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Joe Montana-Steve Young, 49ers Young was the Bill Walsh-anointed heir apparent, but Montana was in no mood to step aside gracefully. He was forced to by injury in 1991, after four tense years as teammates, and Young kept the job even after his return, leaving Montana to escape to Kansas City to finish his career. Phil Simms-Jeff Hostetler, Giants Hostetler replaced the injured Simms late in the 1990 season, led the Giants to the Super Bowl, and kept the job and beat the Bills even with Simms healthy again....

The FANS key task is to get its multibillion-dollar modernization program for the air-traffic-control system back on track. The current equipment-from radios to tracking systems-is decades old and hard to repair. The FAA often proposes grandiose plans, then succumbs to cost overruns and poor management. It should speed the process of updating by buying off-the-shelf, ready-made computers and hiring enough software engineers to design and install the system. A pet idea of Vice President Al Gore and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, it would transfer the agency’s air-traffic-control facilities and equipment to a new body wholly owned by Uncle Sam and governed by a board of directors that would include government officials and industry representatives....

TMRW in Nashville serves as a bar, music venue and restaurant. Right now, though, what it’s serving on the drinks menu is causing quite a stir on social media. It all started with a tweet from FrederiqueD1 that included a screenshot of the venue’s cocktail list. The drinks on offer at TMRW include a “Cancel Kanye” cocktail, “Pete Davidson’s Body Count”, a “T Swift Tango” and a drink called “Bron Went Bye Bye....

According to Pix11, Carter the kangaroo was strangled to death on Wednesday evening after he was spotted outside his usual confinement area. Carter’s owners, Hope and Chris Lea, were contacted by their neighbors who spotted the kangaroo outside of its normal area though still on their fenced-in property. The news outlet reported that the neighbors asked the Leas, who were not home, for advice on helping coax the animal back into its enclosure....

16-Gilles Muller (Luxembourg) The veteran left-hander is bidding to reach his first grand slam semi-final on his 37th appearance at a major. The 34-year-old pulled off one of the biggest shocks of the tournament when he beat Rafael Nadal to reach the quarter-finals, but he has never won consecutive matches against top 10 players at a grand slam. His win over fourth seed Nadal ended a 10-match losing streak against top 10 players at the majors, but he has lost both of his previous encounters with Cilic, including on grass at London’s Queen’s Club last month....

Fourth seed Kei Nishikori of Japan was stunned by Russian veteran Mikhail Youznhy 6-1, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3 in the second round of the ATP Halle grasscourt Open on Wednesday. Youzhny, 30, will face one of German pair Philipp Kohlschreiber, the sixth seed, or Tobias Kamke in the next round. The Russian reached the Halle semi-finals last season where he was beaten by five-time champion Roger Federer. It was world number 13 Nishikori’s opening match in the tournament having been given a first round bye....

Djokovic didn't face a break point on his serve after the first set in the baseline slugfest that ended after midnight local time. He advanced to the quarterfinals against Julien Benneteau, a 6-3, 7-6 (4) winner over Feliciano Lopez. "It was very tough. Marin was a far better player in the first 45 minutes. He was striking the ball incredibly well," said Djokovic, who improved to 8-0 against Cilic. "I tried to stay calm and composed and believe that I could come back....

The Swiss star beat Andy Murray 6-3, 7-5 on Friday night and advanced to the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open, a tournament he has won an unprecedented five times already. He’ll face Canada’s Milos Raonic in the next round. The second-seeded Federer was on the offensive from the first point as he evened their career series at 11 wins apiece and showed he’s going to be tough to beat....

They took turns waiting on each other, the pace of play plodding, which only delayed the inevitable. Williams beat Sharapova for the 15th consecutive time Thursday, rallying in both sets to win 6-4, 6-3 in the Sony Open semifinals. "I have always felt when I'm playing at my best, then it's hard for people to beat me," Williams said. Rafael Nadal could say the same. He advanced to the semifinals by hitting a flurry of forehand winners down the stretch to beat Milos Raonic 4-6, 6-2, 6-4....

The former world number one, who returned from the 15-month ban in April, defeated Belarusian teenager Aryna Sabalenka 7-5 7-6(8) in the final of the Tianjin Open on Sunday. Sharapova said she was looking forward to building on the success next week in Moscow at the Kremlin Cup, a tournament she has not appeared at since 2007. “Obviously coming there with the title already means a lot, but I do really want to finish strong,” said the Russian, who accepted a wild card for the event....

