and Biscuits square off after a lengthy rain delay....
title: “Lights Out” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-14” author: “Chad Zediker” title: “Lights Out” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-16” author: “Donna Bolt” No, the United States. In what the California governor’s own spokesman has confessed is an embarrassment to “the wealthiest state in the richest nation on earth,” the electricity shortage is now spreading throughout the West. Amid warnings that the crisis could push America into recession, George W. Bush put Vice President Dick Cheney in charge of a blue-ribbon panel to come up with a national energy plan....
Hubbard arrived at Wesleyan (Norcross, Ga.) High School as a junior after California shut down high school sports during the COVID pandemic. The catcher already had committed to SEC power Mississippi State and had been around plenty of elite baseball prospects in his travels. He had never crossed paths with Jones, though he knew Druw was the son of former Braves star Andruw Jones and had the reputation of being one of the best prep players in the nation....
The song features the singer, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, dancing provocatively with the devil in a flamboyant and raunchy storyline that sees Hill pole dance his way down from heaven to hell. Similar to the outrage that Cardi B’s “WAP” prompted last summer, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” has caused a lot of pearl-clutching from conservatives with the religious imagery sparking much criticism. One critic, in particular, is Bennett or the “Kent State gun girl” who is perhaps best known for being a conservative gun advocate who open carried an AR-15 for her graduation photos....
From the way he addressed the topic, it seemed Lil Wayne was used to playing for larger crowds than the Virginia show had. The “Uproar” rapper said the crowd size was “not my swag,” and also revealed it’s what was apparently making him reconsider the entire tour. Videos of Lil Wayne’s revelation were available on Twitter, along with fan comments from the show amid the confusing moment. Lil Wayne cut off a song to share his thoughts....
Wood, who has falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 election in a “landslide” and is still president, lost the election to Trump-endorsed incumbent South Carolina Republican Party chair Drew McKissick on Saturday. He continued to praise Trump days later, maintaining that he made “new friends” and “had a great time” during his campaign despite a lack of support from the former president. “I had a great time running for chair of the SCGOP, making new friends and building support from We The People....
The ad released Monday features patriotic images from history juxtaposed with footage of the deadly storming of the U.S Capitol on January 6, characterizing the response to the incident as the current generation’s defining call to “defend and renew the promise of America.” The Lincoln Project is a political action committee comprised largely of former Republicans who worked to defeat former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. “America is the only country founded on an idea,” a narrator says in the ad as a U....
The group, who is largely made up of Republicans against Trump used Lovato’s song to display a montage of images of people suffering. The video shows shots of people detained at border detention center, COVID-19 hospitalizations and Black Lives Matter protests. The video’s description states that “a broad coalition of American patriots is standing up to end the suffering, end the corruption, and end the presidency of the worst ‘Commander in Chief’ in our country’s history....
In a monologue on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Wednesday, Carlson said agents had seized all of Giuliani’s digital records and personal devices. He then took aim at a tweet from the Lincoln Project which hinted that the campaign was aware of the planned raid beforehand. “The Feds notified their allies at the Democratic Party’s campaign operation the Lincoln Project,” Carlson said. “The Lincoln Project then bragged online that they knew this raid was coming....
The campaign group shared the video yesterday, urging Americans to get out and vote and prevent President Donald Trump from being re-elected. The Lincoln Project shared a video on Twitter featuring scenes across the U.S. with Charles’ “America the Beautiful” as its soundtrack. The video opens with the message “The time has come,” before showing scenes of farms, small towns, cities, and landmarks including Mount Rushmore and Seattle’s Space Needle....
Graham promoted the competition while speaking on the Tuesday night Hannity on Fox, hosted by Sean Hannity. People who make a donation at Graham’s official website will be entered into a draw to play golf with Graham and Trump during the Trump Graham Golf Classic tournament. The tournament will take place at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. “You have lunch. You have breakfast with President Trump....
“That’s ridiculous,” the South Carolina lawmaker told reporters on Capitol Hill about the claim from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is also a Republican. “What I’m trying to find out was, how do you verify signatures on mail-in ballots in these states that are just the center of attention?” Raffensperger told The Washington Post that apart from Graham’s inquiry into Georgia’s signature-matching process, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and Trump confidant also asked whether Raffensperger had the ability to invalidate all mail-in ballots in counties that have higher rates of nonmatching signatures....
Appearing on Fox News last night, Graham said his campaign had transferred the sum through the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a campaign group focused on getting GOP lawmakers elected to the upper chamber. The South Carolina Republican also called on all his fellow lawmakers to follow suit by sending any funds left from their campaigns to the Georgia Senate runoff races, which could prove the difference between a Republican or Democratic controlled Senate....
“Lindsey Graham says his 15-week federal abortion ban is a ban on “late-term” abortions. A normal pregnancy is 40 weeks. 15 weeks is barely into the 2nd trimester,” Jill Filipovic wrote on Twitter. “Not only do these men have no idea how women’s bodies work, they also can’t do basic math.” Axios reported that on Monday night, Graham’s office sent out an email saying that he planned to hold a press conference on Tuesday to introduce the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act....
The incident happened around 12 p.m. local time at the Accra Zoo, located in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. The unnamed man, believed to have been in his 40s, was first spotted hopping a security fence at the zoo and making his way into a lion enclosure, according to The Telegraph. At the time that he entered the space, there were two white lion cubs in the enclosure with their mother....
The 35-year-old opened the scoring from the spot against Croatia and provided Julian Alvarez with an assist for one of his two goals as Argentina ran out comfortable 3-0 winners. Messi can now look forward to his second World Cup final appearance, having finished as a runner-up in 2014. It has been suggested that the Paris Saint-Germain superstar could retire from Argentina duty after the final, and he has admitted that it will at the very least be his last appearance in World Cup competition....
