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With a possible three-peat, Golden State could join an exclusive fraternity that extends across the major professional sports in the United States. A total of 20 franchises have won three straight championships across the NFL, NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLB and NASCAR. No MLS team has won three straight titles. MORE: Don’t underrate Warriors’ NBA Finals streak, Steve Kerr says With that in mind, Sporting News ranked those three-peating franchises…...

I have an intense relationship with the Net. Because my boyfriend lives in England, it is our primary means of communicating. And since I work as a freelance journalist, I spend much of my time doing research on the Web and communicating with editors by e-mail. I’m online at least half my day. When I began my wired life, the Web hadn’t been invented. A friend founded a “bulletin board” in New York City in 1990 called Echo, and invited me to help start the conversation....

The chain involved in making spam robocalls usually begins abroad, where malicious foreign actors place spam calls to smaller U.S.-based telecom carriers who are happy to receive their fees. Whether they turn a blind eye or are truly unable to distinguish the calls, the smaller U.S.-based carriers are the conduit into the U.S. market. These gateway carriers then funnel foreign traffic to larger U.S. companies, like Verizon and AT&T, which is how these calls make it to our phones....

On Tuesday, Canada’s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced the country would ease testing requirements for fully vaccinated travelers at the end of the month, citing that, “It is time to adjust our approach” to border measures. The announcement comes as the nation has continued to see disruptive protests in large cities, like Ottawa and Toronto, and at various border crossings, including the Ambassador Bridge, a key supply link for Canada and the U....

The Freedom Convoy left Vancouver on Sunday and is set to arrive in Ottawa on Saturday for a rally protesting vaccine mandates imposed by the federal government earlier this month. However, despite the fact that convoy is 70 km long, according to a Freedom Convoy spokesperson, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) estimates that only 10 percent of the country’s truckers remain unvaccinated. The protest, organized by anti-mandate group Canada Unity, was planned after the federal government refused to back down on a new vaccination rule for cross-border truckers, who were previously exempt from vaccine mandates because they were considered essential to the supply chain....

Zach Johnson, winner in a playoff Monday at St. Andrews, will not play at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ont. Neither will Jordan Spieth, whose run of major tournaments Johnson ended. MORE: Relive the British Open | Spieth celebrates despite loss | Early odds for PGA Championship Tim Clark is defending champion of the Canadian national championship tournament. American stars Bubba Watson and Jim Furyk are in a threesome with South Africa’s Clark the first two days of competition....

Authorities are also investigating reports that protesters were intimidating officers and other city workers throughout the day as the Freedom Convoy, a cross-country trucker protest of COVID vaccine mandates, arrived at the nation’s capital. Photos from the weekend rally show that a statue of Canadian icon Terry Fox had been covered with a sign reading “mandate freedom” with an upside-down Canadian flag placed in the statue’s hands. Fox, a cancer patient and activist, became a national hero in 1980 when the 22-year-old amputee ran across the country for the “Marathon of Hope” to raise awareness and money for cancer research....

Of course, this is complete and utter woke nonsense. Even President Barack Obama once told an audience of White House interns that “pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in Dr. Seuss.” Seuss’s own stepdaughter says, “There wasn’t a racist bone in his body.” Yet here we are. On what would have been the author’s 117th birthday, a day made famous by a nationwide event he helped inspire, “Read Across America,” it was announced that six of his books will no longer be printed....

Biden’s decision to draw down U.S. military operations in Afghanistan has come under fire since the Taliban entered the nation’s capital of Kabul on Sunday. The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was first made under the administration of former President Donald Trump. However, the withdrawal was initiated under Biden. “Donald Trump is acting like the President Of The United States right now while Joe Biden hides like a little b*** and waits for his Beijing handlers to tell him what to do,” Owens tweeted Sunday night....

The 32-year-old posted a GoPro video on YouTube earlier this week of him nonchalantly going off-peak, weaving through trees like an obstacle course, doing trampoline-like summersaults and all the flips and turns you could ever dream of. It’s a terrifying and mind-boggling ride. MORE: Kimbo Slice will fight in MMA | Williams top seed for Australia Open | Must-see events in 2015 If you have a headache after watching that, you’re not alone....

ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reported Wednesday that Alvarez is finalizing a two-fight, $85 million contract with Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn. One fight would be against WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in May; the other would be against Golovkin in September. The fight vs. GGG depends on Alvarez beating Bivol and Golovkin beating Ryota Murata this year. Alvarez recently unified the super middleweight division in just 11 months. There have been rumors of him facing WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu and WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo....

With a 57-1-2 record, he’s one of boxing’s hottest commodities. He’s putting that reputation on the line Saturday by fighting Russian boxer Dmitry Bivol, who is carrying in a 19-0 record, 11 by knockout. Unsurprisingly, Alvarez is going to be walking away from his fight with Bivol with a bigger haul, as DAZN continues to cash in on its biggest star even after releasing him from his contract in 2020....

The biggest name in boxing returns to the ring in his quest for history, as unified middleweight champion and WBA (regular) super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez moves up two weight classes to challenge WBO light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev on Saturday, Nov. 2, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, live and exclusively on DAZN. A win by Alvarez (52-1-2, 35 KOs) would make him a four-division world champion and put him in the conversation of all-time great Mexican boxers....

ESPN reported that New Orleans released Evans two days ahead of a roster deadline, saving millions in the process. MORE: Where the Saints fit in our 2016 Power Rankings Evans, 32, started to show signs of decline in 2014, and he restructured his deal last spring to help clear salary cap space. He was due to make $4.9 million in 2016, with the first $3 million of that guaranteed if he was still on the roster Wednesday....

Vanecek skated off 13-plus minutes into Game 1 of Washington’s first-round series vs. Boston after appearing to hurt his groin on a goal by the Bruins’ Jake DeBrusk. That prompted Kelly Hrudey to go after Vanecek during the first intermission on Sportsnet’s “Hockey Night in Canada.” In Hrudey’s mind, Vanecek hadn’t properly prepared for a Stanley Cup playoff game. “I guess there’s a part of me that I’m supposed to feel sorry for Vanecek, his first-ever NHL playoff start, but first of all, this is a bad goal; he just wasn’t ready....

The officer, Michael A. Riley, is accused of telling someone who allegedly participated in the riot to remove posts from Facebook that showed him inside the Capitol building during the riots on January 6, according to court documents. According to the complaint, Riley told the rioter that the scene was a “total s—show,” and wrote, “I’m glad you got out of there unscathed.” The man responded through messaging that he didn’t think he’d done anything wrong, and Riley replied: “The only thing I can see is if you went into the building and they have proof you will be charged....

For Reagan, an indefatigable optimist, there was always a pony in there someplace. While his predecessor, the earnest Jimmy Carter, sat huddled in a sweater to lecture the country about saving energy, Reagan swept into the White House merrily asserting there was more oil under third base at Yankee Stadium than we would ever need. That was a metaphor of course, but the message was clear. American ingenuity could solve anything....

Now that some of the luster is off President Bush’s image as a war leader, Carter’s words may prompt a long overdue debate on the value of continuing the U.S. economic stranglehold on the tiny island nation. Yes, Cuba is a communist country with a leader who suppresses dissent, but much the same can be said about China, North Korea and Vietnam; yet we recognize and maintain ties of varying degrees with each of those regimes....

On Tuesday, USCP chief Yogananda Pittman said in a closed-door briefing with the House Appropriations Committee that the department was unprepared despite knowing at least two days beforehand about the strong potential for the Capitol to be targeted with violence. Pittman said the department “failed to meet its own high standards” in its handling of the riots. Though Pittman was not the acting chief at the time of the riots—Steven Sund was, and he resigned on January 7—the union said her admission “angered and shocked” its members....

Jacob Fracker, a former police officer in Rocky Mount, Virginia, said that he spread the lie “for cool points,” the Associated Press reported. Fracker also testified that he had hopes that the mob that stormed the Capitol would be able to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Fracker’s revelation came during the trial of one of his former colleagues, Thomas Robertson, whom he was initially set to be tried alongside....