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It should also be quite a bit better with those longtime Big East heavyweights lending their heft to a conference that already features Duke and North Carolina. “The most important thing is it has to be the greatest basketball conference ever assembled,” Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton says. “I don’t know how anyone can dispute that.” Time will tell if the expanded ACC emerges as the top-ranked RPI league for the first time since 2009, or if it will have staying power....

In an interview with Newsweek, Dr. Thomas Frieden, who served as CDC director between 2009 and 2017, said: “I think we’re heading into a difficult time. We still don’t know a lot about COVID, but it’s shaping up to be a hard winter.” “If you look at U.S., we’re already having over 1,000 deaths a day, and I think we’ve really become inured to that. That’s a huge number. I think we’ve lost our sense of perspective on how big the problem is,” he added....

“There is no other national figure dissenting from Biden’s policies and laying out how disastrous they are,” Dick Morris told WABC 770 AM radio host John Catsimatidis on Sunday. “Whether it be immigration, or his inflation policies, or his welfare policies. There’s only one person that’s really making that case. And that’s Donald Trump,” the political strategist continued. Morris also alleged that prosecutions against the Trump Organization are nothing more than an attempt to keep former president Trump quiet and prevent him from criticizing the Biden administration....

The Indy Channel reported that Tipton told police he was responding to threatening text messages from his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. MORE: NFL players arrested in 2015 | Steve Smith calls referees ‘Foot Locker Dudes’ A police report said Tipton fired a round from a Colt AR-15 in the driveway of his girlfriend’s home, where he believed she was being threatened. The former boyfriend was not at the house at the time of the incident....

Daniel Sprague was celebrating his 50th birthday at The Stage bar in Nashville, sporting a red hat gifted to him by his wife that read “Make Fifty Great Again” at the weekend, WSMV reported. But a stranger at the bar mistook it for one bearing President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” “People were just coming up to me and, you know, just loving the little wordplay on the hat and taking pictures and wishing me happy birthday,” Sprague told WSMV....

Crowell was dismissed from the Bulldogs program in June 2012 after being arrested on a pair of felony weapons charges, although the charges were eventually dropped. The 5-11 running back transferred to Alabama State and won the 2012 SWAC Newcomer of the Year award. This season, Crowell has run for 1,126 yards and 15 touchdowns. MORE: Top 10 CFB rivalries | “The Game” vs. The Iron Bowl According to Alabama State coach Reggie Barlow, the goal of Crowell was to play two years and prepare for the NFL draft....

“If MLB did an investigation as thorough as they did on the Astros with every team in baseball, they’re going to find a lot more than they want to find,” Musgrove said, according to Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Musgrove currently plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates as a starting pitcher but was a relief pitcher for the Astros during the 2017 season, when they won the World Series....

The Romanian tactician led a less than impressive domestic season for the Blue Wave and sees his seven month contract approaching its conclusion. Prandelli previously managed the Italy national team and guided them to a runner-up finish at the 2012 European Championship. “We reached an agreement with Prandelli by 95 per cent,” Humaid Al Tayer, the Nasr chairman, told Al Ittihad newspaper after the final at Zayed Sports City....

Smith was arrested Wednesday at his home in Jacksonville in a raid by sheriff’s officers. Jacksonville television station WJXT showed Smith in custody. The Florida Times-Union reports Smith is in jail in Jacksonville on $50,000 bond. MORE: Smith was irritated by reaction to hiatus ESPN reported that Smith is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl multiple times in his house and vehicle last September and October. The Jaguars said in a statement that they are aware of Smith’s arrest but “unable to comment further,” citing the ongoing investigation....

The 35-year-old, who won three caps for his country and was a member of the Confederations Cup-winning squad in 2013, was a free agent after leaving Fluminense in his homeland last year. Cavalieri will provide competition for Palace’s two senior goalkeepers, Julian Speroni and Wayne Hennessey, as Roy Hodgson’s side battle against relegation from the Premier League. “I am very happy to be here and have been training with the guys for some time now,” Cavalieri told Palace’s website....

A panel of former military officers gathered for the show to comment on fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s recent op-ed in The Washington Post in which he criticized Trump for becoming involved in Gallagher’s case. “It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices,” Spencer wrote....

Olivia Troye, a national security adviser who was on the White House coronavirus task force and was Pence’s lead staffer, recalled the events surrounding the Grand Princess in tweets on Wednesday. At least 122 passengers and crew eventually tested positive for COVID, according to The Guardian. Although the outbreak on the ship was announced by Pence on March 6, those on board were not allowed to disembark for three days amid reports that President Trump was unwilling to let the infections add to the total U....

Edmonds posted an Instagram story with a photo of himself in the hospital, complete with a mask covering his nose and mouth, and he wrote a message to his followers. “Held off as long as I could,” Edmonds wrote. “I thought I was tough enough to get through. This virus is no joke.” “Waiting on tests now,” he continued. “PS — I didn’t know the swab could go that far in someone’s nose....

Fairlamb was allegedly captured on video participating in the riot which saw supporters of President Donald Trump breach the Capitol building during the Congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College. Five individuals died in connection with the riot. Many members of the mob live-streamed their participation in the riot on social media. Fairlamb was identified through images posted online. According to an affidavit from the U....

The study published via JAMA Network Open concluded that former NFL players died at a rate almost 1.3 times higher than their MLB counterparts. And while chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has become a growing concern among current and retired players in recent years, the study found retired NFL veterans were three times more likely than MLB players to die from neurodegenerative disease. They were roughly 2.5 times as likely to die of cardiovascular disease compared to baseball players....

Former Pro Bowl wide receiver Yancey Thigpen and 13 other former NFL players have filed a lawsuit against Riddell that argues the manufacturer failed to adequately warn athletes of personal and financial injury risk. That’s fine, but the helmet is not the lone culprit in the context of football’s head-injury crisis. This is nothing new for Riddell. The latest lawsuit comes a week after Hall of Famer Paul Hornung sued Riddell and claimed the helmets did not protect him from brain injury....

Danielle Doyle, who worked for the team for more than a decade and had been a senior season ticket account manager when she left the Thunder in December 202, came under investigation after two former co-workers recognized her in videos posted online. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court, the first witness who knows Doyle from “when they both worked for a professional sports team in Oklahoma City,” said she recognized the 37-year-old Oklahoman after a friend sent a video of the Capitol riot....

Erasmus has penned a two-year deal with the second division side, ending speculation over a possible return to South Africa, The 27-year-old was linked with several PSL clubs soon after parting ways with French Ligue 1 outfit Stade Rennes earlier this season. However, he opted to remain in Europe and look to revive his career. Speaking to the Eskilstuna website after signing the contract, Erasmus revealed that this wasn’t an easy decision, but he sees it as an opportunity to play regular football again....

McQueary, a former quarterback at Penn State and assistant coach under Joe Paterno from 2004-11, was a key witness in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. McQueary said that he say Sandusky and a boy in the showers at the Lasch Football Building. In the ESPN The Magazine report, sources told the magazine that McQueary met with Penn State receivers on Nov. 9, 2011 — three days after prosecutors revealed McQueary’s comments about Sandusky and the shower — and said he could relate to the boy because he was also abused when he was younger....

Confirmation hearings for Barrett, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, begin Monday. Ginsburg, a liberal feminist icon, died aged 87 last month and if confirmed, Barrett would shift the balance of the court in favor of conservatives significantly. Barrett’s reported affiliation with People of Praise has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. Former members have described to Newsweek how women in the group are expected to submit to the will of their husbands and how its leaders dictate almost every aspect of members’ lives....