“I don’t see that the authorities can continue to ask Teams to play twice in three days. It is simply not fair play,” Verheijen has been quoted as saying. Almost echoing the 41-year old Dutch who is arguably World Football’s foremost authority on player Periodisation, India’s Youth Development Head Coach Colm Joseph Toal brought to the fore the challenges of playing four matches in eight days, and the importance of recovery....
The nation’s police will also be switching from their traditional green uniforms to a navy blue with the officer’s license number and a QR code that can be used by civilians to identify officers. Colombian President Ivan Duque also announced that a human rights directorate will be created and will report to the nation’s police chief and led by a retired colonel. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....
Sharing photos of her arrival in Bogota, Colombia, Trump posted to Twitter: “Just landed…Thank you Vice President Marta Lucía c for the warm welcome. Looking forward to a great trip!” In an interview with Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, Ramírez offered some insight into how Trump’s Latin America trip, which will see the first daughter visit Argentina and Paraguay in addition to Colombia alongside Deputy Secretary John Sullivan and other officials, came to fruition....
In it, a large cow moose can be seen circling the camera operator, who is standing in a thinly-wooded area. At times the moose appears to begin charging towards her, but backs off each time when she shouts at it. The video ends with the moose backing off once more, and it’s unclear what happened after that. Moose are huge animals. Colorado’s Shiras moose can weigh between 800 and 1,200 pounds and stand six feet at the shoulder....
This is Colorado Rapids’s third MLS match since their resumption after a months’ break due to a COVID-19 outbreak in their squad. In their last two games, they have lost 4-0 to Sporting Kansas City and 2-1 to Minnesota United. This is the third of five games that Colorado Rapids play in 16 days, and the only one at home in that period. Seattle Sounders are currently on top of the Western Conference standings, with the MLS recently deciding the table would be decided on the points-per-game basis....
Some pointed to his family—the shooter’s grandfather was a Republican member of the California Assembly who once compared the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol to the American Revolutionary War. The lawmaker, Randy Voepel, has said he hasn’t spoken to his grandson in at least a decade. Others sought to blame the failures of law enforcement, questioning both the strength of Colorado’s red flag law and the fact that the shooter was previously known to police....
NWS Pueblo has advised that flash flood warnings remain in effect until 2:00 a.m. MDT for Ellicott, Calhan, and Peyton, in El Paso County. The office also advises that thunderstorm chances will continue into today through to Monday, producing lightning, heavy rain, gusty winds and small hail. Colorado Springs was hit with a tornado, with residents capturing the touchdown on video. Twitter account @COStormChasers shared images of the tornado developing, writing: “Rockvale CO cell....
A comparison of the props posted on Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook’s oddsboard and the DFS projections provided by Fantasy Alarm reveals little value for bettors, as the margins between the numbers are pretty thin. The Panthers are about 6.5-point favorites with a total of 46.5 (check updated lines on our odds page). The Linemakers on Sporting News have plays the side and total. Here are the SuperBook’s props on the game, along with applicable DFS projections....
There is not a compelling argument for a fifth team knowing there were three unbeaten teams in LSU, Ohio State and Clemson and a lone one-loss Power 5 conference champion in Oklahoma. Four big brands with high-powered offenses are going to draw big ratings. Critics are going to pound the eight-team drum in obligatory fashion, anyway, but expansion alone will not fix the Playoff’s core issue. It’s the one that would allow the sport to take the next step in popularity....
That starts with the top three teams in the country heading into Week 9: No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Tennessee. The Bulldogs were largely dominant in a 42-20 victory over unranked Florida, but allowed the Gators to make it a one-score possession in the second half before pulling away. The Buckeyes also looked fallible, struggling on offense and falling behind 21-16 to No. 13 Penn State as late as the fourth quarter....
Did the Nittany Lions find the formula to beat the Buckeyes’ high-powered offensive machine? What were the Big Ten East tiebreaker scenarios? Would James Franklin break his curse against top-10 teams? No, no, and no. Ohio State (8-0) answered with 28 straight points and flipped a Happy Valley failure into a reminder they still have the turbo button the rest of the Big Ten must deal with in a 44-31 victory....
There was no change in the latest update to the College Football Playoff with Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson and Ohio State all retaining their status in the top four. Despite a double-digit win over Auburn, No. 5 Texas A&M still remains on the outside looking in and with no game this week to further bolster its resume. This week there are 14 games involving ranked teams, including two pitting ranked foes against one another....
The Badgers and the Hawkeyes debuted at No.13 and No.18 respectively in the first College Football Playoff ranking of the season and both sit at 6-2, two games behind Minnesota in the Big Ten West. With the 17th-ranked Golden Gophers hosting No.4 Penn State at 12 p.m. ET, Wisconsin and Iowa could have the chance of closing the gap from the divisional leaders to one game by the time they take the field in Madison, Wisconsin, four hours later....
The Nittany Lions arrive into the weekend as the No. 7 ranked team in the nation after moving up three spots in the Associated Press Top 25 poll on the back of a 17-12 road win over Iowa, who saw the Hawkeyes slip from 17th to 24th. Penn State improved to 6-0 with the win over Iowa last weekend as is firmly knocking on the door of the College Football Playoff, while Michigan moved to 5-1 after beating Illinois on the road 46-25....
No. 13 Wisconsin travels to No. 3 Ohio State (Noon ET, FOX) in a pivotal Big Ten matchup. No. 9 Auburn visits No. 2 LSU (3:30 p.m. ET, CBS) in the next-big top-10 showdown, and prime time features the classic rivalry between No. 8 Notre Dame and No. 19 Michigan (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC). That makes for some tough Week 9 picks against the spread. MORE: Get the latest college football odds at Sportsbook Review...
The Arizona Wildcats continue to ride their pitching. After allowing just two total runs in their first two games at the College World Series, the Wildcats stayed alive Wednesday with a 3-0 victory over UC Santa Barbara at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. MORE: Each team’s most painful draft regret The two runs allowed over three games is the fewest in the aluminum bat era, which began in 1974....
However, after operations were halted due to a ransomware attack, officials from the company said there is no fuel shortage. Colonial said it is in the process of restarting some of its network. While the main pipeline remains offline, some smaller lines are operational, the company said Sunday. There is no word yet when the company will completely restart the pipeline. “The time of the outage is now approaching critical levels and if it continues to remain down we do expect an increase in East Coast gasoline and diesel prices,” IHS Markit Executive Director Debnil Chowdhury told the Associated Press....
Dr. Eric France, Colorado’s chief medical officer, announced the state was reactivating Crisis Standards of Care for Emergency Medical Services amid a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases. “There has been a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, largely due to the highly contagious Omicron variant,” France wrote in his order. “Furthermore, these shortages of professional staffing, combined with the case surge, necessitate efforts to respond to and mitigate the effects of the pandemic, prevent further spread, preserve our health care and emergency medical services resources, as well as provide the needed flexibility to address the consequences of the pandemic....
Indianapolis selected Hooker with the 15th overall pick in 2017, with Colts general manager Chris Ballard saying at the time that he “thought Hooker was the best athlete in the draft”. Hooker enjoyed a great start as a rookie with three interceptions in seven games, but his season came to an end early due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury in his right knee....
