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‘Mercenary’ is preparing to make his lightweight debut and will face off against Spike Carlyle this weekend. The former Bellator featherweight champion has spent most of his time competing in the 145lb division throughout his career and has often looked like a sensation when he steps inside the arena. With Scott Coker already confirming his interest in signing Nate Diaz, it seems the iconic fighter already has a potential opponent waiting....

The Yankees on Sunday placed Judge, 26, on the 10-day injured list with what manager Aaron Boone called “a pretty significant” strain sustained during a sixth-inning at-bat against the Royals. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN “There’s no need to put a clock on it because of what happened with the wrist last year,” Judge told reporters (via NJ.com) after Sunday’s a 7-6, 10-inning win over the Royals at Yankee Stadium....

With the 2022 MLB regular season now completed, voters will have to decide which of these two players is most deserving of the American League Most Valuable Player award. Judge’s pursuit of Roger Maris’ 61 home runs put some distance between him and Ohtani in the oddsmakers’ eyes, but that doesn’t mean the race should be declared over. Ohtani, the reigning AL MVP, has improved his pitching while continuing to perform as one of the best power hitters in the sport....

Above are Rodgers’ career highlights to date; the reason for two All-Pro and four Pro Bowl selections in seven seasons since taking over for Brett Favre in 2008. MORE: Why Packers are SN’s pick to win Super Bowl | Top 25 quarterbacks 

In front of a new record of 61,024 NFL fans at the home of Spurs, Green Bay completed the full set by becoming the 32nd and final NFL franchise to play a game in the UK. Often at London games the “home” team is purely nominal, but here the Packers faithful turned out in force after their long wait, clearly dominating the stands with a huge noise pregame and in the early knockings....

MORE: Join DAZN and watch more than 80 fight nights a year Four years earlier, Snowell had been a figure of ridicule in boxing following Mike Tyson’s sensational loss to James Douglas in front of a silent Tokyo audience. The doubt surrounding his boxing capabilities derived solely from Snowell’s blossoming relationship with Don King, who was Tyson’s promoter, and the necessity of a scapegoat to restrict the damage inflicted on Mike’s career....

The Iowa Supreme Court reversed a lower-court decision that Finkenauer, a former Iowa congresswoman, ​​failed to qualify for the June 7 Democratic primary ballot because three signatures she submitted as part of the petition process didn’t have the correct date. “The GOP’s attempts to undermine ballot access and our election process were pathetic and desperate,” Finkenauer wrote on Twitter. “Today they lost. With a unanimous decision by the Iowa Supreme Court, we’re still in this fight and we WILL beat Chuck Grassley in November....

Omur has been one of the most talked about players in this transfer window with a host of European clubs chasing the signature of the so-called ‘Turkish Messi.’ This made me eager to find out what makes the 19-year-old worthy enough to be compared to arguably one of the greatest footballers of all time. Who is Abdulkadir Omur? Born in Trabzon, Turkey in 1999, Omur joined the Trabzonspor youth team in 2011 after he was discovered by the club’s scouting team when they were conducting trials in local schools in the town....

Do Something, Regis! The mourning period has begun: on Aug. 1, the “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee” Fan Club will cease to exist as we know it. Information about the show’s schedule and its irrepressible cohosts will still be available on a fan Web site. But the personalized birthday cards, the newsletter and other priceless perks will end. Organizers say the club, with 5,000 members, grew too big to serve so personally....

B_The Night Manager_b JOHN LE CARRE 429 pages Knopf $24 The cold war over, John le Carre has seen his way clear to becoming what he’s plainly yearned to be for ages: the new Ian Fleming. In “The Night Manager” he checks his “I’m not just writing a spy novel” high-mindedness at the door and settles in to have some fun. The result is the best James Bond novel in 30 years....

What wrinkle in the Zeitgeist put toe rings front and center? One popular theory is that they’re the newest incarnation of the haute hippie look–a fashion trend that spawned everything from $4,000 feathered jeans to Indian-inspired designer bindi dots on foreheads. (Like bindi dots, toe rings originated in India, where they are called bichiyas and were traditionally worn by women as a symbol of marriage.) But vanity probably plays a big part too....

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Intel officials receive a steady stream of threat traffic, much of which is unreliable. Why did Sakr’s warning get their attention? Two days before the deadly Casablanca bombings on May 16, he predicted “good news” coming from “Morocco,” according to Homeland Security documents obtained by NEWSWEEK. It’s unclear where Sakr is based. He has claimed in his Internet communications that he operates out of a Qaeda camp in Sudan. Officials haven’t confirmed this....

That was Mexican Economics 101 in action. The country has a long history of boom turning to bust and dissolving into chaos as incompetent governors make a bad situation worse. So when the economy started to falter again a year ago, Mexicans expected disaster, only to be pleasantly surprised. Growth stalled, layoffs hit hard, but the descent into crime and currency crisis never came. This time, growing trade and financial ties to the United States, competently managed by a new president and central-bank chief, helped Mexico weather a global recession that once would have spelled disaster....

Sporting a 7-inch screen, the Nexus 7 holds 1280 x 800 pixel resolution with 216 pixels per inch (ppi). Holding 1GB of RAM, the device packs a 1.3GHz quad-core processor. With Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity, the tablet runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The discounts seem to be an attempt to make way for the arrival of the second-generation Google Nexus 7 tablet. The current Nexus 7 was announced in June 2012 and released in July....

Thursday marked the tenth anniversary of Neymar’s first steps as a professional footballer and it has been a rollercoaster ride for the Paris Saint-Germain superstar since then. While Neymar has already achieved so much in the game, there are plenty who would argue the often tempestuous forward has yet to realise his full potential. The debate over the merits of Neymar’s achievements in football will likely rumble on for some time, but here we reflect on his career so far with a look at his highs and lows....

In the renewed list of recognised national federations, the AAI, despite electing a new set of office-bearers under the amended constitution, was ignored by the Sports Ministry. The AAI elections were held as per a new constitution which, the Ministry says, is not in consonance with the national sports code. “For six years, the Archery Association of India was not recognised by the sports ministry. Nobody wrote when it was not there for the last six years,” Rao told PTI....

The second album from the late R&B and hip-hop artist, who died in a plane accident on August 25, 2001 when she was 22 years old, was first released in 1996 by Blackground Records, the label founded by her uncle Barry Hankerson. One in a Million, which includes 17 originally tracks, was produced by Timbaland and Missy Elliott, who are also among the featured artists on the album. The tracklist for the latest release on streaming services also includes the bonus track “Hot Like Fire” (Timbaland’s Groove Mix)....

Aaron Dean, 38, resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department and was charged with murder two days after killing 28-year-old Jefferson through a window in October 2019 while responding to a call about an open door. Dean’s trial has been repeatedly postponed, but begins on Monday after attorneys and the judge agreed on the final selection of 12 jurors and two alternates on Friday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported....