And so he did. Brees passed Peyton Manning to become the NFL’s all-time leader in yards passing with a 62-yard touchdown to rookie Tre’Quan Smith on Monday night that sent New Orleans on its way to a lopsided 43-19 victory over the mistake-prone Washington Redskins. “It’s hard for me to reflect too much right now just because my career’s not done. There are still goals to be accomplished. There are still challenges to be met....
In fact, Miko Grimes reportedly scared off several teams that otherwise might have signed the cornerback. Her outbursts, like the one on Twitter against Ryan Tannehill, don’t reflect well on Brent or the team on which he plays. MORE: NFL players’ wives, girlfriends | Free agency winners, losers One team apparently willing to put up with Miko’s antics is the Buccaneers, who signed Grimes to a two-year, $16.5 million contract (per ESPN) Friday....
The 14-second clip of Taylor shows her in a room with at least three others, playfully sticking her tongue out at the camera as she dances. Brooke Ariel, who posted the video on Twitter, noted that it was probably the first time many people would have seen Taylor in motion. “This might be the first time you actually saw Breonna Taylor on video,” Ariel wrote in the tweet. “This is how I want to remember Her....
Daniele Dessena’s 36th-minute goal was enough to earn Eugenio Corini’s men a victory that means third-placed Palermo, who drew 2-2 with Spezia, can no longer catch them. Le Rondinelle’s last appearance in Serie A came in 2010-11, and relegation preceded a tumultuous period in which the club diced with bankruptcy in 2015 and narrowly avoided relegation to Serie C in 2016-17. Corini’s success will delight Brescia president Massimo Cellino, who sacked David Suazo after three weeks of the season, and the club that launched the careers of Roberto Baggio and Andrea Pirlo will be among Italy’s best in 2019-20....
Favre, who will have his No. 4 officially retired Thursday night at halftime of the Bears-Packers game at Lambeau Field, spent 16 of his 20 NFL seasons with the Packers and retired as the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards, touchdowns and wins, among several other records. He also set the NFL record with 321 consecutive games played, a feat widely regarded as unbreakable. MORE: NFL Week 12 Power Rankings | Ken Stabler nominated as Seniors Committee candidate...
The Yankees, citing research from the Elias Sports Bureau, said they became the first team to reach the milestone. The total starts in 1903, the first year the franchise started play in New York. Mickey Mantle hit No. 5,000 on Aug. 8, 1954, at Detroit against Billy Hoeft, and Claudell Washington hit No. 10,000 on April 20, 1988, at Minnesota off Jeff Reardon. Brian McCann’s first-inning home run tied the score, and Gardner’s put New York ahead 2-1....
While Dallas romped to victory over Tampa Bay and led 24-0 before the Bucs got on the board, Maher endured one of the worst kicking performances in NFL history. He set a league record by missing his first four extra-point attempts of the evening. Maher’s first two kicks sailed wide to the right before his third shank went to the left. His fourth attempt very nearly sneaked inside the right side of the goalpost, but it glanced off the top of it and was no good....
That vision was before Black Lives Matter and definitely before COVID, but was launched months after the Brexit vote, where it set out the desire to be both at the center of London and at the center of the world, bringing universities together, whether that be in France, the U.S. or China. Before his time as the head of King’s, he was President and Vice-Chancellor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, director of neurology at St Vincent’s Hospital and professor of clinical neurology at the University of Melbourne, founding director of the Melbourne Neuromuscular Research Unit and the Centre for Neuroscience and Professor of Experimental Neurology at the University of Melbourne in 2001....
France, speaking on “NASCAR Live” on Motor Racing Network, echoed what he said in November on the issue. Professional sports leagues, especially the NFL, have faced increased scrutiny of their handling of acts of domestic violence by athletes. MORE: Disgraced athletes | Investigation complete | Relationship at center of case “We will have a very strong, bright line that if that’s crossed, you can expect us to be very, very aggressive at dealing with it,” France said on the show....
Kelly, the winningest coach in Notre Dame history, left South Bend for LSU earlier this week in a move that sent shockwaves throughout college football. He comes in a winner, but also an outsider. He’s originally from Everett, Mass., outside Boston. MORE: Former ND QB Brady Quinn rips Brian Kelly’s Irish exit Kelly’s predecessor, Ed Orgeron, is about as quintessentially Louisiana as there is, both in voice and demeanor, as he hails from the heart of Cajun country....
