The Bluejays (9-11, 0-7 Big East) are in the midst of an eight-game losing streak, and now they will have to tackle the rest of their schedule without their second-leading scorer. The school announced Friday evening guard Isaiah Zierden will miss the remainder of the season with a right knee injury. MORE: College basketball’s craziest fans | Illinois manager to dress for team Saturday According to the team’s official website, Zierden “suffered a partially torn medial collateral ligament and patella injury in his right knee” in the first half of Creighton’s recent loss to Butler....

The undefeated UFC champion is a hit both inside and outside the octagon, and everyone is trying to hop on the money train. She’s running out of worthy opponents at 135 pounds, the highest weight class for women in UFC. So, Cris “Cyborg” Justino, the Ronda Rousey of Invitica FC, if you will, is ready to challenge her. Justino called out Rousey on Instagram Saturday, using the memes made popular by those anticipating the release of the NWA biopic, “Straight Outta Compton....

He sees nothing funny, though, in the “homophobic” attitudes that threaten to split his church. The long-simmering debate over homosexuality and the clergy erupted into open battle last week when the American Episcopal Church, part of the global Anglican family, confirmed an openly gay priest, the Rev. Gene Robinson, as Bishop of New Hampshire, the first such appointment in church history. Liberals welcomed the news as a victory for Christian tolerance over prejudice....

Mou turning Man Utd into Macclesfield A hat-trick during a stellar performance in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid early this month saw the 32-year-old edge closer to the achievement. Madrid claim Ronaldo had already registered 400 Blancos goals, the club having attributed a 2010 free-kick against Real Sociedad, deflected into the net off Pepe’s back, to the Portuguese. Though his highlight reel is filled with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of glorious goals, the 400th came somewhat simply....

Kushner—himself Orthodox Jewish—penned an op-ed for The New York Times published Wednesday in support of the EO, which will allow the Department of Education to defund programs and institutions that let anti-Semitism develop. This will allow the administration to clamp down further on movements linked to the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which is pressuring the Israeli government to to improve its treatment of Palestinians and end its continued violation of international law....

The crocodile dragged the boy under the water and held him below the surface for roughly 10 minutes, the child suffered a number of bites on the head, arms, chest and legs. The local boy, from the municipality of Zihuatanejo, wandered away from his parents on the beach with his sister. According to a Mexico News Daily report, the pair explored a nearby estuary, next to the Pacifica Resort, which has a fenced off area and a bridge above it....

The boy, who was later identified as Muhammad Ziyad Wijaya, had gone missing two days before near the Jawa Estuary on the east of the island of Borneo in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. Members of the East Kalimantan Basarnas Search and Rescue Agency had been searching for the boy. “Around seven in the morning the team received information from the family that they saw a crocodile carrying a human body,” head of the East Kalimantan Basarnas Search and Relief Office Melkianus Kotta told detik....

In Washington this week, los dos amigos, President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox, are expected to give the world a clunky new buzzword: “regularization.” Their original idea was blanket amnesty for Mexicans living illegally in the United States, but that trial balloon landed with a thud this summer. It turns out immigrants of dozens of other nationalities living in the United States didn’t think it was fair that their illegals be treated as second-class noncitizens....

Speaking from a sports bar in the French city of Lyon, where the final match was held, Palkot started his report with a crowd of soccer fans behind him. As he began announcing that the U.S. team had won, a man in the bar started the chant in the crowded pub, yelling out “fuck Trump” repeatedly. The others in the bar joined in quickly, with Palkot noticeably struggling to hear and speak above the noise behind him....

The three individuals—two from Australia and one from the U.K.—were forced to abandon the yacht they were travelling on when it began taking on water in the waters off New Caledonia, a French territory comprising dozens of islands. The problems started after a thick rope which had been floating in the ocean became caught in the engine, tearing a hole in the hull, The Australian reported. “It was just panic stations,” Ben Johnson, one of the three seafarers, told the newspaper....

