Following her team’s exit from the NCAA Women’s Tournament, Mulkey, unprompted, suggested the NCAA drop testing altogether, reducing to zero the risk a team can’t play because of a positive coronavirus test. “I want to say this to all of you: I don’t think my words matter, but after the games today and tomorrow, there’s four teams left I think on the men’s side and the women’s side,” Mulkey said....
I have Baylor friends. MORE: Dirty incidents, jerks give sports a bad name Whatever qualifiers polite society typically uses to diffuse potential awkwardness before saying something really offensive about a group, throw them in too because this is about to get real with Baylor. Y’all have embarrassed yourselves. Y’all have gone too far, allowed too much, stayed too silent, sold your souls for what amounts to football Ws in a barely Power 5 Conference....
The jury in Waco deliberated for about 5 1/2 hours before convicting Ukwuachu on Thursday night, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported. MORE: Most heinous crimes connected to athletes Sentencing began later Thursday and will resume Friday. Ukwuachu, 22, could receive up to 20 years in prison. He is seeking probation. The victim testified Monday that Ukwuachu raped her at the football player’s apartment after a homecoming party in October 2013. She testified the two originally had plans to go to a restaurant, but he decided to drive home instead....
Ofcom, the body that regulates British broadcasters, found the BBC correctly observed editorial guidelines by publishing the image on December 5, 2018, article entitled “British neo-Nazis suggest Prince Harry should be shot.” The article detailed an investigation into the online activity of far-right group Sonnenkrieg Division, including a member who was just 17 years old at the time. It included an image created by members of the neo-Nazi group that featured the Duke of Sussex with a gun pointing at his head, along with splattered blood, a swastika and the words “see ya later race traitor”—a racist reference to his wife Meghan Markle....
He holds the BC record for receiving yards in a season (1,210 in 2012) and for a career (2,800 from 2010-13). But Amidon won’t pursue playing Sundays in the NFL. Instead, he’ll be attempting something more difficult: becoming a Navy SEAL, according to bcinterruption.com. TOP 10 PLAYERS: Alabama | Auburn | Boise State | Notre Dame | Iowa So football is on hold as Amidon, 6-feet, 182 pounds, works at becoming one of the nation’s elite soldiers....
It was in the second period of the Pittsburgh Penguins' eventual 3-1, tie-breaking win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Crosby had made a questionable pass seconds earlier, but ... whatever. They weren't saying Boo-Urns. The Best Player In The World hasn't scored a goal in the first round, you see. By the end of the game, they were cheering again; the 18,618 people in attendance — ones that didn't drive three hours down I-70 from Columbus, at least — really, really wanted him to score on an empty net....
Trubisky was trying to play through soreness in his right hip, Nagy told reporters in his postgame press conference. Nagy replaced Trubisky with Chase Daniel with 3:31 remaining in the fourth quarter. “It was all based off of he just wasn’t feeling right. His hip was hurting him,” Nagy said. “We knew it a few series earlier that something wasn’t right.” Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Trubisky said he alerted quarterbacks coach Dave Ragone earlier in the second half and that Ragone later informed Nagy....
His release comes just two months after the Bears signed the former 49ers defensive tackle. Monday’s arrest was his third domestic violence-related charge in nine months. He was never charged by police or disciplined by the NFL for two incidents last year and had maintained his innocence. Despite those claims, the 49ers released the 30-year-old in December. CASH: NFL can’t let Ray McDonald abuse women and play | PHOTOS: Disgraced athletes He arrived in Chicago saying he was looking forward to a second chance....
Though the Bears and Falcons have showed promise in 2014, both carry 2-3 records into Sunday’s matchup at the Georgia Dome. The loser of Bears-Falcons will have three NFC losses – an unwelcome development. The fallen would also cede the head-to-head tiebreaker to the winner, which could also have playoff implications. If the Bears and Falcons are capable of getting it together, now is the time to show it. After hosting Chicago, the Falcons play three of their next four on the road....
