The 15-year-old needed just over an hour to dispatch Japan’s Hiroko Kuwata 6-1, 6-2 in the qualifying round on Sunday and will now take on Kazakhstan’s Zarina Diyas in the first round on Tuesday. Ranked 313th in the world before Wimbledon, Gauff climbed to 143rd in the world after her run at the All England Club, when she beat Venus Williams on her way to the round of 16....
A viral tweet was shared on the micro-blogging platform that said of the 41-year-old screen star: “Bryce Dallas Howard’s butt is so big they had to Photoshop it down in the Jurassic World poster.” To support the claim, an image of Howard in the poster for the 2015 box office juggernaut was shared beside an image of the actor posing on a red carpet, where she was seen appearing to have a more curvaceous figure....
Parker died Wednesday, according to Bryan Johnson of B.W. Foster Funeral Home in Portsmouth. In memorium: Notable sports deaths of 2013 A Portsmouth native, Parker played football, basketball and baseball at Duke, and then was a first-round draft choice of the National Football League's Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937. Instead of pursuing a career on the gridiron, Parker opted to play baseball for Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics. In his first at-bat, the shortstop hit a home run at Fenway Park, becoming the third player in major league history to homer in his first at-bat....
The London native, who was part of a Villa side that finished at the very bottom of the Premier League, conceding a league high 76 goals, remains optimistic of ending his season on a high. “It’s been a tough season for Aston Villa,” Clark told reporters after Ireland’s open training session at the Aviva Stadium. “To go down the way we did it wasn’t nice, but hopefully now if I can get involved, make sure I’m fit, and training well, and if I can push to get on the plane, that would be a high for me personally....
There were some things that went as planned. Pachuca and Tigres stayed in the upper echelon of the league, while Veracruz and Chiapas floundered at the bottom. But the variation in Liga MX continued, as it typically does. Liga MX playoffs set There will be more surprises to come in the playoffs, but before the games begin let’s take a look at five things we learned from the weekend with a few pre-playoff thoughts in the mix as well:...
Philadelphia’s captain recorded the first regular-season hat trick of his career in a 5-0 win over the Rangers Saturday, reaching the 100-point mark for the first time in his 11-year career and helping the Flyers to clinch the final spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs. MORE: Nathan MacKinnon, Taylor Hall lead MVP free-for-all Giroux scored a hat trick in the 2012 playoffs, but never in a regular season game. He finishes the season with 102 points, behind only Edmonton’s Connor McDavid....
While Julien admitted to a flood of emotions when meeting with reporters following the morning skate at TD Garden, several times he circled back to the true task at hand when his Canadiens face off with the Bruins Wednesday night. “It’s more important for me right now to remember what I’m here for, and I need to be as prepared as I’m asking my players to be prepared for this game,” said Julien....
Kershaw gave up two runs, two walks and five hits in 5.2 innings and struck out six batters, bringing his career postseason tally to 207 strikeouts in 189 innings and surpassing the record held by Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander, who has 205 strikeouts in 187.2 career postseason innings. An eight-time All-Star and three-time National League Cy Young Award winner, Kershaw has long been considered one of the best pitchers of his generation, a reputation blighted only by a penchant for seemingly going missing in October....
Kershaw gave up three earned runs in just five innings in a Game 1 win facing off against Max Scherzer on Saturday. However, the Dodgers have dropped the last two games and now find themselves one loss away from elimination in the National League Division Series. MLB PLAYOFFS 2016: The top 50 players in the postseason Despite missing nearly two months of the regular season with a back issue, Kershaw was electric and may have even received votes for NL Cy Young....
Obvious, yes. But let’s stop for a minute, before we make the same mistake again in the Middle East with the same results, and before we continue down the military- and-security-speak rabbit hole that’ll make this threat appear different than the myriad previous ones. This modus operandi of preemptive strikes—always packaged within the prospects of looming violence unless the U.S. intervenes as soon as possible, and with the promised certainty of confidential, out-of-reach “intelligence”—appears to be America’s prevailing foreign policy protocol....
But a surprising thing happened just before the end of the presentation of evidence last week: the referee moved in and threw a solid right to the defense’s jaw. Judge Lance Ito’s ruling that jurors could consider the lesser charge of second-degree murder considerably brightened a prosecution that in recent weeks was viewing a hung jury as a major victory. The defense wanted an all-or-nothing verdict–meaning that jurors would vote either a first-degree-murder conviction or acquittal....
Buffett’s appearance before Congress was part of a careful strategy aimed at soothing furious clients-and breaking ties to the old regime. On Thursday, Salomon announced that Gutfreund and three other former executives tainted by the scandal would receive no severance pay, future legal expenses or compensation from the firm (chart). That decision followed Kansas Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery’s pronouncement during the hearings that “there should not be a dime spent by the firm to defend the wrongdoers … These men should be in striped suits, sweeping up Wall Street....
According to The Greenville News, campus police were called about the body behind the stadium around 8 a.m. ET. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 The Coroner’s Office, Clemson University police and the State Law Enforcement Division were investigating the death of the student identified only as a freshman from Dunwoody, Ga., according to The News. No foul play is suspected. “A death is always hard, for it impacts us all, but it’s even more difficult at this time of year,” Almeda Jacks, Clemson’s vice president for Student Affairs, said in a statement....
Kevin Kiley was not on the air for his show Friday morning on 92.3 The Fan after saying earlier in the day on local television that he had would resign at the end of February, Cleveland.com reported. MORE: 11 female pioneers | NFL teams to interview women for open executive jobs Kiley had established a pattern of criticizing women playing a role in anything related to the NFL. When the league hired Sarah Thomas last spring as its first full-time female official, Kiley criticized the move and called football “strictly a man’s world....
When they fail—and they fail more and more often now that rivers in Africa and Asia are slowly drying up after decades of mismanagement and climate change—they may turn to violence, fighting over the small amount that is left. Water has long been called the ultimate renewable resource. But as Fred Pearce writes in his book “When the Rivers Run Dry,” if the world doesn’t change, that saying may no longer apply....
Unlike mere journalists, to whom sources can lie with impunity, congressional investigators have the power to put people under oath, holding over them the prospect of a perjury indictment if they lie. Funny how that leads to all sorts of revelations. Media requests to interview climate scientists were routinely punted to the White House environment office, says one career official. Asked by Waxman’s staffers, The White House also knew better than scientists what the research showed, apparently, for when Thomas Karl, director of National Climatic Data Center, appeared before Waxman’s House Oversight Committee last year, his testimony was edited by White House officials and the Commerce Department....
Unsurprisingly, fellow denier Myron Ebell hailed the appointment of David Legates, stating it would help get “real science into the assessment, instead of junk science, which NASA and NOAA have been doing for years.” Legates, a professor of geography at the University of Delaware, has a longstanding history of disputing the consensus science on climate breakdown. In a testimony at a subcommittee hearing on ocean health last year, he said: “Climate has always changed, and weather is always variable, due to complex, powerful natural forces....
Protesters from the organization Declare Emergency were yelling about “saving mother Earth” while holding banners in front of cars, according to the Washington Post. The demonstration lasted less than an hour and the road was reopened to traffic, a spokesperson with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) told Newsweek. The protest comes as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on Monday indicating that carbon emissions have never been higher in human history and the world is on a “fast track” to disaster....
