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How did last week’s $100 million test fail? Two infrared sensors intended to guide the kill vehicle to its target apparently shut down in the last six seconds of flight, causing it to miss. In a preliminary test last October, the killer rocket did intercept a ballistic missile; but last week’s was the first test of the entire anti-missile system. Only one more test is scheduled, for May, before President Clinton must decide whether to order deployment of the National Missile Defense System by 2005....

Unfortunately, it now appears that Crash Bandicoot may not be making a comeback after all. Speaking about the reboot claims, a representative for NECA told GameSpot that “it’s not the case” and that someone simply “misunderstood” a comment that Falk made. What actually happened, said the rep, is that “Randy saw a faked fan-made image right before he came to the show and said that if the game were coming back, we’d love to do figures”....

Twitter user iWanderr discovered images of some new Crash Bandicoot merch and shared them online. They include a redesigned look for the titular Crash Bandicoot himself, as well as pins based on Tawna (Crash’s girlfriend from the original Crash Bandicoot) and Dinodile, both of whom look like they’ve gotten some upgraded looks as well. RELATED: Tony Hawk Reveal Lends Credibility to Big Activision Leak The leaked Crash Bandicoot merchandise features a new logo that simply says “Crash,” which could be the title of the new game....

Magueijo eventually fled the claustrophobic campus. He won a prestigious Royal Society Fellowship and moved to Imperial College in London, eventually earning tenure. He’s published numerous papers in scientific journals on the cosmic microwave radiation left over from the big bang–a perfectly respectable scientific topic. But what really gets Magueijo going is a pet theory he dreamed up one day while he was hanging out with some of those very same upper-class English twits he knew at–of all places–Cambridge....

All very fair descriptions of the U.S. Under-23 men’s first-half performance against the Dominican Republic in Sunday’s Olympic qualifier. If the first game and a half of its tournament run was any indication, then this U.S. team is one that would struggle in their group stage finale against Mexico and, ultimately, in a potential semifinal with a spot in Tokyo on the line. Pre-tournament concerns around this team all centered around creativity and, through the first 135 minutes of its CONCACAF Olympic qualifying campaign, those concerns seemed justified....

The off-spinner took 4-67 while paceman Ishant Sharma and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja shared the remaining six wickets as the touring side were bundled out in the final session on a greenish wicket. Sri Lanka, who succumbed by a 9-0 margin across all formats at home against India earlier this year, were finally given something to cheer about when Lahiru Gamage dismissed opener Lokesh Rahul for seven as the hosts went to stumps on 11-1....

The 24-year-old was brought home early from Australia’s ongoing limited overs tour of India to prepare for the Ashes where he is likely to partner Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in a tall and fiery pace battery. “Hope you practice your bouncers because we’ll be bowling a lot of them,” Cummins told reporters in Sydney on Thursday in a warning to Joe Root’s side. “No one really likes it if you’ve got real pace and real accuracy,” added the right-armer, who, like Starc, is capable of regularly exceeding 150 kph....

In the next series, India replaced their finger spinners by two young wrist spinners in Kuldeep and Chahal and reaped instant rewards. They are making life difficult for the batters around the world by taking wickets in the middle overs for fun. Such is the dominance of the wrist spinners currently in world cricket. Interestingly, the Top 5 bowlers in the ICC T20I Rankings are all wrist spinners. Suddenly wrist spinners are coming from teams who weren’t famous for wrist spin....

To that end, there seems to have been some internal discussion at Square Enix as to how the re-release of Final Fantasy 7 ought to be marketed. In his recent interview with Everyeye, translated by Nintendo Everything, the game’s creative producer, Tetsuya Nomura, talked about this topic at some length, revealing that there had been some mixed feelings on whether this was a remake or a remaster. RELATED: Final Fantasy 7 NFTs are In the works...

How much would it cost to sign Cristiano Ronaldo? The Portuguese super agent represented so many players in the Madrid squad in a close working relationship with Jose Mourinho that he was once described as a de facto sporting director for Real. Along with the current Manchester United boss, his clients included Ricardo Carvalho, Pepe, Fabio Coentrao, Angel Di Maria and, of course, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ever since 2010, there have been no fewer than four Gestifute clients at Real Madrid, including this season, and there has been almost complete harmony between the agency and the club in that time....

