Cooper is listed No. 18 overall in his Class of 2020, according to 24/7Sports. The Marietta, Ga., native is also the highest-rated player ever to commit to the Tigers, according to 24/7Sports’ database. Head coach Bruce Pearl dropped a celebratory tweet after the news became official Friday night: MORE: Bruce Pearl’s new Auburn contract has some eye-popping numbers Cooper averaged 25.3 points and 8.6 assists on this year’s Nike EYBL circuit....
Michigan State, Kansas and Arizona are the three schools that remain. What makes it more interesting is that all three programs have taken turns as the presumed leader. A lot was made of Jackson committing over the past two weeks. There was a thought that he would announce last Thursday, but due to certain family members not being able to be in attendance, he held off. MORE: The best college football-basketball combos...
The five players were in the SUV with an unidentified woman when they halted at a stop sign on Highway 142. The driver, believing the intersection was a four-way stop, began driving after they stopped and was T-boned by a tractor-trailer coming down Highway 123. The intersection was only a two-way stop. MORE: Ex-Vandy players to get new trial in rape case | Arizona State freshman suspended after BB gun incident...
The team announced on Sunday that it would place the defenseman on injured reserve to assess the severity of his injury, which he sustained last week. It was feared Giordano would miss significant time as the Flames cling to the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot. MORE: Flames won’t fare well without Giordano That was confirmed on Monday, when general manager Brad Treliving said Giordano will have surgery Wednesday and is expected to be out 4-5 months....
According to multiple reports, Giordano’s contract comes with an annual average of $6.75 million for a total value of $40.5 million. He is entering the final year of a five-year deal that earns him more than $4 million against the salary cap. MORE: NHL jersey confidence index | Patrick Kane case shows NHL’s poor handling of sexual assault Giordano posted a career-high 48 points in 61 games last season before suffering a torn biceps tendon on Feb....
In the speech, the Russian president said there would be a partial mobilization of the military. Reservists and ex-military personnel with “certain military specialties and relevant experience” will be subject to conscription. Following this, according to the Russian online newspaper Lenta, flights to Armenia, Turkey and Georgia sold out. “All tickets for direct flights to Istanbul and Yerevan were sold out in a few minutes after Putin’s address,” the publication’s Twitter page wrote in a caption....
SHARAD C. MISRA IT’S NOT A QUESTION OF WHETHER INDIA OR Pakistan will actually use the bomb, but of recognizing situations that can lead to the use of such weapons. Every Indo-Pak war has come at a time when there has been an internal power struggle in Pakistan. Since both countries now have democratic governments, the risk of war may have been reduced–democracies don’t often fight long wars against each other....
Perez was elected to a fifth term as Madrid’s president, extending his time with the club until 2021. Speculation about Ronaldo’s future has been rampant in recent days, with reports the 32-year-old wants to leave the club due to Spanish authorities pursuing him over 14.7 million euros in unpaid taxes. Ronaldo failure could make Man Utd laughing stock again Instead of taking questions from the assembled media in Madrid, Perez gave a statement which did not mention the club’s superstar....
News station Local10 reported that the boaters planned to refuel in Key West before stopping about 12 miles off the Cuban coast. They said they wanted to support the thousands of people there as they endure a humanitarian crisis and demand an end to decades of one-party rule. Boaters said they would not be entering Cuban territory in an effort to avoid escalation and potential consequences. “The cause for this is so that we can get humanitarian approval that we’re there supporting them and fighting with them,” said one organizer, John Lopez....
The Department of Children and Families (DCF) said they were notified by daycare workers after they noticed a large mark on the boy. The child’s mother told the daycare that the boy got the mark from being “pulled across the top of a trampoline” and asked them not to call the DCF, reported Click Orlando. She added that when the child was not in daycare, he was looked after by 47-year-old Terry May....
Frank Jesse, 45, was taken into custody after his live-in girlfriend checked his phone when the cat, named Oliver, started behaving oddly, WFTV reported. The arrest report stated that Jesse’s girlfriend had found text messages to a friend where Jesse claimed he was planning to poison her cat, according to the station. WESH reported that the girlfriend said Jesse had been drinking all night and when he fell asleep, she checked his phone....
Brian Lee Hitchens and his wife Erin both contracted COVID-19 in May, leading to complications resulting in the wife’s death earlier this month, the BBC reported on Monday. Hitchens said that he and his wife were confused by misinformation and conspiracy theories they read on Facebook, leading them to avoid taking precautions to curb their chances of getting sick. Erin, 46, suffered from asthma, a pre-existing health condition that is believed to exacerbate the impact of the virus....
The video, shared to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, shows a man in a long sleeve shirt and shorts wakeboarding behind a pickup truck as it drives through the flooded streets of Marathon in the Florida Keys a day before Hurricane Ian is predicted to reach the state’s southern portion. The 25-second clip, which was uploaded by Twitter user Ben Brahler and has received over 161,000 views, was considered by some to be typical Floridian behavior in face of what could amount to be one of the worst hurricanes the state has ever seen....
Romero-Moran said that his wife had been walking a dog, and he followed her back to the home where she worked in Doral, according to investigators. He told Miami-Dade police officers that he killed her by strangling her, his arrest report said. “I killed my wife, and I’m here to turn myself in,” Romero-Moran said when he entered the police station, according to the report. When someone arrived back at the Doral home at around 9 a....
Thaylon A. Lewis, 43, and Joseph Colombo Jr., 45, are accused of looting during a state of emergency after allegedly stealing the sandbags from a site on Daytona Beach at around 5 p.m. on September 2. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, one man was spotted by a sheriff loading bags into a red Chevrolet truck while a second man acted as a lookout at a site at the Tomoka Farms Road/Interstate 4 overpass....
According to the Gainesville Sun, University of Florida Police found two small bags of marijuana in the car Harris was driving. Harris, along with freshman cornerback Jalen Tabor and freshman defensive back J.C. Jackson, were stopped in Gainesville for going 10 mph over the speed limit late Tuesday night with the smell of marijuana coming from the car. MORE: Anonymous donor gives $12.5 million to Florida | 39 days, 39 bowl games...
Democrats, it appears, have found their opening. In Florida—where Trump triumphed in 2016— polling in recent months has shown that seniors, who have voted reliably Republican for a decade, are peeling away from the president amid a pandemic sweeping the country—a disease that is deadly to older Americans. Those numbers from seniors, who make up roughly 21 percent of voters in the state, ring true to one Trump advisor who spoke to the president by phone in June, and asked for anonymity to speak candidly about negative numbers for the president....
The latest state coronavirus report for Florida showed around 11,445 new coronavirus cases recorded for July 3. The reported case count is a new high for the state that previously reported a high of 10,109 infections on Thursday June 2. The recent addition brings the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Florida to 190,052, with 1,921 deaths caused by the new disease. On Friday, the state reported that the median age for cases was 35....
MORE: Week 9 in photos | Week 9 live blog | Stoops bowled over Bowden spent 34 years at Florida State where he compiled at 304-97-4 record and led the Seminoles to the national championship in 1993 and 1999.
At a stop on his UK tour, Mayweather said he is “coming out of retirement” for a potential bout with the current UFC lightweight champion. If Mayweather had it his way, the fight would happen this summer. MORE: Mayweather throws more taunts in McGregor’s direction “When I faced Arturo Gatti, I went to his turf,” Mayweather said (via FightHype). “He was the A side. I was the B side. I beat him, I didn’t cry, I didn’t complain....
