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The announcement from Mayor Lenny Curry came hours after local news outlets reported that crews were seen removing one Confederate statue, which previously stood between Jacksonville’s City Hall and federal courthouse buildings, overnight. Speaking to a crowd that gathered in the city’s municipal center before a demonstration on Tuesday morning, Curry referenced the initial monument’s removal and told attendees it was the first of more to come. “Yesterday, there was a Confederate monument in this park....

South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney announced his intention to declare for the 2014 NFL Draft after his Gamecocks beat Wisconsin, 34-24, in Wednesday's Capital One Bowl. In an on-field interview with ESPN, Clowney was asked if this was his last season in Columbia, S.C., to which he responded "Yes, sir." "It’s been great, man … I will miss everything about Carolina and I will miss everyone here,” he said....

Robinson missed the next three drives following his fumble before the Jaguars put him back in the game — during the last drive, down 37-7. He carried the ball three out of the four plays on the final drive for 8 yards. MORE: Some Jaguars players ‘aren’t thrilled’ with Urban Meyer’s coaching style What makes this move odd, though, is that Robinson is dealing with a heel and knee injury....

Jacksonville owns the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft, and it’s basically set in stone that they will take Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence with that selection. Beyond that, it’s anyone’s guess as to what the team will do, as the team needs plenty of upgrades to get back to the form they demonstrated when they nearly went to the Super Bowl back in 2018. Here’s a look at the Jaguars’ picks in the 2021 NFL Draft:...

But what is now known is this: Okafor has all five of his official visits planned. He already had announced ones to Baylor (Aug. 30) and Kentucky (Sept. 9), and now Okafor's father told ESPNChicago.com that the other three will be Arizona on Oct. 11, Kansas on Oct. 18 and Duke on Oct. 25. Of the five visits, three will be made together with Jones -- the ones to Baylor, Kansas and Duke....

The lefty felt renewed discomfort in his shoulder Saturday morning, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He'll leave spring training to get in MRI and meet with his surgeon in St. Louis after he expressed concern about soreness and discomfort in his left shoulder where last May he had a surgery to repair a torn labrum. PHOTOS: Training camps | MORE: Crowded in the Dodgers outfield | Battle for Diamondbacks SS "His shoulder is just not feeling quite right," general manager John Mozeliak said....

The Harrison campaign announced Tuesday that it raised $13.9 million during the second quarter of the year—nearly double the $7.4 million he brought in during the first three months of 2020. “Our campaign’s record-breaking fundraising reflects the grassroots energy behind Jaime’s movement, and will allow this campaign to make the investments necessary to send Lindsey home for good,” Guy King, Harrison’s communications director, said in a statement. Senator Graham has not released his fundraising totals yet, but he will have to file the campaign finance data by the July 15 deadline....

These two countries met in the competition’s 2015 final, with Mexico winning that match 3-1, and Jamaica have made impressive progress once again to set up a rematch against more illustrious opposition. Gold Cup: Everything you need to know The Reggae Boyz will once again enter the match as underdogs but they have already demonstrated their ability to cause Mexico problems by holding them to a 0-0 draw during the group stage....

We also now know that he has a sure-fire way of bouncing back from a loss. MORE: Internet explodes with Winston fumble memes | BENDER: Oregon deserves credit for meltdown, too Playing baseball. Well, at least that’s what he said when asked after the Seminoles’ 59-20 season-ending loss about whether he plans to leave school early. “I’m not focused on that at all,” Winston told reporters. “I’m looking forward to next season and playing baseball....

The host of The Late Late Show with James Corden attended the LA event alongside his wife Julia Carey on Wednesday evening. Mammals is an upcoming six-part show written by Jez Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari) and starring Corden, Sally Hawkins, Melia Kreiling, and Colin Morgan. It comes as a welcome distraction after Corden made the news recently for all the wrong reasons—first, for a feud with the owner of the New York restaurant Balthazar’s, and then for “inadvertently” stealing a joke from Ricky Gervais for his CBS show....

The host of The Late Late Show With James Corden, 44, made headlines on Monday, when restaurateur Keith McNally revealed that he had banned Corden from his SoHo eatery Balthazar after staff complaints. In an Instagram post, McNally called fellow Briton Corden a “tiny Cretin of a man. And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago. I don’t often 86 a customer, [but] today I 86’d Corden....

The good news for Houston is that, although they initially appear to be very similar players, there are some significant differences between Harden and Lawson. Both have been high-usage offensive engines for their respective teams, but Lawson usually functions as a facilitator, whereas as Harden’s focus is on scoring. Harden averaged roughly 50 percent more field goal attempts per 100 possessions last season than Lawson. The other side of that coin is that Lawson averaged roughly 50 percent more assists per 100 possessions than Harden....

In the new commercial for NBA 2K15, Harden has to get his face scanned for the video game and is having a bad beard day. The only person to call is the “Beard Guru” to work his magic. Much like in a basketball game, Anthony Davis tends to be a right place, right time kind of guy.

This has become customary for James, one of the NBA's savviest and most athletic defenders. So he was surprised when things suddenly went awry. Sessions, hardly known for his leaping ability, went up and dunked instead of lofting the ball toward the glass for James to swat away. It was only one of several in-game battles James waged within himself as the Miami Heat defeated the Charlotte Bobcats, 104-96, in overtime on Saturday at Time Warner Cable Arena....

The top recruit in the 2019 class, Wiseman was always considered a likely one-and-done college player, but his career as a Tiger took a turn after three games, when the NCAA called his eligibility into question due to his mother reportedly accepting a loan from Memphis coach Penny Hardaway. After a protracted, public battle, Wiseman accepted a 12-game suspension. His announcement Thursday came before he had fully served that suspension....

The Democratic congressman from Mississippi said if any witnesses resist, he was willing to use the panel’s subpoena authority “to the fullest extent of the law.” He said the panel hired professional staff to obtain a vast amount of data and will continue to do so through the summer break. The panel held a strategy meeting Wednesday where Thompson told his colleagues that, “whatever recess you might have planned for August, you might have to reassess it....

“It was because we’ve been around for so long, and the glow of the early ’80s when everyone loved us has definitely worn off,” she explains to Newsweek. “So I expected very little attention. I didn’t expect the reviews that the reviewers gave us were like, ‘Wow!’ I’m flattered. And then being in a movie theater [at the Sundance Film Festival] with the crowd and how [they] just went crazy–they loved it....

The Freestyle portable projector from Samsung isn’t just one of our top picks, it was also a standout at the Consumer Electronics Show, which occurred in Las Vegas at the beginning of January. The show provided a look at what we could expect this year in the world of technology gear. If you missed it, I put together its 25 best products. They range from affordable to prohibitively expensive....

A Chinese bank is now the biggest in the world by market value. Back in 1990, the five largest banks in the world were Japanese (all of them went bust or had to be recapitalized). The Chinese today are paying top dollar for overseas assets, evoking memories of Mitsubishi Estate’s 1989 purchase of the iconic Rockefeller Center, sold at a 50 percent loss six years later. The list of parallels goes on....

The 7.3 magnitude quake hit the coast of Fukushima just days after the anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged the area in 2011, the Associated Press reported. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings told Reuters that about 2 million households are without power following the earthquake. The Japan Meteorological Agency also issued a tsunami advisory for the area, increasing concern over the quake’s dangers 11 years after the Great Tohoku earthquake destroyed 100,000 buildings and caused a level-seven nuclear meltdown, according to Live Science....