Tim Ruskell and Billy Devaney are expected to become the de facto general managers of Alliance of American Football teams in Orlando and Atlanta, respectively, a source told Sporting News. As team president overseeing personnel decisions, Ruskell is credited with helping the 2005 Seattle Seahawks field a Super Bowl roster for the first time in franchise history. The Seahawks then began a gradual decline that led to a forced resignation late in the 2009 season....

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said it launched an investigation into the incident after photos of the animal were posted on social media, according to Orlando news station WESH. The alligator was reportedly spotted swimming in a pond in the Florida city of Deltona, located northeast of Orlando. FWC officials conducted a search for the injured alligator on Friday last week and continued looking throughout the weekend....

Except maybe any other time. In the sense that it’s great for a team to have all its best players against the strongest opponents, Trier’s return for Saturday’s game against No. 3 UCLA after missing 19 games is wonderfully opportune. MORE: SN’s college basketball midseason All-Americans In the sense that it would have been nice to have had a little bit of a rehearsal before such a significant test, for coach Sean Miller to work out how best to fit Trier into a 17-2 squad that has managed to win 11 consecutive games, it is a tad inconvenient....

Sixty-four percent said they would rather see their favorite candidate win the presidency, while 8 percent said they didn’t know. The women surveyed answered differently with only 11 percent in favor of their favorite team and 84 percent leaning towards wanting their choice of candidate to win the 2020 election. The remaining 5 percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion. “In the last two presidential elections voter turnout has been between 58 and 60 percent,” said Rick Gentile, director of the Seton Hall Sports poll....

Barack Obama has talked a bit about a “Youth Services Corps” for disadvantaged young people to work on energy-efficiency and environmental-education projects, and John Edwards has a lightly detailed “Marshall Corps” idea to send 10,000 midcareer experts around the world in a combination of the Peace Corps and the Marshall Plan. But those are targeted programs that aren’t aimed at a whole generation. It’s Chris Dodd who is taking the service debate to the next level....

You see, the Toronto FC striker doesn’t consider his current run of outstanding form to be the best of his career. Rather, what he sees now is a return to his best, a return to a level that had eluded him for the past three years due to injuries and diminished confidence. Now healthy and motivated by the frustrations of recent years, Altidore is playing like the unstoppable force that has been the subject of three different eight-figure transfers in his career....

China billed last week’s goose-stepping gala as a celebration of progress. But apart from a high-tech, modernist veneer, it looked far more like a throwback to the cold war. A float bearing a giant portrait of Jiang followed those of his predecessors: Mao the Revolutionary, and Deng Xiaoping the Reformer. To cement his own legacy as China’s supreme leader, Jiang aims to become known as the “Great Reunifier.” His bid for immortality is a unification of the motherland, winning back the stray bits of turf, like Hong Kong and Taiwan, that foreign aggressors had helped tear away when China was weak....

Smoking is the nation’s leading cause of preventable deaths and is believed to be responsible for a wide variety of diseases. The CDC count for 1988 included 111,985 deaths from lung cancer, 30,850 deaths from other smoking-related cancers such as mouth and pancreatic cancer, 197,820 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 82,857 deaths from lung diseases such as emphysema. An additional 1,303 people died in fires caused by smoking and 2,552 babies’ deaths were attributed to their mothers’ smoking habits....

Clinical guidelines recommend colorectal cancer screening start at age 45 for average-risk adults, with earlier screenings recommended for people with a family history or another risk factor. Despite these recommendations, less than 70% of adults in the U.S. are up to date with routine colorectal cancer screenings. The people hit hardest by this access gap are uninsured adults. Insurance status is the biggest determinant of whether or not people get screened for colorectal cancer....

Nicole dines with her two children at the trendy Mezzaluna trattoria. Nicole heads home with the children. Later she calls the restaurant, saying that she left her prescription sunglasses there; a waiter and friend, Ronald Goldman, offers to drop them off at her home. Goldman leaves the restaurant. Car with lights on spotted in front of Nicole’s home. At some point, Nicole and Goldman are stabbed to death. Limo driver arrives to take O....

