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To Spurrier's mind, the now-tabled proposal remains the "Saban rule." SN’S MATT HAYES: Common sense overrules questionable evidence Spurrier coaches South Carolina; Saban coaches Alabama; both schools are in the SEC. Saban is trying to distance himself from the proposal, which the NCAA decided not to submit for vote at its current meetings. The idea is to stall hurry-up offenses to allow defenses a chance to recover. Its basis is in safety, believing the proliferation of high-tempo attacks puts exhausted defensive players in jeopardy of injury....

Where will such rhetoric lead? For the future in Chechnya, say alarmists, look only to Afghanistan, lost to the fundamentalist Taliban. Tajikistan, meanwhile, is teetering, as 40,000 Russian troops try to shore up a shaky secular government. Chechnya may be a relatively tolerant Muslim region today, but who’s to say, in the wake of war, poverty and political chaos, that the fundamentalist night couldn’t also descend on Grozny, as it has on Kabul?...

Apple reportedly is considering launching a version of its smartwatch with a rugged casing aimed at athletes. The Apple Watch would compete with a growing number of tough smartwatches on the market. “As an avid outdoorsman, a rugged smartwatch has lots of benefits and are more dependable than the average smartphone,” Bertie Cowan, founder of Effortless Outdoors, said in an email interview. “These watches are designed for the watch-wearing outdoorsman with features focused on heart rate tracking, GPS navigation system, a compass, and so forth....

Seems the A’s and Royals, despite moving on literally from the weekend, aren’t ready to get past it figuratively. Sunday’s series finale included two hit batters (one from each team), five Royals ejections and a 100 mph fastball from Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera behind Brett Lawrie, who ignited emotions in the series with a hard slide into second base Friday that left Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar with a mild left knee strain....

The two new high-definition screens, produced by Daktronics, a leading scoreboard manufacturer, replace some of the oldest video boards in sports — ones dating to 1996, according to team officials. MORE: A’s sign 10 year lease with O.co Coliseum | Sports facilities transition to LEDs In fact, the new boards finally introduce LED technology to the 49-year-old stadium about 15 to 20 years after light-emitting diodes first made their way into the production of big screens at sports facilities....

Frank Grillo, who played Leo Barnes (a.k.a. The Sergeant) in The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year, announced the news himself. During an interview, he excitedly revealed that not only has a 6th Purge movie been confirmed, but it will be based on his own returning character. This is happily contrary to the previous notion that The Forever Purge, released in July 2021, would be the final film in the Universal franchise....

One of the game’s key features is its vehicle customization. Each vehicle can be customized with weapons and modules to ensure that no one vehicle can rule the battlefield alone. Players also have the ability to build a vehicle that directly suits their own personal style of play. Units can be fitted with a broad arsenal of armaments, enhanced by modules that can be installed to apply bonuses and abilities to further enhance a vehicle’s combat effectiveness, not unlike starship customization in EVE Online....

As a child of the ’60s, with roots in the antiwar movement, Wellstone, 46, is accustomed to being pilloried for his views. A former political-science professor at Carleton College, he is determined not to let the tyranny of the majority silence him now. “I won’t be credible to myself if I just go with the wind of the current climate,” he says. He makes no apology for opposing the gulf war and insists that he welcomes the GOP challenge to hold Democrats “accountable” for preferring sanctions to force....

The difficult fixtures were out of the way and they were supposed to start their Renaissance under new manager David Moyes. So the home defeat to West Brom was surely not what was written in the script. 0 votes

Blame Europe for jilting its lover. Even moderate Turks were galled by the European Union’s refusal to discuss membership with Turkey last year. Earlier this year, Italy refused to turn over to Turkey Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group; that triggered anti-European riots on the main streets of Istanbul. In recent months, funerals of Turkish soldiers or civilians killed during clashes with the PKK have turned into emotional demonstrations in favor of Turkish unity....

Singing mostly obscure works by Bernstein, Sondheim, Weill and the lesser-known Marc Blitzstein, her soprano conveys a freshness that is closer to cabaret than Bizet. But rather than burying her operatic roots, Upshaw uses her classical skills – impeccable phrasing and controlled vocal power – to establish character and emotion. She does best with two Kurt Weill songs from “Lady in the Dark” – the lilting “The Saga of Jenny” and “My Ship,” in which her dreamy voice actually begins to sound like the wind in the song’s silky sails....

Researchers over at Malwarebytes found that this time out, the Discord scam wasn’t after your Discord credentials. No, the Discord Nitro lure is only a stepping stone to a much tastier and lucrative prize: your Steam account. Discord Nitro Used as Phishing Lure for Steam Accounts In short, the scam uses a free offer of Discord Nitro, Discord’s premium subscription service that comes with a few extra bells and whistles, as a phishing lure....

Like Russia, it offered a well-educated work force at wages one tenth of what the company was paying in Finland. Unlike Russia, law and order ruled. What’s more, Finns and Estonians shared a culture. As part of the tiny Finno-Ungric language group, they could actually talk to each other. And Estonia was practically next door. Its capital, Tallinn, lies just 60 kilometers from Helsinki, a short ferry ride or plane hop across the Baltic Sea....

On ‘Princess Power’: “I like that Disney is selling the princesses to women like me: empowerment and pretty dresses need not be mutually exclusive. Cooler still would be Disney ‘Historical Heroines’ with Mulan, Pocahontas and Susan B. Anthony.” Katharine Tapely Worcester, Mass. E-books would not be appropriate for one large category of books: publications where quality illustrations are important. How would a book about Frank Lloyd Wright or Michelangelo show up on the small-format handheld?...

If there were a magic bullet, though, it might be something like dichloroacetate, or DCA, a drug that kills cancer cells by exploiting a fundamental weakness found in a wide range of solid tumors. So far, though, it kills them just in test tubes and in rats infected with human cancer cells; it has never been tested against cancer in living human beings. There are countless compounds that can do the same thing that never turn into viable treatments....

The newly developed ECG necklace may prove handy in saving many of these lives. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a necklace that can detect atrial fibrillation among its users. The novel necklace embeds a single-lead ECG into its pendant. It further measures our heart rhythm using an AI system. Study author Elmeri Santala said, “The wearable necklace-ECG (electrocardiogram) provides a new and easy method for detecting an abnormal heart rhythm or atrial fibrillation, which is a fast-growing public health problem....

That’s correct, it’s a movie about the salty gunk that kids everywhere play with and try to convince their parents they didn’t eat. Well, it’s not just somebody. In fact, the upcoming project actually has some pretty impressive talent behind it, though it’s unfortunately not in the “they can make a perfect cube without using that little knife” kind of way. Hasbro seems to have some high hopes for its soft and squishy cinematic future, so it’s bringing in a high-profile director and Oscar-nominated writer to get things going....

SPRINT MUSIC STORE Demand instant gratification? For $2.50 (plus a minimum $15-per-month data plan), you can buy and download a track to your phone in less than a minute. The simple interface makes it easy to search for a song or artist and listen to 30-second previews. You can also tune in to radio, including 20 channels of Sirius ($6.95 per month) or Sprint Radio, featuring content from the likes of NPR and ESPN ($5....

The research team, which included a medical student, created their hiccup cure that relies on a technique called forceful suction that signals the diaphragm to contract and ultimately stops the spasms. The team called the process “forced inspiratory suction and swallow tool (FISST)” and named the device they created using it HiccAway. To test the device, the researchers gave HiccAway to 249 adults who said that they got hiccups often....