The Bears stayed stagnant at No. 7 in the latest College Football Playoff Rankings and need a great performance this week to move up. The Red Raiders will not be playing anywhere this bowl season, but could end on a high note with a big upset, and two-straight wins overall. The Line: Baylor -24.5, Total: N/A Line movement: The Wynn opened the Bears as 23-point favorites on Sunday night, and has moved them up to -25....
The image appeared online and during a news broadcast as part of an investigation from the BBC into the far-right group Sonnenkrieg Division. The article from December 5, 2018, entitled “British neo-Nazis suggest Prince Harry should be shot” contained an image created by the group showing the Duke of Sussex with a gun pointing at his head, splattered blood, a swastika and the words “see ya later race traitor”—a racist reference to his marriage to Meghan Markle....
But we're all missing the point here — rather, we're missing a team and its runway walk of a month to show how pretty it can be. Baylor, ranked No. 6 in BCS Standings released Sunday, begins November on Thursday with a home game against No. 10 Oklahoma. The rest of the month: vs. No. 22 Texas Tech (in Arlington), at No. 14 Oklahoma State, at TCU, home against Texas....
On Sunday, the San Francisco Giants ace hurled a one-hitter with fourteen strikeouts. In the midst of his best season thus far, with a 10-4 record and 1.94 ERA, Bumgarner would have gotten the nod as National League starting pitcher for this year’s All Star Game were he rested. Not quite 27, Bumgarner even has his Hall of Fame supporters already. What does Bumgarner’s case boil down to thus far?...
The orca, reported to be 20 foot long, became stranded on the Prince of Wales Island in the northernmost state. The killer whale, reportedly a juvenile at 13 years old, was stranded for around six hours, according to onlookers, who desperately strived to keep the animal wet. Photos and video show the orca beached on seaweed-covered rocks, several feet above the current sea level. Beachgoer Aroon Duncanson, under the username AroonMelane, shared numerous videos to TikTok detailing the rescue efforts of herself and yellow bystanders, who at one point appeared to form a human chain to pass buckets of seawater to help the creature....
Partisan tensions only escalated after the hearing. According to McNamee’s camp, GOP committee members went easy on Clemens because he’s a well-connected Republican. The pitcher “travels in the same circles as the Bushes,” McNamee lawyer Richard Emery told NEWSWEEK. “It’s more than logical. It’s demonstrated.” (Emery also told the Associated Press that the White House would pardon Clemens if necessary.) In response, Clemens’s lawyer Rusty Hardin said he had “no idea” whether his client is a Republican....
“I was attacked by a bear from behind while descending the rocky ridge of Mt. Futago in Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan,” the climber said in the video’s description. “Instead of fear, I switched to the feeling that if it was coming, I had no choice but to face it.” Japan is home to two species of bear: the Asiatic black bear and the brown bear. It is likely that the attacker in the video was the former, as brown bears are found only on the island of Hokkaido....
Patterson returned the second-half kickoff 104 yards for a touchdown to give the Bears their first lead of the game against the Vikings at Soldier Field. The runback was Patterson’s eighth career kick return touchdown, tying the NFL record also held by Joshua Cribbs and Leon Washington. Patterson was in the clear after juking Minnesota kicker Dan Bailey at midfield. Patterson recorded five of his kick return TDs with the Vikings from 2013-16....
After Wednesday’s start of training camp in Chicago, offensive lineman Kyle Long explained how Trevathan’s fragrance can be entrancing. “He’s one of those guys that kind of has an aura about him,” Long said, via CBS Chicago. “He walks in with all his chains on, he looks sharp every day like he just left a video shoot. You see him on the field and you block him, and he kind of smells good, he wears cologne....
Chicago confirmed the moves later Monday. MORE: 10 best candidates to replace Trestman | Unloading Cutler hard, not impossible | Where Cutler could end up The fate of both men were tied together after Emery fired longtime coach Lovie Smith following a 10-6 season and hired Trestman out of the Canadian Football League, where he won a pair of Grey Cups in five seasons as the coach of the Montreal Alouettes....
