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Price, the Reds' pitching coach the past four seasons, will take over for Dusty Baker, who was fired on Oct. 4. ROSTER SHAKEUP? Reds reportedly making 2B Phillips available in trade This will be Price's first managerial job. Before joining the Reds, he was pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners (2001-06) and Arizona Diamondbacks (2007-09). He was a pitching consultant for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2009 after being fired by the D-backs in May of that year....

Legaux took over for Gunner Kiel late in the first half of the Bearcats’ opener against Toledo, after Kiel left the game because of cramping. The former starter completed four of five passes for 18 yards. Kiel, a Notre Dame transfer, returned for the second half and finished off a six-TD, 418-yard performance in a 58-34 victory. MORE: Sports’ most gruesome injuries Regardless of the numbers, and of whether he can regain his starting job, Legaux being in uniform and on the field again is a triumph....

Aguero is right to fear for his future The former France striker’s last top-flight act was to feature for Bastia as a substitute in their clash against Marseille, when he featured for nine minutes at the end of an injury-riddled 2014-15 campaign. He dreamed of returning to Auxerre, the club where he had made his debut, but injury prevented him regaining his top level. Cisse’s who career was characterised by serious injury and the 35-year-old striker’s fierce determination to overcome these problems....

Casale told Newsweek that she adopted her two cats after finding them on the street, which was her motivation to move the initiative, which is formally known as the Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return program, forward. “I have two cats who would otherwise be on the street if I hadn’t picked them up,” she said. “I look at them and reflect on what their lives would have been like.” Between 7,000 and 10,000 cats roam free throughout the city, Casale said, and the population can continue to grow out of control....

CAVALLO: We’ll see the reactivation of the Argentine economy in less than six months. [By that point] it will become clear that three years of recession are at an end, and we’ll begin a period of sustained growth. The economy in the second half [of 2001] will grow by at least 5 percent over 2000’s second semester. Perhaps they didn’t understand because they are confused and think we have a dollarized economy....

Thomas issued a concurring opinion with the Supreme Court’s 6 to 3 decision overturning abortion rights as established by Roe v. Wade on Friday. The conservative justice, who was appointed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush, took aim at the Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas and its 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Lawrence established that criminal penalties for sodomy or private sexual acts between consenting adults are unconstitutional....

Hamilton will match the great Juan Manuel Fangio’s tally of F1 titles if he wins the United States Grand Prix on Sunday and Sebastian Vettel fails to finish second. The Brit has won six out of the last seven races to stand on the brink of retaining his crown. Mercedes boss Wolff paid tribute to the 33-year-old, who became only the second driver to win 50 races for one team when he took the chequered flag at the Japanese Grand Prix last time out....

The Rise of the Triad remaster was announced in 2020 and was said to be getting launched in 2021. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but now there is at least a better idea of when players can get hold of it. The project is being worked on by Apogee Software, who developed the original release. A recent trailer gives some insight into what fans can expect next year, including 4K resolution, “ludicrous” fps, a new map, and remastered cutscenes....

Giroux, who was a Hart Trophy finalist in 2014 despite not scoring a goal for his first 16 games, is expected to miss two weeks after leaving the first day of training camp on Friday. Assuming everything goes right in his recovery, he’ll have about a week to tune up before the start of the season. — THE WATCHABILITY RANKINGS: Where does Philly land? “We don’t want to start camp like that but what are you going to do?...

Notre Dame beat the Trojans 30-27 at Notre Dame Stadium, dropping the Trojans to an unimpressive 3-3 overall record. “We got a long ride home with a lot of heartbreak and sadness,” Helton said after the game. MORE: Week 8 Playoff picture But the embattled coach still has a road map for survival at the halfway mark of the season. USC has six regular season games left, and Helton probably needs victories in at least five of those games to save his job....

The national champion Tigers became the first team to go 15-0 since Penn in 1897. Trevor Lawrence became only the second true freshman to lead his team to a national championship since Oklahoma’s Jamelle Holieway in 1985. But those things weren’t deemed impossible before the game, even with Clemson widely viewed as the underdog heading into the matchup. MORE: Takeaways from Clemson’s dominant win The biggest shocker from Clemson’s 44-16 victory over Alabama was, well, the score....

PlayStation Neo live stream: Date and time Taking place in the PlayStation Theatre, New York City, the PlayStation Neo launch will start at 3pm ET on 7 September. That’s dangerously close to the iPhone 7 launch and with the time zone difference, you’ll need to tune in at 8pm UK time to watch live. Also see: Most anticipated games 2016. PlayStation Neo live stream video The September PlayStation event will be live streamed for you to watch so you don’t need to be an esteemed member of the press to find out all the news as it happens....

The WWE Universe also said goodbye to a wrestling veteran this past week as Austin Aries was granted a release from his contract. Austin was growing very disgruntled with his role with the company and felt that he had more to offer than what he was being allowed to showcase. Needless to say, there’s a lot going in the world of professional wrestling, making for an exciting time to be a member of the WWE Universe!...

In the early afternoon on May 27, Pilcher was in the process of ascending Quayfoot Buttress in the parish of Borrowdale with a friend when he apparently lost his footing and plummeted approximately 60 feet from a “sheer crag,” according to The Yorkshire Post. While Pilcher was wearing a helmet at the time, he still managed to sustain a “very serious” injury. Had he landed a mere 20 millimeters lower, his boss, Lou Osborn, told the Post, he would have survived the fall....

Bowyer, who left RCR for Michael Waltrip Racing after he and Richard Childress couldn’t come to terms on a new contract, said Monday that harsh words from both Harvick and team owner Richard Childress were simply the result of Harvick’s 13-year career at RCR coming to a close. Harvick is leaving RCR for Stewart-Haas Racing after this season with sponsors Budweiser and Jimmy John’s going with him. In the NASCAR truck race on Saturday, Harvick and RCR driver Ty Dillon wrecked and Harvick hit Dilon's truck under caution....

“We want to do something that is just really high quality and something that would stand on its own that didn’t really need us but would really benefit from us being there,” McLoughlin told Newsweek. “Coming into the fashion side over the last few years, we wanted to see if we could enter the arena and rival some of the other clothing brands.” The brand was first launched in 2018 after McLoughLin and Fischbach spent some time discussing the different things they wanted to do....

New Laptops Bring Big Performance Gains Gaming laptops received a big boost at CES 2021 as Nvidia, AMD, and Intel announced new mobile hardware. Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of Nvidia GeForce, said during the company’s presentation that new RTX 3000-series mobile hardware will arrive in “over 70 laptops from every OEM.” AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, said at the company’s CES keynote that it expects “more than 150 ultra-thin, gaming, and professional notebooks” with new AMD hardware in 2021....

He made a very interesting comparison while talking about the feud when Renee Young asked him about the importance of the upcoming Women’s title match for Lynch. Also read: Hulk Hogan fires back at fans who ask him why he wasn’t a high-flyer The tag team rivalry between Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair and The Kabuki Warriors culminated in a TLC match at the namesake PPV, which Asuka and Kairi Sane ended up winning....

Punk has retained his name for almost his entire career, so much so that many people probably won’t know him by his real name, Phil Brooks. The Straight Edge star took to Twitter to defend the rising star in NXT, making waves with his performances inside the ring. The former WWE champion did so in response to a fan on Twitter who stated that people will get used to the new name just like they got used to names like CM Punk and Roman Reigns....