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The Vikings are coming off a Thursday night win over the Steelers in Week 14. The Bears are trying to recover from a tough Sunday night loss to the Packers. Both teams have been disappointing defensively, partly because of injuries. The Vikings have been great offensively with the quarterback-running back-wide receiver trio of Kirk Cousins, Dalvin Cook and Justin Jefferson. The Bears are trying to develop their own dynamic triplets with rookie Justin Fields, David Montgomery and Darnell Mooney....

Goal takes a look back through the archives to put together the worst XI in the history of the Premier League… MASSIMO TAIBI | MANCHESTER UNITED United struggled for a stable goalkeeper in the immediate aftermath of Peter Schmeichel’s departure from Old Trafford, but none were as laughably bad as Taibi. Forever remembered for allowing a weak Matt Le Tissier shot through his legs during a clash with Southampton, he played just four league matches after arriving in 1999 from Venezia before being sent back to Italy....

Totti: The ballboy who became too big for Roma Sunday will mark the end of an era as Totti prepares to make his final appearance for the club in their last Serie A game against Genoa, after confirming he will leave for a “new challenge” at the end of the season. The 40-year-old has enjoyed an iconic 25-year long career in the first-team, earning the praise of countless fellow stars....

Bedbug Symptoms Bedbug bites often appear as small, itchy, raised red areas on exposed skin, usually a few days after the actual bite. However, some children and adults don’t develop a reaction to the bites at all, even after repeated exposure. The bites appear much as other insect bites and can be seen in these patterns: A rashA line of bitesA cluster of bites You can develop a skin infection if you scratch the bites....

The semifinalists will be named Nov. 3, the finalists on Nov. 24 and the winner will be announced at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Dec. 11. Last year’s winner was Pittsburgh’s Aaron Donald. Other winners include Manti Te’o (2012), Patrick Peterson (2010), Ndamukong Suh (2009), Julius Peppers (2001) and LaVar Arrington (1999). MORE: Maxwell Award watch list | SN All-Americans | Top 25 | SN All-ACC | All-Big Ten | All-Big 12...

The end of a campaign is normally a time to rally loyal supporters to ensure they show up to vote. But in the final days before the Iowa caucuses, the candidates are engaged in another pursuit as they make their closing arguments: to push undecided voters into a decision. Polls point to an unusually large number of undecided voters in Iowa. In the most recent CNN poll, in mid-December, just 38 percent of Iowa’s likely voters had definitely decided on a candidate....

Turns out they weren’t noticing the Gangotri glacier. One of the Himalayas’ largest, it has been shrinking since the late 18th century. But over the last 25 years it has shrunk about half a mile, a rate three times the historical norm. The retreat threatens more than the loss of a panoramic background for tourist snapshots. The Gangotri supplies 70 percent of the flow of India’s Ganges River during the dry season, when farmers depend on it for irrigation....

First, the recent history. At the end of October equity markets around the world began to rise. By late April things were getting a little crazy. The pros were putting money into exotic bonds and equities in places like Turkey, Russia and Brazil. Japanese retail investors, who hadn’t bought stocks for a decade, subscribed for a billion dollars of a new India Fund. By May 9 risky assets had posted big gains, with small New Era tech stocks and the raunchiest bourses in the emerging markets showing the fattest returns....

Multiply that predicament by 800 million-plus—the number of rural Chinese—and you can begin to appreciate the problem facing Beijing. Even as the country charts spectacular growth—GDP spiked 10.7 percent last year—China’s country dwellers are falling further behind. The rich-poor gap is largely an urban-rural one, and the divide is widening. China’s Gini coefficient—a statistic economists use to gauge income inequality—has already reached 0.496, which is worse than in the United States....

Parker: Some analysts in the United States say that a China growing at 10 percent a year will inevitably become an economic superpower and set a course toward confrontation with the United States. Is this possible? Zhu: I’ve seen the book ““The Coming Conflict with China’’ and Samuel Huntington’s ““The Clash of Civilizations.’’ It’s ridiculous. For more than 150 years, China has been subjected to foreign aggression and we have suffered egregiously....

