What’s going to confound many of those people is that these comments flowed in the exact opposite direction of his most recent pronouncement. “I’m one of the best in the world that do what I do,” Roethlisberger said Tuesday morning on 93.7 The Fan. “I’m one of the best that’s ever done it. You have to have that confidence.” IYER: How Steelers can help Big Ben These statements came just two days after he told reporters gathered around his locker, following a five-interception disaster in a loss to the Jaguars, “maybe I don’t have it anymore....

“This is like a dream,” Vinci said following the match. “I beat Serena, I’m in a Grand Slam final. It’s the best moment of my life.” MORE: U.S. Open upsets | Serena’s amazing year | What makes Serena tick The upset victory marks the first time Vinci, who is the world No. 43 in singles, has reached a Grand Slam final. So who is the 32-year-old from Italy? Vinci was born in Taranto, a coastal city in the southern part of the country....

“This musical is timeless,” Swift said in the YouTube video. “And we got to update it in ways that I think are just so, so great.” The highly anticipated film adaptation of the musical has been tightly under-wraps since production began. Many wondered how Hooper would present the larger-than-life sets and most importantly, how he’d make humans playing cats believable. “We’ve used digital fur technology to create the most perfect covering of fur,” said Hooper, who previously directed the musical Les Misérables and won the Best Director Oscar for The Kings Speech....

Ronda Rousey schedule While WWE is going with the storyline that Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is entitled and doesn’t care about the fans, they are doing the exact opposite with “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey. WWE announced that Rousey will be appearing at every “RAW” leading up to WrestleMania 34. That includes next week’s show in Detroit followed by Dallas, Cleveland, and the go-home show in Atlanta on April 2. MORE: Could WWE programming be headed to Fox?...

WWE releases multiple wrestlers In what has become an annual ritual, WWE did some house cleaning last Friday releasing eight talents. They included Hornswoggle, Alex Riley, Zeb Colter, El Torito, Cameron, Santino Marella, Wade Barrett and Damien Sandow. None of the releases are overly surprising — none of them have major roles. Barrett had arguably the most potential of the group and could have been a main event star but was derailed several times by injuries....

Will Erlandson, chief growth officer at Relevance, a Columbia, Missouri-based specialized growth marketing firm, has spent a lot of time thinking about this challenge. In a recent conversation, a client of his complained that a service provider continually changed their metrics reporting to show whatever looked good — inhibiting the customer’s ability to compare the same metrics month over month. The client, Erlandson explains, saw right through the provider’s gambit....

It was partly the need to control the growth of federal spending. And partly the need to get the government back to work before the voters notice that 280,000 bureaucrats are idle and the Treasury Department is juggling the accounts to pay Washington’s bills. On a more practical level, however, the three had to be there; without meeting, there could be no exit strategy that would save their own political skins....

All this took place without any direct input from the U.S. forces, who are still struggling to finish reaching the country; only 4,400 of the projected 20,000 American troops had arrived last week in their sector, around Tuzla. Many of the deadlines set by the Dayton accords for the first 45 days seem likely to pass without a full U.S. contingent on hand to oversee them. Some of the warring parties are still manning checkpoints in the northern sector, and around Zavidovici and Zenica in the American area, truckloads of Muslim mujahedin still cruise around looking for trouble–despite U....

Lipsky takes you inside the odd world of plebes and firsties. Punishment is meted out for an imperfect shave. Possessing porn’s OK, and dorms have “spank walls”–dividers for privacy in shared rooms–but cadets who “share the same piece of furniture” are expelled. The author drank with cadets, hung out in their rooms till 2 a.m., road-marched with them–and fought the urge to go native. He wore his hair shorter and grew annoyed that people in his hometown of Manhattan spoke out of turn....

