Hamlin led 53 laps at Charlotte last week but became ill late in the race and finished eighth. He went to the infield care center after the race with a migraine headache and admitted that too much golf and tennis before the race may have caused him to become dehydrated. MORE: Johnson not happy with penalty | Why Stewart apologized to Truex | Most disappointing drivers | Power Rankings...
Directed by Soyinka himself, the work is an angry denunciation of dictatorships and the abuse of power. Its main character is Gen. Baasha Bash, a potbellied, cowardly buffoon who, says Soyinka, is a caricature based on African dictators such as Abacha, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and the Cote d’Ivoire’s recently-deposed military head of state, Robert Guei. Soyinka, a Nobel Prize-winner who fled Abacha’s brutal regime in 1994, spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Ivan Watson on opening night....
Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) struggled in the early rounds against Washington (18-1-1, 12 KOs) in Birmingham, Ala., allowing the 34-year-old challenger to set the pace early by winning the first three rounds. Washington knocked Wilder back several times with jabs and body shots, not allowing him to set up his patented overhand right; Wilder certainly wasn’t aggressive in his first fight since fighting Chris Arreola in July. MORE: Time off gave Wilder more love of boxing...
The game was originally scheduled for Thursday but a power outage at the Estadio Metropolitano de Cabudare forced the clash to be rescheduled for Friday. Angulo was given the opportunity to get the Ecuadorians off to a fine start when Marcos Miers brought down Billy Arce in the penalty area after 16 minutes, but his spot-kick crashed back off the post. Both sides rarely threatened after that and were only able to conjure up three shots on target between them across the 90 minutes....
The legend - a fairly apposite title - that is Dilshan replaces Hamish Rutherford, a player who let no one down in his stint at the club. We now need the Sri Lankan, undoubtedly one of the finest players to emerge from his country, to show the form that earned him that reputation. No one would say that his form in the previous stint was vintage Dilshan. Even his runs against Lancashire in the televised T20 were scratchy and his CPL stint brought only 67 runs in four matches....
Speaking with Politico, several top Republican operatives, including donors and activists, spoke about the effect the hearings are having on Trump’s viability going forward. While they noted that the former president remains popular with certain voters who view the hearings as insubstantial, many other party operatives are becoming fatigued by the drama, even as they have not yet written off Trump completely. “Trump is facing an important onslaught of negative facts with these hearings and there is no real defense,” GOP donor Dan Eberhart told Politico....
On Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times obtained arrest footage from August showing law enforcement officers from the Tampa Bay Police Department and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office notifying the suspects that they were being arrested for alleged voter fraud. “What is going on?” one person, identified as Tony Patterson, asked officers while being placed in handcuffs. The new videos comes several months after DeSantis announced that he was creating the Office of Election Crimes and Security to investigate possible election crimes....
As DeSantis has ramped up the opening of monoclonal antibody sites in Florida this month, the governor was joined by the nation’s top infectious disease expert in recommending the treatment on Tuesday. During a White House COVID-19 briefing, Fauci called the treatment both “effective” yet “underutilized” by most physicians treating early cases of the virus. Monoclonal antibodies, which can be produced in unlimited qualities in a lab, work by binding to viruses the way normal antibodies do....
In an already demanding midterm election year, the Democratic party now faces the fight against a Republican-majority congressional map, submitted in January by DeSantis, that would break up U.S. Representative Al Lawson’s district, one of the two historically Black districts in the state. The House plans to vote on the congressional maps on Friday, and DeSantis has already proposed his plan to veto the decision. He called out the redistricting plans for being unconstitutional, condemning the Senate plans for racial gerrymandering....
Ashley Solis and Kyla Hayes, two of the women accusing Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct, spoke out against the quarterback and his gaudy contract on Tuesday night. The accusers spoke with Soledad O’Brien on the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Sports” on May 24, during which they detailed the alleged assaults, as well as condemned the Browns for “rewarding bad behavior.” “It’s just like a big screw you,” Solis said about Watson’s new deal....
