He should have his chance Sunday, when the LA Galaxy play host to Western Conference co-leader Sporting Kansas City. Ibrahimovic scored two goals in a 19-minute cameo to lead the Galaxy to a stirring 4-3 comeback win against Los Angeles FC, and he could earn his first start Saturday after going through a full week of training. LAFC will look to erase the bad taste of last week’s collapse by going on the road and beating an Atlanta United side that has yet to drop points at home this year....

Her opponent, 53-year-old Shinobu Kandori, was not happy it. MORE: Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino, Holly Holm fighting for more than a belt Kandori yelled at Garcia on stage and reportedly called her a “disgrace” in Japanese, according to TMZ Sports. The six-time jiu-jitsu world champion reportedly weighs 75 pounds more than Kandori, who hasn’t competed in mixed martial arts in 17 years. It remains unclear if the fight will still take place, but if it does, we know who we’re putting our money on....

Good to see Shane Campbell is taking it so seriously. After a kick dropped opponent Derek Boyle to his knee in a recent fight, Campbell went to one knee and delivered what appeared to be a hadouken from “Street Fighter”. If you are unfamiliar with the video game, the hadouken is a move used by several characters by using their hands to send a surge of ki energy toward an opponent...

In bunkers around his village, and 10 others like it in the area, ethnic Albanian rebel commanders also use their cell phones to communicate with their soldiers about troop movements, offensives, and orders. Across the front lines, their Macedonian counterparts are doing the same. And in the capital of Skopje, some 20 miles away, diplomats and local government officials are using mobile-phone technology as part of their battle to prevent the ongoing violence in the northeast from engulfing the entire Balkan nation....

Marcus Mariota remains on top, while receivers and pass-rushers should dominate the top of the first-round for the 2015 NFL Draft. 1. Buccaneers: Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon While he’s no longer the consensus top quarterback in the 2015 NFL Draft, Mariota will still be the top pick. There’s every indication so far that he’s atop the Bucs’ board. He’s a safe character pick, with remarkable upside as he adjusts to an NFL-level offense....

The show is more than a form of comic relief. Its success, in fact, reveals just how far Taiwanese democracy has come. Just more than two decades ago Hou’s reward for lampooning the president would have been a prison sentence. Even in 1998, two years after Taiwan’s first democratic election, his attempt to do a similar show was canned after a single episode. This time around producers received one call from a top presidential aide demanding a slight alteration in format....

Oh, man, how about that? He does. It was Kick Kelly week in America after he left behind Notre Dame and its 11-1 season for a new position in Baton Rouge. When that week was over, though, Kelly still had that bag and a revealing pattern emerged in the rankings announced by the College Football Playoff committee. MORE: Every FBS coaching change in 2021 The No. 4 team was the Cincinnati Bearcats, the program he essentially invented nearly two decades ago, taking over a nicely built roster from previous coach Mark Dantonio and energizing a community that was indifferent to college football generally and particularly the brand played at UC....

The pharmaceutical company said in a press release that it will combine a seasonal flu booster vaccine and the COVID-19 booster vaccine (the third dose) into a single shot. The company believes that it could be the first in the market with a combined COVID and seasonal flu vaccine. “Today we are announcing the first step in our novel respiratory vaccine program with the development of a single dose vaccine that combines a booster against COVID-19 and a booster against flu,” Moderna’s CEO, Stéphane Bancel, said Thursday....

The August study, published in JAMA, compared the antibody levels of 1647 healthcare workers before and six to 10 weeks after vaccination. The researchers observed significantly higher antibody levels among the recipients of the Moderna vaccine compared to the recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Among all the participants who had a previous COVID-19 infection, those who were vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine still carried more antibodies. However, more research is needed to understand whether the difference in antibody levels leads to different levels of protection against the virus....

Popescu said the government sees “no reason for Moldova to become the target of hostile military activities,” though added: “We do have the responsibility to factor in all the possible threats.” Moldova is a small ex-Soviet republic wedged between Ukraine and Romania. Its western border is just over 20 miles from the strategic Ukrainian port city of Odessa, which in recent days has been preparing for a possible Russian assault....

