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“Freak,” Barnes said of his former teammate at Clemson. “That’s really all that needs to be said.” Barnes and Beasley were part of the same recruiting class at Clemson. Now they are both on the cusp of NFL careers. Barnes hopes to hear his name called before the draft is over while Beasley is a slam-dunk, first-round prospect. Barnes, a 6-4, 283-pound defensive end, spoke with Perform Media on Thursday about his NFL potential, but also provided some insight on Beasley....

Not so for Clemson coach Dabo Swinney. After his team’s 24-22 win over Notre Dame, Swinney took issue with CBS Sports Network’s Aaron Taylor and his prediction for the game.PHOTOS: Best images of Week 5 MORE: Can Clemson win it all? “I don’t know who Aaron Taylor is, but I guess he is analyst or commentator,” Swinney said. “The comment was we were not going to be ready. Clemson wouldn’t be ready and our crowd was going to be lugubrious when the game was over....

The school said Watson suffered a slight crack in the collarbone near the end of the session and will need about three weeks to recover. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said the injury was not serious and Watson would be ready when summer workouts begin in May. Watson was one of Clemson's top recruits this past February and enrolled early to take part in spring workouts and compete for the starting job vacated by last year's record-setting senior Tajh Boyd....

“We are learning this variant is more transmissible, and we are seeing evidence of this by the increased spread in our community,” The Cleveland Clinic said in a statement. The massive increase in Omicron cases comes just a day after the health system put out a press release advocating the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines while urging everyone to get vaccinated. “Science has proved [vaccines] work, but only if we take them....

This is not a majority made from cookie-cutter liberals. These are men and women winning in districts that were drawn for Republicans. Some are pro-life, some pro-gun, some sound so Republican they might be in the other party if it weren’t for President Bush and the Iraq war. It will take all of Pelosi’s skills as a manager and disciplinarian to forge a coalition out of these philosophical disparities....

The operative emotion is anger. The voters are almost as furious with the Democrats for their inability to end the Iraq War as they are with President Bush for prolonging it. Democrat Chellie Pingree lost by 16 points when she challenged Maine Republican Susan Collins in 2002. Now Collins, running for re-election in ‘08, is on everybody’s endangered list. After much public agonizing, she became one of the four Republicans this week to break with Bush and vote with the Democrats on the war....

Whether the term is Reagan Democrats or NASCAR dads, they’re euphemisms for the white men who deserted a party they thought focused too much on the rights of blacks and women. No Democratic candidate for president has won a majority of the white vote since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Bill Clinton came close, but with Ross Perot in the race siphoning off votes, even Clinton with his natural affinity for lower-income working-class folks, people he grew up with and understood, fell short when the votes were counted....

“Today, we’re announcing a new monetization policy for Google advertisers, publishers and YouTube creators that will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” the Google Ads team said in a statement about the new policy. “This includes content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change,” the statement added....

The organization has conducted an analysis of current heat trends to make predictions about the future climate for a new report and accompanying study published in the journal Environmental Research Communications. “Extreme heat is dangerous, and it can be deadly—it is currently one of the top weather-related causes of death in the United States,” Rachel Licker, Senior Climate Scientist, at UCS told Newsweek. “Extreme heat is projected to increase as a result of global warming, but we noticed that there was a lack of national-scale information on how extreme heat is likely to change in the most commonly reported term our country uses—the heat index, or, “feels like” temperature which results from the combination of temperature and humidity,” she said....

But anybody looking through Hillary Clinton’s newly released White House records for clues as to how she handled this personal crisis will find … absolutely nothing. The more than 10,000 pages, released by the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, purport to be the New York senator’s daily schedules for her entire eight-year tenure as First Lady–the first major “document dump” from the Clinton Library in Little Rock....

