ESPNW recently profiled the LeBron James Grandmothers’ Fan Club, a group of senior women who are among James’ biggest supporters. MORE: LeBron says you can’t slow down Steph Curry | LeBron’s greatest NBA Finals performances | Lil B sends warning to Cavs The members of the fan club are as endearing as you might imagine. Based in Akron, Ohio, and formed in 2006, some fan club members know James personally....
As he approached the end of the spring 2013 semester, Crawford was on course to graduate with a full season of eligibility remaining and thus positioned to transfer and play immediately. The coach who’d recruited him and nurtured his development for four years had just been dismissed, and his replacement owned a career record of 0-0. So what was Crawford doing last week: back at Big Ten basketball media day yet again, talking yet again about whether he’d ever experience the thrill of competing in the NCAA Tournament?...
Perhaps it was the massive expectations bestowed upon him when he emerged with the New York Red Bulls as a 16-year-old that set the perception in motion. Whatever the case, for his entire career, if he's scoring goals in bunches, then it's about time, and if he's not producing goals at a rapid pace, he's doing something wrong and it's time to panic. During the onset of his Sunderland career, he has barely been scoring, but that does not mean his individual play as a lead forward has been sub-par....
The Buckeyes trailed 16-6 and faced a fourth-and-1 at the 27-yard line, and Meyer opted to go. Mike Weber picked up the first down. Three plays later, same situation. Weber picked up another first down. That led to a touchdown for J.T. Barrett. That cut the lead to 16-13, and from there Ohio State found its way. MORE: Best images from Week 7 Meyer’s aggressiveness paid off once again, and now the Buckeyes (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) are 20-0 in true road games since 2012....
The score: 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-3. Raonic was the men’s seventh seed. And on this day, as one pundit put it, Kyrgios had more tricks up his sleeve. MORE: Scenes from Wimbledon | Roger Federer advances | Women’s seeds falling Kyrgios is No. 26 in the tournament’s seedings. Raonic is the second top-10 player to be eliminated. On Thursday, former champion and 10th seed Rafael Nadal was beaten in the third round....
The recipients, David Julius, PhD and Ardem Patapoutian, PhD worked independently of each other to examine how temperature and stimuli are converted into electrical impulses in the nervous system. Their findings identified two specific proteins responsible for the body’s interpretation of extreme hot or cold temperatures as painful, and two genes responsible for sensing touch and pressure. Prior to their discoveries, scientists understood that different types of sensory nerve fibers react to distinct stimuli like painful and non-painful touch, according to the Nobel committee....
The England international joined the Hammers from Manchester City earlier this summer on a season-long loan deal, though Slaven Bilic’s side were unable to include a buyout option in the 30-year-old’s contract. Hammers 4/1 to go down Despite the marquee signing, West Ham have endured a turgid start to the season, losing their opening three games, and conceding 10 goals and scoring just two. However, Noble maintains that Hart cannot be blamed, and has instead backed the goalkeeper to enjoy a successful stay at the London Stadium....
NHL is mostly diagnosed in Hispanic people and Non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan Native people. What’s more, the older a person gets, the higher their chance of a diagnosis—people 65 and older are more likely to be diagnosed with NHL than any other age group. Between the sexes, men are more likely to be diagnosed with NHL than women. Overall, more than 80,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with NHL in 2022....
A woman, identified by her first name, Lillian, in a report by Los Angeles-based news station KABC, said her son noticed the rope hanging in the side yard of their residence when he left for work on Saturday morning. Lillian told the outlet that her son removed the rope as soon as he saw it. “He sent me a text and said, ‘Mom, I found this hanging in the tree on the side of the house, but I took it down,’” said the Diamond Bar resident, who has called the east Los Angeles County city home for more than 25 years....