She didn’t get the desired finish this time around, but she was dominant in every facet for 25 minutes as she defeated Jackson by unanimous decision (50-44, 50-44, 50-45) to retain the Bellator women’s flyweight championship at Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu and live on DAZN. “You guys are seeing the evolution of Ilima-Lei Macfarlane and it’s thanks to these guys in my corner,” Macfarlane said during her postfight interview on DAZN....

Cyborg (21-2, one no-contest) has just about done it all in MMA. Throughout her illustrious career, Cyborg’s won the Strikeforce, Invicta FC and the UFC women’s 145-pound title. After suffering a defeat in her pro debut, Cyborg went on a tear by going on a 21-fight unbeaten streak that spanned over 13 years with 17 victories coming via stoppage. With immortality in front of her, the train got derailed when Cyborg lost her women’s featherweight title to Amanda Nunes in 51 seconds at UFC 232 in December 2018....

In boxing, promoters work with one another to make the best matchups for the sport. For example, fighters from the Matchroom Boxing promotion could appear on Top Rank cards. In MMA, it is not often that that happens. Normally fighters from one organization sign with the other, with nothing to come from it. Scott Coker and Nobuyuki Sakakibara have looked to halt the full closing of MMA’s Forbidden Door. Coker’s Bellator and RIZIN’s Sakakibara have been teaming up for years, dating back to their days with the kickboxing organization K-1....

Arsenal need to build team around Ramsey One section of supporters even joked that Hector Bellerin’s decision to grow out his hair and style it with a “top knot” had brought about a poor run of results. Well, we have some good news for those supporters - the top knot is gone! The bad news - Bellerin’s hair is now even more bizarre! With his locks becoming more difficult to tame, the Spain international has opted to braid his hair ahead of Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City at Wembley....

Donnarumma crowned NxGn winner Brazil captain Neymar is one shy of bringing up his 100th Barca goal and continues to be viewed as a supreme part of a forward collective alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez. Messi and Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo have engaged in a two-way fight for the Ballon d’Or for most of the past decade but Belletti, who scored the winning goal in the 2006 Champions League final against Arsenal, believes his countryman is improving all the time....

While Preakness winner Early Voting and Derby and Preakness runner-up Epicenter are among the season’s notables not in the 2022 field, there are two familiar challengers, Mo Donegal, the fifth-place Derby horse and Creative Minister, the third-place finisher at the Preakness. Mo Donegal and Creative Minister have some favorable odds around Rich Strike, with one new Triple Crown entry becoming the favorite. Here’s all the information you need to know before picking a horse in the 2022 Belmont Stakes:...

Roethlisberger underwent surgery on his right (throwing) elbow in September and was expected to make a full recovery and return for the 2020 NFL season. There has been speculation that he could retire, but Colbert said the 17th-year pro is on track in his rehab. “All signs are good at this point, and where that goes, we’re hopeful he can make a complete recovery,” Colbert said. “As of right now, he’s on schedule for that....

TED Talks, indeed, are really annoying. Kings defenseman Alec Martinez thinks so too. Or something. He used the content of the episode to deal Scrivens a pretty sick burn. The Kings, realignment or not, have a lot of flights ahead of them, so the Scrivens Podcast Chronicles could be a recurring feature.

Conservative firebrand Shapiro spoke about transgender issues to a large audience at the “Men Cannot Be Women” event hosted by Young Americans Foundation (YAF), a conservative youth group, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) on Monday. Shapiro was invited to speak at the college after YAF shared one of the commentator’s quotes against transgender theory in February. Shapiro was largely welcomed by the audience, but when he took questions, he became embroiled in a bitter exchange with one student who described himself as a “mathematician and physicist....

Jackson was confirmed as the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court Thursday. She was met with loud applause, including congratulations from Romney. On Friday’s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, the host slammed Romney for voting in favor of the judge, saying we need to “get over” applauding for historic Black firsts. “Mitt Romney is from the reddest state in America,” Shapiro said on the podcast....