Talk to any of the players in that class — or any who have committed to Kentucky under Calipari — and they’ll tell you that Big Blue Madness played a part in their decision. Midnight Madness is a long held tradition in college basketball, and the festivities across the country become grander by the year with no program outdoing the Wildcats. Much like every other year, UK had a number of high profile visitors on campus....
Bourbon is a kind of whiskey, but to be classed as bourbon it has to be made in the U.S. Additionally, as declared by Congress in 1964, bourbon is the only native spirit of the U.S. While bourbon can be made anywhere in the U.S. to be classified as such, 95 percent of the world’s bourbon is made in Kentucky, according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. In fact, the whiskey is named after Kentucky’s Bourbon County....
Americans definitely love their pizza. Frozen pizza sales in the U.S. amounted to approximately $5.47 billion in 2020, according to Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery and IRI, up from the previous year’s sales of $4.95 billion. In 2019, Domino’s Pizza was the leading pizza restaurant chain in the U.S., followed by Pizza Hut and Little Caesar’s respectively, according to a survey done by Restaurant Business and Technomic. While pizza is a popular dish in America now, its origins comes from Europe....
On Tuesday, attorney George Conway, a frequent Trump critic and husband of White House Special Counsel Kellyanne Conway, pointed out that three years into Trump’s first term as president, the national debt increased by $3 trillion, bringing it to over $23 trillion now. Conway cited figures from the National Debt Tweets in his tweet. As a Republican presidential candidate, Trump said he would eliminate the national debt in eight years, which was $19 trillion in 2016, according to The Washington Post....
Sporting News averaged out the rankings among four recruiting services in 247Sports, Rivals, ESPN and Scout to come up with a composite average — Georgia finished at No. 3, as Smart delivered Georgia a consensus top-five recruiting class for the first time since 2011. MORE: The top 20 recruiting classes since 2000 The “Dawgs” signed 26 blue-chip prospects, while the rest of the SEC East signed just 20. Smart and his staff did that by dominating the state of Georgia, reeling in 10 of 247Sports’ top 15 in-state prospects and 18 in-state players overall....
According to The Washington Times, Werth was allowed to serve his sentence on weekends in order to rehabilitate his right shoulder during the week. Werth was originally sentenced in December to 10 days in jail for driving his Porsche 105 mph on I-495 in Fairfax County last July, but the sentence was cut in half. The 35-year-old did not begin the jail time until Jan. 30. Werth, who has a ....
Turner hit a pair of bookend home runs — a solo shot in the fourth inning and a grand slam in the sixth — to help Washington rally from a nine-run deficit and beat the Marlins 14-12 in D.C. Turner drove in runs in four consecutive innings (fourth through seventh) and finished with eight RBIs total, tying a major-league record for most in a game by a leadoff hitter....
The postponed international peace conference was meant to form a contract between opposing parties in Afghanistan, days after the Taliban balked at a U.S.-promoted conference in Istanbul as a political spectacle serving American interests, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Haberturk news channel on Tuesday. “We thought that it would be beneficial to postpone it….We consulted Qatar, the United States and the United Nations and decided to hold it after Ramadan and Eid festivities,” Cavusoglu said....
The annual exercise, called “Steadfast Noon,” was planned before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the Ukraine “special military operation” in February and will mainly take place more than 625 miles from Russia, the Associated Press reported. It will involve 14 NATO members, as well as nuclear-capable aircraft, conventional jets, surveillance and refueling aircraft. It will not, however, involve live nuclear bombs, the AP reported. The exercise comes as fears continue to mount that Putin could turn to nuclear weapons if his military faces defeat in Ukraine, which has made significant advances since September, taking back thousands of square miles of formerly occupied territory in southern and eastern parts of the country....
This trip comes as the Biden administration pledges to address the migration crisis by providing support to the three nations of Central America’s Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The officials leading the mission included White House Coordinator for the Southern Border Roberta Jacobson, the National Security Council’s Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs Juan Gonzalez, and Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle Ricardo Zuniga. “We are committed to working with partner governments who are ready to make the needed political, rule-of-law, and economic reforms that are essential to success as we embark on new initiatives together,” a State Department spokesperson told Newsweek....
Kadri, taking the place of the injured Tyler Bozak on the Toronto Maple Leafs' top line, awkwardly skidded into the boards against the Edmonton Oilers, but didn't miss any time. The collision happened a few minutes after Kadri assisted on Kessel's game-opening goal; Kessel, in turn, assisted on a James Reimsdyk goal that made it 2-0. Then—and this is after Kadri hit the boards—he threw a puck on net that Kessel converted to make it 3-0....
MORE: It’s about time he was suspended | Green wants in … the arena Draymond Green has been suspended for Monday night’s Game 5 in which the Warriors can close out the series after being assessed a flagrant foul from Game 4. It was his fourth flagrant point of the postseason which triggers an automatic suspension. In the NBA 2K16 simulation of the full series that went out before it began, Green also committed a flagrant foul in Game 4....
We’re one step closer to 2K Day after the first-look trailer of NBA 2K23 was released on Friday. NBA 2K23 will come out on Friday, Sept. 9, but the game is already available for pre-order on all systems. We found out at the beginning of July that Michael Jordan will grace the cover of the “Championship Edition,” while Suns All-Star Devin Booker will be on the cover of the “Standard Edition” and Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird will tag-team the cover of the “WNBA Edition....
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For the second time in less than a year and a half, the fans of St. Louis faced the loss of a genuine sports immortal when the Hawks Bob Pettit announced his intention to retire from professional basketball at the end of this season. The 32-year-old Pettit, who has been the key figure in the success of the Hawks since the National Basketball Association club was transferred here from Milwaukee in 1955, announced what he termed “the biggest decision of my life,” at an emotion-filled press conference, March 1....
But now All-Star attention turns to the rest of the rosters from which captains LeBron James and Stephen Curry will choose. Though the teams at this year’s All-Star Game will be jumbled by conference, the process for selecting the reserves remains the same — coaches will pick two backcourt players, three frontcourt players and two wildcards. MORE: All-Star Game starters, captains revealed Some of those picks will be no-brainers, some will be undeserving and there will be snubs....
But when Team LeBron and Team Durant meet for the 2021 All-Star Game on Sunday (8 p.m. ET, TNT), it won’t just be about entertainment. The contest will also support those in need. How will the All-Star Game play out? And which organizations will benefit from it? Here’s a breakdown of the 2021 format so you can avoid any confusion during the live broadcast. NBA ALL-STAR 2021: Full lineups for Slam Dunk Contest, 3-point Contest...
Also in the Western Conference on Sunday, the Grizzlies rolled over the Blazers, and the SuperBook reacted by shortening Memphis’ championship odds from 25-to-1 to 20-to-1 and raising Portland from 50-to-1 to 100-to-1. The Warriors, meanwhile, have surpassed the Cavaliers as the favorites to win the championship, even though both teams held serve in their respective Game 1s. Here are NBA futures odds at the Westgate, current as of Monday, April 20, with one game in the books for each of the eight first-round playoff series...
An eight-day break is bad for both fans and players. So, according to CBS Sports, the league is considering moving the NBA Finals from June 4 to June 2. MORE: Which free agents cashed in during playoffs? | LeBron shows all he can do “It’s complicated and unlikely, sources say, based on television commitments, hotel capacities, international media travel and other considerations,” writes Ken Berger. “One person familiar with the discussions described them as being in the ‘very early exploration’ stage....
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