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Player props, game props, and same-game parlays have become massively popular in recent years. Props are not only more fun to follow while watching a game, but they also seem to produce fewer “bad beats” than standard moneyline, spread, and over/under bets. You don’t always have to hitch your wagon to an entire team. In the world of props, you can simply bet on one player to produce (or fail to produce) at a certain level....

In 1891, Portland won the Northwestern League and challenged California League champ San Jose to a playoff series to determine the champion of the entire Pacific Coast. “The challenge was accepted,” the 1892 Reach Official American League Base Ball Guide wrote. “The two teams met at San Francisco and vicinity and played 19 games.” MORE: The team that won 209-10 The mega-series started in November and Sporting Life published a preview before Game 1....

The Sixers traded the pick, saved Carter-Williams some grief and brought in highly-regarded Dario Saric and a first-round pick from the Dwight Howard trade, which will likely pay dividends in the 2017 NBA Draft. On top of this move, the Sixers, who tried to get the No. 1 pick, didn’t let the Joel Embiid foot injury scare them off. If he turns out to be healthy, the Sixers will have put together one of the better draft performances....

The big question marks heading into this game involve Mahomes. Will his high-ankle sprain limit his mobility or hinder his planting ability on downfield passes? Can he and the Chiefs finally beat Burrow after starting 0-3 against him early in his career? Can the presumed second-time MVP also put a second AFC championship trophy into his awards case? MORE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP: Odds, lines, spreads | Bill Bender’s Best Bets...

A striking example of the advances made in 2021 is the work conducted on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to get this powerful instrument ready for launch, which luckily proceeded without a hitch. But, even before the launch progressed safely and smoothly on Christmas Day, researchers were hard at work pushing the boundaries of fields such as chemistry, biology, medicine, and physics. Physics: Imaging The Magnetic Field Around A Supermassive Black Hole At the start of April, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the GalaxyMessier 87 (M87)....

Do you feel like you’re coming full circle working with Burnett again? First was seeing Mark Burnett when I was on Shark Tank. Both of us realized the full-circle moment. I thought it was just sort of coming from me, but for him, me being a contestant and now being on one of his shows and then me calling him and having this idea for the show and producing this and then being partners on something took it to a whole new level....

The Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills will go head-to-head on Sunday and you can sign up with BetMGM bonus code NEWSWEEK to secure a huge new user promo. This offer includes up to $1,000 in first-bet insurance for the NFL Playoffs. The NFL Playoffs have been memorable thus far and BetMGM has a tremendous new user promo available to make it even more so for bettors. You can grab up to $1,000 in first-bet insurance when you register with BetMGM bonus code NEWSWEEK....

An Associated Press analysis found that 23,000 ballots were rejected, roughly 13% of all ballots from the 187 counties that responded to the inquiry. The newly arduous process to vote comes after the passage of the SB-1 election law by Republicans in the Texas legislature. State Republicans like Governor Greg Abbott said no one eligible to vote would be denied the right to vote, and upon its passage Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said it would make it “easier to vote....

Everybody is wrong. When Fernando Collor de Mello assumed the presidency last year, he abolished subsidies for big cattle ranchers, began closing pig-iron smelters that depend on charcoal from virgin forest and raised taxes on previously tax-exempt agriculture profits. As a result, the loss of forested land plummeted from 90,000 square kilometers in 1987 to between 5,000 and 10,000 square kilometers in 1990, according to the latest satellite data. “You see the biggest difference in areas that had been cleared for cattle ranches,” Jose Lutzenberger, Brazil’s secretary of environment, told NEWSWEEK last month....

Kane 2/1 to score 2+ v Slovenia Seemingly unwanted at Tottenham, as they embarked on a succession of managers with varying degrees of success, Kane was sent out on loan to Leyton Orient, then Millwall – after making his Spurs debut – then Norwich City and finally, famously, to Leicester City. In an ironic twist, the youngster spent time alongside Jamie Vardy on the bench at the Foxes, Nigel Pearson seemingly unwilling to throw either into the pressure-cooker of Championship football....

