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Manager Mikel Arteta and his sporting director Edu Gaspar are set to make a move to acquire Polish World Cup centre-back Jakub Kiwior from Italian club Spezia in a transaction that has not been accompanied by much fanfare. Kiwior, 22, adds depth at the central defender position for an Arsenal side still occupied on three fronts over the next four months: Premier League, Europa League (Round of 16), and FA Cup (Round of 32)....

Ramsey, who has asked to be moved, said in a press conference Tuesday he is still focusing on Thursday’s game. “All I care about is winning, man,” Ramsey told reporters. “I want to f—ing win. Straight up. Excuse my language, but everybody knows that. That’s who I am. That passion, that fire, that heart, that’s what y’all love, and I’m going to continue giving that as long as I’m here....

“For me, this is not silver,” the Jamaica coach said. “This is gold.” MORE: Mexico’s journey from the semifinals | Mexico wins 10th CONCACAF title Jamaica may have dropped a 3-1 result to Mexico on Sunday in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final, but the Reggae Boyz did not leave Lincoln Financial Field with their heads hanging low. As much as the defeat still stung, there was undeniable positivity as Jamaica’s players addressed reporters postgame....

The 31-year-old’s passing has left those who knew and admired him reeling and prompted a huge outpouring of grief in his home city of London. Edwards was also a well-known YouTube star who launched the careers of numerous U.K. artists including Ed Sheeran and Stormzy. Huge crowds gathered in Acton, west London, on Monday night for a candlelit vigil to honor Edwards. Many people left flowers, candles and Chelsea FC shirts beneath a mural of Edwards, the Evening Standard reported....

Russell, in the trailer for the video, said he would like to play again and wrote every NFL team saying so. MORE: Every team’s biggest Draft regret | Worst QBs to go No. 1 overall A letter, like the one he wrote to the Cowboys last year, appears on the screen and reads, in part: “As a former NFL player, I understand the daily grind that football operations can be....

Today, Seminoles’ star quarterback Jameis Winston will be the central figure in a code-of-conduct hearing on the Florida State campus. Winston’s attorney, David Cornwell, told Fox Sports that the hearing starts at noon today. MORE: Ranking the conference title games | HAYES: Forgotten duo lifts Tide to title game “We will appear,” Cornwell wrote in an email to Fox Sports. “and compel (Winston’s accuser) and her opportunistic lawyers to confront her multiple lies....

The State Attorney’s Office will announce the decision at 2 p.m. ET, the Tallahassee Democrate reported. MORE: Top 10 best finishes | Hayes: First-and-10 State Attorney Willie Meggs, who is overseeing the probe, told reporters Wednesday that investigators have learned as much as they can about the December 2012 incident. "We think we have exhausted all investigative tools," he said. On Monday, Meggs said he would not let football dictate when the investigation will be completed....

Winston didn’t miss much against The Citadel. He missed a third-and-goal on the Seminoles’ first drive of the second half, but was otherwise efficient before being lifted in the third quarter. A look at Winston’s drive-by-drive summary: MORE: Week 2 photos | Top 25 roundup | Blake Sims should be Bama’s QB Drive 1: 1-of-1, 7 yardsDrive 2: 5-of-5, 67 yards, TDDrive 3: 3-of-4, 18 yardsDrive 4: 7-of-7, 58 yards, TDDrive 5: 4-of-5, 42 yardsDrive 6: 2-of-4, 64 yards Good luck finding a flaw....

If his Wonderlic score is any indication, that might be an apt description of the former Florida State quarterback. MORE: Steelers can’t win for losing | Browns’ new uniforms | NFL retirees face bankruptcy at alarming rate According to Yahoo! Sports, Winston scored a 27 on the Wonderlic test, which is administered to all players at the NFL Scouting Combine. Winston’s reported score is just one point lower than that of Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Russell Wilson, and matches that of Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco....

It is a bold choice, one that seemed impossible at this time last month, when James was leading the Heat against the Spurs in the team’s fourth consecutive Finals appearance. The Cavs, meanwhile, were operating with a rookie general manager and still without a coach, coming off a 33-win season, their fourth consecutive losing campaign since James first left in 2010. Ultimately, it was James’ inner circle that tugged him away from the Heat, where he could have received a higher max salary with a team more ready-made to be a championship contender....

