The former NFL player who turned radio star signed off for the final time Friday after a two-decade run on the airwaves, first beside Mike Greenberg and later beside Trey Wingo. The Golic family, which played a big part on the program during the show’s run, flanked the elder Golic during the closing segment of his final show. Mike Jr. delivered an emotional soliloquy, paying tribute to his father....
That said, there is only one Defensive Player of the Year of the 2021-22 season, and he doubles as the heart and soul of the Celtics franchise. When Marcus Smart takes the floor for Game 1 of the Finals, it will mark just the 10th time that the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year plays in the Finals in the year in which he won the award, which was first handed out in 1983....
The Russian star, who won five Grand Slam tournaments during her career, penned an emotional essay on Vanity Fair to reveal her decision. “How do you leave behind the only life you’ve ever known?,” she wrote. “How do you walk away from the courts you’ve trained on since you were a little girl, the game that you love—one which brought you untold tears and unspeakable joys—a sport where you found a family, along with fans who rallied behind you for more than 28 years?...
The former Manchester City and Liverpool striker has set a personal best for goals scored in a single league season this term, racking up his 15th strike for Ligue 1 outfit Nice in their match against Marseille on Sunday. Wenger shrugs off Mou curse The Italian struck just after the break to pull his side level with their hosts, but a Patrice Evra strike put the home side back in front....
Then imagine that he gets better each of the next two seasons. That’s what Marcus Mariota has done in his three seasons as Oregon’s starting quarterback and Saturday night he became the school’s first Heisman Trophy winner. Mariota beat out Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon and Alabama’s Amari Cooper for college football’s most prestigious individual award. And as it has always been with Mariota, he was quick to divert the attention elsewhere....
Greene, alongside several other Republican House members, introduced a resolution in mid-November to audit the money the Biden administration sent to Ukraine between January 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden took office, and November 15 of this year. A hearing for the resolution is scheduled for the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday afternoon. On Saturday, House Armed Services Chair Adam Smith told the audience at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum that the argument for increased oversight into Ukraine’s aid “makes me a little crazy,” reported Politico....
Greene’s become a controversial figure in Congress for her past social media activity, comments on the House floor and unwavering support of former President Donald Trump. However, she told Steve Bannon that she never wanted to be in politics and doesn’t enjoy Washington, D.C., life, so she isn’t planning on being a career politician. “I don’t want to be here at all. I gave up an awesome life,” Greene told Steve Bannon on his Pandemic War Room podcast....
Greene, a Republican who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, took to Twitter following the vote and offered strong criticism for 13 of her Republican colleagues who supported the bill. The Democrat-led House passed the bipartisan infrastructure framework by a vote of 228 to 206 following an agreement between Democratic moderates and progressives on a procedural vote to advance consideration of the separate Build Back Better Act. Greene sent several tweets aimed at those 13 Republican members of the House and began by writing: “Republicans who hand over their voting card to Nancy Pelosi to pass Biden’s Communist takeover of America will feel the anger of the GOP voter....
The Republican congresswoman from Georgia said she hoped to provide a counterweight to what she described as a “witch hunt” being “led by” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats. “If it does go forward, I would serve on the committee if I got picked and here’s why,” she told Real America’s Voice. “I want to make sure that we protect all of us on our side and we protect the truth and that the right questions are asked....
The story originated in a Bloomberg report which found that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was weighing a possible ban on gas stoves because of their adverse health effects. According to recent studies, 13 percent of current cases of childhood asthma can be linked to air pollutants that are released by gas stoves. The pollutants have also been linked to the worsening of other respiratory conditions. Some of the pollutants released by the stoves include nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter....
The religious Republican congresswoman began by wishing “a joyous and glorious Christmas season” to Americans in her Georgia district and across the nation. “For those of us who are Christians, we’ll remember and celebrate the true reason for the season—the birth of the greatest gift God could ever give the world, Jesus of Nazareth,” Greene said. “In these challenging and troubling times, we would do well to remember the words of the great Christmas carol,” she continued, before reciting the first verses of Joy to the World....
Cuban was responding to a comment on Twitter by Yale professor Howard Forman, who said that Musk “grossly overpaid” for the social media platform. “He starts out having grossly overpaid for this opportunity. Can’t imagine any of the sharks doing this or believing this is a good start,” Forman said in response to Cuban’s tweet about Musk in which he praised his fellow billionaire and said that he is looking forward to his “era on Twitter....
While the examples are far and few between, George’s injury put a shock into people around the league, as indicated by reports from Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Now, the NBA’s most outspoken owner has taken a stand against the International Olympic Committee. MORE: George to miss entire 2014-15 season | Pacers star suffers serious injury Mavericks owner Mark Cuban took issue with players suiting up for their country while NBA teams take on much of the financial risk....
The video circulating on social media shows cosplayer Fluke Skywalker chatting with a Star Wars fan in American Sign Language (ASL). Skywalker had a conversation with the young man, named Robert, at the Dayton Off-Road Expo, in Ohio, last week. The heartwarming video shows Skywalker signing: “Hello! My name is L-U-K-E. What is your name?” The pair end their encounter with a hug, with a clip shared to Reddit’s Star Wars forum by Skywalker on Monday, under his account Imflukeskywalker....
Hollis follows in the footsteps of the university’s president, Lou Anna Simpson, who relinquished her post on Wednesday after public backlash over how the school handled the accusations against Nassar. An MSU alumnus, Hollis became the university’s athletic director in 2008. On the same day of his resignation, an investigation by ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” into Michigan State University and its athletic department “found a pattern of widespread denial, inaction and information suppression of such allegations by officials ranging from campus police to the Spartan athletic department … well beyond the highly publicized case of former MSU athletic physician Larry Nassar....
Former Warriors coach and current NBA commentator Mark Jackson is one of them. MORE: LeBron doesn’t want MVP if Cavs lose | Celtics champ doesn’t care about Jerry West’s Finals MVP “He is the MVP of this series thus far,” Jackson said on ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning when asked about James’ MVP bid. “There’s no question about it. When you take a look at what he’s doing, this Warrior team is a superior team....
In one recent poll, conducted by the New York Times/Sienna College, 50 percent of respondents said they’d vote for Kelly, compared to 42 percent who sided with McSally. The poll surveyed 653 likely voters in Arizona from September 10 to September 15 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. In another poll, conducted by Monmouth University, Kelly leads by six points, as 50 percent said they’d vote for him, while 44 percent said McSally....
So it’s no surprise the Texas resident is considered a primary target of the political left. But it’s his other role, as co-founder of Convention of States Action that has Meckler also gathering enemies on the right, some of whom are calling him a tool of George Soros, perhaps the nation’s most notorious—or heroic, depending on one’s perspective—donor to liberal causes. The purpose of Meckler’s group is to lobby states to pass a Convention of States application in order to propose amendments to the Constitution via a two-thirds majority of state legislatures, a never-before-used method that the Founders hoped would be used often, according to Meckler and a variety of historians....
Richt is reportedly set to meet with Maryland about the Terrapins’ head coaching job as early as Tuesday, according to Jeff Ermann of InsideMDSports. MORE: SN’s Power Rankings | Miami interviewing Richt, too? The report cited an unnamed source with “knowledge of the Terps’ coaching search.” Richt, 55, and Georgia had a mutual parting of ways Sunday after the Bulldogs finished the regular season with a 9-3 record. Richt said Monday he would consider other coaching jobs, and as Ermann pointed out, Richt’s relationship with Maryland associate athletic director Damon Evans, who served as Georgia’s AD from 2004-10, could lure him to College Park....
