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“Dry and windy conditions Monday will create areas of elevated fire danger,” wrote a local branch of National Weather Service on Twitter Sunday night. The NWS confirmed red flag warnings were issued in light of the anticipated weather, which could “bring the possibility of rapid fire growth on Monday,” it said. The warnings were effective from 1 p.m. through 9 p.m. local time, for areas across eastern Utah and northwestern Colorado, the service said....

By letting less light into your eye, some people claim these glasses allow them to see more clearly. This article will go over how pinhole glasses work and whether wearing pinhole glasses can improve your vision. How Pinhole Glasses Work Pinhole glasses have several uses. Some people use them as a treatment for myopia, also known as nearsightedness. Other people wear them to try to improve astigmatism. Some people strongly feel that pinhole glasses treat vision conditions, but the evidence is lacking....

After losing the first leg 1-0 at the RCDE Stadium on January 17, Barca turned the tie around on Thursday with a 2-0 victory courtesy of goals from Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi. Ernesto Valverde’s men join Sevilla, Valencia and Leganes – who knocked out Real Madrid – in the last four. And Pique could not resist a jibe at their Catalan rivals as Barca celebrated progression at Camp Nou, naming them Espanyol de Cornella – a suburb of the Barcelona metropolitan area - rather than Espanyol de Barcelona....

Pique found himself in the spotlight following the Catalans’ 2-1 defeat at the hands of Athletic in the Copa del Rey recently, suggesting there is a bias amongst referees against his team. Madrid crash to home defeat Luis Enrique’s side overturned the deficit in the second leg, but the centre-back sparked controversy by claiming he and his team-mates “know how this works” when comparing decisions received by Real Madrid to those that had supposedly gone against Barca....

The 23-year-old again entered Saturday’s game at PNC Park as a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning and demolished Adam Warren’s 1-1 delivery for a grand slam to right field that cleared the stadium and nearly landed in the Allegheny River. MORE: Best active MLB players by age | SN ranks baseball’s 50 best Bell, who just the got the call up from Triple-A Indianapolis on Friday, hit a pinch-hit single in his first plate appearance that night and later scored in the Pirates 8-4 win over the Cubs...

During a Wednesday morning sendoff for the South Korean shortstop, Kang said he’s ready to measure himself against Reds closer Aroldis Chapman and his 103 mph fastball. “I can only be a great player if I can hit Chapman,” Kang said, according to the Yonhap News. “I want to see for myself how hard he can pitch.” Ironically enough, the Pirates open the 2015 season in Cincinnati on April 6....

Where they’re heading It was a major overhaul for the Pistons this summer, at the behest of owner Tom Gores, who has yet to witness a playoff game in his tenure in Detroit. The Pistons changed coaches, replacing Lawrence Frank with Maurice Cheeks, and were aggressive on the free-agent market, giving forward Josh Smith a four-year deal that will make him the team’s anchor. They also swapped point guards, getting Brandon Jennings in a sign-and-trade from Milwaukee to replace Brandon Knight—though Jennings has his negatives, there’s no doubt he is an upgrade over Knight, who has struggled to play the point on the NBA level....

The incident happened on Friday in Copoya, a town with under 1,000 inhabitants in municipality of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, within Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. Data across the world puts them high on the list of dogs who cause the most fatalities or incident every year. Research from 2018 found that, in the 10 years from 2009 to 2018, pit bulls killed or injured more than 3,500 people in the U....

Late in the first quarter with Pitt ahead 14-7, Clemson decided to go for the touchdown on a fourth-and-goal play from the one-yard line. Tigers running back Wayne Gallman took a handoff and dove toward the end zone, but the ball popped out. Jordan Whitehead scooped up the fumble and took it more than 100 yards for a Pitt touchdown. MORE: Top 25 updates | Pitt-Clemson box score But wait....

Bell was mighty generous when one of his Twitter followers, Ava Tarantino, asked him to take her to prom. MORE: NFL free agency: Signings, deals, updates Bell has 804,000 followers on Twitter. Six-hundred retweets might have been lowballing it a little bit. Regardless, a deal is a deal, as Bell said, and it looks like prom is a go. Guess he has to go tux shopping — but judging how big a Steelers fan Tarantino is (her Twitter bio says “leveon bell is bae”), she might be just as happy if he showed up in full uniform....

The winner in both Georgia and Pennsylvania had not been called as of Friday evening. The Trump campaign has requested a recount in Georgia, where unofficial results showed Biden with a slight lead. In Pennsylvania, Joe Biden also held a slight lead, and Trump has raised legal challenges to the treatment of certain ballots. In Cobb County Georgia, Biden captured a decisive 12.33% victory, topping Trump 56.35% to 44.02%, according to unofficial results....

The match day 11 fixture between PKNP FC and Selangor that was scheduled to be played at Batu Kawan Stadium on May 23 will now be rescheduled for a later date. A statement from Malaysia Football League (MFL) confirmed that the match had been postponed after problems that occured with the floodlights. Upon further inspection, the stadium’s technical staff confirmed that repair work will take up to a month. This meant that the match could not be played tomorrow (May 24) is would normally be when a match is abandoned or stopped....

In the post, which has over 89,000 uplikes, user u/disbound put up a map of Chicago’s Near North Side with their location shown, as well as the location of the AirPods. The caption reads, “The person who stole my AirPods off my flight is staying in a hotel two blocks away from me.” In a follow-up comment, the victim of theft explains, “While landing at MDW I dropped my AirPods and they slid all the way to the front of the plane....

The organization unveiled the plan on Wednesday, announcing that it would be investing at least $45 million to back candidates who support abortion rights in the upcoming election cycle. The group confirmed to Newsweek that the push is the “largest-ever investment to help win elections by Planned Parenthood’s political and advocacy organizations.” In 2016 and 2018, Planned Parenthood spent about $30 million to help elect Democrats at all levels of political office....

“Is there a way we can get wasp into madden,” Hill tweeted Thursday, referring to the play that ended with his 44-yard catch in the fourth quarter against the 49ers and sparked the Chiefs’ comeback, from down 20-10 to a 31-20 victory. On Friday, the game’s Twitter account answered Hill’s question. MORE: Anatomy of Chiefs’ Super Bowl comeback Called “Jet Chip Wasp” in the game, the entirety of Patrick Mahomes’ call for the play in Super Bowl 54 was “gun trey right three jet chip wasp Y funnel....

SI’s longform piece centers around memorabilia fraud and Clint Panezich, who, according to the article, traveled to Alabama’s campus during the team’s winter break in 2009 and got several players to sign autographs for payment. MORE: Alabama No. 2? Tide disciplined enough to know it doesn’t matter According to the article, Panezich and his associate Adam Bollinger — who sold signed sports memorabilia — found Tide cornerback Marquis Johnson outside Bryant Hall, the football team’s residence hall, and paid him around $200 to sign various Alabama memorabilia: roughly 40 “white-paneled footballs, each emblazoned with Alabama’s logo....

With his second made 3-pointer during the Warriors-Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, Curry passed Ray Allen as the NBA’s all-time 3-point leader. With 2,977 3-pointers and counting, Curry will now try and build upon his lead as the NBA’s 3-point shooting king, aiming to put the record completely out of reach. After his history-making triple, countless members of the NBA family took to Twitter to congratulate the greatest shooter of all time....