Author: George Lanington

The road to Super Bowl 56 in Los Angeles is almost complete.The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in the AFC championship game, marking a matchup of two teams with drastically different fortunes in recent years. The Chiefs will be hosting the conference title game for a fourth consecutive year and are seeking their third straight trip to the Super Bowl, which would make them just the fourth franchise in NFL history to put together such a streak. The Bengals, meanwhile, ended their league-worst 31-year playoff victory drought earlier in January and are looking to make it to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 1988 season.The two teams already met in Week 17, with the Bengals serving up a surprising 34-31 victory. Joe Burrow threw for 446 yards and f...

NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on “Head of the Class,” has died. He was 81.Hesseman died Saturday in Los Angeles due to complications from colon surgery, his manager Robbie Kass said Sunday.Hesseman, who had himself been a radio DJ in the '60s, earned two Emmy nominations for playing Johnny Fever on CBS' “WKRP in Cincinnati,” which ran for four seasons from 1978-1982. The role made Hesseman a counterculture icon at a time when few hippie characters made it onto network television.In the first episode, Dr. Johnny Fever announces the station's changeover from elevator music to rock 'n roll with a record scratch and a proclamation.“All right Cincinnati...

"I can't think of a better person for President Biden to consider for the Supreme Court than Michelle Childs. She has wide support in our state, is considered a very talented and impartial jurist. She is one of the most decent." people I've met," Graham, who represents South Carolina and sits on the Judiciary Committee, said in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday."She's highly rated. She's a good character and we'll see how she does if she gets nominated. But I can't say anything bad about Michelle Childs. She's an amazing person," Graham continued.The White House confirmed that Childs was among the candidates President Joe Biden is considering to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created when Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement on Thursday. Childs was initially...

A solid defense plus Mohamed Salah equals progress. It might not be particularly edifying or good to watch but it does seem to work. This was a dismal game, two hours of spoiling with a dusting of football but, in the football that was played, Salah was decisive. He scored the equalizer and set up the winner, so Egypt will meet Cameroon in Thursday's semi-final, a meeting of the two most successful sides in Cup of Nation's history.Egypt had ground their way to this stage, scoring only twice in four games. That's the way it has always been for Carlos Queiroz and for all the success it has brought him, it can threaten to come unstuck if his side concedes early. Here they were behind inside six minutes, and it would have been earlier but for a weirdly extended VAR check. Ayman Ashraf...