DeRozan caught a pass from his former teammate Rudy Gay and took off for a one-handed dunk. He cut through the lane and jumped past two defenders before finishing with authority. MORE: Nash won’t be waived | T-Mac works out with Kobe | Durant deal
This victory was a generation in the making. Six members of USA’s 2018 gold medal-winning team are 28 or older. For Hilary Knight, the Lamoureux sisters, Gigi Marvin, Kacey Bellamy and Meghan Duggan, Pyeongchang’s gold-medal game may very well have been their last time on Olympic ice. MORE: U.S. women end Canada’s stranglehold on Olympic hockey gold For those women and four of their teammates, all silver medalists in Sochi, the shootout victory early Thursday morning was particularly satisfying....
Contingency plans were announced last week for the playoff games, stating that a team with an outbreak this close to the playoff games would be likely to forfeit, advancing the other team directly to the January 10 national championship game. Media availability for players and coaches is being conducted virtually, events for the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl that typically involve interaction with fans have been canceled, and charity efforts conducted by the teams playing in the games are also being conducted remotely out of caution....
Jordan was among the 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded Tuesday by President Barack Obama at the White House. MORE: Sports’ biggest stars get ‘Crying Jordan’ treatment During his speech, Obama said Jordan was “more than just the best player on the two greatest teams of all time, the ‘Dream Team’ and the 1996 Chicago Bulls.” “He’s more than just a logo, more than just an internet meme,” Obama continued, drawing laughter from the crowd with the reference to not just Jordan’s Nike brand, but the “Crying Jordan” meme that has become ubiquitous on social media....
Ashleigh and her boyfriend are welcoming a stray dog from the streets of Turkey to their home in the U.K., after the pup spent each night camped outside of their hotel room, refusing to leave. Laia had been on the streets for five years before her miraculous meeting with her new owners in a Starbucks in Turkey. Their journey to providing a forever home for the dog about 2,000 miles away is being widely watched online, with one video racking up 500,000 views....
In a video shared to TikTok on August 20, user @xcarmenelisabeth shared snaps of a then-seven-year-old Elmo, alongside the many posts she’d put out over the years trying to find him. “Five years went by and our hope was gone,” Carmen wrote alongside the pictures of the black and white cat. “Then I got a call on August 16th, ‘we found your cat.’” In the next shot, a now-12-year-old Elmo is being snuggled in Carmen’s mother’s arms....
The hearing impaired deserve to have their dignity intact and we as an organization, condemn the big technology companies who are so focused on reaching for the stars, that they are ignorant or just plain disinterested in bothering about them and the other equally disabled. Some techs and gadgets which have been invented and some that are in search of funding are mentioned below. Future Gadgets: 1. Motion Savvy–Sign Language Recognition: A novel method for communication with the help of this gadget....
Looking at the Cambridge Analytica scandal’s role in Trump’s win, the answer can be yes, but if that’s the case, why Joe Biden? What made him win the presidency? You must be thinking, compared to Trump, he has less social following. With just under 3 million Facebook followers and over 9 million on Twitter, Biden cannot surpass Trump, who has 30 million on Facebook and 85 million on Twitter, right?...
The viral TikTok video was posted by user ryantufford and has amassed over 1 million views at the time of this writing, with nearly 200,000 likes and 2,000 comments. In the video, an unknown individual is seen recording Ted Cruz as he exits a building and asks him what he thinks about the new Minecraft update. Cruz responded by saying, “I play a lot of video games, but not Minecraft, unfortunately....
The exchange of tweets comes after the official recognition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday on Friday, which Cruz commemorated on the Senate floor. “As we commemorate the long overdue announcement of emancipation made in Texas 156 years ago, let us together remember the God-given freedoms we all cherish as Americans,” Cruz said during the commemoration. In O’Rourke’s Saturday tweet, he spoke out against “Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression,” in reference to Democrats’ attempts to pass the For the People Act for sweeping voting rights....
The Texas Republican made the remarks during the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference. Cruz, former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Senator Rick Scott and other GOP leaders will address the conference, aiming to build momentum ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. “Critical race theory says every white person is a racist,” the senator said. “Critical race theory says America’s fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical race theory seeks to turn us against each other and if someone has a different color skin, seeks to make us hate that person....
Long began his career as a referee in WWE but soon found his calling when he was made the General Manager of SmackDown in 2004. He was a regular fixture in SmackDown’s programming until 2014, after which he retired and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame the same year. Appearing on The Wrestling Inc Dailly podcast, Long spoke about watching Vickie Guerrero on AEW and disclosed he was told by the company that he’s too old to join the promotion....
Louie from Rhode Island became an internet star over the weekend when his mom documented the emotional moment he discovered he was flying to Texas to see Ross. He began listening to Ross with his late great-grandfather and is now a fully-fledged superfan, making this weekend a dream come true. His mom posted the moment Louie learned he was going to the concert to TikTok, taking the app by storm and gaining over 4 million views....
The animal charged at Amelia Dean, from the U.K., on June 6, stopping before it hit her at full speed but still goring her with its horn. The force of the collision tossed Dean 15ft into the air, tearing the femoral artery in her left thigh and damaging the surrounding nerves as it dug its horn in, leaving her bleeding heavily. The bison was subsequently led away by a fellow hiker, who then called the emergency services....
Police said the teenager was killed and two others wounded near the Atlanta Fair at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to ABC affiliate WSB-TV Atlanta. Atlanta police Lt. Ralph Woolfolk said the shooting followed on from an “escalated dispute,” which turned into a fight. Police told the network that a 14-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 19-year-old were shot on the corner of Bass and Pryor streets close to Central Avenue....
The two, belonging to Performance Racing team,won the titles with a race to spare. A second-place finish behind Deepak Ravikumar (Infinite Piston) ensured the title for 25-year-old Teja as he took his tally to an unbeatable 106 points. Ravikumar moved to second position in the championship with 76.5 points, ahead of Bengalurus Varun Anekar (Race Concepts, 75) and the duo will be fighting it out in the second race tomorrow....
The first one is called Tekken 7 Originals Edition and aside from the base game and the frame data display feature that came with Season 3, includes 12 DLC character packs. Basically, the only other additional content it comes with are the post-launch characters who originate from the Tekken series: Eliza, Anna Williams, Lei Wulong, Craig Marduk, Armor King, Julia Chang, Zafina, Ganryu, Leroy Smith, Fahkumran, Kunimitsu (specifically the second Kunimitsu), and Lidia Sobieska, the final DLC character added to the game back in March....
As seen below in the latest trailer for Tekken 7, the first feature that gets highlighted is the game’s Rage Art abilities, which are armored special moves that allow players to inflict huge amounts of damage on their opponents to turn the tides of battle in their favor. Following this, the title’s Rage Drive aspect is touched on, showing how fans can pull off unique tactical maneuvers, as these are character specific moves....
The samples will need to be provided by the owners when they go to get or renew a pet license. “The initiative is part of a long-running campaign to tackle the minority of dog owners who don’t pick up their mess,” Eytan Halon, a spokesperson for the municipality, told Newsweek. “One in 11 Tel Aviv residents have a dog, and a small minority do not collect the waste.” The initiative will allow the city to collect and test droppings left around Tel Aviv....
