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Western Kentucky’s Mike White isn’t included in that grouping — in fact, the one-year starter at WKU hasn’t generated much excitement in the college football landscape outside of Bowling Green, Ky. MORE: Sporting News’ top 40 players for 2017 But that’s about to change. Mike White belongs in the same class as Darnold, Rosen and Jackson, and he’s set to produce like a Heisman contender in 2017 while impressing NFL scouts like a first-round pick....

An XFL spokesman confirmed to Sporting News on Monday that Kaepernick talked with executives about joining the league this past fall. The XFL declined to divulge details of the Kaepernick contract talks. But sources said the former 49ers quarterback wanted at least $20 million to suit up for new spring football league. Mark Geragos, Kaepernick’s attorney, did not return an email from SN seeking comment. MORE: The latest AAF Power Rankings...

But then, the question is, where do the Clippers go once this season ends like every other Clippers season in recent memory? You know, with a bummer of a playoff loss in the second round of the postseason? MORE: Ranking every All-Star, from Curry to Kobe | Griffin suspended 4 games A source with knowledge of the situation said that “just about every team in the league” has contacted the Clippers about Griffin, who drew the ire of the team and the league when he was involved in a public altercation with the team’s equipment manager at a Toronto restaurant last month....

Vava Suresh was hospitalized on the evening of January 31 while catching a cobra found in the Kottayam district of Kerala. The cobra bit the snake catcher above his knee. Cobras are highly venomous snakes native to India, southern China, and Southeast Asia. They are considered one of the deadliest snakes in the world. While its venom is not the most potent among all snake species, the amount administered in a single bite can be enough to kill 20 people....

X-ray images released by the zoo show the consumed snake’s spine and the tracker visible inside the prey’s body. The x-ray also shows that the Burmese python was eaten tail-first by the native snake. “The snake was actually found consumed by a Cottonmouth in the Picayune Strand State Forest in Southwest Florida in May of 2021,” Zoo Miami’s Communications Director Ron Magill told Newsweek. “It was being tracked as part of an overall invasive species study by U....

Snapchat+ Attracts Over 1 Million Subscribers In the six weeks following the launch of the Snapchat subscription plan, Snapchat+ has attracted over 1 million paying subscribers. The company made the announcement in a post on the Snap blog, where it outlined the expansion of availability and some additional features. It seems that the cost and availability of Snapchat+ haven’t dissuaded throngs of users from trying it out. With a subscription fee of $3....

RELATED: SNES Games Turning 30 In 2022 (That You Should Replay) As a member of Switch Online, players are able to play a small handful of NES, SNES, and N64 games. This list focuses on SNES games. Every game on the service is worth playing as a curiosity, but only a few hold up today. The games listed below are just as entertaining today as they were during their release....

The Belgium star netted a clever free-kick, slotting under the jumping Cardiff wall after eight minutes, before Raheem Sterling headed his 19th goal of the season. City were rarely threatened thereafter and De Bruyne reported Pep Guardiola’s tactical plan worked like a dream. “They’ve a different playing style to everyone else. They almost play man against man across the whole pitch. It’s a little bit weird,” he told BBC Sport....

Forward Germain scored twice in the first half as Monaco overwhelmed a Lille side who were reduced to 10 men after defender Carlens Arcus was sent off five minutes before the interval. Monaco looked nothing like the side who were beaten 4-1 in the League Cup final by Paris St Germain on Saturday as they joined En Avant Guingamp, 1-0 winners at fourth division Frejus-St Raphael, in the last four....

Third-placed Lyon, on 26 points from 13 games, are now nine points behind leaders Paris St Germain and three adrift of second-placed Monaco after being held 0-0 at home to Montpellier. Marseille lie fourth on 25 points but it could have been worse if Morgan Sanson had not scored in injury-time for them to salvage a 1-1 draw at Girondins de Bordeaux, where they have not won in 40 years....

