In fact, the Togolese striker considers a move to the Eagles as a free agent to be the “worst decision” of his career. Adebayor found himself without a club at the time having been released from his contract at Tottenham. WATCH: Mbappe’s rise to the top He took the decision to remain in the Premier League, but managed just one goal in 15 appearances for Palace before dropping back into the free agent pool....
MORE: Two Alabama players arrested | Top 25 running backs Former Nittany Lions players James Boyd and Eric Ravotti said (via CBS Sports) that they were unaware the university would be named as a defendant in the suit filed in the Northern District of Illinois. “I am keenly aware of the evidence of long-term damage from concussions and generally support ongoing research and investigation of the subject,” Boyd said in a statement....
Original story Former mayor of Detroit, Michigan Kwame Kilpatrick is expected to be released from federal prison after serving only seven years of a 28-year sentence. Supporters of Kilpatrick, including Ebony Magazine, the NAACP and the National Baptist Convention of America, had lobbied for his release. After five inmates died as a result of coronavirus in the prison where Kilpatrick was held, Attorney General William Barr asked that qualifying prisoners be remanded to home confinement....
The 39-year-old, who is still under contract with Detroit but hasn’t played in the NHL since 2015-16, said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression — as well as concussion issues — following his time in the NHL. “Sometimes everything just collapses and there is no light at all. Then you almost give up,” Franzen told Expressen (translated with Google Translate). MORE: Chris Chelios discusses Mike Babcock’s alleged behavior toward Johan Franzen...
The 57-year-old Morais is a Portuguese who have spent his managing career exclusively in Portugal in the Primeira Liga. From Beira-Mar to Academica Coimbra to Pacos Ferreira to Estoril Praia - Morais who will also act as the manager of JDT certainly comes with his fair share of experience in one of Europe’s top flight. Morais will be the sixth permanent head coach since HRH Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim (TMJ) took over the team and converted it to a club form....
Tracy Walder, who worked as staff operations officer at the CIA as well as an agent at the FBI’s Los Angeles office, dissected the slayings with NewsNation on Thursday after Idaho police released the probable cause affidavit that led to Bryan Kohberger’s arrest. Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student in the criminology department at Washington State University, was arrested December 30 over the November 13 deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20....
Oliver was 29. His family confirmed his death, but did not provide details, when contacted by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Cobb County police spokesman Mike Bowman told the Journal-Constitution that Oliver used a handgun. HAYES: Inside SEC headquarters with Mike Slive Oliver leaves behind a wife and two children. MORE: Notable deaths of 2013 "I was crushed this morning when I heard it, quite frankly," Georgia coach Mark Richt said....
In an op-ed for The New York Times on Wednesday, Comstock called Trump “the patron saint of sore losers” and warned about unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Comstock represented Virginia’s 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. During the 2016 presidential election, she called for Trump to drop out of the race following the release of the Access Hollywood tape, which showed him using offensive language about women....
Prosecutors say that Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, took part in the espionage plot from 1996 to 2011. Russian agents are said to have assigned Debbins the code name “Ikar Lesnikov” in 1997, before he served with the Army on active duty from 1998 to 2005. He was allegedly encouraged to pursue a career with the Green Berets, or Special Forces, by Russian intelligence and was selected to serve in the elite unit after several years in chemical units....
The fans were watching as their teams faced off in the second game of the ALCS at Minute Maid Park in Houston. According to police, James Dinkins slapped Yankee fan Manuel Bitolas in the back of the head multiple times and was later arrested for a misdemeanor charge. Bitolas was allegedly slapped while he cheered for his team during the game. “I told him something and patted his shoulder and he said, ‘Don’t f-ing touch me,’” Bitolas told KTRK....
According to a statement released by the FIGC, Reina is said to have maintained a relationship of “friendship and acquaintance”, involving the exchange of favours, with the owners of a Naples-based betting agency - Gabriele Esposito, Francesco Esposito and Giuseppe Esposito. The accusations against Reina in the FIGC statement read: “To have entertained and continued to entertain relationships of acquaintance and friendship with Esposito Gabriele, prejudiced, Esposito Francesco and Esposito Giuseppe - factual owners of the EUROBET betting agency in Naples at Piazza Mercato, realised in holidays, exchange of courtesies (availability of use of large cars owned by Esposito Gabriele and access to the restricted area of the San Paolo stadium during official competitions)....
