FSU piled up $1.7 million in legal fees — $1.3 million of which will be paid by the university’s booster club, the Tampa Bay Times reported Wednesday. MORE: FSU settles with Winston accuser | Watch accuser tell her story The money will come from licensing, concessions and gift shop sales — not individual donations, according to the Times. Tax records show the booster’s total revenue for the 2013-14 season was $35....
MORE: Top moments of 2013 | Top plays | College football icons FAN SHOP: Get your BCS Championship gear here Jan. 1, 2013 Orange Bowl: Florida State 31, Northern Illinois 10 Dec. 29, 2011 Champ Sports Bowl: Florida St. 18, Notre Dame 14 Dec. 31, 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl: Florida St. 26, South Carolina 17 Jan. 1, 2010 Gator Bowl: Florida St. 33, West Virginia 21 Dec. 27, 2008 Champs Sports Bowl: Florida St....
Jennifer Radd, the mother of 13-year-old surfer Logan Radd, told Florida Today that the boy told her he was “going to be OK” despite later needing 19 stitches for the bite. Logan Radd was bitten twice by a shark in the ocean off Satellite Beach, Florida on Tuesday afternoon while with his family. After making his way to shore following the two bites to his foot, he was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment....
In pure Rocky Balboa style, Mayweather posted a video of him hacking a log with an ax to help ready himself for the May 2 bout. MORE: Mayweather, Pacquiao to undergo testing | UFC 185 report Chopping wood is a technique used by many boxers because it builds up strength and explosiveness. A video posted by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Mar 15, 2015 at 9:43pm PDT In the meantime, Pacquiao is using different training methods....
Mayweather told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday that he expects to earn “$275, $276 million” once all the receipts are counted from his May 2 “Fight of the Century” win in Las Vegas. MORE: Mayweather takes shot at Pacquiao | Highest-paid athletes | Mayweather gets booed at Warriors game If you are counting at home, that is more money in one night of fighting than many well-known companies such as Cheesecake Factory, Time Inc....
Word in boxing circles is that Al Haymon, the power behind Floyd Mayweather Jr. and other current stars, has a deal in the works with NBC. While most of the reported 24 boxing events in Haymon’s proposal would be shown on the NBC Sports Network, four are believed headed for the Peacock itself. Kathy Duva, head of Main Events, told BoxingScene.com that Haymon & Co. is replacing her group as NBC Sports’ provider of boxing....
For other immigrant groups, America has been a land of opportunity, with each successive generation climbing higher on the educational ladder. For many Hispanics, it’s just the opposite. In one of the two recent studies conducted at the University of Texas at Austin, Frank D. Bean and Jorge Chapa found that the longer Mexican-American families are in the United States, the lower their children’s educational level will sink. There are differences among various Hispanic as a group are now nearly three times more likely to drop out of school than either blacks or whites: by the age of 17, almost one in five Hispanics has dropped out, compared with roughly one in 16 blacks and one in 15 whites....
Andrés took to Twitter to make the offer, noting that his parents and other members of his family had been health care workers. The chef announced on March 15 that the pandemic had forced his more than 30 restaurants to shut down, although he said some would “transform into Community Kitchens to offer to-go lunches for those who need a meal.” “This is my promise! My mom and dad, and uncle, and godmother were nurses, doctors, pharmacist!...
“This man and his Kids Deliberately Scratched up 1000 year old Indigenous Wall Paintings with walking sticks in a Canmore Alberta canyon hike,” read the caption of u/whitecloud197’s post, which amassed more than 30,000 votes since it was posted on Tuesday. The Reddit user included photos, and in the comments section, noted that they’ve looked into different ways to report the incident by reaching out to different agencies, including the town, Parks Canada and the police....
According to the family, Lufthansa Airlines told them that four-year-old cat Rowdy escaped her cage while cargo was being unloaded at Logan International Airport to chase after a bird. The airline was allegedly unable to catch her and has lost track of her whereabouts. The Sahli family was moving back to the U.S. from Germany after living there for 15 years, where some family members were serving with the U....
