“I was made aware of a situation over the weekend involving an employee of the Dallas Stars organization,” Nill began. “Once I received all the information, we sat down, we had to digest everything and as I mentioned, we talked to general counsel and everything else and we made our decision.” Nill did divulge that he caught wind of the undisclosed incident this weekend via phone call and that the incident itself took place “a few days before that” with an investigation beginning on Sunday....

Aderin, a senior executive at the Russian arms contractor KBP Instrument Design Bureau, hotly dismisses the allegations–with a somewhat discomfiting argument. “If our missiles were being used in Iraq, the American losses would be a lot higher,” says Aderin huffily. “But since the American casualties are so light, I assume that our products aren’t there.” The Pentagon begs to differ. U.S. military sources recently revealed that several U.S. armored vehicles–including two Abrams M1A1 tanks–were knocked out by KBP-designed Kornet missiles in fighting around the Iraqi city of Najaf....

Hamlin is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest during a primetime U.S. National Football League game on Monday. The 24-year-old Buffalo Bills player fell to the ground after colliding with an opponent during the first quarter of the match against the Cincinnati Bengals. He received medical attention on-field for more than 30 minutes after the collision with wide receiver Tee Higgins, before being rushed to a local hospital....

Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati on Monday but continues to steadily recover, tweeted a picture of himself and his parents getting ready to watch the game in his hospital room. Hamlin and his parents are all donning “Love for Damar” shirts with his No. 3 on the front. Hamlin had the same reaction everyone at home did when Nyheim Hines returned the opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown....

When Lillard missed a pair of free throws that would have given Portland a lead with 18.6 seconds remaining, the Clippers’ bench laughed at him in an over-the-top display meant to get under his skin. In his postgame news conference, Lillard said George and Patrick Beverley shouldn’t talk trash after being sent home by the Trail Blazers in the playoffs before. Lillard hit an iconic shot over George last season to advance past the Thunder in the first round of the playoffs....

It all started when the Portland guard said on “The Joe Budden Podcast” that Shaq was only a popular rapper because of his talent on the basketball court rather than his lyrics. “I think I rap better than Shaq,” Lillard said. “I think he was viewed as Shaq. People [weren’t] looking at him like he was a real rapper. They was like, ‘That’s Shaq rapping,’ so of course, it was a big deal....

During an appearance on “The Woj Pod” with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Trail Blazers guard spoke on several topics, including the speculation surrounding Lillard and his future with the franchise. Ever since Portland fell to Denver in the first round of the NBA playoffs, rumors have swirled about Lillard’s status, but McCollum believes his longtime backcourt mate is “all-in” with the Trail Blazers ahead of the 2021-22 season. MORE: Potential trade scenarios involving Ben Simmons...

As demolition goes, it was nothing extraordinary. But as symbol, it was historic and a scene that will be repeated scores of times throughout the West in the coming years. On Butte Creek two more dams will come down next spring. On Washington’s Elwha River, where two dams block half a million salmon, one is likely to be demolished by 2000 and another is in environmentalists’ cross hairs. ““Dam removal is suddenly a viable option,’’ says Daniel Beard of the National Audubon Society and former director of the federal agency in charge of many Western dams....

“I’ve worked in this business 35 years. Skip outworks all of us,” Cowherd said. “The hardest working guy when I got into this business was Jim Rome. … That guy grinds it every day. You don’t know anybody that works like him. This radio business I’m in is full of guys who read the sports page and rip crap off. I’m here three hours a day. So is Romey. Dan Patrick doesn’t work as hard as Rome — not even close....

Episode 3 of “All Access” to hype the Aug. 26 showdown between McGregor and Floyd Mayweather aired on Showtime, and to the surprise of many, no footage was shown of the much-hyped session. White spoke to the media following the his show, “Tuesday Night Contender Series” and said UFC sent the premium cable channel footage of McGregor and the Showtime boxing analyst sparring. White claims Showtime refused to use it....

Now comes another log for the bonfire. A small company named Heritage Oil, controlled by a British businessman named Tony Buckingham (thought by many to be a former mercenary, a description he denies), says it may have found black gold in an area straddling the Uganda-Congo border in the Great Rift Valley. A report by an independent engineering consultancy, Scott Pickford Associates, says there is a 10 percent chance that 1....

Last week, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center announced that 28 states were under an excessive heat warning and cautioned that high temperatures nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit will “will increase the risk of heat-related illnesses.” Several states and cities such as New York and Boston issued warnings for the heat wave, telling residents to stay inside as much as possible and to be aware of heat-related issues. In New York, WNBC reported that the city’s medical examiner’s office announced that one individual died over the past weekend due to heat exposure....

That’s not exactly a good thing, but she’ll try to look at the bright side of a season-opening week that has brought far less success than a year ago . Patrick won the pole for the 2013 Daytona 500 to become the first woman ever to win a pole for a NASCAR Cup race. This year, she has not shown great speed at Daytona International Speedway, got caught up in a wreck in the exhibition Sprint Unlimited and finished 13th in her qualifying race Thursday....

“I’m excited to have my friend back,” Harvick said Friday morning at Atlanta Motor Speedway. “I don’t really care about the racing side of it. I’m just happy to have my friend back and be able to talk to him and hug him and support him. “That’s the part I’m looking forward to the most.” MORE: Stewart set to return | Stewart questions, challenges | Stewart sponsors, SHR future...

“I feel like she does a really good job of being who she is. I think that’s what people see in her,” Patrick said Wednesday before an event with sponsor Tissot. “I feel like when I see her, I see Ronda. I feel like she’s being honest and upfront. We as consumers love to see that.” MORE: 30 Days of Ronda | Rousey’s sex tips | Danica’s on-track tantrums...

Patrick and Stenhouse star in Ford's new "Drivin' Around Song" video that hit the web earlier this week. As part of the video, Patrick and Stenhouse, who plays a garage mechanic, spend a little bit of time flirting with each other before Patrick steals his golf cart and takes Ford for a ride. What was it like for Patrick to have to "act" like she was flirting with her real-life beau?...

Though, not everyone thinks along the same lines as Daniel Jacobs. Jacobs (33-2, 29 KOs) lost his WBA belt in a controversial loss to unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, and some fans and boxing pundits felt Jacobs did enough to dethrone “GGG” in the bout; they felt the only reason he didn’t get the win was due to the politics involved in making the Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez superfight that was coming down the pike in 2017....

The pair reflected on their own upbringings within the film industry while speaking to Newsweek about their upcoming comedy Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Radcliffe plays the famous polka-playing comedian in the parody biopic while Wood stars as the movie’s “villain,” Madonna. Radcliffe started acting professionally at the age of ten before going on to international stardom when he was cast as Harry Potter. While he wouldn’t recommend young actors take the same path to stardom as he did, there were some perks to his upbringing....

Danny Garcia is a perfect example. The former 140-pound kingpin moved up to 147 after conquering the junior welterweight division and faced what was once considered the Big Three: Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter and Errol Spence Jr. Now, the pride of the City of Brotherly Love will attempt his third division (154) in hopes of becoming a world champion. Garcia will be facing José Benavidez Jr. (27-1-1) on Saturday in Brooklyn, New York, at the Barclay’s Center....