Van Der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, had agreed to ingest the potent compound, known to generations of recreational illegal drug users by its street names “Ecstasy” or “Molly,” because he was the principal investigator in a rigorous 15-site, phase III, clinical trial. The object was to evaluate the effectiveness of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in patients suffering from extreme Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). As such, he’d been told, he was required to have first-hand experience with the drug....

The footage shared by TikTok user @kavsingh12, which has not been independently verified by Newsweek, was overlaid with a message that read: “My mom crying because she’s thinking about the day Leroy dies,” as the woman is seen wiping tears from her face. According to a December 2020 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, the unique relationship between dogs and their human caregivers bears a “remarkable resemblance” to the attachment bond seen between human infants and their mothers....

Published to Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole forum, a mother under the anonymous username u/EbbApprehensive1470 shared her story to receive feedback from the “AITA” community. The popular post has over 9,000 upvotes and 2,000 comments. The original poster (OP) began her story by explaining that her 16-year-old daughter was in a car accident a few months ago. She was taken to the hospital for minor injuries but was released after a few days of observation....

Peace Anumah, an accredited psychotherapist and founder of Piece Into Peace therapy practice, told Newsweek that the mom isn’t alone in her finance-induced argument, saying that “money tends to be one of the significant factors that causes conflict within a family unit.” In this case, the woman is a mom to two adult daughters: “Belle,” who is 25, and “Elise,” who is 23. Sharing her situation to Reddit, in the popular Subreddit “Am I the A**hole,” the mom’s post gained over 7,000 votes....

Alexandra Billings, from Anchorage in Alaska, took to Reddit to share her daughter Diana’s answer to the question: “Imagine you had a hundred dollars. You had to give it away to a person or charity. To whom would you give it? What would you want them to do with it?” Writing underneath, the 7-year-old said: “I would give it to my teacher so that she could buy more stuff because, she may not have enough money!...

Shared on Reddit on Sunday, user aitathrowaway795939 posted the story that now has more than 23,000 upvotes and thousands of comments. In the post, he explained: “Me and my wife have a little girl, who I’ll be calling Anna. Anna has very thick, blonde and curly hair that my wife adores. Ever since she was a toddler, she’d spend hours doing her hair every day, braiding it, straightening it and styling it in all sorts of ways....

In a post shared on Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) subforum, user Foncusedchamenange said this friend “happened to be in my path when I was having a meltdown” while struggling with the thought of terminating a pregnancy a few years ago. “She was an absolute rock, solid, supportive, compassionate, offering help,” she added. The user said: “I went on to have the baby, and now that little girl is the absolute joy of my life....

Mbappe, 18, is certain to be the subject of interest from Europe’s biggest clubs after a breakout campaign during which he scored 26 goals in all competitions. Aulas: Lacazette has Atleti deal Real Madrid, Manchester United and Liverpool are among those to have already been linked to the France international. But Vasilyev said Monaco were eager for Mbappe to stay at least another campaign with the Ligue 1 champions....

“There’s no interest in this game whatsoever,” said William Hill’s top bookmaker Nick Bogdanovich. “This is our worst Monday Night Football handle of the season.” The people have spoken. But Bogdanovich also knows that bettors will get the itch as kickoff nears – Monday Night Football has become a betting staple no matter how bad the matchup might be. It’s a routine just about everyone has embedded in his or her schedule....

It’s no secret that there will be a number of enticing wide receivers available. However, we’re opting to build around the quarterbacks – and Darren Waller – instead of pinpointing which of Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, Henry Ruggs III, Bryan Edwards, and Hunter Renfrow emerges as the top option this week. MORE MNF DFS: FanDuel single game lineup A quick recap of the scoring settings for DraftKings Showdown contests: They’re full-point PPR, and there are three-point bonuses for 300 passing yards, 100 rushing yards, and 100 receiving yards....