Coach Joachim Loew has said Germany will give no thought to avenging their 2006 World Cup defeat at the hands of Italy when they face the Azzurri in Thursday’s Euro 2012 semi-final. Germany are hunting their first trophy since the Euro ’96 title and will need to beat the Italians for the first time at either a World Cup or a European championship in what is their eighth attempt in order to reach Sunday’s final....
Joao Felix started in the same team as Diego Costa and Alvaro Morata as Simeone opted for an attacking line-up for his team’s second fixture in Group D on Tuesday. Atletico endured a frustrating first half as they failed to make their dominance tell, though Joao Felix found a way through Lokomotiv’s stubborn defence three minutes after the break when he converted a rebound. The 19-year-old’s goal saw him become the Spanish club’s youngest scorer in the competition - and he was also involved in Atletico’s second, scored by midfielder Thomas Partey....
Cyber thieves have found an open ground to hack personal details and conduct attacks. A new hacker group is targeting LinkedIn users with phishing malware. Cybersecurity firm eSentire has reported that a hacker group ‘Golden Chickens’ is sending fake job offers and opportunities to people on LinkedIn looking for jobs. The hackers are transferring ZIP files containing malware in form of a personal direct message (DM). Job losses made it easy for the LinkedIn phishing scam With unemployment at an all-time high, several people across industries have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
“We’re more than eight months into this crisis and the president still doesn’t have a plan,” Biden said during a speech in Delaware on Friday. “He’s given up. He’s quit on you. He’s quit on your family. He’s quit on America.” “He just wants us to grow numb and resigned to the horrors of this death toll and the pain it’s causing so many Americans,” Biden added. Nearly 220,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University....
In a clip shared on Twitter, the Infowars owner spoke to protesters at the second Million MAGA March, where supporters of President Donald Trump fought against the results of the election, which show that he lost to Biden. Jones, who has shared a number of disproven conspiracy theories in his online show and podcast, seemingly referenced the far-right QAnon conspiracy, which alleges that Trump is secretly fighting against a cult of Democratic Satanic pedophiles....
“We encountered an ‘oversight system’—read: a censorship regime—that required us to send every story to Falwell’s assistant for review,” a former student at Liberty wrote for the Post this summer. We can’t blame the students, who are attending the school hoping to learn and do journalism. We can’t fully blame the faculty, who are trying to do their job and provide for their families. One has to blame the leadership of that university, who created such a dishonest climate for journalism education....
We’ve had it very recently. Rolando McClain. Greg Hardy. The possibility of Johnny Manziel . The entire history of Jerry Jones’ ownership . The entire history of the NFL and every other sport. And now, we’re having it about Randy Gregory , and about Josh Gordon, and about Aldon Smith. They’re being punished again, and when the punishment has been served, they’ll come back, and somebody — Jerry Jones or someone else — will say, “Gosh, this kid deserves a second chance, we’ve talked to him, he swears he’s on the right path now, and our pass rush/run defense/passing game really needs help....
Jones, speaking Tuesday at the annual NFL owners’ meetings in Boca Raton, Fla., downplayed the role such injuries play. MORE: Faces of the NFL’s head trauma crisis “We want to continue to be safer and want to continue to support any type of research that would let us know what (the) consequences really are,” Jones said, via The Washington Post. “In no way should we be basically making assumptions with no more data than we’ve got about the consequences of a head injury....
“When I first went up [to the Bay Area] I didn’t realize what sports fans they were up there,” he said. “But our crowd is a very [energized] crowd. We got an awful lot of young season seat holders up there. Incredible fans. The best fans I’ve ever seen in my life to be honest with you. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s been a thrill for me to be a part of it....
Scheifele charged at Canadiens forward Jake Evans in Game 1 of the teams’ second-round series. He will miss Games 2-5 of the best of seven. Winnipeg trails 1-0 entering Game 2 on Saturday. Evans, who scored his first career postseason goal in the game, will be out indefinitely. Why was Mark Scheifele suspended? In the last minute of Wednesday’s series opener between the Jets and Canadiens, Montreal’s Jake Evans skated full steam down the ice, grabbed a loose puck and scored an empty-net goal with 56....
Nathan Shepherd, the Jets’ third-round pick out of Fort Hays State, has been a standout in practice and through New York’s first two exhibitions. The defensive lineman’s big-time performance vs. Washington in Week 2 earned him a nod on the Pro Football Focus Team of the Week. Talking about his most recent performance, Shepherd noted his adjustment to the NFL — so far — has been nearly seamless. “It was like (football) never stopped,” Shepherd told Sporting News....
MORE: Rookies ready to impact NFL teams | Brady goes Bond to sell mattresses Fitzpatrick had something of a breakout year with the Jets last season, posting career highs in passing yards (3,905) and touchdowns (31) and leading the team to a 10-6 record. That’s his only leverage in these negotiations. Short of signing Fitzpatrick, the Jets will go into their Week 1 matchup vs. the Bengals with either Geno Smith or rookie Christian Hackenberg as their QB....
The Jets have a promising signal-caller in Sam Darnold, and through Darnold’s first two seasons, the team has seen flashes of a franchise quarterback at the helm, putting the days of Josh McCown, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Geno Smith firmly in the rear-view mirror. To that end, those who have watched Darnold understand that he is least of the Jets worries’ heading into the 2020 season. While the Jets have promise behind center, Darnold won’t be enough to help them through a difficult schedule this year....
“If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out,” Trump tweeted Monday. “I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S.” He then tweeted that the congresswomen should apologize instead of himself. “When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said,” he wrote Monday morning....
John Raynar, the communications director for the Republican Party of American Samoa, posted the following on his Facebook page: “The Jim Harbaugh American Samoa Gridiron camp that was slated to happen on Thursday has been cancelled due to fears of the Zika Virus. It was announced late last month that Harbaugh and his wife Sarah were expecting a baby. Sources say that their families doctor advised them to skip American Samoa’s football camp as the Zika virus poses significant health risks to pregnant women....
Even though ti seems like Harbaugh should be locked into coaching his alma mater’s football program for a long time, that question still will be asked every January. Harbaugh just completed his eighth season in Ann Arbor with his Wolverines losing a second consecutive College Football Playoff semifinal. Although Harbaugh last coached in the NFL in 2014, his 35-12 record in four seasons in the 49ers suggests he can win big again in the right pro situation....
Jim Ross posted his latest blog at JRSBBQ.com. Here are some highlights: Daniel Bryan being “the star of RAW” last night: “This is not the first time I’ve written this. No matter the role or task at hand, Bryan delivers. He’s as good as anyone in the business right now, for my money. Anyone who has had training from such men as Billy Robinson, William Regal, Shawn Michaels, and Robby Brookside and who has Bryan’s desire and professionalism can’t be anything but good....
Jim Ross posted his latest blog at JRsBarBQ.com. Here are some highlights: Samoa Joe’s response to a question about NXT at JR’s show last week “I find it weak that some pundits think that Samoa Joe gave a “political answer” when someone at my show in San Jose asked him if he would have any issue with starting a potential WWE career in NXT and Joe said he’d do whatever was asked of him....
The internet turned on the NBC late-night host as footage emerged of him doing a comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live in 2000. It shows the presenter impersonating comedian Chris Rock, with his face darkened with makeup. The 20-year-old clip has seen the hashtag #JimmyFallonIsOverParty gain traction on the social media platform. Newsweek has contacted Fallon’s representatives for comment. The video initially resurfaced two years ago following the controversy surrounding Megyn Kelly’s departure from the Today show after her comments about blackface, though it is unclear what caused it to reemerge today....
