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Former teammate Alex Boone isn’t taking any more hits for embattled San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepeick. The offensive guard suited up for five seasons alongside Kaepeick, blocking as defenders tried to get Kaepeick off his feet. Now, Kaepeick is voluntarily taking a seat, choosing to sit during the playing of The Star-Spangled Baer to protest perceived racial injustice. It may be a good thing that Boone, now with the Miesota Vikings, is no longer wearing the same jersey as Kaepeick. “We probably would have had a problem on the sideline,” Boone told ESPN. Boone’s brother J.J. was a Marine and served in Iraq, making Boone one of several current or former NFL players, many with mi...

Former NFL tight end Ben Utecht caught one pass from superstar quarterback Peyton Maing the night of Feb. 4, 2007, helping the Indianapolis Colts win Super Bowl XLI. But that’s not the memory he most wants to retain. Or the life experience he most wants to share. Utecht, who sustained five documented concussions during his five-year NFL career with the Colts and Cinciati Bengals, said Sunday on “Fox & Friends” that he’s already experienced some long-term memory problems since he last took the field in 2008. That reality led him to write the autobiographical “Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away: A Love Letter to My Family.” “That was the foundation of writing the book; was ...

(Charles Sindeldecker) NEW ORLEANS – A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing Saturday moing due to a major problem with one of its two engines. Flight 3472 from New Orleans diverted the airplane to Pensacola, Florida, after the pilot detected something had gone wrong with an engine, according to a Southwest statement. The jet, a Boeing 737-700, landed in Pensacola around 9:40 a.m. CDT with no apparent injuries to the 99 passengers or five crew members on board, according to Southwest. Pictures taken from the plane and posted online made it appear that part of the engine had blown apart, but Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz said there was no explos...

Close-up on canopy of Grumman Hellcat fighter aircraft seen in USS Independence aircraft elevator hatch (OET/Nautilus Live). Scientists have released incredible pictures of sunken light aircraft carrier USS Independence that were taken by underwater robots exploring the wreck. The historic ship, which served in World War II and was used in the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, was intentionally sunk off Califoia in 1951. The 622-foot-long Independence sits in 2,600 feet of water in the Greater Farallones National Maritime Sanctuary. Related Image Expand / Contract Bow of USS Independence (OET/Nautilus Live). Experts on the research vessel E/V Nautilus are using two Remote...

House Republicans have detailed perjury allegations against Hillary Clinton, citing the apparent conflict between her 2015 congressional testimony about her email practices and the FBI's conclusions aounced in July, according to a letter to the U.S. attoey for the District of Columbia. "The four pieces of swo testimony by Secretary Clinton described herein are incompatible with the FBI's findings," House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote to U.S. Attoey Chaing D. Phillips. "We hope this information is helpful to your office's consideration of our referral." The Justice Department Assistant Attoey General f...

A hacker or group of hackers using the name "Guccifer 2.0" posted the private email addresses and cell phone numbers of almost 200 current and former Democratic members of Congress Friday. The disclosure is the latest dump of information stolen in recent cyberattacks on a number of Democratic Party organizations, including the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Guccifer 2.0 posted a spreadsheet containing the contact information of 193 current and former Democratic House members as part of a larger document dump on his personal blog. In an accompanying blog post, Guccifer said accessing the DCCC server "was even easier than...

United States' Simone Manuel celebrates wiing the gold medal in the women's 100-meter freestyle during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP) Simone Manuel leaned her head into her hands and broke down in tears when she recognized her historic achievement. With her victory in the 100-meter freestyle, she became the first African-American woman to capture an Olympic gold medal in swimming. The 20-year-old Manuel upset world-record holder Cate Campbell and tied with Pey Oleksiak of Canada at the Rio Games on Thursday. "I hope that I can be an inspiration to others so this medal is for the people who come behind me and g...

