The semifinal of the SEC tournament has long been a stumbling block for Alabama basketball. Heading into Saturday, the Crimson Tide had dropped its last five semifinal appearances, last reaching the conference tournament title game in 2002. For much of Saturday’s semifinal against Tennessee, No. 6 Alabama appeared as though it would suffer a familiar […]
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NASHVILLE — Florida’s Anthony Duruji ducked under John Fulkerson and flew toward the rim Friday at Bridgestone Arena. Yves Pons was waiting. The Tennessee basketball forward smacked Duruji’s attempt off the backboard for his sixth block in the less than 16 minutes to tie his career record and the UT single-game record. He added three more blocks in the second […]
NEW YORK (WABC) — Novavax, a biotechnology company developing a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, has released its product’s efficacy. The vaccine provides 100% protection against severe disease resulting in hospitalization and death and has 96.4% efficacy against the original virus strain. It’s also effective against the U.K. and South African coronavirus variants, the company said in a news […]
On March 12, 2020, Justin Herbert foreshadowed his impressive rookie season with an impressive Pro Day. Exactly a year later, North Dakota State’s Trey Lance likely improved his draft stock after putting up a solid pro day performance. All but five of the NFL’s 32 teams were represented at North Dakota State’s pro day. The Panthers, Broncos, Eagles, Bears and Jets were among the teams that […]
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday began processing stimulus checks, which have already started to hit Americans’ bank accounts and should continue to arrive throughout the weekend. Officials from the Treasury Department and the IRS told reporters Friday afternoon that most Americans do not need to take any additional action to receive their payments and most will […]
A JPG file made by a digital artist known as Beeple sold Thursday for almost $70 million by Christie’s auction house. That price set a new record for the increasingly popular market for digital-only art — and makes Beeple’s piece the third most-expensive work sold by a living artist at auction, according to a statement by Christie’s. […]
Sifting through old photos and recordings inspired the star of ‘Punky Brewster’ (now revived on Peacock) to direct Hulu’s ‘Kid 90,’ executive produced by Sean Penn along with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, about her youth. Four years ago, Soleil Moon Frye cracked open what she calls her vault, a collection of Tupperware containers filled with […]
For over 25 years in the U.S. House, one job has gone unfilled — that of House floor watchdog. It’s not an official position of the minority, but one that can play an important role. There was H.R. Gross, the legendary Iowa Republican, who was often a one-man parliamentary wrecking crew. Dubbed the “Useful Pest,” […]
The Kansas City Chiefs announced on Thursday that the club has released tackles Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwartz. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for both Eric and Mitchell,” General Manager Brett Veach said. “With Eric, obviously he was the very first player that we drafted when we got to Kansas City, and we […]
So who is Meyers Leonard, the Miami Heat center suddenly in the national spotlight after using an anti-Semitic slur during livestreamed video-game play this week? Now under investigation by the NBA, he’s a gregarious, outgoing personality who has been an uplifting presence for the Heat both on the court and in the locker room since joining the […]