After being shut out against Errol Spence Jr. in his welterweight debut last March, Garcia notched his first victory in the division, a unanimous decision over Jessie Vargas, on Saturday night, live on DAZN. Judges at The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, scored it 116-111, 116-111 and 114-113, all in favor of Garcia, who used a fifth-round knockdown to power his way to the victory. “I think I carried the weight a little bit better and that allowed me to perform better,” Garcia told DAZN’s Chris Mannix of his second crack at 147 pounds....

Borussia Dortmund striker Aubameyang wanted to rejoin Milan before the transfer window closed, according to Rossoneri director Massimiliano Mirabelli, and Maldini revealed the Gabon international “loves Milan”. But the Bundesliga outfit refused all approaches for the 29-year-old and Maldini indicated that Aubameyang’s stock may have risen beyond the point at which a return to his first professional club is possible. After signing professional terms with Milan in 2008, Aubameyang spent time on loan at Dijon, Lille, Monaco and Saint-Etienne, before joining the latter in 2011 and then moving to Dortmund in 2013....

The real surprise, alas, is that “Chamber of Secrets” has been turned into a kiddie monster movie. It is aimed at an older audience this time–tween and teenage boys. Now the walls of Hogwarts are defaced with dire warnings written in blood. Harry and Ron are terrorized by an army of giant spiders that scuttle about like stragglers from “Starship Troopers.” Our hero, no longer the diffident, uncertain wizard, wields a sword in mini-Schwarzenegger style as he faces down a gargantuan snake that is sure to traumatize the under-6 set, and just as likely to produce yawns from elders who have sat through one too many creature-filled Hollywood action extravaganzas....

Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management, told CNBC that the cause of inflation is “too many people with too much money chasing too few goods,” also known as “wolverine inflation.” Pressure is increasing on the Biden administration after inflation hit 9.1 percent in June, its highest annualized rise in four decades. But Smead suggested that one of the factors behind the increasing costs could be beyond the U....

The reason for this sudden cacophony is the emergence of brood IX (9), which will emerge after spending the last 17 years underground as nymphs. People living in the aforementioned states may recall the spring and summer months of 2003, when the cicadas of this brood were last out in force. “Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue,” Eric Day, Virginia Cooperative Extension entomologist at Virginia Tech’s Department of Entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said in a statement....

The goal of the program is to give families more time with their offspring (and to keep them as clients) by letting them take care of essential errands right on the spot when they pick up their kids. “It’s value added for their child-care dollar,” says Dee Ann Besch, director of the Cottage Grove center just south of St. Paul. Last June, Kinder-Care conducted parent-focus groups and tried to respond to their requests....

Activists and journalists attended the news conference where Huffman announced the release of body camera footage into Wednesday’s incident in which Locke, 22, a Black man, was shot while lying on a couch by SWAT team during a dawn raid. The case has stoked memories of the 2020 killing of George Floyd by police in the same city which drove nationwide protests and fuelled discourse about race relations in the U....

It’s the first killing by the police department since the widely-publicized death of Floyd on May 25. Floyd was a Black man who died while in custody of Minneapolis police. A video shows former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. The last words heard from Floyd were, “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death on Memorial Day set off a burst of nationwide protests against police brutality against people of color....

In a series of statements beginning Thursday, Ellison’s office announced it has filed legal action against four Minnesota restaurants: Alibi Drinkery in Lakeville, Neighbors on the Run in Princeton, Cornerstone Cafe in Monticello, and Cork in Anoka. His office alleged that these establishments had been hosting indoor dining in open violation of the governor’s orders. In a Friday statement, Ellison announced the lawsuits against Cornerstone Cafe and Cork. “There are 10,000 restaurants and 1,500 bars in Minnesota....

Suter is the fifth Wild player to contract mumps in recent weeks, following Marco Scandella, Jonas Brodin, Keith Ballard and Christian Folin. Around the league, there have been at least eight diagnosed cases this season, New York Rangers forward Tanner Glass and Anaheim Ducks players Corey Perry and Francois Beauchemin among them. Players have reacted differently to the virus. Ballard and Brodin missed eight and seven games, respectively, and Folin sat out five....

The pouches are designed to store a driver’s license, registration and insurance card in plain sight on an air vent or other visible location inside the vehicle. The department and other law enforcement agencies—including Minnesota State Patrol and St. Paul Police—will hand out the pouches at community events. The department said the pouch was created by Valerie Castile, whose son Philando was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop in 2016....

Minnesota hadn’t won a conference game until it upset No. 6 Maryland on Thursday night, and it was a win in such grand fashion that it brought senior forward Joey King to tears. MORE: Best rivalries in college basketball “You know, there’s not too many fans who would come out, day in and day out, for an 0-13 team, so to have the kind of support we have is just something really special,” King said with tears streaming down his face while fans in the background chanted his name....

On Saturday night, the seventh-ranked Minnesota State baseball team demolished Bemidji State by 21 runs in a Division II tilt. That’s an abnormally large margin of victory in baseball, but what was even more abnormal was the fact that Bemidji State scored 20 runs of their own. MORE: Martinez, Gomes injured in Tigers/Indians | Mets’ Mejia suspended 80 games You read it right the first time. Minnesota State scored a mind-blowing 41 runs on 35 hits....

MORE: The best Big Ten trophies | Week 11 photos | Scoreboard But the Golden Gophers got a bit excited after their win, the team's fourth in a row, and accidentally broke part of the trophy. (H/T @EyeOnCFB) Something like this would never happen to The Floyd of Rosedale. 

The two countries will square it out in a must-win Group A duel at Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos on Thursday. Tanzania needs to win their next match to revive chances of progressing to the next stage but Zanzibar’s forward, Mohamed Issa say they will not make it easy for their ‘big brothers’. Issa, who was voted Man of the Match in Zanzibar’s 3-1 win over Rwanda, said that they will apply the same anti-dot they used to neutralize Amavubi when they face Kilimanjaro Stars....

On Tuesday, the Gulf Coast League announced the hiring of Jen Pawol, the first female umpire in MiLB since 2007. Pawol becomes the first female umpire in the GCL since 1977-78, when Pam Postema officiated minor league games. MORE: Most influential pioneers in sports history Pawol attended the 2016 Minor League Baseball Umpire Training Academy, and was selected for the MiLB Advanced Course, where top nominees from The Umpire Academy are selected for further training....

The team will allow fans to buy these concoctions for the 2015 season. One is the “Big Mother Funnel Burger” (left) and the other is the “Grilled Cheese Bacon Burger” (right). These are creations of Timber Rattlers executive chef Tim Hansen. Perhaps more surprising than the burgers themselves is that an MiLB team has an executive chef. Now that’s an organization that knows how to properly weight its staff for maximum return....

Hip-hop culture has dominated the music industry for well over a decade, but it’s taken all this time for Hollywood to cash in. The solution? Make hip-hop movies about white people. Most African-Americans didn’t have a problem with Eminem–who they believe respects their culture–either as a rap-per or as a movie star in “8 Mile.” But several new hip-hop-themed films and TV shows are recycling old stereotypes–whether ironically or not–and blacks wonder what’s going on....

The actor’s name began trending on Twitter today as fans discussed an article he wrote under a different name about Clinton and Lewinsky’s infamous affair. Going by his real name, Dmitri Krushnic, Collins started his professional career in the world of politics. Now that fact has resurfaced, along with a piece he wrote about the scandal for the Baltimore Sun in 1998. “In attempting to find clues about Ms. Lewinsky’s behavior to determine whether they suggest an affair, the media have reported that sources describe Ms....