Typically those are either winning racecars or record-breaking cars or a car so damaged in an accident that fans are awed by how a driver could walk away uninjured. But the 26th-place finisher out of a 30-car field? MORE: Eldora format | Eldora ticket demand | The worst job in NASCAR | Struggling Stewart focused on Indy That’s what Tony Stewart bought for his Eldora Speedway. Earlier this year Stewart purchased the 26th-place truck that Norm Benning drove last season in the inaugural Camping World Truck Series race at the famous dirt track....
“Initial testing conducted by the State Public Health has shown the presence of norovirus,” the health department said in a statement. MORE: Eight hoops players sick after eating at Chipotle Coach Jim Christian received a number of phone calls early Sunday morning from players who claimed they suffered the effects of food poisoning overnight and would be questionable for the team’s game against UMass-Lowell. As many as eight players had gastrointestinal distress and, according to a report, “confirmed to have E....
North Carolina and High Point kept themselves entertained during a particularly big storm on Tuesday by reenacting the war. You know, that devastating fruit war that happened a long time ago, remember? The teams gave a new meaning to banana clips while launching the yellow fruit at each other from their war formations. MORE: Why are pitchers hitting eighth? | Steven Souza hits 463-foot bomb | Happy Jackie Robinson Day!...
The latest count showed Trump receiving 50 percent of the state’s vote to Biden’s 48.7 percent. With an estimated 99 percent of the vote tabulated, Trump was declared the winner by 73,635 votes. Biden was forecast to win 48.9 percent of the vote as of October 30, while Trump was expected to receive 47 percent. Several individual polls gave Biden a lead ranging between 1 and 5 points, often putting him at a statistical tie with the president....
Introduced in the state assembly in February, HB 65, the Marriage Reaffirmation Amendment Act, would revive North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage, approved by voters in 2012, and render Obergefell null and void and unenforceable. The measure would alsoprohibit civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. The bill also includes language that defines same-sex unions as “parody marriage” and claims “self-asserted sex-based identity narratives and sexual orientations that do not follow the scientifically obvious biology of the human species are inseparably part of the religion of Secular Humanism....
“If we need to go back to stay-at-home [orders], we will,” Department of Health Secretary Mandy Cohen told NPR’s Morning Edition. “I hope we don’t have to. I think there are things we can do before we have to get there, but yes, we are concerned.” Cohen’s comments come as the state is in the second phase of its reopening plan, which began on May 22 after the state lifted its stay-at-home order....
Anthony set an ACC freshman-debut record with 34 points as the No. 9 Tar Heels (1-0, 1-0 ACC) dropped Notre Dame (0-1, 0-1) 76-65 in the schools’ season and conference openers in Chapel Hill. NBA MOCK DRAFT: Anthony No. 1 on SN’s board Afterward, the son of former UNLV and NBA guard Greg Anthony displayed a pro-game influence. “We’ve got practice (Thursday). We’ve got to clock back in. We’ve got a game on Friday (at UNC Wilmington),” he said....
You might not know Smith being “hanged in effigy” occurred in January 1965 and followed a loss at Wake Forest that dropped the Tar Heels to 6-6 on the season after they’d finished 12-12 the year before. You also might not know the player who became eligible the following autumn and propelled North Carolina basketball toward five decades of basketball dominance. Larry Miller came along before college basketball was widely televised on a national basis, which helped make celebrities of such successors as Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan and Tyler Hansbrough....
A video shared to Twitter by local news reporters in Apex, where the tattoo studio is located, shows two police officers removing the artist from his establishment and escorting him into the parking lot outside, where at least two additional officers waited. Per the video clip, all law enforcement personnel wear face masks throughout the interaction, as do several journalists filming the scene. The tattoo artist does not appear to be wearing protective equipment in the video....
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said that the missile launch wasn’t an immediate threat, but aimed the spotlight on “the destabilizing impact of [North Korea’s] illicit weapons program.” The launch of a ballistic missile would breach a U.N. ban on North Korean ballistic activities, but the organization generally doesn’t enact new sanctions when short-range weapons are fired, the AP reported. Song said while addressing the U.N. General Assembly North Korea needed to develop a “war deterrent” in defense against threats from the U....
