Sixers’ Mike Scott has Flagrant 2 call vs. Hawks downgraded to Flagrant 1 by NBA
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The officiating crew had a rough one Monday night during Sixers-Hawks — to neither team’s benefit — but the league is rectifying one of its worst decisions on the night.

The most egregious call came when Mike Scott was whistled for a Flagrant 2 after making contact with Atlanta big man Damian Jones and was ejected late in the first half after a review. On Tuesday,

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NFL Trade Deadline News and Notes: Halapoulivaati Vaitai Trent Williams on the Trading Block
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Also, what the Giants are getting in Leonard Williams, Lions are making Darius Slay available, Texans are NOT making DeAndre Hopkins available, and more rumors ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline.

Eagles OT Halapoulivaati Vaitai continues to be a name of interest on the market; plenty of teams have offensive line needs, and Vaitai, in a contract year, could help. Philadelphia is stocked at the position, and if GM Howie Roseman does move the fourth-year pro,

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Federal judge reinstates libel lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic teen against Washington Post
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A federal judge reinstated part of a lawsuit against The Washington Post filed by the family of a Kentucky teenager that alleged the newspaper libeled the teen in its coverage of his encounter with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this year.

Judge William O. Bertelsman, who rejected the suit in July on First Amendment grounds, said Monday he would allow it to go forward, but narrowed its scope from 33 published statements to three.

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Roob’s observations after Eagles right the ship with big win over Bills
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — A win that saved the season.

The Eagles went into Buffalo Sunday and scored 31 points against the NFL’s No. 3 scoring defense, grinding out 222 yards and three TDs rushing in a commanding 31-13 win over the Bills.

So the Eagles are back to 4-4 after losing by 18 in Minnesota and 27 in Dallas. They’re only half a game and a tiebreaker behind the idle Cowboys.

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Patriots are halfway to a perfect record after using early turnovers to bury Browns
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The New England Patriots kept doing Patriots things. The Cleveland Browns persisted in doing Browns things.

That put the Patriots halfway to an unblemished regular season, and further cemented the Browns as one of the NFL’s biggest disappointments of 2019.

The Patriots improved their record to 8-0 with a more-of-the-same performance Sunday against the Browns in rainy Foxborough, Mass. The defense forced turnovers by the Browns on three straight first-quarter offensive snaps,

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Orlando Scandrick rips Eagles GM after being released
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PHILADELPHIA — Recently released cornerback Orlando Scandrick ripped the Eagles during a television appearance Friday, taking shots at everyone from respected safety Malcolm Jenkins to general manager Howie Roseman.

“Let’s just say, where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” Scandrick said on FS1 when asked about the rumblings of locker room turmoil. “That locker room is different. I’d tell guys when I came there that I felt like they were still living off that Super Bowl high.

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Ice-T Is Ready for Eddie Murphy’s Oscar Run
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At a special screening of Dolemite Is My Name in New York City, Ice-T, Tracy Morgan, and Jeff Ross came out to celebrate Murphy’s comeback—and the legacy of Rudy Ray Moore.

The teenagers figured out it was Eddie Murphy inside.

A special screening of Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name for Academy voters and VIPs like Andre Leon Talley, Tracy Morgan (wearing a black-and-green sweater featuring a designer spin on Mickey Mouse),

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A Guide to the Incredibly Complicated Katie Hill Scandal
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The House Ethics Committee announced on Wednesday evening that it was launching an investigation into representative Katie Hill, and her alleged sexual relationships with her legislative director and a staffer on her congressional campaign.

Hill is a freshman Democrat from California, and is one of the first openly bisexual women in Congress. Reports of her alleged relationships first surfaced on the conservative website RedState late last week in a post titled “CA Rep.

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TobyMac writes emotional tribute to his late son
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(CNN)Christian recording artist TobyMac has penned a moving tribute to his late son, Truett McKeehan.

McKeehan, 21, died Wednesday at his home near Nashville, family spokesperson Velvet Kelm told CNN.
A cause of death has not yet been determined.
McKeehan was the oldest of TobyMac’s five children. He was an up-and-coming musician who performed under the names Truett Foster, truDog, TRU and Shiloh.
He collaborated with his father on several albums.

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Ter Stegen gives the victory to a very vulgar Barcelona
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PRAGUE (Jordi Blanco, ESPN Digital) – Ter Stegen. For active and passive. Uppercase and magnificent. Stellar in a first part exquisite and perfect in a second outstanding. Through him it is understood that the most vulgar Barça of the season took a golden victory in Prague, beating 1-2 a Slavia that deserved more luck.

Barça shouted for the arrival of rest in the first half and begged for the end of the game in the second.

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