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Zack Mahoney, a QB for the Orange, was set to auction off his hair to the highest bidder — if you ever wanted to shave “BOEHEIM SUCKS” into the side of someone’s head, this was your shot — to raise money for 7-year old Lillian Belfield (via Syracuse.com). The idea was for all this to go down at Syracuse’s Uplifting Athletes fundraiser this summer. MORE: Ranking the top 40 players in 2016 Even Mahoney is fuzzy on which rule he’d have violated....

As the No. 8 Sooners and No. 11 Cowboys — both 7-1 overall and 4-1 in Big 12 play — rumble toward Saturday’s Bedlam showdown in Stillwater, there’s a danger of being caught up in the moment. The temptation is strong to want to live in history. So maybe the question is flawed. Or, maybe, it’s not. MORE: Making the case for Oklahoma State’s Mason Rudolph The reality is that Mayfield is doing things his predecessors did not, often because they could not....

Why are Heymann and his peers singing such a different tune? Because classical retailers have been the best at exploiting the potential of online revenue. The biggest companies of the classical genre are now earning about 20 percent of sales from digital music, double or triple the average for other categories. This is a tremendous advantage for them, since selling music in the digital format can be twice as profitable as it is offline due to the extremely low costs of digitally producing, storing and distributing music....

“No, I didn’t think twice about it,’’ said Sarchione, who operates the Sarchione Auto Group in northeast Ohio with four siblings and in-laws, and who brought the 23-year-old All-Pro receiver to the company in September. MORE: Who are the worst quarterbacks from 1990-2014? | Pass-happy Pats can run over you, too “You read the stories, but you don’t ever want to judge anybody. Once you get to know who he is in person, he’s not what he was depicted as last summer....

That’s the kind of night it was in the ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hilton, where Jack Nicholson looked lost without his shades, Courtney Love hid a hole in her slinky silk with a Beatty 2000 sticker and gadfly Gloria Allred held court with the 150 reporters present for Beatty to promote Cybill Shepherd’s campaign. The historian Daniel Boorstin saw it coming. In 1961, when Beatty had his breakout role in “Splendor in the Grass,” Boorstin’s cultural study, “The Image,” observed that American politics was now dominated by “pseudo-events” like photo ops, staged interviews and televised debates....

The unrepentant Pinochet–now 87 and living in Chile, immune from prosecution because of failing health–maintains that he saved his country from communism. He has left his surviving victims to go after the regime’s minions, and to fight for the excavation of their own history. Now, on the 30th anniversary of the coup, that history is finally coming to light, thanks to Peter Kornbluh’s remarkable reconstruction of the secret U.S. foreign policy that transformed Chile into a dictatorship....

It will be a while yet before science has much to offer victims of the variant of Creuztfeldt-Jakob disease that has been linked to consumption of beef tainted with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad-cow disease). The prospects might be better if the culprit were a virus or a bacterium, but it happens to be a strange molecule called a prion, a wholly new class of infectious agent that was discovered by Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s (he won the Nobel prize for it in 1997) just as mad-cow disease began making headlines....

China-Russia relations were elevated to a special category in 2019. The “comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era” signaled strong military, political and economic alignment, and close ties described last year as “better than an alliance.” But as Putin’s military campaign against his neighbors threatens to make his country a pariah on the international stage—through banned airspace, canceled visas and unprecedented economic sanctions—Russia has pointed to China as an example of a major power still offering friendship and support....

Spain were in cruise control in Vaduz as braces for Alvaro Morata and Iago Aspas, alongside strikes from Sergio Ramos, Isco, David Silva and an own goal from Maximilian Goppel capped an easy Group G workout. It leaves La Roja, who are guaranteed a top-two finish, three points clear of Italy with two matches left to play but head coach Lopetegui is keen for his players not to let up....

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank based in Washington, made the assessment on Thursday. It predicted that a renewed invasion of northern Ukraine from Belarusian territory is looking more likely towards the end of year for multiple reasons, including a ramping up of joint training exercises and rotations. Russian soldiers and military equipment have also been seen grouping near the Belarus-Ukraine border. Russia and Belarus began joint air force exercises on January 16 amid growing fears that Putin could lobby his Belarusian counterpart to join the conflict....

