Line: Patriots -8, Total: 51 Line movement and notes: The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook and William Hill both opened New England -7.5 and were bet up to -8. While the Westgate was briefly at -8.5 on Wednesday, though, the book is dealing -7.5 as of this Thursday-morning posting. Totals have ranged from 50.5 to 52 at various bet shops. It’s the highest total on the Week 8 card, as well as the highest for a Dolphins-Pats game in the last six meetings....

Quarterback Ryan Tannehill said Incognito was "the best temamate I could ask for" and noted that Incognito and tackle Jonathan Martin, who Incognito is accused of bullying, were inseparable. STEELE: Goodell’s NFL out of control | MORE: Did coaches push Incognito? | Leadership lacking? | Dirtiest players "I think if you would have asked Jon Martin a week before who his best friend on the team was, he would have said Richie Incognito," Tannehill told reporters at the team's facility....

Unfortunately, Miami didn’t make the AFC playoffs, even as a wild-card team, in either season. That’s surprising given there are now seven postseason berths available. Those results do set up higher expectations for Flores’ young offensive-minded replacement, Mike McDaniel. They were active in NFL free agency to boost QB Tua Tagovailoa in Year 3, with wide receiver Tyreek Hill headlining six new offensive starters to support Jaylen Waddle. Defensively, minus Flores’ influence, there remain major question marks on all three levels....

White House press secretary McEnany worked as a CNN contributor during the 2016 presidential election when she had decidedly less favorable views of President Donald Trump whom she called a “racist.” McEnany’s past stint as a left-leaning political commentator was brought up by an exasperated Lemon who called her out during the program. At the latest White House press briefing on Tuesday, McEnany still refused to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory....

The full story of Vesco’s 12-year exile in Cuba remains a mystery. Early speculation that Castro would offer Vesco up to hasten the Clinton administration’s modest relaxation of U.S. trade sanctions proved premature. Nixon’s account, however, offers a glimpse into how life under one of the world’s last communist dictators can resemble a carnival funhouse. A key to the recent Vesco mystery, Nix-on suggests, is a struggle for control of the “miracle” drug Trioxidal....

Mou gives Chelsea fans the fingers But, while the Portuguese may decry the referee’s decision, it is his own midfielder who should be doing the apologising after the Red Devils’ cup defence was ended in west London by N’Golo Kante’s 51st-minute goal. With no Zlatan Ibrahimovic, no Wayne Rooney, no Anthony Martial, and Marcus Rashford arriving after the rest of the squad due to a bout of illness, Mourinho’s side were always going to have to take a cagey approach against the runaway Premier League leaders....

All the old-school legends and old-school fans who have been throwing punches at Curry and his Warriors team and his style and his toughness all year … time to shut your cake-holes, stop embarrassing yourselves and get out of denial. MORE: Stephen Curry’s two MVPs would put him in elite company Charles Barkley, Oscar Robertson, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman — and you, too. Stephen Jackson and Cedric Ceballos, and all your friends — it’s over....

title: “Don T Try This At Home” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-18” author: “John Spurgeon” We last saw the Chandlers’ fancy stepping two years ago, when the family managed to increase its dividend income while other holders’ income was slashed. Times Mirror had cut its dividend after selling its cable-TV systems to Cox Communications in a tax-free, $2.3 billion deal. Regular stockholders got Cox shares that paid no dividend. The Chandlers got Times Mirror preferred shares paying a fat 8 percent....

But that was in 1987, and authors beware: whom the gods would destroy, they first put on the best-seller list. Events since then have-not smashed Kennedy’s thesis, but they have roughed it up. Today the U.S. military burden seems more manageable: with the Warsaw Pact collapsing, the Pentagon itself has proposed a 25 percent cut in American defenses. Instead of suffering from military overstretch, the United States is cutting itself some slack....

It has been an interesting 95 days since TMZ released an audio tape of Clippers owner Donald Sterling talking to his “personal assistant,” comments that became an instant viral sensation, offering statements that were racist and offensive. Four days after the audio became public, NBA commissioner Adam Silver — less than three months after taking over from David Stern — banned Sterling from having any involvement in the NBA for life, and announced the association would take the necessary steps to revoke Sterling’s 33 year ownership of the Clippers....

Katie Phang, legal analyst and MSNBC host, was reacting to the unsealed transcripts of the testimony Trump gave as part of the suit brought forward by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll accused the former president of raping her at a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York in the mid-1990s. Trump denies the allegation. Carroll is suing Trump for defaming her character while denying the allegations, including stating in a 2019 interview that she was “not my type....

“Well, I think it’s a lack of respect for our country,” Trump said. “I think it’s a lack of appreciation for our country, and it’s a very sad thing. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, actually. You know, you are talking about a major sport, maybe the major sport, and when you see that and it leads to a lot of other things. I think it’s a great lack of respect and appreciation for our country and I really said they should try another country, see if they like it better....

In a late night tweet, the president claimed that: “Nancy Pelosi just stated that ‘it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.’ @FoxNews In other words, she thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY! Trump’s was referencing a letter that Pelosi wrote to House Democrats circulated on Monday in which she actually said: “The weak response to these hearings has been, ‘Let the election decide....

An Emerson College poll released on November 1 shows President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are tied in the county with 48 percent each, while three percent of respondents said they were backing a third candidate. None of those surveyed were undecided but Biden led among independent voters with 50 percent to 44 percent. The president’s approval rating in Vigo County stands at 49 percent. This is higher than the national average of 44....

“To keep new [coronavirus] cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days,” Trump said. “The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.” Americans coming into the U.S. who have been appropriately screened for coronavirus will not be subject to the new rules. The United Kingdom is also exempt from the new policies, as are cargo and items related to trade....

Donald J. Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in New York City. His birthday falls on Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States. Many Americans will celebrate the day—which is not an official federal holiday—by displaying the flag in front of their homes. Trump became president of the United States at the age of 70, making him (at that time) the oldest president to be inaugurated....

Despite previously pledging to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling using the Senate’s potentially time-consuming budget reconciliation process, McConnell recruited Republican support earlier this week to block a potential filibuster—a plan that came to fruition on Thursday when 13 GOP senators joined him by voting to allow Democrats to fast-track their bill. Trump reacted to the deal with anger on Friday, insisting that Republicans could have had a “first-class ticket for victory over the Democrats....

But one thing didn’t surprise her, she said: that Trump was “incapable of admitting that the election was over.” “It wasn’t surprising […] because, one, he cannot wrap his mind around the fact that he’s a loser and two, that wouldn’t serve his purposes,” Mary Trump said during her podcast “The Mary Trump Show”. “He needs his sycophants, his followers and his cult members to believe that the fight is ongoing....

In the latest Emerson College/NewsNation poll among Pennsylvania residents, 688 likely voters were asked a series of questions between October 4 and 5. The poll found that 50 percent planned to cast their ballot for Biden, compared with the 45 percent who chose Trump. Three percent said they remained undecided, and 2 percent said they would vote for another candidate. Biden’s lead has narrowed in the state since the last Emerson College poll, in August....

“The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!),” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday. “It is a one sided, highly partisan Witch Hunt, the likes of which has never been seen in Congress before,” he said....