The Cavaliers star scored a game-high 34 points with eight rebounds and seven assists in Monday’s thrilling 116-112 win over their new Eastern Conference rivals. The two teams played a dramatic Eastern Conference finals last season, and the Cavs have now won three close games over them already this season. MORE: Biggest surprises so far this NBA season The Cavs’ three-headed monster consisting of James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love have been nothing short of unstoppable recently, and that continued Monday....

The two talked, James decided not to hold and grudge and the move to Cleveland was set in motion. Gilbert visited with James, Rich Paul and Mavericks Carter for four hours last week, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. MORE: James returns to Cavaliers | A decade of LeBron | NBA scrambling after James decision Once the news of James’ return to Cleveland was released, Gilbert, who once wrote a letter denouncing James, was all over social media....

Cazorla injured the plantaris tendon in his right foot during the Gunners’ 6-0 victory over Ludogorets in the Champions League on October 19. Walcott breaks Messi record The Spaniard has not featured since and now faces an extended spell on the sidelines because his rehabilitation has not progressed as hoped. The blow comes less than 24 hours after Arsene Wenger insisted Cazorla’s return was being delayed only by inflammation, adding that he had suffered “no setback”....

Sabathia was removed from the Yankees’ American League Championship Series roster Friday after suffering a subluxation of his left shoulder joint, the team announced. He will be replaced by pitcher Ben Heller and is ineligible to return this postseason. The former Cy Young Award winner exited the Yankees’ Game 4 loss to the Astros in the eighth inning after facing four batters. The home crowd gave him a standing ovation in what wound up being his final appearance at Yankee Stadium....

Redfield made the comments in an interview with Dr. Howard Bauchner, Editor in Chief of the science journal JAMA, where he covered topics including masking and potential vaccines. Looking ahead to the winter, Redfield said he was “worried.” “I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 is probably going to be one of the most difficult times that we’ve experienced in American public health” he said, as COVID-19 and the flu will coincide....

The move was in response to increased calls to make the boosters more widely available ahead of the holiday season when people will be traveling more. The CDC is expected to give final approval later Friday. Boosters are for anyone who is more than six months past their second Moderna or Pfizer dose or two months past their Johnson & Johnson shot. The CDC stressed during Friday’s meeting they especially recommend the boosters for adults 50 and older....

The decision came in light of the Omicron variant, a potentially more infectious new COVID variant discovered in Africa earlier in November. While the exact scope of the new strain’s infection rate and resistance to vaccines will take time to understand, the CDC nonetheless made the recommendation as a way to potentially prevent serious illness. “Today, CDC is strengthening its recommendation on booster doses for individuals who are 18 years and older,” Dr....

Cecafa Secretary General, Nichola Musonye told the16-match officials to be cautious as they discharge their duties when the games kick off on Sunday in Kakamega and Machakos Counties. All the 16- referees passed the fitness test conducted by CAF Instructor Benard Mfubusa (Burundi) and retired FIFA Referee Maxim Itur from Kenya on Friday at Kasarani. Kenya contributed two centre referee; Peter Waweru and Anthony Ogwayo while Joshua Achila and Tonny Kidiya will be the local assistant referees nominated by the host nation....

In years past, the grand celebration is broadcasted live, most notably on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, for viewers at home to get in on the show, which will remain the same this year. But now that the show will be exclusively virtual, how can you make your New Year’s Eve special—and safe— this year? This new virtual experience might be just the answer. In a first-of-its-kind augmented reality experience, Jamestown, the owner of One Times Square, home of the iconic ball drop celebration, has created VNYE—a way to feel as though you’re right in the middle of Times Square minus the cold and most importantly the crowds....

Fans have already been treated to a short teaser trailer, where the Hargreeve family come face to face with The Sparrows, another group of siblings with superpowers. Even better, in the weeks leading up to the premiere, some first-look photos of the cast are starting to drop and on Tuesday, April 30, Elliot Page released a first-look picture of Victor Hargreeves. In the first two seasons of The Umbrella Academy, Page played the role of Vanya, one of the most powerful Hargeeves siblings, who for so long, though they had no powers whatsoever until at the end of Season 1, Vanya (also known as Number 7) caused an apocalypse....