“We’ve got to beat Ohio State,” Harbaugh told Mike Tirico on NBC Sports Network’s “Lunch Talk” radio show. “Nothing makes us angrier than that, or me. That’s what we’re working toward every day. We’ve beaten everybody else, but we haven’t beaten them.” MORE: Jim Harbaugh, Gene Smith address 100,000-fan question in pandemic era Harbaugh has a 47-18 record in five seasons with the Wolverines, but the most frequent citation is an 0-5 record against Ohio State....
Rehema Muthamia, 26, is the reigning Miss England beauty queen and has been juggling her role with her university studies. She has now graduated with a Master’s degree in Genetics following a five-year course at the University of Sussex in Brighton, located on the south coast of England, in the United Kingdom. The model beamed with delight for photos in her cap and gown for her degree ceremony which was originally postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
MORE: Biggest summer transfers | Soccer’s beautiful fans The USA head coach managed to secure the international services of German-born John Brooks and Florida-born Julian Green, both of whom have spent the majority of their lives in Germany and represented the European side at the youth level. Did the German legend ruffle any feathers back home when he returned to his native land to snatch away a couple of its rising stars?...
RUMOURS: Alexis offered £400,000 a week to leave Arsenal But, rather than follow his old man and his elder brother Brooklyn into the world of football, Cruz Beckham has decided that it’s his mother’s career path that he wants to replicate. The 11-year-old recently signed by Scooter Braun, who manages the likes of Justin Bieber and Usher, is set to release his first single - ‘If everyday was Christmas’ - with all profits going to Global’s Make Some Noise foundation....
Lynch was scheduled to defend her Smackdown women’s title against No. 1 contender Alexa Bliss. Lynch won the belt at last month’s Backlash by submitting Carmella in the final of a six-pack challenge match. MORE: Rock hilariously breaks down WWE debut There is no word on the nature of Lynch’s injury, or how it will affect the women’s title picture. Carmella is scheduled to wrestle against Nikki Bella, so perhaps that match will be for the title instead....
It was a serious allegation, but true. It seemed to me, a former Republican speechwriter asked by NEWSWEEK to observe the Democrats, that they were acting just like u&-no brawls, no epithets. Even Jesse Jackson was showing up on time. The delegates, like their nominees, were proper boomers, businesslike and tailored. There was much talk of unity, but what I saw was the pretty homogenized gathering of one of the great parties of an increasingly homogenized country–a country that has been ironed out, no lumps and wrinkles and grass stains, a country in which we are becoming all alike, sophisticated, Gapped, linened and Lancomed....
Beckham torched the Ravens secondary for a 75-yard touchdown to give the Giants a 17-10 lead in the 3rd quarter, which at that point gave him eight career touchdown catches of 50-plus yards, the most in the NFL since he entered the league in 2014. MORE: Giants-Ravens highlights, stats | Week 6 scoreboard OBJ capped that TD with a curious move, a celebratory triple jump. But he wasn’t done....
Since it debuted 78 cartoons ago, in the issue of April 25, 2005, The New Yorker’s back-page contest, which asks readers to write the caption for a cartoon, has attracted a storm of entries–525,000–along with plenty of protests from rejected would-be writers. There’s now a board game, which sold 23,000 copies last month, and even an anti-caption contest, at Radosh.net, for bad quips. “Originally there were all sorts of conspiracy theories, like we wouldn’t let anyone from New York win,” says Bob Mankoff, the magazine’s cartoon editor....
China’s police are no novices at stifling domestic dissent. What’s new is the focus on international threats, including potential troublemakers among the foreigners who’ve flocked to Beijing in recent years. Declaring terrorism their biggest threat, Chinese officials have studied 37 Olympic incidents, from the Munich massacre (1972) to the U.S.-led boycott of Moscow’s Games (1980) after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During a recent Beijing visit, FBI head Robert Mueller declared himself “very much impressed” with China’s pre-Games security drive....
