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The NBA announced Wednesday it is suspending the season indefinitely after Gobert’s coronavirus test came back positive. Those test results forced the NBA to postpone the Jazz-Thunder game scheduled for Wednesday night and kept Utah and Oklahoma City players quarantined in their locker rooms at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell was the only other Utah player or personnel member to test positive for the virus, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, but Gobert faced plenty of criticism for his flippant attitude toward the pandemic....

The Red Eagles showed their intention of becoming one of the title contenders this season, when they defeated Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) on penalty shootout in the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Cup on Friday, after the regulation time had ended level with a 1-1 scoreline. JDT’s goal was scored by Safiq Rahim, a first half penalty, before Kedah’s Baddrol Bakhtiar equalised in the second. Defending cup and MSL champions JDT started with only three foreign players on the pitch, with Jerónimo Barrales starting from the bench....

Thanks to his class, his professionalism, his accessibility and his general greatness, Gordon was one of those star athletes who was practically untouchable when it came to the media. It’s hard to criticize a driver who wins 93 races and four championships, and does it with humility and grace. MORE: Classic photos of Jeff Gordon Oh, there were times when Gordon made a bonehead move and took someone out — like every driver does — or lost his temper and created a ruckus....

Hafley wants to find the mesh point between college football and the NFL to revive a middling program that has a 57-69 record since 2010. For the 40-year-old coach, there is an answer as to why somebody would want to do that. “Because you get a combination of two great leagues,” Hafley told Sporting News with no reservations. “There are so many great things in the National Football League that I spent seven years in and got to learn and experience and see....

President George W. Bush has seen a steadily weakening dollar as an answer to its ever-widening current account deficit. After all, the dollar has depreciated about 25 percent against a basket of currencies since 2002 without a peep from Washington. The United States has been pushing relentlessly for China and other Asian countries to revalue their currencies, thereby trying to make the greenback relatively weaker. And we’ve seen no sign that the United States is ready to broker a more orderly rebalancing of key currencies among major countries....

Psaki was discussing the newly passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. The bill’s implementation will be overseen by former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Biden filled a similar role when he served as vice president under then President Barack Obama and recalled on November 12 that some people had called him ‘Sheriff Biden’ at the time. The president issued an executive order establishing a taskforce to implement the infrastructure bill and Psaki referred to it on Monday....

The former adult film star, 47, announced via Instagram on Monday that she had been diagnosed with the rare autoimmune disorder after battling ill health for weeks. But her partner, Lior Bitton, took to Jameson’s social media account on Wednesday to reveal that her condition has failed to improve under her current treatment, leading to questions over her diagnosis. Speaking in a self-shot video, he said of the star: “She’s not doing so well....

Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale, who played Tina Cohen-Chang and Artie Abrams respectively on the show, decided to take the Internet’s revived Glee obsession and run with it. In their new podcast, And That’s What You Really Missed, Kevin and Jenna go through Glee episode-by-episode, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and interviewing cast and crew to finally tell the real story of what working on the set of such a huge show was like....

This could change with her upcoming film Hustlers, which is generating serious Oscar buzz for the multi-talented performer. “To wake up to that today was like, ‘OK!’” Lopez told the Los Angeles Times, referring to the Oscar talk after Hustlers premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend. “I’ve done so many movies and I’ve done so many roles that I’ve learned to not do them for anything except that I love doing them....

The subprime debacle has exposed many dicey deals in recent weeks. One of the most worrisome is the yen carry trade, a perfectly legal, highly profitable and hugely popular trick that involves borrowing cheap yen at low Japanese interest rates, and using them to invest in countries with higher interest rates and more valuable currencies. When it worked, it was like shooting greenbacks in a barrel. Some investors have gambled as much as 10 times their own worth on what looked like a sure thing....

The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association, made up of over 6,000 medical professionals, sent the letter last week, but made the document publicly available in recent days. The letter from the group was sent to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa, and Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the organizing committee, expressing its concerns. “Viruses are spread by people’s movements. Japan will hold a heavy responsibility if the Olympics and Paralympics work to worsen the pandemic, increasing the number of those who must suffer and die,” the letter said....

Down 5-1, Japan tied the score with a four-run seventh against Hector Velazquez. Kai started the comeback with an RBI single in the seventh, and Velazquez threw wildly into center field for a run-scoring error on Kazuki Tanaka’s comebacker. Pinch-hitter Hotaka Yamakawa followed with a two-run double. Seiji Uebayashi singled with two outs in the eighth off Otero, who took the loss, and scored from first on Kai’s double....

And yet, the Japanese leader expressed a growing wariness of the security situation around his country in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a development that has further prompted Tokyo to further invest in military capabilities. Kishida addressed geopolitical challenges concerning both Moscow and Beijing as he spoke at a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. Asked specifically about Biden’s recent remarks in which he once again broke with longstanding U....

A Japanese official told Newsweek that the Japanese government was “not in a position” to comment on Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan itself, but would weigh in on the regional fallout as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army began a series of drills set to surround the disputed island and extend into Japan’s claimed economic exclusion zone. “We are concerned that Beijing has announced various military activities,” the Japanese official said. “Moreover, the area that China announced for its military drills includes Japan’s EEZ [Exclusive Economic Zone]....

They take on Croatia, the second place finishers from 2018, in the Round of 16, as Luka Modric’s side finished second in Group F behind Morocco. Croatia have conceded just a single goal thus far, engineering a pair of scoreless draws while blasting Canada 4-1. Still, they were poor at times, hanging on for dear life against Belgium in the finale and seeing the Red Devils out. This match will present a fascinating chess match, as Croatia are happy slowing the game down against a Japan team that’s been gangbusters after the halftime break....

Cal quarterback and likely first-round draft pick Jared Goff supposedly has tiny baby hands. The 6-4, 215-pound quarterback is projected to be a first-round draft pick in the upcoming draft, but his puny paws could keep him from being selected earlier than expected. Despite the Cal product saying he’s “excited” about the possibility of playing for Cleveland, coach Hue Jackson, speaking at the 2016 NFL Scouting Combine, may not want Goff’s minuscule phalanges throwing footballs....

"It's a big deal that the administration has extended its hand to not only me, but my family, and also sports fans and also the gay community," he told ESPN's LZ Granderson. "I cover a lot of different topics." The 35-year old Collins, who went to the playoffs nine times and made the finals twice, is no longer with an NBA team. He has stayed in shape and remained hopeful that he can land with a team at some point, however....

Let’s look at the positives coming out of this angle (no pun intended). Jason Jordan is a talented superstar with a great look and he can definitely benefit from this push. His alliance with Kurt Angle can launch him as a certified singles superstar and catapult his career. At the same time, it allows his partner Chad Gable to become a singles competitor on his own, too! So, before he becomes the company’s next breakout star, we bring you five points from Jason Jordan’s life....

Tim Nelson collapsed in his driveway into a pool of that blood. A neighbor called 911 and Nelson was rushed to a local hospital, where he was clinging to life. He had lost half his blood. MORE: Top MLB moments in 2014 | Motte joins Cubs’ bullpen | Cardinals to honor late Oscar Taveras Nelson had been driving from his job in the west St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur to Dupo, Ill....