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Los Angeles met with Jason Kidd on Monday according to an ESPN report, which cites unidentified league sources. He apparently met with Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka and team executive Kurt Rambis at a practice facility in El Segundo, Calif. “If you ever have the opportunity to wear the purple and gold, you can’t turn that down, as a coach, as a player, because they’re all about championships," Kidd told ESPN’s The Jump after he was first rumored to be in the running....

Milwaukee arrived into the game with a loss to Dallas interrupting its 18-game winning streak, but the victory over the Lakers improved the Bucks’ record to 25-4 for the season—the best overall in the NBA—and a five-game lead over the Boston Celtics at the top of the Eastern Conference. The Lakers, meanwhile, suffered back-to-back losses for the first time this season, just two days after losing 105-102 in Indianapolis to the Pacers....

“The game will be rescheduled at a later date,” the statement said. Bryant, 41, died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven other people who were on board. The Los Angeles legend’s sudden passing stunned the world, and many NBA teams paid tribute to Bryant during their games in the afternoon. The Lakers were traveling back from Philadelphia on Sunday, and players could be seen reacting to the news when they landed in Los Angeles....

In the leadup and coverage of the tournament, he promises no self-serving banter about how Team USA missing the World Cup for the first time since 1986 is really a blessing in disguise. MORE: Who are World Cup referees, and how are they paid? “We are not going to sweep the proverbial elephant in the room under the rug. No. It’s part of the story — that the United States isn’t there,” said Lalas, the former World Cup and MLS star in an interview with Sporting News....

Last season’s unanimous NFL MVP surprisingly appeared on the injury report on Wednesday and Thursday, missing practice on both days because of a knee issue and then illness. The 3-1 Ravens will face the 1-2-1 Bengals at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday, and Harbaugh said that Jackson will be fine to start at QB. “He was 100 percent. He was good,” Harbaugh told reporters of Jackson after Friday’s practice....

Almost two decades removed from his role as Lamar Odom’s college coach, Jim Harrick still remembers the first thing that his star pupil asked for: a bookbag. As a young man who was unyieldingly self-sufficient, Odom did not ask for much else. “Here’s a guy who went all through high school and had never been allowed to be a normal student. All he wanted to do was be normal like everyone else,” Harrick said....

This article looks at the anatomy of the lambdoid suture, its function, and associated conditions. Anatomy Four main cranial sutures connect the six cranial bones. The lambdoid suture is one of them. The lambdoid suture gets its name from its resemblance to the uppercase Greek letter lambda (Λ). Like all cranial sutures, the lambdoid suture is made up of dense, fibrous bands of tissue. It is located at the back of the skull, where it connects the occipital bone (the bone at the back of the skull) with the parietal bones (the bones at the top and sides of the skull)....

Sustainability takes on many forms. It isn’t just zero tailpipe emissions, though that’s the loudest talking point at the moment. The true impact of sustainable business practices stems from product development onto manufacturing and through the end of product’s lifecycle. Lamborghini is concentrating the hardest on the two elements they can directly control: development and manufacturing. Walking around the Lamborghini plant, which was certified CO2 neutral in 2015, it looks like most other vehicle assembly facilities....

He was given a lifetime ban in 2012 after admitting to doping offences following years of denial. Armstrong last year revealed he was “struggling with the consequences” of his public confession of doping. MORE: Paquiao has strange question for Miss USA | Serena survives | Sharapova, Bouchard set for Aussie showdown The 43-year-old, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by cycling’s governing body, the UCI, told the BBC he would not use performance-enhancing drugs if he was competing now, but would most likely cheat again if he could go back 20 years....

The Hornets’ swing man posted a video of him breaking it down in the locker room before their 76-71 win over the Knicks on Saturday. For a team that has been talking about moving Stephenson for months, they sure do seem to find him entertaining. MORE: 76ers prank rookie | Dion Waiters hasn’t talked to LeBron | MJ vs. Kobe They’re laughing with him, not at him. A video posted by @stephensonlance on Jan 24, 2015 at 7:26pm PST...

