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“I just want to serve the team in whatever way is best for the team,” Mewis told Sporting News. “I hope I get opportunities to play, but whatever’s best for the team I’m ready and willing to play whatever role I need to.” In the first two games of what U.S. Soccer labels the “Send-Off Series” prior to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Mewis has emerged as the best player on the field whenever she has been on the field....

Two of them will come from the intercontinental playoffs between a handful of qualifying hopefuls: Australia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Peru, and the United Arab Emirates. The Australia vs. UAE winner on June 7 will face Peru on June 13, while Costa Rica and New Zealand have a winner-take-all showdown on June 14. The third World Cup qualifier will come from the delayed European playoff path which saw three teams begin with dreams of qualifying and only two teams still in with a chance to claim the lone spot....

According to KMBC News, several fights erupted in the parking lot of Pleasant Hill High School, in Cass County, after the Pleasant Hill Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of making masks a requirement in its educational settings. Reporter Brian Johnson said “people were actually throwing fists and hitting each other” during the chaos, which only dissipated once sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene. Several officers were reportedly called out to the school to deal with the disturbance, while at least one man was filmed being led away in handcuffs....

Morocco’s government said its troops had acted to open the road, stop the blockading of traffic and end “provocations” by the Polisario Front, which has been fighting for independence from the kingdom since the 1970s in the Western Sahara region. Morocco is America’s oldest official diplomatic ally, having signed a treaty of peace and friendship with the new country in 1786—the longest unbroken relationship in U.S. history. As President Trump seeks to end all “forever wars” before his term ends, Trump or President-elect Joe Biden may be faced with choosing between intervention or refusing to become embroiled in another conflict in Western Sahara, as both Rabat and Washington, D....

The two-time champion was in the position to make the team for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics after finishing third in the short program less than a day before announcing her withdrawal. “I’m fully vaccinated, have been wearing a n95 mask and got 2 negative test results before leaving to Nashville,” Liu posted on Instagram. “Things happen unfortunately …” Pairs team and reigning national champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier withdrew the day before the competition started after Frazier tested positive....

It’s a great line, destined to be much quoted. It’s also not a bad description of Mitchell’s boundary-breaking movie, his first since the cult hit “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” There’s a distinct echo of the ’60s in Mitchell’s open embrace of sexuality in all its gender-blurring varieties, but the idealism of what in those days was called “the sexual revolution” comes tempered by three decades of AIDS, neofundamentalism and Internet pornography....

Like countless people around the world, Phoebe Holman saw her income disappear almost overnight because of the restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus. So she decided to start work on a new project, called The Covid-19 Diaries, documenting the experiences of people from all walks of life during the coronavirus pandemic. Holman, a 29-year-old who is based in Bristol, U.K., wants people to film themselves telling their “uncensored” stories and submit them for inclusion in her documentary....

When I asked him that day on the telephone to talk instead about his impact on the changing nature of college basketball, he declined — enthusiastically — because he preferred to have an extended conversation on the topic and asked if I’d sit down with him the following week. INSIDE THE MADNESS: 80 years of Final Four memories We met in Indianapolis and spent 45 minutes discussing how the college game desperately needed change in the early part of this decade and how various panels of which Delany was a part helped engender the “freedom of movement” movement....

If universal sighs of relief are not being heard in the Mile High City these days, there is good reason. The troubles of the sparkling new air hub may have just begun. Critics call it a monument to civic boosterism run amok-and predict it will be as troublesome to run as it was to build. Wary airlines are thinking of taking their business elsewhere, leaving hapless Denverites to foot the bill for their own hubris....

The history of the Balkans is written in blood. The Serbs and Croats have hated each other for centuries, the Hatfields and McCoys of a murderous backwater that has long threatened the peace of Europe (box, page 34). Now the region where World War I began could present Europe with its first big conflict of the post-cold-war period. This time there is a crucial difference: the outside world is not taking sides....

Ileana Justine posted the video to her TikTok account @ileana.justine on Thursday where it has currently been viewed more than 200,000 times. “It is excruciatingly hot in NYC right now,” read the caption of her video. States across the country are grappling with high temperatures this week that prompted officials to issue warnings for residents. The National Weather Prediction Center tweeted Friday that a “searing heat wave” is expected to hit “much of the Heartland, Mid-South and the East Coast this weekend....

“Those are the only ones we’ve had multiple wagers taken on,” Jason Simbal, vice president of risk management at CG, told The Linemakers on Sporting News on Monday. “I can understand the logic behind Colorado and Michigan, but I’m still wondering about Illinois.” The early limit on win totals at CG Technology books at the Hard Rock Hotel, Tropicana, Cosmopolitan, Venetian, Palazzo and Silverton is $1,000. Those who want more are encouraged to ask....

Here’s a look at key stat splits, pitcher rankings, saves sleepers and weather warnings. Today’s action gets underway at 1:10 p.m. ET in Minnesota with the A’s-Twins. READ MORE: Today’s DFS MLB picks | Optimal DFS lineup | SN Fantasy SPLITS TO KNOW Yoenis Cespedes has four homers in just eight career at-bats against Jose Quintana. Rajai Davis (.986 OPS) and Victor Martinez (1.000) also have great track records against the lefty....

Lynne Sneddon, director of bio-veterinary science at the University of Liverpool, conducted a review of existing research on fish and pain. Sneddon published her findings in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The expert in aquatic animal biology looked at 98 studies on fish pain. The research showed how similar receptors in fish are to those found in mammals—partly evidenced by factors including how the sensation alters their behavior and how it can be treated with painkillers—and led Sneddon to overwhelmingly conclude fish can feel pain....

The interior houses Europe’s longest champagne bar, a daily farmers market and several shops, including Hamleys toy store. Renaissance Marriott is taking over an abandoned hotel inside the terminal, planning to open a 245-room, five-star hotel in 2010; 67 loft-style flats, which have all been sold for between $500,000 and $12 million, are expected to be ready for occupancy in 2009 (marriott.com). The area is also the new hot spot for cutting-edge fashion, food, art and design....

Officers responded to a call reporting shots at a house in Muskogee around 1:30 a.m. Inside the home in the 900 block of Indiana Street, officers found the bodies of a man and four children, Officer Lynn Hamlin of the Muskogee Police Department told reporters. A woman and a fifth child were airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The child died in hospital. When police arrived, a suspect was “leaving the residence with a gun in his hand,” prompting an officer to fire one shot that reportedly missed....

Some of the worst — the schedule release special (keeping in mind that we already know who each team is playing, just not the dates), week-long coverage outside the league meetings in March, Super Bowl media day (in primetime, now). This weekend, the Combine. They’re all televised, some extensively. After much brainstorming, we arrived at five things the NFL could put on TV and doesn’t. Just when you think they’ve reached a saturation point, the NFL throws a bucket of excrement....

That game was played in such frigid conditions the game earned the nickname, “The Ice Bowl.” The Packers prevailed that day, 21-17, on Bart Starr’s quarterback sneak for a touchdown in the closing seconds. MORE: 10 greatest Packers-Cowboys games | Saturday: Brady being Brady | Time to appreciate Flacco | Sunday: Turn Manning loose As the teams prepare for Sunday’s 1:05 p.m. ET kickoff, here are five cool facts about that NFL classic....