MORE: Hope for Cavs without Kevin Love | Updated NBA mock draft Love suffered the injury during a tussle with Celtics center Kelly Olynyk. The team will also be without J.R. Smith, who is serving a two-game suspension for hitting the Celtics’ Jae Crowder in Game 4. Griffin didn’t seem too concerned about how the Cavs will move forward without Love or Smith. “I don’t expect us to just survive,” he said....
As the House’s top Republican faced loss after loss in his chaotic bid to become speaker on Tuesday, the California congressman was subjected to a deluge of memes and taunts for his inability to rally the far-right faction of his party as he inherits a razor-thin majority in the 118th U.S. Congress. This, despite his willingness to concede numerous points, including various rule changes requested by members of the House Freedom Caucus—who have opposed McCarthy for being too moderate—as conditions of his speakership....
The roster is a product of failed decisions, leaving the Jets looking more like the Raiders, another failed franchise that went through a similar low-cost rebuilding process, than a team in the midst of a turnaround. MORE: Fans hating on Idzik | Jets shut out in San Diego | Scenes | NFL Power Rankings When Idzik took over in 2013, he faced a difficult road. Well after the team peaked in 2010, a lack of draft picks, poor selections and underperforming veterans made for a struggling roster with many holes....
New England and the Jets set offensive football back decades in Week 11. There were 16 punts and six points combined with less than a minute remaining in the fourth quarter. MORE: Updated NFL playoff picture through Week 11 The 17th punt was the decider, though. Patriots returner Marcus Jones took Braden Mann’s kick back 84 yards for the go-ahead score with five seconds left on the clock, ultimately giving the Patriots (6-4) the win and keeping their AFC East hopes alive....
On Wednesday, Pelosi rejected Banks and Ohio Representative Jim Jordan as members of the committee. Both legislators are allies of former President Donald Trump, and the House speaker said she was concerned that they would “jeopardize the integrity of the investigation.” Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Banks said “it’s clear that Pelosi only wants members on this committee who will stick to her talking points and stick to her narrative....
MORE: These coaches are dreading Black Monday | Predicting Sunday’s games The report, citing unnamed sources, said the final decision will be made by the new general manager, who has yet to be hired. Former Giants executive Ernie Accorsi is leading the search for a new GM on behalf of owner Martha Ford and team president Rod Wood. No names have surfaced in the search other than interim GM Sheldon White....
The calls and speculation about Jordan possibly becoming speaker came as audio of a call between McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers on January 10, 2021 showed that the House minority leader had said he believed Trump should resign in the wake of the attack targeting the U.S. Capitol days earlier on January 6. McCarthy, who represents California’s 22nd district, said in the audio reported by The New York Times that he would tell Trump “it would be my recommendation you should resign....
Scout.com reported Monday that Mora would be in New York this week to sit down with the Jets. CBSSports.com’s Jason La Canfora later tweeted a contradictory report: The Jets do have interest in Mora, but no meeting has been scheduled. MORE: Coaching rumors roundup | Potential Jets coaches Former Bills coach Doug Marrone seems to be atop the Jets’ wish list and, even according to the Scout.com report, Mora is not high on the team’s list....
Leonard was not happy that Fredette was shooting a 3-pointer down 21 points with under a second to go in the game on Tuesday, so the Portland big man gave him a hard swat across the midsection. MORE: 6 D-League prospects worth a shot | Why Fredette needed the Knicks Leonard pointed at the clock and talked trash as he walked away from the incident, but later apologized on Twitter for the unsportsmanlike foul....
“Since I let Junior win last week,” Johnson said per ESPN.com. MORE: Talladega in-car audio | Kansas weekend preview | PHOTOS: Geico 500 While the answer elicited laughter from the crowd surrounding Johnson, it also fueled speculation on social media that Johnson had actually let his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. win the Geico 500 at Talladega last Sunday. Johnson ran behind Earnhardt for several laps but was unable to make a move past the No....
But beyond the strained relationships with teammates and members of the front office, Butler has bigger reasons to want out of Minnesota — almost 50 million reasons, actually. TRADE RUMORS: Butler hoping to join Heat? Butler, who averaged 22.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game last season, turned down a four-year extension worth approximately $110 million this past summer. That decision made a great deal of sense considering how much money Butler would have left on the table by signing the extension....
NEWSWEEK: Could you tell me how this whole thing got started? Did Sarah go behind your back and record the video with Matt Damon? Jimmy Kimmel: That was a genuine surprise. She brought it on the show and showed it. It was supposed to be for my 40th-birthday show. But instead, since we were on strike, we aired it during my fifth-anniversary show. You saw it live for the first time with everyone else?...
Palin, who unsuccessfully ran for vice president on the late Senator John McCain’s ticket in 2008, announced on April 1 that she will be vying to succeed Republican Representative Don Young, who held the seat for 49 years before he died in March. Speaking of the news on his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night, the titular host said that he would prefer if the former governor of Alaska’s statements were dubbed over by the voice of veteran actor Morgan Freeman....
The clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live! features a then 23-year-old Fox discuss how director Michael Bay made her “dance underneath a waterfall” in a bikini when she was 15-years-old as an audition to be an extra in Bad Boys II. “The first time I ever worked with [Bay], actually, I had just turned 15 and I was an extra in Bad Boys II,” she says in the clip, adding: “They were shooting this club scene, and they brought me in, and I was wearing a stars-and-stripes bikini and a red cowboy hat and, like, six-inch heels....
Nerlens Noel skipped out on the tip-off to use the bathroom, then hit hit his head on the backboard. The 76ers led 62-46 at halftime, but Jimmy Butler carried the Bulls back into the game. The Bulls outscored the 76ers 31-17 in the third quarter, and the two teams played evenly in the fourth, with overtime being needed to decide a winner. MORE: Five teams with massive holes to fill | Obama in the Celebrity All-Star Game?...
Speaking at CPAC on Sunday, Trump that Biden has “had the most disastrous first month of any President in modern history.” But despite this claim by Trump, Biden retains a majority approval rating and this has remained steady throughout his time in office so far. According to FiveThirtyEight’s tracker, Biden is at 54.4 percent approval. It started at 53 percent in January following his inauguration. Real Clear Politics’ tracker puts Biden at 54 percent approval....
Biden was seen not covering his face while giving an address to the public at the foot of the memorial in Washington D.C. with his family on Wednesday, January 20. The president went without a mask for the address just hours after he signed a mandate requiring masks on federal property as well as interstate travelers in order to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Biden did wear a mask immediately prior to the address and put one back on as soon as he finished....
“Low-income people have long struggled to secure quality access to the legal system,” the White House said. In a presidential memo the White House first shared with The Associated Press, Biden lists his intention to direct U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to develop a plan to better public access to quality legal aid within two months. Garland is expected to respond right away with a memo of his own announcing the launch of his new efforts....
As Biden laid out a sweeping plan to halt the spread of infection and slow the grim rise of America’s death toll, which passed 200,000 in September, the trends were going in the right direction and the virus plateaued. The plan’s urgency looked lesser and lesser. America had all but reopened and life was starting to return to normal for many people. But in Europe, a second wave was unfolding and brought with it an ominous warning of what may be coming down the line for the U....
His predecessor’s 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear deal was lauded by American conservatives and anti-Iran allies including Israel as a victory for common sense and U.S. security. The deal, they argued, was inherently flawed and represented a capitulation to an authoritarian and duplicitous regime in Tehran. Those same voices are now mobilizing against the president’s plan to return to the JCPOA. This week, 120 House Republicans signed an open letter urging Biden not to pursue a detente with Tehran....
