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At least for now. The Houston Chronicle reported Oklahoma and Texas are interested in joining the Southeastern Conference, news that re-ignited realignment and superconference talk across college football. Newly-appointed Big Ten adviser Barry Alvarez had a simple question when he read the report: “Why?” “It caught everyone by surprise,” Alvarez said to a small group of reporters at Big Ten Media Day on Thursday. “It really hasn’t struck me one way or the other....

The French supernova bagged a two-minute brace in the second half to crush Argentinian hearts and level the score of Sunday’s World Cup final. La Albiceleste’s first half dominance seemed all encompassing. But when you have Mbappe, you always have a chance. Mbappe’s double made plenty of difference on Sunday. It also made history, adding Didier Deschamps’ French side to the list of greatest ever World Cup final comebacks....

Common Causes Osteoarthritis Knee osteoarthritis is the most common form of osteoarthritis. At the end of your body’s bones is a smooth coating called cartilage which helps bones easily move on one another when they meet at a joint. In people with osteoarthritis, this cartilage tissue gets thinner and rougher which impacts the knee’s ability to move properly. Commonly thought of as “wear and tear,” knee osteoarthritis can cause pain that increases with activity and improves when you sit or lie down....

Things might be upside-down in LA, and no one knows that better than the father-son combo of Bill and Luke Walton — Bill Walton played for the Clippers and was their broadcast analyst for years, while Luke Walton spent eight-plus seasons playing for the Lakers, helping them to two championships. Luke Walton is currently on the staff of the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the D-League, and has chatted with Bryant as he comes back from his leg injury....

Barr has followed President Donald Trump’s cue in misrepresenting the report’s findings, contradicting the work of his own Justice Department and Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Speaking with host Anderson Cooper on CNN Tuesday, the channel’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin delivered an impassioned censure of Barr’s support for the president. “The attorney general of the United States is a Fox News bot, and it’s an outrage,” Toobin said, describing Barr’s assertion that the FBI was “wiring people up” to spy on the Trump campaign as “a complete invention....

One would think that fact gives New England even more of an advantage over its potential divisional-round opponents from Miami, Houston and Oakland. But coach Bill Belichick knows better, and so do his players. Patriots safety Devin McCourty, when asked Wednesday about the limited playoff experience of teammates Martellus Bennett and Chris Long, recalled Belichick’s message years ago on the value of experience in the postseason. Or lack thereof....

DeSantis, who is seen as a likely 2024 GOP presidential contender, banned schools across his state from implementing mask mandates, despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending all teachers and students wear masks amid a nationwide surge in COVID-19 infections driven by the Delta variant. Florida also currently has the highest daily average of new COVID-19 infections in the country, and hospitalizations of patients with the novel coronavirus have broken records in recent days....

Appearing on Fox News Saturday, Cassidy, a Republican, said there are people in Afghanistan who have their papers, a country ready to take them, and are past the Taliban checkpoint—but they cannot get into the airport, following the blast that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 169 Afghans, the Associated Press reported Saturday. The senator called the attack another “sorry chapter in a sorry set of events that have been initiated by President Biden’s decision to withdraw in the way we have....

The Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest private charitable groups in the world, told The Wall Street Journal he felt “terrible” about not raising enough awareness—despite years of campaigning. “I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger,” Gates said. “The whole point of talking about it was that we could take action and minimize the damage.”...

It has happened before; someday, odds are, it will happen again. Sixty-five million years ago a five-mile-wide object hit the YucatAn Peninsula and wiped out the dinosaurs. In 1908 a 200-foot rock blew up over Tunguska, Siberia, flattening thousands of square miles of forest. A meteorite just half a mile wide could throw enough debris into the atmosphere to block out the sun, plunging us into a years-long night. It happens every 100,000 years or so, but it could happen any time....

Gabon international Aubameyang was on Milan’s books between 2007 and 2011, but he failed to make a first-team appearance before moving to Saint-Etienne. Auba 4/5 to score against Spurs An impressive stint in France was rewarded with a move to Dortmund, where Aubameyang has established himself as one of Europe’s top forwards and scored 31 Bundesliga goals last season. Maldini - who was a player at Milan until 2009 - recently conceded that the Serie A giants had failed to recognise the forward’s potential and could not now afford him - something that Aubameyang is pleased with....

