The well-documented mentor-protégé relationship between Alabama’s Nick Saban and FSU’s Jimbo Fisher is part of the backdrop of the top-five showdown, and it’s difficult to imagine this game disappointing. MORE: SN’s 2017 CFP, conference predictions With that in mind, here are five frequently asked questions about the Week 1 main event: Will it be a ‘Game of the Century?’ That depends on the AP Poll, which will be released on Aug....

Rep. Don Young, 86, missed the House vote on whether to ensure two weeks of paid sick leave for workers, expand family leave for workers, and provide free testing for COVID-19 which took place in Washington, D.C. in the early hours of March 14. As noted by the Anchorage Daily News, later that day Young attended an NRA fundraising event in Mat-Su, Alaska, which he posted about on Facebook....

Luis Enrique’s side were beaten on home soil by Alaves in September, but Barca’s famed MSN trio helped set the record straight, with Neymar’s goal taking him above club legend Ronaldinho in the scoring charts. All the goals came in two clusters, with Luis Suarez and Neymar striking within three minutes of each other on the stroke of half-time to ruin what had been to that point a resilient display from Mauricio Pellegrino’s side, who ended the club’s wait for a first Copa final with Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Celta Vigo....

What’s next for Pujols? We’ll find out soon enough. One thing is certain: The market for Pujols’ services will be less crowded this time around. Pujols is in the last year of a 10-year, $240 million deal he signed in December 2011, a contract that ended 11 rather incredible years in St. Louis that cemented his status as a future Cooperstown inductee before he ever played for the Angels. Pujols turned 41 in January....

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a substance-related condition defined by drinking behavior that consumes a person and impacts their life. This brain disease can cause someone to lose control over drinking and affect them on a personal, interpersonal, and professional level. Read on to learn more about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of alcohol use disorder. Types Alcohol use disorder may be mild, moderate, or severe. The number of symptoms a person experiences determines the type....

Leyland only confirmed that Iglesias would be back in after striking out as a pinch hitter in Detroit's 1-0 loss in Game 3, but there is no logical reason to believe that Peralta is coming out of the lineup when he had the Tigers' only extra-base hit on Tuesday and is batting .417 in the playoffs. MORE: It’s Lackey’s day | Game 3 recap | TV schedule | Must-see photos...

Baldwin is listed in a call sheet for the day of the shooting, obtained by the Associated Press, along with other producers, executive producers, a line producer and a co-producer. All of them, in addition to assistant director Dave Halls and armorer Hannah Gutierrez, could be held liable even if they weren’t on location the day of the shooting. Experts say that extensive legal issues could result from the incident, including civil lawsuits and criminal charges....

SNL’s remotely-produced “At Home” season finale began with Kate McKinnon, playing a school principal hosting a graduation ceremony on a Zoom call. “I know this isn’t how you expected your high school career to come to an end, but uh, we’re all making sacrifices. I have had to share my child’s Adderall with him,” she told the graduating students. She then informed the class that she didn’t mange to secure the guest speakers the class voted for, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, or the class’s next five choices, which included Axl Rose, “murder hornets” and Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes’s newborn baby....

Angels vice president of communications Tim Mead tweeted the news Tuesday morning. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 The high point of Johnson’s career came with the then-California Angels 45 years ago. Already with his fourth big-league team at age 27, Johnson hit .329/.370/.459 in 1970, making the All-Star game and finishing eighth in AL MVP voting. He won the batting title by one of the closest margins in history, edging Carl Yastrzemski ....

“I’m #AlexJones’ ex-wife, & I lost my kids for exposing infowars, even while he was under subsequent Federal Investigation. I have insider info that I believe is relevant to the #January6thCommitteeHearings. Pls share,” Kelly Jones tweeted more than 40 times on Tuesday, alongside previous tweets she has posted. Her comments came after the panel, during its seventh televised hearing on Tuesday, showed how a tweet from former President Donald Trump calling his supporters to Washington, D....

Rodriguez was kept off the American League All-Star team Monday despite batting .284/.390/.513 (149 wRC+) with 16 home runs and 47 RBIs. Holt, on the other hand, is hitting .295/.383/.424 with two home runs, 21 RBIs with five stolen bases for the struggling rival Red Sox. MORE: More All-Star snubs | All-Star Game starters | AL, NL reserves, pitchers AL manager Ned Yost told ESPN he liked Holt’s versatility; Holt has played everywhere but pitcher and catcher in his major league career....

The former Yankees third basemen posted a TikTok last night with his fiancée, entertainer Jennifer Lopez, featuring one of the latest TikTok memes that’s been the sweeping through the app. It uses part of Drake’s song “Nonstop” in which you hear the rapper say “I just flipped the switch.” At that point, the people in the video turn off the light and turn it on again to reveal they’ve “switched,” usually positions and clothing....

Play ball! No, wait, that's not it at all. It's still a little more than a month until pitchers and catchers report to spring training. It's those two other words, and a different kind of special feeling. Federal court! MORE: Arbiter’s A-Rod decision | Disgraced athletes: Where they went wrong Handed a 162-game suspension from an arbitrator on Saturday, a reduction from the 211-game ban initially imposed by Major League Baseball, New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez vowed to take his fight to a judge....

Rodriguez, 40, hit 33 home runs, drove in 86 runs and scored 83 runs last season after serving a seasonlong doping suspension in 2014. He is set to be paid $20 million each of the next two seasons, the final two years of his 10-year, $275 million contract. MORE: Looking back at A-Rod’s career | His most embarrassing moments The Yankees plan to use him as a designated hitter only this season....

The 27-year-old, who was the 500 champion as a rookie in 2016, took the lead with less than six laps to go on Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But, he was passed by Simon Pagenaud in the final stages of the race and finished in second place. “We just didn’t have the straight-line speed,” Rossi told reporters after the race. “(Pagenaud) was a deserving winner for sure. But that last yellow really hurt us because we were doing a lot better on fuel mileage than he was, so that was the first kind of nail in the proverbial coffin....

To drive her point home, Ocasio-Cortez stressed that undocumented immigrants in the U.S. “pay taxes,” meaning they “pay for your kids’ schooling too.” “For the last time: People who are undocumented pay taxes!” Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet. “Public goods aren’t ‘gifts’ to immigrants-they pay for your kids’ schooling too.” Indeed, the fact that undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes each year often goes overlooked in the immigration debate....

“There is no room for anti-semitism in the movement for Palestinian liberation. Our critique is of Israel and their human rights abuses. This is not an excuse for anti-semitic hate crimes,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. The congresswoman joined her fellow New York Democrats, many of whom took to social media to criticize the racist attacks, including one particular incident that took place in New York City’s Times Square this week. “We’ve seen an increase in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate, in NYC and nationwide — hateful words, hate crimes, and other forms of violence....

Russian police arrested around 3,000 people at this weekend’s events, where tens of thousands of people expressed their anger at the government despite concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, below freezing temperatures and heavy-handed riot police. Observers described the scale of the protests as unprecedented, while the BBC reported that the demonstration in Moscow was the largest in the city for nearly a decade. International media interest was intense given the recent attempt to kill Navalny, and the decision to arrest him on his return to Russia from Germany earlier this month....

Those supporters that made the journey to witness a 5-1 mauling at the hands of the German giants had aired their anger at manager Arsene Wenger during a pre-match protest. The future looks very dark for Arsenal The Frenchman’s decision to leave Alexis on the bench for a Premier League meeting with Liverpool last time out had helped to fan those flames, with talk of training ground bust-ups doing the rounds....