Line: Auburn -3, Total: 63 Line movement: The Wynn opened Auburn a 2-point favorite. Money pushed the line to -3 within a day of trading before a small half-point adjustment in Memphis’ favor held it at -2.5 for over a week. The line is back up to -3 as the game is less than 24 hours from kickoff. The total is volatile with an over-under between 62 and 64 dealt across Vegas....
Ruth entered the game with a 12-6 record and a 2.86 ERA. Opponents were batting just .226/.307/.185 against him vs. his own season-slash line of .355/.420/.694, including a club-leading four home runs — no one else on the team would finish the season with more than two. The 20-year old Ruth had struggled against Detroit to this point in his career: In three starts he had allowed 11 runs (8 earned) in just nine innings pitched....
For Dillon, who has dealt with for years the scrutiny of driving a car with the slanted No. 3 made famous by Dale Earnhardt, getting asked about his future isn’t all that hard for him. PHOTOS: Austin Dillon’s 2013 Nationwide championship season “The questions are fine,” Dillon said last week. “It’s obvious (what’s happening). “We’ll make a good announcement here before too long and everybody will be happy and excited....
Morrison’s comments come after he imposed a strict lockdown on flights from India last week, stranding some 8,000 citizens overseas as India faces soaring coronavirus cases and deaths. The harsh order said that any citizen in India would be banned entering Australia until at least May 15, and those who break the rule could be prosecuted with lengthy prison sentences or costly fines. The unprecedented restriction is believed to be the first time that Australia has made it a criminal offense for its citizens or permanent residents to re-enter the country....
FIFA have organised ticket sales into two phases - one before the World Cup draw on December 2 (AEDT) and one after. The first phase allowed fans to go into a ballot for a limited amount of team series tickets and matches for which the contestants were not yet known. Following the ballot, a first come, first served period followed with left over tickets for the phase made available...
Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard and Vasek Pospisil have first-day matches. Men’s top seed Novak Djokovic gets his tournament started. MORE: Recent men’s winners | Women’s champs | Dates, times, TV info It will be a bright and sunny Monday in Melbourne as play begins. Owing to the time difference, competition starts at 8 p.m. ET. Also scheduled to play on the first day: Americans Christine McHale, No. 24 seed Sloane Stephens, Alison Riske, Lauren Davis, Anna Tatishvili, Irina Falconi and Nicole Gibbs....
Laura Kavanagh, the acting FDNY commissioner, said at a press conference that five of the victims were in critical but stable condition at local hospitals. Several undetonated devices were found at the subway station at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. Details on the type and number of undetonated devices found at the station were not immediately reported. Many details about how and why the attack took place were unclear by early in the afternoon....
Autism strikes in childhood, but as thousands of families like the Boronats have learned–and thousands more are destined to learn–autism is not simply a childhood disorder. Two decades into the surge of diagnoses that has made autism a major public health issue, a generation of teenagers and young adults is facing a new crisis: what happens next? As daunting as that question may be, it’s just the latest in the endless chain of challenges that is life for the dedicated parents of children with autism....
Now GM has to keep moving forward–even without Kerkorian as back-seat driver. GM is farther down the road to recovery than its crosstown rivals, who are hemorrhaging billions while GM is merely losing millions. And analysts say Wagoner owes some thanks to Kerkorian for that. Sure, the two probably parted ways because Wagoner wouldn’t go along with Kerkorian’s ambitious plan to align GM with France’s Renault and Japan’s Nissan, creating a car colossus controlling a quarter of the world’s auto market....
Teams that overperform their metrics usually (but not always) regress the following season. Fast forward to 2014-15 and the Avs appear to have done that. With 55 points in 54 games, they are nowhere near last year’s lofty point pace. Yet, a look at the standings show it’s not all bad for the Avalanche. They remain out of a playoff spot, but by six points to the Flames as of Feb....
The 5-11 guard averaged 1.4 points per game in limited playing time as a freshman last season, and will sit out next year under NCAA transfer rules. MORE: Florida’s new coach makes ‘cents’ | Did Pitino lie about Alabama? | Swanigan decommits The elder Johnson succeeds Anthony Grant, who was fired in March. At the time of his hire, the longtime NBA player and 2005-06 NBA Coach of the Year said he did not foresee his son joining him at Alabama....
Rock-bottom of the table, the Jack Army are in dire need of points to turn their fortunes around in their late quest to beat the drop. And following Wednesday’s FA Cup victory over second tier side Wolverhampton Wanderers, in-form striker Jordan Ayew says his outfit are in high spirits to shoot down the Reds at the Liberty Stadium. “We are into a crucial stage of the season and every match is really important,” said, Ayew, who netted a sublime effort in the 2-1 win in midweek....
The actor is currently doing press for the release of his upcoming movie Vengeance. He wrote, directed and starred in the new dark comedy which is out in theaters on Friday. Ahead of the release, he divided opinions on Twitter when a quote about his education appeared to rub people the wrong way. “I don’t like talking about it. I will but I don’t like to,” Novak told The Boston Globe when the topic of his college came up....
Members of the public can now vote online for their favorite photo out of 25 images that have been shortlisted. Voting closes at 9 a.m. ET on Thursday, February 2, 2023, and the winner will be announced on February 9 next year. The 25 images are on display at the 58th Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London....
Edward Willis-Hall, from Colchester, England, has severe spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which causes paralysis, muscle weakness and progressive loss of movement. He received the gene therapy Zolgensma, which contains a replica of the missing gene SMN1 and is administered in a single dose, at Sheffield Children’s Hospital last weekend. Edward’s mother Megan Willis said she was “so excited and relieved” her son had received the drug, the BBC reported. “For so long we have been trying to fight for this drug....
The performance is vintage Anwar: the great conciliator doing what he does best. Barely a decade ago, this was the man who was going to help Asia and the West see eye to eye and bridge the chasm between Islam and other faiths. As Finance minister and then deputy prime minister of Malaysia in the late 1990s, Anwar was heir apparent to the strongman Mahathir Mohammed. But it was always an odd pairing....
Hardheaded practical types abound in the Bing Hamptons. Still, many heads up there teem with mental phantasms of escape. (Vegas! Florida!) Others nurse fantasies of vindication. (“After the next terrorist attack those downstaters will wish they lived here.”) Many embrace wishful fantasies of easy money and tumor-curing deities, or consume dubious corporate fantasies whole-hog, like the one about fat-free potato chips’ being healthy. One family I met lived entirely on fairy tales....
While Jean-Marie Le Pen rails against the European Union in the West, Giertych and others are attacking from the East, trying to stop their countries’ push to join the Union by 2004. Most Westerners assume that everyone to the East is panting to join their club. But that’s not quite the case. A majority still supports membership, but the numbers are going down–in Poland, from 77 percent in 1994 to 55 percent today....
Now comes news that the prime minister is no longer immune from prosecution–meaning that he will soon be back in a Milan courtroom facing corruption charges he thought he had escaped. (He stands accused of bribing judges to influence the sale of SME, then the state-owned food giant, in the 1980s. He’s denied the charges.) Last week’s decision by Italy’s constitutional court to overturn an immunity law that Berlusconi’s tightly controlled Parliament rammed through in June is a sign of changing times....
