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Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Daniel Agger and Steve McManaman will be part of the Liverpool team who will play a post-season friendly against A-League side Sydney FC next month as part of the club’s 12th anniversary celebrations. PL clubs running at a loss Retired since hanging up his boots in November last year, club legend Gerrard is reportedly set to become Liverpool’s under-18’s manager next season but before then, he will play alongside the likes of Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino at ANZ Stadium....

Dr. Moncef Slaoui made the comments during a live interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. The adviser said the question of whether or not people who have been infected already should get the vaccine is “really important.” “What we know is that it is safe to be immunized after having been exposed to the virus. That has happened in clinical trials—people that participated in the trials had experienced or actually had a viral infection at the time they started being vaccinated....

Christkindlmarkt, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania What better way to ring in Christmas than in a town called Bethlehem. Christkindlmarkt has nearly 150 different stalls, selling the usual array of holiday goodness—from sweet treats to gift ideas. But there’s also so much more, such as ice carving, glassblowing, breakfasts and igloos. You can even get your pet photographed with Santa Claus. The market runs to December 22. Downtown Holiday Market, Washington, D.C. The capital of the United States knows how to get festive....

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Matt Hardy has ‘woken’ After being dormant since his WWE return earlier this year, Matt Hardy is indeed “woken” as the character made his official WWE debut on “RAW” this past Monday. All the mannerisms were on full display as Hardy talked about his travels though “space and time” in a taped back-and-forth segment with Bray Wyatt that concluded with him sentencing the “Eater of Worlds” to deletion. Any worries about how the WWE audience would react to “Woken” Matt were quickly gone following the huge reaction Monday night....

Wrestle Kingdom 12 thrills Kazuchika Okada’s record title reign as IWGP Heavyweight Champion is not over yet. Okada successfully defended the championship at the Tokyo Dome on Thursday in his highly anticipated match against Tetsuya Naito to cap off Wrestle Kingdom 12, New Japan Pro Wrestling’s biggest annual event. The show, considered Japan’s version of WrestleMania, had the largest audience for the promotion in nearly 15 years with 34,995 paid fans and nearly 43,000 in attendance....

GETTING INTO COLLEGE, WHATEVER IT TAKES WHEN PARENTS, PROFESSIONAL EDITORS AND COUNSELORS LEND A HAND, HOW PERSONAL IS THE PERSONAL ESSAY? BY MAY AKABOGU-COLLINS My son, Rocky, is a high-school senior who is applying to colleges. I am already overwhelmed by the process. What he must do to get into a good school! Provide recommendations, fill out financial-aid forms, take the inevitable standardized tests–and in addition to all that, write a personal essay....

Prevention Is Key The best way to deal with illness is to head it off at the pass. Take steps to keep from getting sick or to keep it from getting worse. For prevention, the best advice is avoiding sick people (if possible) and washing your hands. If frequent washing isn’t an option, use hand sanitizer. The flu vaccine is also safe and effective for those with fibromyalgia. FMS is not a contraindication to the flu, or any, vaccine....

This summer I was one of 20 teens who spent five weeks at the University of Wisconsin at Superior studying acid rain with a National Science Foundation Young Scholars program. With such a small group in such a small town. we soon became close friends and had a good deal of fun together. We learned about the science of acid rain, went on field trips, found the best and cheapest restaurants in Superior and ate in them frequently to escape the lousy cafeteria food....

Yes, this is the entire list of Ohio State losses against Big Ten football competition during the past five seasons. The Buckeyes are 38-3 in conference play over that period, plus four more victories in Big Ten Championship games. They have won four consecutive undisputed league titles. That never happened before in the Big Ten’s 125-year history. Even Alabama in the SEC can’t quite match those particular distinctions. For many, Ohio State’s dominance in Big Ten football has come to be accepted as part of the natural order, like leaves changing colors in autumn and the enduring mediocrity of reality TV....

Why did you choose to write this book? Why this family? Over the years, I had interviewed a few Gettys. I found them fascinating—and all quite different. I began to learn how sprawling the family is, with four distinct branches. They have all gone in wildly different directions, not just geographically. Writing his book was an opportunity to connect the dots and learn how a contemporary dynasty survives and even thrives....

The tournament’s outstanding team corrected the flaws that made them surrender 2-0 to the Super Eagles in the group stage. And in the final, they found a sumptuous opportunity to avenge their defeat. It was the first time Nigeria had found conceded a goal in the competition and it came as a bitter pill to swallow as goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa let in four goals in 90 minutes. Anthony Okpotu passed up a glorious opportunity midway through the first half and the striker also wasted several scoring chances....

The Yankees on Monday put Giancarlo Stanton on the 10-day injured list with a left biceps strain, adding potential long-term concerns on top of the short-term angst of dropping consecutive games to the Orioles over the weekend. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Clint Frazier has been recalled from Triple-A to take Stanton’s roster spot. There had been no indications prior to the announcement that Stanton was suffering from any physical ailments....

True to Florida form, the trespasser was an enormous alligator. MORE: Active home run leaders | MLB says Colin Cowherd needs to apologize to Dominican players Stone Crabs pitcher Kyle McKenzie had his own theory on the gator. 

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the dust cloud is known as the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), and commonly forms during late spring through early fall. Weather.com reported that the densest portion of the cloud emerged off of Western Africa just last weekend and the dust has traveled “3,000 to 4,000 miles” across the Atlantic Ocean. The Sahara dust cloud is expected to continue moving over the Caribbean Sea, in a westward fashion, but could reach areas near the Gulf Coast and the southern U....

Basking sharks, the second largest species of fish in the world after the whale shark, have been occasionally spotted performing these strange mass circle dances, but in a paper published in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists from the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and the Irish Basking Shark Group have worked out why they do it. Basking sharks can measure up to 33 feet long and weigh up to 4....

Videos posted to social media and on the International Meteor Organization (IMO) website show a bright ball in the night skies over northern parts of the U.K., emitting a greenish light and leaving behind a trail of debris. The object appeared to be a fireball—a particularly bright type of meteor that burns intensely as it slams into Earth’s atmosphere from space, heated up by air resistance. “Not very often a meteor flies past your house,” wrote Twitter user Mark Rae who posted a clip from the town of Saltcoats, Scotland....

The Giants selected the quarterback out of Duke with the No. 6 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, a move that was unpopular with some fans. Barkley, the team’s second-year running back, was asked about Jones during an interview Tuesday with New York station WFAN. “He can play,” Barkley said. “You see flashes and glimpses on the field. I’m really excited to see him go out there and play live against the Jets (in the first preseason game) Thursday....