The Gabon international scored the Gunners’ second goal before assisting Henrikh Mkhitaryan for the third. Mkhitaryan played a defence-splitting throughball for the 28-year-old who rounded goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis and slotted home, as Arsene Wenger registered his 700th Arsenal win in his 1,222nd match. Aside his goal and assist, the former Borussia Dortmund forward was on parade for the entire duration of the encounter against Javi Gracia’s men. He touched the ball 24 times, had two shots on target and won one foul with 80% passing accuracy....

“We shot the film in 21 days, which is a ridiculous amount of time to shoot a movie,” she tells Newsweek. “It’s no time at all. We were moving really fast, so there was an adrenaline just to the nature of how we shot it and it kind of worked.” Asked whether that was by design, she let out an emphatic “No!” Plaza, who stars as the title character and also produces, said, “When I first read the script, I thought, OK, I want to do this film but I want to have a really comfortable budget because I want to do it right and I don’t want to kill myself in the process....

Seven teams received first-place votes in the Week 2 AP Top 25 Poll, including four different SEC teams. Florida State, which received 46 first-place votes, remained No. 1 in the AP Poll. The Seminoles are followed by Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma then Auburn in the top five. Georgia, which received two first-place votes, jumped up six spots to No. 6. Texas A&M, which also received two first-place votes, jumped up 12 spots to No....

Ben Simmons, Patty Mills, Joe Ingles, Thon Maker, Matthew Dellavedova and Aron Baynes combined to score 86 points, surpassing the previous record of 66, achieved on March 11, 2017. MORE: Craig Sager’s daughter explains feud with late TNT broadcaster’s wife Simmons and Mills did the bulk of the damage, scoring 26 points each in Philadelphia’s 112-106 win over the San Antonio Spurs. They also became the first Australian players to lead their teams in scoring in the same game as noted by Basketball Forever’s Tom Read....

MORE: Biggest all-time draft steals | Huge draft regrets After NFL teams stayed away from him, Collie headed north to Canada to play for the BC Lions. He caught 43 passes for 439 yards and seven touchdowns in one season before telling the team his intent to retire Thursday. Collie, 30, may not be playing the sport anymore, but he wants to help those who are. The former receiver has been working with Cognitive FX, a concussion rehabilitation and research clinic that is based in Provo, Utah....

The men’s No. 2 seed was upset Friday by unseeded Andreas Seppi of Italy, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5). MORE: Must-see photos from Australia | Sportal.com’s live coverage The shocking third-round exit ends Federer’s quest for an 18th Grand Slam championship and fifth Australian Open title. It was his earliest exit from Melbourne since 2001, when he lost to Arnaud Clement. He had reached the semifinals or better in 11 consecutive Opens....

The world No. 2 went down to Djokovic 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (3) at Rod Laver Arena, marking his fifth loss in the final in Melbourne — four of them coming against the Serbian. MORE: Best photos from the Australian Open | Djokovic downs Murray in Final Murray made an awful start to the final and, while he recovered briefly, he finished with 65 unforced errors. The two-time Grand Slam champion, facing the media less than two hours before a flight home to be with pregnant wife Kim, said the errors were decisive....

Giorgi is the highest-ranked unseeded player at 35 on the WTA Tour, and looms as a potentially tricky opponent for Williams, who has endured a less than ideal preparation heading to the Australian Open, which gets under way on Monday. MORE: Australian Open women’s winners of the 21st century | Complete list of women’s seeds Williams, boasting a 68-9 win-loss record at Melbourne Park, has not played since withdrawing from the Hopman Cup due to a knee injury over a week ago, but the 21-time major champion has won the two previous encounters against Giorgi, though both were on clay....

Stephens claimed a maiden grand slam victory at Flushing Meadows last September but the struggling 24-year-old American is still searching for her first win since that triumphant display following Monday’s shocking three-set loss to Zhang Shuai. MORE: How to watch the Australian Open | Venus Williams loses opener The 13th seed was up a set and serving for the match at 5-4 in the second on Day 1 of the tournament before Chinese opponent Zhang rallied and completed a stunning 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 victory in Margaret Court Arena....