According to multiple reports, the NFL’s disciplinary officer ruled Monday that Deshaun Watson would be suspended for the first six games of the 2022 season following civil lawsuits from 24 different massage therapists alleging sexual assault and misconduct. The NFL will be appealing the ruling. Watson had settled 23 of the lawsuits and was not facing criminal charges after two grand juries decline to charge him. The length of the suspension was the decision of retired federal judge Sue L....
“Too much energy has been expended making faux bricks and siding to mimic traditional housing,” says Wes Jones of Jones, Partners: Architecture (jonespartners.com). Dwell Magazine recently featured his PRO/con Package Home–along with 15 other groundbreaking designs–in its prefab-architecture contest. Winning entries boasted large balconies, airy floor plans and panache to spare (thedwell home.com). The breakthrough? Rather than mimicking tired styles, modern prefab proponents are rethinking the building blocks of the American home....
Desmond hit a pair of solo homers, including a tiebreaking drive in the eighth inning that sent the Rockies over the sagging New York Mets 3-2 Sunday for their season-high fifth straight win. In 2012 as a member of the Washington Nationals, Desmond met Ethan Brown, who as a 16-year-old was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to develop on nerve tissue. Since then, the 32-year-old veteran has kept a close relationship with Brown and has been involved in different ways to create awareness of the condition, partnering with the Children’s Tumor Foundation....
South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier is famous for throwing his visor in disgust when things go wrong, and a lot went wrong in the season opener against North Carolina. MORE: Week 1 photos | SN’s Week 1 picks | That Jacket ground game When North Carolina marched down the field on its first drive of the game, Spurrier was having flashbacks to a year ago, when his team gave up 680 yards in a 52-28 drubbing by Texas A&M....
Dune was intended to be split into two parts, a condition Villeneuve set because of the hefty material in the book. However, audiences had to wait until the box office success of Dune prompted Legendary to officially greenlight the second chapter. RELATED: Chloé Zhao Shares How Denis Villeneuve Helped Her With Eternals In a new interview with Empire, Villeneuve discussed everything from Dune details to the upcoming Dune sequel that is set to start filming in July 2022....
The Danes have accumulated nine points from five games and are sitting in the second position in the points table. They will be looking to climb up the ladder by beating Switzerland on Saturday (October 12) at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. Though Switzerland is currently sitting third in Group D, they have a game in hand as compared to the two sides sitting above them. They too have a great chance of climbing up the ladder, which makes the match on Saturday a mouth-watering contest....
Speaking to Viceland earlier this month, the retired basketball player explained how his [eggplant emoji] was broken on three separate occasions. None of the escapades sound pleasant, and according to Rodman there was “blood everywhere” whenever it happened. MORE: The most hated NBA players of all time Obviously the subject matter is sensitive, so be warned that the content below is graphic in nature.
MORE: JGR trio takes unique approach | Truex finds trouble at ‘Dega Joey Logano had an even worse scenario. He left pit road with the jack wedged under his car. If it had slipped out on the ensuing lap a caution would have come out, but it remained locked under his car as he made his lap. The situation was costly, but not as much as it could have been....
Patrick remains peevish about incidents in last year’s Duels, in which she claims Hamlin cause her to spin out. Video of her reaction is classic. MORE: Duels begin at 7 p.m. ET Thursday | Lineups | Qualifying conspiracy theory But as he was at the time, Hamlin is having none of Patrick’s argument. Politely, of course. “We’re one big happy family,” Hamlin told media members on Tuesday. “Daytona last year, looking back on it was funny how it all worked out....
McLain became baseball’s most recent 30-game winner in 1968, when he swept the American League Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Awards for the world champion Tigers. He followed with another Cy Young season in 1969 before his career imploded after rotator cuff issues and poor off-field decisions. MORE: Ranking the 25 worst Baseball Hall of Fame selections That he last pitched at 28 and still has Hall of Fame supporters is a testament to how brightly and briefly McLain shined before his career went south....
