The Czech midfielder won silverware with the Gunners, Borussia Dortmund and Sparta Prague, where he started and ended a career that spanned 18 years. He also won 105 caps for his country, leaving him third on the all-time list behind only Petr Cech and Karel Poborsky. “After careful consideration I have realised I am no longer able to fully prepare my body for what professional football requires,” Rosicky said at a press conference on Wednesday....
Dante Martin, 27, was the first to stand trial in the November 2011 death of 26-year-old Robert Champion aboard a band bus parked outside a football game where the well-regarded Marching 100 band had performed. The case brought into focus the culture of hazing in the band, which was suspended for more than a year while officials tried to clean up the program. Martin was known as “the president of Bus C,” witnesses testified, and he organized the initiations that required fellow band members to try to make their way through a pounding gauntlet of fists, drumsticks and mallets from the front of the bus to the back, including on that November day....
One strategy, as former quarterback Boomer Esiason revealed Monday morning on CSN New England, was to strip naked in front of his team. There’s obviously some context to go along with this story, but it still is a strange story. MORE: All-time greatest Bengals players Wyche wanted to motivate safety David Fulcher, whose nickname was Fo-Rock. Wyche, who approached the team on a Friday wearing a matching sweatsuit, told Fulcher he would get the sweatsuit if the team won and he had a good game....
Alex spent a total of eight years on the Blues’ books after joining from Santos in 2004, although he was loaned out to PSV for three seasons after work permit issues delayed his Premier League introduction. The Brazilian helped Chelsea lift the Premier League title in 2009-10 and formed part of the team that reached the Champions League semis the previous season, before being sold to Paris Saint-Germain in January 2012....
Jackson County, Mo., prosecutors say that Reid “operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, and acted with criminal negligence by driving at an excessive rate of speed,” per ESPN. If convicted, Reid could face up to seven years in prison. On Feb. 4, Reid struck a stalled vehicle along the side of the road near the Chiefs’ facility. The car crash left 5-year-old Ariel Young in a coma and injured another child....
Jose Aristimuño, who formerly served as the deputy national press secretary of the DNC, made the comments on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, saying that he did not think that Ocasio-Cortez would be able to drive the Democratic party to the left. “I don’t think Alexandria and her friends … they haven’t learned, they haven’t been in Congress enough to understand that negotiations happen in Congress,” Aristimuño said. “They don’t happen on Twitter, they don’t happen on Facebook....
Kingston, who was a Republican representative for Georgia’s 1st congressional district from 1993 to 2015, commented on the GOP in an interview with DW News’ Conflict Zone and said he thought it was in a “very good position.” Pressed on this he said: “Let me tell you why, three reasons. “Number one, history shows from Bush to Trump, to Obama to Clinton, that the party out of power will take back the House and the Senate....
The Serie A side - who have not recorded a win since September 30 - lost a penalty shoot-out against third-tier side Virtus Entella to tumble out of the competition on Thursday. Juric was appointed head coach for the third time in two years at the start of October, returning to the role following the dismissal of Davide Ballardini. However, the Croatian has now been replaced by Prandelli, the former Italy coach’s appointment confirmed by the club in a statement released on Friday....
Doles, 61, served four years in prison starting in 1993 after he and a fellow KKK member beat a Black man in Maryland. He served another four years in 2003 for federal firearms charges. He has claimed “misunderstandings or extenuating circumstances” in each conviction, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported. He is a supporter of Republican former President Donald Trump and, like Trump, opposes Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the alleged teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in schools....
MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 “It is with deep sadness and overwhelming grief that we mourn the sudden loss of my son, Sean,” Deborah Brown, Rooks’ mother, in a statement, via The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Our family asks that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this incredibly difficult time.” The cause of death has not been released. The 30th overall selection in the 1992 NBA Draft, Rooks starred at Arizona in the early 1990s, earning first-team All-Pac 10 honors in 1992....
South Carolina Democratic senators said Monday they wanted to review the maps, and learn what information was used to draw them before the maps can gain their support. Under the new proposal, the state probably would continue to have six Republicans and one Democrat in their seven U.S. House seats. The bulk of the changes some Democrats have taken issue with come in the 1st district, which includes parts of Charleston and Hilton Head Island....
The 41-year-old former champion was suspended for two years Tuesday by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after an out-of-competition drug test April 25 came back positive for the anabolic steroid Trenbolone and its metabolite Epitrenbolone. The suspension is retroactive to May 22, the date of his provisional suspension. He is eligible to return May 22, 2020, when he will be 43. Under the terms of his suspension, Werdum will be subjected to random drug testing....
On Reddit’s 3.5 million-strong r/AmItheA**hole subreddit, user u/Worldly-Ad9756 shared her experience with others in the hope of getting some advice. The 58-year-old woman detailed that she had been married to a man for 16 years, but said they divorced when the two could no longer support each other after a drunk driver killed their son. In the post, the woman then explained that after they divorced two years ago she moved to another state, and they did not speak to each other in the years since....
The dangerously high level of the stupidity surplus was once again the lead story in The Owl that morning. The reason for the crisis was clear: Prime Minister Redmond van de Poste and his ruling Commonsense Party had been discharging their duties with a reckless degree of responsibility that bordered on inspired sagacity. Instead of drifting from one crisis to the next and appeasing the nation with a steady stream of knee-jerk legislation and headline-grabbing but arguably pointless initiatives, they had been resolutely building a raft of considered long-term plans that concentrated on unity, fairness and tolerance....
In an expansive letter included at the bottom of this article, the association announced its vote of no confidence received 97.5 percent approval after what it called a dental “crisis” caused by the “unnecessary pain and suffering and even life-threatening situations some patients have had to face” because of the actions of Hurley in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All non-urgent dental care has been canceled, with around 9,000 dental practices effectively closing down....
The economy was the most important issue for voters surveyed in more than 200 counties that Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012 but Donald Trump captured in 2016. In those counties, 40% named the economy as most important, while 28% said that healthcare was No. 1. Just 4% said law and order is their top issue, according to the Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey, which was conducted October 25-27....
The American Citizen Coronavirus Relief Act, co-sponsored by North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, would amend the CARES Act so that it no longer requires a social security number for spouses filing taxes jointly, but would continue to require one for economic impact payment (EIP) eligibility. As a byproduct of this change, a U.S. citizen would receive the same stimulus check as a single tax filer. Households would also receive $500 for their U....
On Tuesday evening, Frazer announced to the board of directors that plans to hold its mid-September meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, were being canceled and redirected to the nation’s capital as federal lawmakers consider several gun-control proposals. But in a May 22 e-mail to top NRA officials, including the organization’s CEO Wayne LaPierre and its newly installed CFO Craig Spray, Frazer announced that a previous analysis had concluded that moving the planned meeting would run up costs approaching $100,000, due both to cancellation fees with pre-arranged vendors and the higher price of room and board expenses in the D....
The intelligent head argued with the intelligent eyes. That was the thing. The eyes saw the severity of the crash. The eyes had seen other crashes in other places, the same speed, the same angle, the same unmerciful thud against a concrete wall. The eyes knew something terrible had happened. The intelligent head knew Dale Earnhardt was involved. He would be all right. Eyes vs. head. What was a television color commentator supposed to say?...
More people said their impressions of both the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex had worsened because of the pandemic. And 54 percent said they should not return to royal duties, while 28 percent said they should and 18 percent said they did not know. The polling comes at a time when other royals had been visibly working to respond to the pandemic, performing their roles through streaming videos. The survey was conducted on Wednesday by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, before the first stories detailing Prince Harry and Meghan’s post-coronavirus charity work emerged the same day....
