Goodman’s father’s final wish is for his funeral to be held at Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church, the first church he ever attended. His other request is for Jessie to sing the hymn “The Anchor Holds” at the ceremony. But Pastor Jay Scruggs refused Goodman’s father’s dying wish. (The Goodman family requested the father not be named.) “As long as I was going to take part in any way, [my father] could not have his service there,” Goodman told WTVC....

College football is here, and if you’re going to play good, why not look good doing it? Who knows how Cincinnati’s season will turn out? But one thing is certain: The Bearcats will be fresh as Hades for homecoming. The team’s official Twitter account revealed images of the Under Armour uniforms it will don when it faces UConn on Oct. 24, and they’re pretty sweet. Check them out. MORE: See photos of Cincinnati’s Nippert stadium uniforms | Washington gets largest CFB stadium naming rights deal ever That’s not too bad for the Bearcats, and kudos to Under Armour for not resorting to any of those doing-too-much designs it’s done for Maryland in years past....

Newsweek: What’s the most important thing for success in business? Daniel Lamarre: Creativity. If you are not prioritizing creativity—the dictionary definition of “making or bringing into existence something new”—you are wasting your time. No company deserves to exist unless it is constantly discovering new ways to make its customers’ lives better. Without creativity, there is no business. How can creativity be incorporated in an organization? What about in non-artistic fields or more traditional ones?...

Darebin City Council, in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria (Vic) state, opened the job to people identifying as “non-male” to apply for the position before it closes on September 16. In the job advertisement, the city council asked for a street sweeper operator and stated it was open to women, non-binary and transgender persons. The role requires the street sweeper operator to maintain cleanliness and general appearance of the council’s footpaths, nature strips, roads, car parks and laneway cleaning....

The Skeleton King is the King of the Undead and has abilities focusing on his uncanny gift to collect the souls of the dead with “Soul Summoning” and resurrect them as skeletons to do his bidding. The more slain enemies the Skeleton King piles up, the more his Skeleton count grows. The Skeleton King is a flexible card Champion that can be used in a variety of different builds. You unlock Skeleton Knight at Level 11 and continue to upgrade him from there as you would any other card....

Kershaw is the first pitcher to win NL MVP since Bob Gibson in 1968, and the first MVP pitcher overall since Justin Verlander won the AL award in 2011. He topped the Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton and the Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen, the 2013 winner, in the voting by media members (two from each NL city). Kershaw received 18 of the 30 first-place votes and 355 points. Stanton received eight first-place votes and 298 points....

Cleanthony Early will be playing in the NBA next year. That is a fact. But unfortunately for Early, the loss to Kentucky in the round of 32 is still on his mind. Why you ask? Just watch his first dunk attempt. it is awfuLOL: Seriously, kids. Don't try this at home. Or at the park. Or anywhere. Ever.

The Tigers, who finished No. 2 in 2015, and the Seminoles, who finished No. 14, are expected to be College Football Playoff contenders in 2016 with that late October game being a key to the ACC Atlantic Division. MORE: 16 questions for 2016 | Way-too-early top 20 for 2016 FSU also plays one of the conference’s five neutral-site games when it faces Ole Miss on Labor Day (Sept. 5) in the first Orlando Kickoff Game....

“You’re everything I’ve dreamed of. I love you and can’t wait to marry you,” the 20-year-old wrote on Instagram. MORE: Michigan will not have full Big House if college football happens in 2020 A post shared by Trevor Lawrence (@tlawrence16) on Jul 17, 2020 at 7:02pm PDT Lawrence and Mowry met in high school in Cartersville, Ga. They have been dating for four years. Mowry, who plays soccer for Anderson University in South Carolina, called the moment the “easiest YES of my life....

The Tigers’ 24-17 overtime victory on homecoming kept the school’s home win streak alive, making it 20 games in a row Clemson has won in Death Valley. Artavis Scott and Marcus Edmond saved the day for the Tigers. Scott caught the winning touchdown pass in overtime, while Edmond intercepted Wolfpack quarterback Ryan Finley’s pass into the end zone, ending the game. Findley threw for 231 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns, while Tigers quarterback and Heisman hopeful Deshaun Watson had 378 yards, two touchdowns and one interception....