The perfect pairing has seen Walker, who is deaf and autistic, come out of his shell and find comfort despite losing his hearing, all thanks to bully mix Dave—who happens to know sign commands. Dog Dave was transferred to the Humane Society of Midland County in Michigan from the local animal control. Before being surrendered from his former home, Dave was often left running at large and coming into contact with porcupines....
“Netty is 15-years-old. She was adopted from our shelter in 2010 and recently returned due to what the owners said was incontinence,” said the Pennsylvania branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in an August 7 social media post. Thanks to medication, Netty was soon doing “wonderfully,” but her “overall demeanor was fairly depressed,” Gillian Kocher, director of public relations at Pennsylvania SPCA, told Newsweek....
Over the next few weeks, Dr. Claire McCarthy, a senior medical editor for Harvard Health Publications and an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, will be taking your questions on family health. We’ll publish some of her responses in our Sept. 17 issue and online. McCarthy is an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Boston, and co-director of the pediatrics department at Martha Eliot Health Center, a neighborhood health service of Children’s Hospital....
EMS responders were sent into the stands to perform CPR on a fan mere moments after Michigan State’s Jalen Watts-Jackson scored a miraculous game-winning touchdown in the final seconds. MORE: Best photos from Week 7 | Five things we learned from MSU-Michigan Diane Brown, a spokesperson for the UM Department of Public Safety, said the fan was transported via ambulance to the University of Michigan Hospital. “We were going into the stands right after the game ended,” Brown said, via MLive....
Judy Love founded Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores with her husband, Tom, in 1964. The family-owned chain now has more than 350 locations across 40 states. Love came in at No. 7 on Forbes’ 2015 list of America’s richest self-made women with her net worth valued at approximately $2.4 billion. MORE: Sports fans gone bad | Trade deadline winners and losers Love was caught yelling at James near the end of the first half as he discussed a call with an official....
Maryland online sports betting officially launches on Wednesday and you can apply our FanDuel Maryland promo code for a huge offer. Activate this offer to Bet $5, Get $200 instantly when you wager on any game this week. Bettors in the Old Line State will have full access to the FanDuel Sportsbook app on Wednesday. Before the app goes live, you can lock in a $200 instant bonus with a $5+ first bet on any game this week....
The most automatic pick of the week is Rob Gronkowski, so if you pass on Gronk, you better make good use of your savings. Both quarterback and defense are wide open in tournaments, though most will likely avoid Nick Foles and the Jaguars D/ST. Running back and wide receiver are also wide open, but for different reasons. It’s tough to find a player, let alone multiple players, who feel like “sure things”, making this weekend better suited for GPPs than cash games....
Those chants may soon grow louder. This week China’s National People’s Congress is expected to announce a ruling that could be a serious blow to the territory’s hopes of picking its own leaders. According to the Basic Law, which Britain and China negotiated prior to the island’s return to the mainland in 1997, Hong Kongers could be going to the polls to select their chief executive in direct elections as soon as 2007....
The five backstops highlighted below are far from sure things, but there are reasons to consider all of them at various points in your draft. It’s unlikely you’ll get much in the way of average from most of them – and you certainly aren’t going to get any steals – but most of these guys can either hit homers or get on base (or both), and that’s all it takes to have value at fantasy’s thinnest position....
As our reference, we will be using Howard Bender’s Mock Draft Army ADP Trend Report that he updates more than he walks his dogs. GET IT NOW: 2017 Fantasy Alarm Draft Guide | Draft Guide preview Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft ADP: Risers Freddie Freeman, 1B, ATL (+5.9%, current ADP – 26.9). Was Freeman the best fantasy contributor from 2016 that nobody is talking about? Freeman had a career year last season, as he posted a ....
