John Carlin’s Playing the Enemy is a magnificent overview of the 1995 World Cup final between New Zealand and South Africa, a game credited with having averted a civil war, while Lloyd Jones’ The Book of Fame (about the first All Blacks tour of Great Britain in 1905)...
For three periods Tuesday night at Barclays Center, it seemed the Nets were headed for their eighth straight loss against the same Los Angeles Clippers team that started their downward spiral with a 27-point blowout on November 14 in Los Angeles.
Once home to 1 million people, Syrian government forces – backed by Russian Federation – are obliterating neighborhoods held by rebels. The government assault aims to take Aleppo by the time U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The Pac-12 has quite the precarious situation on its hands with its 2016 football title game, to be played Friday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. between the No. 4 Washington Huskies and No. 8 Colorado Buffaloes.
Cooks, who had caught at least two passes in each of his 35 career games before Sunday, was not targeted in 36 attempts by Drew Brees against the Rams. Brees delivered the ball to Willie Snead, who hit a wide-open Tim Hightower for a 50-yard TD that was the exclamation point on a...
And perhaps just as important as the win, none of the Clippers’ starters played more than 31 minutes, keeping them fresh for the back-to-back game at New Orleans.
State officials said they expect the recount to uphold Trump’s win-but Stein’s efforts have highlighted widespread voter outrage at the election results.
His promises to ramp up spending on infrastructure and cut taxes has led to warnings of a surge in inflation that would force the Fed to hike rates to cap prices.