The Juneteenth resolution received a rather rare, quick bipartisan passage in a divided Congress this week, with the Senate voting unanimously in favor of the legislation and just 14 members voting against it in the House. It will be the 11th federal holiday—joining the ranks of President’s Day and Memorial Day. It’s the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in 1983. What is Juneteenth?...
Other presidents, including Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, have worn beige on occasion without controversy, and Biden didn’t appear to draw real backlash though it did become a trending topic on Twitter. Obama’s tan suit offense, which has it’s own dedicated Wikipedia page, was on August 28, 2014, when the then-president was giving an update on the United States’ military response to the terrorist Islamic State in Syria....
Oklahoma has a new coach after Lincoln Riley bolted for USC and quarterbacks Spencer Rattler and Caleb Williams hit the transfer portal. New coach Brent Venables will have a transfer quarterback as a result, and that likely will be UCF veteran Dillon Gabriel. Gabriel isn’t the only quarterback with high expectations. MORE QB OUTLOOKS: SEC | Big Ten | Pac-12 Texas picked up Ohio State transfer Quinn Ewers, and the former five-star quarterback will be expected to start and get the Longhorns back into Big 12 contention right away....
At the league’s spring meetings in Phoenix, Big 12 coaches and athletic directors unanimously passed the new plan, which will honor head-to-head results in a two-team tie and established criteria for solving a tie of three or more teams. MORE: Too many bowl games? | Early Heisman watch | Players ready to break out In the case of a three-team tie, if team records against each other doesn’t solve the tie, which happened in 2008, their records against the next-highest team in the standings would be compared....
Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a stock they had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year, recently hitting 10-year lows. But after the company announced Tuesday that it would, among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, the stock took a historic dive. In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or almost 18 percent of its value, closing Wednesday at 517/s....
The Bluejays finished the season as regular-season co-champions alongside Villanova and Seton Hall, all with 13-5 records in Big East play. But a 3-1 combined record against the Wildcats and Pirates allowed Creighton to take the top overall seed ahead of the tournament. Villanova and Seton Hall finished 2-2 and 1-3 against the top three-seeded teams, respectively. MORE: Get the latest March Madness odds from Sports Insider Ty-Shon Alexander (17....
The conference on Aug. 11 postponed its season till the spring amid the COVID-19 pandemic, later reversing its decision and settling on an Oct. 24 start date. That said, the conference still starts its 2020 campaign several weeks after the respective seasons of the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. It has been a long wait for fans: The last game involving a Big Ten team came on Jan. 2 — a 23-22 loss by Indiana to Tennessee in the Gator Bowl....
What’s stopping the Buckeyes from making it five in a row? Third-year coach Ryan Day will have a new starting quarterback in 2021, but Ohio State has more than enough blue-chip talent back to make that run. After all, Day has yet to lose a Big Ten game. Ohio State’s shadow continues to hang over the rest of the conference. Wisconsin, Penn State and Iowa all have winning percentages of better than 70 percent in that stretch....
“I just can’t imagine playing in this league in January and February,” Indiana coach Archie Miller told Sporting News after the first of a couple two-point victories against Northwestern and Penn State. “I just don’t see a team that’s not very good.” MORE: Fans demanding freshman perfection need to grow up The Big Ten jumped out of the blocks early with league play — each team playing one home and one road game as November morphed into December — because its members will, for the first time, play 20 conference games in the regular season....
MORE: SN Preseason Top 25 | What’s next for Big 12? The Big Ten saw a 32 percent increase in revenue — $110 million — for 2014-15, to $448.8 million, compared to $527.4 million the SEC generated in the same period, leading to a payout of $32.7 million for each of the SEC’s 14 universities. The two conference’s revenue dwarfed per-member payouts by the Pac-12 ($25.1 million) and Big 12 ($23....
The conference has struggled to meet expectations as it slumps to the finish, but the tournament is likely to feature a half-dozen or so teams that will go dancing on Selection Sunday. Purdue won the regular-season title behind Caleb Swanigan. Equipped with a newly slim physique, the potential first-round pick is quicker than ever and has produced monstrous stat lines all season. He’s a Player of the Year candidate, averaging 19 points and 13 rebounds per game....
With threats that TikTok may get banned by the U.S. government, Instagram’s new feature is all the more attractive both to stars that have built a following on TikTok and people who are looking to enjoy the content, even if the app goes away. In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that sources had said that Instagram’s parent company Facebook had approached TikTok creators about posting content exclusively (or at least a first look) to Reels....
On Sunday, 68 teams were admitted to the 2021 NCAA Tournament, the first March Madness since COVID-19 derailed last March’s tournament. NCAA TOURNAMENT:Full 68-team bracket | COVID-19 replacement rules For four teams, though, that hiatus will likely continue. The tournament, unfortunately, isn’t big enough for everybody, which led to some surprising snubs on Selection Sunday. Louisville was the headliner among the first four out, joined by Colorado State, Saint Louis and Ole Miss....
Symptoms Biliary colic is a type of pain that usually occurs in the upper part of your belly (abdomen), usually a little to the right or centrally. In some people, it feels like the pain is radiating to their back or their right shoulder. The pain usually begins suddenly. Once it begins, it’s usually a moderate, steady pain. Most commonly, an episode of biliary colic happens within a couple of hours after a person has eaten a meal, often a large meal with a lot of fat....
Boy, did he tell reporters. FANTASY: Injury updates for Week 7 According to NESN.com, Belichick went on for more than five minutes. And though he was asked about sideline headsets malfunctioning during Sunday’s victory over the Falcons, he began with the tablets. “As you probably noticed, I’m done with the tablets," he said. “They’re just too undependable for me. I’m going to stick with pictures, which several of our other coaches do, as well, because their just isn’t enough consistency in the performance of the tablets....
The annual event, which took place in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on Sunday July 4, was attended by de Blasio, 60, who announced the winner of the women’s competition while wearing a hot dog hat. As he stood on the stage on Sunday afternoon, the outgoing mayor was booed by several people in the crowd, before the jeering intensified when the presenter of the event thanked him, according to a video clip provided by Storyful....
The 64-year-old Microsoft co-founder chose not to namecheck one of the world’s most popular, and lucrative, EV firms when discussing the need to power vehicles with clean energy, with Musk’s carmaker notably absent—at least by direct reference. Tesla has enjoyed a surge in valuation this year and has a market cap of more than $375 billion. Gates, who has previously criticized Musk, seemingly decided not to include Tesla’s new Cybertruck in his line-up of upcoming all-electric pick-up truck options....
