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While Vic Hatcher sits in the lead with 26,575 points, it’s not too late to enter , catch up and win the March to the Championship SuperContest Satellite event. The winner, of course, earns a seat at the SuperContest, the most prestigious sports handicapping competition in the country. Last season’s SuperContest winners, CH Ballers, took home a record $736,575, and a total of $2.1 million in prize money was given away to the top 35 finishers, who proved to be the best at picking five NFL games a week against the spread....

Once again, the Rays and Marlins are blowing up their rosters and selling off everything that’s not nailed to the floor. Not everyone has been unceremoniously shoved out the door just yet, so there’s still some talent to be found on both teams, but both teams are going to be an absolute chore to watch this year. Both are probably ticketed for last place and the top of the draft....

What is certain is that Floyd Mayweather’s upcoming bout with Conor McGregor, who is crossing over from mixed martial arts, will be one of the most hotly debated events of the year. Mayweather is coming out of retirement to defend his unbeaten record against McGregor, who has become the UFC’s brightest star since unifying its featherweight championship by beating Jose Aldo in 2015. The latest summer transfer rumours How McGregor will fare with the bigger gloves remains to be seen, but whatever the result he stands to make a huge amount of money out of the fight in Nevada....

Mbappe joined the Parc des Princes side from Monaco in a deal that will cost around €160 million shortly after Neymar made the switch to the French capital for a world record €222m. PSG 17/4 favs to win CL with dabblebet The duo have had bright starts to life with Unai Emery’s side, with Mbappe scoring four goals in all competitions and Neymar getting 10 in 11. Mbappe expects Neymar to be pivotal in PSG’s future as they look to secure their place among Europe’s elite, but the 18-year-old is benefiting from his presence off the field too....

Ronaldo has been below his usual incredible level this season, including scoring just eight goals in 17 La Liga games, with his Madrid side suffering along the way. Los Blancos are now 19 points back of Barcelona in the Spanish top flight, having dropped points against Levante at the weekend thanks to a late leveler from Giampaolo Pazzini. But the Portuguese star has netted nine times in six Champions League outings heading into his team’s last-16 first leg against Ligue 1 leaders PSG, and Mbappe doesn’t think his side can count on the 33-year-old’s being below his best when they face off....

The French giants have it all to do in the return leg of their last-16 encounter with the reigning European champions following a 3-1 reversal at Santiago Bernabeu. PSG had entered that contest heavily fancied to take advantage of Real’s recent struggles and exert their dominance on a continental stage. Unai Emery’s side wilted under pressure from Cristiano Ronaldo and Co, though, and are now facing an uphill struggle to prolong their involvement in Europe’s premier club competition....

Ah, “mavericks.” It takes one to know one–and call one out. After John McCain’s address yesterday at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., his alma mater, a junior named Katelyn Halldorson raised her hand and, noting the discrepancy between the event’s “non-political” billing and the masses of TV cameras trained on the candidate, asked a question that apparently spurred “some seat-shifting and quick glances from assembled graduates and faculty”: “What exactly is your purpose in being here?...

“Will this nation’s elected leaders make the politically hard but strategically vital decision to give General [David] Petraeus our full support and do what is necessary to succeed in Iraq?” he asked. “Or will we decide to take advantage of the public’s frustration, accept defeat and hope that whatever the cost to our security, the politics of defeat will work out better for us than our opponents? For my part, I would rather lose a campaign than a war....

“The Speaker is trying to cover up what happened on January 6,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, told reporters Tuesday morning during a news conference an hour before the 1/6 committee meeting. “Why were we so ill prepared for that day, and how can we make sure this never happens again?” McCarthy and his allies argued that Pelosi, a California Democrat, was slow to act when a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, injuring police officers and forcing members and then-Vice President Mike Pence to be whisked to safety....

After Trump’s supporters attacked the federal legislative branch of government just over 15 months ago, McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said that the former president was “practically and morally responsible”—floating the possibility that Trump could face accountability through the criminal justice system. Tensions have been high between Trump and McConnell since, with the former president dubbing the top Senate Republican an “old crow” and describing him as “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack....

The incident took place outside a branch of the fast food chain in Gateshead on June 23 last year. The worker had been dealing with a build-up of traffic outside the restaurant when Arthur Walker, 45, tried to leave the drive-thru line, The Chronicle newspaper reported. When the worker told him what to do, Walker pulled out what looked like a real gun and threatened the man at the car window, Newcastle Crown Court heard....

Find out where your state stands in the medical marijuana for back and neck pain issue. About Medical Marijuana Marijuana is the leading cash crop in the US and a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. This designation means it has a lot of potential for abuse (i.e. addiction), and no medicinal value. Yet, Marinol, a synthetic marijuana-based medication approved by the FDA, is classified as a Schedule III drug....

One of the hospital’s most important roles is helping less developed countries treat and manage endemic conditions like malaria, leprosy and tuberculosis. The hospital’s Malaria Centre has a cutting-edge research facility, which can bring the latest equipment to bear on clinical samples sent in from remote areas. Over the years the hospital has expanded its focus to how infectious diseases spread through communities–an area that’s become particularly timely with the rise of bird flu and other global illnesses....

Stable angina symptoms are usually produced by stable, non-ruptured plaques. Stable plaques have a lower risk of rupturing or breaking free, which is an event that can lead to a heart attack. Because the plaque is not changing or is changing only gradually, it produces predictable symptoms. These are usually limited to chest discomfort. This article looks at stable angina and its treatment. The Goals of Treating Stable Angina There are three distinct goals for treatment of stable angina:...

Unfortunately though, for a significant amount of people, as Parkinson’s progresses, levodopa doesn’t work as well in eliminating or controlling a person’s symptoms. This is because, over time, levodopa starts to wear off more and more quickly, triggering a medication “on-off phenomenon.” How the Parkinson’s On-Off Phenomenon Feels Ideally, when you take doses of a medication like levodopa on a regular schedule, you shouldn’t notice much of a difference in your symptoms between doses....

The official story behind Antipokhmelin’s arrival is more a case of the Waiting Game than of Spy vs. Spy. In 1972, in Pushchino, a small town south of Moscow, a young Soviet researcher named Yevgeny Mayevsky developed a harmless compound, containing succinic acid, that seemed to eliminate hangovers. He tested his pills on dozens of eager volunteers willing to drink 200-gram vodka shots, and the government gave him a production license, conditional on his finding a manufacturer within six months....

Generic drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration have the same active ingredients as brand-name medicines, but can be 60 percent cheaper. In New York City, a consumer typically pays $1,731 for a year’s worth of the heartburn drug Prilosec, while a generic version would cost just $675, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the bill’s cosponsor. GAAP also makes it easier for pharmacies and patients to import lower-cost drugs from Canada....

It hits this week. After months of focus-grouping, number-crunching and brave talk, the GOP will disclose its plan to slice $270 billion from the growth of Medicare spending between now and the year 2002. The plan will generate the political equivalent of a Great Plains twister. Republicans will vow to “preserve, protect and improve” Medicare-and Democrats will launch a vicious counteroffensive backed by an army of the organized elderly....