Pittsburgh’s longtime safety announced his decision last April to retire from the NFL after 12 seasons and has hardly been seen at the team’s facility since. He even skipped an event last fall honoring the Super Bowl XL team. But that could finally change Wednesday night when Polamalu attends the 80th Dapper Dan Dinner & Sports Auction that will honor former teammate Antonio Brown as Sportsman of the Year. For the first time in months, he is expected to reunite with team president Art Rooney II and other members of the organization....

The 1937 animated classic tells the story of the eponymous character, who meets Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Doc, Dopey, Happy and Bashful. The miners frequently burst into song, belting out one of the film’s most famous tracks “Heigh-Ho.” But one viewer has claimed the seven actually sing “it’s home from work we go,” rather than the commonly sung lyric of “it’s off to work we go.” A Disney fan called Rachael shared a clip to TikTok earlier this week, saying: “How old were you when you realised they are not singing ‘it’s off to work we go?...

The televised event will feature holiday-themed floats and performances as Disney’s most beloved characters come together in honor of the holiday. Glee star Matthew Morrison, former Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton and TV personality Jesse Palmer will host the event while artists including Sting, Shaggy, Pentatonix, Ingrid Michaelson and Grace VanderWaal, Portugal. The Man, Ally Brooke and the cast of the new Disney+ series, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, are set to perform....

As this blogger chronicles, a number of people immediately set off on a hunt to find the identity of the Marine involved in the incident. Some mainstream media sources picked up the story looking into the Marine Corps’ response to the matter. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: There seems to be larger issues at play here than just a disturbing video. Echoing Sorgatz’s views on the matter, others are wondering why the death of a puppy in the middle of a war is causing such outrage....

The diver, Thomas Gould, “knowingly interacted” with a pod of seven Northern resident killer whales in the area in April 2020, according to the department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Judge Jeffrey Campbell handed down the largest ever fine for an offense of this kind in July after Gould was found to have broken Section 7 of the Marine Mammal Regulations, part of Canada’s Fisheries Act. In British Columbia, vessels must keep at least 650 feet away from killer whales, and in southern B....

Today, we’re going to do a deep dive into the “fancy stat” that you have likely heard the most about: Corsi. Concept Corsi can be used in all situations, but with analysis it’s most commonly applied to events that occur at 5-on-5 and even-strength hockey. This creates a level playing field for the stat, which is essential because time spent on the power play and the penalty kill would heavily influence the shot share....

The Cowboys have been bet from 6.5-point underdogs to +6 for Sunday’s NFC divisional playoff game against the Packers, and, according to one Las Vegas bookmaker, bettors may be fading Aaron Rodgers’ injured calf. Packers coach Mike McCarthy said he doesn’t expect Rodgers to practice until Thursday, and the quarterback’s injured calf won’t heal by Sunday, per the Green Bay Press-Gazette . Rodgers knows there’s a chance of further injuring the calf during Sunday’s game, according to the report....

Every week, this column provides a detailed breakdown of our favorite bets, weaving in a preview of exclusive data from BetQL. This compilation serves as a mere sneak preview of all that BetQL offers. Check us out now to reveal our full betting predictions for every game of the divisional round, including projections and best bet ratings from our NFL Best Bet Model. All data presented is as of Friday morning....

The Dixie Fire, the second-largest wildfire currently burning in the U.S. and the biggest in California, has grown to 220,012 acres while only being 23 percent contained, according to data provided by Cal Fire. After now growing to 343 square miles the Dixie Fire is now bigger than Dallas in Texas and New York City, New York, while being just more than 100 square miles smaller than Los Angeles in California....

Experts say the evidence involved in this type of investigation typically consists of more than DNA. Kane’s DNA was found under the accuser’s fingernails and on her shoulders, the Buffalo News report says. PHOTOS: A trip through Patrick Kane’s career | GENTILLE: Patrick Kane’s public comments made things worse “The absence of DNA and semen, in itself, does not prove that there was no rape,” Florina Altshiler, a Buffalo attorney who worked as a sex-crimes prosecutor in Alaska, told the Buffalo News....

When Giuliani was the law-and-order mayor of New York City, Mr. Zero Tolerance was more than happy to tolerate immigrants, including those who entered or stayed in the United States illegally. As conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks pointed out recently, Giuliani “once went overboard and declared, ‘If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you’re one of the people who we want in this city....

The New England Patriots, under coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady, could be considered the best answer after winning Super Bowl 53 and delivering a sixth championship in the last 18 seasons. It’s one of the longest-running success stories in major sports history, college or pro. Sporting News’ writers voted the Patriots No. 1 out of the top 15 dynasties in sports history, but they didn’t exactly agree on the top spot....

Most of those grand plans–and even grander acronyms–have added up to nothing. Instead, the remarkable rise of China as an economic powerhouse is turning old thinking about what works in Asia on its head–and revealing a new formula for success in the process. The Middle Kingdom now sustains two of the world’s most successful urban corridors–the greater Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, both of which have GDPs larger than some countries ($273 billion and $205 billion in 2001, respectively)....

That patient is long since out of her hands, and it’s too late to help him. But by writing about him, Rifkin may be helping herself—and, in the long run, her future patients. The piece was her submission to a Yale writing workshop for young doctors taught by the medical writer Dr. Abraham Vergh­ese. Rifkin liked the seminar so much she went back for a second round with author Dr....

Now, hospitals and doctors in places where the virus runs rampant are seeing an increase in severely ill pregnant women with the virus, the Associated Press reported. Dr. Cheree Melton, a family medicine physician specializing in obstetrics who teaches at the University of Alabama, said she and her colleagues have witnessed about a half-dozen unvaccinated pregnant women miscarry or suffer stillbirths as the Delta variant spreads. “It’s absolutely heartbreaking to tell a mom that she will never get to hold her living child,” she said....

Dr. Curt Daniels, the director of sports cardiology at Ohio State University, told The Columbus Dispatch that he believes the results presented in the study and the risk of myocarditis were “misconstrued” as a way to discourage sports from continuing during the coronavirus pandemic. Daniels said that the study should not be used to cancel fall sports, but rather as a push to implement greater safety protocols and make a responsible return....

“Number one, the doctors were certainly happy about the procedure,” coach Dan Quinn said late Thursday night, after the Falcons’ 14-10 Hall of Fame Game loss to the Broncos in Canton, Ohio. “We’ll have some more updates as we go along. But for the first part of it, they were happy.” According to the Journal-Constitution, several medical experts have projected that McGary will need six to eight weeks to recover from a cardiac ablation, but he could return more quickly depending on how much of his heart was repaired and the use of blood thinners....

More than four out of five doctors are reluctant to take on patients using prescribed opioids, and they said that because of the opioid crisis, it’s considerably harder today to treat patients in pain than it was before the epidemic. That’s according to the new study, which was conducted by Quest Diagnostics and the Center on Addiction. Federal guidelines and cuts to opioid production have likely limited doctors’ willingness to give out opioid prescriptions over the past few years, according to widespread reports....

Major League Baseball is also standing in the way, according to recent documents filed by the city of San Jose related to a lawsuit it filed against MLB attempting to force a decision. According to one of the documents in the filing, commissioner Bud Selig on June 17 formally rejected Oakland's bid to move -- just one day before San Jose filed the suit -- and wrote that his decision was final....

The rest of the team was already on the field stretching before batting practice while Puig was getting dressed in the clubhouse. He had been slated to start in right field for the afternoon game against the San Francisco Giants, who beat the Dodgers 8-4. "I'm sincerely sorry," Puig said through a translator after the game, explaining that he didn't realize stretching and batting practice would be held so early with a 1 p....