内容摘要：The Timberwolves filled in that blank by beating the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in five games in each of their first two series in these

The Timberwolves filled in that blank by beating the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in five games in each of their first two series in these

The league’s appetite for international expansion is only growing, withalready locked in for next year. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, could be a future host at some point, too. There have been 55 regular-season games played abroad so far.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has even floated the idea of some day stagingHere are a few facts and figures to help put it into context:have played internationally. “America’s team” seems to take its nickname literally. Tony Romo led Dallas to a 31-17 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Nov. 9, 2014 at Wembley Stadium. Two other teams — the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns — have also played just once abroad, but both are on the international schedule this season. The Steelers play the Vikings on Sept. 28 in Dublin; the Browns face the Vikings on Oct. 5 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Jacksonville Jaguars have played the most international games — 13,

All but three teams participate in the NFL’s “" with rights in designated countries to sign commercial deals and grow their fan bases — in the same way they do in their home markets. The only teams that don’t participate are the Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals and Tennessee Titans.

Number of times a team won a Super Bowl in the same season they played an international game. It’s happened the past two seasons: the Philadelphia Eagles won their Week 1 game

; and the Kansas City Chiefs were victorious in Frankfurt, Germany in Week 9 of 2023. The Chiefs also also won in Mexico City (Week 11) in 2019 before winning the Super Bowl. The 2007 New York Giants is the other team, after playing in the first regular-season game in London.Pisano is recovering well, the NYU team announced Wednesday. She’s only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney -- following a landmark transplant

– and the latest in a string of attempts to make animal-to-human transplantation a reality.This week, the 54-year-old grasped a walker and took her first few steps.

“I was at the end of my rope,” Pisano told The Associated Press. “I just took a chance. And you know, worst case scenario, if it didn’t work for me, it might have worked for someone else and it could have helped the next person.”Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone Transplant Institute, recounted cheers in the operating room as the organ immediately started making urine.