North Carolina, which returns four starters and nine of its 10 top scorers from the team that reached the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament, is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ preseason Top 25 for a record ninth time.
Ken Whisenhunt was fired as coach of the Tennessee Titans after a 1-6 start to the season, the NFL club announced Tuesday, naming assistant coach Mike Mularkey as interim coach. Whisenhunt went 3-20 as coach of the Titans, the second-worst showing by an NFL coach over his first 23 games with a team after John McKay’s 0-23 run from 1976-78 with Tampa Bay.
The Tennessee Titans have fired head coach Ken Whisenhunt after 23 games in charge, the NFL team said on Tuesday. The Titans lost 20-6 to the Houston Texans on Sunday, their sixth successive defeat. “After thoughtful consideration, the decision has been made to relieve Ken Whisenhunt of his head coaching duties,” Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a statement on the team website.
Double major-winner Jordan Spieth said Tuesday that it was too early to talk of a new era in the game despite a year when he led the charge of the young guns. The 22-year-old won the season’s first two majors, the US Masters and the US Open, and had a series of titanic battles against 28-year-old Jason Day of Australia, who finally turned the tables on Spieth to lift the
American football will extend its reach into the overseas market when the NFL stages games at Twickenham, the hallowed home of English rugby union, over the next three years. The NFL and Rugby Football Union on Tuesday unveiled a partnership deal that will see the Twickenham host at least three regular-season games over a three-year period. The agreement also gives the NFL the option to stage two extra games over
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY(Reuters) – Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been passed on to Italian and Swiss investigators for their checks because
[Accesswire] – TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / November 3, 2015 / Silver Dragon Resources Inc. (OTCQB: SDRG) (the “Company”) reports that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shengda Mining Co., Ltd. …
By Jack Stubbs and Polina Devitt MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia does not see keeping Bashar al-Assad in power as a matter of principle, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday in comments that suggested a divergence of opinion with Iran, the Syrian president’s other main international backer. Fuelling speculation of Russian-Iranian differences over Assad, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps suggested on Monday that Tehran may be more
By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s civil aviation ministry said on Tuesday there were no facts to substantiate assertions by Russian officials that the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday broke up in mid-air. Rahmi said the investigating team, led by Egypt and aided by experts from Russia, Airbus and Ireland, where the plane is registered, had returned to the crash site on Tuesday morning.
By Luke Baker HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel shut down the main radio station in Hebron on Tuesday and turned part of the city in the occupied West Bank into a closed military zone, with troops clamping down on a district that has become the focal point of violent unrest. The city, 30 km (20 miles) south of Jerusalem, is the largest in the West Bank, with a Palestinian