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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Ravens’ star quarterback Lamar Jackson makes history as second unanimous NFL MVP

Baltimore Ravens’ quarterback Lamar Jackson has just become only the second player in history to be unanimously voted as Most Valuable Player of the National Football League.

The first was Tom Brady of the New England Patriots in 2010.

Jackson received the big award on Saturday during the NFL’s end-of-season Hall of Fame awards. The recognition comes in only Jackson’s second season and his first as a full-time starter, the New York Daily News reports.

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The short record of the 22-year-old Baltimore quarterback has been memorable.

He dominated most defenses he came up against in the last year, amounting to more than 3,100 passing yards, 36 passing touchdowns, 1,206 rushing yards, and seven rushing touchdowns, the News reported. He’s had 43 total touchdowns, according to the News.

The recognition comes two years after many doubted Jackson’s abilities in events leading up to the 2018 NFL Draft.

“It feels good when you can make those people eat their words,” ESPN quoted Jackson as saying Saturday.

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The unanimous vote is not the only milestone Jackson his this weekend. He now joins former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton as the only players to take home the MVP award and the coveted Heisman Trophy, the News reported.

Jackson also became only the third-youngest player to win the award, ESPN reported. Only running back Jim Brown, honored as MVP in 1957 and 1958, was younger, according to the sports news organization.

Despite 21 months of plays that saw sports journalists regularly raving, Jackson expressed humility at his accomplishment.

“I’m still young,” he said. “I’ve still got a lot of work to do. I’m not really trying to dwell on what I just did. If I win a Super Bowl, you’ll probably see a lot more emotion.”

Jackson is the first player for the Ravens to win the MVP award, and the only Baltimore player in 16 years to receive a single vote, ESPN reported.

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Video emerges of boxing champion Gervona Davis in physical altercation with woman

Boxer Gervonta Davis is under fire this morning after a video surfaced of him physically assaulting a woman believed to be his daughter’s mother at a public evevnt.

In the 15-second video posted by the @mr_luares Twitter account, Davis is seen at a celebrity basketball game in Miami on Saturday grabbing a seated woman by the collar or throat and lifting her from her seat as both appear to be arguing. Two men at the game walk quickly toward the pair and as soon as a third man who was seated next to the woman moves aside, the four all walk out of the arena.

Later on in a post to his Instagram stories, Davis, 25, strongly denied harming the young woman. The boxer has since deleted all posts and stories from that personal account.

“I never once hit her,” he posted. “Yea, I was aggressive and told her to come on … that’s the mother of my child I would never hurt her.”

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Davis’ advisor, Lorin Chvotkin, told the Baltimore Sun he would have no comment on the incident.

Davis, a native of Baltimore, now lives and trains in Atlanta.

This is not Davis’ first skirmish with potential assault.

One year ago, a magistrate in Fairfax, Va., issued an arrest warrant for Davis on a misdemeanor assault charge in connection with an alleged altercation at a mall in Virginia. Davis had been scheduled to appear in court last May on the charge, but he reached a settlement with the other party first and charges were dropped, the Sun reported.

Davis also has faced previous assault charges that were later dropped after allegedly punching a childhood friend in the head back in 2017, as well as engaging in alleged disorderly conducted for a reported street fight in 2018, Yahoo Sports reported.

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On Dec. 29th, Davis won the World Boxing Association lightweight title in Atlanta after a 12th round knockout of Yuriorkis Gamboa. Davis is a two-time Super Featherweight World Champion.

There have been no arrests or police reports filed, TMZ and the Sun are reporting.

TMZ reported that the altercation began with the two yelling at one another until matters turned physical.

 

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The Color Purple Returning to the Big Screen for Black History Month

“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it,” Shug Avery famously says during a watershed moment in one of the best movies ever, which was adapted from one of the best books ever.

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FDA approves new drug to combat deadly peanut allergies in kids

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new medication to treat potentially deadly peanut allergies in children.

And while food allergies are growing in prevalence among all children, some research has shown that Black children are at an increased risk for food allergy and its effects, Physician’s Weekly reports.

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The drug Palforzia works by helping to increase patients’ tolerance to peanuts, thereby reducing the risk of a dangerous reaction, according to USA Today.

“Peanut allergy affects approximately 1 million children in the U.S., and only one out of five of these children will outgrow their allergy,” Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, told the news organization. “Because there is no cure, allergic individuals must strictly avoid exposure to prevent severe and potentially life-threatening reactions.”

Palforzia is approved for youngsters age 4 to 17 who have a confirmed diagnosis of allergy, but the FDA warns that it should not be considered a green light to eating peanuts. Allergy sufferers must still avoid eating peanuts, the federal agency said.

“It’s been a life-changer,” sufferer Nina Nichols, 18, is quoted as saying by USA Today.

The teen took part in a Palforzia research study to provide more guidance on side effects and its effectiveness. The powdered drug is made from peanuts, and patients mix it with small amounts of soft food such as apple sauce or yogurt.

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And while the drug is showing promise, data on children of color and food allergies is lacking, Dr. Mahboobeh Mahdavinia told Physician’s Weekly.

“Nearly all available information is focused on Caucasian children because food allergies are thought to be an issue of affluent societies and higher-income families,” she said.

Another physician, one who works with the federal government, told USA Today that overall, Palforzia is a game changer.

“For so long, we had nothing to offer those patients,” Dr. Pamela Guerrerio of the National Institutes of Health told the news organization.

NIH funds a good portion of food allergy research.

“We finally have a treatment,” Guerrerio said. “That’s a big step.

Palforzia is produced by Aimmune Therapuetics. The company told USA Today that it is hopeful prescriptions may begin in a few weeks.

 

 

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Good news- early spring predicted on Groundhog Day 2020

Celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil failed to see his shadow on Sunday morning, meaning the country will hopefully see an early spring.

The prediction is probably not a surprise to many in the United States who have experienced less snow and cold than usual, but those at the event in Punxsutawney, Penn., at dawn still reacted to the rodent’s failure to see his shadow as an epiphany.

“It’s not very often that Phil predicts an early spring, but the groundhog, my friends, predicted an early spring,” Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean said on Sunday.

The western Pennsylvania groundhog “does not predict spring very often,” Dean said, and Sunday’s phenomenon is likely only the 21st time in the last century that Phil has predicted winter will say an early goodbye, Fox News reported.

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In fact, in the previous five years before Sunday, Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter three times, according to Fox.

In records going back 122 years, the groundhog has predicted more winter more than 100 years, Fox reported.

“This is epic; this is history right now,” Dean said from Miami, where she planned to report from the Super Bowl. “The groundhog has spoken and we are going to experience an early spring, everybody.”

The Groundhog Day tradition has its roots in a German legend, which dictates that if a furry rodent casts a shadow on Feb. 2, winter will continue, Fox reported.

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While the annual tradition makes for lots of jokes and conversation about the weather, the brutal truth is that Punxsutawney Phil is rarely right in his predictions. His track record is about 39 percent, Dean said.

Last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information reported that the groundhog’s prediction of a short winter was completely wrong, and the country experienced a pretty harsh February and March with below-average temperatures.

 

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