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New Orleans has signed Fredette to a non-guaranteed contract under the NBA’s injury hardship exception clause, ESPN.com reported. MORE: Grading the NBA’s new coaches | Biggest disappoints in the early season The Pelicans were granted the hardship exception after the team experienced a slew of injuries, including Jrue Holiday, Kendrick Perkins, Omer Asik, Tyreke Evans and Norris Cole. According to the hardship exception, Fredette can remain with the Pelicans until one of the injured players is healthy enough to return to the team....

Jimmie Johnson is experiencing that right now, especially in the midst of a 29-race winless streak. Such a mark would seem luxurious and enviable to the vast majority of his competition, but it’s the longest drought of his first-ballot Hall of Fame career, and Johnson could not be more ready to talk about something else. Like a win at Texas Motor Speedway in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 this weekend, or maybe a victory next week at Bristol Motor Speedway....

With the victory, Johnson joined a select list of drivers to win 10 times at one track. Its members are Hall of Fame drivers. MORE: Dover results | Drivers council formed | Why this win wasn’t Johnson’s 11th at Dover His victory came on a gree-white-checkered finish after he had the finish line in sight. No problem: After the restart, no one could catch Johnson. When the field took the green with 17 laps remaining, Johnson jumped into the lead and pulled away from Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr....

If Johnson heads to victory lane at Indy he will do it in style with a unique “red vest” paint scheme. MORE: Jimmie Johnson’s career in photos It’s not the first time that Johnson has gone with the red look. He used the scheme at Charlotte last October, but engine issues sent him to a 39th-place finish. In 2014, Johnson won the November race at Texas with the red look on his car....

He stared into his phone with a sheepish grin while defensive back Richard Sherman stood on a podium just around the corner lampooning those who have criticized Garoppolo this season. About a minute into Sherman’s rant to a room full of reporters and cameras, Garoppolo finally looked up from his device. VIDEO: Packers-49ers game highlights “He’s going off for me,” Garoppolo said from his hidden nook. There was reason for Sherman, the voice of San Francisco’s fierce defense, to speak with such passion regarding Garoppolo after Sunday’s 37-8 win over the Packers ....

Tyler Saladino is slated to take over for Ramirez as the team’s starting shortstop, but will have to battle it out with Rollins, 37, for the opening-day role. MORE: MLB offseason winners and losers Per Fox Sports, Rollins rejected two teams that offered super-utility jobs and guaranteed contracts for more money for the chance to become Chicago’s everyday starter at short. Rollins hit just .224/.285/.358 with 13 home runs and 41 RBIs in 563 plate appearances for the Dodgers last season, but did perform well against lefties, slashing ....

The 800-km JK Tyre Himalayan Drive 7 will see the competitors drive their mean machines for four days through majestic locations in north Bengal, scenic hills in Darjeeling and various picturesque routes in Bhutan. The TSD drive will cover a wide variety of terrain, ranging from tarmac, river beds, dirt tracks, forest paths to mountainous roads. While the entire route will pose a great challenge to the competitors, it will test them to the hilt in Paro in Bhutan where the drivers might have to drive in extreme tricky conditions due to the impending snowfall prediction....

Post-match Joachim Löw said, “I had a feeling after three wins that we had to make some changes to breathe some fresh life into the team. The time was ripe to do something different.” It showed that Löw has trust on his bench players to deliver when called into action. And the depth in talent that Germany currently has, many around the world will have seen little of André Schürrle and Marco Reus except if they follow the German Bundesliga closely....

Bricusse’s son, Adam Bricusse, confirmed his father’s death in a Facebook post. “My Dearest Father passed away peacefully this morning,” he wrote. “Please raise a glass for him.” Bricusse is survived by Adam, as well as his wife, actress Yvonne Romain. In a statement to the BBC, Bricusse’s agent said that “with a breaking heart,” he had passed away in his sleep. Bricusse wrote some of the most recognizable songs in film and theatre history....

