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With LeBron James questionable to return tonight after a two-week absence, the Suns are about 4-point favorites at home against the reeling Cavaliers (9:05 p.m. ET). The line, which opened Phoenix -5 in Las Vegas, indicates oddsmakers do not think LeBron is ready to go. Cleveland is 1-8 SU and ATS without James this season, eight of those games coming in a current 1-7 run. Overall, the Cavs are 14-24 when it comes to covering spreads this season, the third-worst mark in the NBA, ahead of only the Timberwolves and Knicks....

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Morgan refuted claims of federal officers arresting demonstrators in Portland without identifying themselves as police. All officers, the CBP chief said, are wearing some kind of identification showing that they belong to a federal law enforcement body. Meanwhile, Morgan said officers’ uniforms should have the word “police” emblazoned across the chest as a “baseline” of identification. Many officers, Morgan said, are not wearing “name tags” due to fears of being doxxed....

CBS earlier said its broadcast with the NFL Network of the Steelers and Ravens had an overnight household rating of 13.7, which more than doubled the first non-opener Thursday night game last season. Last year, Thursday night games were only shown on the NFL Network. The viewership numbers that CBS estimated as 20.9 million viewers were up from 11.0 million in the comparable game, which was Jets-Patriots on Sept. 12, 2013....

Redfield said the CDC wants to hire an additional 30,000 and 100,000 people to serve as contact tracers nationwide. These tracers would help track and test newly infected coronavirus patients in an attempt to quickly quarantine them and any test any people they may have encountered at home or in public. Aggressive contact tracing and testing helped both South Korea and Germany reduce the spread of COVID-19 after the start of the global pandemic....

“The CDC’s failure up to this point to recognize aerosols as the primary mode of transmission hurts all other guidance and efforts that stem from this lack of understanding,” Bonnie Castillo, executive director of NNU, said in a press release. “We urge the Biden administration to honor its commitment to listen to experts in the battle against COVID-19, which includes having CDC and other federal agencies explicitly recognize aerosol transmission....

The growth in manga shows how hard is it to predict what effect new technologies will have on old markets. Manga publishers initially thought that a phone service would appeal to commuters, but customers have turned to their mobiles to read comics more at home, especially after 11 p.m., than on the move. “I’d imagine at that time of day many people are reading comics in the dark,” says Yutaka Tashiro, director of content planning at Shueisha Inc....

The Cavs defeated the Celtics, 111-102, in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals at Quicken Loans Arena on Monday, and Stevens was focused on those two fatal three-minute stretches that led to that loss. “This is a really good basketball team, and we’re going to have our moments,” Stevens said. “But we can’t have the swoons we had at the end of each of those quarters.” Stevens is right....

Tatum managed just 10 points on 3-of-14 shooting, including 1-of-7 from the 3-point line. He added six rebounds and four assists and accounted for six of the Celtics’ 23 turnovers. MORE: Marcus Smart makes Paul Pierce-like return after ankle injury “Six turnovers and no field goals in the second half, that is unacceptable. I gotta to play better, Tatum said postgame. “I feel like I left the guys hanging tonight....

NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) Speaking on the Knuckleheads podcast with Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles, Tatum alluded to a release coming but didn’t give a timeframe of when the shoes would be dropping. “I can’t tell ya’ll exactly when, but it’s on the way,” Tatum said. The fact that Tatum is getting a signature shoe shouldn’t come as a surprise, he’s young and marketable and plays in a major NBA market like Boston....

During the Super Bowl that is. Plenty of people have already watched the MoveOn ad, called “Child’s Pay,” on CNN, viewed it on the Internet, read about it in news stories and seen it excerpted on television news (If you’re not one of them, you can watch the spot by clicking on the video player at the top of this page.) In fact, “Child’s Pay” has gotten a tremendous amount of attention since CBS first declined to air it, citing a policy that prohibits “advocacy” ads....

Who produces this poisonous literature? Wearing white T shirts adorned with Putin’s image, the activists of Walking Together have focused on a trio of prominent writers, myself among them. From the newspaper Izvestia, I’ve learned that Walking Together apparently sees me as Cultural Enemy No. 1 in the new Russia. The most concrete expression of that distinction came on April 17, as I was signing my new book in the Moscow bookshop on Tverskaya Street....

But nothing defines this sport more what occurs on the field. Whether through tenacity, athleticism, sheer luck (even a little trickery), the plays are what leave the indelible marks on our memories. And over its 150-year history, college football has offered some truly spectacular individual examples. CFB 150: Sporting News celebrates 150 years of college football To concentrate the entirety of college football’s 150-year history into top 10 plays was a Herculean task, but Sporting News’ panel reached a near consensus, at least, on the play that made the biggest impact of all....

Darren Schield, who oversees the finances of The Sterling Family Trust, testified Monday that three banks are ready to recall their loans to Sterling because of his decision to dissolve the trust. His move was designed to rescind agreement for the sale of the Clippers, a team he bought for $12 million. Schield said if Sterling has to dump $500 million worth of apartment buildings he could destabilize the Los Angeles real estate market....

There are two different chamomile plants: German chamomile and Roman chamomile. German chamomile, which is considered the more potent variety and the type most widely used for medicinal purposes, is the plant discussed here. Chamomile has been used as an herbal remedy since the time of Hippocrates, the father of medicine, in 500 BC. The list of conditions for which it’s been used is extensive. It includes fever, headaches, kidney, liver, and bladder problems, digestive upset, muscle spasms, anxiety, insomnia, skin irritations, bruises, gout, ulcers, rheumatic pain, hay fever, inflammation, hemorrhoids, colic, and menstrual disorders....

MORE: Seven overrated UCL players | Five greatest soccer hairstyles That Liverpool’s second-string players were only beaten 1-0 in their Champions League clash at the Santiago Bernabeu should not excuse Rodgers’ decision to throw in the towel before a ball had been kicked. The Reds’ makeshift team come out of the game with credit despite losing to Karim Benzema’s first-half strike. They defended bravely, certainly weren’t embarrassed, and were in with a chance until the closing stages even if they failed to create a chance of real note....

For the third straight year, a team from Spain will be crowned the best in Europe as winner of the Champions League. Last year, Barcelona beat Juventus of Italy in the finals, 3-1. Real beat Atletico the year before, and in 2013, there was an all-Germany final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Atletico went on an impressive run in 2016 to get back to this point. MORE: Champions League field, teams Real Madrid breezed through group play with five wins and one draw, then beat Roma, Wolfsburg and Manchester City in the knockout stage to reach the Champions League final....

Parsons, who spent the first three years of his NBA career with the Rockets, signed with the Dallas Mavericks during the offseason when Houston declined to match the Mavs’ offer of roughly $15 per season for the next three years. MORE: LeBron: Cavs fragile | Frustrated LeBron swears | JaVale McGee kisses a fan A fan favorite in Houston, Parsons created a bit of a stir after leaving by taking a few digs at the city, including calling the downtown area “dirty....