The UFC keeps lining them up, and “DC” keeps dominating them with top-notch skills and Octagon savvy, with Saturday night’s victory marking his third win of the year. That’s three fights, three finishes in 2018. But the heavyweight and light heavyweight “Double Champ” knows that no matter how much he flexes his greatness, fans and critics will still bring up his loss to Jon Jones. MORE: Join DAZN and watch more than 80 fight nights a year...

“At first I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m going to go help my teammate.’ Like, I was about to go fight,” Cormier recalled Friday during a media day at the UFC Performance Institute for his heavyweight title defense against Derrick Lewis at UFC 230. “But then when I got out there I was like, ‘What am I thinking?’” MORE: Join DAZN and watch the Andrade-Kautondokwa fight for free...

Or not. Now that every team has played at least one game that doesn’t count, it’s time to overreact to the first live action of the NFL season. Here we add a dose of reality to the most hyped storylines coming out of the weekend. 2019 NFL PREDICTIONS:Standings, playoff projections, Super Bowl pick Overreaction: Patriots are ready to replace a retiring Tom Brady (again) Brady and his wife are selling their mansion in Massachusetts....

Ikram Ul-Majeed Sehgal, managing director of the Pathfinder Group, which provides security to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and several major western media outlets, told NEWSWEEK that Pearl called him on January 16 or 17 and asked, “‘Can you give me any contacts to meet somebody in organized crime.’ He didn’t say why.” Sehgal said he told Pearl that he didn’t know anyone involved in Pakistan’s criminal underground and couldn’t help him with his request....

Do you feel like you were preparing to play Mahalia Jackson years before the role came your way? I definitely was. I’m a big believer in putting in the atmosphere what you want. So I was consciously reading, watching clips, just getting inspired and motivated the whole way through. And that was before reading any script, having any director, having any company to partner with. I was like, “I want to be ready to get ready....

Ainge, who won championships with the Celtics as a player in 1984 and 1986 and as president in 2008, said that a heart attack two years ago influenced his decision to leave. “I started thinking about what I was doing with my life,” he told the Associated Press. “You’re surrounded by your six children in the hospital, and they say, ‘Hey, you need to stop doing this.’” He continued, “I don’t know what my future holds....

Chargers running back Danny Woodhead gave us the softest spike in recorded human history after his 14-yard touchdown catch against the Bears on Monday night. MORE: Best of Week 9 | Jeff Fisher rips Rodney Harrison But wait — did you see the air Stevie Johnson got on that jump? Great execution on the play, better execution on the celebration. 

The Office of Transgender Initiatives for the City and County of San Francisco confirmed her death to the New York Daily News after she appeared to say goodbye to loved ones in a Facebook post on Friday. Becky Kugler, who described herself as Dorman’s sister, confirmed the comic had died in a message on the social media platform. “It is with great sadness and despair to hand out this information,” Kugler wrote beneath Dorman’s last post....

The Pro Bowl cornerback was traded to Philadelphia on Thursday and immediately let loose about Lions coach Matt Patricia, detailing a relationship he felt was unfair and toxic. Patricia has been at the helm for Detroit since 2018, joining the organization after serving as the Patriots’ defensive coordinator. His methods apparently didn’t sit right with Slay. “I didn’t have that much respect for Matty P as a person,” Slay told radio station WJR....

Brooks allegedly beat the mother of his child minutes before driving into the parade, a criminal complaint says, The Associated Press reported. The reason was because she denied to pay Brooks’ bail after he was arrested for allegedly running her over with the same vehicle he used during the Christmas parade incident, according to the complaint. On Friday, at the end of a preliminary hearing, Waukesha County Court Commissioner Kevin Costello said that Brooks must stand trial, as prosecutors have presented “ample” evidence showing that Brooks likely committed felonies, according to AP....