Poland's Janowicz, seeded second for the ATP 250 tournament, was beaten 6-2, 6-2 by Alexandr Dolgopolov. Third seed Seppi lost to Australian wild card Marinko Matosevic 6-3, 6-4. Janowicz's usually reliable serve let him down as he fired just four aces and racked up five double faults in less than an hour on court. Matosevic delighted the home crowd with a convincing win over Seppi — who will head into the Australian Open having lost his only game on Tour this year....

But the International Tennis Federation will be ceding some control of the final of its flagship men’s event to investors bankrolling the World Cup of Tennis project, including tech billionaire Larry Ellison, who can sell off the hosting rights. The introduction of a one-week, one-location, men’s event for 18 nations is the latest attempt by the ITF to transform national team competitions. The final of the current Davis Cup is between two countries, one of which decides the venue....

A few days back, Roger Federer unveiled the Roger Federer Allee, a street named after him in Halle. Federer has a huge fan base in Germany and that has become very evident with this move. Federer, after officially opening the street, said “It is a great honour for me that a street is named after me”. Federer also has a postal stamp in Switzerland and Austria. Rafael Nadal wore a watch when he received his 7th French Open Title....

And there is at least one team that is interested in seeing what Owens can do, according to his agent Gregory D.L. Daniel. That would be the Cowboys. Daniel told Sports Illustrated’s Aaron Wilson that he and Owens had been “in constant communication with Jerry Jones’ office” in recent days. The discussions, per Daniel, were about Owens returning to the Cowboys. “Terrell is ready to contribute and play any role, big or small,” Daniel said....

The Cowboys’ third straight loss provided yet more fuel for those fans riding on the “Fire Jason Garrett” bandwagon, some of them for years. Yet mixed in on social media with all the complaints from the team’s avid fan base was this gem of a tweet from former Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens. “Hey @realjerryjones!! Still think Jason Garrett is the answer?! For a decade, A DECADE NOW, it’s the same old song and dance!...

The new evidence was used this week by Canadian officials to press their case that Mahmoud Jaballah, the founder of a Muslim elementary school in Toronto, should be branded an international terrorist and extradited to Egypt. There, he could face charges that he was a member of Al Jihad, a radical terrorist group that was formerly headed by bin Laden’s elusive second-in-command, Ayman Al Zawahiri. Canadian officials have been seeking for almost four years to expel Jaballah, contending that he is a dangerous “threat to national security” and has ties to a group of Toronto-based Muslims who are suspected “sleeper agents” in the bin Laden network....

CASE CLOSED blared the headline in a Weekly Standard cover story last Saturday that purported to have unearthed the U.S. government’s “secret evidence of cooperation” between Saddam and bin Laden. Fred Barnes, the magazine’s executive editor, touted the magazine’s scoop the next day in a roundtable chat on “Fox News Sunday.” (Both the Standard and Fox News Channel are owned by the conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch.) “These are hard facts, and I’d like to see you refute any one of them,” he told a skeptical Juan Williams of National Public Radio....

The voluminous German records, obtained by NEWSWEEK, seem to undercut highly touted administration claims that Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, a hardened Jordanian terrorist who once received medical treatment in Baghdad, was a key player in Al Qaeda. In fact, the secret German records–compiled during interrogations with a captured Zarqawi associate–suggest that the shadowy Zarqawi headed his own terrorist group, called Al Tawhid, with its own goals and may even have been a jealous rival of Al Qaeda....

Watt, 30, has been sidelined since October due to a torn pectoral, an injury which was expected to see the Texans star miss the rest of the season. However, the team announced on Tuesday that defensive end Watt had been activated ahead of the wildcard clash against the Bills. “The #Texans have activated DE J.J. Watt off the Reserve/Injured list,” they wrote on Twitter. “The team also placed S Tashaun Gipson Sr....

As of Thursday, CMS reported over 14 million new enrollments or renewals of coverage through the program. State-specific data released by the CMS on Monday showed over 2 million of those covered by the law were new enrollments. Florida leads the nation with over 2.5 million enrollments. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act while in the House of Representatives. California and Texas have the next highest enrollments each with just over 1....