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The seven-time All-Star was asked about Michael Sam, the Missouri football star and potential NFL draftee who announced he is gay on Sunday. Young believes MLB teams wouldn't have major difficulties adapting to openly gay players. MORE: Sporting News ranks the MLB farm systems "I guarantee you I've had a gay teammate," Young told ESPN 103.3 FM. "This may be the first openly gay player in the NFL, but clearly we know there have been tons in every sport -- male, female, there have been tons in every sport....

Carter, 22, has served seven months of her 15-month sentencing. She appeared in front of a Massachusetts state parole board Thursday asking for early release from jail. No decision was made at the hearing, which is usually delivered in writing at a later date. There’s no set timeline for a decision. Carter’s case gained greater media attention after I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter, a two-part HBO documentary film, aired in March....

The former first lady made the remarks in a statement posted to her official Twitter account on Thursday. Trump’s account was temporarily blocked from making any new posts after he urged the mob to “go home” while praising them as “great patriots.” Obama suggested that Wednesday’s insurrection should serve as a wake-up call for Trump supporters. She said that Twitter and other social media companies should go further by permanently blocking the outgoing president....

Obama, delivering the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, labeled Trump “the wrong president for our country.” “He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is,” she said. As well as these comments on Trump, she urged Democrats to get behind Joe Biden, adding: “If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it....

Peppers took to Twitter on Tuesday night to talk about his struggles with making enough money to feed himself. MORE: SN overall coach rankings | 100 days until season starts | Former Michigan DB to Auburn His “first meal of the day” tweet came at 8:17 p.m., which is very late to be having your first meal. The 6-1, 205-pound 19-year-old wants to be fed, and deserves to be fed....

“We have one message for @SenMikeShirkey, who amplified and repeated lies to undermine our democracy, openly met with militia groups and gave them messaging advice: Resign. His rhetoric and actions are not worthy of the office he holds,” the Michigan Democratic Party wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. The state’s Democratic Party issued several other tweets calling for Shirkey’s resignation, with one including a petition for residents to sign to show support for their resignation calls....

“I’ve had a conversation with some folks…. It was just an opening conversation, and it’s not something that I would call a professional formalized vetting,” Whitmer said. The governor, who has seen her national profile grow significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, was speaking Tuesday during an interview on NBC’s 3rd Hour of Today. Newsweek has reached out to the Biden campaign for further comment but did not hear back before publication....

The department is lifting its public health advisory on masking in indoor settings, including for schools, according to a release from the department. The department still recommends wearing masks in “high-risk congregate settings,” and when an individual is self-isolating after being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID. The department cited decreasing case and hospitalization numbers along with increased access to vaccines and other COVID treatments as reasons to conclude Michigan is in the “post-surge” phase....

MORE: Harbaugh building a monster | Michigan AD defends satellite camps Quarterback John O’Korn posted this video of several football players reenacting the scene in “The Lion King” where Simba is introduced to the kingdom. O’Korn appears to be playing the bird Zazu and lineman Kyle Kalis is Rafiki, raising up Simba. Yep, there’s still five weeks until practice starts.

On Tuesday, the City of Detroit announced that the Lewis College of Business will reopen its doors for students in December. The HBCU, which closed its doors in 2013 will be reopened by former Nike and Air Jordan designer Dr. D’Wayne Edwards. Edwards has already gained support for the reopening of the school from Target, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and the Gilbert Family Foundation. Edwards is the founder of PENSOLE, a footwear design academy in Portland, Oregon....

Not because Florida already did it with Will Muschamp. Not because it’s what interim athletic director Jim Hackett is going to do at the end of the regular season. Not because the Wolverines fell to 5-6 with a 23-16 loss to Maryland on Saturday. Not because Rutgers and Maryland swept the Wolverines or the thousand reasons that is unacceptable. Not because of the thousand other unaceptable things that went wrong in Ann Arbor in 2014....

The Wolverines have captured just one of their last seven meetings with the Spartans and are riding an 0-7 ATS streak in this matchup. Line: Michigan -7, Total: 42 Line movement: Michigan opened -6 at The Wynn but was bet up, and the line has bounced between -7 and -7.5 since. Check our live odds page for updated numbers from Las Vegas. The Golden Nugget opened Michigan State -4.5 in its Game of the Year lines....

One Michigan State fan wandered up to LaForce, tapped on her shoulder and then dropped to one knee and popped the question. Did I mention LaForce is already married? MORE: Teletubby attends Final Four | Must-see Final Four photos | Michigan State’s ‘No Type’ parody Creepy? Yes, absolutely. And he didn’t even come prepared with a ring. At least he offered to buy her a drink first! You can watch the whole video here....

Shirkey, who was travelling to the nation’s capital, told a reporter from The Undercurrent on Friday that he was taking “a delightful trip to Washington D.C.,” where there was a “good possibility” he would be meeting with Trump. However, when further pressed about whether he thought Biden won the election or if Trump should admit defeat, the senator resorted to singing the hymn “I Believe in a Hill Called Mount Calvary....

Walker totaled 23 carries for 197 yards and five touchdowns to help the Spartans defeat the Wolverines, pushing them to a perfect 8-0 this season. Michigan State coach Mel Tucker became the first coach in school history to win his first two matchups against the Big Ten rival. KENNETH WALKER: Meet Michigan State’s star running back Quarterback Cade McNamara and the Michigan offense built an early lead, but turnovers at key points hurt the Wolverines....

I’ve just returned from what is likely to be the most harrowing investigative jaunt of my career, a four-day slog through teeming streets filled with screaming children. For a half a week I subsisted on unhealthy, borderline inedible fare and endured the torture of loud, repetitious music and unbridled sincerity. Yes, I survived Disney World. Critics charge that Disney’s parks are nothing more than simulacra of reality, carefully constructed capitalist fantasy lands that shut out unpleasant realities....

“Trichomes are the biochemical factories of the cannabis plant and this study is the foundation for understanding how they make and store their valuable products,” co-lead author Teagen Quilichini, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC), said in a statement. The valuable products of the cannabis plants are its metabolites (i.e. the cannabinoids and terpenes), which are amply produced in the glandular trichomes of the female flower—aka the “marijuana bud....

Like previous big-time cyberworms, Mydoom runs on Microsoft Windows–two years after Bill Gates’s “Trustworthy Computing” memo, wherein he pledged an all-out effort to fight such scourges. Nonetheless, Michael Nash, head of Microsoft’s security business unit, says, “I feel very proud of the progress we’ve made,” ticking off a number of measures the company has made to patch its code and educate consumers. Unlike some previous blights, Mydoom doesn’t exploit any specific software flaw....

A quarter century after its landmark opening to the West, the lingering absurdities of Chinese communism continue to foil the multinational dream of huge profits in the world’s most populous nation. Most Western companies still lose money in China as a result of bureaucratic meddling, mistrust of foreigners, weak legal protections and other symptoms of the incomplete transition to capitalism. Even Microsoft, a famously efficient cash machine, admits it has struggled mightily in China....