This week looks like another tough one: How does USC respond in its first game without Lane Kiffin as head coach? Oregon gets its biggest test of the season and Georgia can't rest a week after losing multiple players to injury. Standings through six weeks: Against the spread (last week): 42-18: Jon Cooper, SaturdayDownSouth.com (5-5) 37-23: Mike Griffith, MLive.com (6-4) 36-24: Bill Bender, Sporting News (6-4) 35-25: Ken Bradley, Sporting News (3-7)...

Top 2019 NFL free agents like Demarcus Lawrence and Jadeveon Clowney could be candidates for their teams’ respective franchise tags. Lawrence, however, was franchise-tagged by the Cowboys last year, which impacts his odds of being tagged again in 2019. Last year, Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell sat out the season after he was tagged for a second straight year. While the 27-year-old is unlikely to be franchise tagged for a third consecutive season, the transition tag is a viable option for Pittsburgh....

The tagline for this new weapon is: “Stay one step ahead of the Storm by scoping in to see its next location!” In addition to this new weapon, the Content Update also included Birthday Presents: “They say the best gifts are surprises. Open up these Legendary items commemorating Fortnite’s second birthday to see what loot awaits.” Presents have six possible packages of loot and are not available in Arena or Tournament modes....

Baseball stars get 10 chances to be elected into the Hall of Fame, and Schilling, Bonds and Clemens have one more opportunity to get voted in. If they don’t get 75 percent then, they get passed along to the Hall of Fame’s veteran voting groups. In order to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the baseball writers, a player must be active in a period 15 years prior to the election; he needs to have participated in 10 Major League championship seasons; and he needs to have been retired for five years, according to the BBWAA Rules....

When it comes to Medicare, the government could sign you up automatically, or an insurance company can sign you up for one of their plans without your permission. Know your rights, or you could literally pay the price. Your Medicare Options When you turn 65 years old or have a qualifying disability (U.S. citizenship and/or legal residency requirements also apply), you may be eligible for Medicare. Medicare is not one-size-fits-all, so you have important decisions to make....

A colonoscopy can be performed in a hospital or clinic setting. Persons undergoing the procedure are typically sedated so that they experience no discomfort. During the exam, live digital images are displayed on a video monitor to help guide the investigation. Still images are commonly taken for up-close examination or to help make comparisons to earlier images. A colonoscope is used by a physician specially trained in the technology, including gastroenterologists and colorectal surgeons....

The research, conducted in collaboration with scientists and physicians from Tel Aviv University, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Lisbon, found that the spread of the metastases could be delayed. The study was published in the scientific journal JCI Insight. Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Tel Aviv University cancer biologist, said: “This is a puzzling statistic. “We expect to see metastases in the lungs and liver, but the brain is supposed to be a protected organ....

But at the most recent Thanksgiving Day Race in Cincinnati, runners consumed with greed turned a fun, peaceful event into a chaotic one, all because of post-race snacks. Following the 10K holiday race which featured over 15,000 participants, many runners could not wait to get their hands on the post-race snacks, and resorted to greed and chaos to get their hands on as many as possible. Julie Isphording, who won the 1990 Los Angeles Marathon and now manages the annual Cincinnati event, could not believe what she saw following the race last Thursday....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended just two events during Queen Elizabeth II’s official celebrations marking 70 years of her reign, in June 2022. It was Meghan’s first public visit to Britain since the couple quit royal duties in March 2020 and both royals still have partnerships with charities in the U.K. However, they only attended Elizabeth’s Trooping the Colour birthday parade on June 2 and an official church service in her honor at St....

Nearly two months after his team added the two-time All-Pro running back, Atlanta’s offensive coordinator, Dirk Koetter, admitted in a video call with local reporters that there are concerns about whether Gurley will be healthy enough to contribute in 2020. MORE: NFL uniform rankings for 2020 What Koetter says is fair, given that Gurley hasn’t had a chance to both get and pass a physical since the signing. But being too brutally honest with the situation wasn’t the best idea, given that the Falcons’ front office expressed great confidence in Gurley’s future health status when giving him a one-year, $5 million deal to replace the released Devonta Freeman....