Hoke’s last stint as a defensive coordinator was in 1982 at Yorktown High School in Indiana. He accrued a 31-20 record in four seasons at Michigan (including an 11-2 season in 2011) after helping turn around programs at Ball State and San Diego State. Hoke also served on the staff at Oregon State from 1989-94. MORE: Questions for 2016 | Lloyd Carr CFP committee finalist Hoke, 57, is regarded as one of the nation’s best recruiters....
Former MLB All-Star Sean Casey was in the crowd Monday night for the Home Run Derby, and he displayed some soft hands in grabbing a deep foul ball off the bat of Josh Donaldson. MORE: LIVE Home Run Derby tracker | Best career All-Star Game performances | All-time Home Run Derby winners Casey played first base, but “The Mayor” showed here that he could have been a solid outfielder as well....
Stern was 77. Some of the NBA’s stars when Stern took over as commissioner were Magic, Bird, Kareem, Dr. J and Moses Malone. Then came Jordan, Dominique, Pippen, Karl Malone, John Stockton and Charles Barkeley, and the 90’s ushered in the likes of Shaq, Kobe, Iverson and then LeBron James in the new century. Stern was behind some of the magnificent television growth in the sport, helping use the popularity of its stars and rivalries to start making significant gains in revenue....
Julie Szulczewski, 52, was the news director at WSOC-TV, a dual ABC and Telemundo affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. She led the station in a close race for the top of the local news ratings charts during her time on the staff. Szulczewski says that during her time with the station she managed to turn WSOC-TV into a “thriving” news outlet that flourished, even though budget cuts forced her to work with gaps in her staffing....
“Alan Dershowitz unimpeached Richard Nixon today,” Dean wrote on his Twitter account. “All Nixon was doing was obstructing justice and abusing power because he thought he was the best person for the USA to be POTUS. When POTUS does it…etc. Seriously, that was his motive! Agree with Alan and impeachment is gone.” Dean’s tweet comes just after Dershowitz’s arguments on Wednesday in the Senate’s impeachment trial for Trump. Over the course of the trial, Dershowitz and others on the president’s legal team have argued that the charges against Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, are not crimes that constitute his removal from office....
Franklin Conley, 28, told Wells he would harm him and his family if he didn’t pay between $65,000 and $175,000 after Wells’ brother set up a drug deal in which Conley and co-defendant Patrick Griffin lost money. MORE: Where troubled athletes went wrong Wells said Conley’s threats intensified over several months until the FBI got involved. The former Buckeye denied being involved with the drug deal in question. Wells, 27, now hosts a morning sports talk show in Columbus, Ohio, after a four-year stint in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals that ended in 2013....
Johnson, who was once a director at Planned Parenthood before she started campaigning against abortion, was responding to comments the star made on stage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on October 2. Eilish, 19, told fans that she was on the verge of canceling her show in protest at the law in the Lone Star State prohibiting abortion when there is a fetal heartbeat, effectively banning the procedure for women who are more than six weeks’ pregnant....
“I do believe [Trump] gave voice to a lot of people who did feel forgotten, but I think that many of us, myself included, got into that White House and got heavy with power and we didn’t think about serving the country anymore,” Grisham told ABC News’ Good Morning America on Monday. “It was about surviving in there, and he loved it. He loved the chaos in there.” “It’s bad, and obviously hindsight is 20/20....
Hayne, a star in Australia, will pursue his American football dream with the 49ers, it was announced Monday. MORE: Famous two-sport athletes | A look at the big questions Hayne, who announced in October that he was coming to the States, also visited the Lions and Seahawks. He will be eligible to participate in the Niners’ offseason workouts beginning April 6, according to CSNBayArea.com. The 27-year-old will be one of 90 players on San Francisco’s offseason roster....
