In 2014, Tom Watson seemed to be the perfect captain for the U.S. team with the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in Scotland. His four British Open victories gave him instant credibility and most thought his knowledge of how to play the links course could lead the U.S. to victory. MORE: Ryder Cup 2014 photos | Can Tiger make Ryder Cup team? | FedEx Cup winners Others felt the age difference between Watson and the younger players could lead to differences in the team’s approach, pairings and general strategy, which turned out to be the case....

Even after 51 days of facing each other across the wind-swept plains of central Texas, the FBI and the Branch Davidians were still aliens to each other -viewing reality through very different prisms. Outside the barbed wire encircling Ranch Apocalypse, the imperative was clear: uphold the law. Inside, the Branch Davidians believed they answered to a higher authority. It was a recipe for disaster. Weeks of negotiations and broken promises, glimmers of hope and crushing disappointments....

Since 2016, race purses and prize money information have been private, leaving fans combining guesswork, outdated numbers and rare peeks behind the curtain to glean information about the economic picture of the sport. But just before the 2020 Daytona 500, the association released the race purse — a record-setting $23.6 million will be distributed among the 40 drivers. Below is everything you need to know about the Daytona 500 purse, including estimates of how much the winner will make....

Icardi misses penalty as Inter loses Inter’s head coach also suggested that striker Mauro Icardi - who was the target of crowd protests about comments he made about the club’s fans in his autobiography - would have scored his penalty “on another day” after firing a first-half spot kick wide, though refused to discuss the striker’s situation any further. The Nerazzuri led through a Joao Mario strike before goals from Federico Melchiorri and a Samir Handanovic own-goal completed the turnaround for Cagliari....

The 26-year-old midfielder has come a long way since his potential was first spotted by those in his native Belgium. His efforts for City are already considered to have positioned him among the global elite, with the 2017-18 campaign seeing him deliver another 11 goals and 19 assists. De Bruyne is, however, setting his sights on becoming the best player on the planet, with Olivieri considering him to be among the contenders ready to follow in the footsteps of Barcelona and Real Madrid superstars Messi and Ronaldo – who have 10 Ballons d’Or between them....

Madrid have regularly been linked with the likes of David de Gea and Gianluigi Donnarumma, while Athletic Bilbao’s Kepa Arrizabalaga emerged as a leading candidate before signing a new long-term contract at San Mames in January. Such long-lasting speculation could be enough to worry some players, but Navas claims he is “calm” about the situation and will be ready to fight for his place should a rival be signed....

There, rising over the horizon out of the morning mist, were the distinctive pagoda-shaped superstructures of a dozen battleships and cruisers of Emperor Hirohito’s Imperial Japanese Navy. The men on the Johnston could see the great guns of the Japanese warships flashing in the distance, and see and hear the giant shells tumbling towards them. The shells made a sound, some recalled, like a passing freight train. On the bridge of the Johnston , one sailor ducked....

The bacteria can cause a potentially deadly illness known as melioidosis—a disease that mostly occurs in tropical climates, especially in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. On Thursday, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) announced the bacteria had been found in soil samples from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi as part of a joint investigation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The investigation was launched after two people fell ill with melioidosis on the Gulf Coast two years apart....

Hospital workers said the death likely will rise with 15 people critically wounded and casualties still coming in to the main hospital at Damaturu, capital of Yobe state. Police Assistant Superintendent Nathan Cheghan confirmed the explosion but said rescue workers were being careful for fear of secondary explosions. Islamic extremists of the Boko Haram group frequently time secondary explosions to kill people who rush to the scene of a bomb blast....

Has Wal-Mart gotten kinder and gentler? Has the multibillionaire Walton family suddenly decided to share its wealth by having Wal-Mart give employees something for nothing? Nope. Wal-Mart actually comes out millions of dollars ahead by buying this insurance, thanks to its clever use of a loophole in the federal tax code. The insurance program saved Wal-Mart about $36 million in income tax last year, and the company expects to save more than $80 million this year....

Coutinho was heavily linked with a big-money move to Barcelona in the summer, but the Reds reportedly turned down three bids, despite the player submitting a transfer request. Barca chief executive Oscar Grau has claimed that the club are “ready” to move again for the Brazilian in the January transfer window, but Saunders has suggested that Mane is more valuable to Liverpool. The Senegal international has become a key player in Jurgen Klopp’s team since moving to Anfield from Southampton in 2016....

DeAnna Lorraine, who unsuccessfully tried to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from her California District 12 seat in 2020, made a number of falsehoods and wild conspiracies while appearing on the right-wing Stew Peters Show on June 25. Among some of the claims was that the collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South on June 24, which has left at least 12 people dead and 149 people still accounted for, was done on purpose, linking it to the conspiracy that New York’s World Trade Center was blown up rather than collapsing following a targeted terrorist attack....

Since Manchin shocked the political world by suddenly announcing his support for what Democrats are calling the “Inflation Reduction Act” late last month, supporters have waited anxiously for Sinema’s verdict. Despite rarely granting interviews with national press outlets, Sinema is a true master of making herself the center of attention. After helping spike a minimum wage hike in 2021, scotching the party’s plans to overhaul the tax code and clinging to the Senate’s arcane filibuster rule to obstruct everything from voting rights to the codification of Roe v....

India insists that Pakistan is to blame for the violence in Kashmir. And to a large extent, India is right. Pakistan has provided arms, money and training facilities to militant Kashmiri groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad. If Islamabad cut off support, such groups would be forced to disband–or to establish vulnerable bases inside Indian-controlled Kashmir. Pakistan could also bar Arabs, Chechens and its own nationals from reaching the battle zone....

Taylor’s eloquently terse summation was hardly likely to be the last word in the most heart-rending episode of mass murder in the history of the British Isles. Politicians of every stripe competed to divine the meaning of an inexplicably vile event. The villain, all too predictably, was an embittered loner and suspected pedophile known locally as “Mr. Creepy,” and it seemed only fitting that the final act of his gory rampage was suicide....

Getting tax-savings money upfront? You gotta love it. Here’s the deal: Great-West, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is buying Putnam from Marsh & McLennan of New York. Normally, this would be a plain-vanilla deal, with Great-West’s buying the stock of the M&M subsidiary that owns Putnam. This wouldn’t give any U.S. tax breaks to Great-West, which has substantial U.S. profits. Instead, M&M and Great-West are adding yummy tax topping to the vanilla by making what tax techies call a 338(h)(10) election....

Escobar, 44, was an early prototype of the new international gangster. He helped to make cocaine a global drug of choice, for glitterati as well as ghetto dwellers, transporting it by the ton from colombia to booming markets in America and Europe. He organized small-time smugglers and dealers into the criminal equivalent of a multinational corporation, based in his hometown, Medellin. He had money laundered in major financial centers, linked to his headquarters by phone, fax and computer....

Recently, i’ve discovered just how committed some companies are to keeping us mired in debt. Last year, I got a check for $5,000 in the mail from a company that will remain nameless, simply because I’m trying to remove them from my life and I don’t wish to anger them. It was an actual check–a loan, of course, with a high interest rate of 21 percent; all I had to do was endorse it, deposit it, and the appropriate paperwork would follow....

MORE: OK to have Jeter fatigue? | A Jeter toy story | Jeter’s ‘man of the people’ Gatorade ad Solid. Love that he tweaks the Captain for not retiring after Thursday’s Yankee Stadium finale (the Yanks will be in Boston this weekend). But he stopped short of using the f-word (that’s “fraud,” which is what Chris Carlin, who works for the Mets’ TV network, called Jeter).