An "arm in arm" decal is affixed to a Dallas Cowboys helmet at the NFL football team's training camp Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Oxnard, Calif. (AP) The NFL denied the Dallas Cowboys’ request to wear a decal on their helmets during the season that would have paid tribute to the five police officers killed last month in an ambush. The team had been wearing a decal with the words “Arm in Arm” since the first day of training camp this summer. Dallas police Chief David Brown and Mayor Mike Rawlings paid the team a visit on that day, according to Fox 4 News. The NFL’s strict rules on uniforms forced the league to deny the Cowboys’ request to wear the decal for the upcoming season. Dallas poli...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

A Vietnam veteran's tirade against Pokemon GO players at a veterans park in Miesota was caught on video, leading to a citation -- but also leading officials Monday to consider baing games from the park entirely. Waing: Video contains profanity. [embedded content] Bruce Reed Jr. of Winona was cited for fourth-degree criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, theWinona Daily News reported. Reed was seen telling players Veterans Memorial Park was "not a f------ campground."The video Thursday showed him knocking over a portable picnic awning that was set up not far from war monuments. At one point, he appeared to knock the camera from the hands of the person rec...

The Commissionon Presidential Debates on Sunday issued another statement in an apparent effort to end criticism by Donald Trump’s campaign about two of the events being scheduled during televised NFL games -- and suggested Trump is fighting a losing battle. “It is impossible to avoid all sporting events, and there have been nights on which debates and games occurred in most election cycles,” the commission wrote. “A debate has never been rescheduled as a result.” Two of the three debates scheduled in September and October will be televised during NFL games. On Sept. 26, the night of the first debate, ESPN will carry the Monday night game featuring the Falcons vs. the Saints. On Oct. 9...

The Commissionon Presidential Debates on Sunday issued another statement in an apparent effort to end criticism by Donald Trump’s campaign about two of the events being scheduled during televised NFL games -- and suggested Trump is fighting a losing battle. “It is impossible to avoid all sporting events, and there have been nights on which debates and games occurred in most election cycles,” the commission wrote. “A debate has never been rescheduled as a result.” Two of the three debates scheduled in September and October will be televised during NFL games. On Sept. 26, the night of the first debate, ESPN will carry the Monday night game featuring the Falcons vs. the Saints. On Oct. 9...

(Reuters) Gretchen Lager's fondest childhood memories involved shooting bullets at tin cans and balloons along the Slippery Rock Creek in weste Pesylvania - but one day in 1995, guns became a far more menacing presence in her life. Her brother-in-law killed his wife of 30 years - Lager's sister - with a deer hunting rifle. He then tued the gun on himself in a murder-suicide that orphaned their 15-year-old daughter. For years afterwards, Lager was stridently anti-gun. "I have been hating guns with everything I believe until lately," she said. But earlier this year, Lager recalled those more pleasant childhood memories, "and I thought, `there's something about guns that I really know and l...

The Commissionon Presidential Debates on Sunday issued another statement in an apparent effort to end criticism by Donald Trump’s campaign about two of the events being scheduled during televised NFL games -- and suggested Trump is fighting a losing battle. “It is impossible to avoid all sporting events, and there have been nights on which debates and games occurred in most election cycles,” the commission wrote. “A debate has never been rescheduled as a result.” Two of the three debates scheduled in September and October will be televised during NFL games. On Sept. 26, the night of the first debate, ESPN will carry the Monday night game featuring the Falcons vs. the Saints. On Oct. 9...

(Reuters) Gretchen Lager's fondest childhood memories involved shooting bullets at tin cans and balloons along the Slippery Rock Creek in weste Pesylvania - but one day in 1995, guns became a far more menacing presence in her life. Her brother-in-law killed his wife of 30 years - Lager's sister - with a deer hunting rifle. He then tued the gun on himself in a murder-suicide that orphaned their 15-year-old daughter. For years afterwards, Lager was stridently anti-gun. "I have been hating guns with everything I believe until lately," she said. But earlier this year, Lager recalled those more pleasant childhood memories, "and I thought, `there's something about guns that I really know and l...

Prosecutors dropped the remaining charges Wednesday against three Baltimore police officers awaiting trial in the death of Freddie Gray, ending the case without any convictions. Gray was a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015. His death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement, set off massive protests in the city and led to the worst riots the city had seen in decades. The day started with a pretrial hearing for Officer Garrett Miller -- who had faced assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges. But instead of pretrial motions, Chief Deputy State...

PHILADELPHIA – Hillary Clinton took a historic step closer Tuesday to fulfilling her dream of shattering what she once called “that highest, hardest glass ceiling”when Democratic delegates at the party's national convention in Philadelphia officially nominated her as their candidate for president – making the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state the first woman to top a major party presidential ticket. South Dakota’s delegation put her over the top in the tally, but it was ex-primary foe Beie Sanders who closed out the roll call and made her nomination official after his home state of Vermont cast its votes. “I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of t...