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Cutler, who joined Chicago in 2009, is now signed through 2020. MORE: Playoff schedule | Broncos no lock | Lovie Smith to Bucs The deal is reportedly worth $126 million over seven seasons, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported. He missed five games this season because of injuries, but managed a career-best 89.2 QB rating. He threw for 2,621 yards with 19 TDs and 12 interceptions. Chicago has reached the playoffs one time — in 2010 — since Cutler arrived....

“We’ve moving forward with Jay Cutler as our starting quarterback,” first-year general manager Ryan Pace told reporters on Wednesday. MORE: Kelly says he got first-round offer for Bradford | Team-by-team signings | How Revis keeps breaking the bank That confirmation may have been definitive, but Pace didn’t make that declaration until two months into his tenure and that of new head coach John Fox. In between, Pace and Fox got to know Cutler and tried to determine whether they were comfortable with him as the starter....

Authorities have launched an investigation into the incident, which occurred on Saturday inside an area that is only accessible to the public from inside a vehicle. The victim was not named but has been identified by state media as an animal breeder. It was not clear how or why the victim had entered the area known to house a variety of dangerous animals, but the zoo suggested the person was “carrying out work....

The Lions scored the game’s first 13 points and added a touchdown early in the second half. The Bears cut their deficit to 10 on a Mitchell Trubisky touchdown pass but he threw an interception with 34 seconds to play as the Lions secured the win. MORE: Watch NFL in U.S. live and on-demand with fuboTV (7-day trial) Detroit moved to 8-6 on the year with the victory, while Chicago fell to 4-10....

Oregon State has no problem with that, and in fact the Ducks’ in-state rivals paid tribute to Mariota with a full page web ad on OregonLive.com, the site for the Oregonian. MORE: Mariota wins Heisman | Trophy presentation in photos | Bowl schedule | Mariota’s speech It’s a nice gesture, even if the ad copy is a little pointed at themselves. It read: At the end of the page was a link to the Beavers’ website....

1 Laurence Fishburne. What’s ‘Larry’ got to do with it anymore? 2 Kate Holmes. ‘Katie’ was good enough in “Dawson’s Creek,” but not in Cruise’s House. 3 Ron Howard. He left ‘Ronnie’ behind in Mayberry, and it’s been happy days ever since. 4 John Mellencamp. ‘Johnny Cougar,’ where are you?

Everything has gone way, way past Bezos’s expectations, save one: the part about making tons of money. At first he believed that after five years he’d take in $70 million and net about $5 million. At year six, however, he’s much bigger but deep in debt and still burning dollars. Now, after years of ducking the issue, he says profitability “is the right thing to do,” and makes a risky promise: the company will turn what he calls a “pro forma operating” profit (which isn’t the same thing as actually making money, but better than nothing) by the fourth quarter of this year....

Result: when our fiftysomething married man beds his student, the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in his stars or his character or his moral compass but in his DNA. It’s no wonder reductionist explanations for behavior—especially “my genes made me do it”—are so popular: they let us off the hook. Bad choice in whom you went home with that night? Understandable; you were overwhelmed by his pheromones. Unfaithful? Not your fault; blame the genes that program men to spread their seed widely....

Over a period of 16 years I have had a number of interviews with William Henry Gates, but none quite like this. The setting is familiar: the sparsely decorated office in Building 8 on the sprawling Microsoft campus, where buildings sprout like glass-and-steel mushrooms. And though his face at 43 is somewhat fleshier than that of the 27-year-old CEO I first encountered, the man rocking back and forth in his chair could not be mistaken for anyone else....

This, you already know. Their gut-wrenching loss at home to Miami on Tuesday night — three two-out runs by the Marlins off Brewers closer Francisco Rodriguez in the top of the ninth inning led to a 6-3 defeat—was their 16th loss in the past 19 games. Think about that for a moment. When manager Ron Roenicke’s team capped a five-game winning streak — which included three in a row on the road against a Dodgers team most consider the NL favorite — with a home victory against the Blue Jays on Aug....