Police sources say detectives in the Organized Crime Intelligence Division conducted an unauthorized investigation of the chief, including surveillance of his trips to Las Vegas, then leaked their findings to discredit him. “This was a rogue operation to get rid of Williams,” says a police source. The source says that OCID detectives compiled a “dossier” on Williams’s Vegas activities, then passed the information to Stephen Downing, a retired LAPD deputy chief and dose associate of ousted chief Daryl Gates....

Protests sprang up around the U.S. in May after the death of George Floyd, who died while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers. Taking the spotlight in the protest was the Black Lives Matter movement which called for a defunding of police departments across the country. In July, the Los Angeles City Council voted to cut the LAPD’s budget by $150 million. Garcetti said the creation of the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) bureau represents a “big step forward” in the arena of police reform....

SB Nation, in an in-depth article surrounding the fiasco, reports that neither Tunsil nor Ole Miss want to take action against the hacker, for fear of future reprisal. Tunsil and Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze have the same agent in Jimmy Sexton. MORE: SEC preview 2017: Reason to be excited, skeptical for each team SB Nation reported that Tunsil and Ole Miss could easily report the hacker to the FBI or other law enforcement for extortion or black mail....

Forty-six-year-old Floyd died on May 25 while in custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. Video footage emerged of a white policeman kneeling over Floyd’s neck for several minutes as Floyd pleaded with officers and shouted that he couldn’t breathe, before seemingly losing consciousness. A number of NBA, NFL and NHL players, coaches and executives have joined a growing chorus of voices condemning Floyd’s death and backing protests against racial discrimination....

“I’ll be pulling so hard for them. That’s an understatement.” exclaimed John Wooten, the left guard for the 1964 NFL champion Browns. He calls himself “a Cleveland guy,” even though he’s not from there. MORE: Jim Brown moved by LeBron’s gesture | The King’s greatest Finals performances Wooten stays in touch with several of his former teammates, reinforcing the bond that formed during the glory years of the late 1950s and early 1960s....

Still, for being two of football’s longest-serving divisional rivals, Buffalo and Miami haven’t met that often in the playoffs. Just four postseason meetings between the AFC East foes have taken place. In those duels, the Bills emerged the victor three times. All three of the wins came from 1991-96, which is unsurprising given that was around the time of Buffalo’s run to four consecutive Super Bowls. For the Fins, the wins — or, rather, win — proved harder to come by....

Amid this uncertainty, there is one constant: the importance of the partnership between South Korea and the United States. The Biden administration, facing challenges on other fronts, has yet to make the Korean Peninsula a top priority, but the president has made clear his commitment to peace and security. The contrast with the previous U.S. administration is profound. Over the past four years the United States veered between, on the one hand, dramatic public overtures to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and, on the other, hardline tactics....

An Associated Press report indicated that 87 Palestinians, including 18 children, and 20 Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants, including a senior commander, have been killed so far by Israeli airstrikes. More than 530 people have been wounded, according to the Gaza Health Minstry. For Israel, seven deaths have been announced, including a six-year-old. The Israel Defense Forces said they have stopped four anti-tank missile attacks and taken out a Hamas military intelligence office in Gaza, as officials prepare for a possible ground invasion....

Lathrop Glacier was located on Mt. Thielsen, an extinct volcano in the Oregon High Cascades. Oregon Glaciers Institute President Anders Carlson said it had an area of less than 0.002 square kilometers, or less than half of a football field. He said it was in a steep area, describing it as “a very vertical water slide at a theme park, basically.” The exact date of the glacier’s disappearance is not known, but the Oregon Glaciers Institute knew it was gone by 2020 when employees visited the site....

Since this presidential race began, however, Latinos have been on the losing end. Activists used to rail that we were underrepresented in prime-time television. Our current prominence in both immigration scare ads and overheated campaign rhetoric makes me wistful for the good ole days when we were simply invisible. I had no idea how good we had it. Given the current climate, many Americans would be surprised to learn that a majority of U....