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Too much concentration of power in one company’s hands is a dangerous thing (“Microsoft’s Six Fatal Errors,” Science & Technology, June 19). It’s a ray of hope for consumers that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson stood up to Bill Gates’s purported boast that “this antitrust thing will blow over.” Let us all hope that this ruling will prevent Microsoft from stifling its competition. Doug Long Downers Grove, Ill....

Sqor Sports put together a brief #SuperBowl history by the numbers, from most wins by a team/player/coach to most points scored by a team in a game. Keep up with Sqor Sports for insights and exclusive athlete content. Brett Favre and Steve Weatherford Signed Jersey Giveaway #BigGameParty

Andrew Card. Bush has already given Card, the former transportation secretary and a veteran of his father’s administration, the post of chief of staff. He was deputy chief of staff under John Sununu during President Bush’s administration. Card told the press that when Bush called him, he said, “I’ve got a big job for you.” Condoleezza Rice. The foreign policy adviser, former provost of Stanford, seems destined to be named national security adviser....

Things bode well early on the wooden spooners, though, with the club having recently undergone a major squad overhaul whilst the appointment of experienced coach Ernie Merrick will certainly have diehard fans confident of more success to come. 2016-17 finishing position: 10th Coach: Ernie Merrick INS AND OUTS Ins: Kosta Petratos, Daniel Georgievski, Mario Shabow, Roy O’Donovan, Glen Moss, Dimitri Petratos, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Jake Adelson, Ronald Vargas Outs: Ben Kennedy, Joel Allwright, Daniel Mullen, Andrew Hoole, Mateo Poljak, Labinot Haliti, Harry Sawyer, Ma Leilei, Morten Nordstrand, Tomislav Arčaba, Kristian Brymora, Aleksandr Kokko....

A Certified Important Book you haven’t read: OK, you got me—I’ve never read “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.” The book you care most about having your children read: “Maximum Ride.” I want young Jack to know what his dad does at the office, and, hopefully, to be proud.

“The Dead Father” by Donald Barthelme. A breathtakingly original meditation on the volatile bond between fathers and sons. “Against Love” by Laura Kipnis. A provocative deconstruction of modern marriage presented with magnificent wit. “House” by Tracy Kidder. The exquisitely written account of building a home. It made me yearn to become an accomplished writer. “The Journalist and the Murderer” by Janet Malcolm. An exceedingly unflattering look at journalism’s underbelly....

So many Cuban-born players have become stars in the majors over the past few years — unique talents like Aroldis Chapman, Yasiel Puig, Yoenis Cespedes and Jose Abreu. But before we go forward, let’s take a quick look back. These new stars have many years to play before they match the feats of the best Cuban-born players ever to step on a major-league diamond. Here’s a position-by-position look. 1B Tony Perez Born: May 14, 1942 in Camaguey...

Ninety years ago America’s immigrants were mostly European. Today they come primarily from Latin America and Asia. The number of foreign-born Hispanics grew 34 percent during the 1990s, and Asians born outside the United States jumped 40 percent. World War I and anti-immigrant fever ended the century’s first immigration wave. Analysts say America’s economic boom and tight labor market are fueling the surge at its end.

It doesn’t seem possible, but the fact that No. 4 Ohio State and No. 2 Michigan could play in the College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 9 is somehow being underplayed. Maybe it is the still-palpable hangover from the Wolverines’ 45-23 victory against the Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium on Nov. 26. Maybe it’s that some don’t believe Ohio State can beat No. 1 Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl or that No....

The first step: understand what and who you are fighting. The district’s controversy began in 2018 when two high school students said a racial slur on TikTok. The teens apologized but still had to leave the district and move from the town as the reaction shifted from atonement to reckoning. Activists introduced the well-prepared $3 million Cultural Competency Plan (CCAP) in Southlake, under the guise that the plan was about inclusion and diversity....