Wallace was set to have postseason surgery to correct bone spurs on his left ankle, but an MRI revealed a torn meniscus in his left knee, according to ESPNBoston.com. Wallace has played hard over his career and suffered many injuries, but this is the first time he has ever needed to have surgery in his 13 NBA seasons. "The report that I got from [team trainer] Ed Lacerte was that they did both, the ankle and the knee, and that both went well," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said, according to ESPNBoston....

The Celtics guard is out “indefinitely” due to calf tightness, USA Basketball said Wednesday. He will be re-evaluated next week when the team moves to Los Angeles for more workouts. Smart averaged 8.8 points, 2.9 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 2018-19 and made the NBA All-Defensive first team, but only appeared in two playoff games because of an oblique injury he suffered late in the season. Boston lost to the Bucks in both of his appearances and was bounced from the postseason in the second round....

New head coach Ime Udoka didn’t hold back with his assessment of the performance. “I said to the group that’s as ugly as it can get,” said Udoka. “One thing I can’t stand as a coach is getting punked out there. I felt they basically came out and punked us, outplayed us, played harder than us, all the things we talked about.” The Celtics were jeered off the floor by their home fans, with the Celtics now 0-2 on the season....

Could he build a roster? Could he manage the cap? Could he separate the duties of his new job from those of his old gig? Could he successfully hire his own replacement to take the Celtics further than he could? Suffice to say, Stevens answered every question emphatically in his first year running the show in Boston as the Celtics are in the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010....

The Fair Lines America Foundations, a Republican advocacy group, sued the Census Bureau in a public records lawsuit for information about how the census count was conducted in group quarters. Census Bureau Chief Scientist John Abowd said the Census Bureau is required to release additional records as part of the Fair Lines lawsuit but it will need as much as six months to recalibrate a new statistical tool to protect people’s privacy so they can’t be identified through the data....

On Tuesday morning, Palihapitiya tweeted that he was buying $115,000 worth of GameStop stock, after asking followers what he should invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in. At least two people responded advising GameStop, the worth of which has skyrocketed in part due to big names like Elon Musk endorsing the stock and a rally to get the valuation up by the subreddit r/WallStreetBets. Palihapitiya tweeted just after midnight on Wednesday that “today was a fun day,” sharing a meme someone created about him and Musk following popular a r/WallStreetBets user’s move to invest in GameStop....

John Sculley, 54, is the hero-turned-goat of Apple Computer (he built it up, ran it down) who stunned the industry last fall when he took a job as CEO of Spectrum Information Technologies, a little company with as dubious a reputation as some of its more famous Long Island neighbors like Joey B. and Amy. Sculley believed he could turn Spectrum into a major player in wireless technology, and he signed on for a $1 million salary and a boatload of stock options....

That first game made an impression, leaving the standard for every other college football player, coach, team and fan in history to follow. It wasn’t the greatest game — Rutgers beat New Jersey 6-4, after all — but its impact soon transcended the field and become interwoven with the fabric of American society. CFB 150: Sporting News celebrates 150 years of college football A century-and-a-half later, that hasn’t changed. Only a handful of college football games have reached that same level of cultural impact, like the time Pitt’s Bobby Grier helped integrate the Sugar Bowl on Jan....

It was a cakewalk for the Kolkata giants against Subhash Bhowmick’s side ahead of the all important Kolkata Derby on Sunday. East Bengal took the lead in the first half when Plaza headed in from Chullova’s corner. Plaza had got one more opportunity to score but his effort was brilliantly stopped by Tollygunge custodian Sourav Roy. The floodgates opened in the second half when the Trinidad and Tobago forward doubled his tally by dribbling past three defenders inside the box and calmly finishing....