$1,000,000 awaits the winner of the SHRPO Main Event as East Coast circuit veteran Randy Pfeifer (GPI No. 481) carries a 2 to 1 chip lead on his closest rival. 2014 Champion Daniel Colman (GPI No. 83), who took the poker world by storm last season, is still in contention and will be looking for his second straight $1M payday in Florida. World Top 10 ranked pro Paul Volpe (GPI No....
“That’s an unknown we probably don’t want to know. And it’s an unknown we probably don’t want to play out in a public forum,” CEO Joseph Blount said. Blount spoke to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, saying he believed paying the ransom was the correct choice to end the fuel shortages affecting the eastern United States. Authorities have discouraged from making ransom payments, the Associated Press reported....
The pipeline, which stretches more than 5,500 miles and carries 45 percent of the East Coast’s supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel, was taken offline over the weekend, prompting the Biden administration to issue an emergency declaration on Sunday. The company was forced to take IT systems offline and shut down operations on Friday last week as it announced it had hired a third-party cybersecurity firm to investigate the targeted ransomware attack....
“I turned on my phone after the test was over to have a voicemail from a nurse at my orthopedic surgeon’s office saying, ‘I need to talk to you about your COVID results and your surgery,’” said the graduate, Sydney Donovan, in a virtual interview with Denver’s NBC-affiliated news station KUSA-TV. Donovan was required to take a diagnostic COVID-19 test two days earlier in preparation for an upcoming medical procedure, the outlet reported....
Emmalyn Nguyen wanted breast enhancement surgery after graduating from high school to improve her self-confidence, her parents Sonny Nguyen and Lynn Fam told FOX31. But according to the station, the 18-year-old, of Thornton, Colorado, is now confined to a bed in a nursing home and kept alive with feeding tubes and an oxygen machine after she went into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing before the surgery even began at Colorado Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery in Greenwood Village, Colorado, on August 1....
Residents of Holyoke banned together to create the Help Holyoke campaign, which distributed over $90,000 to local businesses that were forced to shutter during statewide lockdowns, as well as workers who lost their jobs. “I kind of looked at my husband and both of us have our jobs. Let’s donate our stimulus checks,” Trisha Herman, Phillips County’s executive director of economic development, said. Herman said one of the local bank presidents, Tom Bennett, first came to her and the executive director of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, Holly Ferguson, with the idea to form into an initiative....
Brazill, who played in 25 games over two seasons for the Colts, was suspended for the first four games of last season for a substance-abuse violation. Soon after that suspension was announced, during Colts training camp, Brazill told reporters that the punishment was forcing him to decide between “money and marijuana.” PHOTOS: NFL players suspended for substance abuse violations When Brazill returned, his role grew in the absence of Reggie Wayne, who tore his ACL in October....
Colts owner Jim Irsay isn’t exactly one to make the conventional hire, leading to a bit of organizational tumult. That much has been evidenced by his last 1 1/2 choices at head coach, Josh McDaniels and Jeff Saturday. While McDaniels never actually coached a Colts game, his replacement, Frank Reich, lasted just over four seasons. Reich offered diminishing returns at the helm until he replaced by longtime Indy center Jeff Saturday this year....
That ball would become the center of the circus known as Deflategate. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Jackson told reporters he wants that famous underinflated ball back. MORE: Deflategate timeline from beginning to end | Tom Brady isn’t thinking retirement yet “I have not received it. That’s the mystery ball,” Jackson told the Boston Globe. “If you could tell me where it is, you would do me a huge favor....
Handicapping bowl season remains a challenge with players opting out and entering the transfer portal along with pinpointing the motivation of programs. Despite those speed bumps, we’ll provide an our favorite ATS picks for this week’s slate. MORE WEEK CFB BETTING: ATS picks for all 41 bowl games Odds courtesy of BetMGM College Football Best Bets: odds, picks, predictions for this week’s bowl slate TaxAct Texas Bowl: Texas Tech vs....
The No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide (5-to-1 to win title) took over the top spot on the SuperBook’s odds board last week, and they’re facing their first major test of the season with a road tilt against the No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels (25-to-1) this week. The Tide opened as 4-point favorites at The Wynn, but have been bet up to -5.5. If the spread stays in single digits, it will be the first time the Tide are less than a 10-point favorite since laying 8 points against Johnny Manziel and the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station last year....
Be sure to click through to the informative and entertaining videos, which are shot by our crew in Vegas. The lines and totals listed below are the Vegas consensus as of Friday evening. You can check out updated college football point spreads on our live odds page . Penn State vs. Central Florida (-1, 45), 8 a.m. ET, ESPN2 In unfamiliar territory, UCF and Penn State may see some field conditions they are not used to in Dublin....
Our second-level Other Plays went 1-1. Kansas (+28) was throttled by Kansas State, 51-13, but Missouri (+2.5) was an outright 21-14 winner at home against Arkansas. Our unofficial MP Leans both lost (and neither was close): North Carolina (-6) was blown out at home by neighbor N.C. State, 35-7, and Southern Miss (+4) fell to the soon-to-be-extinct UAB football team, 45-24. Our picks for this week are below. Big Plays (best bets) for both NFL and college run in Friday’s edition of The Linemakers on Sporting News’ free newsletter....
Potentially by 2024 and definitely by 2026, the College Football Playoff will expand to 12 teams and there will be four rounds of playoff rather than two. Each week here at Sporting News, we will take a look at what that bracket would look like if that format was in place for this season. MORE: Full College Football Playoff Rankings What a 12-team playoff bracket would look like A 12-team field would consist of the six highest rated conference champions and the six highest-rated at-large teams....
The 2022-23 College Football Playoff bracket is set. No. 1 Georgia will face No. 4 Ohio State in the Peach Bowl, while No. 2 Michigan meets No. 3 TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. Both games take place on New Year’s Eve. Michigan/TCU kicks off at 4 p.m.EST from University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ, followed by Georgia/Ohio State at 8:00 p.m. EST from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA....
The only game this week between ranked opponents comes from the SEC, where No. 13 Auburn travels to take on No. 14 Texas A&M in a pivotal SEC West game. A win for the Tigers would almost certainly guarantee the Tigers’ battle with No. 3 Alabama to end the regular season determines the division champion. The Aggies are fifth in the division with two losses already — but a victory over Alabama keeps them within striking distance of Atlanta....
Georgia clinched the SEC East title and a spot in the conference title game against LSU on December 7 with a 19-13 win over Auburn last time out, but the program’s focus remains firmly on Rivalry Week. Georgia has won the last two games against Georgia Tech and hasn’t lost on the road to its state rivals in two decades, but Smart warned historical records will matter very little on Saturday in Atlanta....
Brown scored 22 points in 39 minutes and hit a key 3-pointer late in a 69-59 victory over peskyLong Beach State on Saturday. The 49ers shot just 27 percent and were outrebounded 24-11 in the second half. MORE: Box score/stats | Full scoreboard | Video "I'm from the West Coast, so I know Long Beach State has a good team every year," Brown said. "Their record isn't the greatest, but they've played pretty much everybody on the road....
The College World Series has reached its best-of-three Championship Series; this year’s finals between Vanderbilt and Virginia are a rematch of the 2014 CWS finals. MORE: A look at Monday’s action; Vandy wins Game 1 Here’s how to watch the remaining games (all times Eastern): College World Series 2015 TV schedule Tuesday, June 23 Finals, Game 2, Vanderbilt vs. Virginia, 8 p.m. | ESPN Wednesday, June 24 Finals, Game 3, Vanderbilt vs....
