Former Ole Miss sharpshooter Marshall Henderson, who currently plays professional basketball in Iraq — yes, Iraq — was courtside, and he could not believe it. MORE: SN All-Americans | Field of 68 | March Madness confidence index | Butler mascot pukes | Cyclones’ buzzer-beater White made all three free throws and the Gamecocks won 60-58. Just look at the play-by-play of the final four seconds. Woof.
Then, the Seahawks’ feature back found some Skittles and went off on Arizona in Seattle’s 35-6 victory. MORE: Week 16 must-see images | Raiola dirty play | Jim Abbott on DeMarco Murray Lynch had already scored on a 6-yard run in the second quarter. When he got a handoff early in the fourth, Lynch went nuts. It started as a simple run up the middle and then to the right side of the field....
More importantly, Marshawn Lynch told former teammate Michael Robinson on Thursday that the running back will indeed hold out as he seeks a new contract. FANTASY DRAFT DECIDER: Eddie Lacy vs. Marshawn Lynch IYER: With Christine Michael, Seahawks won’t go out of the way for Lynch The Seahawks were aware of Lynch’s holdout intentions days ago, but the team doesn’t plan on paying “Beastmode” what he wants, according to NFL....
He’s already achieved one dream — playing in the NBA. The 29-year-old NBA veteran is now pursing another passion. MORE: Rap’s basketball All-Star team | Jeremy Lin gets photobombed by Nelly Webster is putting the finishing touches on his rap debut, “Emerald District,” as he attempts to rebound from a hip injury that got him cut by the Washington Wizards early this season. The sixth overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers, Webster was one of the last players to go directly from high school to the NBA....
Amis’s apparent break from sanity shouldn’t come as a surprise. Throughout his career he’s courted controversy with brilliant but furious and raunchy novels. More recently, however, the buzz around him has issued from another source: his mounting hatred of radical Islam—or, it often seems, toward Muslims in general. The trouble’s been brewing since 2006, when Amis, in an interview, seemed to advocate the deportation of Western Muslims if terror attacks continued....
This year Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on January 20. As is the case on other national holidays, many venues across the country are either closed or operating on reduced hours, while a few remain open, including some grocery stores. Here we look at the store hours for some of the country’s popular grocery chains on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Is Publix open? The supermarket chain will be open on Martin Luther King Jr....
The Senate Majority Leader defeated his Democratic opponent Amy McGrath to win a seventh term in Kentucky on November 3. In remarks following his win, 78-year-old McConnell recalled how witnessing the late civil rights activist’s “I Have A Dream” speech in August 1963 inspired him to do “big things” for this country. “When I witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington speech as an intern back in 1963, I dreamed about doing big things to help my state and our country,” McConnell said....
Schottenheimer put together a dazzling career record of 200-126-1, spending 20 years as a head coach with the Browns, Chiefs, Washington and Chargers. He last coached an NFL game in 2006, being ousted as Chargers head coach after a playoff loss to the Patriots. Schottenheimer is one of just seven NFL coaches who have won at least 200 games in their NFL head coaching career, but he is the only former coach in that group not enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame....
Each card on its own can be leveled up so that you can become more powerful, and in addition each card’s artwork and animation will change in ways that make it look visually interesting. As you continue to play, you’ll also collect additional in-game currency that assists you in upgrading cards and increasing their rarity stats. You’ll start seeing animations and additional changes to the cards you level up the more you use them and win with them....
Alongside WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, Hawkeye has brought the first round of Marvel’s Disney+ show’s to an end, but there’s still plenty more to come. Here is everything you need to know about the shows set to land on the streaming platform in the coming months. Which Marvel shows are coming to Disney+ after ‘Hawkeye’? The aforementioned shows are part of the Marvel Cinemtatic Universe’s (MCU) phase 4 line-up, and at D23 Expo 2019 Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed those shows were not the only ones in it....
“I’m not going to break the record to have the shortest Hall of Fame speech in history,” Harrison after taking the podium Saturday. “That’s not going to happen.” MORE: Who’s Colts’ next Hall of Famer? Here are 10 best bets Harrison cleared 10 minutes, but not by much. For many football fans, it might have been the first time they experienced “Harrison unplugged.” Harrison spoke in quick-and-linear fashion. He bookended thank you messages to his Speech 101 professor at Syracuse and grandmother Luanna — the “most important person in his life” — around his former bosses, coaches, teammates and fans in Indianapolis....
Cincinnati’s longtime coach addressed the issue briefly in an interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio on Thursday morning, saying “I’ll be back in 2017,” before shutting down further discussion of the topic. Lewis told the Cincinnati Enquirer earlier this month that he planned to return if asked and clearly was upset the matter was being raised again. But after former Redskins tight end Chris Cooley said on his Washington radio show that he had heard Lewis would retire following this season, the coach was obliged to deal with it....
Stansel’s 1991 lawsuit against octogenarian Ruby Gerald – described by her lawyer as “an invalid suffering from crippling arthritis” – shows just how litigious she can be. Stansel claimed the heating and air conditioning of the house Gerald sold her didn’t work and sued, seeking $50,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages. The judge wanted to resolve the case through arbitration. But Stansel didn’t like the terms and tried to name two real-estate agents as co-conspirators....
The man was found dead on January 19 this year after officers responded to a report from a concerned neighbor who had not seen the 49-year-old since the previous day. The neighbor checked on him and saw that he was lying on the floor, according to a Charles County Sheriff’s Office press release at the time. Emergency responders forced entry into the home and pronounced the man deceased. Inside, they found over 100 venomous and non-venomous snakes that were being kept in tanks on racks....
From Monday, residents of San Mateo County will be required to wear masks indoors despite 89 percent of the population being fully vaccinated. The mask mandate has been brought back in San Mateo County “out of an abundance of caution” as the Delta variant spreads through the county and the rest of California. According to the official figures, San Mateo recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases on June 15 as the state lifted restrictions....
The victims were all found dead or dying soon after being taken to hospital in the same area of Kaunas, Lithuania. “Since the beginning of this month, a total of 16 men and women of various ages have died in Kaunas hospitals, possibly from the same alcohol surrogate, most of them residents of the same district,” the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday. “Another 2 people are currently being treated by doctors....
Police have launched an investigation into the fight that happened at a garage on Manchester Street in Oldham at around 3.40 p.m. on 21 October. In the video, a group of women can be seen throwing punches at each other before another fight erupts between two men nearby. It is unclear what started the two fights but The Manchester Evening News reported that a couple confronted a group of people for not wearing face coverings....
Police responded to the scene around 10:15 p.m. when they said a family was having a barbecue in their front yard when the shooter pulled up and opened fire, according to news station KENS 5. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene while five others were treated at the hospital for their injuries. Their conditions are unknown, the news station reported. “A family was barbecuing out in front of the house and someone drove by and unloaded on them, firing off about twenty or thirty rounds,” said San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus, according to the station....
For the Daytona 500, which is NASCAR’s first and biggest race every season, it’s usually not a matter “if” a big wreck will happen, but “when” it will happen. Last year, it happened on the final lap of the race when Ryan Newman’s car flipped and turned into a fireball on the track. This year, the big one happened on the 15th lap, and it involved 16 drivers. There were no reported injuries....
