Ohio State’s game against Illinois has been called off less than 14 hours before kickoff. The Buckeyes announced shortly before 10:30 p.m. ET Friday that they wouldn’t travel to Illinois for a noon kickoff on Saturday because of COVID-19 cases within the program. One of the COVID-19 positives is coach Ryan Day. The school announced earlier Friday that Day tested positive and said that defensive line coach Larry Johnson would be the interim coach. The school said it had suspended all… Source link

A month after being reportedly stabbed at a San Diego strip club, Tommy Pham is suing the venue where it took place. The San Diego Padres outfielder filed a lawsuit against Pacers Showgirls International in San Diego Superior Court on Tuesday, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. In the suit, Pham reportedly alleges that the club’s private security “escalated the risk” for Pham by confronting and antagonizing the participants of a fight. Pham also reportedly alleges that employees… Source link

Even at 4-7 and on their third starting quarterback, it’s a fun time to be the Washington Football Team. It beat its rival Dallas on Thanksgiving, demolishing the Cowboys 41-16. It even used a fumblerooski to do it. That all adds up to an improbable lead in the comically putrid NFC East. So, in the aftermath of Thursday’s win, the person in charge of Washington’s Twitter account decided to have a little fun with the team’s division lead. Attaching a screenshot of the NFC East… Source link

If you read between the lines, ever so carefully, of the NFL’s latest coronavirus mess, you could tell, or at least suspect, that the league saw this coming. It did not know, specifically, which Baltimore Ravens would test positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. It did not know, with certainty, that the Ravens’ outbreak would swell to double digits. It could not sense, the day before Thanksgiving, that concern would soon peak. But when the NFL initially rescheduled a prime-time Thanksgiving… Source link

Local Journalism Initiative Black (market) Friday Retailers in Manitoba are finding new loopholes within mandated public-health orders to peddle non-essential products, just in time for the busy holiday sales this weekend. But speaking to reporters Friday, chief public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said the province doesn’t want to penalize large businesses for exploiting apertures in prescribed restrictions just yet — even if they are directly contravening them by pushing merchandise… Source link

The anticipated Pittsburgh Steelers versus Baltimore Ravens matchup will have to wait another few more days as the NFL moved it back to Tuesday. The game was initially scheduled as the prime-time matchup on Thanksgiving night, but was pushed to Sunday due to positive COVID-19 tests on the Ravens. They had four consecutive days of positive tests. It will now be played on Tuesday at 8 p.m., which creates further scheduling issues for the NFL next week. ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Dianna Russini… Source link

LONDON: Britain announced on Friday it will set up a watchdog to regulate tech giants such as Facebook and Google and improve their transparency on using people’s data and personalised advertising. The department for culture, media and sport said in a statement that the new regulator, the Digital Markets Unit, will “govern the behaviour of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook”. The aim is “to ensure consumers and small businesses aren’t… Source link

The Telegraph How Diego Maradona’s life spiralled to leave him a hobbling, arthritic shadow of his former self The final moments of Asif Kapadia’s magnificent film Diego Maradona are almost too painful to watch. To a soundtrack of an interview conducted when he was at the peak of his powers in Napoli, when he talks of the football pitch being a refuge, a sanctuary, a place of freedom where he could express himself without fear, we see Maradona in his late fifties attempting to play… Source link

MATCHES (EST) FORWARDS Dominic Calvert-Lewin, EVE v. LEE (£29): Calvert-Lewin leads the Golden Boot race with 10 goals, and up next is a Leeds defense that has conceded the third-most goals in the Premier League. He always looks like he’s had a full English breakfast, and he should be ready to feast again with Leeds on the menu. Gabriel Jesus, MCI v. BRN (£23): Jesus should be in line for another start, though Sergio Aguero could potentially return to the starting lineup. Whichever one starts… Source link

President-elect Joe Biden has watched the stock market surge as he prepares to take power next year. The rally appears to be driven largely by the spate of positive coronavirus vaccine news but has nevertheless been helped by some of Biden’s initial moves as President-elect. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) broke 30,000 for the first time one day after the news broke that the President-elect had picked Janet Yellen as his Treasury Secretary. Mohamed El-Erian, the President of Queens’… Source link