So says the man who once held Riveron’s position — former officiating czar Mike Pereira. Speaking with co-host Mark Dominik and me on SiriusXM NFL Radio, Pereira detailed the responsibilities Riveron will inherit in replacing the departed Dean Blandino as the league’s senior vice president of officiating. Pereira, who is now a FOX Sports rules analyst, also addressed the NFL naming two other officiating executives in Wayne Mackie (vice president of officiating evaluation/development) and Russell Yark (instant replay/administration), as well as the league moving toward full-time officials and the on-field changes that will come in handling end-zone celebration penalties....

Pompeo did not specify any reason why Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma while his father was in office, would be the reason behind the Obama administration’s decision. In reality, the Obama administration considered offering lethal military assistance to Ukraine but opted against, fearing the potential provocation of a proxy war between the U....

The executive producer of the quiz show will no longer be taking on hosting duties after past offensive comments he made on his podcast emerged. Now one former contestant has spoken of how Richards “sabotage[d]” the beloved show and the venerable host position. “It’s like looking at yourself in the mirror and shooting yourself in the face,” Arthur Chu, 11-time Jeopardy! champion told The Daily Beast. “You couldn’t intentionally sabotage the show worse than this....

The 37-year-old netminder suffered the injury in the team’s 5-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday and is not in the lineup for Sunday’s rematch against them. Mikko Koskinen will start instead, and the Oilers recalled goaltender Stuart Skinner from the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors under emergency conditions to fill in for Smith. MORE: Ray Shero starting to listen to offers for former Oiler Taylor Hall Through 15 games this season, Smith is 7-7-1 with a 2....

The Steelers improved to 11-0 – the 13th team to achieve the feat in the Super Bowl era – courtesy of Wednesday’s hard-fought 19-14 victory over the Lamar Jackson-less Baltimore Ravens. It was a scrappy encounter at Heinz Field, where the clash went ahead after being rescheduled three times due to a coronavirus outbreak within the Ravens organisation. The Steelers stand alone in the NFL, but head coach Tomlin was far from impressed with his team’s performance....

Joining in on the popular Pokémon GO craze, the Angels center fielder was in search of the fictional creatures Friday before the Angels took on the White Sox. MORE: Trout tops SN’s list of the 50 best in MLB Trout, who’s also been known to go in search of thunderstorms, is in luck because the artificial rocks just over the outfield wall at Angel Stadium also serve as a Pokémon gym....

When two-time American League MVP Mike Trout hit his 150th career home run on May 28, 2016, he was exactly 24 years and 295 days old. Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper, who was the 2015 National League MVP, hit the 150th homer of his career on Monday — at the age of 24 years and 295 days. To celebrate his birthday, Trout reached a milestone of his own with a fourth-inning double against the Orioles to give him 1,000 hits for his career....

Or, at least, that’s what Nike will have you believe, because that’s the slogan on the Zoom Trout 4 cleats, which Mike Trout revealed early Friday. “The time and dedication Nike put behind this cleat, and all the people that helped me build this, it’s unbelievable. I can’t thank them enough,” Trout said in the video. A post shared by Mike Trout (@miketrout) on Jun 30, 2017 at 7:00am PDT...

On Sunday, Trump lashed out against Schiff, who heads up the House Intelligence Committee, accusing the Californian Congressman of “Fraud & Treason.” The attack follows a speech Schiff made in front of the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, in which he parodied the president during his now-infamous phone call with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25. During that phone call, Trump requested “a favor” involving the launch an investigation into the business dealings of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter—despite no actual evidence of wrongdoing by either the 2020 hopeful or his son....

Government agencies launched COVID-19 immunization efforts, alongside states, in December, when vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna were respectively approved for distribution and administration. However, because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certified both vaccines under emergency use authorizations, military personnel retain rights to receive one at their discretion. “It’s voluntary,” a Department of Defense spokesperson told Newsweek on Wednesday. “So, folks can take it if they want to....

