The Rams fled to St. Louis in 1995, the same year Al Davis packed his pride and poise and decided he could just win, baby, back in Oakland. It’s not for a lack of trying. The absence of a state-of-the-art football stadium remains the biggest reason why there’s no National Football League team in La-La Land. Stadium aside, reports continue to circulate that the league could soon return to LA....

Public discourse in the City of Euphemisms has become so Balkanized that you can’t just call a riot a riot. Many public figures refer to last April’s “events.” Those with a more active fantasy life call it the “uprising” or “insurrection.” “Well, if you call it a riot,” says Maxine Waters, the rambunctious South-Central congresswoman, “it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason....

Crawley’s voiceovers and actions played into the storyline that’s been pushed since the start of the season. Spoilers claim Crawley and Moss will eventually leave the show together and abandon all remaining suitors…and Twitter users are ready to see it happen, many exclaiming they can’t take any more of the Moss/Crawley love story. During Tuesday night’s episode, Crawley spent parts of the first group date enveloped in public displays of affection with Moss....

The Portugal international played only seven minutes of Madrid’s UEFA Super Cup victory over Manchester United, and will not feature from kick-off in the traditional curtain-raiser to the Spanish season. Instead Isco will start in an advanced position alongside the other two members of the BBC, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema. Suspended Luka Modric is the only other absentee from Madrid’s habitual line-up, and is replaced in the middle of the pitch by Mateo Kovacic....

1. 1982 1. Herschel Walker, Jr., RB, Georgia 2. John Elway, Sr., QB, Stanford 3. Eric Dickerson, Sr., RB, SMU 4. Anthony Carter, Sr., WR, Michigan 5. David Rimington, Sr., C, Nebraska Legacy: There might never be a class like it again. Walker is considered by many the greatest college player of all time. Dickerson still holds the NFL single-season rushing record. Elway won two Super Bowls. Michigan gives Carter’s No....

Everybody is trying to put his or her finger on what’s wrong. Is it time to move on from Mike McCarthy? Is defensive coordinator Dom Capers’ time up? Is Aaron Rodgers the problem? Why is Randall Cobb hinting at locker-room issues? Is Skip Bayless’ never-ending crusade for the perfect Rodgers takedown about to come to fruition? All of those questions (except the last one) are contributing factors to the Packers’ slide, but one can’t assign a value....

The home fans’ frustration was vocal and visible during last week’s shocking loss to the Lions at Lambeau Field. Linebacker Clay Matthews urges everybody to just chill in the frozen tundra late this season — just like quarterback Aaron Rodgers did early last season. MORE: GM Ted Thompson in helpless position | Lions end NFL’s longest skid “Fans, as well as our organization and our players, have become so accustomed to being successful and winning that as soon as you drop a game, or in this case three, it’s all like the world is imploding,” Matthews told Sporting News, speaking on behalf of Procter & Gamble....

Abraham, who is at the Liberty Stadium on a season-long loan from Chelsea, suffered a back injury in Saturday’s 2-0 loss at Burnley, leaving the field on a stretcher after attempting to play through obvious pain. Abraham 5/4 to score v B’mouth The 20-year-old is Swansea’s top goalscorer with four Premier League strikes this season — although he has not scored since October 14 — and Clement believes Abraham will be available for a crunch clash against the Cherries as he does not appear to have sustained any damage to his back....

No. 4 Clemson is in the ACC championship game for a sixth consecutive season after beating Virginia Tech 45-10 on Saturday. The Tigers are back there after the conference tweaked the schedule. The Tigers and No. 2 Notre Dame won’t have to play their final regular-season games prior to the rematch of their Nov. 7 double-overtime classic. MORE: CFP contenders wait to see what Big Ten does with Ohio State...

The 6-0, 185-pound player disguised himself as J-Dew, the school’s infamous emcee, and wandered around campus looking for students to interview. The main thing Roper wanted to know? If his fellow Tigers could identify him. Turns out, it took quite a few tries. Clemson students who follow their basketball team should probably know Roper at this point. He averaged 19.2 minutes per game last season, appeared in 35 games and made 13 starts....

