MORE: Eye-catching UFC photos | UFC gets what it deserves in Conor McGregor The former WWE great, whose real name is Phil Brooks, will face off against Mickey Gall at welterweight at the Sept. 10 event in Cleveland on the Stipe Miocic-Alistair Overeem undercard. Punk, 37, signed a contract with UFC in December 2014, but a shoulder injury delayed his debut. He will find a considerable opponent in 24-year-old Gall, who is 2-0 after making his UFC debut in February....

During an interview on State of the Union, Bash mentioned comments made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday. In an interview with the Washington Post, Zelensky questioned why Ukraine’s allies were waiting to impose sanctions. “Today our partners are saying that war may start tomorrow if there is a powerful escalation on the Russian side, and then there will be powerful sanctions applied,” Zelensky said. “But if we are talking about the sanctions policy and the probability of escalation, then the question is, why are you not introducing sanctions now rather than wait until after the escalation?...

In Norwin School District in Westmorland County, students were watching Channel One as part of their morning announcements, but in 2019, the district mandated watching CNN10, a broadcast designed for classroom education. By a 5-4 vote on Monday, however, the school board decided to bar the 10-minute program from being shown to students in the classrooms, a move that quickly sparked accusations of the school board being against a liberal agenda....

John Griffin, 44, of Stamford, Connecticut, was arrested on Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. The indictment says that between April and July 2020, he used Google Hangouts and Kik to communicate with people purporting to be the parents of underage girls. He allegedly used the applications to say that women should be “sexually subservient and inferior to men” and that a “woman is a woman regardless of her age....

According to CBS Sports, the Marlins’ brass has had internal discussions about trying to lure baseball’s all-time home run leader to their coaching staff. MORE: Barry Bonds’ career in photos Since retiring after the 2007 season, Bonds has worked as a special spring training instructor for the Giants. Whether he’s willing to be a full-time coach remains to be seen. While his Hall of Fame-caliber career is marred by rumors he used performance-enhancing drugs, Bonds has always been regarded as one of the game’s best hitters — and not just in the power department....

As Indianapolis’ disappointing 2016 season ends on the first day of 2017, a Week 17 home game against the Jaguars, coach Chuck Pagano and general manager Ryan Grigson surely have more on their minds than a Jacksonville game plan and/or bowl game scouting. That’s because team owner Jim Irsay, understandably, “has been very unhappy with the team’s performance for weeks now,” ESPN reported Sunday morning. Few at this point would be shocked by the firing of a coach who was rumored to be on the hot seat last year, too....

“He sprained his ankle, but he practiced yesterday, minimal soreness today,” Krzyzewski told Sporting News. “He’ll be ready to go.” Griffin, a 6-6 freshman from White Plains, N.Y., was injured with a little more than 8 minutes remaining in Sunday’s second-round March Madness game against Michigan State, with Duke holding a two-point lead at the time. They fell behind by five in the next four minutes, and Griffin was unable to return to play....

Taking part April 10 to 12, 2020, and April 17 to 19, 2020, in Indio, California, the festival will be headlined by rock veterans Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean. The presale for Weekend Two is set to begin on January 6 at 12:00 p.m. PT. Ticket-buyers can sign up in advance by registering on the website. How much are Coachella 2020 tickets? The music festive has a selection of passes to fit a range of budgets....

Each race team is commemorating a fallen soldier, a person who made the ultimate sacrifice — his or her life — for our country and for our freedom. Their stories are as diverse as they are inspiring. Brad Keselowski will carry the name of Marine Corps Sgt. Chris Eckard on his No. 2 Team Penske Ford. Eckard, who was born in the heart of NASCAR country — Hickory, N.C. — served in the Army and the Marine Corps....

Austin, who is married to rapper and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Ice-T, posted a video on TikTok on Thursday of her daughter, Chanel, looking at a tablet while bathing in a sink. The post resulted in negative comments from people who said Austin’s daughter was too old for such treatment. “Wow just Wow! Here we go again!” Austin wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “Giving my lil girl a bath in the sink went Viral?...

“If he’s not deserving of an All-Star appearance, it’s a shame,” Wilson said Tuesday night after Hamels blanked the Yankees for seven innings in the Rangers’ 7-1 win. “What he’s done, and what he’s capable of doing every time he steps on the mound, he’s one of the premier pitchers in the game.” MORE: Hamels makes SN50 list of baseball’s best Wilson continued campaigning when asked another question about the starter he has worked with nine times this season, saying, “That’s what an ace does....

The 49ers quarterback was spotted at a Hooters restaurant in Uptown Charlotte on Saturday night. He appeared to be in good spirits, even signing an autograph for a young fan (yes, at Hooters).

Kahl, who is Biden’s pick for under secretary of defense for policy—a top policy role within the Defense Department—apologized before the Senate Armed Services Committee after Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) displayed previous tweets criticizing former President Donald Trump’s policies and the GOP. In 2019, Kahl shared a news story in which Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) said it was not a “bad idea” for U.S. troops to be “out of harm’s way” if Turkey attempted to “ethnically cleanse” Kurds in Syria....

The Pistons were unable to make their scheduled flight into Atlanta on Tuesday night from Detroit. The NBA announced Wednesday morning the game was postponed "due to severe weather conditions in the Atlanta area." No date was immediately announced for the rescheduled game. However, games at Georgia and Georgia Tech are going to be played as scheduled. The Bulldogs announced their home game against Vanderbilt will be played while Georgia Tech also plans to play its home game against North Carolina....

No. 15 St. John’s (11-1 SU, 6-2-1 ATS) at Seton Hall (10-2 SU, 10-1 ATS) (12 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1) Line: St. John’s -2, Total: 127.5 The Red Storm’s sole loss came against Gonzaga, and they’ve won seven in a row. They’ve also covered five of their last six and stayed UNDER in four of their last five. The Pirates have won three of their last four. Their only ATS loss came at Georgia as a 4....

Line: Villanova -2, Total: 129.5 (visit our odds page for current college basketball point spreads and totals) Butler has won seven of its last eight games, covering the spread in six of them. The Bulldogs are 4-1 against ranked teams this season, and 12-2 SU and 7-5 ATS at home. This is the first time Butler will be catching points at home since it hosted Creighton a year ago, last Feb....

The new year is sure to bring in plenty of headlines as Virginia looks to defend its title, Kentucky and Duke again welcome stellar recruiting classses and some new contenders look to make their mark. Here are some of the biggest takeaways from Monday’s AP preseason poll release. MORE: Tony Bennett motivated by highs — and lows — in Cavs’ title-defending season Michigan State is the unquestioned No. 1 The Spartans enter the new season gathering 60 of the 65 possible first-place votes in the preseason AP poll....

The NCAA released a look at the statistics one month into the season, which shows scoring is up 5.43 points from the same point last season from 68.38 to 73.81, with free throws and field goals accounting for approximately 50 percent each of that total. That shared increase of field goals and free throws is important to show that the extra scoring is not coming strictly from just additional trips to the free throw line stemming from more fouls being called by the officials....