Texas and VCU have not yet confirmed the reports. MORE: DeCourcy: Opportunity too good to pass up | Coaching vacancies | Bowling Green fires Jans Smart met with Texas athletic director Steve Patterson in Richmond, Va., earlier in the day, then met with VCU’s players Thursday night. Guard Briante Weber made it clear what Smart told his now-former team The Longhorns reportedly want to introduce Smart at a news conference Friday....
The Boys in Green were edged out 1-0 in a hard-fought Euro 2016 qualifier at Scotland on Friday but are +130 favorites with the Westgate SuperBook to secure a morale-boosting win here. Their opponents suffered a 2-1 defeat in an exhibition match against Colombia in London that same evening and are +230 outsiders to come out on top in Dublin. Jurgen Klinsmann’s men had drawn two successive matches prior to the Craven Cottage clash, and you can get odds of +220 on them playing out another stalemate in this one....
Talking to reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday, Emmer said that the “Squad” of progressive House Democrats — Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib — is going to play a starring role in Congress during the 2020 election. “You should call them the ‘Leadership Squad’ since they are the Speaker, in fact,” Emmer said. “The rest of their conference should be called the new red army of socialists....
“I kinda like it,” the outspoken Florida lawmaker wrote on Twitter in response to the trending hashtag “MattGaetzIsATool.” He included a GIF of a shirtless man swinging a sledgehammer with the caption “I came in like a wrecking ball,” a nod to the Miley Cyrus song. Gaetz, a Trump ally who is in his second term representing a conservative district in the Sunshine State’s Panhandle, was labeled a “f—ing tool” for his Sunday picture with Trump and Melania at Nationals Park by Andy Lassner, executive producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show....
“Nancy Pelosi gave the members of the House just a few hours to read six thousand pages of legislation, she did that because she had stuffed this bill full of pork,” Buck said on Fox & Friends on Saturday. The congressman noted the COVID relief bill included funding for two new women’s history museums, social engineering programs in Pakistan, and a panel to examine a succession to the Dalai Lama....
Jordan spoke to Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt on Thursday and insisted there were grounds for impeachment due to Garland’s refusal to prosecute any of the people who protested outside the homes of Supreme Court justices. Ahead of and following the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn the abortion ruling Roe v. Wade, protestors took to demonstrating at the Supreme Court Building as well as at some of the justices’ homes....
That is what several GOP senators reiterated on Thursday as their party’s leader hurled more false claims to his 86 million Twitter followers about casting ballots by mail. “Republicans have traditionally done better at mail-in voting,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told Newsweek. “It could potentially [hurt us]. If you have a district, for example, which has more folks who live in nursing homes and are afraid to go to the voting polls or are unable to physically....
During an interview with CNN’s State of the Union, host Dana Bash asked the governor how he would interpret the midterm election results as a “Republican warning against GOP extremism and specifically election denialism.” “The way I would interpret it…this should have been a huge red wave. It should have been one of the biggest red waves we have ever had, because President Biden’s approval rating was so low, one of the lowest historically,” Hogan responded....
The presidential race is looking increasingly grim for the Trump Campaign. The president is behind in key swing states and, stripped of a healthy economy, is doubling down on his divisive and authoritarian rhetoric, even mooting the idea of delaying the election. From the top of the 2020 ticket to the down-ballot races, Republicans are going in hard on China. They see it as an exploitable weakness of Biden’s campaign and one that could carry the election for Trump in November, according to multiple Republican senators and aides that spoke with Newsweek....
The towers also embodied the American genius for hucksterism. The idea to make them the world’s tallest buildings (which they were briefly after they opened in 1973, until the Sears Tower in Chicago topped them; now Malaysia’s Petronas towers are the highest) was the brainstorm of a PR man, not the architect, Minoru Yamasaki of Detroit. (Among Yamasaki’s other buildings was the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, detonated by authorities in 1972 as a failure in social planning....
Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi made the call to pull out three Japan Air Self-Defense Force cargo planes in light of the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Kabul on Monday and the inability to guarantee safe landings, according to a Kyodo News report. Tokyo said evacuation plans are ongoing, but the remaining Japanese nationals as well as embassy and NGO staff may need to leave Afghanistan by other means such as commercial airlines, the outlet said....
Researchers at the University of Virginia studied Prozac’s impact on AMD in two different ways. They examined the drug’s effects on animal models and evaluated data from health insurance companies on people who were taking fluoxetine. Based on these findings, the authors of the study are urging that clinical trials be conducted to test fluoxetine as a treatment for dry AMD. The October study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
I always travel light, bringing only my Thuraya satellite phone, a change of clothes and a notebook. I don’t carry a bottle of mineral water or packaged biscuits–items that give you away as being “Western.” I also have to keep my Thuraya out of sight. To many, a satphone identifies you as a spy, because U.S. forces liberally handed out Thurayas to their allied warlords and agents. Others see a satphone as the sign of a Taliban operative....
The Brazilian defender is now ‘in talks’ with Real Madrid to try and convince them to lower the price tag slapped on him. Los Blancos are demanding €31 million for him while Chelsea are ready to pay just €25 million for him. In case you didn’t know… Chelsea are back in the Champions League after a year’s absence. Antonio Conte is keen on getting his squad stronger and is interested in having at least 2 players in each position....
Chelsea are undergoing a lot of changes under their new manager, Conte, after the Italian agreed to become their manager for the next three years. Conte has already contacted the likes of Radja Naingollan to add more steel in the Chelsea midfield. Fabregas is a more attacking midfielder and Conte is reportedly a fan of Oscar which means the Spaniard has no starting spot available anymore. Real Madrid, meanwhile, are interested in signing an established midfielder to boost their ranks after the Mateo Kovacic experiment failed tremendously....
Now, it is being reported by Spanish outlet AS (courtesy Sky Sports) and The Sun, that the Blues are set to lose one of their best players to Spanish giants Atletico Madrid. According to the report, the Vicente Calderon outfit are close to reaching an agreement for the return of Chelsea striker Diego Costa to Spain for £40 million and that an announcement can be expected in the next few hours....
According to English outlet Express, David de Gea is desperate to complete his dream move to Real Madrid - which fell through at the last hurdle in 2015 - and seeks the help of Los Blancos captain Sergio Ramos to help achieve it. In case you didn’t know… David de Gea came as close as one can come without joining a team in 2015, when a fax machine fiasco prevented the Spaniard from moving to Real Madrid....
According to the reputed Spanish media outlet, Sport, Valencia’s sharpshooter Rodrigo Moreno is on top of FC Barcelona’s wishlist as they look to reinforce their forward line in the approaching summer. The Spaniard, who’ve previously spent time in the Spanish capital with the Real Madrid youth system before being sold to Portuguese outfit, Benfica, has been on Los Blancos’ radar lately, according to the report. In case you didn’t know…...
In case you didn’t know… Kluivert is the latest product of Ajax’s famed youth system who made the breakthrough to the first team in 2016. He was in the Ajax squad that lost to Manchester United in the 2017 UEFA Europa League final and has caught the eye of scouts all over the world and Mourinho for his impressive performances for the club. In 55 games for Ajax, he has found the back of the net 12 times and has set up 10 goals as well....
Thiago was Liverpool’s top target this summer and joined the club earlier this week after a drawn-out transfer saga with Bayern Munich. The Spanish midfielder is one of the best players in the world in his position and could be in the matchday squad when Liverpool take on Chelsea later today. Jota, on the other hand, has been signed to complement the likes of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino, and Mohamed Salah....
