Author: Luck Wilson
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It’s a sprint to the finish — and a $15 million payday — as the FedEx Cup Playoffs tee off Thursday with the 2021 Northern Trust golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Club. The event at the scenic course adjacent to the Statue of Liberty in Jersey City, N.J., is the first of three playoff […]
MY FIRST VISIT to the ludicrously charming town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of the Little League World Series, came in 2015, an assignment several colleagues guaranteed would be a career highlight, which it was, and so much more. One of the many wonderful traditions at the LLWS is to slide down The Hill at Lamade […]
Getty Images With No. 5 Georgia’s season-opening showdown against No. 3 Clemson less than three weeks away, the hits keep coming for the Bulldogs. Dawgs247 reported Wednesday that tight end Darnell Washington and defensive back Tykee Smith are expected to be out “at least three weeks” due to foot injuries sustained in Tuesday’s practice. That […]
The San Diego Padres, a consensus preseason World Series contender, are currently in a freefall. They entered Wednesday after back-to-back losses to the lowly Rockies and wer 1-6 in their last seven games. The Padres are 18-22 since July 1, and during that time they’ve been worse than Colorado (20-19) and only slightly better than […]
Nasrin Nawa is a former journalist who was based in Kabul, Afghanistan. – (ABC) (LINCOLN, Neb.) — Nasrin Nawa, a journalist from Kabul traveling to the U.S. for graduate school, was able to leave Afghanistan on Friday before the Taliban seized the capital. Unfortunately, she said her family members were not as lucky. “On that […]
iStock/BetulOzenc (KABUL, Afghanistan) — It was on the third attempt that “Khan,” his pregnant wife and their 3-year old son made to get to Kabul’s international airport — the most harrowing yet, but finally successful. Khan, whose real name ABC News is not using for his security, made it on a U.S. military flight out […]
Much of the talk about conference realignment in college sports thus far has centered on its football ramifications, as historical gridiron powers Oklahoma and Texas gear up for admission to the SEC by 2025, at the latest. But there will be implications for basketball as well, especially as the Big 12 — a strong basketball […]
iStock/Pawel Gaul (HAITI) — Luria Civil’s wails could be heard outside of the cemetery. As shovels scraped dirt onto her daughter’s grave, she chanted and sobbed. She lost two children after Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. Her house had collapsed on top of her and her family, she told ABC News. She, her husband, […]
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur used to be called “Mikey,” the little squirt forced to relinquish the TV remote and prime couch space when his big brother and brother’s best friend came barging into the house seeking entertainment, nourishment and an occasional dip in the pool. This was 2004, […]
WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images (KABUL, Afghanistan) — Chaos has enveloped Kabul after Afghanistan’s government’s collapsed and the Taliban seized control, all but ending America’s 20-year campaign as it began: under Taliban rule. As the crisis intensifies, with images from Kabul showing Afghans storming the airport tarmac and climbing onto military planes after the U.S. […]
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