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Shula’s hiring last month breathed new life into a controversy that won’t go away: professional sports’ abysmal record promoting minorities to head-coaching and major front-office positions. With eight head-coaching jobs open in the NFL following the 1991 season-the most in any year since 1983-only one job so far has gone to an African-American, Stanford University’s Dennis Green, hired by the Minnesota Vikings in mid-January. Despite years of jawboning about reform, critics point to numerous factors, from endemic racism to the “old-boy network,” to explain the lack of progress....

This is a condition that can occupy one’s thoughts. Imagine being able to say, “We are perfect” without sounding conceited or delusional. With Butler, it is the objective truth. “We know we haven’t lost a game, obviously. You’d have to be not paying attention,” Butler coach LaVall Jordan told Sporting News. “But we don’t talk a lot about winning and losing. It’s all about the standard we want to play to....

Any mother who feels that her services are taken for granted knows how to make her brood recognize their value: start charging them market rates for laundry, cooking, cleaning and taxi services. Now Mother Nature is doing something similar. Many "" ecosystem services,’’ such as natural pollination, have been so degraded by pollution and development that they are no longer performing the jobs they once did. Until now there has been what biologist Gretchen Daily of Stanford University calls a ““near total lack of public appreciation of [society’s] dependence on natural ecosystems....

Virat Kohli’s latest attempt didn’t. England’s fast bowlers backed up an inspired innings from Buttler by reducing Kohli’s India to 174-6 and grabbing command of the fifth test on day two at the Oval on Saturday. Stuart Broad and Sam Curran removed India’s openers, then James Anderson and Ben Stokes tore through the middle order with two wickets each. India captain Kohli, the leading batsman in the series, was taken out by Stokes for 49 near stumps....

The FTC’s major accomplishments: TCI agreed to make its Time Warner stock nonvoting and to house it in a new TCI subsidiary that Malone won’t control. And TCI gave up its proposed 20-year contract to buy Time Warner and Turner programs at cut-rate prices. Sounds great. But in the real world, those conditions are as likely to restrain John Malone as shoestrings were to restrain Harry Houdini, the noted escape artist....

There was one obstacle: the Congressional Black Caucus. Led by showboating Rep. Kweisi Mfume, the caucus has been effective at making the president squirm on issues ranging from Haiti to welfare reform. The 40-member caucus doesn’t have the votes to kill the crime bill, but Clinton has tried – awkwardly – to appease the members because he doesn’t want to appear disrespectful of African-Americans, or to alienate a traditional Democratic constituency....

THE CANDIDATES How They Want to Spend Your Money BARACK OBAMA: Obamanomics is a lot like Rubinomics, which the Clintonites favored in the ’90s. It would boost taxes on high earners (by letting Bush income-tax cuts expire) to fund targeted tax cuts for the middle class and new spending on health care; redeploy funding from Iraq to the war on domestic woe, and possibly lift the cap on the payroll tax to shore up Social Security....

Jillian Orr posted a TikTok of her putting together the gown and wearing it to graduation where it received more than 2.7 million views and 5,700 comments since Sunday. “At BYU it’s against the honor code to be in a homosexual relationship,” the on-screen text read as Orr used a sewing machine to stitch a rainbow pride flag inside her graduation gown. “If you are discovered to be dating or just holding hands there are severe consequences,” the on-screen text continued....

Just before the Bulls tipped off against the Raptors on Sunday, the team announced that Rose will undergo an MRI on his right knee, according to ESPN. The Bulls would win that game 115-113 behind 42 points for Jimmy Butler, who broke Michael Jordan’s Bulls record with 40 points after halftime. It was the Bulls’ fourth win in a row but the third without Rose. MORE: 10 bold NBA predictions for 2016 | Warriors could get Harrison Barnes back Monday...

