Game time is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on CBS. Tennessee (8-0) took the top spot in the first College Football Playoff rankings; a nod to the Volunteers’ breakout season under second-year coach Josh Heupel. Tennessee leads the FBS in scoring offense (49.4), and quarterback Hendon Hooker has emerged as the favorite for the Heisman Trophy. The Vols are 5-0 against ranked teams this season....

During his Wednesday appearance on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” the new Panthers defensive tackle discussed his exit from Tampa Bay and said he believes the Bucs could have handled things better, especially when it came to honoring the memory of his eight-year stint with the team. The Bucs released McCoy in May after nine seasons and not only signed Ndamukong Suh to a one-year deal to take his place, but gave the veteran defensive tackle McCoy’s No....

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell released the statement Friday, warning Russia against allowing hackers to attack databases or spread disinformation in some of the 27 member countries. “Some EU member states have observed malicious cyber activities, collectively designated as Ghostwriter, and associated these with the Russian state,” Borrell said in the statement. “Such activities are unacceptable as they seek to threaten our integrity and security, democratic values and principles and the core functioning of our democracies,” Borrell said....

The Associated Press reported Monday that more than 30,000 new cases were reported in Germany in the past 24 hours, about a 50 percent increase from last week. The country’s COVID-19 death toll is expected to pass 100,000 this week. Spahn urged all eligible Germans to get vaccinated, including booster shots for those who had their last dose more than six months ago. “By the end of this winter pretty much everyone in Germany…will have been vaccinated, recovered or died,” Spahn told reporters in Berlin....

A heartwarming interaction between a toddler and a German shepherd has been melting hearts online, after gaining more than 27 million TikTok views. Dog-lover and new mom Jessica Berlin from Louisiana shared her son’s adorable playtime with their family dog to her TikTok account, @astorsmom on August 2. German shepherd Bang was captured flinging itself around the room as an entertained toddler attempted to join in the fun, running around the canine....

Ireland eased past Gibraltar on Saturday, with a Robbie Keane hat-trick in the first 18 minutes inspiring them to a 7-0 victory. This result followed up a fantastic win away against Georgia, with Aiden McGeady scoring a last-minute winner to give his side the best possible start to the campaign. With two qualifying spots available in Group D, the pressure will be on the Irish to take something away from this fixture, especially with Poland looking very strong and Germany expected to assert their dominance to qualify for the finals....

Nigeria will stay in Essentuki as they face Argentina, Iceland and Croatia in Group D of the global football showpiece. And to avoid distractions which could spell doom for their ambition to get to the knock-out phase, the German has read a riot act to ensure discipline. “The players’ families are allowed to come after the game to see their husbands even with their children, the door is open,” Rohr told the media....

Griezmann’s Atletico Madrid are set to play in the first leg of a Copa del Rey semi-final against Barcelona and are in the last 16 of the Champions League. Man Utd make €80m Griezmann top target Leaving Atletico, who have reached the final of the European competition two of the last three seasons, would mean Griezmann sacrificing the chance of winning the trophy he came a penalty shoot-out away from in 2015-16....

According to The Athletic, the Yankees will sit down with Houston Astros ace Gerrit Cole and Washington Nationals starting pitcher and 2019 World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg in the coming days, ahead of the Major League Baseball winter meetings beginning in San Diego, California, on Monday. The report added the Yankees have long been admirers of Cole, who missed out on him, despite selecting him with the 28th pick in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft....

3 Up Corey Kluber, SP, Indians. Kluber continued his impressive campaign with his 8th win on Sunday. He tossed 8.1 innings of one-run ball while striking out 10 with only one walk. Garrett Richards, SP, Angels. Like Kluber, Richards continued to impress during a breakout season. Richards struck out 11 over 7.1 innings while only allowing one run on six hits and a walk. Matt Adams, 1B, Cardinals. Finishing 4-for-5 with a double is impressive, but the best part of Adams’ Sunday was the stolen base, his third of the season....

