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The poll also showed Democratic senatorial candidate Cal Cunningham leading the Republican incumbent Senator Thom Tillis by four percentage points, 43 to Tillis’ 41 percent. Their contentious race is one that will decide which party controls the Senate. The progressive think tank, Data for Progress, asked 929 likely voters which candidate they’d vote for if the election were held tomorrow. The poll occurred from October 15 and 18, before the final presidential debate on October 22....

Greg Biffle was the big winner, but felt like a loser after a lousy performance. Brad Keselowski was so spectacular he was in awe of his dominating performance. The Chase for the Sprint Cup field is set. Who’s riding high, and who has to be concerned entering the 10-race playoff? Our winners and losers from the final race of Cup racing’s regular season: Winners Brad Keselowski — Keselowski turned what was supposed to be one of the most exciting races of the season into a complete dud....

The league passed a measure on Wednesday that gives Bowlsby “broad authority” to implement penalties for teams that fail to keep fans off the court following games. MORE: Best one-and-done college centers | Former Spartan’s crazy NCAA rant | Jerry Stackhouse can still ball Some of the new penalties each school could face range from a fine to the loss of future home games. “I don’t know that there’s anything off the table in dealing with those issues,” Bowlsby said at this week’s Big 12 meetings....

In direct contrast to the move the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences made Tuesday, the Big 12 on Wednesday announced that it will proceed with fall sports on schedule in 2020. For now, that means the 2020 college football season is a go in the Big 12, which also released its complete, conference-only schedule for the upcoming season. The Big 12 Board of Directors made the call to proceed with fall sports on Tuesday night....

For better or worse, Stoops was dubbed “Big Game Bob.” Stoops lost some big games on the big stage for the Sooners, but he won a few more through an 18-year tenure that produced double-digit Big 12 championships and a national title in 2000. New coach Lincoln Riley has a label, but it remains to be seen if a nickname will follow. Riley, 33, is among a list of just five Power 5 coaches younger than 40, a list that included Minnesota’s P....

For some, like Koichiro Tarutani, it may even have been fatal. Two weeks ago the Yamaichi Securities executive was walking home when, in a darkened parking lot, he was viciously slashed. Stumbling about 40 yards, Tarutani cried for help, then collapsed and died. ““His guts were spilling out,’’ recalls a noodle-shop owner who came to Tarutani’s aid. ““I was so shocked I couldn’t sleep that night.'' Tokyo’s harried prosecutors aren’t getting much sleep, either, these days....

The first trophy on offer for the season and the one which secures the champions a route into the 2019 AFC Cup. Kedah won the 2017 FA Cup, defeating Pahang in the final but they were handed a comparatively tougher draw than 10 other teams in the Super League this season. While all the other MSL teams were getting either Premier League sides or amateur sides, Kedah and Negeri Sembilan will be the only all Super League clash in Round Two....

Poker fans rooting for a repeat televised showdown between 2012 Big One for One Drop champion Antonio Esfandiari and runner-up Sam Trickett will be disappointed as there will be no rematch this year. MORE: Schemion, Smith flip-flop at the top of GPI World Rankings | Daniel Negreanu Player of the Month | WSOP November Nine Set Day 2 of ESPN’s coverage of the $1 million buy-in World Series of Poker charity event began with 16 players and played down to a nine-handed final table....

The blaze, dubbed the Colorado Fire, started in the Palo Colorado Canyon in Monterey County on Friday evening. The cause of the fire is under investigation. By Sunday evening, it had burned about 700 acres and was 35 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). Officials said better mapping shows the fire is smaller than the 1,050 acres that had been reported on Sunday morning, when it was reportedly 25 percent contained....

YouTube, Google, and Apple are all still allowing users to rent or purchase conspiracy theory films like Loose Change on their platforms despite warnings from government officials, experts, and survivors that it hinders proper education about what happened. This scrutiny is driven by concerns about the incessant dissemination of “fake news,” conspiracy theories, and harmful misinformation on these transnational platforms. D.C. lawmakers hauled leaders of the country’s tech giants in front of Congress to explain themselves....

The conference will play eight games starting Oct. 24, a new schedule that offers a few new wrinkles for 2020. Ohio State — the three-time defending champions — will face rival Michigan in the final week of the season on Dec. 12. MORE: What to know about Big Ten football schedule start date & more That would be the end of the road of a successful return to college football — one that features some interesting cross-division games between the Big Ten East and Big Ten West divisions....

College football’s oldest Power 5 conference has plenty of streaming services for fans to watch their favorite programs, from Ohio State at Minnesota on Sept. 2 to the Big Ten Championship game on Dec. 4. The conference may have its share of intrigue this year, especially around Ohio State given the Buckeyes will be starting a freshman under center in CJ Stroud. The inexperience at that position could be just enough for the likes of schools like Penn State, Wisconsin or Iowa to eke their way up the conference standings, maybe pull off an upset and surprise for a Big Ten title berth along the way....

No other conference has more teams capable of making a run to the Playoff this season. Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Michigan State form a four-team battleground in the Big Ten East. Wisconsin remains the standard in the Big Ten West, but Iowa and Northwestern will be among its biggest challengers. Nebraska, another traditional blue blood, welcomes back Scott Frost. The conference is loaded, but the last two years taught us one valuable lesson....

This week, the conference will get a test against nationally-ranked opponents in two primetime matchups: Michigan State-Notre Dame and Ohio State-Oklahoma. Wins for both teams would go a long way in the CFP selection committee’s eyes. MORE: How to watch the Top 25 teams in Week 3 Here’s how to watch all the Big Ten games this week. All times ET. Saturday, September 17 New Mexico at Rutgers, 12:00 p....

James on Wednesday announced the filing of a new $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and three of his children—Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump. Barr, who resigned from the Trump administration amid attempts to overturn the 2020 election and has been at odds with the former president since, denounced James’ lawsuit as a “political hit job” and an example of “abuse of office.” “It’s hard for me not to conclude it’s a political hit job,” Barr said during a Fox News interview on Wednesday....

Most NFL head coaches want to escape Week 1 of the NFL preseason without major injuries. The operating term here is “most.” Don’t count Ron Rivera and Bill Belichick among them. With the Patriots in victory formation to end the game, Rivera didn’t let the clock tick down with about a minute and a half remaining: Instead, the Washington head coach decided to call a timeout, seemingly angering and confusing Belichick....

The trial—Trump’s second in just two years—began with four hours of debate between House impeachment managers and Trump’s counsel on the constitutionality of trying a former president. Bruce Castor Jr. and David Schoen, who will be leading the former president’s defense team, argued that the trial is unconstitutional because Trump is now a private citizen. The 10 Democratic impeachment managers rebutted those assertions, citing precedents about impeachment trials of a senator and a Cabinet secretary after they left office....

Enemkpali, of course, is the player who broke Jets quarterback Geno Smith’s jaw with a punch in the preseason. The Bills picked him up less than a day after the Jets cut him in August. PHOTOS: The Jets-Bills ‘Color Rush’ caputured on camera | Rex gets last laugh Whatever Ryan’s motives in naming Enemkpali a captain Thursday — and he wasn’t saying — CBS analyst and former NFL coach Bill Cowher ripped the decision, according to NFL....