Earlier in the night, D-Von Dudley confirmed that he had been released by WWE. The Hall of Famer had been working with the company as a producer backstage since 2016, thus the sudden parting of ways came as a shock to many. Prior to his release, in recent months, Dudley had been working as a coach at the WWE Performance Center. After Dudley shared the news, his former tag team partner, Bully Ray, reacted on social media....

Out in the US from 21 December and the UK from 26 December (aka Boxing Day), you can buy tickets for Bumblebee from Fandango or Atom Tickets in the US, or from your choice of Cineworld, Vue, or Odeon if you’re in the UK. You can also pick up a collection of all five Transformers movies so far on DVD or Blu-ray if you want to re-watch any of your favourites....

Chetan Narula Melbourne, Dec 29 (PTI) India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun Saturday said that Jasprit Bumrah’s unconventional bowling action has made him one of the most lethal pacers in world cricket as his deliveries are difficult to be picked by opposition batsmen. Bumrah, who has so far taken eight wickets in the third Test against Australia here, has 47 Test wickets to his kitty after making his debut in January....

The lack of dedicated servers—something many other first person shooters such as Call of Duty and Overwatch employ to create a stable online experience—has been a concern for many fans. But Bungie explained today that, while Destiny 2 does lack traditional dedicated servers, the game uses a hybrid system that the developer promises will lead to smoother online experiences than the original game. Bungie’s Engineering Lead, Matt Segur, addressed the concerns and criticisms about dedicated servers in the developer’s weekly blog, and explained that one big change from Destiny to the sequel is that all the activities in Destiny 2 will be hosted by one of Bungie’s servers:...

Some Destiny 2 players did find an easier way to get Exotic items in the Destiny 2 Witch Queen expansion through farming Lost Sectors. With it being a couple of months since the release of the Witch Queen as well, many Destiny 2 players now have the rare items that they want either through farming tricks or the usual methods. However, according to a new “This Week at Bungie” blog post, fans may be getting a new Exotic piece of gear soon....

The arrival of Savathun, the Witch Queen, has major implications for the Sol system in Destiny 2. This was prefaced by major events that have happened with each expansion. These include the arrival of the Pyramids, the growing presence that both Savathun and Xivu Arath have maintained in Sol, as well as the greatly shifting alliances of other hostile interstellar species. As such, The Witch Queen expansion will undoubtedly blow fans away, but Destiny 2 should not use it as the conclusion for all of its currently running storylines....

But he was back a week later, driven this time by “a feeling of injustice,” he recalls in an interview with NEWSWEEK. “I’m a normal monk. I’m not a political monk. I am not well, not that strong. I have bone tuberculosis. But I participated because I wanted democracy, I wanted justice, and I wanted to show solidarity with people. Also, the protests had grown to thousands of people and I could not resist....

Manager Pep Guardiola made five changes from the side that dispatched Sheffield United last weekend, with Raheem Sterling, John Stones and Joao Cancelo among those drafted back into the starting line-up. Just like that narrow victory over the Blades, Manchester City went ahead inside the first 10 minutes through Gabriel Jesus. Nick Pope saved a shot by Bernardo Silva, and the Brazil international was on hand to convert the rebound in the 3rd minute....

Chris Wood and Dwight McNeil scored in the first half against a surprisingly toothless West Ham side, giving Burnley only its second win since Sept. 30. Sean Dyche’s side remained in 18th place, but now only trails Southampton on goal difference and is just four points from 14th in a tight bottom third of the table. Four days after losing 5-1 at home to Everton, Burnley looked resolute at the back and confident going forward as Wood opened the scoring in the 15th minute and the 19-year-old McNeil netted his first goal for the club in the 34th....

The deadline-day switch sees Wells, 27, put pen to paper on a three-year contract at Turf Moor, as Sean Dyche’s men add to the arrival of Chris Wood from Leeds United as they replace Andre Gray, who joined Watford. Burnley 11/2 to beat Palace 1-0 “I have no doubt this is an ideal move for me,” the striker, whose Huddersfield deal only had a year left to run, told Burnley’s website....