A cheerful dealer named Manny greeted me. (It’s no minor affront to environmentalists that most SUVs are named after pristine wilderness; but the Yukon XL Denali pushes the marketing envelope by bearing the name of both a verdant Canadian territory and a spectacular Alaskan park.) The sticker price–$50,109–gave me a jolt. But I said I wanted my wife to feel safe. “That’s what everyone says,” Manny told me. “The more of these things that are on the road, the more unsafe all the other drivers feel… until they buy one themselves....

Whatever works, especially if it “cuts.” Once again lagging badly in the polls, Bob Dole and his campaign are trying to shake themselves awake before it’s truly too late. Dole’s ad team of Don Sipple and Mike Murphy was let go, accused of the cardinal sin of making spots that weren’t “tough” and “focused” enough. They were replaced by others known for producing the nastiest possible ads while ostensibly sticking to “issues....

Since 55-year-old Arthur Hall Jr. paid $15 last summer at Wal-Mart for FamilyInfo, he says it’s become indispensable for keeping track of his mother-in-law’s mounting health-insurance claims. “It’s cut my recordkeeping time in half,” he says. Sure, the interface is a little simplistic: a toothy, white cartoon family of four-mercifully, silent and unanimated- appears on the program’s opening screens. But since simplicity is the point, FamilyInfo can be forgiven. Enter data into dozens of clear forms, and next time you need to look up a child’s social-security number, the date of a last dental exam or a pet’s vaccination date, it’s in there....

Majorcans are getting thoroughly sick of tourists. Not only of Germans–tourists from just about anywhere. No one denies tourism’s vital role in the local economy. The industry has transformed Majorca from one of Spain’s poorest parts to the richest in per capita income. But the island’s 630,000 year-round inhabitants are increasingly convinced that 14 million foreign visitors a year are far too much of a good thing. Water is rationed....

Hotel Triton, San Francisco–The “So Hip It Hurts” package includes your choice of tattoo or piercing, plus a deluxe room. There’re also daily Tarot-card readings. From $289; hoteltriton.com Serrano Hotel, San Francisco–Play a hand of blackjack with the check-in receptionist. If you win, you’ll get a free room upgrade or restaurant discount. If you lose, the hotel asks that you make a small (voluntary) donation to the local ASPCA. From $179; serranohotel....

Shop. We favor EKS (Velás-quez 28, tel. 011 34 91 578 42 44) and Scooter (Callejón de Jorge Juan 12, tel. 011 34 91 576 47 49) for beachwear and urban threads. Drink. In summer, the Plaza de Santa Ana is abuzz with revelers zipping between tapas bars, flamenco venues and clubs. Eat. Order the house special of scrambled eggs with fries at Los Huevos de Lucio (Cava Baja 30, tel....

Now Suskind is taking his “experiment in transparency” one step further. Last week he began posting the first of those 19,000 documents on his Web site: thepriceofloyalty.ronsuskind.com /thebushfiles. These are no ordinary papers. As Bush’s top domestic-policy adviser and a National Security Council principal, O’Neill had access to an amazing array of material. Among other things, the documents reveal that the Bush administration began planning for a post-Saddam Iraq, complete with maps on how to divvy up the oilfields, at its first National Security Council meetings in 2001....

Blessed with a talented squad, La Celeste have so far flattered to deceive and in this outing will be looking to avoid making unwanted history. That’s because the South American side are looking to avoid losing two group-stage matches in a single World Cup campaign for the first time since 1974, and if they fail to score again here for a third successive group-stage match, they’ll become the first South American team to remain goalless across a whole World Cup campaign since Peru in 1978....

That was never going to be the case, though. Before the draft, Adetokunbo made clear that if he were selected, he would be in the NBA this season. The Bucks, with the 15th pick, were on board with that. "That was a part of the agreement in drafting him was that he wanted to come over immediately," Bucks general manager John Hammond told SN. "A player, you don't really have that option to say, 'Go to Europe,' if he doesn't agree....

After seeing Durant go off for 49 points, 17 rebounds, 10 assists, three steals and two blocks in Game 5, Giannis Antetokounmpo called the 11-time All-Star one of the “best scorers to ever play the game.” Oh, but his praise didn’t end there. MORE: NBA players react to Durant’s historic playoff performance “He’s the best player in the world right now,” Antetokounmpo said during his postgame media availability. “We gotta beat him as a team....