Dale Brown is well-known for his self-defense advice, which often ranges from stopping full-speed punches with your hands to grabbing the slides of pistols. Many have criticized his methods, calling them ineffective and dangerous. However, ‘New Mansa’ seems to have a different view. During a recent appearance on The MMA Hour, the American fighter cited Brown’s experience as a military paratrooper as the reason why he believed the instructor’s methods to be “legit”, contrary to popular belief....

As a Senator in the 1990’s, Biden was known to be tough on crime, and Adams, a former NYPD captain, has been vocal about his support for police and the criminal justice system. They both find their long-held positions on policing and crime back in the Democratic mainstream, as some mayors and elected officials have shifted their stance on crime and the “defund the police” movement over the past several months....

Ratliff was sent home on the morning of Oct. 21 and was released from the team shortly after. He returned to the facility in Lake Forest, Ill., once he was informed of his release, to gather his belongings. Security would not let him through the front gate, so Ratliff parked and entered the facility on foot. MORE: NFL players behaving badly in 2015 | Violence, connected to football? He reportedly told someone at the time, per the police report, “he felt like killing everybody in the building....

Maclin had to leave the sidelines on a cart after suffering a right knee injury in Saturday night’s wild-card game at Houston. The wide receiver went down halfway through the third quarter after making a 7-yard catch on a second-and-10 that advanced the ball to the Kansas City’ 45. The pain of the injury brought Maclin to tears after the Chiefs’ medical staff helped him up and off the field....

Adams said during a Monday interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal that communication about the science of the pandemic was lacking during his time as the country’s top health official and only deteriorated as the political atmosphere became even more charged ahead of the 2020 presidential election. “What didn’t go well, and continues to go poorly, is the communication,” Adams said. “We had a once-in-a-century pandemic superimposed on top of one of the most divisive presidential elections … there’s no other way to put it....

But for Pope’s point-blank stop to deny Raheem Sterling from a devilish Kevin De Bruyne cross and another reaction save with his boot when Bernardo Silva roved into the Clarets’ box, Sean Dyche’s men would have been playing for pride alone during the second half at Turf Moor. In the end, it mattered little. After a sapping run of one win in five matches across all competitions, compounded by Liverpool streaking away into the distance, Pep Guardiola’s champions looked something like their old selves in a commanding 4-1 win....

In the video announcing the suspension, the NHL Department of Player Safety said Lemieux’s hit was avoidable. “It is important to note that the head is the main point of contact on this hit and that the head contact on this hit was avoidable,” the department said. “If Lemieux wants to deliver this check, he must take an angle of approach that hits through Trocheck’s shoulder and core rather than picking his head and making it the main point of contact....

The Winnipeg Jets GM signed team captain Blake Wheeler Monday to a five-year contract extension worth $41.25 million. Wheeler was heading into the final year of his current deal and unrestricted free agency next summer, but the new contract now kicks in at the start of the 2019-20 season. Earlier this offseason, Cheveldayoff signed goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, a Vezina Trophy finalist, to a six-year contract extension that averages $6.167 million per season, accepted the arbitration result which gave RFA defenseman Jacob Trouba a one-year $5....

Decker caught eight passes for 97 yards and a touchdown as he torched the Colts’ banged-up secondary. Seven of the catches and 91 yards came in a monster first half. MORE: Top photos of Week 2 | Colts CB Davis leaves with concussion Decker had 11 targets in the game and has now scored a touchdown in each of the Jets’ first two games this season.

“​​Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??” Banks’ tweet read. The post drew quick criticism on social media, with many Twitter users pointing out comments that former President Donald Trump has made to or about the press. Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois posted a screenshot of Banks’ tweet with the caption “GOTTA be a parody…. Right? Please God please let it be a parody…”...

MORE: NFL’s 40 most hated players | Gordon a dope, or victim of dopey policy? “I’ve talked with Josh twice on the phone, and the last time I talked with him he sounded very motivated and I think he was in rehab and feeling good about it and discovering some things about himself,” Brown said Thursday, via the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. “He really seemed ready to take responsibility for himself.” Gordon, the NFL’s leading receiver in 2013 with 1,646 yards, hasn’t played since December 2014 after multiple bans related to positive drug tests for marijuana, most recently this spring....