Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Jack Jones had a terrific game in their 20-14 win over the Kansas City Chiefs as he returned a Patrick Mahomes interception for a touchdown. Jones made a list and checked it twice, and it appeared as though a young Chiefs fan was not on it. …
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Forty-two bowl games have been played since Dec. 16, and one more remains: the National Championship. However, it goes without saying that the bowl season has lost its luster in recent years. More and more players are opting out of bowl games, whether it is to protect themselves for the …
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Jeremiah Moon spent his college football days playing for the Florida Gators. During his sophomore season, the linebacker gifted a young Gators football fan, Jacob Long, a pair of fame-worn cleats. The football star and fan also took a photo together to capture the moment. “I guess I was feeling …
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Nepal’s star cricket player and former captain of the national team was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday for rape and ordered to pay a fine. The Kathmandu District Court judge issued the sentence for Sandeep Lamichhane. He has the next 100 days to make an appeal. Lamichhane’s …
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Carmelo Anthony has some beef to pick with his former team, the Denver Nuggets. On the latest episode of his “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast with The Kid Mero, Anthony’s co-host asked him if he felt some type of way about the Nuggets giving No. 15 to Nikola Jokic, who developed …
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Three titans of football all made massive announcements this week regarding their futures. Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks since 2010, announced Wednesday afternoon he and the organization had “mutually agreed to set a new course,” though he’ll remain with the Seahawks as an adviser. Head coach Pete …
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MADRID – The nephew of Spain’s King Felipe argued with other teens last week in a line at a Madrid amusement park, but the boy’s father is denying claims his son used a racist epithet to denigrate a boy of Asian heritage. Jaime de Marichalar made the comments Friday about …
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BERLIN – Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport wasn’t allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish. Now, 77 years later, she’s completed all the requirements and is becoming Germany’s oldest recipient of a doctorate at age 102. The neonatologist — a specialist in caring for newborns …
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BENGHAZI, Libya – The spokesman for Libya’s internationally-recognized parliament has rebuffed pressure by the West and United Nations on lawmakers to accept a peace deal that stipulates power-sharing with rival Islamists. Faraj Abu-Hashim, spokesman for the parliament based in Libya’s eastern city of Tobruk, told reporters on Thursday that lawmakers …
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STOCKHOLM – Swedish police and rescue officials say a car has exploded in the city of Goteborg, leaving several people severely injured. Police said there were four or five people in the car when it exploded Friday afternoon in the district of Torslanda. The local rescue service could only say …
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