Extinction Rebellion Washington D.C. announced their intention to mount the protest on Twitter on Wednesday, criticizing the president’s approach to the climate change crisis. April 22 is Earth Day and Biden is marking the occasion by holding a virtual climate summit. He issued a proclamation about the negative effects of climate change early on Thursday. “You’ll be happy to learn that Extinction Rebellion plans to dump a steaming pile of s*** in front of the White House on Earth Day,” Extinction Rebellion Washington D....

This finding could mean that scientists have been underestimating how global climate change will affect biodiversity and the number of extinctions that will occur, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors of the study from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada and the University of Montpellier in France explained that for species to survive climate change, they will have to genetically adapt or shift their ranges—or both....

Both bowed out on the same day. Both failed to score, meaning both remain without a goal in the knockout stage of the tournament’s knockout stage. Edinson Cavani, though, has two; the two that eliminated Ronaldo and European champions Portugal on an absorbing night of drama at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi. This last-16 clash had been billed as a straight shootout between Clasico rivals Ronaldo and Suarez but it was Cavani who proved the deadliest marksman on the pitch....

“I’m pretty miserable right now and I don’t aim to be that way for a year,” Bowyer said, via Motorsport.com . “It’s hard. Here’s the thing, in the situation you’re in, yes, you want to rip the leather off the steering wheel and get mad and everything else but it doesn’t do any good. And you know these guys are working their asses off to get you to where you’re even at....

In a video from a July 19, 2021, speech, Biden marked the first six months of his administration by celebrating the nation’s economy, which he hailed as experiencing “the fastest growth, I’m told, at this point in any administration’s history.” “We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases,” Biden said. “Some folks have raised worries that this could be a sign of persistent inflation....

Blake Griffin will have surgery on his right elbow to remove a staph infection and is out indefinitely, according to the team. MORE: Davis diagnosed with shoulder contusion | Mavs looking at O’Neal, Stoudemire | Cousins’ camp against hiring George Karl Griffin will be reevaluated after the All-Star break, meaning he will sit out the Feb. 15 contest in New York. He is averaging 22.5 points and a career-low 7....

After losing power forward Blake Griffin indefinitely with an injury to his quadriceps, Griffin broke his shooting hand when he punched a team assistant equipment manager last week. But off-the-court issues aside, Los Angeles has been playing excellent basketball lately, especially off the bench. MORE: Don’t dismiss these D-League prospects | As trade deadline approaches, these contenders need help Jamal Crawford, a two-time Sixth Man of the Year award winner, scored a game-high 26 points off the bench Sunday to help the Clippers beat Chicago 120-93 at home....

Game 7 line: Los Angeles -2, Total: 220.5 (check our odds page for updated spreads and totals) Line movement and notes: The Clippers opened as 2-point road favorites in Las Vegas, dropped to -1.5 in early action at some locations, before the spread bounced back up to -2. They covered the first four games, failing to get the cash in the last two. The total opened at 220.5, a half-point higher than Game 6 and the highest of the series....

The picture, captured by Minnesota local Theresa Birgin Lucas, was shared to Reddit by user u/Harvickfan4Life in a post that has amassed over 88,000 upvotes. It shows gray, thick cloud towering over a road, giving the appearance that the whole ocean is hovering only a few dozen feet above the ground. Clouds, which are plumes of condensed water vapor in the sky, come in many shapes, sizes and colors depending on the atmospheric conditions, temperature and size of the water droplets....

Newsom is the sitting California governor and the first to beat a gubernatorial recall election targeting his office. The Democrat was elected as governor in 2018 and will serve the remainder of his term now that he has defeated the recall effort. If the recall had been successful in removing Newsom from office, he would have been replaced by the recall candidate who received the greatest number of votes. Forty-six candidates qualified to appear on the recall ballot, a list that included 24 Republicans, nine Democrats, two Green Party candidates, one Libertarian and 10 candidates who chose to appear on the ballot with no party preference....