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Fetterman’s team released a letter Wednesday written by Dr. Clifford Chen, a family practice physician, after Chen had met with Fetterman on Friday. According to the letter, Chen said Fetterman was recovering well after suffering a life-altering stroke in May, and said the Democratic candidate could “work full duty in public office.” According to public records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Chen has donated $1,330 to Fetterman’s campaign, most recently contributing $100 September 23 to “Fetterman for PA....

Mitchell scored 16 points to lead the U.S., while Kings forward Harrison Barnes added 14. Jayson Tatum and Kemba Walker got the team off to a fast start, combining for 20 points in the first half. Walker finished with 13 points and Tatum scored 10. Myles Turner also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots for the U.S., which forced 15 turnovers. Mitchell kept his dominating momentum down to the final minutes of the game....

Although the USA Basketball senior national team had won 58 consecutive competitive games and five straight major tournaments, it wasn’t an overwhelming surprise to see a team comprising mostly mid-level NBA players fall in the quarterfinals, 89-79, against France. With center Rudy Gobert, wing Nicolas Batum and guards Evan Fournier and Frank Ntilikina, the French had about as many top-line pros as the Americans. “It’s not about who’s not here,” Jazz star Donovan Mitchell said, after leading the U....

“It’s to the point now where us in the U.S. are going win some, we’re going lose some. And that’s just how it goes,” Byrant told ESPN after Team USA suffered back-to-back losses at the FIBA World Cup earlier this week. The Americans lost 94-89 to Serbia on Thursday, a day after falling 89-79 to France. Team USA now faces a seventh-place game Saturday against Poland, and regardless of the outcome, the U....

It is a rescheduled league tie and the tactician charged his players to make life uncomfortable for their hosts throughout the tie as they aspire for another positive result that could take them to the mid-table. “We know we don’t expect any easy match at this period in time and I am appealing to my players not to take Go Round for granted because of their position in the league table,” Ilechukwu told Goal....

Competitive gaming - known as eSports - has experienced a huge boom in recent years and formal tournaments around the world hand out millions of dollars of prize money. The most popular gamers have also been able to make a living through what was once just a hobby by attracting huge numbers of subscribers to their videos and streams on sites such as YouTube and Twitch. At the forefront of this new wave of competition has been EA Sports’ FIFA, the most popular football game on the market....

And as career mode and Ultimate Team campaigns get underway, there is inevitably plenty of attention paid to the ratings assigned to each team and player. There is little controversy around Eden Hazard being named the Premier League’s best-rated player, and the likes of Alexis Sanchez and Kevin De Bruyne are deservedly close behind. But which players in England have been underrated and overrated in FIFA 18? Goal takes a look at a few players who may consider themselves hard done by or a little lucky this year....

We’ve already seen the announcement of the best FIFA 23 Premier League players and La Liga. Now it’s the turn of Serie A. Romelu Lukaku and Paul Pogba were arguably the two most high-profile signings of the close season in Italy — but have the former Premier League pair come out on top in the Serie A player ratings? The Sporting News has all the key Serie A ratings you need to know for the upcoming FIFA 23 game....

An investigation was opened following the Ethics Committee’s report on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. MORE: Who would make the best replacement for Sepp Blatter? The 72-year-old Warner, who was one of a number of FIFA officials arrested earlier this year amid allegations of corruption, was found to have “committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly.” “In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes,” a FIFA statement read....

Domenico Scala, the independent chairman of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee and official overseeing the next election, said in a statement (via ESPNFC.com): “For me, the reforms are the central topic. That is why I think it is clearly indispensable to follow through with the initiated process of leadership change as it has been announced.“MORE: U.S. women not playing their best | Must-see World Cup photos Blatter announced his intention to resign earlier this month after FIFA was thrown into chaos by allegations of corruption, and the date of an election to choose his successor is due to be set July 20 in Zurich....

But this shouldn’t come as a surprise. FIFA has barred players from wearing non-Sony headphones inside stadiums and even forced Brazilian lawmakers to impose a bill allowing the sale of beer inside stadiums, despite previously-established laws. WORLD CUP: SUAREZ SUSPENDED | Fanatical fans | Accomodation struggles | Muntari donates to the poor According to the report, part of Neymar’s Speedo undergarments were exposed during the customary post-match procedure of exchanging jerseys with an opposing player....

The 2026 edition of the men’s international soccer tournament, the world’s biggest sporting event, will be co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada in a total of 16 cities. Five cities in Mexico and Canada will host a total of 20 games, while the bulk of the tournament will take place in the U.S.—where 11 cities will host 60 games, including the final. FIFA announced the host city selection in three regions: West, Central and East....

Biotech “isn’t a silver bullet,” Zeigler cautions, though it can deliver new breakthroughs necessary to avert catastrophic food shortages—provided it is sufficiently funded. He spoke by cell phone with NEWSWEEK’s George Wehrfritz from Svalbard, a remote island chain off northern Norway, where Zeigler joined other leading biologists to inaugurate what has been termed a “doomsday seed vault,” built above the Artic Circle, to preserve biodiversity. His institute alone deposited some 70,000 strains of rice....

U.S. and Colombian authorities say Bernal exemplifies an insidious new breed of drug lord. The young narcotraficantes are buttoned-down, businesslike and technologically sophisticated. “These new guys don’t flaunt jewels or drive flashy cars, and they are more educated and less violent,” says Gen. Rosso Jose Serrano, chief of the Colombian National Police. “You have to use a lot more intelligence and surveillance to nab them.” And they are phenomenally successful....

So why should anyone who’s not a design buff rush to this movie (opening this week in New York and Philadelphia) instead of, say, the new “Matrix”? Because the backstory of Louis Kahn is as powerful, messy and heartbreaking as any screenwriter could devise. The film opens with Kahn’s obituary–he died alone, bankrupt, in the men’s room of Penn Station, New York, on the way back from a trip to India....

Polls released Monday ahead of the long-awaited January 5 Georgia runoff election, which could enable Democrats to regain control of the U.S. Senate, show Perdue and Ossoff at 50 percent apiece, while Warnock holds a tiny 50 to 49 percent advantage over Loeffler. Both races are well within the margin of error and the latest PollSmart MR online poll aggregate conducted by Targoz Market Research shows fewer than one percent of likely Election Day voters are still undecided in who they will vote for Tuesday....

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Missing just one pill significantly raises your chance of getting pregnant, lowering its effectiveness to 92 percent. And in fact, in the small percentage of cases in which pregnancy does occur for someone on the pill, the cause is typically user error. In order to remember to take your pill daily, it can help to keep your pill packet in a highly visible area where you are likely to see it....