Speaking to media in a Sunday press conference, Clemson head coach Swinney said, “This game was not canceled because of COVID. COVID was just an excuse to cancel the game.” In the ACC’s announcement Saturday that the game was postponed, the conference wrote that “both teams’ medical personnel were unable to mutually agree on moving forward with the game.” Clemson’s athletic director Dan Radakovich spoke before Swinney on Sunday evening....

Clemson had their two-game winning streak snapped last week in a tough 31-30 loss at home to South Carolina. DJ Uiagalelei struggled immensely against the Gamecocks, completing just eight-of-29 passes for 99 yards, a touchdown, and an interception. He also added 51 rushing yards and a touchdown, but Clemson will need him to play much better on Saturday night. As for North Carolina, it enters Saturday’s championship game on a two-game losing streak after falling 30-27 in double overtime to in-state rival North Carolina State....

There are plenty of iPhone accessories and products to choose from. That’s not the problem. The real choice is picking the coolest and most clever accessories for your mobile iPhone. These picks below highlight ingenuity with travel sizes or multiple uses, all baked into a clever accessory you probably didn’t know you could use. Twelve South Power Pic—$39. 99Soundcore Wakey Bluetooth Speaker—$74. 99Belkin Gaming Power Bank with Stand—$43. 65ElevationLabs Go Stand—$19....

The typical Web-savvy customer is like Shekhar Raj of Toledo, Ohio. When the 48-year-old medical researcher set out to buy a new car on the Net, he kicked some virtual tires on a variety of Web sites, speccing out horsepower and creature comforts. Then he found his favorite model’s invoice prices–those wholesale prices once known only to car dealers and manufacturers. Finally, Raj clicked a “purchase request” button on the Autobytel Web site....

The wryly written books actually provide some usable facts: the Bluffer’s Guide to baseball, for example, gives concise bios of the game’s most famous players. As “The Bluffer’s Guide to Bluffing,” the series’ introductory volume, says: “A little learning is a marvelous thing, and since that is all we are ever going to have anyway, we might as well get to know how to spread it thinly, but effectively, like the last smidgen of peanut butter on the heel of the loaf....

We need to stop measuring environmental catastrophe in degrees, and start measuring it in lives lost. Whether the Earth becomes one degree hotter means very little to the average person. But what an extra degree actually means is environmental chaos, lives in danger and families uprooted. The reality is that people are dying at the hands of climate change right now and yet we hear very little about the climate change body count—which is currently 150,000 annually and may double in a decade....

But he can remember 2013 as a good year for one reason: The year he got engaged. MORE: Danica wants to get married again | Sprint Cup team grades Bowyer’s longtime girlfriend, Lorra Podsiadlo, tweeted Sunday morning that she was engaged to Bowyer. So far, the 34-year-old Bowyer has been silent on Twitter. PHOTOS: NASCAR Wives and Girlfriends | Bowyer gallery | NASCAR families

The former U.S. national team captain has been out of action since August due to an irregular heartbeat, but was lively in his first half-hour back on the field for the Sounders. Soccer kits for every NFL team The Sounders and Timbers faced off in Tucson, Arizona, with the match marking the opening of the preseason match schedule for Seattle. The Sounders will play a scrimmage against the San Jose Earthquakes on Tuesday before moving on to the Carolina Challenge Cup....

The U.S. national team forward sat out the regular season home stretch and playoffs while undergoing treatment last fall, with his final match coming Aug. 21. He was seen taking part in light exercises before the Sounders’ MLS Cup triumph in Toronto last month but was not deemed ready to participate in the U.S. national team’s January camp. Freddy Adu on trial with Portland Timbers Now medically cleared to practice, Dempsey trained without restrictions Tuesday in Tukwila, Washington....

The campaign goes into high gear when the book appears June 22 in a one-day laydown nationwide. The week kicks off with a “60 Minutes” interview, followed by appearances on “Oprah,” the “Today” show, “Larry King” and “Charlie Rose.” To accommodate demand beyond the 2.3 million copies ordered by retailers, Knopf has already reserved press time at the printer’s and stockpiled paper for subsequent editions. The real trick, of course, will be keeping the book under wraps until the publication date....