George went 3-of-14 shooting, including 1-of-7 from three-point range, providing just nine points as the Clippers lost 135-133 in overtime to a Luka Doncic-inspired Mavericks, who levelled the Western Conference series at 2-2. George, who once referred to himself as ‘Playoff P’ due to his ability to deliver in the postseason, has the lowest effective field-goal percentage (34.8 per cent) of any player to have taken at least 50 shots in these playoffs....

Right from the days of punched cards as early as 1725 to floppy disks and CDs DVDs to Hard disks to finally something intangible as the cloud, we have come a long way. And a big reason is the quantum technological leap that media storage has taken. Just a few years back we had to compile all our data in USB sticks and HDDs and here in 2019 even that is slowly taking a backseat....

Date and Time: September 17, 2014, 8 pm IST (2:30 pm GMT) Qualification: Automatic (CSK – Won the Eliminator; KKR – IPL Champions) Previous meeting: KKR won by 8 wickets (20 May 2014, Eden Gardens, Kolkata). Robin Uthappa was adjudged Man of the Match for his 67 off 39 balls. Last five results (Most recent match first): Chennai Super Kings - LWWLL Kolkata Knight Riders - WWWWW *The Knight Riders are on a record 9-match winning streak....

As for Clay Matthews, who was the target of similar allegations while at USC, he called BS on being tied to HGH again. MORE: Best Week 16 photos | Peyton Manning sounds mad, but not innocent | James Harrison: HGH allegations are ‘disappointing’ The Packers’ linebacker didn’t hold back, fresh off being frustrated in his team’s 38-8 loss in Arizona. “I think it is bulls–t,” Matthews said. “I mean to be completely honest with you, it’s 100 percent falsified and fabricated information....

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was rear-ended late last week while in Arizona for spring training by a pair of young female fans on vacation. MORE: Can Trump live up to these presidential moments? | Cuban baseball’s beautiful past Judging from the damage of one white Toyota, the collision was pretty intense. But you’d never know it from the smiles on everyone’s faces. Kershaw inked a monster seven-year, $215 million contract two years ago, so the fender-bender won’t put too much of a dent in his pocket....

Clean-hands mutual funds lay out strict criteria-called social screens-through which every stock or bond they buy has got to pass. Most of them screen out weapons companies, nuclear utilities and companies doing business with South Africa (except the likes of Merck, which sells “humane” medical products there). The funds say that they’re waiting for black South Africans to get the vote–or a clear path to it-before lifting the investment ban....

Always secretive and wary, the mood at CIA headquarters lately has been sullen. “The intelligence community feels undervalued, a little bit picked on,” says John Deutch, the CIA’s new director. The agency lacks a clear sense of mission after the cold war, and recent headlines have all been about scandals. The most spectacular was the Ames case, but other embarrassments include a lawsuit by a female station chief who was slandered by male subordinates who claimed she was a drunken minx, as well as a controversy over a Guatemalan colonel accused of committing human-rights abuses against Americans–while he was on the CIA payroll (chart)....

It’s a lot of information on a complicated issue, so it should not be a surprise that it wasn’t easily digestible to the American sports fan. There were many misconceptions flying in the hours after NCAA president Mark Emmert, Big East commissioner Val Ackerman and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith did a thorough job explaining the plan — and potential obstacles — for college athletes soon to accept payments for endorsements, social media activity, personal appearances and businesses they create....

The school's senior associate counsel Erin Swann Lauderdale sent a letter dated April 24 in reply to the FFRF's complaint. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Associated Press. Swann's response to FFRF staff attorney Patrick Elliott said her initial review of the letter showed, "it is clear that you have misconstrued important facts and made incorrect statements of the law." The group, based in Madison, Wisconsin, sent its complaints this month....

No. 2 Clemson had just won its second College Football Playoff championship in three years with a stunning 44-16 blowout against No. 1 Alabama at Levi’s Stadium on Monday. The Tigers became the first team since 1897 to finish 15-0. Swinney, wearing an oversized black shirt that said “Ring Season” wore a smile and stared at a half-full Diet Coke bottle while riffing into his best explanation for how this could be possible again....