Rams running back Todd Gurley, who did not practice during the week because of left knee inflammation, will not play in Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Gurley was among the inactive players announced 90 minutes before kickoff. Gurley, the NFL leader in touchdowns,… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: Sharks’ Erik Karlsson suspended two games for hit to head of Kings forward Austin Wagner
It said it accepted Karlsson’s contention that while “he was trying to deliver a full-body hit and does make some contact with Wagner’s shoulder, the majority of the impact is delivered to Wagner’s head.” Karlsson, who has played 664 NHL games, had never been suspended before and had been fined only once. Here’s a link […]
Blog: Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
DECEMBER 23, 2018 WHILE WE — those in the West, particularly on the left — might criticize the oppressions of neo-imperialism, we also benefit from them. That is the quandary that Bruce Robbins confronts in his recent book, The Beneficiary (Duke University Press, 2017), which looks at capitalism and global inequality, drawing on critics from […]
Blog: Sharks’ Erik Karlsson suspended two games for hit to head of Kings forward Austin Wagner
It said it accepted Karlsson’s contention that while “he was trying to deliver a full-body hit and does make some contact with Wagner’s shoulder, the majority of the impact is delivered to Wagner’s head.” Karlsson, who has played 664 NHL games, had never been suspended before and had been fined only once. Here’s a link […]
Blog: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on possible ‘Aquaman’ sequel, Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ and Black Manta as a hero
I also would like to see him and Batman in a situation together. Because they’re both, supposedly, really wealthy guys, with really, really high IQs and they don’t have superpowers. They’re engineers that make their own equipment and they’re really skilled in hand-to-hand combat. So they’re sort of similar in that way and it’ll be […]
Blog: A sagging economy could doom a 2020 ballot measure to raise commercial property taxes, Gov. Jerry Brown says
Only five people have led the independent research office of the California Legislature since its creation in 1941. And each of them has had a pretty simple mantra to live by in reviewing public policy proposals and government programs: Call it like you see it. “The job of any analyst, to me, is you maintain […]