The Delray Beach establishment that received Drummond’s $1,000 gratuity over the weekend, Che Restaurant, expressed thanks to the Cleveland Cavalier in an Instagram post shared on Sunday. Alongside a photo of Drummond’s receipt, the restaurant reposted a lengthy message initially shared to the social platform by the server who managed his order, Kasandra Diaz. In it, she said the tip was particularly significant given the current economic climate. “Today, started off as slow day at work getting there for my double shift....

Cleveland weatherman Mark Johnson made sure to let everyone know how he felt about several no-calls against the hometown team Sunday night. MORE: Must-see NBA Finals photos | Game 3 betting report | Mozgov has earned more run Johnson not only complained about the officiating, he also demonstrated what he thought the Warriors were doing to his Cavaliers. “What we learned (Sunday) is this is not a foul,” Johnson protested as a member of the station’s production team slapped him on his wrist as he attempted to shoot....

Wherever Penn is on the ideological spectrum, he’s positioning Hillary for a general election, bucking up her centrist credentials while moving her to the left enough on the war to quiet critics. His book is avowedly nonpolitical, a breezy look at societal ripples entitled “Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Big Changes.” It’s the latest blending of marketing and politics, a way to identify social changes and tap into them for a big payoff on Election Day....

Hope springs eternal. This week brought a conference on weather modification, with the emphasis on getting clouds to drop their raindrops. My favorite paper was, alas, withdrawn: it proposed a machine—a ship, actually, with “four torpedo-shaped hulls”—that would “stop hurricanes from wrecking large parts of America.” While the inventor goes back to the drawing board on that one, a new study suggests that geo-engineering proposals may well blow up in our faces....

Today, these animals are found in five nations across the Arctic—the U.S., Canada, Russia, Greenland and Norway—split up into 19 subpopulations. However, global warming-driven declines in the sea-ice which they call home is forcing the animals onto land where they are deprived of food. Polar bears can only catch their prey from the surface of sea ice. There are no foods on land that can substitute the calories they get from the seals they catch on the ice....

That is a shame, because the UN climate change convention’s initial forays into climate finance had plenty of promise. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 established a “clean development mechanism” by which rich countries could offset increased carbon emissions by financing emissions reductions in poor countries. But at COP27 that approach was effectively shelved in favor of an impossibly complex framework for emissions credits trading that will leave government officials in an optimal position to move the goalposts, as with other failed emissions trading schemes....

I have received death threats, and endured a multitude of attacks from conservative media outlets, Republican congressmen and attorneys general, all because of the “Hockey Stick” graph my co-authors and I published more than two decades ago. The Hockey Stick demonstrated the devastating effect burning fossil fuels has on our planet—and therefore threatened those profiting off them. So they sought to discredit my science and me personally, while orchestrating a campaign of vilification against climate scientists like me....

And he also knows that, win or lose, he’ll be able to move on from whatever happens, whether he makes the 16-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup or not. MORE: Bowyer has most to lose by missing Chase | Earnhardt lands more sponsorship | Johnson not thinking about 7 | Richmond picks There’s two good reasons for that. The first is that his wife has a baby due late this month....

Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Graham Zusi and Matt Besler have been left off the U.S. roster that will face Ecuador on Friday in East Hartford, Connecticut, for Donovan’s final national team match. All four players are on teams playing key MLS matches this weekend, with the Seattle Sounders (Dempsey) battling for the Supporters’ Shield while Toronto FC (Bradley) and Sporting Kansas City (Zusi and Besler) are fighting for playoff positioning....

Historians will focus on the dominant fact of the Clinton presidency, which is that it coincided with a remarkable acceleration in something that already was impressive–America’s creation of wealth. They will try to determine the degree to which his presidency was a cause of that. The questions will be: To what extent did policies of the federal government contribute to that? To what extent was Clinton the author of those policies?...