The next 24 hours could see Gus Poyet being announced as Sunderland’s new manager, reports Sky Sports. Kevin Ball was in interim charge for a fortnight after Paul Di Canio was sacked, and has seen a League Cup victory over Peterborough and Premier League defeats by Liverpool and Manchester United. Brighton dismissed Poyet at the end of last season, and he has been a favorite for the Sunderland managerial post for more than a week....
Dipa, who is an Asian bronze medallist, qualified in the artistic gymnastics event at Rio after collecting 52.698 points in the test event. “Congrats Dipa Karmakar. By virtue of Oly qualification joins TOPS that entitles her 4 additional assistance of 30 lacs 4 customised training,” the Sports Authority of India (SAI) wrote on Twitter. The ministry of youth affairs and sports (Department of Sports) has formulated the TOP scheme for identifying and supporting potential medal prospects for the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games....
Dortmund beat off interest from a host of heavyweight European clubs to land the 19-year-old striker last month, paying a release clause of €22.5million to Salzburg. Haaland netted 28 goals in 22 appearances for the Austrian champions this season but Favre conceded to concerns over his match fitness after missing the start of Dortmund’s mid-season training camp. “As I said, we’ll see. Now, I can’t say,” Favre told reporters....
The first $1,000 prize would go to the person or team who writes the coolest open-source app, demo, or program using the Kinect. The second $1,000 prize would go to the person or team that makes it easier for people to create programs on a Linux operating system. A week after the Kinect’s release, it was hacked to control the up and down motion, depth, and managed to take RGB images and displays them on an OpenGL window....
RELATED: Unresolved Mysteries & Plot Holes Left Hanging In Hades There are two ways to experience all that Hades has to offer. The more conventional method involves gathering the required resources to max out Zagreus’ abilities until he’s so overpowered he just plows through the Underworld, and the other would be playing the game in God Mode. What exactly is God Mode in Hades, and how and when should a player use this handy feature?...
Newsweek: How big of an issue do you think Iraq will be this fall, particularly for Sen. McCain? Sen. Hagel: First of all, Iraq is one of the most urgent and pressing issues facing our country. It’s going to have to be dealt with, and the American people have turned a corner in measuring this, in any poll you can cite. They are opposed to our continuing in Iraq. They now believe it was a mistake to go into Iraq....
His family announced yesterday that he had died on November 23 from complications of dementia. He was 67. As soon as news spread of his death, famous friends and fans shared remembrances and paid tribute to Ketchum, who joins other country music legends we lost this year, including Kenny Rogers, John Prine, Charlie Daniels, Mac Davis and Billy Joe Shaver. One of country’s biggest stars, Toby Keith, was among the first to honor Ketchum on Twitter, where he shared a video....
Chasing what looked like a routine fly ball hit by the Mariners’ Cal Raleigh, the Guardians left fielder launched himself into the stands on a dead sprint and fell into the first row to make one of the best catches of the season. In an incredible display of awareness (and an impressive lack of self-preservation), Kwan popped out of the stands to throw the ball back to the infield and prevent Mariners baserunners from possibly scoring....
City broke the club’s transfer record when they triggered a reported €70million (£62.5m) release clause in Rodri’s Atletico Madrid contract. The Spain international has made a strong impression during pre-season, with Guardiola’s side completing their warm-up for 2019-20 with Saturday’s 3-1 defeat of Yokohama F. Marinos. Kevin De Bruyne scored the opener and then set up Raheem Sterling for City’s second goal before Lukas Nmecha made sure of their victory with a late third....
Guardiola is prioritising both legs of the Champions League quarter-finals against Liverpool and is ready to field a weakened team against United in a bid to keep his squad fresh. The Catalan revealed following Saturday’s victory at Goodison Park that all of his decisions over the next 10 days will be made with both games against Liverpool in mind. And that is a message he pressed home during a meeting with his squad at City’s training ground on Sunday morning, stressing to them that they need to be fully focused on the full 180 minutes against the Reds....
Gerrard signed a four-year deal to become Rangers boss from next season – the post with the Scottish giants marking a first senior managerial role for the ex-Liverpool and England captain. Guardiola, who secured his maiden Premier League title with City last month, wished Gerrard luck in the considerable challenge of trying to topple Celtic in the Scottish Premier League and believes a number of his celebrated Three Lions contemporaries should consider following suit....
It did the exact opposite. During his time in Italy, Hart merely confirmed the suspicions of his doubters, turning in a series of error-strewn performances as Torino finished ninth in Serie A. Indeed, Hart was officially the second-worst goalkeeper across the top five European leagues; he made five mistakes leading to goals - only Josip Posavec, of relegated Palermo, made more. Hart 11/8 for clean sheet vs. Swansea Torino chose not to pursue a permanent deal for Hart, with the club’s president, Urbano Cairo, even choosing to call out the error-prone stopper in the press ....
In a new post on the PlayStation Blog, Guerrilla Community Lead Bo de Vries and Narrative Director Ben McCaw open up about Aloy’s journey from Horizon: Zero Dawn to her upcoming game, both from a story perspective and also development as well. Mutliple teams were assigned to Aloy to attempt to balance the familiar aspects while also continuing to push the character forward. While a part of that was already shown with the redone combat mechanics, Guerrilla focused on more technical aspects like the rigging, animation, audio, lighting, and more to bring her to life on next-gen....
Before 2020, the previous record was set in December 2015 at 3,314,594 background checks for the month, but that was broken first in March, followed by another record in June. In December, there were 3,937,066 checks, a 34 percent increase from December 2019 that’s likely attributable at least in part to President Donald Trump’s election loss. The December spike isn’t entirely surprising, as background checks often skew upward at the end of the year....
Paul Clement argued on behalf of New York residents that their right to carry a concealed gun should be unrestricted, but he faced questions from both the conservative and liberal justices on the high court. While Chief Justice John Roberts was among those who suggested that the law was too restrictive, he also asked Clement where he thought guns should be barred, such as college campuses and places where alcohol is served....
This new series promises to bring a lot of new things into this massive franchise, while also implementing familiar concepts at the same time. The most obvious one being the first ever female protagonist, and the psycho-frame in Gundam Aerial. So now that the first episode is finally released on Crunchyroll, let’s see what other new and exciting things that Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has to offer....
RELATED: Mistakes Everyone Makes When Playing Gundam Evolution But, of course, players can expect more Mobile Suits from various Gundam anime series to appear in the game as time passes. In the meantime, players will have to work hard to unlock all seventeen Mobile Suits. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways players can unlock Mobile Suits fast in Gundam Evolution. Breaking The Bank Players can unlock 12 of the 17 Mobile Suits without spending money....
Australia A had headed into the final winning all four of their matches in the round-robin stage that also involved South Africa A and were the undoubted favourites for today’s match. Those odds were enhanced as they got off to a brilliant start after skipper Usman Khawaja won the toss and decided to bat first. Khawaja and Joe Burns, who has been called up to the senior teams following his brilliant performances in the series, put on 82 runs for the opening wicket at a run a ball before Gurkeerat got the breakthrough for Dravid’s men....
According to complaints, Lonergan made inappropriate personal comments, openly bashed the school administration and used homophobic slurs. MORE: Coach K calls North Carolina bathroom law ’embarassing' “I don’t think the guy should be in sports,” one former player told the Post. “I don’t think what he said should be tolerated. I would like to stay at GW. I will not play for Mike Lonergan.” In the five years Lonergan has been at the helm of the Colonials’ program, 13 players have transferred out, including three since the end of the 2015-16 season....