The New York senator gets 44 percent of the overall Democratic vote, compared to 24 percent for Obama (down a point since NEWSWEEK’s August poll) and 12 percent for Edwards (down two points). She is the first choice of 45 percent of self-identified Democrats (compared with 39 percent of Democratic “leaners”). She also trounces Obama among Democratic female voters (48 to 19 percent) and enjoys a marginal lead among male Democratic voters (38 to 32 percent)....

The exchange comes as all sides prepare for South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Jan. 26—the first real test of the African-American vote. How will the controversy affect voting in the state, where roughly 50 percent of the Democratic electorate is black? Cleveland Sellers, who heads the department of African-American studies at the University of South Carolina, is an Obama supporter. He’s also a veteran of the civil rights movement. Now 63, he helped organize sit-ins in 1960, he participated in the March on Washington in 1963, and he was wounded during the 1968 “Orangeburg massacre,” in which police opened fire on student protesters, killing three and wounding 27....

Phoenix has done just fine without Paul, surging to a 2-0 series lead behind stellar performances from Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton and Cameron Payne, who has replaced Paul in the starting lineup. Los Angeles, meanwhile, has relied heavily on Paul George and Reggie Jackson with Leonard sidelined but failed to secure a road victory. MORE: Chris Paul reacts to Deandre Ayton’s game-winning dunk Both All-Stars haven’t been ruled out of the NBA playoffs, so when will they return to the court?...

All is quiet and polite along the cool corridors of the United Nations’ Manhattan headquarters. But below the surface rages the world’s weirdest political campaign. In the race for U.N. secretary-general, there are no speeches, no fund-raisers. It’s considered bad form even to say you’re a candidate. “Everyone says they’re not interested, but they’re suddenly found visiting Paris, London and Moscow, ostensibly on other business,” says former under-secretary-general Brian Urquhart....

This closeness indicates that the black holes, which are 89 million light-years away from Earth in the galaxy NGC 7727 in the constellation Aquarius, are moving towards each other and will eventually collide and merge, forming an even more massive black hole. The previous closest supermassive black hole pairing is located 470 million light-years from our planet. The two supermassive black holes are separated by just 1,600 light-years, half the separation of the previous record holders for the smallest separation, astronomer at the Strasbourg Observatory in France, Karina Voggel, said....

In late March, the administration issued an order authorizing the expulsion of non-citizens arriving at the border. Under this scheme, it takes just an average of 96 minutes for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expel asylum seekers. In the first six weeks, CBP expelled some 20,000 people, including 400 unaccompanied children. However, the new approach gives the individuals concerned no chance to make their legal case for asylum, a clear violation of U....

Yves Saint Laurent spent decades trying to make white shoes and black legs chic. But it wasn’t until last fall, when designer-of-themoment Miuccia Prada showed white high heeled Mary Janes, that the idea took off, especially in the priciest lines. The shoe design team of Susan Bennis and Warren Edwards are offering 60 percent of their spring collection in white. What’s the appeal? Maybe it’s Seventh Avenues fixation with retro glamour....

On Friday, Punk was host of a Q&A session at Chicago’s United Center following UFC on Fox 16 weigh-ins. At the 12:22 mark of the session, the fan tells Punk, also known as Phil Brooks, that he has been challenging Punk to a fight on Twitter. Punk, a former WWE champion turned UFC fighter, tells him no. MORE: Dillashaw-Barao title fight | Five reasons to watch | Who will win?...

It’s still impressive that he managed not to stare into the camera and wink, or say “this is definitely not a free, nationally televised recruiting pitch.” He just wants you to develop as a human being, and part of that development entails racking up credit-card debt. Very good. MORE: The most hated college basketball players — ever As for the worst, most disingenuous thing Kryzewski has done in the last week — lying about his postgame scold of Oregon’s Dillon Brooks — the fix is simple and necessary: He should apologize....

According to the Coast Guard, officials at the Houston-Galveston sector received a radio call Monday at approximately 9:40 p.m. from a man who said he was on a boat with three other adults and three children. The man described the boat to officials as 27 feet in length and intended for recreational use, the Coast Guard said. The man told the Coast Guard the boat was taking on water west of the U....