The Arsenal youngster will feature for the Canaries until the end of the 2017-18 in his sixth loan spell after representing Coventry City, Brentford, Nottingham Forest, Hull City and Brighton & Hove Albion previously. The Anglo-Nigerian forward was linked to several English Championship teams this transfer window before finally switching to the Belgian top-flight on the transfer deadline day. Akpom, who joined the Gunners at age of six, made his Premier League bow against Sunderland in September 2013 and has been restricted to just 12 senior appearances thus far....

But lately Shukri has turned his gaze from the south, Saddam’s power base, to the north, where a Turkish military base outside his home village of Zewa is an increasingly ominous presence. “We have been afraid of the Turks from the first day they entered Kurdistan,” says Shukri, who sports a thick black mustache and a bandoleer packed with AK-47 clips. “They don’t treat us any different than Saddam, and we have no way of kicking them out....

The city council in Oroville voted 6-1 in a declaration aimed at showing its opposition to measures aimed at mitigating the pandemic, such as requirements that schoolchildren be vaccinated. Leaders in the city of about 20,000 people about 70 miles south of state capital Sacramento, said the designation was a way to stand up against state rules it did not agree with, although the move is unlikely to have any legal standing....

Why Rostov? Though the city has a reputation as a center of organized crime, its economy is no more blighted than the rest of Russia’s, and its per-capita murder rate is actually below the national average. ““The people here are no less God-fearing than anywhere else,’’ says Father Ambrosy of the local Orthodox cathedral. ““Why Satan chooses so many of his servants here is not for us to know.’’ Some locals blame the evil influence on 18th-century colonizers–runaway serfs later known as Cossacks–who desecrated ancient Scythian burial mounds....

Odell Beckham Jr. was the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year following a breakout season. The former LSU star was selected 12th overall and then caught 91 passes for 1,305 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Giants. Mike Evans and Sammy Watkins were also rookie of the year candidates. Evans was picked seventh overall out of Texas A&M by the Bucs and finished his rookie season with 68 catches for 1,051 yards and 12 touchdowns....

Clattenburg confirmed in February that he was leaving his role as a Premier League referee to become head of refereeing for the Saudi Arabian Football Federation. The 42-year-old made his Premier League debut in 2004, and says a January 2017 match between Manchester United and Stoke City was the game that convinced him to depart. The game, in which Wayne Rooney broke Sir Bobby Charlton’s all-time scoring record for Manchester United, ended in a 1-1 draw, and Mourinho felt his team deserved more....

Los Angeles announced that it had placed Kershaw on the injured list for inflammation in his sacroiliac joint (SI joint). According to SI-Bone, the SI joint is located between the spine and the pelvis and transfers weight from the upper body to the legs. The Dodgers promoted Garrett Cleavinger from Triple-A to replace Kershaw on the active roster. Walker Buehler will take Kershaw’s scheduled start against the Phillies on Friday....

. . . of course you’re going to be a little upset when you do THIS with your glove. MORE: Pitch-by-pitch look at baseball’s most dominating pitchers Kershaw has had a drama-filled start Tuesday night in Oakland. Shortly after the tantrum, he almost got himself ejected by home plate umpire Todd Tichenor, who did not take kindly to some of Kershaw’s other histrionics. Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis began jawing with Tichenor to protect his franchise batterymate....

From gasoline to soda pop, from mouthwash to mascara, clear is here. In the past year consumer-product peddlers have rolled out some two dozen products whose major claim to fame is that they’re see-through and, sometimes, fizzy. Companies hope the new products will help them catch the green wave-they’re betting that customers will equate clear products with things that are pure and good for them and the environment. In fact, the early returns show that the marketers may be on to something....

According to multiple reports from The Clemson Insider and Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald, the two schools could announce an upcoming series as soon as this summer. MORE: Swinney has good problem in Trevor Lawrence vs. Kelly Bryant “(Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity) and I actually texted back-and-forth today, and like he said we are looking to try and get a game together here shortly,” Clemson AD Dan Radakovich told TCI. “Now, shortly is defined inside of football scheduling shortly....

Fans got tired of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and all its drama, finally adopting a four-team playoff. But now, fans seem anxious again, hoping more teams will be added to the playoff. Clemson Tigers coach Dabo Swinney, who will play against Ohio State in the semifinals on Saturday, hopes college football refrains from adding more teams. In fact, he’d rather it go back to the old format if a change were to be made....

“People are at just as much, if not more risk, if we don’t play. Players will all be sent home to their own communities where social distancing is highly unlikely and medical care and expenses will be placed on the families if they were to contract covid19,” Lawrence wrote. Commissioners from the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss whether or not they should hold a season in 2020, postpone it until spring or cancel it entirely....

On Friday, their equipment Instagram account shared a photo of a helmet with a custom-installed Schutt Sports camera above the grille. "The new age of football tech. @schuttsports cameras built into QB's helmets," they wrote. Ostensibly, Clemson's quarterbacks will soon be wearing these in practice and later watching the gathered footage to evaluate players' play-calling decisions. [via CollegeSpun]

After Clemson put a 34-10 beating on the Gamecocks at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday, the Tigers celebrated by dancing to South Carolina’s white towel-waving pump-up song “Sandstorm” in the locker room. MORE: Three takeaways from Auburn’s upset of No. 1 Alabama Clemson’s win extended its four-game win streak in the Palmetto Bowl. 

If Bush were asked why May closed out as the third bloodiest month for U.S. soldiers in Iraq, he might say that’s because they’re getting shot at. It’s going to be a long, hot summer, a phrase once used to foreshadow unrest in American cities that is now invoked to gird Americans for more casualties in a war nobody knows how to end. Bush’s best argument for staying is that things will get worse if we leave....

The real tragedy of the whole Valerie Plame-Wilson affair is that more people didn’t get tagged with the crime of exposing her identity as an undercover CIA operative. Outing Plame was part of a conspiracy to stifle dissent as the question of going to war in Iraq was being debated. “There is a cloud over the vice president,” independent counsel Patrick Fitzgerald told jurors. “That cloud is something you just can’t pretend isn’t there....

If current global warming trends continue, greenhouse gas concentrations in lakes could rise by 1.5 to 2.7 times, on average, according to a study published in the journal PNAS. Lead researcher Dr. Andrew Tanentzap of the University of Cambridge’s department of Plant Sciences explained to Newsweek: “Climate change is increasing both forest cover and changing the types of tree species occurring around most of the world’s lakes. “These changes are important for lakes because they receive large amounts of dead plant material from the lands that surround them....

Ecologists writing in Environmental Research Letters tracked the birds’ summer migrations from Mexico to Canada using GPS equipment. They found melting snow and warmer winters are causing flocks to leave their winter grounds earlier than they did in the past. In 2018, birds left 12 days earlier than they did in 1994—suggesting migrations are moving forward by around five days a decade. Each year, flocks of a dozen to several hundred robins migrate northwards across North America....

Yours truly was busy live-tweeting the affair for the better part of six hours. For longtime climate watchers, this was a notable and welcome development: After all, climate change was all but ignored during the last few elections, and there wasn’t a single climate change-themed question during the 2016 general election debates. There’s good reason the issue is finally starting to get some of the attention it’s due. The more Americans can see the impacts of a changing climate for themselves, the more they have begun to demand their elected officials do something to stop it before it’s too late....