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Additionally, an emergency MLB meeting was called for this afternoon. The season, already slated for 60 games amid the coronavirus pandemic, may come to a screeching halt. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred seemed cautiously optimistic before opening day between the Yankees and Washington Nationals. “Well, we’re going to make it to the starting line,” Manfred said, according to The New York Times. “Everybody seems excited, like we have done something; all we have done is get out of the gate — the hard part is playing 60 games....

The Pokemon Trading Card Game has seen an increase in popularity, value, and just plain mainstream awareness once again. Much like when the first cards were released, collectors and resellers alike search high and low for old and new gems. This is proven by the incredible purchases seen as of late. Hundreds of thousands of dollars go into buying Pokemon cards. Some of these Pokemon cards are even opened on a live-stream....

The chronicles of failure and hard luck, however, stack them dusty archives pretty high. Indian athletes have won a meagre total of 26 medals at the Summer Games. To put that into perspective, China left London in 2012 with a total of 88 medals. History will always remember Milkha Singh as the man who missed an Olympic medal in the 400 metres at the 1960 Rome Games by a whisker – a race in which he entered as one of the favourites....

What’s he hiding? That question nags at you when you’re around Ken Burns, precisely because he seems so willing to show you and tell you everything. Come on up to his headquarters in Walpole, N.H. Be a fly on the wall when he’s working, in the old house he’s used for the editing and production of such PBS documentaries as “Lewis and Clark,” “Thomas Jefferson” and–the reason you’re here–his 17 1/2-hour epic “Jazz,” which begins airing on Jan....

Fred Toney pitched a 17-inning no-hitter on May 10, 1909 for the Class-D Winchester Hustlers against the Lexington Colts. It was a cold and rainy afternoon, hurting both the offense and the crowd. Only 300 fans were there and neither team scored in the first 16 innings. MORE: Best MiLB states | Top MiLB teams on Twitter | One game, one ball Social media was a century away, but word traveled fast that day....

Most people know Spider-Man as Peter Parker. His most notable appearances thus far are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sam Raimi’s trilogy, Marc Webb’s duology, and Insomniac’svideo games. However, there are so many other iterations of this character. These other Spider-Men are immensely strong and powerful. Here are some of the most powerful versions of this popular superhero. Updated on January 29, 2023, by Levana Chester-Londt: Now that the Spider-Verse is alive and kicking within the MCU, a world of opportunities has subsequently opened up as a wide array of some of the strongest Spider-Man interpretations becomes available....

Memo to Democrats: your votes don’t count. I’m referring, of course, to average, everyday Democrats–the kind who have hair that moves and own but a single American flag tie. If you’re the other kind of Democrat–i.e., one of the 795 elected official or party activists known as superdelegates–nevermind. Seeing as there’s aren’t enough plain old primary delegates left for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to reach the magic 2,025 majority–or for Clinton to significantly slash Obama’s current 175-delegate lead–yours are the only votes that still matter....

Even beyond those 3 names (and Kyle Dubas, whose innovative tactics in the OHL earned him a spot in the NHL), it has gotten to the point where even the organizations that weren’t fortunate enough to land the aforementioned names have been sprinkling in buzzwords to throw their impassioned fans something of a bone. The paradigm has shifted far enough that people in the game are at least coming to terms with the reality that they need to at least pretend that they’re ontop of it for optics purposes, even if they may still believe its voodoo in the back of their mind’s....

THE PROBLEM with too many heavyweights of the modern era is that they lacked stability, serenity and intelligence. They could not control their demons. They lacked maturity and emotional discipline. Just look at the careers of Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, Gerry Cooney, Tim Witherspoon, Trevor Berbick, Michael Moorer, Michael Grant, Shannon Briggs, Greg Page, Michael Dokes, Leon Spinks, Andrew Golota, Riddick Bowe, Mitch Green and Tony Tubbs. They were all underachievers; their potential was never fully achieved because of personal problems and psychic fractures....

Some of the most beleaguered taxpayers are women (usually) who discover that they’ve married tax problems or failed to divorce them. In joint-property states, the IRS can come after either marriage partner for the debts of both, and both marriage partners for the debts of either. It gets even messier when the IRS spends years chasing the guilty party and adding penalties and interest, only to dump the whole mess into the lap of the spouse who never knew there was a tax bill owed....

