Must-Flee TV ‘Survivor’ is 60 minutes of idiots whittling a stick: Not a cultural nadir, just bad television. ‘The show is a rediculous bore … You could have a better adventure walking your dog.’ (Wash. Post) Reeg-ection! CBS pulls in 15.5 million viewers, wins the 18- to 34-year-old crop for the first time since the Crusades. ‘Survivor’ made ‘Millionaire’ ’look weak for the first time in its remarkable run.’ (Inside....
On day two of the fifth and final Test against India at the Oval, England’s all-time leading wicket taker thought he had the visiting captain trapped in front. On-field official Kumar Dharmasena ruled in Kohli’s favour, a decision upheld on umpire’s call upon review, with replays showing the ball struck the batsman marginally outside the line of off stump. According to an ICC release on Sunday, “Anderson snatched his cap and jumper from umpire Kumar Dharmasena and then spoke to him in an aggressive manner”....
But behind an affable nature and a winning smile, Anderson held a secret — he had been abandoned by his parents as early as age 11 and spent chunks of his youth living on the streets. At the tail end of his career, he set out to find the mother and father who walked away from him two decades earlier, part of a journey he details in his book, “Stamina....
Match Report: Tigres 1-1 Pachuca There were frequent moments of pressure for the visiting side, none greater than Eduardo Vargas stepping up to take a penalty that Erick Gutierrez had conceded with a handball in the 66th minute. Goalkeeper Alfonso Blanco has started over veteran Oscar Perez for the majority of the team’s CCL run and has earned his keep, including a critical stop in the second leg of the team’s semifinal against FC Dallas....
And then they begin to snore. Loudly. Coetsee, a 24-year veteran of Zimbabwe’s National Parks and Wildlife Management Department, has shot the elephants with darts containing narcotics and tranquilizers; the next hour or so the beasts slumber while 10 workers them up and winch them onto the trucks. Only a year ago these pachyderms would have joined the thousands slaughtered over the years as part of Zimbabwe’s controversial policy of culling its surplus elephant population....
That leads to a freak-out situation for Green Bay fans, and with good reason. It won’t be easy for the Packers to win games when arguably the NFL’s best quarterback is not on the field. The Vikings and Packers are now both 4-2 in the NFC North. That’s the dilemma the Packers now face. What is the best QB plan to try to win without Rodgers? MORE: Mike McCarthy addresses QB situation...
Line: Cardinals -4.5, Total: 49.5 Line movement: The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook initially offered the Cardinals at -4 on Sunday afternoon before pulling the offer prior to Arizona’s 40-17 thrashing of the Eagles in primetime. The book reposted the number -4.5, but one can still get -4 at several shops in Vegas. The total is listed between 49.5 and 50.5. Visit our odds page for updated NFL lines. Trends that matter: Green Bay is 8-3 in its last 11 games following a SU win…....
Pennel is seeking additional neutral arbitrators because the arbitrator currently assigned to handle his case was “improperly assigned,” according to court documents obtained by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. WEEK 13 PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread Pennel received a second suspension for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy after having already sat out the first four games of 2016 of this season for the first violation. He is also asking a judge to put the disciplinary appeal — scheduled for Dec....
The Packers got off to a dismal start this season and watched as the Vikings ran away with the NFC North to prevent a fourth straight Green Bay division title. On Sunday, the Packers got a measure of revenge, boat-racing Minnesota 41-17 in Lambeau Field and keeping their own playoff chances alive. Green Bay has now won four straight games, setting up a pivotal Week 18 clash with NFC North foe Detroit in a race for one of the last wild-card spots....
Green Bay has put the entire NFL on notice with its 53-20 romp over the Eagles on Sunday, a week after routing the Bears, 55-14. The Packers look unstoppable at Lambeau Field in November, a reminder of the damage they can do if they get to play there in January. MORE: Cardinals make their case | Scoreboard | Stats The Cardinals still boast the conference’s best record at 9-1 after beating the Lions in the same Week 11 late afternoon window....
The Buccaneers have a perfect 2-0 record after defeating the Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints. The Packers are yet to get going and come into the game with a 1-1 record. They had their customary victory against the Chicago Bears that followed their opening week defeat against the Minnesota Vikings. It promises to be a fascinating game between two of the best quarterbacks of all time going head to head....
Purpose of Test An ABG test assessing PaCO2 is useful for getting a glimpse of the body’s metabolic and respiratory state. It helps evaluate lung function and the effectiveness of oxygen therapy, and can determine the body’s pH or acid-base balance. Every time you inhale, oxygen is brought into your lungs and delivered to the alveoli. This is where the transfer of oxygen into and the removal of carbon dioxide from the blood occurs....
The problems of legion, not the least of them involving Mayweather. MORE: Fight schedule | Kell Brook stabbed | Hopkins title fight For his part, Pacquiao continues to crow about a fight that would pit him at 35 against Mayweather, at 37. Given their ages, the sooner they meet, the better. “People have always been bothering me, ‘When is this fight going to happen?’ " he said. ‘When is this fight going to happen?...
The fighting Senator of the Philippines spoke candidly to an assembly of press for nearly 40 minutes after making his grand arrival at the MGM Grand on Tuesday afternoon. This was Pacquiao’s first grand arrival at that casino since winning a wide unanimous decision over Timothy Bradley in April 2016, and it will be his first fight in Las Vegas since beating Jessie Vargas in similar fashion seven months later up the Strip at the Mandalay Bay....
Manny Machado is, once again, at the center of a baseball debate in Twitter circles, with a controversial slide en route to second base on Sunday lighting the baseball Twitter powder keg. On a routine grounder to second, Machado was caught in the base path and took out Cardinals utility man Tommy Edman with a questionable slide. MORE: Shohei Ohtani adds yet another clip to his incredible highlight reel...
The Padres traded Headley and some cash to the Yankees for Solarte and minor league pitcher Rafael De Paula on Wednesday, with the Yankees clearly hoping that Headley would provide an offensive upgrade for a team that ranks tied for 19th in OPS and tied for 21st in runs. Perhaps surprisingly, New York’s 3Bs rank a respectable 16th in OPS this year, but with Solarte coming back to Earth after his hot start, clearly GM Brian Cashman felt an upgrade was needed....
The unseeded Indian pair lost 3-6 2-6 against American combination of the Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow. It was second setback for 44-year-old Paes after his early exit in New York last week. Paes had earlier made the third round of the Australian Open and also reached the finals of two back-to-back Challengers, winning one. Divij Sharan now remains the lone Indian in the doubles fray. He and his American partner Scott Lipsky will take on Netherlands’ Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak of New Zealand in their tournament opener...
In 2019, researchers led by Andrew Allan, from Trinity College Dublin, were looking to find out how very massive stars die. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, they turned their focus to the star in the Kinman galaxy. However, they soon realized it was missing. Initially, conditions for observations were not perfect, so the team tried looking for a second time, allowing them to confirm the star had disappeared....
But the biggest investigative lead yet points to Teheran. NEWSWEEK has learned that U.S. intelligence officials have evidence that Iran has funneled money to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the fiery Egyptian fundamentalist cleric whose followers at the Jersey City mosque where he preaches include bombing suspect Mohammed Salameh. Intelligence sources won’t specify the amount of the subsidy or the frequency of the payments. But they have confirmed that the money traveled from Iran to Rahman through one of his wives in Cairo....
