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By DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Vikings safety Harrison Smith ripped off his helmet once the victory was finally secured, after a 29-point lead on the Pittsburgh Steelers late in the third quarter evaporated into yet another teeth-clenching finish. Smith looked exhausted and exasperated, hardly excited at all. These Vikings don't make anything easy on themselves. Dalvin Cook rushed for 205 yards and two touchdowns in his faster-than-expected return from a shoulder injury, and the Vikings held on to Skechers Shoes Outlets  beat the Steelers 36-28 by forcing an incomplete pass in the end zone on the final play Thursday night. Ben Roethlisberger's throw to Pat Freiermuth was on target, but Smith smashed into the rookie ...

By BEN ROSS, Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jordan Greenway scored twice and the Minnesota Wild beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win. Kevin Fiala, Joel Eriksson Ek and Kirill Kaprizov also scored for the Wild, who took over the NHL lead with 39 points, their most through 26 games in franchise history. “I think it’s great,” Fiala said. “We’re such a tight group. Hoka Shoes We always believe in it. ... Inside our room, we want to be on top of the league and right now I think we are. It’s still early, so we just have to keep it going.” Jonathan Dahlen and Tomas Hertl scored for the Sharks. Minnesota’s eight-game winning streak is the longest current run in the league and the third-longest in franchise h...

Mike Tomlin had seen enough before that, and the 15th-year coach was so upset he started benching players in search of a spark. The defense gave up 176 yards rushing to the Minnesota Vikings in the first half. The offensive line allowed four sacks of Ben Roethlisberger before halftime. With his team's season on the brink, Tomlin took action. He benched receiver Chase Claypool following a taunting penalty in the first quarter. Inside linebacker Joe Schobert later found himself on the bench, with rookie Buddy Johnson taking over. Fourth-year linebacker Marcus Allen,Sneakerheads2020  who had only played special teams all season, also got his first snaps on defense. “We will not be bashful about turning the stones over,” Tomlin said after Pittsburgh’s 36-28...

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The last piano on which Frederic Chopin played and composed in Paris is being renovated by a U.S. expert who is giving it back its original mid-19th century characteristics. Paul McNulty is spending days at the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw filling in some cracks in the soundboard and putting in wire strings like the ones used by Paris piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel — Chopin's favorite — in 1848. “We’re very, very close to the character and the identity 2021 Yeezy Boost  of this instrument when we put the correct strings on, everything else being in very good condition,” McNulty told The Associated Press on Thursday. Pleyel made the instrument, with serial number 14810, available to Chopi...

LONDON (AP) — Actor Sienna Miller on Thursday accepted “substantial” damages from the publisher of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, which she accuses of hacking her phone and leaking news of her pregnancy. Miller, a performer whose films include “Factory Girl,” “Black Mass” and “The Lost City of Z,” joins a list of dozens of people who have received payments from News Group Newspapers over illegal eavesdropping that took place over a decade ago. News Group Newspapers has paid millions of pounds to Cadysneaker settle lawsuits from hacking victims. Most of the cases have involved the now-defunct News of the World, which was shut down by owner Rupert Murdoch in 2011 after revelations that its employees had snooped on the voice mails of celebrities, politicians and even cri...

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer The Sundance Film Festival is returning to the Utah mountains in January armed with documentaries about Bill Cosby, Princess Diana, Kanye West and Lucille Ball and the directorial debuts of Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro and Jesse Eisenberg. Festival organizers unveiled the lineup for the 2022 edition on Thursday, which includes 82 feature-length films culled from over 3,700 submissions. “This year’s program reflects the unsettling and uncertain times we’ve been living in for the past year and a half,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance’s director of programming. As in years past, the festival boasts a robust documentary lineup,New Jordan  including “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” in which director W. Kamau Bell attempts to examine the a...