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Last season, Baker Mayfield won in clear fashion as the leader of the Big 12’s best offense. His replacement this year, Kyler Murray, is firmly in the mix as a dual-threat star. In Tuscaloosa, Tua Tagovailoa hasn’t needed a fourth-quarter snap to keep Alabama’s offense rolling. And at Ohio State, first-year starter Dwayne Haskins claims the biggest win on the biggest stage so far this season. MORE: SN’s Week 6 Power Rankings...

The Kent State senior running back/kick returner/receiver is just what it sounds like: a do-it-all player for the Flashes. The Kent State athletic department launched a Heisman campaign for the 5-8, 175-pounder—Dri4Heisman—with a comic strip illustrated by Kent State alumnus Chuck Ayers, who authored Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean. MORE: Heisman watch | SN All-Americans | Top 25 players The campaign certainly will help draw attention to Archer, Kent State and the MAC....

“The situation is comfortable for us. The team is playing well to keep us in way for qualification for playoffs,” Postiga told reporters here on Monday on the eve of ATK’s home tie against Kerala. The match will be played between the two evenly placed sides. ATK are third in the points table, with 18 points from 12 matches, just above their opponents on goal difference. A win will ensure movement to the second spot and in a relatively safety zone in their aim to qualify for the last-four....

Novice skaters are really quite harmless. You see them on weekends, clinging to parking meters and street signs, in desperate attempts to remain upright. A lot of intermediates have difficulty stopping and controlling their speed. Perceptive pedestrians have learned to try and stay out of their way. It’s the experienced skaters who are the real problem. They seem oblivious to traffic regulations, breezing through red lights and skimming down the wrong way on one-way streets....

KABOOOOOOOM! From the south side of the strand came the deafening noise of artillery fire. Machine guns ratatatated. Sirens blared. Piercing screams. KABOOOOOM! More artillery fire, machine-gun fire, screams. Dessert forks dropped at the Hotel Del. South along the strand, the Naval Special Warfare Center, ringed with barbed-wire-topped fences and NO TRESPASSING signs, had erupted into a mock battle zone. It signaled the start of the most physically demanding–and carefully choreographed–week of training in the U....

In a press release, Hyderabad Cricket Association said: “The present Executive Committee of the Hyderabad Cricket Association decided to revive its old tradition and in association with the Veterans Cricket Association of Hyderabad, is bringing out a Souvenir/Brochure to commemorate this historical event when the first ever Test Match between India and Bangladesh in India would be organised by the Hyderabad Cricket Association”. Extra Cover: Jayant Yadav and Wriddhiman Saha return to India’s Test squad to take on Bangladesh...

Adams had 160 receiving yards and scored two touchdowns in the 28-23 win that sent the Packers into the NFC Championship Game. Rodgers, who was 16 of 27 for 243 yards and the two TDs, praised the wide receiver’s performance. “He had an unbelievable night. He carried us on offense,” the Packers star told Fox Sports. “His route-running ability was incredible. “We came up with a timely stop because Russ [Wilson, Seahawks QB] and their offense was pretty tough....

Sony has a fraction of the war chest that Microsoft has, which is why it will likely never be able to compete by purchasing the massive studios (and the IP that comes with it) that are now part of the Xbox family, such as Bethesda and Activision Blizzard. But a smaller, targeted acquisition like this could help swing things in its favor. Bungie is beloved by gamers and Destiny 2 could continue to add new content and bring in money forever....

During a press conference on Tuesday, Briand addressed the “infodemic” that accompanied the 2019-nCoV epidemic that’s infected more than 20,000 people in 24 countries and killed 420 people. Aside from monitoring the spread of the virus, Briand said, WHO officials have been combating the spread of misinformation. “There is a kind of sense of panic, so we try to clarify what we know about the science, what is still unknown and to provide a recommendation that can help people protect themselves and their families,” Briand said....

New pills and a patch are being developed that could eventually replace the multiple insulin injections most diabetics must endure daily to control their disease. The number of patients who could benefit is enormous. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), approximately 3.7 million diabetics must take one to five insulin shots daily to keep their blood sugar under control. Researchers have tried for years to develop an effective version of insulin pills, without much luck....

For the study, researchers analyzed data from participants in the U.K. Biobank, a large-scale, ongoing biomedical database and research resource, between March 16 and July 26. The study included 120,075 people between the ages of 49 and 64. Of those, 35,127 were classified as essential workers, with 9% working in healthcare, 11% working in social care and education, and 9% working in law enforcement, transportation, and food preparation. Overall, 271 people in the study developed a severe COVID-19 infection during the study....

RELATED: The 10 Best Blizzard Games Of All Time (According To Metacritic) So, let’s take a look at the Druid Class. We’ll be looking at different mechanics unique to the class, and looking at a few cards that are going to make a huge difference in some of those decks. 10 EMBIGGEN One of the cards that can make a minion-heavy deck really fun to run is Embiggen. Embiggen is a 0-cost spell that gives every single minion in the deck (not hand, but deck) +2/+2, while only upping their Mana cost by 1....

RELATED: The 10 Best Blizzard Games Of All Time (According To Metacritic) For this list, we’ll be taking a gander at the Hunter class. What it excels at, what it’s not so good at, and some cards that are going to help any Hunter class players along your way. 10 BEASTS At the center of just about every single Hunter deck are beasts. There is a staggering amount of different beast minions in the game, some specific to the Hunter class, and some available for every class....

March of the Lich King is a Hearthstone telling of Wrath of the Lich King. Arthas has rallied his swarm of undead to march on Silvermoon, capital of the Blood Elves. The card expansion will feature a free solo adventure following Arthas’ fall, one of the most iconic stories in Warcraft history. RELATED: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Fan Transforms a Warhammer 40,000 Model into Arthas...

Like Raymond Carver, Thompson is fascinated by the sudden and unlikely communion of people. Her characters vary–there are junkies, cops, women who’ve lost men to drugs, religion and everything else–but she never condescends to them, no matter how hungry their hearts are, no matter how many screws they have loose. The best stories here are so sympathetic and true that they glow a little. Thompson, 49, teaches at the University of Illinois....

The stunning duel between the world’s two premier female skaters was certainly a triumph for Kerrigan as well. She performed with elegance, power and, above all, a steely consistency-“a little bobble,” she said, in her opening program, one simplified jump in her Friday-night free skate. Kerrigan’s silver medal capped perhaps the most dramatic comeback in the sport’s history. First she had to overcome the memory of a humiliating failure in last year’s world championships in Prague, when, as the favorite, she flopped to fifth....

While LeBron James is the two-time reigning MVP, Kevin Durant is playing the best basketball in the league right now. His numbers on the season are stellar, but he's taken his game to another level in the month of January, averaging 36.9 points on 54 percent shooting, 6.2 rebounds and 6.1 dimes. LeBron recognizes how dominant Durant is, saying, "there's nobody that can guard him 1-on-1." The Heat opened as 4-point favorites, but OKC money pushed the line to 3....

The baseball world is paying close attention. That was made clear two weeks ago when I met U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor following her talk at the University of Illinois. After waiting in line with my family to have her sign our copy of her autobiography, she asked our affiliation with the university. I informed her I was a professor of history whose research was on Latinos in baseball....