According to The Yukon Review, in July, Gage was diagnosed with a differentiated chordoma, a rare form of cancerous tumor, growing at the base of his skull. Though the outlook was initially good, on August 1, doctors discovered the tumor had quadrupled in size and had become inoperable. Gage’s family decided the best thing they could do was make him comfortable. Doctors say Gage only has a few weeks to live....

To be sure, millennials are the most Democratic-leaning of generations, as the Pew Research Center found; they have close to a 60 percent fealty to Democrats, and their votes clearly helped get rid of Donald Trump. So it’s fitting that their avatar is the congressional “Squad” led by the ubiquitous 30-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of their own. It’s also undeniable that the ideological cast of millennials, who will be the largest voting block by 2024, will shape our political future....

The cuneiform tablet is considered to be part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest surviving religious texts in the world. Given the nickname “The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet,” it tells the story of five dreams that Gilgamesh has while performing a ritual. It, along with the other tablets containing the story, was part of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal’s extensive library before it was torn down. The tablet was recovered in 1853 and placed in a museum....

Yiannopoulos posted a photo of a positive coronavirus test strip with the caption “Rona,” to his Telegram account, according to screenshots shared on Twitter Saturday by media watchdog group Right Wing Watch. “Most of you got the normal ‘it’s just flu’ rona last year and most of you didn’t even know you had it. But I don’t have any friends and I don’t leave the house so I only got the deadly superspreader version from vaccinated people and let me tell you THIS IS NOT FUN,” Yiannopoulos wrote....

Meanwhile, U.S. men continue to dribble out of the field. U.S. women are still in the picture ahead of quarterfinals in the year’s first grand slam event, but their ranks too are thinning. Raonic, No. 8 in men’s seedings, was scheduled to play Germany’s Benjamin Becker in Saturday matches. Time zone transition means Raonic would hit the court about 9 p.m. ET Friday for a third-round test. He comes into the Becker match having eliminated Donald Young of the United States....

The NBA season has yet to reach its halfway point, but some players have been performing at very high levels, which has brought them into the MVP discussion. Antetokounmpo leads them all, but with a large chunk of the season remaining, anything could really happen. The players with the best odds to win the coveted MVP trophy are listed below: Giannis Antetokounmpo The reigning NBA MVP has been on a tear since the start of the season, but his most recent performance against the Lakers on Thursday has placed him far ahead of the pack....

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, more than a dozen shots were fired at a location between Water Street and Juneau Avenue at about 12:45 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The outlet added that as of 1 a.m. three people had been seen handcuffed on Juneau Avenue. It added that a police officer told one of the outlet’s reporters: “We probably have some injuries.” According to TMJ4 News reporter Ben Jordan, who was near the celebrating fans at the time of the shooting, the gunshots rang out from a parking lot....

Mou: Ibra and me will not cry Ibrahimovic caught Mings with an elbow during Manchester United’s 1-1 Premier League draw at home to Bournemouth on Saturday. It came after Mings was accused of stamping on Ibrahimovic’s head at Old Trafford. Mings said he was uncertain as to whether the Swedish forward meant to elbow him, but he enjoyed his battle with the United star. “I didn’t see much of that one either....

It was the first time a pastor and a church have been involuntarily removed in the denomination’s history—because of the ECC’s disinclination toward same-sex marriage. Pastor Dan Collison was one of two pastors to be booted at the annual meeting of the ECC in Omaha. The Star Tribune reported that ECC leaders also voted Friday night to remove retired Reverend Steve Armfield over a disagreement on LGBT rights and values....

The statement “does not condone” the actions of the officers, though it stops short of condemning them. Four members of the Minneapolis P.D. left their posts because Lynx players on Saturday took the court in shirts featuring: The names of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, who were killed by police last week. The Dallas police department logo. Five Dallas cops were killed by one person at a Black Lives Matter protest in the wake of Castile and Sterling’s deaths....