Rory McIlroy is making his 2015 playoff debut this weekend after choosing to skip last week’s event to rest his ankle. He looked better than expected at the PGA Championship — his first tournament back from his ankle injury — and should be ready to contend at this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship. MORE: All-time FedEx Cup winners | PGA Tour winners of 2014-15 Jordan Spieth will be returning to the course under unfamiliar circumstances....

So much for the wise guys. In January, Patrick will be sworn in–only the second African-American since Reconstruction to lead any state. He will become a key Democrat nationally, a prize ally in someone’s 2008 presidential campaign, especially since the New Hampshire primary takes place next door. En route, he built an organization any party boss would envy, and kicked it into gear with an emotional speech at the state party convention....

The Devils rookie was hit with a two-minute minor for embellishing after being slashed during his team’s 6-3 loss to the Flyers on Tuesday. After sustaining the hack to his shin from Flyers defenseman Andrew MacDonald, Blandisi broke into a comical flail that accordingly made its rounds on social media. MORE: Playoff picture: Contenders and pretenders He had a few regrets. “I never got swung at like that before, but I guess I could’ve done something to avoid that penalty,” Blandisi said, via NJ....

Booker, the son of former Missouri star Melvin Booker, will be choosing between his father’s alma mater, Kentucky, Michigan and Michigan State. The 6-6 Booker joins two other high-profile recruits in making their decisions Thursday—Mishawaka, Ind. shooting guard James Blackmon Jr. (No. 34) and Milwaukee power forward Kevon Looney (ranked No. 10 overall by Sporting News). Booker is believed to be leaning toward Kentucky, where his friend, point guard Tyler Ulis, has already committed....

It was much, much more than that. it was the most bizarre Hail Mary you’ll ever see, and you probably saw the one where the team that didn’t catch the pass won the game (the Fail Mary of 2012). Maybe call this “Four Hail Marys and a Lord’s Prayer.” MORE: NFL scores, stats | Best of Week 9 | Must-see images This video from the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s Cowboys-Eagles game in AT&T Stadium captures a lot of it, but not all of it — not exactly how far Cassel scrambled backwards to throw up that completely reckless, dangerous, potentially game-killing pass with 10:52 left....

MORE: Who will hold out; who will get a deal? | NFL’s highest-paid players The personally-delivered threat reiterated what the wide receiver’s representatives — CAA’s Tom Condon and members of Roc Nation — have been telling the Cowboys during negotiations, according to the report. That lack of progress has resulted in not only accusations from the NFLPA of collusion, but also frustration on Bryant’s part. Now he has doubled down on the threat, a sign Bryant probably isn’t bluffing....

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The July 14 report, entitled “The Syrian Conflict and its Nexus to the U.S.-based Antifascist Movement,” states “ANTIFA is being analyzed under the 2019 DHS Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence,” according to a copy of the document obtained by the progressive political magazine The Nation. It received a copy from someone who previously worked on DHS intelligence. The report details more than half a dozen people identified with various far-left causes who have personally visited Syria to fight alongside Kurdish factions....

The Argentine forward has been heavily linked with a return to La Liga this summer, where he has previously impressed for Real Madrid. Barca 4/6 to win CL Group D Barca are said to view the 29-year-old as another useful addition to their ranks as they seek to cover the loss of Neymar to PSG, with a €105 million deal for Ousmane Dembele already wrapped up. No deal for Di Maria is imminent, though, according to super agent Mendes....

Denise Faustman can make a good case for the first point. More on that below. Now we’ll see about the second: whether her iconoclastic approach to juvenile diabetes will lead to a true cure for this cruel disease. After years of setbacks, a clinical trial of a therapy that cures diabetes in mice is finally getting underway in people. It has been seven years since Faustman, a scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, reported that a novel approach she developed had cured mice of type-1 diabetes....

NEWSWEEK: What should patients take away from your study? Dr. Steven Nissen: The most important thing is no patient should stop taking any medication on their own. We hope that diabetes specialists and other generalists who prescribe diabetic drugs like Avandia will read our manuscript, will carefully review the risks that we’ve outlined and will then confer with patients about what the best therapy should be. It’s important that patients not panic, that they talk to their doctor....

Vitale tells WDRB’s Rick Bozich that he made three calls Wednesday—two to Wildcats coach John Calipari and one to Hoosiers coach Tom Crean—leaving impassioned messages for them to resuscitate this rivalry by offering an additional carat—the game would help raise $250,000 to help fight pediatric cancer. MORE: College basketball’s best states Calipari does not want to play the series in a home-and-home context, citing the court-storming that occurred after the Dec....

Dick Vitale, 82, called the highly anticipated Gonzaga-UCLA matchup on Tuesday, his first appearance on a game broadcast since he was diagnosed with lymphoma in October. This year marks his 42nd season commentating games for ESPN. MORE: Vitale reveals he has lymphoma months after beating melanoma When Vitale was first shown on the broadcast Tuesday night, he struggled to hold back tears while he spoke. “I didn’t want to cry....

So it was something of a surprise last week when the puritanical mullahs banned García Márquez’s latest novella, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores.” This, even though the last word of the title had been changed in translation, rather delicately, to “Sweethearts.” But Iranians quickly found ways to work around their government, as they’ve grown used to doing over the years. The first printing of more than 5,000 copies had sold out before the ban was even announced....

Patrick’s reps confirmed to E! News that she and Rodgers are “no longer together.” Speculation about the couple’s breakup started earlier in the week. The most obvious sign of trouble: Patrick has unfollowed Rodgers on Instagram. The last time she shared a picture of him on her account was in April after a trip to Machu Picchu. RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE: Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick A post shared by Danica Patrick (@danicapatrick) on Apr 11, 2020 at 12:44pm PDT...

Arizona is a swing state in the 2020 election, and though the state has a long history of voting for the GOP—Arizona has voted Republican in almost every election since 1952—the state voted for the Democrats in the 1996 election, handing the victory to Bill Clinton. At the time of writing, while the current vote counts in Arizona are close and according to the AP, Biden currently has 51.8 percent of the vote with 1,372,000 votes while Trump has 46....

This is what Solo said during a podcast interview with Goal.com on its “All of Us” program: “I’ve seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way. But it’s our right as Americans to do it whatever way we’re comfortable with and I think that’s really hard being on the main stage right now with so many political issues for athletes....

In an Instagram poll posted Thursday, Sports Illustrated’s Kaitlin O’Toole posed a simple question: “Will JuJu stay in Pittsburgh?” Voters could choose either “I hope so” or “That’s a negative.” The results overwhelmingly showed most football fans expect Smith-Schuster to leave the Steelers and play for a new team in 2021. NFL FREE AGENCY: Team-by-team tracker of players released The most interesting part of the poll wasn’t the results, though, but rather the appearance of one specific participant....

This is NFL Draft season, and any crumb of information about where prospects could land might as well be a feast. Take, for example, Ohio State QB Justin Fields. With the Jaguars and Jets expected to select Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson, respectively, the 49ers’ shock move up to No. 3 overall puts them in prime position to select Fields in this draft, and 49ers brass attended Fields’ second pro day Wednesday....

The threatening phone call was reported to the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday around 9 p.m. The caller aimed the threat at the television host and her family, and mentioned something pertaining to “neo-Nazis.” Police are reported to have opened an investigation into the death threat. The call came in two days after the highly publicized 60 Minutes interview was recorded, and several days before CBS aired it....