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Not only did the numbers fail to increase for the first time, but NBC’s 2016-17 Premier League ratings were actually the lowest of all four seasons it has broadcasted the English top flight. Viewed in sequence, the average viewership for NBC — which two years ago signed a six-year contract extension to broadcast the league through the 2021-22 season — across its family of networks looks fairly stark. Starting with the 2013-14 season and ending with 2016-17, NBC’s average Premier League viewership on all networks combined per match window has been as follows: 438,000, 479,000, 514,000 and 423,000....

Potential Problems from Biologics Biologics are a wide group of treatments, including older therapies like vaccines and cutting-edge ones like gene therapies. But the term biologic is often used to refer to specific modern types of medications that are commonly used to treat certain inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, or to treat certain kinds of cancer. Many of these modern biologic treatments target a specific part of the immune system....

Declassified documents released by the FBI this week paint a picture of an esteemed and learned man who nonetheless fell prey to a long-term debilitating habit while he was a Supreme Court justice during the 1970s. In 1981, five years before he became chief justice, Rehnquist was admitted to George Washington University Hospital for a month in order to be weaned off prescription drugs. During his hospital stay, according to the documents, Rehnquist experienced paranoid delusions and tried, at one point, to escape from the hospital in his pajamas....

Much like the verb “to Google” has become as famil-iar in our vernacular as “to search,” the term “Google-gänger” has also caught on with a generation of people defined not so much by their accomplishments but by how Google-able those accomplishments are. “You are who you are because of Google,” says Matthew Slutsky, 26, a political blogger who has befriended his own Googlegänger on Facebook. For some, your Googlegänger is your rival in a race to the top of the Google hit list....

So why don’t the Nuggets play Bol more often? After all, he’s a 7-2 player who can shoot 3s, handle the ball, distribute and block shots all at high levels. The answer is a complicated one involving defensive nuances, deep rotations and body type. But if one thing is clear about Bol, it’s this: Basketball is more fun when he’s on the floor, so hopefully Denver gets him into more games in his second NBA season after only a bit of involvement in the bubble in Year 1....

NW: Is this the career that you imagined? I never imagined living past 30. Why? I don’t know. You know you always set yourself dates when you are a kid. When did you set that date? When I saw my first James Dean film. [Laughs] When I was a kid, as opposed to now, I kind of looked up at the tragic rather than looking down on it. Everyone wanted to suffer, wanted to live like Montgomery Clift or Patti Smith....

MORE: Masters leaderboard | Worst chokes at the Masters Steve Politi, a columnist for The Star-Ledger and NJ.com, has a fantastic profile of Augusta, Ga. residents Herman and Elizabeth Thacker, the senior couple standing up to the rich green jacketed members of the powerful, exclusive private club. Augusta National is used to getting its way. It tells the world’s top golfers who can play and who can’t in the first major tournament of the year....

The accompanying saga, beyond the pain once again inflicted on Philadelphia sports fans, was a sure bet to keep the audience glued to the sports pages and radio broadcasts over the months it developed. SPECTOR: There’s no reason, ever, to reinstate Rose | PHOTOS: The career of Charlie Hustle Cox was supposed to be the answer to the ownership problems the Phillies had suffered under Gerry Nugent, whose financial struggles kept the team in the National League basement and in debt....

The lottery’s organizers announced Wednesday that the jackpot has continued its upward climb after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn a day earlier. If a Mega Millions ticket does line up with the numbers drawn Friday, it’ll be the biggest amount since a ticket in Michigan won a $1 billion prize last year. Friday’s drawing, which has a $359.7 million cash value option, will be the 28th jackpot in a run that began on April 19 after no ticket (which typically cost about $2) has won....

