From Kobe Bryant to Andrew Bynum to Derrick Rose, opinions regarding the severity of injuries and potential return date are plentiful. And almost always misguided. That's the view of Warriors center Andrew Bogut, at least. Bogut should know. Last year, after dealing with ankle surgery that followed his trade from Milwaukee to Golden State, Bogut was a bit too eager to get back on the court and impress fans in the Bay Area....
In his first interview since he announced his resignation on Tuesday after the report by state Attorney General Letitia James said he sexually harassed at least 11 former and present female staff, Cuomo said he “did the right thing for the state” by standing aside. “I’m not gonna drag the state through the mud, through a three-month, four-month impeachment, and then win, and have made the State Legislature and the state government look like a ship of fools,” he told New York magazine....
While his Republican opponent has raised more money from individual contributions than any other GOP candidate and has the official backing of the state Republican Party, Giuliani has emerged as a wild card with polls showing him in dead heat despite raising less than a million dollars. Giuliani, a former Trump aide and the son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, has been the most Trump-friendly candidate in the Republican field, saying he believes the former president to be the real winner of the 2020 election as his rivals have remained evasive over questions about the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s victory....
The reigning NL MVP hit the first inside-the-park homer of his career and the Pirates protected their lead in the wild-card race, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 Wednesday night. Your browser does not support iframes. Russell Martin also homered in the fifth inning, and the Pirates’ bullpen helped secure the team’s sixth victory in seven games. McCutchen tied the score when he scored standing up after his drive off the wall in straightaway center field....
He meant that the basic discoveries that fill medical journals, reflecting research that has been generously supported by U.S. taxpayers (the National Institutes of Health received just over $28 billion in each of the last three years), do not result in enough new treatments soon enough. After all, there is no cure for Parkinson’s disease, for many cancers, for multiple sclerosis, for cystic fibrosis—or even for baldness, for pete’s sake....
The same clock management that allowed Kansas City to drive 16 plays over 5 minutes and 16 seconds, across a two-minute warning, despite being down two scores. MORE: NFL Coaching Index | Refs forgot balls, gauges ahead of Chiefs-Patriots “Every situation’s different,” Reid said Thursday on 610 Sports Radio. “It’s a fluid situation on the spot and you’ve got to go off of feel. … This situation, I think, was handled right....
Australian football journalist and commentator Les Murray tweeted on Thursday that Postecoglou dropped the bombshell at a dinner for the Australasian Football Institute (AFI) - a group chaired by Murray - during a Q&A session on Wednesday. Murray wrote: “Enjoyed interviewing Ange Postecoglou at the AFI dinner last night where he confirmed that after the 2018 World Cup he’s stepping down.” Postecoglou has been Australia’s national team coach since October 2013 when he replaced Holger Osieck....
The man took to Reddit’s virtual moral compass—more commonly known as the ‘Am I The A******’ subreddit—to air his relationship grievances. His controversial actions garnered 2,800 comments from intrigued users who came to the verdict that the original poster, u/Sporkwind, is in fact the “a******” in this situation. “My wife has been putting in 10-14 hour days chained to her computer for the past 2-3 weeks through weekends as well,” the post began....
The video, found here, was posted to TikTok over the weekend by @saintlucy_, who wrote: “Karens come in all shapes and sizes…rude [as f**k].” Already, the post has racked up more than 123,000 views and over 10,000 likes. “Mr. Karen was big mad about a flour tortilla,” read the video’s text overlay. At the beginning of the video, the customer could be heard berating the Chipotle staff while placing his order....
Footage of the incident has been shared by So-Cal Rattlesnake Removal on Facebook. In it, the poisonous snake can be seen lashing out at the snake catcher’s tongs, leaving a streak of venom across its surface. “You can literally see the venom on my tongs,” So-Cal Rattlesnake Removal said in the post. “Incredible.” “A customer saw the snake go into a large pile of wood, so when I arrived I started removing all the wood,” Alex Trajo, from So-Cal Rattlesnake Removal, told Newsweek....
The Duchess of Cambridge hosted the Together at Christmas charity concert on December 8 at Westminster Abbey, the church where she married Prince William in 2011. However, Animal Aid said bringing reindeer to such public events was cruel to the “sensitive wild animals.” The charity posted on Twitter: “We’re sad to see #reindeer on display at an event attended by @KensingtonRoyal. “The @RSPCA_official has also voiced concerns for the welfare of reindeer used in festive events....
Europe is seeing such controversies more and more often, as parties on the far right and left attack a “rising tide” of immigrants from Africa and the East. Anti-immigrant rhetoric has helped the Danish People’s Party emerge as an influential force with a rising share of the vote. The new right-wing Freedom Party is gaining ground in the Netherlands on a similar platform. And in France, National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen’s popularity rose to 31 percent in April....
“Olympics for Sale”: Hey, that was more than two years ago. Way back then, when it was first revealed that Salt Lake’s Olympic organizers had made illegal payments to International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and their families, Michael Jordan was still soaring and John Elway was a Super Bowl quarterback. All ancient history in the world of sports. The Games, once saddled with a $400 million deficit, are now projected to produce a tidy surplus, and all the buzz is of Michelle Kwan, Herman “Munster” Maier and Mario Lemieux....
Pavel Antov, a member of Putin’s United Russia party and a wealthy sausage tycoon, was found lying in a pool of blood outside the Hotel Sai International in Rayagada, in the southern state of Odisha, on Saturday, according to local media reports. Antov died two days after his friend, Vladimir Bidenov, was found dead in a room at the same hotel, India’s NDTV reported. Alexei Idamkin, Russia’s consul general in Kolkata, told the Tass news agency that Antov “fell” from a window....
Whether Nolan is working on independent brain-teasers like “Memento” or mainstream blockbusters like “Batman Returns,” his movies share a dark brooding mood, a chilly emotional climate and protagonists (you can’t really call them heroes) defined by their obsessions. Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) fit snugly into his gallery of the grim, haunted and determined. Two Londoners ambitious to make their names as magicians, they start out in their trade as friends, if unlikely ones....
NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) The Lakers were 10-11 at the time and had just lost a triple-overtime game against the lowly Sacramento Kings. “You know, 10-game winning streak, we’re 20-11,” he continued. “Now we’ll shut everybody up. But it’s on us. We’re going to have to do it. It’s not just going to be easy.” Now, following a loss to a Memphis Grizzlies team playing without their star point guard Ja Morant, it seems like Davis is taking stock of where the Lakers really are just over one-quarter of the way into the season....
The variant, known as B.1.1.7, first appeared in Colorado last week, and has since been identified in California, Florida, New York, and Georgia. It is believed B.1.1.7 is to blame for a spike in COVID cases in the U.K. as it is better at spreading than past forms of the virus. It does not appear to make people sicker. Fauci, a top immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Newsweek on Tuesday he would be “very surprised” if the U....
