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It appears as if Henderson has been giving "McBob" some tips on how to throw an elbow in the paint. McRoberts caught LeBron James in the throat with a big elbow during the fourth quarter of Game 2. While LeBron didn't bleed like Tyler Hansbrough, it was still pretty vicious. MORE: Playoff gallery | Henderson’s block | Jefferson plays through pain McRoberts can expect a fine, or perhaps a suspension, even though he wasn't called for a flagrant foul....

And evidently, the play was as bad as it looked. Cleveland confirmed on Twitter that Naylor “suffered a closed fracture and dislocation of the right ankle” in the team’s 8-2 loss to the Twins. Naylor remained in Minnesota while the injury was being evaluated. The good news about the “closed fracture” is that it means there wasn’t a puncture wound from the injury. Still, Naylor will almost certainly be out long-term, and that’s not a surprise considering how bad the injury looked in real-time....

With south London pride and light heavyweight world-title ambition on the line in the showpiece event, it was Croydon’s Buatsi (16-0) who got the better of Crystal Palace fighter Richards (17-3-1) with the judges scoring the fight 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113. Buatsi, who in the build-up declared Richards his “most important fight to date,” will be now be champing at the bit for promoter Eddie Hearn to secure him another mammoth fight in a 175-pound division packed with talent....

While speaking on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Reid insisted that Biden’s comments were far from the worst thing a president could say. During a press event Monday afternoon, Doocy asked whether Biden thought inflation would be a “political liability” in the upcoming midterms. “It’s a great asset, more inflation. What a stupid son of a b****,” Biden said sarcastically into a hot microphone. The president later apologized for the remark and spoke to Doocy about it in a telephone call....

The club says Friday's surgery was successful. Holiday, a former Eastern Conference All-Star acquired from Philadelphia last summer, has not played because of the shin injury since Jan. 8. In 34 games played for the Pelicans this season, Holiday has averaged 14.3 points, 7.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game in 33.6 minutes. The Pelicans disclosed Holiday's condition a few hours before playing in Phoenix on Friday night. Holiday joins starting center Jason Smith and high-scoring forward Ryan Anderson as Pelicans regulars missing the rest of the season....

The state of Nebraska argues Lindsay Huse, Douglas County health director, does not have the authority to issue a mask mandate, which she believes she has the power to do. Huse also believes a mandate is necessary due to the “astronomical spikes” in Nebraska’s virus cases, according to the Associated Press. “I’m not claiming that masks are going to end the pandemic or stop the pandemic,” Huse said to the AP on January 11....

According to the Wichita Eagle, NFL lawyers had an appeal to change Randle’s bond conditions turned down by a Sedgwick County (Kansas) judge on Friday. The NFL no longer wants to be liable for transporting Randle to an inpatient mental treatment facility if he bails out of jail. MORE: Disgraced athletes: Where they went wrong | ‘This is the end of my career’ Randle’s attorney, James Crawford, asked Judge Kevin O’Connor to change the wording in Randle’s bond conditions so he could be released directly to his family instead of to the NFL Players Association....

On Monday, Judge Brenda Penny denied a request made by Spears’ attorney, Mathew Rosengart, to move a hearing on the star’s conservatorship from September 29 to August 23. According to court documents obtained by CNN, Judge Penny did not provide a reason for her ruling. The petition was denied without prejudice which means Rosengart can re-file again in the near future. The petition filed by Rosengart last week sought to remove Spears’ father, James Spears, as conservator of her estate, as early as possible....

The state called a rebuttal witness, pulmonologist Dr. Martin Tobin, to dispute the testimony of Dr. David Fowler. Fowler testified Wednesday that George Floyd’s manner of death should be listed as undetermined, as he believed Floyd died of a sudden cardiac arrhythmia due to underlying heart disease. Fowler said contributing factors included Floyd’s ingestion of fentanyl and methamphetamine, exposure to vehicle exhaust, and possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Floyd’s death was previously ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner....