The Bears on Monday announced that Jimmy Clausen, who took over for Cutler ahead of Sunday’s 20-14 loss to the Lions, is out with a concussion for the season finale against the Vikings. MORE: Cutler trade should interest many, but sane for few | Cutler the coach killer? Cutler gets the nod as starter in Minnesota, while rookie David Fales plays the backup role, coach Marc Trestman announced. Cutler, who signed a six-year contract extension in the offseason, has thrown for 3,640 yards this season with 28 touchdowns and 18 interceptions....
Which brings us to the Bears, who essentially face an NFC North elimination game Sunday night at Green Bay (8:30 p.m. ET, NBC). With a loss to the Packers, the Bears (3-5 SU and ATS) will fall three games behind Green Bay (5-3 SU and 4-3-1 ATS) with seven left to play. The Packers would also earn the season sweep of Chicago, giving them the head-to-head tiebreaker. To add, a loss will also keep the Lions (6-2 SU) at least three games ahead of Chicago, depending upon the result of Sunday’s matchup with Miami....
Chicago is coming off a comeback home win over Detroit, while Los Angeles struggled to score enough in Pittsburgh. Both quarterbacks, Mitchell Trubisky and Jared Goff, have faced much criticism for their respective shaky play this season. With two strong defenses on the field, here’s how we see the game possibly playing out between the two long-time conference rivals: MORE: Get the latest NFL odds at Sportsbook Review Betting odds for ‘Sunday Night Football’ Spread: Rams by 6 Point total: 40 Odds: Bears -102, Rams -108...
The December moon is often called the Cold Moon, which, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, was a name given by the Native American Mohawk tribe. With just three weeks left until the winter solstice, the night sky is very dark, creating perfect viewing conditions to observe the moon, stars, and planets. But this year’s Cold Moon was particularly special. Why Was This Full Moon Special? The full moon on December 7 coincided with two rare astronomical events: the occultation of Mars and Mars’ opposition....
Among the responses that arrived to that declaration was one from a Gil Sklash that simply asked, “You sure about that?” Six weeks later, with cases of COVID-19 escalating again, Sporting News felt compelled to ask a similar question after seeing Thursday’s countdown: Why are you bothering? “I made myself a promise a long time ago that has helped me in situations like this: I don’t speculate on speculation,” Rothstein told Sporting News....
Speaking of the final month of the regular season, we tried to pinpoint a game that could live up to that one. There are so many games that will help us piece together the conference championship picture, but it’s hard to find a game that will be bigger than the one we saw Saturday. MORE: Six College Football Playoff arguments you’ll hear in November We’re still going to try: There’s the Iron Bowl; The Game; Bedlam....
After all, he’s a football coach. By now, we should know that football coaches are football-first, even when they’re not taking about football. MORE: Anthem protests in photos Should Rivera be more clear with his message on what he feels about the violence and protests in Charlotte? Probably. But does he have a point that he and his Panthers players maybe aren’t the right people to create change in the community?...
Keep up to date with all the Deadline Day rumours! Goal understands the Bosnia-Herzegovina international was the subject of a £10 million bid from Bournemouth, but Antonio Conte was reluctant for him to leave without bringing in a fresh face. Celtic’s Craig Gordon was subject of a bid from the Blues, but the Scottish champions had no intention of selling their first choice goalkeeper, despite his desire to make the move to west London....
Beinart’s Historical Ignorance Beinart proposed that a single binational, bi-religious state in what is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip replace current Israel, whose Jewish population would then be given a “homeland” within the new nation. But Beinart is woefully ignorant of previous attempts to create or maintain binational or bi-religious states. He ignores the lessons of history surrounding the former Yugoslavia—Tito’s failed effort to create a single artificial nation from different ethnicities and religions—which ended in genocide, tragedy and its breakup into several states now living in relative peace....
“I was just totally exhausted and everything was a real struggle,” Francis, a 47-year-old non-ferrous metal trader from the United Kingdom, tells Verywell. The doctors decided to run blood tests, but it wasn’t until a rash showed up on her leg that her general practitioner diagnosed her with Lyme disease and prescribed her a three-week Doxycycline antibiotics treatment. “I continued to feel horrific for most of those three weeks and began to worry that I would never recover,” Francis says....
