The night I heard my daughter report to my wife that “Daddy is saying ‘holy moly’ to his computer again,” I realized how much my virtual community had become part of my real life. Although in my daughter’s eyes I appeared to be alone in my home office, in my own mind I was communing with colleagues all around the world. I was arguing politics, making jokes, exchanging tips on raising a daughter or running a small business....
Cole, who was acquired via trade from the Pittsburgh Pirates this offseason, allowed just one run with 11 strikeouts. He gave up just two hits and walked three batters while showing great command on his secondary pitches. With Cole off to a solid start, the Astros now feature three ace-calibre pitchers at the top of their rotation. Justin Verlander and Dallas Keuchel had already pitched, but the former was the most intriguing Astros starter to begin the season....
A video surfaced Monday showing a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck near a squad car. (Officers were responding to a report of a suspected forgery at the time.) Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe, and at one point he stopped moving and appeared to be unconscious. Floyd later died at a local hospital. Floyd’s death has sparked national outrage, and social justice demonstrations turned violent this week in Minneapolis and beyond....
Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department raided Taylor’s apartment during a narcotics investigation and shot dead the 26-year-old Black woman. It subsequently emerged the warrant used was connected to a suspect who did not live on the premises and no drugs were found in the apartment. On Wednesday, Jefferson County grand jury delivered its long-awaited verdict on the case and charged fired LMPD officer Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots that went into another home with people inside....
Date: August 15, 2022 Tournament: Cincinnati Open 2022 Round: First round (Round of 64) Venue: Cincinnati, United States Category: ATP Masters 1000 Surface: Hard Prize money: $970,020 Maxime Cressy vs Botic van de Zandschulp Maxime Cressy will face Botic van de Zandschulp in the opening round of the Cincinnati Masters on Monday. Cressy has had a promising season so far, amassing 20 wins from 38 matches and winning his first ever ATP title at the Hall of Fame Open in Newport....
Tournament: Cincinnati Open 2022 Round: First Round (Round of 64) Venue: Lindner Family Tennis Center, Ohio, United States Category: WTA 1000 Surface: Hard Prize money: $2,527,250 Shelby Rogers vs Sofia Kenin preview Shelby Rogers and Sofia Kenin will lock horns in an all-American first-round showdown at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati. The 29-year-old Rogers is coming off a fantastic start to the US Open Series. She went on a giant-killing run at the Silicon Valley Classic, accounting for the likes of Bianca Andreescu, Maria Sakkari, Amanda Anisimova, and Veronika Kudermetova to reach the final....
San Diego Padres first baseman Luke Voit collided with Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson in a scary incident that left Stephenson unconscious. Stephenson left the game shortly after with concussion symptoms. Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell spoke about the collision in a postgame press conference. The collision forced the Reds catcher to be removed from the game. He has been placed on the seven-day injured list. Cincinnati Reds player Tommy Pham calls out Luke Voit Reds outfielder Tommy Pham launched a towering home run in the first inning of the game....
The Bearcats (8-0) didn’t play last week, and won’t play this week — but their path to the four-team Playoff remains the same: They need help. Cincinnati needs No. 2 Notre Dame (9-0, 8-0 ACC) to give No. 3 Clemson (8-1, 7-1 ACC) a second loss. The Bearcats need No. 1 Alabama (8-0 SEC) to beat No. 6 Florida (7-1 SEC) in the SEC championship game. And it wouldn’t hurt if No....
This is the team college football is trying to sell us as a “Cinderella” story? What do you suppose Carl Spackler would think of that? It seemed unlikely the best team in a Power 5 conference really fit that label, but we knew just whom to ask to get the definitive answer. Head coach of 13 college basketball teams (so far) that appeared in March Madness, Jamie Dixon knows what a true Cinderella looks like....
To start, the Civilization 6 August 2020 update is set to go live on Thursday, August 27, and it will add two new features to this popular turn-based strategy game. The first of these features will give players the ability to select the Natural Wonders that have a chance of appearing in their games as they are creating them. While this will not guarantee that a fan’s desired Wonders will appear exactly where they want them to, it should allow them to encounter their favorite Natural Wonders in Civ 6 more often and completely avoid any of them that they strongly dislike....