Rep. Peter Meijer, one of 10 GOP congressmen who voted to impeach the former president last January, lost the primary in Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District to the Trump-endorsed and 2020-election denier John Gibbs. Meijer conceded the neck and neck race at around 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday. With 55 percent of the votes reported, Gibbs leads Meijer by 51.8 percentage points to 48.2. Meijer is the second House Republican who voted to impeach Trump to have gone on to lose their primary....

This article discusses HCM treatment, from medications to more invasive or surgical options. Medications People with HCM can have symptoms, such as chest pain, fainting, and lightheadedness, due to obstruction of blood flow out of the heart due to the thickened heart muscle. Medications are used to help with symptoms in HCM. Beta-Blockers Beta-blockers are the first-line treatment for symptoms of HCM. Beta-blockers work by blocking beta receptors in the heart to decrease the heart’s contraction and heart rate....

Why You Don’t Sleep Well During Menopause A number of factors gang up in menopause to disturb your sleep. Hormone levels, health issues, lifestyle, and situational stressors all play a role in whether you get to sleep and stay asleep. After the age of 40 (and sometimes before), you may have trouble getting or staying asleep because declining hormone levels affect the sleep/wake cycle. Additionally, hot flashes, night sweats, thyroid problems, pain, and breathing difficulties can keep you up....

The findings have implications for animal-assisted clinical therapy. Dogs help people cope with stress and depression, so shedding light on the phenomenon could lead to the development of better treatments. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, found the effect persists after the dogs are no longer present, but is reduced when they are replaced with stuffed animals. Study lead author Rahel Marti, of the University of Basel, Switzerland, said: “The present study demonstrates that pre-frontal brain activity in healthy subjects increased with a rise in interactional closeness with a dog or a stuffed animal, but especially in contact with the dog, the activation is stronger....

In about two months, there have been 82,000 verified cases worldwide of the people having the virus, and cases have been confirmed on every inhabitable continent. World Health Organization (WHO) officials have been leery of using the word pandemic because it could amplify “unnecessary and unjustified fear” but American health officials claim that’s the direction the outbreak is headed. An epidemic refers to an often sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is expected in a population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

Just three months later, though, on Jan. 10, 2000, Levin and Case were beaming before a mob scene of TV crews in Manhattan, making history with the announcement of their $350 billion blockbuster marriage. Combining AOL and Time Warner would create a behemoth that, they boasted, would touch the lives of people around the world an amazing 2.5 billion times each month through magazines, cable and movies. AOL would be the turbo-charged engine to bring Old Media into the “Internet century’’ and deliver a dizzying 30 percent surge in profits on $40 billion in sales in the first year alone....

As a result of their conversation The 355 was born, and after a year-long delay, the movie is finally landing in theaters this Friday, January 7, 2022. Chastain stars and co-produces the globe-trotting spy thriller. She recruited the likes of Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz and Fan Bingbing to star alongside her as agents from international organizations. Newsweek sat down with co-writer, co-producer and director Kinberg to hear his thoughts on how the movie went from an idea on the set of X-Men: Dark Phoenix to the first blockbuster of 2022....

According to a report from The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Wall and the Rockets have mutually agreed to work together on finding a new team for the five-time All-Star. Charania’s report indicates that Wall will be present at training camp, but he will not play in any games for the Rockets this season. MORE: Key upcoming NBA dates The news comes less than a year after the Rockets acquired Wall in a blockbuster trade that sent Russell Westbrook to the Wizards, the first domino to fall in a series of moves that launched a full rebuild in Houston....

Survey results from Politico/Morning Consult released on Wednesday showed that just 45 percent of respondents held a favorable view of the vice president’s performance. Meanwhile, 47 percent had an unfavorable view and 5 percent said they had no opinion. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent and was conducted from July 16 to 18. That polling aligned fairly closely with a separate survey conducted by The Economist/YouGov from July 10 to 13....

Jackson, 51, was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. this past June by President Joe Biden to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Many legal analysts believe that Biden will nominate her to the highest court if there is an opening, particularly if Justice Stephen Breyer retires during Biden’s term. The president had also pledged to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court during his 2020 campaign....