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No, ingesting marijuana will not prevent COVID-19

Dear Doctors: Please help us explain to our kids that using marijuana doesn’t keep you from getting COVID-19. We’re particularly focused on our two older sons, who are quoting a study that says it supposedly does, and who are in college in a state that just legalized recreational cannabis.

Mavericks fall again at home to Americans

Tad O’Had and his Kansas City Mavericks approached their recent fivegame series with the Allen Americans as a postseason series, and following Wednesday night’s 5-4 loss, his team is in the Mountain Division cellar.

‘It’s the money round’

The Big 12 Conference doesn’t award a regular-season wrestling champion, but the winner of Wednesday’s Missouri-Iowa State dual still came away with something. No.

More than medals lost at hands of cheats

BEIJING – The drug cheats who take spots on the podium from deserving athletes rob them of so much more than medals. There is a moment that comes at the end of a race, or a game or a program, when athletes realize they have finally won the medal they’ve chased their entire career.

Power rankings for NFL offseason

NFL power rankings at conclusion of 2021 season and Super Bowl 56 (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Rams (6): Super Bowl champions for the second time, but Super Bowl champions of Los Angeles for the first.

WHAT’S ON TODAY

Today's sports broadcast highlights Friday's television • Winter Olympics: 4:30 a.m., through all day., USA (52) • Golf: Champions Tour Chubb Classic, 11 a.m., GOLF (27) • Winter Olympics: Men's hockey, speed skating, biathlon, 1 p.m., KSHB (8) • Golf: PGA Tour Genesis Invitational, 3 p.m. GOLF (27) • Winter Olympics: Curling, 4 p.m., CNBC (33) • College basketball: Richmond at VCU, 6 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • Winter Olympics: Freestyle skiing, figure skating, bobsled, 7 p.m., KSHB (8) • College basketball: Wright State at Oakland, 8 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • Winter Olympics: Alpine skiing, bobsled, 10:40 p.m., KSHB (8) .

Europe’s leaders united on Ukraine

BRUSSELS – European Union leaders held a short summit meeting Thursday to push the chances of diplomacy to unlock the standoff over Ukraine and reaffirm their joint determination to impose massive sanctions if Russia invades its neighbor.

105 dead, dozens missing in mudslide

PETROPOLIS, Brazil – Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 105 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. But even as families prepared to bury their dead, it was unclear Thursday how many bodies remained trapped in the mud.

Senate group to examine US prison system

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate is launching a bipartisan working group of lawmakers to scrutinize conditions within the Bureau of Prisons following reporting by the Associated Press that uncovered widespread corruption and abuse in federal prisons.