Utah’s Cam Rising Could Potentially Play A Whopping Eighth Year After Suffering Season-Ending Leg Injury
Imagine playing college football for eight years…that could be reality for Cam Rising. of Utah quarterback Unfortunately, his 2024 season ended recently, but that doesn't necessarily mean his college football career is over. Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham said: announcement On Monday, Rising was ruled out indefinitely with a lower leg injury. That being said, […]
Mets’ magic continues in NLDS with 5 runs in eighth for another comeback victory
The New York Mets looked like the 1998 Yankees in the 8th and 9th innings. The Mets made another late comeback on Saturday, taking a 1-0 lead for the third time in six days in the National League Division Series against the NL East rival Philadelphia Phillies. Apparently all the Mets needed was to face […]
Katie Ledecky dominates to win eighth career Olympics gold medal
Katie Ledecky is one step closer to becoming the most medal-winning female Olympic swimmer of all time. The American star set an Olympic record in 15 minutes 30.02 seconds to win the 1,500m freestyle final in Paris on Wednesday, joining Jenny Thompson (USA), Dara Torres (USA), Natalie Coughlin (USA) and Emma McKeown (Australia) in winning […]
NYPD cop-killer Eddie Matos’ eighth bid for freedom denied
The murderer of a Manhattan police officer had his eighth request for release denied this week, giving the officer’s family peace of mind for at least another year, The Washington Post has learned. Eddie Matos, who is serving a 25-year to life sentence for the October 1989 killing of Officer Anthony Dwyer, has been denied […]
Yankees roll to eighth straight but Juan Soto injury exit overshadows win
The Yankees’ dream start to this season and Juan Soto’s time in the Bronx took its first turn for the worse on Thursday, when the superstar outfielder was removed from an 8-5 win over the Twins because of a sore left forearm. Soto’s departure after a 56-minute rain delay before the top of the sixth […]
Holocaust museum will host free field trips for eighth graders in New York City public schools
New York City’s Holocaust Museum will offer free educational field trips to eighth-graders in public schools as part of a program aimed at combating anti-Semitism, it announced Thursday. The program, which begins this fall and runs for three years, will allow up to 85,000 students from traditional public and charter schools to tour the Museum […]
There is no Eighth Amendment right to vagrancy
Oral argument before the Supreme Court this week showed why it is nonsense to claim that anti-vagrancy laws violate the Constitution‘s Eighth Amendment provision against “cruel and unusual punishment.” Indeed, in the vernacular sense, what is cruel and unusual is a judicial edict that says law-abiding citizens must put up with public spaces featuring major […]
Mets blow lead, implode in disaster eighth inning in loss to Reds
CINCINNATI — The Mets were fundamentally short on pitchers, but they weren’t too limited in their mistakes. The Mets lost 9-6 to the Reds on Saturday at Great American Ball Park, collapsing in one of the ugliest eighth innings I’ve ever seen, squandering a once three-run lead. The Mets (2-6) ended a two-game winning streak […]
Pleading the Eighth? Ex-federal prosecutor says don’t ‘count Trump out yet’ despite massive fine
As former President Trump continues his legal battles on multiple fronts, the hefty fine imposed on him by New York State Supreme Court First District Judge Arthur Engoron may not be the impetus for the Republican nominee to break ground. There has been speculation that this may be the case. On Monday, Trump’s lawyers said […]
On this day in history, January 27, 1943, US Eighth Air Force launches bombing offensive over Nazi Germany
On this day in history, January 27, 1943, the United States Eighth Air Force began its bombing campaign against Nazi Germany. This is one of the largest, most important, and most destructive strategic efforts in the history of warfare. “I faced my fear and knew what it meant to do my duty, because the lives […]