Simone Biles made an appearance at Soldier Field for the Bears on Saturday for her husband Jonathan Owens’ NFL preseason game against the Bengals. She greeted the city of Chicago on the NFL’s social media. Biles surprisingly wore a Green Bay Packers jacket to the game. However, it’s justified, as it’s a custom jacket from Owens’ time on the Packers in 2023. Still, it’s quite the fashion choice for a Bears game. The Bears allowed Owens to briefly leave training camp in July to support Biles in Paris. The decorated gymnast won three gold medals and one silver medal in…
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The Edmonton Oilers have acquired forward Vasily Podkolzin from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for the Ottawa Senators’ 2025 fourth-round pick. Edmonton acquired the pick alongside Roby Jarventie earlier this summer, in exchange for sending Ottawa forwards Xavier Bourgault and Jake Chiasson.The timing of this deal can’t be ignored. Edmonton recently received two offer sheets from the St. Louis Blues, who are looking to steal away forward Dylan Holloway and defender Philip Broberg. The pair of offer sheets totals $6.87M — a very difficult pill to swallow for an Oilers team already $8.225M over the cap ceiling, not including potential long-term injured reserve. While an…
Stating the incursion’s aims for the first time, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs border ‘buffer zone’.Ukraine says it has destroyed a second bridge across the River Seym which winds through Russia’s Kursk region. It is the second attack on a bridge in the region in a matter of days and comes as Ukraine presses a cross-border offensive that began on August 6. On Friday, it said it had struck a bridge in the Russian town of Glushkovo. “Minus one more bridge,” Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram on Sunday, publishing an aerial video of a blast…
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz gave pep talks to campaign volunteers and a high school football team Sunday, with their bus tour in a corner of Pennsylvania serving as a modest, small-town version of the grand rally she’s expected to have at the Democratic nominating convention in Chicago this week. Vice President Harris and Walz, the governor of Minnesota, were joined by their spouses, Doug Emhoff and Gwen Walz, as they toured in a blue bus. They stopped off to visit volunteers at a campaign office not far from Pittsburgh before continuing on to a firehouse and a high school in…
The New York Yankees have had some of the best relief pitchers and closers in baseball history, including possibly the greatest closer to ever do it in Mariano Rivera. Their current closer situation feels a long way from that legacy of success this season and the Yankees got another reminder of it on Sunday night in a 3-2 extra-innings loss to the Detroit Tigers.It was during that game that closer Clay Holmes blew his league-leading 10th save of the season, giving up a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning to send the game to extra innings. After the…
Democratic nominee leads Republican by 3-6 points ahead of party convention Chicago.United States Vice President Kamala Harris is leading former President Donald Trump as she prepares for her headline moment at the Democratic National Convention, opinion polling shows. On the eve of the convention in Chicago, Harris holds a lead of between three and six percentage points in the race for the White House, two opinion polls showed on Sunday. Harris is ahead of Trump by 49-45 percent among registered voters and 51-45 percent among likely voters in a two-way race, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll. In a…
After severe flooding hit Connecticut on Sunday leading to a flash flood emergency for New Haven and Fairfield counties, Metro-North announced multiple lines would be suspended through the Monday morning commute. Metro-North said service on the Danbury and Waterbury lines would be suspended through Monday morning. Commuters were urged to find an alternative route, including the Harlem and New Haven lines. Waterbury Branch service is suspended in both directions because of a weather-related flooding near Seymour.Danbury and Waterbury service will be suspended through tomorrow morning. Customers should consider using the New Haven or Harlem Lines for service on Monday morning.…
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Mpox was declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 14 August 2024 by the World Health Organization (WHO) following an upsurge of infections by the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa. This is the highest level of global alert recognizing the potential threat this virus poses to countries around the world, and it is the second declaration in two years of a PHEIC relating to mpox. This current outbreak of mpox is caused by clade I, which is more transmissible and causes more severe…
For a sport that has more access to data and models than any other, it seems a class in reading a weather forecast is in order. The forecast for Sunday’s FireKeepers 400 hardly wavered over the weekend, yet NASCAR, with the knowledge that the weather would be clear for at least an hour before the green flag flew, decided to do nothing. Calling for the noon start times that once dominated the sport is a futile effort — it is, of course, possible for it to rain in the morning — but with afternoon summer thunderstorms being a staple of life on…
As the war enters its 906th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Monday, August 19, 2024. Fighting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time stated the aim of Ukraine’s August 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the operation was necessary to create a buffer zone. Ukrainian Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said the air force destroyed a second strategically important bridge over the Seym River in the Kursk region. He posted an aerial video of a blast tearing through the bridge, which appeared to be near the village of Zvannoye, about 15km (nine miles)…