During the Super Bowl, Always aired a commercial with the hashtag #LikeAGirl, changing the way people view the phrase forever. Penn State head coach James Franklin took the video to heart and released a video of his daughter practicing “like a girl,” and this is one girl you don’t want to mess with. Ms. Franklin goes through a football drill and is definitely a force to be reckoned with....

In fact, Franklin dubbed this week’s matchup between the 9th-ranked Nittany Lions and the Buckeyes the “Super Bowl.” What’s the problem with that? The opening-week matchup against Appalachian State was the Super Bowl, too. So was the in-state rivalry game with Pitt. Then Kent State, then Illinois . . . MORE: Penn State knows: That’s Just Trace “I’ve gotten criticized in the past because of not wanting to say a game is a rivalry game or not saying one game is more important than another game because it’s nonconference or conference or whatever be,” Franklin said on the Big Ten teleconference on Tuesday....

The Rockets took down the Wizards in Washington D.C. and did so behind another ridiculous James Harden performance. The 2017-18 NBA MVP dropped 59 points on 18-of-32 shooting while going 17 of 18 from the free-throw line in a 159-158 win over the Wizards on the road. The 159 points is a Rockets’ franchise record. And Houston needed every single one of those points as Bradley Beal scored 46 of his own on 14-of-20 shooting including 7 of 12 from beyond the 3-point line....

Then Chris Bosh, Justise Winslow and Josh McRoberts all went down, and the bearded, journeyman forward was called upon to fill the massive frontcourt void. DEVENEY: There’s still no solution to LeBron problem in the East Johnson has answered the call and then some. In his eighth season, Johnson is having a career year. Without him, who knows if the Heat would have been able to dig themselves out of an 11-30 hole in January and rattle off 13 straight wins to get back in the playoff race....

The Colombia international has seen his future at the Santiago Bernabeu called into question on a regular basis throughout the campaign as he has not always been a regular starter under Zinedine Zidane. Benzema impact delights Zidane James has contributed positively when called upon, though, and netted his fifth goal of the season in Saturday’s 4-1 victory over Eibar. Although he has been linked with a move to Chelsea and Manchester United over the last few months, the 25-year-old has stressed that he is not actively looking for a transfer....

That was the discussion on Twitter when fans faced off over who they thought was better—Foxx or Glover on Wednesday. The social media sparring session between fans certainly isn’t a first. Even Foxx and Glover have engaged in the debate. Glover, 35, edged on the playful rivalry told TMZ cameras “Jamie’s got it up on me right now” back in January 2018, noting that 51-year-old Foxx has “time on his side....

These individuals were first called into question in March 2021 when American Oversight, a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog group, said it acquired fraudulent electoral certificates from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the group reported. The certificates allegedly showed an attempt to replace official presidential electors from the states, which Biden won, with pro-Trump electors. With the newly issued subpoenas, the House committee is looking to gather information regarding how the fake electoral certificates may have been part of an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a press release issued Friday....

“I was in disbelief. I was devastated. I knew it was coming, but it was just it was too real, that it really happened and that they’ve taken us back 50 years from all the hard work and everything that women went through to get to where we are now,” Melissa Mills, the eldest daughter of Norma McCorvey, said Monday on CNN’s New Day program. McCorvey, who was known as “Jane Roe” in the 1973 abortion case, had three children....

The potential of Japan’s younger population to spread COVID-19 during summer vacations and the Olympics has Olympic and Japanese officials concerned, especially as the Delta variant grows in dominance, the Associated Press reported. But at its current pace, the vaccine drive will see 70 percent of elderly people in Japan fully vaccinated by August, while the level of 70 percent of workplace vaccinations will be reached in late November, Mizuho Research & Technologies said in a recent report....

The incident occurred on the evening of September 27 as Tadataka Unno was coming out of a subway station near his home. Unno escaped his first assailant outside the station, but was chased and beaten by a larger group according to reports. During the attack, he heard those who attacked him saying the word “Chinese”. According to a New York Police Department email sent to Newsweek, as Unno attempted to walk around a group blocking the subway exit, he was pushed from behind....