It’s the tough job of Donny Moore, Madden ratings czar, to rate all of them virtually from scratch before any play a down in the NFL. Moore talked to Sporting News about the process and provided reasoning for the numbers behind this year’s best rookies. “We start with watching film from the guys when they’re playing in college,” Moore said. “We look at the measurables, and then the scouting reports start coming in, and then we start creating the guys....

The results of a preliminary report come after COVID-19 cases spiked in China’s capital in the past week. Most individuals were linked to the now-closed Xinfadi wholesale market—which is the size of around 250 football fields—in the city’s Fengtai District. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention detailed the findings at a daily briefing on Thursday, Reuters reported. Wu said most of the patients working at the market had served on the seafood and aquatic product stalls, and these individuals had had COVID-19 symptoms earlier than others....

As the smoke dissipated from the blast, satellites have been able to provide a different vantage point, showing the extent of the devastation. Aurora Intel has posted images to Twitter courtesy of Planet Labs, Maxar, and Airbus Space. In the latest imagery it’s clear to see the circular section of land that was blasted away in the explosion, along with boats, and all the buildings in the surrounding area....

The Polish Ministry of Foreign affairs said that 24-year-old Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was granted a humanitarian visa after she was removed from her Olympic team and officials tried to fly her back to Belarus against her will a day earlier. “Kryscina Tsimanouskaya a Belarusian athlet (sic) is already in direct contact with Polish diplomats in Tokyo. She has received a humanitarian Visa. Poland will do whatever is necessary to help her to continue her sporting career....

The core of the argument is that belief in an evil supernatural power like the devil contributes to the “behavioural immune system”—a set of beliefs that protect the believer from infectious disease by altering their behavior. A person with a strong belief in the devil, for example, might be more likely to avoid a person who appears “possessed,” or, to use today’s language, diseased. The authors of the paper used statistical data to back up their hypothesis, showing moral vitalism (defined as beliefs related to the spiritual forces of evil) appears to be higher in historical periods and across geographical regions where pathogen rates are higher....

The fighter regarded by many as the greatest of all time then showed those people he has plenty more in the tank. Emelianenko defeated Mir by TKO at 48 seconds of the first round at Allstate Arena to advance to the semifinals of the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix. Saturday’s bout almost played out like the Mitrione fight after Mir rocked Emelianenko with a right hand. Mir wasn’t able to capitalize, though, and Emelianenko had enough presence of mind to grab Mir and throw him to the canvas....

Mir made Brock Lesnar submit at UFC 81 in February 2008, in what was Lesnar’s second MMA bout. They met again at UFC 100 in July 2009 with Lesnar winning by second-round TKO. Mir then took on Emelianenko at Bellator 198 in the first round of the heavyweight grand prix this past April and lost in 48 seconds. Join DAZN and watch Bellator 212 and Bellator 213 Lesnar and Emelianenko are two completely different animals when it comes to fighting styles....

The main event pits Saad Awad against Brandon Girtz in lightweight action. The bout and the entire card can be streamed live on DAZN. Join DAZN and watch Bellator 219 plus more than 100 fight nights a year Awad (23-10) had been climbing toward title contention by winning four consecutive fights, but his journey to the gold was stopped just short by losing by unanimous decision to former UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson at Bellator 208 in October....

Fitch and the judges inside the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., had other plans. MacDonald and Fitch fought to a majority draw (48-46 Fitch, 47-47, 47-47). Sporting News scored it 48-47 for MacDonald. Despite the bout ending in a tie, MacDonald, as the welterweight titleholder, advances to the semifinals to face Neiman Gracie on June 14. Join DAZN and watch Canelo vs. Jacobs on May 4 If the ending of the fight wasn’t strange enough, MacDonald’s comments during his postfight interview should be of concern....