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Line: Oklahoma -17 Total: 60 Line movement: The Wynn opened Oklahoma -14 and was bet to -17 within 24 hours. John Avello, head oddsmaker at The Wynn, didn’t understand all the sentiment on Oklahoma at his opening number, telling The Linemakers on Sporting News these teams’ early-season performances were built into his line. Check our odds page for current college football spreads and totals. Trends that matter: Texas is 1-5 ATS in its last six coming off a straight-up loss of at least 20 points…The Sooners are 1-4 ATS last five at neutral site....

The Mountaineers have yet to play Texas Tech, after all. WEEK 5 PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread That showdown unfolds this Saturday in Lubbock, where the 12th-ranked Mountaineers will take on the 25th-ranked Red Raiders. It pits the Big 12’s most prolific offense (the Red Raiders average 623 yards and 52 points per game) against its stingiest defense (the Mountaineers yield just 304 yards and a nation-leading 12....

During Big E’s championship speech, he paid tribute to a good friend in the late, great Brodie Lee, formerly known as WWE Superstar Luke Harper. The Powerhouse of Positivity expressed his gratitude for having a friend as “incredible” as Lee. The WWE Universe subsequently started to chant Lee’s name in a beautiful moment. This emotional moment didn’t last long, as Roman Reigns’ music hit and The Bloodline entered the arena for a staredown with The New Day prior to their six-man tag match....

RELATED: Celebrities Who Made Small Cameos In Popular Games Some studios with greater ambitions bucked this trend, splashing out on well-known actors from movies and TV. Typically, there wasn’t much money left for the actual game, with the hope being that slapping a recognizable face on the box would drive sales. The result was a slew of releases that probably wouldn’t be remembered were it not for the celebrities attached to them....

So there is a risk in asking Michigan now, following a 75-66 victory over Purdue in the Big Ten championship game, to cool its heels for a week until discovering its circumstance for the NCAA Tournament, and another four to five days to actually play again. On the other hand, it’s a week of practice with no game prep for the brilliant John Beilein. How much can the Wolverines improve with that unfair advantage?...

Second-seeded Michigan State is even money, with Indiana and Purdue (both on the other side of the bracket) behind. The field is listed at 25-to-1, with Michigan and Ohio State the highest seeds in that group. MORE: Full Big Ten schedule, bracket TeamRankings.com gives Sparty a 40 percent chance to win the Big Ten Tournament, which would imply odds of +150, but with the juice accounted for, even money isn’t too far off....

The induction comes as a surprise on a couple fronts, as many fans were expecting Undertaker to be the sole entrant into this year’s class of WWE inductees, but there has been an overall positive reception to the inclusion of Vader, an inclusion many fans and critics alike felt was long overdue. Several veterans of the wrestling industry, including two of Vader’s career rivals in Ric Flair and Mick Foley, went on social media to congratulate the Rocky Mountain bruiser, lauding him as one of wrestling’s greatest “big men....

Joe Biden, however, has always been a skeptic of the Saudi monarchy. From as far back as the 1980’s, then-Sen. Biden counseled his colleagues to open their eyes and stop pretending Riyadh was a magic-bullet to the Middle East’s innumerable problems. After the 9/11 attacks, in which 19 hijackers (15 of whom were Saudi citizens) conducted the worst act of terrorism on American soil, Biden was quick to excoriate Saudi Arabia for turning a blind eye to extremism within its own population....

Attorneys representing Arkansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina filed an emergency motion late Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Hours earlier, a federal district judge ruled that the states’ lawsuit lacked standing, while Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by former President Donald Trump, also declined to block the program. Although the program had previously withstood Republican-led court challenges, the appeals court agreed on Friday to temporarily stop the Biden administration from discharging any debt until a ruling on an injunction challenging the legality of the program is completed....

President Biden, alongside first lady Dr. Jill Biden, visited the American territory on Monday, meeting community leaders and families impacted by the storm. Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 18, soon after it was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane. That same day, officials reported that the storm had knocked out power on the entire island, with the destruction prompting Biden to declare a state of emergency....

