Saints quarterback Drew Brees threw for 511 yards and seven touchdowns in a wild 52-49 win over the Giants, who also got six touchdown passes from quarterback Eli Manning. MORE: Live scoreboard | Best photos from Week 8 | Worst of Week 8 It was the second 500-yard passing game for Brees, who became the first quarterback since former Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle in 1962 to throw for more than 500 yards and seven touchdowns....
Robinson announced Friday on social media that he will retire as a player after this weekend and then join the Giants’ front office as a mental health advocate. He is playing for San Francisco’s Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento. “I couldn’t be more excited to remain in the game that saved my life,” Robinson wrote. Robinson, 29, shot himself in the head on April 16, 2020. The wound cost him his right eye....
The £30 million deadline day signing from Leicester endured a difficult start to his Blues career having picked up a calf injury only a few days after joining the club, while he also missed the entirety of pre-season. But the 27-year-old is now hitting his stride as we go into 2018 and was one of the standout players as Chelsea made Stoke look like the Championship team they risk becoming....
The Reddit post was shared on the subreddit “AmITheA**hole” on January 27 by u/ImpressionNo8748. The post is titled, “AITA for not driving 12 miles to deliver food after knowing the customer purposely put wrong address?!” The morning of the posting, the driver received an order 2.7 miles away for $6 going to the OP for the order. When they arrived at the address to drop off the order, a lady answered saying she didn’t actually order the food....
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported Thursday that during the Texas crash, the driver and passenger were in the front seats of the vehicle with belts buckled, although they were found by first responders in the back seat and front passenger seat, the Associated Press reported. According to the report, a fire started after the crash damaged the lithium-ion battery case in the vehicle, but the report did not answer how or why the driver unbuckled the seat belt and changed positions....
But a driver six laps down? That’s another story. Brad Keselowski caused a big wreck in trying to make moves while six laps down Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. Jamie McMurray, the driver one position ahead of him, was five laps behind and finished only one lap down. Having lapped drivers ahead of him in the rundown made it even more questionable as to whether Keselowski should be doing as much dicing as he did with the goal of possibly getting his laps back....
Come again? That’s right: the megawatt popularity of hybrids is dimming and Americans are rediscovering their favorite automotive guilty pleasure, gas-guzzling SUVs. And here’s something even more shocking: a surprising number of Americans have it both ways. They own a hybrid and an SUV. According to an analysis for NEWSWEEK by researcher GfK Automotive, 24.2 percent of hybrid owners also have an SUV in their garage. Oh sure, plenty of hybrid owners like small cars, too....
The Democratic National Convention this August is about more than politics. Sure, there’ll be talk about Mayor Richard M. Daley’s mastery of the family business. But Chicago police have another agenda: they’re training to erase the image they created 28 years ago. Back then, Americans watched grainy footage of helmeted cops beating antiwar demonstrators on Michigan Avenue. This time the police want to show that their culture has been radically reformed – that they’re better educated and more open-minded....
Both items are considered unfinished business from the previous legislative session. A bill would permit the Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles “to issue a driver privilege card and/or driver privilege permit” to an applicant who can show they have “reported income and deductions from Rhode Island sources,” according to The Providence Journal. Marijuana has been decriminalized in the state, but possession can still lead to a civil violation, the Visit Rhode Island website reported....
The Eagles wide receiver was devastated after dropping a pass that led to a game-ending interception Monday night against the Falcons. MORE: Week 1 moments | Eagles not yet up to speed on offense | Kiko Alonso makes incredible interception There was a small chance Philadelphia could take the lead with one timeout and a little over a minute left in regulation, but the turnover ended the drive and ensured Atlanta a 26-24 victory....
“Hook” is not without generous helpings of fairy dust itself. The movie gets off to a magical start, as Peter, now Peter Banning, a workaholic corporate “pirate” who neglects his wife (Caroline Goodall) and two children (Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott) travels to London to pay tribute to “Granny” Wendy (a luminous Maggie Smith), who is crestfallen to discover that the compulsive Peter has totally forgotten that he once was Pan....
Nathan Drew Morgan, 29, and an unnamed woman were thrown off their Jet Ski at Lake Keowee on Tuesday afternoon and investigators believe the pair may have been arguing before the incident. A man and woman on a pontoon boat nearby observed Morgan and the unnamed woman struggling in the water. Neither individual wore life jackets and both showed signs of distress in the water, according to police. According to police, the couple on the boat approached Morgan and the woman and the two got on board as the unmanned Jet Ski continued to circle the lake....
The concoction has thus far only been tested in hamsters and cell cultures and “does not necessarily mean that the combination works in humans,” researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NUST) Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine (IKOM) said in a September 30 news release. However, “it is a good sign,” they wrote. According to IKOM Professor Denis Kainov, the combination of nafamostat and Pegasys “effectively suppresses the infection....
On Friday morning, Derek Marlowe, 51, evaded the campus monitor who would check vehicles coming into Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange. After he got through, school staff inside the building were alerted. He was spotted on surveillance camera entering the school hallway where he stood for a short while, before walking into a classroom. He then started asking questions about the pictures on the wall and sat down at a desk before the teacher pressed the classroom’s emergency button, Click Orlando reported....
Redland City Mayor Karen Williams admitted to drinking “several glasses of wine” before crashing her car into a tree on Thursday night, local outlets reported. Australia has one of the world’s highest rates of car accidents caused by drunk driving, following the United States, Canada and South Africa, according to the Global Status Report on Road Safety by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015. Alcohol consumption is the key factor in 30 percent of road accident deaths in Australia....
Now it has landed another potentially explosive deal, signing Duck Dynasty’s Duck Commander brand as the title sponsor for its April Sprint Cup race. MORE: Evernham rejoins Hendrick | Earnhardt Jr. must win now | Shepherd to run Daytona at age 72 The April 6 race will be known as the Duck Commander 500 after the brand of duck calls. Owned by the Robertson family, the company is featured in A&E’s "Duck Dynasty," one of the post popular reality TV series on television....
But military sources say that top Pentagon officials hope to avoid the bloodletting of a major inquiry. Instead of setting up a special commission of senior officers as it has in the past to probe such military debacles as the failed 1980 Desert One hostage rescue attempt in Iran, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff has been poring over logs and cable traffic to dissect the operation. The supersecret Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N....
The new center-hung board, produced by Daktronics, cost about $10 million, which includes an updated control room to run the HD screens. MORE: Best NHL jerseys of all time, by team | Dumb day for the Ducks It’s a much-needed upgrade at Honda Center. The old board’s structure had been in place since the arena opened in 1993 and the screens were replaced about 10 years ago, according to arena officials....
