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The Spaniard has been out of action with an Achilles problem and hasn’t featured for the Gunners since the 6-0 win over Ludogorets in October. Elneny sick before Southampton game The likes of Mohamed Elneny and Aaron Ramsey have been asked to step in in place of the former Villarreal midfielder, with the north Londoners having won just once in their last five in all competitions. Wenger had suggested back on November 22 that Cazorla could be two weeks away from returning to the first team but now admits he does not know when he will be back....

Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, the creator of Stardew Valley, announced the tournament over his Twitter account. The first official Stardew Valley Cup is planned to be a competition of skill, knowledge, and teamwork, where some of the most dedicated players the game has to offer will battle over a prize pool worth over $40,000. They’ll pit themselves against the game’s Stardew Valley’s mining and fishing mechanics to prove they’re some of the greatest Stardew Valley players out there....

The WHO has long been cautioning countries against approaching the pandemic at a domestic level instead of a global one. Officials warned that highly-vaccinated countries will have a false sense of security if other countries have low vaccination rates because the virus rapidly spreading anywhere will lead to new variants that may be more deadly or evade therapeutics and vaccines. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told attendees at the Munich Security Conference on Friday that high vaccine coverage in some countries and Omicron’s lower severity is driving a “dangerous narrative” that the COVID-19 pandemic is over....

SportsManias is a great example of a company that recognized a void in content targeted toward a younger audience that consumes less mainstream content and much more on digital platforms. Millennials are consistently showing that they don’t need cable or satellite subscriptions to access the content they enjoy most. The potential for success of the digital networks that aggregate unique content creators has been seen with The Whistle Sports Network, which amassed an audience of well over 100 million in less than a year from its launch date....

Botch during RETRIBUTION’s match on WWE RAW Later on, during WWE RAW, three members of RETRIBUTION took on Bobby Lashley, Cedric Alexander, and Shelton Benjamin in a Six-man Tag Team Match. RETRIBUTION lost the match via disqualification. As soon as the referee called for the bell, other members of RETRIBUTION hit the ring to attack The Hurt Business. WWE RAW Superstars rushed to the ring led by Drew McIntyre. RETRIBUTION quickly disappear when Randy Orton attacked McIntyre....

Jalen Hurts, a transfer from Alabama, marked his Oklahoma debut with a brilliant performance, throwing for 332 yards and three touchdown passes after completing 20 of 23 passes. He added 176 rushing yards over 16 carries for three scores on the ground. The 508 total yards Hurts posted on Sunday was the fifth-highest in school history. The Sooners quarterback, however, was not overly happy with the performance. “We did some really good things out there tonight, but there are a lot of things we can improve on,” he was quoted as saying by ESPN....

No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 3 Clemson and No. 4 Ohio State dominated their respective matchups. There will likely be no movement when the third set of College Football Playoff rankings are released Tuesday. Those four teams won by a combined score of 197-60 Saturday. Sporting News flipped the College Football Playoff semifinal matchups in our latest bowl projections: We now have Alabama playing Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, and Ohio State and Clemson meeting in the Rose Bowl....

Here’s a pick for a potential upset for this week’s NCAA Football card: North Carolina Tar Heels (3-4) @ Virginia Cavaliers (4-3) North Carolina visits Virginia this weekend for a matchup that AccuScore projects to be much more competitive than initial Vegas odds would suggest. North Carolina is listed as a +235 underdog, indicating just under a 30 percent chance of winning. With Virginia depending so heavily this season on its defense to force turnovers, North Carolina has a chance to pull off a road upset if they can just take care of the ball....

Lines listed here were available as of Friday. Check our odds page for updated point spreads and totals from Las Vegas. More college football: Heisman odds | Title odds Texas at No. 4 TCU Line: TCU -14, Total: 71Time: 12 p.m. ET, ABC Texas played its best game of the year last weekend, losing to Oklahoma State 30-27. The Cowboys out gained the Longhorns with 395 total yards to 290, throwing for 292 versus 119 in the passing game....

No. 8 Florida won the weekend’s first top-10 showdown with an impressive 44-28 victory against No. 5 Georgia. No. 4 Notre Dame upset No. 1 Clemson 47-40 in a double-overtime thriller. Those games reshaped the Playoff picture, at least for a week. A few other surprises are in this week’s forecast as well: Who had unbeaten Indiana, Cincinnati and BYU as top-10 teams heading into the middle of November? The first set of Playoff rankings are coming on Nov....

A lot can happen over those seven weeks. A lot already did happen in the first two weeks, with CFP regulars Clemson and Ohio State taking their first losses. How did those shake-ups affect the playoff picture? Sporting News looks at 16 schools that have the best playoff chances through two weeks. We then separated those contenders into five tiers based on their early-season performances. That list will dwindle in the coming weeks, but we’ll always be here for playoff prognostication....

Alabama will be atop the AP Top 25 heading into the first week of October, but there is a case to be made for Georgia after its first four games. Those two SEC powerhouses appear to be on a collision course, but a lot can happen over the next nine regular-season weeks. WEEK 4 TAKEAWAYS: Clemson falls, Arkansas a CFP contender? Who else is in the mix? Oregon and Oklahoma likely would have the next two spots based on their first month, but several other unbeaten teams would be in contention....

Undefeated Oklahoma at No. 8. One-loss Alabama a “clear” No. 2. Cincinnati sitting at No. 6 with no real chance to improve its resume (SMU and Houston, both teams ranked in the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll, were not part of the selection committee’s top 25). More than half of the committee’s selections come from the SEC and Big Ten. BENDER: Committee missed on Oklahoma | Week 10 picks | Heisman race...

The SEC championship game between No. 1 Georgia and No. 3 Alabama has the biggest impact of conference championship weekend. Following that, No. 2 Michigan and No. 13 Iowa face off in the Big Ten; No. 4 Cincinnati faces off vs. No. 21 Houston in the AAC; and No. 5 Oklahoma State takes on No. 9 Baylor in the Big 12. MORE: College Football Playoff picture for championship week...

Texas was the only top-10 team to fall to an unranked program this weekend, and the latest rankings offered few meaningful changes outside of the Longhorns’ drop from No. 6 to No. 15. MORE: Week 10 College Football Playoff picture Georgia crushed Florida, 36-17, pushing the Bulldogs up one spot to No. 6 and dropping the Gators from No. 9 to No. 13. Three of the Pac-12’s five ranked teams lost, as then-No....

No. 10 Louisville showed they’re more than just a darkhorse contender for the College Football Playoff by demolishing No. 2 Florida State 63-20. No. 3 Ohio State made a case to be the country’s top-ranked team with a convincing 45-24 win over No. 14 Oklahoma. And No. 1 Alabama rallied to stay unbeaten with a 48-43 victory over rival No. 19 Ole Miss. MORE: College football’s most shocking blowouts of the past 20 years...