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During a match between NWA Champion Nick Aldis and Trevor Murdoch on the Tuesday, November 19 episode of NWA Powerrr, Cornette made the following remark: “Trevor Murdoch is mad, bad and dangerous. He’s the only man I know that can strap a bucket of fried chicken on his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia.” The episode was removed from the promotion’s YouTube channel before being re-uploaded with the remark edited out, but you can listen to Cornette’s comment below....

Last week, Harbaugh planned a sleepover with the No. 1 kicker in the 2016 recruiting class. Now, he is climbing trees in California to get a recruit’s attention. MORE: Sprint to signing day | Way-too-early Top 20 for 2016 Harbaugh paid a visit to four-star cornerback David Long on Monday as he continues his West Coast recruiting trip. Long, rated as the No. 64 player overall according to 247Sports, participated in the U....

Jordan, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, has faced significant backlash from Democrats and some conservatives due to his support for the ex-commander-in-chief’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The Ohio Republican has been dubbed a “traitor” by some prominent critics after the House select committee investigating the pro-Trump January 6 attack against the U.S. Capitol revealed a text message he forwarded to the former president’s then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows outlining a strategy to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office....

While on the broadcast, Kaat and former manager Buck Showalter were talking about Moncada, with Kaat saying that everybody who talks about Moncada says he “should be a star, an All-Star,” to which Showalter responded that “That’s what they look like.” Showalter added that the first time he saw Moncada, a Cuban player, in the dugout, he said, “can we have one of those?” Kaat interjected, “40 acres full of them....

Nantz is now lending his voice to Genworth’s new #LetsTalk campaign, the goal of which is to make more families talk about long-term care to better prepare themselves and their loved ones for Alzheimer’s and other debilitating diseases. MORE: Nantz, Raftery, Hill to broadcast Final Four | Wine tasting with Jim Nantz “As my father went through a long decline, suffering from Alzheimer’s, I had a real awareness of how long-term care is such an essential part of what people should do with their lives,” Nantz told Sporting News....

The Grammy-winning producer and songwriter was known for his bombastic, over-the-top rock songs, which he perfected with Meat Loaf’s 1977 Bat Out of Hell. That album was one of the behemoths of the 1970s, selling over 50 million copies and staying on the U.K. record charts for over 10 years. Though Steinman will be best remembered with his collaborations with Meat Loaf, he also penned hits for Celine Dion, Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply, won a Grammy, and had been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame....

But Webb doesn’t favor a timeline for withdrawal, as the Nancy Pelosi bill passed by the House on Friday proposes, or capping the number of troops in Iraq, as Hillary Clinton suggests. Webb wants a diplomatic solution, and he’s working with Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, a fellow Vietnam veteran and a friend for 30 years, to come up with a bipartisan bill that would incorporate some of what he calls “the more workable points” from the House bill without unnecessarily tying the hands of the military....

“I’m staying right here at Florida State,” Fisher said on WYGM-AM in Orlando. MORE: Coaching carousel | 10 Georgia candidates | Richt-Miami “There is no doubt I do (have one of the best jobs in America),” Fisher said Tuesday. “This is a tremendous place. The Florida State people have been wonderful. This is a great place to live, a great place to coach; we’ve got great players, great tradition and great history....

Knaus, who signed a five-year extension in 2010 that took him through the 2015 season, has bickered with Johnson during races this year, and Johnson even said last month that he wouldn’t be surprised if Knaus isn’t his crew chief for his entire career. MORE: Johnson wins fight-marred race | Texas Winners & Losers | Gordon goes after Keselowski | Harvick the instigator But Knaus, whose name keeps popping up in rumors in the garage about his future, said he is set for 2015....

Observers believed the problem was in the drive train. “Drive line, drive line,” he called on his team radio. Johnson got his car into his pit, where crew members took a quick look. But then, the problem got worse. Johnson drove off pit road and headed for his garage, his crew running after him. MORE: Will Junior fall out of the Chase? | Truex ordered to start last | Crackdown on restarts...

Ahead of the Sunday night matchup between the NFC West teams, the Tonight Show host delivers his latest “NFL Superlatives.” MORE: Seahawks sign Cliff Avril | Linemakers: Seahawks vs. Cardinals | NFL game of the week I’d be afraid to make a joke about Marshawn Lynch, but Fallon can afford security so he’ll be OK.

Graham did not practice Wednesday, coach Sean Payton said on a conference call. The Saints play the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. "Each day we'll just take a peak on how he's progressing and be smart about it," Payton told reporters. Graham was clearly playing at an elite level before injuring his foot. The Saints had a bye in Week 7, which gave Graham additional recovery time. However, it may not have been long enough....

During his monologue on Thursday, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host referred to Trump as he compared Fox News coverage relishing the boos that President Joe Biden got at a congressional baseball game this week with the poor reception that his predecessor once received. “For the record that’s not booing at Nationals Park,” Kimmel said, before moving to a clip of Trump getting a hostile reception from a crowd at the same Washington, DC stadium in 2019....

Vyacheslav Volodin, who is speaker of Russia’s parliament, the Duma, and a former aide to Putin, took aim at the comments Biden made on ABC News. The pre-taped interview with Biden, which aired on Wednesday, followed an intelligence assessment that concluded Russia had tried to interfere in last November’s election on Putin’s orders. When asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos “what price must he [Putin] pay?” Biden replied: “He will pay a price....

In a letter titled “a statement from U.S. organizations on the Ukraine crisis,” Biden was asked “to stop escalating the extremely dangerous tensions” between Kyiv and Moscow. “It is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons,” said the statement, which was re-released on Tuesday. The statement said it represented “millions of people in the United States” and was signed by more than 100 groups, including RootsAction....

In an interview with radio station franceinfo on Thursday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian channeled prevailing national sentiment and went on to describe Canberra’s reneging on a diesel submarine agreement with France’s Naval Group as a betrayal of trust. “It’s a real stab in the back. We created a relationship of trust with Australia, and that trust has been betrayed,” said Le Drian. “I am very angry and bitter today....

“This wasn’t a slip by Meadows, it was a candid acknowledgment of what President Trump’s strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus would simply go away. It hasn’t, and it won’t,” said Biden in a statement released by the Democratic presidential nominee’s election campaign. The statement went on to note that Meadows’ comment came as the country faces another uptick in new cases of the coronavirus, while an ongoing outbreak among White House officials continues to spread....

Oddschecker, which compares odds from dozens of bookmakers, said Biden had odds of 4-11 in Arizona, (implying a 73.31 percent chance of winning, according to the betting site). Trump was priced at 2-1, or 33.33 percent. In Georgia, Oddschecker gave Biden odds of 8-13 (61.92 percent) and Trump odds of 6-4 (40 percent). A spokesperson said this was “perhaps the most surprising of all the markets given the fact that Trump is ahead and there are very few votes left to count....

Biden is given a 91 percent chance of winning the electoral college in the forecast as of Monday, while President Donald Trump is given a 9 percent chance. The forecast also predicts that the former vice president is all but certain to win a majority of the popular vote, having a 99 percent chance of winning the lion’s share of the national vote. With 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidency, Biden is predicted to win an estimated 347 electoral votes, while 191 are estimated for Trump....