Is Aaron Rodgers out of excuses with Packers five-game losing streak? | SPEAK

The Green Bay Packers squared off against the league’s worse ranked defense in the Detroit Lions, but fell flat with a final score of 15-9. Aaron Rodgers threw for 291 yards and a touchdown, but also had three interceptions (two in the red zone). The Packers are now on a five-game losing streak. After the … Read more

Sunak excuses ministers’ faults at expense of integrity

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday. Good morning. Rishi Sunak is grappling with a growing row about the conduct of Sir Gavin Williamson. Some thoughts on why stories like this keep happening to the prime minister … Read more

Excuses, excuses: Web searches for reasons to skip work soar in 2022

US employees are scouring the internet for excuses to miss work — just as bosses call them back to their desks. The total number of Google searches for plausible reasons to play hooky shot up over the last two years, topping 2 million in 2022, according to an analysis by Frank Recruitment Group, a global employment firm. … Read more

Aaron Rodgers, Packers running out of excuses after loss to Commanders

By Carmen VitaliFOX Sports NFC North Writer What else is there to say about the Green Bay Packers? They’re riding a three-game losing streak in which they’ve lost to the Washington Commanders, New York Jets and New York Giants. While the latter two teams have far outperformed their preseason expectations, this game in Washington was supposed to get the … Read more

Title or bust? These Sixers have no excuses

By Yaron WeitzmanFOX Sports NBA Writer There’s a joke that Daryl Morey, the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, and Elton Brand, the Sixers’ current general manager, share around the team’s headquarters in Camden, N.J.  The joke was actually started by Brand, an easy-going, self-effacing NBA lifer who as a player spent parts … Read more

Cowboys have ‘no excuses’ with Prescott, Parsons & dominant defense | UNDISPUTED

Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons will look to lead the Dallas Cowboys to back-to-back NFC East crowns for the first time since 1996. Even after losing future Hall of Fame left tackle Tyron Smith to an injury that will keep him sidelined until December, Fort Worth Star-Telgram columnist Clarence Hill wrote the Cowboys have no … Read more

MLS Footnotes: Carlos Bocanegra not making excuses for Atlanta United

By Doug McIntyreFOX Sports Soccer Writer Editor’s Note: MLS Footnotes takes you inside the major talking points around the league and across American soccer. Carlos Bocanegra isn’t blaming injuries for the predicament his Atlanta United find themselves in as the 2022 MLS regular season enters the final stretch. Several times during the course a 15-minute … Read more