The jackpot for Tuesday night (04/07/20) was for $127 million, with a cash option worth $103 million. During the pre-coronavirus pandemic, the game would reset at $40 million if there was a winner. But with more people staying at home with shelter-in-place orders, Mega Ball executives said the new minimum will be $20 million, which shadows similar measures implemented last week by Powerball, the other multi-state lottery game. “The value of the Mega Millions jackpot is based on projected sales, and typical sales patterns have been altered because the current health crisis has required people to stay home,” said Gordon Medenica, lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium and Director of Maryland Lottery and Gaming....

A massive $187 million Jackpot with a cash option of $134.1 million was ready to be gift-wrapped for this Christmas Eve draw, according to the Mega Millions website. While there was no one who won the massive jackpot this time around, others were made millionaires overnight. There were big winners from Michigan and New York who picked up $1 million after matching five numbers with their tickets. A winning ticket purchased in Texas was able to double their $1 million thanks to the Megaplier 2X being applied....

First Five: 02-08-14-20-31Mega Ball: 17Megaplier: 2x Tuesday night’s 04/12/22 Mega Millions jackpot was worth $106 million, with a cash-value option worth $65.3 million. The winning numbers last Friday (04/08/22) for the $94 million jackpot were: 08-11-29-32-40 with a Mega Ball of 02. The Megaplier was 3x. There was no grand prize winner on Friday but there were three tickets sold—two in Michigan and one in Washington state—that matched the first five white balls, and minus the gold Mega Ball, for the game’s second prize of $1 million....

First Five: 20-40-44-45-50Mega Ball: 24Megaplier: 2x Friday night’s 07/03/20 jackpot was for $62 million, with a cash-value option of $49.3 million. The total jackpot could have increased depending on the number of tickets sold around the country prior to the drawing. The winning numbers on Tuesday (06/30/20) for the $53 million jackpot were: 09-16-29-37-53 with a Mega Ball of 11. The Megaplier was 2x. There was no grand prize winner from Tuesday’s drawing, but there was a single ticket sold in Ohio that matched the first five white balls, and minus the gold Mega Ball, for the game’s second prize of $1 million....

There was a top prize of $34 million and a cash option of $23.9 million up for grabs, but did anyone take home the big one? According to the Mega Millions website, no ticket matched all five numbers and the Mega Ball to win the big prize, so the jackpot gets even bigger. However, there was one winning ticket from Florida that took the $1 million prize by matching all five numbers....

First Five: 01-10-18-20-46Mega Ball: 15Megaplier: 2x Tuesday night’s 12/15/20 jackpot was worth $291 million, with a cash-value option of $224.7 million. The total jackpot could increase depending on the number of tickets sold around the country prior to the drawing. This is the second-largest jackpot of the 2020 calendar year. The winning numbers last Friday (12/11/20) for the $276 million jackpot were: 19-31-37-55-67 with a Mega Ball of 25. The Megaplier was 4x....

Nobody won the jackpot, but one person, whose ticket was purchased in Virginia, matched five numbers to win $1 million. Twelve players matched four balls and the Mega Ball and won $10,000 each and an additional five players did this using the Megaplier, so doubled their prize money to $20,000 each. More than four hundred people won $500 by matching four balls, and nearly 100 additional people doubled this prize to $1,000 using the Megaplier....

Nobody won the Mega Millions jackpot, nor did anybody match all five balls to win $1 million. Twelve people matched four balls and the Mega Ball and therefore won $10,000 each, and one of these players tripled their prize to $30,000 using the Megaplier X3. More than 300 players won $500 by matching four balls and 50 of these players tripled their prize by using the Megaplier. More than 750 players won $200 by matching three balls and the Mega Ball and more than 100 of these players multiplied their prize using the Megaplier....

Nobody won the jackpot last night so it will roll over to Tuesday night’s draw when it will be worth an estimated $215 million with a cash-value option of $173.1 million. There were also no winners of the $1 million prize which required the matching of all five numbers in last night’s draw. However, 16 people matched four numbers and the Mega Ball to win $10,000, with six of these winners doubling their prize to $20,000 using the Megaplier....