Rittenhouse’s attorney, Mark Richards, placed slips of paper into a raffle drum with the number of each of the 18 jurors who sat through the two-week trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse then selected six pieces of paper from the drum, who the court dismissed: 11, 58, 14, 9 and 52. The jurors won’t be a part of the final 12 who are deliberating the case, but remain in the courthouse until the jury returns with a verdict....

“Tennessee officials continue to flout the Constitution’s guarantees,” Trauger wrote in her ruling Friday. “The federal district courts of this state have repeatedly concluded that the same analysis applies … to Tennessee’s own, very similar scheme and policies. Tennessee officials have continued to impose the state’s repeatedly-held-to-be-unlawful policy on other, similarly situated individuals” despite rulings, she said. Governments are prohibited from giving more punishment for a crime that was committed previously under the Ex Post Facto of the U....

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that Morss will remain in jail pending trial as he faces charges of assaulting police officers during the Capitol attack on January 6, the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reported. Morss’ attorney, John Kiyonaga, told Newsweek on Saturday that the judge’s ruling is a “travesty.” Morss was charged with a number of counts related to the Capitol riot, including robbery and assault, and has remained in custody since he was arrested in June....

Cannon, a federal judge for Florida’s Southern District Court, denied the DOJ’s request to continue inspecting about 100 documents marked classified while an independent arbiter, or special master, filtered out other seized materials protected by attorney-client or executive privilege. Legal experts quickly panned the ruling, calling Cannon biased. “I thought she would take the off-ramp DOJ provided her; I was wrong. This latest decision is both a stupid and profoundly partisan piece of work,” Andrew Weissmann, a veteran DOJ attorney who served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, wrote on Twitter....

Chief Judge Beryl Howell questioned the DOJ prosecutors during a hearing for Wes Croy, a Colorado man who pleaded guilty to charges related to his participation in the riots after Croy reportedly used the Facebook platform to share a photo and video evidence of himself inside the Capitol, as well as tell a friend he was there. “Why is it limited to $1.5 million in damage to (the) Capitol itself, when the cost of the riot to the taxpayers is half a billion?...

Theresa Bentaas, 60, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison, with nine of the years ruled as a suspended sentence, which will likely lead to Bentaas only spending months in prison with the rest of the sentence served under community supervision. Bentaas had the child in 1981 around the age of 20, while allegedly suffering from “complete pregnancy denial syndrome,” meaning she did not mentally recognize her pregnancy until she woke up in the middle of the night experiencing labor pains....

In an online survey that drew 1,400 people from 60 countries, the journal Nature asked scientists whether they had ever taken drugs reputed to boost brain power. The journal focused on three: the stimulant methylphenidate (Ritalin), which is prescribed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder but which students use to rev themselves up before tests or marathon study sessions; modafinil (Provigil), prescribed for sleep disorders but which has a street reputation for keeping you awake for all-nighters (“gotta finish this grant application!...

They also can recognize when their team is getting drilled, as the Knicks were by the Celtics on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. The locals gave Randle and everyone else on the court wearing a home uniform an earful in the second half. Randle wasn’t thrilled about that. MORE: Stats to know from wild Knicks comeback That explains why he went full Met during the Knicks’ thrilling fourth-quarter comeback....

It is in his astonishing little book (173 pages of text) just published by Princeton University Press. The title, “Neighbors,” is an ice dagger to the heart, but only after the book has been read. The word “neighbor” connotes moral sympathy (“neighborly”) as well as physical proximity. But not on July 10, 1941, in Jedwabne. Gross says, “This is a rather typical book about the Holocaust” because it does not offer “closure”–“I could not say to myself when I got to the last page, ‘Well, I understand now’....

Set to have taken place on Juneteenth (Saturday, June 19), a day that commemorates the emancipation of U.S. slaves in 1865, the event, titled “Kingdom Coming,” was promoted on the plantation’s website and social media. It failed to mention the significance of Juneteenth, but it promised to tell the story of “white refugees,” referring to slave owners. “White refugees have been displaced and have a story to tell as well....