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After nine years coaching the Celtics and this offseason’s strange departure for the Clippers, Doc Rivers is back in Boston. And he doesn’t necessarily like it. Linemakers: Celtics-Clippers betting preview and pick “It’s going to be a hard night,” Rivers said. “I already told my coaches that it is just going to be hard. You don’t spend nine years in one place and win a title and have the emotions you have toward the city and the fans and be normal when the game starts....

Say hello to the new chain gang–and Mississippi isn’t alone. From Albany to Sacramento, lawmakers have discovered that bashing prison inmates is this season’s easiest and most disingenuous way to exploit voters’ anti-crime sentiment. Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina, among others, have enacted or proposed bans on telephones, televisions, basketball, boxing, wrestling and martial arts. California, eroding the Jerry Brown-era “Prisoners’ Bill of Rights,” is charging inmates $8 to initiate court actions and has banned R-rated movies....

A brainteaser, similar to the Yanny vs Laurel debate a few years ago, is sweeping the internet after being uploaded on TikTok. A man, named Kegan_Stiles, shared an auditory illusion on his page, along with nine options. The 20-year-old, from Pennsylvania, captioned the video: “What do you hear?” The options are “Bart Simspon bouncing,” “rotating pirate ship,” “that isn’t my receipt,” “lobsters in motion,” “that is embarrassing,” “lactates in pharmacy,” “I’m chasing Martin,” “baptism piracy” and “that isn’t mercy....

The 23-year-old suffered a knock in Cote d’Ivoire’s 2018 World Cup qualifying tie against Mali on October 6 and has been sidelined since then. The former Villarreal defender took to social media to herald his return to the action after training with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and goalkeeper David de Gea on Tuesday. Bailly could make his seventh league appearance this season when the Red Devils welcome Tottenham Hotspur to the Old Trafford on Saturday....

Quarterback Mayfield was selected with the first-overall pick by the Browns in the 2018 NFL Draft and went 6-7 as a starter for Cleveland in his rookie season. However, Mayfield is a man who splits opinion due to his outspoken nature, which included taking a dig at ex-teammate Duke Johnson for requesting a trade. Mayfield has also taken aim at Giants fans following the trade of Odell Beckham Jr. to the Browns, while he said “it blows my mind” when the New York franchise picked Duke QB Daniel Jones with the sixth pick in April’s draft....

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport was asked about the Mayfield-to-Seattle rumors that had been making the rounds on the Internet during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday. Rapoport said that he has “heard nothing to corroborate Baker to the Seahawks at all.” MORE: Browns reportedly willing to eat salary in potential Baker Mayfield trade Rapoport acknowledged that the Mayfield-to-Seattle rumor essentially took on “a life of its own” because it was shared frequently on the Internet....

Balochistan 2nd XI have won two of their last three games and will be desperate to continue their winning momentum. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2nd XI, on the other hand, have won only one of their last two matches and will be keen to make a comeback in the tournament. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2nd XI will give it their all to win the match and make a comeback in the tournament, but Khyber Balochistan 2nd XI have a better squad and are expected to win this nail-biting encounter....

Balan Wonderworld was first announced during the pre-show for Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase in July 2020, where it was revealed that Square Enix would be supporting Naka and Ohshima’s newest studio and releasing the game worldwide. In January 2021, Square Enix released a demo showcasing three of the game’s main worlds, which was heavily criticized for rigid animations, unpolished visuals, and underwhelming level design. This caused many fans to encourage Square Enix to delay the game for extra polish, similar to how Microsoft delayed Halo Infinite after fans criticized its gameplay reveal....

Greene suggested in a tweet on Wednesday that “brainwashed” Democrats from blue states should be given a “cooling down period” where they are not allowed to vote if they move to a red state. Although suspending voting rights for people who have moved states based on political affiliation would be clearly illegal, Greene argued that a ban could be possible during a so-called “National Divorce,” prompting Gallego to blast her for promoting civil war....

The French star played 10 double faults with six of them coming in the opening set, ultimately spelling her demise. The second meeting between the top players came three years after a match at Wimbledon where the Belorussian also handed the Frenchwoman a straight sets loss. Things are different since then with their skills tested against one another on the hard courts this time. Azarenka had a decent showing at San Jose last week winning two matches before going out with an injury in the quarterfinals....

Controversy broke out at the Hyderabad Cricket Association after it barred Azharuddin from attending its Special General Meeting (SGM) on January 7. Azharuddin was initially not allowed to attend the SGM which was convened to pass the Lodha committee recommendations. On being told that he was not allowed as he was a proxy at the meeting, Azharuddin said he is the vice president of a cricket club. “They kept saying that I have not registered....

Now there’s a sense that the worst is past. After a bout of internal reform that saw, for example, the Yale School of Management unveil an entirely new curriculum last year, the numbers are back up. In the United States, B-school applications and enrollments are rising again, according to an industry survey released this month. Worldwide, corporate demand for new M.B.A.s has risen healthily this year (by 24 percent) for the first time since 2002....

Ethan Hendricks was born at only 30 weeks and he has lived his entire life in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Miramar Beach, Florida. He was “the smallest baby they had ever had,” his mom, Fawn Hendricks told Newsweek. She began posting videos of her premature baby to TikTok and one went viral after a person pointed out how much the baby looked like Jordan, who passed away in October....

The father Juan Rodriguez, 39, is a social worker and worked a full day at a veterans hospital in the Bronx about two blocks away from where he had parked. After working a full day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., he returned to his Honda sedan, to find the 1-year-old boy and girl, NYPD officials said in a news release. Friday’s temperatures in New York City reached a high of the mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service....

The story of the wallaby gets complicated, so try to stay with us. The wallaby started appearing on social media platforms from Michigan football players in late June. MORE: Live animal mascots | Soccer team’s horrifying mascot | Meet the pup at Fresno State Quarterback Shane Morris shared an Instagram photo of receiver Jack Wangler holding the animal on June 26. The Instagram photo he posted has since been deleted by Wangler....

The 15-second clip, posted by Leslie Munoz (aka @lesliemunnoz), offered a glimpse into the day of a Subway sandwich-making employee while simultaneously parenting. The TikTok video — set to Reba McEntire’s “I’m a Survivor” — has garnered nearly 3 million views and over 500,000 likes at the time of this post. According to Indeed, employees and former employees said that Subway doesn’t offer paid maternity leave but they can return to their job after taking unpaid time off....

The game was first released in October of last year and not long after it hit the market, Back 4 Blood developers made it clear they were going to be working on new updates and content for the near future. The game allows for up to four users to play together to go on various runs while fighting wave after wave of zombies on a variety of maps. There’s also a way for players to play the game by themselves if they want, but the point of the game is for people to play together cooperatively to fight off the undead....

Back 4 Blood may be the best Left 4 Dead-like game on the market in gameplay terms. It offers players a lengthy campaign, especially for this sort of game, and the replayability of its core design is quite high. The core gameplay loop utilized in the campaign is straightforward but fun: advance through each mission, defeat hordes of “Ridden” zombies, and reach the next safe room. RELATED: Back 4 Blood Campaign Trailer Reveals What Caused The Zombie Apocalypse...