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During an appearance on Hulu’s recent docuseries about the Lakers, Odom said (via Landon Buford on Twitter): Lamar Odom joined the LA Lakers as part of the trade that sent Shaquille O’Neal to the Miami Heat. The Lakers needed a second star to stay competitive after eight successful years with Shaq that yielded four finals appearances and three championships. Kobe Bryant had the lead role following Shaq’s departure. Odom was coming off a great season with the Heat, averaging 17....

A tragedy that changed it all When I was five years old, my parents told my siblings and me that they were getting divorced. Because I was very young, I did not know what the consequences of that would be. The idea of divorce also didn’t make sense to me, because it seemed that my parents had a normal marriage. I had never seen or heard of any violence between them....

During his recent interview with Ariel Helwani of ESPN MMA, Jake Paul responded to DC’s callout by stating he wasn’t surprised that Cormier challenged him to an MMA fight, considering The Problem Child doesn’t have any experience fighting inside the octagon. Paul further highlighted the disparity in skill level between himself and Cormier by emphasizing that DC has trained in boxing, striking, standup and has shared the octagon with the likes of Stipe Miocic and Jon Jones....

Paris Saint-Germain led Le Classique 3-0 in on Sunday, with Neymar having set up Edinson Cavani after 55 minutes to wrap up the victory after Kylian Mbappe’s opener and a Rolando own goal. But with PSG coach Unai Emery having already used all three substitutes, Neymar was hurt in a collision with Sarr in the closing stages at the Parc des Princes. The pair challenged for the ball in the air and the PSG forward appeared to damage his right ankle when he landed awkwardly....

Manchester United midfielder Fernandes took the Premier League by storm in his first full season at the club. The Portuguese superstar, who joined United in January 2020, scored a staggering 18 goals and claimed 11 assists in 37 league games in the 2020-21 season. Speaking to reporters, Leicester City midfielder Maddison claimed that he watched Fernandes’ game closely to understand the recipe for his success. Maddison said (via Metro):...

The pair squared off for the first time in the second round of the 2013 Cincinnati Open. At the time, Williams was the reigning World No. 1, while the Canadian was a sprightly teenager climbing up the rankings. Eugenie Bouchard said the occasion seemed surreal to her as she felt like she was looking at Williams on a TV screen despite standing just a few feet away from the American....

I fell in love with islands then, but I actually left home at a very young age—when I had just turned 14—and by 18 I had travelled through Europe and was staying in Germany. Every German I spoke to loved Canada, so I came up with the idea of starting a touring company in Canada. On one tour, a friend of mine with a sailboat offered to take my group sailing on St Lawrence River in Kingston, Ontario for a couple of hundred dollars—it would normally have cost thousands....

It was completely silent. All I could hear was my own breathing; it was a spiritual moment. Then I heard my team in my ear piece. I’d disconnected from the oxygen tank on the ship system, so I only had 10 minutes of oxygen left to last me the 24-mile drop back to Earth. I took one step forward, and we made history. On October 14, 2012, I ascended to the Earth’s stratosphere in a helium balloon before freefalling back to Earth and parachuting into New Mexico....

We had three children; the eldest had just turned six and the youngest was 18 months old, and so his leaving was the most shocking and unexpected experience I’ve ever had. It was very messy and I had to grow up fast, because while I was upset, furious and heartbroken, at the same time we had three very young children. I remember saying to him that they weren’t interested in what had happened, we just had to do right by them....

The 35-year-old won his 21st Grand Slam title at the Australian Open after battling past Daniil Medvedev in the final. The World No. 5 made an incredible comeback from two sets down to win the Melbourne Slam for the first time since 2009. In an interview with Onda Cero, Carlos Moya said that Nadal’s Grand Slam race is not yet finished. The former World No. 1 pointed out that the Spaniard is one of the favorites in every tournament he plays....

Shams Charania of The Athletic broke the news in the early hours of Saturday, stating that the Trail Blazers are looking at “concerns around workplace environment by non-player personnel at the practice facility.” News like this will undoubtedly be a distraction to the players and organization considering the party involved. Olshey joined the Trail Blazers in 2012 and was responsible for selecting Damian Lillard with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft....

While American alligators can be found “as far north as North Carolina and as far west as eastern Texas,” according to the National Wildlife Federation, they are not native to Missouri because they cannot survive the state’s cold winters, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On Sunday, per the local news outlet KMOV, Suljak was mowing his lawn and cutting off tree limbs when he heard a splash and saw a “pretty good-sized tail” disappear into the creek that borders his backyard in the town of Wildwood, Missouri, according to KTVI....

When I met Bill Clinton, he was the first person I ever met from Arkansas. And when I first visited Arkansas [in 1973], I really did not know what to expect. He picked me up at the airport in Little Rock. He lived in Hot Springs, which was like an hour away. We drove eight hours. He took me to all these places he thought were beautiful. We went to all the state parks....

According to L’Equipe (as per Get French Football News), a source close to the French international claimed that she was attacked on her way back from a club event, accompanied by two teammates. She was reportedly driving home when two masked individuals appeared, one of whom dragged her out of the vehicle. The attacker struck her with an iron bar multiple times on the legs for several minutes before escaping....

The Indian Premier League witnessed its most ugly on-field spat when Royal Challenger Bangalore’s Mitchell Starc had a confrontation with Mumbai Indian’s Keiron Pollard. The incident raised TRP’s when Australian pacer, Starc hurled the ball at West Indies’ Pollard and the latter in turn, threw the bat in Starc’s direction out of anger. Meanwhile, Pollard’s West Indies’ team-mate, Chris Gayle admitted that he tried to calm the situation that had heated up between the two teams....

TikTok user @monthofsunday shared the video on August 13, and it has since amassed more than 300,000 views. She said she does not appreciate it when her child is given a gift that the gift-giver did not want in their own home or was regifted. “I’ve had enough at this point,” read the caption of her video. “If it’s not thoughtful my baby is not in need of it. Because it’s the thought that counts right!...

Yet with this most recent disaster, I was not surprised to see there has been an increase in Vibrio vulnificus, known as the “flesh-eating bacteria” infection, in Florida. A lot of people got injured in the storm, and had no choice but to be in the water, and the infection usually passes through cuts and scrapes in water containing the virus. I think Vibrio vulnificus is more common nowadays—or, at least, the knowledge is more readily available, and doctors know how to treat it....

The previous 18 months had been a whirlwind. My son, Myles, was born at the end of 2012, and in 2013 my wife and I bought our first house together. During the same period, we had also married, cruised around the Caribbean for our honeymoon, and my wife had fallen pregnant with our daughter. I can appreciate that to those looking in, we had a comfortable life. Then, on May 30, 2014, I found that over the course of the day my left wrist had started to swell, and by evening it was locked in place....

Rittenhouse didn’t see it that way. “So people are getting injured, and our job is to protect this business, and part of my job is also to help people,” he told me. For the third night in a row, half of downtown Kenosha was ablaze. “When there’s somebody hurt, I’m running into harm’s way.” Thirteen minutes later, Rittenhouse, standing feet from me, would kill one man. A few minutes after that, he’d kill another....

“Hey don’t walk in here. I’m in here changing,” she shouts out into the hall. “Nobody wants to see you,” a man’s voice answers. “Yeah, back at you,” says Cockrell, then Ashley Martin. She drops her bag just inside her “locker room,” which is just a corner in the equipment room that has blue plastic tarps engulfing a personalized space for her. “There’s an outside door to the equipment room, so I did not have to walk through the locker room,” Cockrell tells Sporting News 19 years later....