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By Bonnie Stiernberg For the second consecutive year, the music industry was derailed (at least partially) by the COVID-19 pandemic. Things briefly looked up in 2021, with live concerts and festivals returning over the summer — albeit at limited capacity and with additional safety precautions in place — and artists scrambling to recoup some of the massive financial losses of the year prior, but by the time fall rolled around, the Delta variant forced some to take a step back and once again cancel planned performances. Now that Omicron is here in full force, unfortunately we can expect more of …

By Danny Agnew You want hard-to-find Christmas gifts? We’ll give you hard-to-find Christmas gifts! In partnership with eBay When it comes to holiday gifting, particularly in a year like this one, it’s understandable to want to swing for the fences. To want to wow the recipient with something that’s, shall we say, a little more special. Something hard to find that can’t be bought in just any old store. Something that has its own story that your giftee inevitably becomes a part of. With an eye toward giving just this type of gift this holiday season, we’ve partnered with eBay on the Rare Finds G…

PHILADELPHIA — Villanova completed its Palestra stand Wednesday night with the same result in much the same fashion — timely shooting, fierce rebounding and a strong game from Collin Gillespie. Gillespie scored a season-high 26 points, shooting 9 of 15 from the field with four 3-pointers, to lift the sixth-ranked Wildcats to a 71-56 victory over Penn before a crowd of about 6,200 inside the historic venue. The Wildcats (5-2, 2-0 City Series), who defeated La Salle 72-46 in the same location on Sunday night, shot 45.6% from the floor and outrebounded the Quakers, 41-26. They recorded only seven…

Thai mixed doubles duo Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai began this year by winning the last three events of the 2020 season, including the World Tour Finals, in three consecutive weeks on home soil in January. The duo hope to cap their impressive year in similar fashion with a hat-trick of victories in Bali. Having won the Indonesia Masters and Indonesia Open in the previous two weeks, Dechapol and Sapsiree will try to be crowned champions at the 2021 World Tour Finals which begin today at the same venue. The Thais have already won three successive titles with their triumph i…

EAST LANSING, Mich. — In a scene more suited for the North Pole, Michigan State closed out a perfect season at home in thrilling fashion. With snow falling the entire afternoon, covering the Spartan Stadium field in a blanket of white, No. 12 Michigan State started quick on Saturday, then finished strong as Payton Thorne’s 20-yard touchdown pass to Jayden Reed on fourth-and-15 with just more than five minutes to play helped the Spartans to a 30-27 victory over Penn State. It was the perfect response for Michigan State after last week’s blowout at Ohio State as the Spartans (10-2, 7-2 Big Ten) …

ATHENS, Ga. – You may have heard Kirby Smart use his book metaphor a few times this season. Well, he used it again this week in reference to his No. 1-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (11-0) facing Georgia Tech (3-8) at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday (noon, ABC). “It’s the next part, the next chapter, and what are they going to write about this chapter?” Smart said of his players. “I know our guys will be fired up and ready to go.” There wasn’t a lot of discussion in the Bulldogs’ camp this week about throwing out the records or “Clean Old-Fashioned Hate” or Tech-Georgia being one of the South’s oldest…

Among questions facing the Kraken heading into Wednesday night’s showdown against arguably the NHL’s best team was whether they would sustain the effort from a slump-snapping victory a few nights before. The answer came a few minutes into the second period of this 2-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes when Jared McCann scored his team-leading fifth power-play goal. That slap shot marker from the top of the left faceoff circle enabled McCann’s team, for the second straight game, to overcome the dispiriting setback of having fallen behind despite largely outplaying their opponent. Marcus Johansso…

The holidays are knocking on your front door, they brought guests, and those guests want to be entertained. Thankfully, along with the holidays comes the holiday movie season, full of awards season spectacles and big time blockbusters. Movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence lead “Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay’s ensemble comedy about the end of the world, which once was considered a far-off thing and now feels like it might only be a Thanksgiving or two away. In it, Leo and J. Law play a pair of astronomers who spot a comet that may be headed toward Earth. Plan accordingly. Other top …

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The hardest workers early Saturday afternoon inside Mohegan Sun Arena? Maybe the folks in charge of mopping the basketball court. Under one basket, two young girls with pigtails wearing long T-shirts had the big mops, taller than those girls wielding them. Villanova’s bench kept sending out reinforcements. Managers sprinted out with towels. Even Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, injured for his last season, got out there making sure his guys had a dry surface to dive on. Asked later what the difference had been between No. 5 Villanova and his 17th-ranked Volunteers — a Naismith Memor…

LONDON: Harry Kane scored a first half hat-trick as England romped towards the 2022 World Cup with a 5-0 thrashing of Albania, but Italy still have work to do to reach Qatar after a 1-1 draw with Switzerland. England still need a point to mathematically qualify when they visit San Marino on Monday, but boast a three-point lead and six-goal advantage on goal difference over Poland, who sealed at least a playoff place with a 4-1 win over 10-man Andorra. The Three Lions can look ahead to Qatar with confidence as they bounced back to form at Wembley in style with all the goals coming before half-t…