Now, with his playing career behind him, he’s given himself an even bigger challenge. “I’ve said it, and I’ll continue to say it. It’s a harder journey to make it to the NBA as a referee than as a player,” Parker told The Sporting News. “That’s saying a lot, because it’s 0.03 percent of high school basketball players that actually make it to the NBA. For me, the journey to becoming an NBA referee will be harder....

The Brazilian striker previously spent five years at the San Siro with Milan between 2007 and 2012. They helped him to make a mark in Europe, before a dip in form led him back to his homeland with Corinthians. WATCH: Pato’s superb free-kick Pato has since taken in spells at Chelsea and Villarreal, before moving to China to link up with Tianjin Quanjian. He claims to be enjoying his CSL adventure, but told Gazzetta dello Sport on a possible return to Serie A: “I’m in love with Italy: I’m fine in China at the moment and I’m happy to contribute to this project for football development, but in the future who knows....

“We say that it’s unacceptable for North Korea to obtain nuclear weapons, but that’s more rhetorical than a real policy at this point,” Bolton wrote in a tweet he published at 1:16 p.m. EST on Monday. “The risk to US forces & our allies is imminent & more effective policy is required before NK has the technology to threaten the American homeland.” Bolton held the position of national security adviser until Trump asked for his resignation in September, publicly stating that it was because he “disagreed strongly with many of [Bolton’s] suggestions....

The invasion of Ukraine sparked concerns among some world leaders that Putin could potentially move on to other countries if his Ukraine offensive proves to be successful. Stavridis, a former four-star admiral, voiced these concerns during an appearance on MSNBC Sunday morning. He warned that Putin “has his gun sights” on several countries that were previously part of the Soviet Union, but are not members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) including Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus—though Belarus is already a close Putin ally and has even agreed to host Russia’s nuclear weapons inside its borders....

(Warning: Audio NSFW) MORE: 2014 arrested athletes | “Friday Night Tykes” review Barkley coaches his son's Basketball Stars of New York team, and was upset that a player on the other team was ineligible. He confronted the player's parent before the game, according to the New York Post. “Before the game, Barkley got into a beef with the father of a kid on the other team. Barkley said the kid couldn’t play because he was on more than one team,” said a parent....

Harangody, a forward for Euroleague club Valencia Basket, was going to the basket for a rebound opportunity when his own teammate, Pablo Aguilar, elbowed him in the left eye. Harangody immediately fell to the court as blood dripped from his face onto the floor. MORE: Warriors’ Green bumped postgame | Curry makes Clippers look silly | Duncan’s worst-ever shooting performance After a long delay, Harangody was taken to an ambulance with a wrap around his face....

In December, Hill was allegedly arguing with his 20-year-old girlfriend before he “struck her in the face and stomach and choked her,” according to the police report. The victim told police she had been dating Hill since June 2014 and was eight weeks pregnant with his child. MORE: Worst crimes connected to athletes According to The Oklahoman, Hill will serve three years probation on a deferred sentence and will to need complete anger management and domestic violence awareness courses....

Ruben Verastigui of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to charges of having 162 videos and more than 50 images of child pornography on his phone in July 2021. On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced Verastigui to 151 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. He will be required to register as a sex offender for at least 15 years. Verastigui, 29, was active in an online group with at least 18 members dedicated to trading child pornography and discussing child sexual abuse, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ)....

The 27-year-old goalkeeper came up through the ranks at Schalke, starting 33 games for the club between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons. However, he bounced around the last few years, spending a season in Switzerland with Aarau and multiple seasons with 2.Bundesliga side Fortuna Dusseldorf, only to start 10 games in the German second division for the club. “I did not play at Düsseldorf so my plan was to go to a club where I could play all the time and play my way into the focus of other clubs,” Unnerstall told Goal....

Turns out, not much has changed about Curry in the time since he left his college stomping grounds.​ Lamar Hull, who played basketball with Curry at Davidson College, originally gave Quora the details on Jan. 3: MORE FROM QUORA: What are the most unbreakable records in the NBA? MORE FROM QUORA: What do NBA players do in their free time? I tried pressing up against him, but that didn’t work because at Davidson Coach (Bob) McKillop ran him off screens and used a lot of ball screens, so he was unguardable....

