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Japan is taking off the kid-leather driving gloves. Already tops in the family-car business, the Japanese are now unabashedly making a grab for Detroit’s last stronghold: the lucrative market for SUVs, minivans and pickups. And they’re coming on strong. Analysts say Toyota could become America’s No. 3 automaker this year, overtaking Chrysler, which suffered a 10 percent skid in car sales in 2001. Toyota and Honda have become the world’s most profitable automakers thanks to record U....

Japanese internet users are going wild over the fact that the characters for Mayor Yutaka Umeda can be read as “Jo Baiden.” The 73-year-old head of the small town of Yamato has received huge amounts of attention in recent days. Mayor Yutaka Umeda, whose town only has 15,000 residents, had no idea he was trending on social media until his family told him the news on Friday. Spelt in Kanji, the logographic Chinese characters used in the Japanese writing system, Umeda is pronounced “ume” and “da” but can also be read as “bai” and “den”....

Monaco welcome Turkish visitors and Group G leaders Besiktas to Stade Louis II on Tuesday, having lost two of their past three games in all competitions. The Ligue 1 champions conceded a stoppage-time goal as they lost 3-2 at Lyon last week to slip six points adrift of Paris Saint-Germain in France, while Jardim’s men have only collected one point from their two Champions League fixtures. Monaco are trying to rebuild following the departures of stars Kylian Mbappe, Bernardo Silva, Benjamin Mendy, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Valere Germain, and head coach Jardim said: “Personally, I have gone through many difficult times....

The Bears were waiting to make a decision based on whether true freshman Jarrett Stidham would be recovered enough from a broken bone in a foot to play by Dec. 29. MORE: One good reason to watch every bowl game | How expanded playoff would look in 2015-16 “It doesn’t look like he’s going to be ready,” Briles said Monday. Johnson moved to wide receiver before the season after Stidham won the backup job behind starter and Heisman Trophy candidate Seth Russell....

Frank revealed this new information in an interview with Collider. The two were discussing Marshall’s work on the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones movie before the talk shifted over to Jason Bourne. RELATED: Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 Delayed Marshall is apparently already looking for a new filmmaker and story writer. He likes the Jason Bourne series and thinks now is a good time for new talent to get in on it....

Frank, 49, was known for playing the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver—and he later played the White Power Ranger—in the 1990s series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He practiced martial arts and made several cameo appearances in later Power Rangers films, including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. On Sunday, Frank’s manager, Justine Hunt, wrote in a statement that Frank had passed and did not identify a cause of death, asking for “privacy of his family and friends during this horrible time as we come to terms with the loss of such a wonderful human being....

“I got the update online and it takes a little while to get updated so I was very anxious,” she said, via ABC Brisbane. “My workmates were so excited and they were just as excited as me and they know that Jason has been wanting a major as well.” MORE: Best photos from the PGA Championship | Best loss ever? | PGA winners and losers Day held off Jordan Spieth on Sunday to win his first major title and become the fifth Australian to win the PGA Championship....

Dufner secured his PGA Tour card for the first time in 2003 through the Nationwide Tour money list. He was at the TPC Sawgrass preparing for his rookie season when he saw Vijay Singh on the back of the practice range. "I just went up to him. I said, 'Hey, my name is Jason Dufner, I'm going to be playing the tour next year, and if I could play some practice rounds with you, that would be great....

My friends, that train couldn’t possibly be late. On Friday, during an appearance on Fox Sports 1’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” Whitlock explained why Christian McCaffrey won’t win the trophy. He said the Stanford star is up against the media’s bias toward the SEC and the East Coast, then added that McCaffrey simply hasn’t scored enough touchdowns (12) in comparison to Alabama’s Derrick Henry (23). MORE: Christian McCaffrey in photos | McCaffrey vs....

The surprising turn of events comes after Witten initially called time on his career last year and joined ESPN as an analyst on Monday Night Football. However, the reaction to his performance as a co-commentator was lukewarm and a desire to help the Cowboys push for a sixth Super Bowl title has led Witten to resume his playing career. “The fire inside of me to compete and play this game is just burning too strong,” Witten said in a statement on the Cowboys’ official website....

Having impressed for his boyhood club back in Mexico, Javier Hernandez could only thank his stars when he was picked up by Manchester United, one of the best teams in the whole of Europe (at least back then). And even though he did impress for Manchester United initially, that direct ascent to the peak of stardom might have indeed proven to be his undoing. Lack of opportunities at Manchester United forced him to look for a move Manchester United have always been a team of superstars....

Hernandez returns to England, where he won two Premier League titles, making a name for himself as an impact substitute. Having spent a loan spell at Real Madrid, Hernandez departed Old Trafford permanently in 2015, boasting a record of 59 goals in 157 games. The 28-year-old Mexico international has not looked back in Germany, scoring 26 goals in all competitions for the Bundesliga club in his maiden campaign, while he already has seven this season....

The 35-year-old batsman will hang up his boots after the Ranji Trophy game against Karnataka that begins here Thursday, a media release from SCA said. “Jaydev Shah announces his retirement from all formats of cricket. The Ranji Trophy match between Saurashtra and Karnataka, to be played at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium from December 6 onwards, shall be his last match,” the release said. Shah has played 119 first class matches and scored 5,253 runs with ten hundreds to his name....

It wasn’t a bad misspelling, but a misspelling nonetheless, and the Jazz’s official Twitter account decided to have some fun. The issue with that is, the Jazz — Millsap’s former team — lost 100-97; hence, this rebuttal from the Hawks. This was fun, wasn’t it?

Pirro made her comment while appearing on Hannity, the nightly Fox News political talk program hosted by Sean Hannity. During the show, Pirro, Hannity and legal commentator Nancy Grace discussed the impact of the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin, the former policeman convicted of killing Floyd on May 25, 2020. “Here, this jury saw George Floyd, they saw everything about him,” Pirro told Hannity. “He was a real person with feelings and begging to be able to breathe....

While many fans are calling for Fisher to be fired, especially after his latest public dispute with Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson, the team’s brass doesn’t seem inclined to part ways with him. During an interview with NFL Media , Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff praised Fisher for managing the team’s move from St. Louis to Los Angeles. MORE: Week 13 Power Rankings “Everybody will want to judge Jeff through the prism of just the record, but that’s totally unfair when you look at the set of circumstances he was handed this year,” Demoff said....

Van Drew spoke Monday at a news conference outside the Cape May, New Jersey, courthouse alongside Cape May County Sheriff Bob Nolan, where he accused local newspaper columnist John McCall of writing a “threatening” column. Van Drew said the column, which the Ocean City Sentinel newspaper has since retracted and apologized for, went far beyond political criticism. McCall also left a voicemail on Van Drew’s congressional office phone on February 28, which Van Drew described as a “death threat” during Monday’s press conference....

Jehan was in form throughout the whole weekend, qualifying in the top three and finishing in the top two places in each of the two heats and finals, including a commanding win in heat one. The Indian was in the best position to make the most of championship rival Daniel Ticktum’s retirement in the first race, dropping just five of the 160 points on offer. This result allows Jehan to come in the final round of the Championship, to be held at Shennington Oct 11-13, with the knowledge of having a crucial five-point advantage over his rival....

This will be Jemimah Rodrigues’ first opportunity in an overseas T20 league. She will become only the third Indian player after Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur to feature in the Kia Super League. Mandhana represented the Western Storm in the last season of the T20 league while Indian skipper Harmanpreet played for Lancashire Thunder. In fact, Mandhana played so well that she went on to win the ‘Player of the Tournament’ award....