Director Masahiro Sakurai will present the next DLC fighter and likely offer a rundown of its moves and a preview of what’s to come after the last character in Fighters Pass is revealed. If you want to join in on the fun, here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming Smash Ultimate Direct including its start time and how to watch online. SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE DIRECT START TIME The Smash Direct begins Thursday, January 16 at 9 a....

In the early stages, you may not experience any symptoms, but, over time, the disease can cause the generalized swelling of the lymph nodes accompanied by fever, night sweats, and weight loss. SLL can be diagnosed with a combination of blood tests, imaging studies, and a biopsy of affected tissues. SLL is an indolent (slow-growing) cancer. If you have no symptoms, your healthcare provider may take a watch-and-wait approach and delay treatment....

As more businesses and homes adopt caller ID, Peter Post is beginning to hear that question a lot. As director of the Emily Post Institute (he’s Emily’s great-grandson), Post is a traditionalist, saying a straightforward “Hello” remains correct, caller ID or not. Post calls the “Hi, Bob” technique “a breach of etiquette,” though a minor one comparable to using the wrong fork at a fancy restaurant. “Some people seem to be uncomfortable when you do it,” says Post....

According to Sinobi, retailers are expecting a rather small shipment of copies of Ocarina of Time 3D, though exactly how small the shipments will be is unknown. There aren’t any noticeable preferences for any retailers as they will all be receiving the same amount of copies, and retailers are forbidden to place orders on the game. In other words, if you really want to get a copy at launch, you’d be better off pre-ordering a copy....

You can tether and hotspot without any speed restrictions. In terms of roaming, you can use the plan in the EU like you would in the UK, though use in other countries relies on Pay As You Go rates. SMARTY’s coverage is powered by Three, which also has an unlimited SIM plan for £20 per month on now, but it’s a 24-month commitment. SMARTY’s offer is a 1-month plan which you can cancel at any time....

Masahiro Sakurai is the visionary behind the Super Smash Bros. franchise and is also the creator of the Kirby series. As the founder of Sora Ltd, a former developer at HAL Laboratory, and a close affiliate of Nintendo, Sakurai has had a long, lengthy career as both a video game developer and director. That being said, to say that Sakurai suffers for his work is an understatement, considering that he was unaware that Smash Bros....

WOBURN, England (Reuters) - Ariya Jutanugarn, who likes to smile before going into her pre-shot routine, was grinning from ear-to-ear after surging two strokes clear of the field in the Ricoh Women’s British Open third round on Saturday. The 20-year-old Thai, who reeled off three LPGA Tour wins in a row in May, fired six birdies in a faultless 66 to finish on 16-under-par 200 in the fourth and penultimate major of the season at Woburn....

In the tweet, Hi-Rez stated that it had completed a full review of the game’s chat log in order to find and remove accounts with any racist behavior towards other players. With the recent protests that have been occurring in streets all over the world, Smite wants to make sure that it defines which side of the fight it is on. Despite the fact that playable characters may be from different cultures, players can see them cooperating with one another to defeat the enemy, which is the goal that Smite wants to reach in its real-life community....

If you want to take a moment and gather your thoughts after reading that first sentence, we’ll understand. It’s a lot to process. The SMU Mustangs, absent from the NCAA Tournament for more than two decades, take an 18-5 record and third-place standing in the American Athletic Conference into a 7:30 p.m. ET home game against No. 7 Cincinnati that will be televised on ESPNU. That SMU basketball is this good is no particular surprise given that it is coached by the great Larry Brown, a Hall of Famer and one of the game's true geniuses....

Buccigross’ contract with ESPN expires July 1. The 20-year veteran of the network would prefer to stay with the sports cable giant. “It would take a special package to get me to leave on my own terms,” he told Sporting News in an exclusive interview. SN EXCLUSIVE: Mike Golic talks about impending split with Mike Greenberg He also knows business is business, especially when ESPN is losing millions of subscribers in today’s cord-cutting TV environment....