Ethan Banning, a trainer who knows of Sandoval’s struggle with weight better than most, shed some light on what the Red Sox face in trying to get Sandoval back in shape. MORE: Best April rookies for every MLB team Banning, led two successful offseason programs with Sandoval when he was with the Giants, said Sandoval was a hard worker but constantly needed someone to monitor his food intake. “You need the babysitter,” Banning said of Sandoval, via the Boston Herald....

The former Trump supporter, David Weissman, explained in a piece published Tuesday in The Independent that he was a conservative activist a couple of years before the 2016 presidential election and decided to vote for Trump without realizing “who Trump really was,” because they seemed to want the same things for America. Weissman, an Army veteran with more than 95,000 Twitter followers, wrote that he spent a couple of years defending Trump and calling media critical of the president “fake news,” before realizing he “had always been aggressive and mean....

The politician, who served as a Labour MP between 2000 and 2012 for Falkirk in Scotland, was charged with making the photo between August 7, 2013 and November 6, 2018. It was said by prosecutors that it was a movie file found on a device and was a “category A image”, the most severe category of indecency. He has been ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register. Judge Emma Peters said that the single video was a 51-second clip “depicts a number of children” and was “clearly a category-A movie....

NEWSWEEK: What are U.S. attorneys and what do they do? Mary Jo White: There are 93 U.S. attorneys that serve [geographical] judicial districts throughout the country. All are appointed by the president and subject to confirmation by the Senate and each one is chief federal law-enforcement officer of their respective districts. They’re charged with enforcing the federal laws, criminal and civil, in their district. Does each prosecutor choose which cases to pursue?...

Hill’s manager and coach told MMAFighting.com the fighter went into cardiac arrest because of a collapsed lung. According to Hill’s wife, Lauran, he had been sick for days before being admitted to a hospital. Hill had fungal pneumonia, FOX Sports reported. “Corey was a loving husband and devoted father,” Lauran Hill said. “He was such a strong role model for our children, and would do anything to keep them safe and happy and healthy....

The former Georgia receiver won the Georgia Children’s Author of the Year award for his book, “The Magician’s Hat.” MORE: Preseason Top 25 | Best college football states Mitchell, who was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft, wrote the book last summer after he joined an all-women’s book club. The book is about a magician named David whose power is through books....

After he was spotted during the Tournament he earned the nickname Ram Boy. He wasn’t famous for just wearing the outfit. A GIF of him mouthing a choice word paired with the outfit made him an internet celebrity. After his famous moment, Stank became the unofficial mascot for Colorado State and gained plenty of air time. He had an on-air interview with CBS’ Allie LaForce and was profiled by the New York Times....

His video, which amassed more than 530,000 views, opened with a note that the drive-thru was backed up and cars were backed up to the street. “So I quit Wendys and all the [employees] and managers quit with me and this happened…,” the text over the video read. A sign that read, “We quit,” was taped over the drive-thru’s intercom. The TikToker uploaded a follow-up video that received more than 1 million views to explain what led him and his coworkers to quit....

One of the races originally in the calendar before the coronavirus outbreak forced organizers to cancel 12 events, the Russian Grand Prix has been a productive hunting ground for Mercedes, which has won each of the six editions of the race since Sochi made its debut on the calendar as a venue in 2014. Here’s all you need to know ahead of Sunday. Start time—The Russian GP gets underway at 2:10 p....

After missing out on pole position for the first time this season, Hamilton wasted no time in getting his nose in front as he passed Rosberg into turn one. That set the tone for the rest of a pulsating race — the 900th in Formula One history. Hamilton had opened up a nine-and-a-half-second lead when the safety car came out on lap 42 after Pastor Maldonado sent Esteban Gutierrez spinning through the air, but that gave Rosberg hope as the Brit was on slower tires....