Over the years, many Indian cricketers have done their country proud. Mansoor Ali Khan was one such player. Today he is no longer on this earth, but the people who knew of him as a part of the Indian cricket team still talk about him today, and probably will do so for many years to come. This article is dedicated to him and the services he rendered to cricket, and not just Indian cricket....

RELATED: 5 RPGS In 2020 That Didn’t Get Enough Love (And 5 That Got A Little Too Much) So, it is time to take a look at those RPGs that capture the emotion through music. The games that force the player to feel, or simply give some epic tracks to listen to while on a long journey. 10 Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins is one of the best role playing games out there, with its soundtrack standing the tests of time, 11 years after release....

Kat Callaghan’s viral video has revealed that she is the real voice of TikTok’s text-to-speech (TTS) feature. Callaghan told Newsweek: “It’s been absolutely wild being the voice on TikTok. I started in radio and then started my own voiceover company in 2015. Since then I’ve been a part of all kinds of really cool projects—this one is certainly a highlight for me of course.” Voiceover artist, radio presenter and podcaster Callaghan has been batting off rumors that she is the video-sharing app’s famous voice for a long time—receiving frequently DMs asking if it is her....

The GOP has long been predicted to win back control of the House on November 8, with the race to regain control of the Senate still too close to call and relying on a number of toss-up races. While the Democrats overtook the GOP in national average polls in late August and September—in the wake after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and amid the economy recovering slightly from the summer—the GOP is now seeing its leads increasing in a number of surveys just days before the polls open....

Hardly an unusual tale in money-driven Washington. But for McCain, it seemed an odd disconnect. No politician has more fiercely denounced the corrupting influence of big money on politics. For years he has fought an uphill battle to curb the millions in “soft money” that flows from corporations and unions into the political parties, and he routinely rails against the unfair advantage of special interests. His crusade irritates fellow Senate Republicans, who last week rejected another campaign-reform bill....

As control of the House or the Senate is still up in the air, November 8’s midterms have supplied wildly contrasting narratives for the Republican Party’s two heavyweights. On one side, with his Make America Great Again agenda, there is the former president, who has been expected to formally announce in the coming days his intentions to run again in 2024. A once powerful force in the Republican Party, Trump’s reputation has been severely damaged, especially within the GOP, after a number of his 2020 election-denier candidates failed to carry the party on a “red wave” and, for now, make major gains in the House or convincingly retake control of the Senate....

Two gymnasts out of that dominant Team USA returned to the games four years later in Sydney: Amy Chow and Dominique Dawes. That was the last time any American gymnast was a repeat competitor. Until now, sixteen years later, as history repeats itself. MORE: What to know about each Team USA gymnast Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman were pieces of the 2012 Team USA that brought home their country’s second team gold....

After almost nine months, the Premier League will welcome back supporters this weekend. Much has changed since 32,125 fans watched Leicester beat Aston Villa 4-0 back on March 9. The world, never mind football, is a different place. But every journey starts with a small step, and on Saturday evening 2,000 fans will attend West Ham’s clash with Manchester United at the London Stadium. A few hours later, supporters will be inside Stamford Bridge to watch Chelsea take on Leeds, while on Sunday both Tottenham, who host Arsenal, and Liverpool, who welcome Wolves to Anfield, will open their doors too....

It’s been more than 40 years since teaching about the fourth R–religion–was part of public education in the United States. In that time, two generations of public-school students have come to intellectual maturity with vincible ignorance about the world’s religions–including, often enough, their own. Teachers, too, have lost the knack of teaching religious history and textbook publishers have grown so allergic to the dread R subject that some high-school texts fail to mention that the Pilgrims were religious dissenters....

In a post-match interview with WWE, ‘The Top Guys’ reflected on how it felt to return to the black-and-gold brand after so many years and voiced their opinions on The Undisputed Era. Dawson and Wilder feel they proved a point Speaking to a backstage correspondent, Dash Wilder said that although they lost, they proved a point as they got to show the world that how much they love tag team wrestling....