No one – the selection committee, bookmakers and bettors included – is impressed with Florida State. The Seminoles may be undefeated, but they continue to escape with narrow victories, and a lack of style points has caused them to slip in the new College Football Playoff rankings . They remain in the all-important top four, but they’ve been surpassed by TCU for the No. 3 spot. In Las Vegas, the Westgate SuperBook is offering FSU at a seemingly tantalizing price of 10-to-1, raised from 7-to-1 last week despite a 24-19 win over Florida....

Betty Taylor had been reported as missing since March 20 and was found ten days later. Graham County Undersheriff Jeff McCormies told local newspaper The Copper Era that she and her 23-year-old companion were found using location-tracking technology. The identity of the man has not been released, but he has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and custodial interference. Authorities have not released where specifically in South Carolina Betty Taylor was found....

The comedy icon passed away last week at the age of 99, prompting widespread mourning from the entertainment world and beyond. Following her death, rumors began to spread that The Golden Girls star died after she received her coronavirus booster shot. “My understanding is it was natural causes. She died in her sleep, in her own bed. It’s as simple as that,” Jeff Witjas, her agent and longtime close friend, told ABC News....

Since Congress began protecting endangered species in the early 1900s, American Indians have been caught between a wing and a prayer – sometimes breaking federal laws to fulfill their religious obligations. Now, however, a new federal law – another one of “yours” – may rescue Jim. A motion to overturn his conviction, set for next month in U.S. District Court, is expected to be the first test of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which President Clinton signed in November....

The collection will include bodysuits, hoodies, joggers, and jackets. Additionally, there will four different sneakers—the Ultra Boosts, the Sambarose and the Nite Jogger in two different colors. Prices range from $25 for accessories to $250 for outerwear and pieces will be available in sizes ranging from XS to XL. Many pieces, such as sweatshirts, T-shirts, jackets, cargo pants, bike shorts, and leggings, will be gender-neutral. Beyonce told Elle: “I focused on designing a unisex collection of footwear and apparel because I saw so many men in Ivy Park....

Now a survey by the Metropolitan Chicago Information Center suggests that African-Americans are more likely than whites to hold negative opinions of their fellow blacks’ innate capabilities. The survey shows that nearly 14 percent of black adults in the Chicago area agreed that African-Americans have less “inborn ability to learn than whites,” while only about 9 percent of whites believed blacks were inferior. The survey also showed that more than a third of Chicago-area blacks thought that poor African-Americans lack the willpower to pull themselves out of poverty....

A video that circulated online showed the 79-year-old president falling off his bicycle near his Delaware home during a ride with his wife Jill Saturday morning in Rehoboth Beach. After stopping the bike to greet some people, the president fell over, with a shoe caught in a pedal toe cage. He later said, “I’m good.” Donald Trump Jr. weighed in with several jabs, including “How long till they blame Putin?...

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters: “We don’t believe the wall is an answer. We’ve never believed [that] the wall is an answer to addressing the challenges, the immigration challenges at the border.” “That’s why we’re proposing investments in smart security at the border, why we’re driving what we see as 21st century solutions for border management, and why we believe we should build a functioning immigration system,” she continued....

“I don’t think so, because I’ve been to many, many warzones. I’ve been to refugee camps,” he said at a press conference Thursday at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The president added one more conflict to that list this week during a trip to Europe that was intended to reassure the world that the West remains united in opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Saturday evening Biden heads back to Washington — after meeting with refugees in Poland — having accomplished much of what he set out to do....

The vast majority of Obama-Trump counties reiterated their support for the president on Election Day as Trump won about 88 percent of them in his re-election bid. However, two of the three Obama-Trump counties in Pennsylvania went for Biden, including Northampton County, a key indicator for the state. Northampton, a northeastern county of about 300,000 people that was built on manufacturing, has voted for the winning presidential candidate in nearly every election since 1932....