Belcher was a starting linebacker for the Chiefs when on Dec. 1, 2012 the tragic chain of events occurred, ending at Arrowhead Stadium when he turned a gun on himself in front of then-Chiefs coach, Romeo Crennel and former general manager Scott Pioli. Belcher’s body was exhumed one year after his death, on the behest of his mother, Cheryl Shepherd. A study of his brain showed that his brain showed signs of CTE, a disease that has been linked to concussions and brain trauma, causing a multitude of disorders, including dementia, depression and aggression....

Both the survey results and the TV statistics indicate that women are more likely to believe it’s possible to interact with the spirit world. Forty-six percent of women surveyed believed that “the souls of the dead protect the living as spirit guides,” compared with 27 percent of men. Women were also more likely than men to believe that “the dead can hear our prayers or intercede with God on our behalf....

People know of Witnesses, if they know of them at all, as the folks who refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance. They also don’t celebrate birthdays or Christmas, they don’t vote, they don’t fight in wars and they refuse to accept blood transfusions, even in life-threatening circumstances. They believe the end of the world is coming soon, and they bear witness to God by knocking on doors. What interests Engardio—who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness by his mother and has since left the church—is that despite their fierce separatism and fundamentalism, they use the courts to fight for their right to worship as they please and their legal battles, he argues, have made the world a better place for everyone else....

The sociologist Rodney Stark’s controversial new book “Discovering God” resurrects, if you will, the notion that truths about God can be discovered through the application of reason. Let the vociferous atheists holler, he says at the outset; the marketplace of ideas is exactly like any other marketplace, and the best, most authentic ideas about God will triumph and endure. Four hundred pages later he unveils his conclusion, one that comes as no surprise to those who know Stark’s previous work....

MacDonald showed why he is one of the best welterweights in the world in winning a one-sided fight and submitted Paul Daley by rear-naked choke at the 1:45 mark of the second round in the main event of Bellator 179. “It’s been a long time of lay-offs, man, it’s been a long two years to be honest,” MacDonald told Jimmy Smith in the post-fight interview. “It took a lot to stay focused, stay on track, to focus in on what I was lacking in every department of my life....

WATCH: Ozil loses it with Alexis The Gunners defender was floored by Alonso as both players contested a header after the ball had rebounded back off the crossbar following Diego Costa’s effort. The ball ended up in the back of the net to give Chelsea the lead, although there were further repercussions for Bellerin, who had to be taken off having been visibly shaken up by the challenge. Antonio Conte’s side would go on to win the game 3-1, courtesy of further goals from Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas, moving them 12 points clear of the Gunners in the table....

“I’m told I cannot sigh and I cannot move or say anything (because) that distracts her, so I just have to sit there like a Sphinx and just smile and pray,” the elder Bellis, Gordon, explained with a deadpan delivery. “She hears me when I sigh. So I can’t sigh.” Ah, yes, the joys of raising kids. And make no mistake, Bellis is a kid. She is home-schooled and about to start 10th grade....

Bob Baffert’s colt cruised to victory by seven lengths in the Preakness on a sloppy track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. MORE: California Chrome owner goes off | Wes Welker’s horse wins big at Belmont Belmont Stakes times, TV channels (All times Eastern) Friday, June 5 4 p.m. Belmont Stakes Classics (NBCSN) 5 p.m. Belmont Access: Jaipur and Brooklyn (NBCSN) Saturday, June 6 3 p.m. Belmont Stakes Prep (NBCSN)...

“We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel and distributes it in the region,” the statement reads. “We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when it expires at the end of next year.” The company plans to stay in Israel through a different arrangement and will share an update at a later time....

Wright’s family identified him as the person killed during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday afternoon. The Black man’s death triggered protests in an area already on edge during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd. Floyd died after Chauvin was seen on video kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes in May last year, sparking protests that quickly spread from Minneapolis to the rest of the country and beyond....