A viral tweet was shared on the micro-blogging platform that said of the 41-year-old screen star: “Bryce Dallas Howard’s butt is so big they had to Photoshop it down in the Jurassic World poster.” To support the claim, an image of Howard in the poster for the 2015 box office juggernaut was shared beside an image of the actor posing on a red carpet, where she was seen appearing to have a more curvaceous figure....
PARIS (Reuters) - A Ciaran Clark own goal earned Sweden a fortunate 1-1 draw against a spirited Ireland side in their Euro 2016 Group E opener at the Stade de France on Monday. Returning to the scene of Thierry Henry’s infamous handball for France that crushed their 2010 World Cup qualifying dreams in an unforgettable playoff, Ireland were the better side for most of the game. They were rewarded for their domination three minutes into the second period when Wes Hoolahan scored with a splendid half-volley....
The war-of-words stems from comments Clarke made on Wednesday criticising attempts to improve the cricket team’s image in the wake of the cheating row in South Africa this year, insisting they “won’t win a game” without their infamous abrasive attitude. “Australian cricket, I think, needs to stop worrying about being liked and start worrying about being respected,” he told commercial radio. “Play tough Australian cricket. Whether we like it or not, that’s in our blood....
The first Balance update of the year It was released on the 7th day of this year. The update basically focused on Magic Archer, Goblin Giant, Freeze spell and more. So let’s have a closer look at the updates. Heal: The elixir cost was decreased to 1, which earlier was 3; Healing per second - 63% and Duration was reduced from 2.5 to 2. Magic Archer: The archer now does its first attack faster....
The trailer captures Battlefield 5’s two new factions, the Americans and the Japanese, as well as new weapons, vehicles, and more. Perhaps the most exciting moment in the trailer, however, was the tease of the fondly remembered Wake Island map. RELATED: Battlefield V Gets Three Free To Play Weekends The classic Wake Island map first debuted in the original Battlefield 1942 and its addition to Battlefield 5 will be its ninth iteration in the franchise....
Philadelphia’s captain recorded the first regular-season hat trick of his career in a 5-0 win over the Rangers Saturday, reaching the 100-point mark for the first time in his 11-year career and helping the Flyers to clinch the final spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs. MORE: Nathan MacKinnon, Taylor Hall lead MVP free-for-all Giroux scored a hat trick in the 2012 playoffs, but never in a regular season game. He finishes the season with 102 points, behind only Edmonton’s Connor McDavid....
Kershaw gave up two runs, two walks and five hits in 5.2 innings and struck out six batters, bringing his career postseason tally to 207 strikeouts in 189 innings and surpassing the record held by Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander, who has 205 strikeouts in 187.2 career postseason innings. An eight-time All-Star and three-time National League Cy Young Award winner, Kershaw has long been considered one of the best pitchers of his generation, a reputation blighted only by a penchant for seemingly going missing in October....
Kershaw gave up three earned runs in just five innings in a Game 1 win facing off against Max Scherzer on Saturday. However, the Dodgers have dropped the last two games and now find themselves one loss away from elimination in the National League Division Series. MLB PLAYOFFS 2016: The top 50 players in the postseason Despite missing nearly two months of the regular season with a back issue, Kershaw was electric and may have even received votes for NL Cy Young....
But a surprising thing happened just before the end of the presentation of evidence last week: the referee moved in and threw a solid right to the defense’s jaw. Judge Lance Ito’s ruling that jurors could consider the lesser charge of second-degree murder considerably brightened a prosecution that in recent weeks was viewing a hung jury as a major victory. The defense wanted an all-or-nothing verdict–meaning that jurors would vote either a first-degree-murder conviction or acquittal....
According to The Greenville News, campus police were called about the body behind the stadium around 8 a.m. ET. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 The Coroner’s Office, Clemson University police and the State Law Enforcement Division were investigating the death of the student identified only as a freshman from Dunwoody, Ga., according to The News. No foul play is suspected. “A death is always hard, for it impacts us all, but it’s even more difficult at this time of year,” Almeda Jacks, Clemson’s vice president for Student Affairs, said in a statement....