Wallace will drive the No. 6 car, the team announced Thursday. No sponsorship was announced and team officials confirmed whether he runs the full 33-race season is still being worked out. Wallace, 21, became the first African-American driver to win a NASCAR national series race in nearly 50 years when he captured a truck victory in October 2013 at Martinsville. He sought his release from Joe Gibbs Racing when it couldn’t commit to a full season for 2015....

Darrelle Revis, the Jets All-Pro cornerback, left during the third quarter of his team’s 24-17 loss to the Texans with a head injury. Jets coach Todd Bowles said after the game Revis had suffered concussion. MORE: 5 things we learned from Panthers big win | Ravens win, lose Joe Flacco for season Revis, who uncharacteristically gave up a touchdown to DeAndre Hopkins during the game, was injured while making a tackle....

It sounds like the Cowboys could be leaning toward starting Darren McFadden, who’s had the better preseason. Of course, we (and the Cowboys) aren’t really considering Lance Dunbar, but newcomer Christine Michael could eventually be in the mix if this situation hasn’t sorted itself out soon. Rather than wait, let’s see if we can sort it out for fantasy football owners right now. MORE: 2015 RB rankings | Week 1 RB rankings | Fantasy football cheat sheet...

The mother, 69-year-old Dorothy DuSold, was taken to M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville after Cassandra DuSold, 33, noticed she was bleeding and contacted 911. Dorothy DuSold was pronounced dead at the hospital on Saturday, WCCO reported. Cassandra DuSold, of New Market Township, was arrested at the scene and now faces a second-degree murder charge in Scott County District Court linked to the alleged attack that took place last Wednesday....

Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, officer Kim Potter, who worked for the police department for 26 years, during a traffic stop last Sunday. Body camera footage from the shooting suggests that Potter intended to deploy her Taser but instead fired her gun. Before the shooting, she can be heard yelling, “Taser! Taser! Taser!” “This white man was resisting arrest, BEATING A COP with his own baton, and driving away in their police car, and there is not one taser or gun in sight… yet #DaunteWright was killed for a minor traffic violation....

McAuliffe said this week that Williams would be joining him for a get-out-the-vote rally in Norfolk on Friday, just four days before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris, who attended a McAuliffe campaign event last week, will return to Virginia for the Friday rally, McAuliffe said Tuesday. McAuliffe’s announcement came shortly after musician Dave Matthews performed at a McAuliffe campaign event in Charlottesville over the weekend to encourage Virginians to vote early....

A University of Toronto neuropathologist confirmed the diagnosis and had several other neuropathologists back up her findings. Mirra was 41 when he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in February. MORE: NFL worse than bullies | Notable sports deaths in 2016 Mirra’s brain displayed the same tau protein deposits that have been seen in football players who have been diagnosed with CTE, the Toronto neuropathologist, Dr. Lili-Naz Hazrati, told ESPN The Magazine....

The Altman style was unmistakable: the long, wandering takes; the overlapping dialogue that invites us to eavesdrop on the actors; the teeming, spontaneous panoramas that offer multiple choices to the eye. His method was the opposite of a Hitchcock, who storyboarded every sequence in advance and arranged every object inside the frame. Altman’s movies spilled out beyond the edges of the frame, alive to the messiness of life. Notoriously laid back, in love with improvisation and multiple cameras, Altman was the director as party host, throwing a bash and letting the camera capture the results....

Good Pillow was launched online this week to rival the Lindell-run bedding giant MyPillow. The startup was established by gun-control activist David Hogg and software engineer William LeGate as Lindell continues to face heavy criticism for spreading election conspiracy theories. Twitter banned Lindell’s personal and MyPillow business accounts last month during a crackdown on misinformation in the wake of the U.S. Capitol riots. At the time, MyPillow had about 45,800 Twitter followers....

“Today a bipartisan group of 20 Senators (10 D and 10 R) is announcing a breakthrough agreement on gun violence—the first in 30 years. Told you this time is different,” tweeted David Hogg, the co-founder of March for Our Lives, which is a student-led movement that was formed after 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. Hogg was one of the survivors....