For starters, it’s Rivalry Week in the Big 12 and the Pac-12, with a few intrastate showdowns looming. No. 22 Oklahoma State will travel to Norman to play Oklahoma, No. 7 USC and No. 16 UCLA are squaring off in The Crosstown Rivalry in Rose Bowl Stadium, and No. 10 Utah and No. 12 Oregon will battle it out in a huge game between two teams who are 6-1 in conference play....

The Crimson Tide began the post-Tua Tagovailoa era convincingly, with a 66-3 shellacking of Western Carolina as backup quarterback Mac Jones finished with 275 passing yards and three touchdowns. “He’s in the right place mentally, which has always been an important thing for Mac,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said in his weekly radio show on Wednesday. Emphatic as the win was, it wasn’t enough to convince the College Football Playoff selection committee to lift the Crimson Tide into the top four of the rankings....

The Blue Raiders torched Miami last week 45-32 as 25.5-point underdogs, showing once again that big upsets will happen across the college landscape. There were four double-digit dogs who knocked off favored opponents in Week 4. Kansas State was a 13.5-point underdog and went into Oklahoma and won 41-34. Southern Miss was a 12-point underdog at Tulane, which had just beaten Kansas State the week prior, and got the win....

(All times Eastern) MORE: College football goes big-time in primetime | Week 3 Power 5 conference rankings Thursday, Sept. 17 No. 11 Clemson at Louisville, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Friday, Sept. 18 No. 9 FSU at Boston College, 8 p.m., ESPN Idaho State at Boise State, 9 p.m., CBS Sports Network New Mexico at Arizona State, 10 p.m., PAC12 Network Saturday, Sept. 19 Savannah State at Akron, noon, ESPN3 South Florida at Maryland, noon, ESPNU...

The New York Post was first to report on the lawsuit, which was brought forward by 17 plaintiffs. The students asserted that the school’s vaccine requirement violated their religious beliefs because the shots were tested using “aborted fetal tissue or human embryonic stem-cell derivation.” The university said in court filings that they question the “genuineness of their purported religious beliefs,” according to the Post. The three coronavirus vaccines currently being used in the U....

The College World Series features the eight teams to emerge from the Super Regional round of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. MORE: A look at Tuesday’s action Here’s how to watch the remaining games (all times Eastern): College World Series 2015 TV schedule Wednesday, June 17 Game 9: Miami vs. Florida, 8 p.m. | ESPN Thursday, June 18 Game 10: LSU vs. TCU, 8 p.m. | ESPN Friday, June 19...

MORE: All about the 2016 CWS Florida is led by a pitching staff that comes in with a 2.93 ERA, which is sixth-best in the nation and best among the eight World Series participants. TCU is next at 3.17. Two of the pitchers keeping Florida’s team ERA so low were selected in the first round of Major League Baseball’s draft earlier this month. A.J. Puk was selected sixth overall by the A’s and Dane Dunning was taken 29th by the Nationals....

The tie is to the just-rebooted Superstar Mode, where a single player, rather than an entire team, is controlled through a career. The most interesting aspect of Superstar mode is that it will include a college element. The College Football Playoff is included and 10 universities have been licensed to appear: Texas Tech (where Mahomes played in college), Clemson, Oregon, LSU, Florida, Florida State, Texas, Miami, USC and Oklahoma. With the exception of Texas and Oklahoma, which had brief appearances in “Madden NFL 18” Longshot story mode and Ultimate Team, there hasn’t been any college football presence since “NCAA Football 14” became the final college sports video game as we know it....

What explains the increase? HBCUs are increasingly losing African-American students to mainstream universities. And outside the top tier of black higher education—places like Howard University and Spelman College—many HBCUs find themselves in dire financial straits. To survive, some are reaching out beyond their traditional base. “Schools that once had as their mission a need to educate the newly free [are] now expanding their mission into the 21st century,” says Robert Dixon, Grambling’s provost and vice president for academic affairs....

The organization will now return to its original name and add “Crew” back to a reformatted crest. It will also add “96” within the outline of the Ohio state flag, in a nod to its status as a founding MLS member. It has been a difficult beginning to the 2021 campaign for Columbus, with the off-field branding controversy introducing unwanted in-fighting amid a wobbly 11th-place start in the Eastern Conference through five matches....

Even before the pandemic, health care was a stressful industry. According to a Medscape survey (registration required) from 2018, for example, 42% of more than 15,000 physicians surveyed reported feeling burned out. But stress within health care has taken on an entirely new dimension during the COVID-19 pandemic due to: • The physical and mental strain of adhering to biosecurity measures, including having to endure physical isolation on- and off-shift, wearing heavy protective gear and following strict infection control procedures...

Clubs spend thousands producing videos for social media to unveil their newest acquisitions, all trying to outdo each other with clever or humorous videos, all trying to replicate the genius marketing phenomenon that is ‘Come to Besiktas’. This simple phrase became the most popular slogan in the football world last summer when Ricardo Quaresma invited Portugal team-mate Pepe to join him in the Turkish Super Lig. The duo were recorded on mobile phones having a conversation where Quaresma urges Pepe to leave Real Madrid and “come to Besiktas” in what appears to be a very amateurish video, but is instead a cleverly crafted marketing endeavour....

The British-Irish comedian, 49, made the quip during his latest program on the streaming platform, His Dark Material. The special is one of a number of shows that Carr has released in conjunction with Netflix. Despite being available on the platform since this past Christmas, the disparaging comment only received backlash following a clip of the joke being posted to social media on Thursday. The controversy emerged following a joke made by Carr about what he called a “positive” of the Holocaust: That so many Roma and Sinti people—sometimes called gypsies, which is considered a slur—were murdered by the Nazis....

Trevor Smith, 17, of Oneonta, Ala., won Wilson’s fan contest and his design has been transformed into the company’s commemorative glove for the All-Star Game. MORE: Ranking the National League uniforms | The AL’s best- and worst-dressed Smith, who has a passion for sports apparel, enjoys creating new designs for gloves of all positions in his spare time. A photo posted by Wilson Baseball / Softball (@wilsonballglove) on Jul 5, 2015 at 11:59am PDT...

Trump launched Truth Social in February, more than a year after he was banned from most social media sites including Facebook and Twitter in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters—in part motivated by his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election—rioted at the United States Capitol in a failed effort to force Congress to block President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory....

The woman, @kawaiiprincessv, posted about the situation to TikTok, writing: “Not even the HR manager who organized it came in.” The post has garnered over 760,000 views and sparked a passionate discussion about office culture. You can watch the full video here. In her video, @kawaiiprincessv pans the camera to her computer screen to show a calendar invite for “Barefoot Fridays”—an in-office happy hour hosted from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p....

46 percent of all American children are using computers at school or home. In 1984, 30 percent of kids between 3 and 17 used computers. 71 percent of the people who work in the finance, insurance and real-estate industries use a computer on the job. The proportion of homes with computers nearly doubled between 1984 and 1989–from 8 to 15 percent. 37 percent of all American workers used a computer at work in 1989 (up from 25 percent in 1984)....