The GOP primary race between Kemp and Perdue has become heated, especially due to the involvement of former President Donald Trump. Once a supporter of Kemp, Trump turned on the governor after he refused to contest the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Trump later endorsed Perdue, a former U.S. senator, on the same day he announced his gubernatorial campaign, a move which, Kemp says, complicates the situation and increases the odds of Abrams winning....
No, all it could take — potentially — is a continuation of the rotten luck and spotty execution that has mired the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team in mediocrity over the past 11 races. Sunday’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway was emblematic of Johnson’s recent struggles, not to mention a paradigm for Murphy’s Law. After running fifth in the first round of knockout qualifying on Saturday, Johnson scraped the outside wall in the second round and had to settle for the 20th starting position....
That was the story for one bride, who has since gone viral online for her hilarious blunder. The scene was perfect: A spacious room on a sunny day, friends’ and family’s laughter filling the room, and the menus were all ready - until a spelling error meant guests were left waiting for an avant-garde “dick liver pate” instead of the more-traditional duck liver pate one would expect. The moment has gained more than 43,000 likes and 1....
In a post on Reddit’s popular r/TrueOffMyChest forum, a 26-year-old posting under the username u/Awkward_Bat_7027 explained her decision to call off the wedding. “My fiancé, who I’ll call Jackson, is very picky about how things look but has never made any comments about me or the way I do things,” she wrote. “I had a beautiful dress for the wedding that was designed by my oldest brother.” Her brother, who was a designer, had also made her sister’s and cousin’s wedding dresses before he was diagnosed with a malignant primary cardiac tumor at 21 years old....
In a post shared under the username siskidsthrowaway on Reddit’s Am I The A**hole (AITA) forum, which received 6,742 upvotes at the time of writing, the bride-to-be said, “I have now blocked both her [the mother] and my sister on everything,” following more heated interactions with the mom after the pair were disinvited. You can read the full post here. According to the post, no children under the age of 16 are allowed at her wedding, apart from the couple’s “high functioning” autistic daughter, Ella....
Initially planned for release in late 2022, the Captain Marvel sequel was pushed along with most of Disney’s Marvel movies as part of the studio’s fall update. Not much is known about The Marvels as of now, though that is likely down to the roles that Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) will be playing in the movie, with the former having a potentially phase-defining lead in her upcoming debut series, Ms....
FYQD, the one-man studio that created Bright Memory, has said that the original Bright Memory is aiming for the Xbox Series X launch. FYQD made this announcement during the Playism Game Show, where he also confirmed that the upcoming Bright Memory: Infinite is planned to launch as an Xbox Series X console exclusive in 2021, alongside a PC version. RELATED: Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Are Just as Chaotic as the PS5...
The plan is to buy more than 60 million rapid tests each month, reportedly reaching 192 million purchased by March. This would mean that nearly every resident could be tested once each month. This follows a trial taking place in Liverpool, north-west England, which is attempting to test everyone in the city and the surrounding region, made up of around 600,000 people. Plans are already in place, U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has revealed, to roll out this testing to 70 local authorities including London, Birmingham, and Manchester, assuming all goes well in the Liverpool trial....
Cordbusters reports that BritBox UK will eventually be folded into the upcoming streaming service ITVX, ITV’s new platform set to debut later this year. It’s already been confirmed by ITV that the BritBox library will be available via ITVX, which will feature a free, ad-supported tier and a premium, ad-free tier with more content. ITV published the following statement in a press release: “BritBox will remain the standalone subscription home of the best of British content… until later this year, when the content on ITV Hub and BritBox come together in what will be the new streaming home of ITV, ITVX....
Civil liberties group said the law proposed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government could deprive millions of their vote, particularly the poor and members of ethnic minorities. Environment Secretary George Eustice said Wednesday that the changes would “protect the integrity of our electoral system” against fraud and had “nothing to do with party interests.” For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. But opposition Labour Party justice spokesman David Lammy said it was “a cynical and ugly attempt to rig the system to disempower the poorest and most marginalized groups....