An individual spotted the three-foot-long dolphin at around 10:30 a.m. stuck on the shore at Battery Park in the city of New Castle. The dolphin reportedly became stuck in the rocks when tide went out, John McDerby, captain of the National Resources Police from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said. The individual who first spotted the dolphin said the animal was crying when they arrived. While dolphins do not cry tears like humans do, the highly intelligent animals make distressed noises in fraught situations....

On Wednesday night, contestants on the ABC game show were being asked about “Fine meme-ories” when host Alex Trebek read a clue describing the Crying Jordan meme. POSITION RANKINGS: Point guards | Shooting guards | Small forwards “For some reason, a picture of this athlete crying after his NBA Hall of Fame induction in 2009 became meme-worthy in ‘16,” Trebek said as the answer. Thankfully one of the contestants got the question correct and earned $400....

Palace sign Van Aanholt The Eagles boss is looking to make several additions to his squad before the end of the January transfer window as he aims to lead the club to Premier League survival. Palace have brought in Jeffrey Schlupp and Patrick van Aanholt from Leicester City and Sunderland respectively this month, while Allardyce says he is looking to land two more players before the window ends. One man who could move to Selhurst Park after the window slams shut is Caceres, who has been a free agent since his Juventus contract expired last summer....

Zaha, assisted by McArthur, opened the floodgate in the 17th minute - his eighth of the season - with a nicely-placed finish. The former Manchester United man then return the favour as the Scot doubled their lead before the interval. 12 minutes after the restart, the Foxes were reduced to 10 men after Marc Albrighton fouled the Cote d’Ivoire international who outpaced him to get through on goal. “Yohan played a nice ball in and I heard Wilfried shout and I got it to him and it’s a great finish....

The 31-year-old will officially become an Eagles player on July 1 when his contract with the Spanish side expires and is Roy Hodgson’s first signing ahead of the new Premier League season. Guaita kept 12 clean sheets for Getafe last season, helping the side finish in eighth place in their first campaign back in the top flight, and started his career at Valencia - making over 100 appearances for Los Che....

Regimes do not give up power willingly, and popular protests may not make any difference. Just ask the Maduro regime in Venezuela, which has smashed uprisings repeatedly. Still, the demonstrations in Cuba are big enough that the Biden administration finally offered some quiet praise after remaining silent for days (just as the Obama administration did when Iranians protested against the Mullahs’ regime in 2009). The Cuban protesters have yet to hear an unambiguous message of support from the Squad or Bernie Sanders, who periodically offered qualified praise for the Castro dictatorship....

“We’re going to win the NL Central. Quote me on that,” Rizzo said Thursday on CBS Radio . “We should be the team, with all due respect to every other team, they’re just as good talent-wise, but we’re going to do some things this year. That’s what we’re expecting. That’s what we’re putting our sights on. We’re not going to accept anything else.” — Why Sporting News picked the Cubs to win the 2015 World Series...

The fan made the so-called “white power” gesture behind field analyst Doug Glanville’s back on NBC Sports Chicago’s telecast. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Glanville, who is black, played for the Cubs during part of a nine-season MLB career. “Such ignorant and repulsive behavior is not tolerated at Wrigley Field,” Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney said in a statement released early Wednesday morning....

Someone in the Cubs game day operations department made an incredibly poor choice during the team’s game against the Cardinals on Sunday night, and on Monday, the team is in damage-control mode. After reliever Aroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth inning in Chicago’s 6-4 loss to St. Louis, the public address system played the song “Smack My Bitch Up” for everyone at the ballpark to hear. MORE: The most controversial players in MLB history...

Instead of firing a strike down the middle, Epstein went after Clark the Cub, Chicago’s happy-go-lucky mascot. MORE: Celebrity first pitches Epstein has had it in for Clark for a long time, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. This may be the first ceremonial brushback in professional baseball history. “I tried to brush him back – at least move his feet with a two-seamer in off the plate. Which I did....