In their study, the researchers crunched the data from over 7000 professional football matches in 7 competitions to see how professional football players perform under pressure. With millions of dollars spent on players in this cash-rich era of football, it is important to gauge which players earn their money by performing at their best when the stakes are highest. In case you didn’t know… Ronaldo, who joined Juventus last summer in a club record transfer deal, failed to open his account for the Bianconeri in his first three Serie A matches....

The decision, which can be appealed, came just a week after Modric was crowned FIFA’s best player of the year, after starring for both his club and Croatia. Croatian prosecutors charged Modric in March with committing perjury during evidence he gave in the multi-million-euro corruption trial of former Dinamo Zagreb boss Zdravko Mamic. Modric, 33, testified in June last year over the details of his 2008 transfer from Dinamo to Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur....

That accomplishment stood as the consecutive hat-trick record for 18 years, but has been broken by Stjepan Lucijanic, who scored his fifth hat trick in a row for Dakovo League side NK Dracice Dakovo as it defeated NK Zrinski Drenje 10-0. WATCH: Chalobah’s stunning strike While far from a household name, usually playing in front of crowds of 300 or less, Lucijanic’s goalscoring exploits have taken his club side to the top of their regional league table — picking up a maximum 33 points from its first 11 games this season....

In a clip of a Gwinnett County Public Schools meeting last week, Taylor complained that children were still unable to play with each other on the playground as they normally would, and said her six-year-old daughter did not like wearing her mask. A video of her speech was posted on social media on Thursday and has since gone viral, with one copy being viewed more than 1.7 million times....

Conte speaks in English to his team but still retains a thick Italian accent, and his No.1 has become an expert at mimicking the way his gaffer speaks. Chelsea offer Lewis Baker a new deal Courtois has launched a mini-documentary series called #ThibautRevealed and he told the story of the how he was encouraged to do the impression in front of Conte after winning the title away at West Bromwich Albion....

In a motion last week, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to block any public testimony about the circumstances of Padilla’s interrogations during the more than three years he was detained and interrogated in a military brig in South Carolina. For most of that time, Padilla, a 35-year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen who was raised in Chicago, was held incommunicado, unable to meet with his lawyer or any other visitors....

The discussion only ramped up on Sunday morning. Would Liverpool wilt against West Ham given the no-margin-for-error status of the fixture? Could they reverse a five-match winless run against the hosts, who’d just killed off Tottenham’s title challenge? The answer was an emphatic ‘yes’ - from Jurgen Klopp’s bold selection, to Liverpool’s rediscovering of their swagger and the 4-0 scoreline. West Ham 0-4 Liverpool With Roberto Firmino sidelined through a muscle niggle, the manager opted for a 4-4-2 diamond to rectify his side’s diminished threat in the final third, handing Sturridge a first league start since January 2....

Barca have parted with a reported €160million to bring Coutinho to Camp Nou from Liverpool. The Brazil international will pen a five-and-a-half-year deal on Monday before being presented to the media, with Barca finally capturing a player they chased for much of the previous transfer window. Coutinho looks set to end this season with at least one trophy, with Barca nine points clear in LaLiga, and he hopes it is the first of many....

Bayern and Barca representatives confirmed on Friday that a deal had been agreed for Coutinho to join the Bundesliga champions on a season-long loan deal and the move was officially completed on Monday. There is also an option for Bayern to buy the former Liverpool star outright for €120million at the end of the loan. While some Bayern fans were underwhelmed with the signing of Ivan Perisic as an alternative to Leroy Sane - whose anterior cruciate ligament injury has ended the chances of an imminent move for the Manchester City winger - Coutinho’s arrival will surely soften the blow should the 27-year-old recapture his Liverpool form....

The Comilla Victorians have not had a great start to their campaign as they lost their first three games. However, they have turned the tide and have won their last two matches, including one against table-toppers Sylhet Strikers. Meanwhile, Dhaka Dominators won their first game before suffering three successive losses. COV vs DD Match Details, BPL 2023 The 17th match of the Bangladesh Premier League 2023 between Comilla Victorians and Dhaka Dominators will be played on January 19 at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram....