Some 250 Texas high school students had the chance last month to ask questions of Popovich (oh, and esteemed Harvard professor Cornel West) in a session moderated by The Nation’s David Zirin. MORE: All-time best San Antonio Spurs Zirin revealed this week some of what Popovich said, including his answer to one student’s question about whether the Spurs were going to win another NBA title this season: “Win the championship?...
The Rams got stupid late in their loss to the Lions; Williams’ unit couldn’t just be normal and let the Lions kneel the ball. MORE: Week 6 scoreboard From Pro Football Talk: Like PFT points out, Greg Schiano tried that with the Bucs a few years back. Everyone hated it, and it didn’t stop him from getting fired, so whether the Rams keep it up is an open question....
Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist announced the implicit bias training requirement, which is set to go into effect on June 1, 2022. The move make racial awareness training part of the knowledge and skills necessary to remain licensed to practice health care anywhere in the state of Michigan. “Today’s new training guidelines will help us mitigate the impacts of implicit bias and ensure every patient in Michigan receives the best possible care,” Whitmer said in a Tuesday statement....
The lawsuit, filed in Oakland County, targets prosecutors in 13 Michigan counties that have abortion clinics, the Associated Press reported. In a statement, Whitmer said she used her executive authority to ask the Michigan Supreme Court to immediately decide whether the state Constitution protects the right to an abortion. Michigan banned abortion, except in cases where the mother’s life is at risk, in 1846, only nine years after it became a state....
Stanton Giles, a wedding videographer, captured the graphic moment on camera and posted it to his YouTube channel on August 18 where it was viewed nearly 10,000 times. “A wedding ceremony was taking place on the shore of Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park, when most of the way through the groom’s vows, a grizzly charged out of the brush onto the north shore and attacked a moose calf as the mother looked on,” the video description said....
No, it’s all merely an installation design by French architect Jean Nouvel for a huge, dizzyingly variegated exhibition titled “Brazil: Body and Soul.” (It runs through Jan. 27, before traveling to–where else?–the Guggenheim Bilbao, its only other venue.) Brazil, as we know, is an enormous, vital, intensely multicultural nation populated by native Indians, descendants of Portuguese colonizers, nearly 70 million people of African heritage (which is more than twice the number in the United States) and immigrants from practically everywhere....
In an act of macroeconomic karma, materials thrown out by Americans—broken-down auto bodies, old screws and nails, the precious magazine you hold in your hands—accounted for $6.7 billion in exports to China in 2006, second only to aerospace products. Junkyards may conjure up images of Fred Sanford’s ratty collection of castoffs. But these days, scrap dealers are part of a $65 billion industry that employs 50,000 people, who together constitute a significant arc of a virtuous circle....
Hogan Gidley, the former White House spokesman for Trump, told attendees of a private elections meeting that his new Center for Election Integrity was working with some of Wisconsin’s politicians and business leaders “to figure out the best path” around the Democratic governor. The group stems from the America First Policy Institute, which was started during Trump’s administration to back him and his agenda, the AP reported. Gidley met with Bill McCoshen, who heads the policy board for Common Sense Wisconsin, about six weeks ago to talk about adding a new ballot measure on elections....
On Thursday, the social network announced it would be rolling out steps to limit voter misinformation in the upcoming general election. “The US elections are just two months away, and with Covid-19 affecting communities across the country, I’m concerned about the challenges people could face when voting,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post. “This election is not going to be business as usual. We all have a responsibility to protect our democracy....
The 24-year-old playmaker joined Benfica in 2014, but despite a promising start he does not appear to be in the Lisbon club’s plans. Reports had linked the Brazilian with a permanent move to Manchester United this summer, with Jose Mourinho an admirer of his talents. But after spending the last two seasons on loan at Besiktas, he is set for another temporary move, this time to the CSL. “Guanzhou Evergrande has officially announced the signing of an agreement with the Brazilian Anderson Talisca, who has been loaned for six months,” Guangzhou stated on the club’s official website....
The incoming Wildcats big man has not yet been cleared by the NCAA to participate in game action this season, according to a report from ESPN, who spoke to Labissiere’s guardian, Gerald Hamilton. MORE: SN’s preseason All-American picks “We’re just trying to get everything squared away. They are asking a few questions,” Hamilton told ESPN. “They haven’t cleared him, but we’re sticking with our faith. There’s no real concern about anything from the Kentucky compliance people....
Aguero became the top non-European goalscorer in Premier League history when he opened the scoring in the 24th minute, before Liverpool forward Sadio Mane was sent off for a rash aerial lunge on Ederson that saw the City goalkeeper leave the field on a stretcher. Man City 10/1 to win CL Guardiola’s side were merciless in making the numerical advantage count and Jesus headed home Kevin De Bruyne’s cross in first-half stoppage time before Aguero teed him up for a simple finish when through one-on-one with Reds keeper Simon Mignolet early in the second period....
There is life after De Gea at Man Utd City strengthened their claim for a top-four spot in the Premier League with a 5-0 thrashing of Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday – goals from David Silva, Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi sending them above Liverpool into third on goal difference. United are four points further back in fifth ahead of their trip to sixth-placed Arsenal on Sunday, with Mourinho set to ring the changes as the match falls in the middle of his team’s Europa League semi-final with Celta Vigo....
Mahrez named African Player of the Year Guardiola was in talkative mood at his Thursday press conference as he moved to explain his recent comments about retirement and the size of his current club in relation to Europe’s biggest sides. He also spoke about the demands he places on his players and how he is slowly but surely changing City’s playing style. The former Bayern Munich and Barcelona boss remains keen to bring new defenders to the club, whether in January or in the summer, and is ready to let six players - Willy Caballero, Pablo Zabaleta, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Jesus Navas and Yaya Toure - leave on free transfers when their deals expire at the end of the season....
It was a truly beautiful spectacle between two men who play the game the way purists want it to be played. The mutual respect between Guardiola and Sarri was palpable both before and after the game. Pep described Napoli as probably the best side he had faced in his career, while Sarri hailed the Catalan as the No.1 coach in the world. Napoli 10/11 to win the Serie A...
The Catalan coach saw his side waltz to the top-flight crown in 2017-18, picking up 100 points and recording a century of goals along the way. City’s standards only dipped to 98 points this term, but they were pushed all the way by a Liverpool side that finished just one point off the pace. Both challengers ended the season with stunning winning runs, with neither putting a foot wrong despite operating under intense pressure....
While City still cruised into the quarter-finals on the strength of a 4-0 win in the first leg, the Spanish boss was not pleased with how his side performed in a second half that saw them surrender a 36-game unbeaten run at Etihad Stadium . The Premier League leaders were largely dominant in terms of possesion on the night, completing 978 passes - the most recorded in a Champions League match since Opta began keeping the stats during the 2003-2004 season - but even that wasn’t good enough for the former Barcelona boss....
City 6/4 to win the league Guardiola has added five first-team players courtesy of an estimated £200million spending spree in the close-season, overhauling City’s defence in particular. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss presided over his first season without a trophy as a senior coach last term, as City failed to live up to their billing and fell well short of champions Chelsea. Having been installed as favourites once again, Guardiola refuses to get carried away, with a trip to newly promoted Brighton and Hove Albion their first hurdle on Saturday....
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) supported scientists that determined that the area off the two states’ coasts covers about 6,334 square miles, the agency said Tuesday in a news release. Last year was the third-smallest measurement the dead zone ever had at 2,116 square miles. It was one-third that size predicted in June of 2020. In the past five years, the average size of the low-oxygen zone has been 5,380 square miles, 2....
Did ‘a******’ jibe cause Messi outrage? The former Borussia Dortmund midfielder converted Raheem Sterling’s pass from close range to cancel out Lionel Messi’s opener as the interval approached at the Etihad Stadium, despite City being second best for much of the first half. Nevertheless, Guardiola did not see fit to rant and rave as a tactical switch – shifting Kevin De Bruyne in-field and closer to striker Sergio Aguero paid dividends – as the Belgium star drove home a 51st-minute free kick before Gundogan added his second to crown a 3-1 Group C win....