GGG (39-1-1, 35 KOs) will take on the Ukranian Derevyanchenko (13-1, 10 KOs), who is coming off a unanimous decision victory of Jack Culcay in April. That, of course, came after a split-decision defeat in October 2018 against Daniel Jacobs — whom GGG beat by unanimous decision in 2017 — for the then-vacant IBF middleweight title. Golovkin represents a significant opportunity, and serious challenge, to earn the IBF and IBO middleweight titles....

The British socialite, 58, is awaiting trial on a 17-page indictment of trafficking offences in July next year but wanted her past evidence to a defamation lawsuit kept out of her case. She asked a court of appeal to block the release of seven hours of testimony and 2,000 legal documents which her lawyers argued would compromise her ability to defend herself. However, the court of appeal ruled against Epstein’s former girlfriend paving the way for her past testimony to be used in evidence against her, Reuters reported....

The British socialite was convicted of sex trafficking girls for her pedophile former lover to abuse between 1994 and 2004. However, a juror, Scotty David, did media interviews in which he revealed he was a sexual abuse survivor, raising questions about whether he disclosed this fact during his questionnaire. Jurors were asked to detail any history of sexual abuse and, while his answer has not been made public, the prosecution has called for an investigation and the defense for a mistrial....

“It’s a really ghastly experience,” Ian Maxwell told ABC News. “She’s lost 20 pounds. She’s losing her hair. She can’t concentrate. She has a flashlight shown in her cell every 15 minutes during the night. So she has no sleep of any real quality. That is torture. Why is Ghislaine Maxwell being treated differently? She’s a patsy for Epstein is the answer whom they lost on their watch, and they’re taking it out on my sister....

Maxwell’s attorneys, Jeffrey Pagliuca and Laura Menninger, sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan on Wednesday. In it, they claim that “undisputed, publicly available information” regarding an anonymous juror shows that a retrial is necessary in their client’s case. “Ms. Maxwell intends to request a new trial,” Pagliuca and Menninger said. “Any submission will include all known undisputed remarks of the juror, including recorded statements, the relevant questionnaire and other noncontroverted facts....

“Early in the voyage we collected a striking small, stripey horn shark,” Will White, a shark expert from the agency’s Australian National Fish Collection, said in a statement. Horn sharks are a group of shark species known for their spiny fins and pronounced ridges above their eyes. They are usually found in the shallow waters of the western and eastern Pacific and the western Indian Ocean. However, this new species was found at a depth of nearly 500 feet, and, so far, scientists know nothing about its behavior....

The Marlins outfielder launched a home run so far, he completely cleared the bleachers and knocked it all the way out of Dodger Stadium. In case you’re not aware, that’s pretty much absurd and you’ll have to see it for yourself. MORE: Stanton sets Marlins record | Barry Bonds could’ve helped your team | Best batting stances Unofficially, it’s the longest homer of the MLB season. Needless to say, the feat has rarely been done....

While the Marlins couldn’t get a single player to attend a charity event last month, the Marlins Foundation held a fantasy auction at Marlins Park on Wednesday, with proceeds benefiting the Miami Marlins Education Fund. Some of the top items included a road trip with the team and a golf vacation. But the big ticket item was Joseph Gormley’s artistic presentation of the Marlins’ young slugger. MORE: Obama hosts World Series champion Giants at White House | Making a good Clemente movie won’t be easy...

Heston, a 27-year-old right-hander from Palm Bay, Fla., making his 13th career start, allowed just three baserunners, all hit batsmen. He plunked Ruben Tejada and Lucas Duda in the fourth and hit Anthony Recker to lead off the ninth. He struck out a career-high 11, including the side in the ninth. He finished the gem with a called strikeout of Tejada on his 110th pitch. MORE: Who is Chris Heston?...

Line: Vikings -6, Total: 45.5 Line movement: The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook opened the Vikings as 4-point favorites last Sunday. The book pulled the game briefly after news of Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr’s one-game suspension for “multiple violations of safety-related playing rules against the Carolina Panthers.” Relisted at -5.5 in favor of Minnesota, bettors pushed the spread as high as -6.5 midweek before settling back to its reposted offer....