At a virtual fundraiser hosted by the JStreet PAC on Thursday, Biden said he would seek to re-engage with Tehran though admitted this would not be easy after four years of antagonism. On Thursday, Biden said Trump had made an Iranian nuclear weapon more likely despite his claims to the contrary. “Iran is closer to a weapon now than we were when we left office in 2017,” he said, according to a press pool report sent out by his campaign....

President Joe Biden said in a statement that the aid will take the form of weapons, ammunition and other security assistance for Ukraine. “The Ukrainian military has used the weapons we are providing to devastating effect. As Russia prepares to intensify its attack in the Donbas region, the United States will continue to provide Ukraine with the capabilities to defend itself,” the statement read. The U.S. authorized an earlier $800 million security aid package for Ukraine on March 16....

“People do not want to lose pay to get vaccinated,” a senior administration official told Newsweek and other outlets Wednesday in a preview of Biden’s speech set to take place in the afternoon. “No one should have to lose a single dollar from their paycheck because they got vaccinated.” Biden is expected to announce that the United States this week will hit the milestone of administering 200 million coronavirus vaccine shots since he took office in January—a week ahead of his goal for hitting that number during his first 100 days....

Walt Anderson, the Big 12 Conference’s supervisor of officials, ruled Tuesday the Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew was correct in not calling targeting on Texas defensive back DeShon Elliott for his high collision with Torii Hunter Jr. Big 12 replay officials didn’t deem it necessary to call targeting from the booth, although a rule implemented this year allows for that. MORE: Crazy plays in ND-Texas “The play was reviewed and replay did not feel the action warranted an egregious foul, which is the standard to be applied for replay involvement in targeting fouls that are not called on the field,” Anderson said in a statement....

While the Renegades put on a bowling master-class against the Perth Scorchers, Sydney Thunder replicated their opponents’s efforts albeit with the bat, as a Callum Ferguson hundred took them home against the very same opponents. With both teams boasting of household names such as Shane Watson and Aaron Finch, this match is sure to be fought very closely between the two. Squads to choose from Melbourne Renegades: Cameron Boyce, Dan Christian, Tom Cooper, Zak Evans, Aaron Finch, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Tim Ludeman, Joe Mennie, Mohammad Nabi, Kane Richardson, Usman Khan, Will Sutherland, Chris Tremain, Beau Webster, Cameron White, Jack Wildermuth....

The Classic Spec Ops mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is called Door Kick, and it brings back the 3-star rating system from the Spec Ops modes in past Modern Warfare games. Players will be rewarded with XP and can unlock multiplayer content by participating in Spec Ops. In our Call of Duty: Modern Warfare review, one of the main complaints was the lack of classic Spec Ops missions, so this should go a long way in appeasing disgruntled fans....

Fast forward to this season, however, and people are starting to see what all the fuss is about - 18 goals in 24 games for Monaco? Not too shabby. ‘But Ligue 1 is easy!’ we hear you cry. We’ll leave that up for debate, but take one look at some of his stats from Europe and you might change your mind. Falcao has scored a massive 45 goals in 50 appearances in UEFA competition, a ratio of 0....

The latest dip in Bitcoin underscores William Shakespeare’s observation in The Tempest that “What’s past is prologue.” Many retail investors sold during the downturn in an apparent attempt to cut their losses, while long-term investors snapped up newly available coins at good prices, replicating the dynamic of prior dips and sending the price of the crypto higher. “On-chain signals indicate that strong hands are aggressively buying the Bitcoin dip,” Alexandra Clark, a trader at London-based GlobalBlock, said in a research note....

In a recent interview with ESPN.com, WWE Superstar Big Show placed all the blame on their WrestleMania match — which is currently in jeopardy — on the retired NBA star. MORE: Getting a grip — recapping wrestling’s biggest stories “It’s on Shaq,” Big Show told ESPN.com. “He has to figure things out in his own camp. Maybe he is just too scared to show up because he’s too busy riding around singing karaoke with John Cena and going to Krispy Kreme and getting fatter every week....