At 32 and still in peak physical condition, the Real Madrid and Portugal star has no immediate desire to hang up his boots, but already has plans in place for when the time comes. The likes of Vinnie Jones, Eric Cantona and David Beckham have all made the transition from the pitch to the silver screen and Ronaldo has designs on trying his hand at acting once he has finished terrorising opposition defences....
Marina Ovsyannikova made a dramatic intervention during a bulletin read by Ekaterina Andreeva, who has been described as Putin’s favorite news anchor. On Monday, Ovsyannikova shouted over the presenter and held up a sign that read, in Russian: “No to war, stop the war, don’t believe propaganda, here they lie to you.” Underneath, it said in English: “Russians against war.” “I was astonished, I was amazed and all my friends were watching it live, they didn’t expect it to come....
Sager most recently worked for Turner Sports as a basketball sideline reporter, but was a versatile sports broadcaster. Sager covered Major League Baseball, the NFL, college football, summer and winter Olympic events, golf and tennis. Turner Sports president David Levy said in a statement released Thursday that Sager was “a true inspiration to all of us” in his courageous fight against cancer. Sager was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in April of 2014 and missed the NBA playoffs that year and most of the 2014-15 NBA season while undergoing treatment....
The New York Police department confirmed to Newsweek they have charged 49-year-old Craig Tamanaha with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, arson, criminal nuisance-endangering others, criminal trespass, criminal tampering and disorderly conduct in connection to the blaze. Police added they do not believe the fire which broke out at Fox Square on the corner of West 48 Street and Sixth Avenue is politically motivated. Tamanaha, who is homeless, was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday morning after he was allegedly observed by Fox News Channel security climbing the Christmas tree decorated outside their office Manhattan offices....
The original Crash Bandicoot released in Japan shortly after its North American release in December 1996, however, Crash himself featured a noticeably different design. This is because the game’s producers at Sony were worried that the character’s more cartoonish design would not appeal to Japanese audiences. This prompted Naughty Dog’s rendering artist to redesign the character during a fifteen minute break at a meeting with Sony, resulting in the designs found on the Japanese box art for each title....
Rangel is that rare antique in politics: an unabashed Democratic liberal. His steadfastness isn’t surprising. Since 1970, he’s represented Harlem and Upper Manhattan, a district composed of African-Americans, Hispanics and the Ivy League intellectual enclave of Columbia University. But if the present trends in this election season hold, Rangel will be remarkable for another reason: he’ll become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee–and the most influential tax man in America....
That tether ball-like sequence where Orange players alternately launched misguided 3-pointers back and forth across the court while N.C. State players desperately tried to corral any of the random caroms that resulted from the misfires? Yeah, forget about that. That was crazy. Crazy didn’t lose this game. Syracuse lost its chance to avoid the upset when two of the most reliable things about this season for coach Jim Boeheim went awry, right before the crazy unfurled....
A hefty portion of the fan made rulebook is dedicated to character creation, combat, items, rules, and the like, but the most interesting part is arguably the bit at the very beginning. Rather than assuming players will be venturing through Dark Souls’ Lordran or Dark Souls 3’s Lothric, the Dark Souls Role Playing Game (abbreviated as DSRPG) provides several pages to help players create their own fallen kingdom. Just like in Dark Souls games, this kingdom will be on its last leg, slowly succumbing as the fire starts to fade, and players will be responsible for defeating its lords and rekindling the fire or choosing to walk away....
For example, Microsoft recently constructed a giant Xbox One and installed it in downtown Vancouver, where it opened on October 31st to spill out a wave of hungry zombies. That particular spectacle was designed to promote Microsoft’s new console alongside Dead Rising 3, and they did it again in Montreal last week where supercars came out of the giant console for Forza 5. It’s unclear whether the latest piece of clever marketing in New Zealand is tied to any particular game....
Australia, who were beaten inside four days in the first test in Dhaka, will resume on 225 for two, still 80 behind the hosts’ first innings total of 305 at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. David Warner will resume on 88 with Peter Handscomb on 69, the blossoming third wicket partnership already worth 127 runs. (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Ian Ransom) 0 votes
Dhawan threw away his wicket at 94, but Rahul was unbeaten on 73 when bad light stopped play with the hosts on 171-1. Cheteshwar Pujara was on two at the other end with India 49 runs ahead with nine wickets in hand, an impressive fightback after being all out for 172 in their first innings. The hosts had lost the entire top half of their batting order by the time they had accumulated 50 runs in the first innings but Rahul and Dhawan ensured there was no repeat by scoring at nearly four-and-half runs an over....
Ireland and Afghanistan were given full test status by the ICC in June, taking the total number of test-playing countries to 12. Bangladesh were the last team to gain test status in 2000. “We are excited to welcome Pakistan to Ireland for our inaugural test match next year,” Cricket Ireland Chief Executive Warren Deutrom said in a statement. “It has been our wish to make our test debut in front of our own fans within 12 months of becoming a test nation, and against a big team, so I’m delighted....
West Indies will return to the scene of their Champions Trophy final win over England nine years ago when they face Pakistan in their 2013 tournament opener at The Oval on Friday. Both sides boast an array of talented, if not always consistent, match-winners with West Indies fielding hard-hitting batsmen such as Chris Gayle and Johnson Charles, while Pakistan’s attack features star off-spinner Saeed Ajmal. “We can still take a lot from it (winning the 2004 Champions Trophy), regardless of the fact that nine years is a long time ago,” said Gayle, who last year helped the West Indies claim the World Twenty20 title in Sri Lanka....
The five-time Olympian, who called time on his decorated shooting career after the Rio Olympics in 2016, was in the capital to talk about his career and the effort he’s put in to reach the pinnacle. “I think couple of things need to change in the landscape of Indian sports. There has to be lot more more corporate support in sports outside of cricket. Lot more investment needs to come into Olympic sport,” Bindra said during an event....
The ordeal—which lasted more than two weeks for the victims—came to an end yesterday as seven people linked to the gang were arrested, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported. Law enforcement in Jaipur city said the police operation on Sunday lasted 13 hours. Three men had been held captive for 15 days inside a high-rise building and were beaten or tortured, deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Vikas Sharma told local media....
Haaland has been a revelation in 2019-20, his exploits already linking him with a move to LaLiga giants Real Madrid. The 19-year-old striker scored 28 goals in all competitions for Salzburg this term before joining Dortmund in January, netting another 12 in just 11 appearances prior to the coronavirus pandemic. And Haaland said five-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldo has been an inspirational figure. “You could just see it in Ronaldo’s face that ’today I’m the man’ and ’today, I will score goals’ and that’s what he did,” Haaland told ESPN, having watched Ronaldo growing up....
In case you didn’t know… Ronaldo shares the record for the most Ballon d’Or wins with Lionel Messi, both winning the award five times each. The duo’s monopoly over the coveted prize was finally broken last year when Real Madrid’s Luka Modric took home the award. After ending his nine-year association with Real Madrid to join Juventus last summer, Ronaldo attracted attention from all sections who were curious to see how he would fare in the Serie A....
The 37-year-old striker has taken aim at his Manchester United colleagues and said that he is being forced out of the club and feels “betrayed” by some of the senior officials there. With the FIFA World Cup in Qatar about to start and Ronaldo spending much of the coming month with his Portugal teammates, he sat down with host Piers Morgan—who is a vocal fan of Manchester United’s rivals Arsenal—and told him how he feels about the club he is currently playing for....
Aveiro shared a series of irritated messages this Wednesday on her Instagram story, claiming that the coronavirus is a hoax, and that after her brother was diagnosed, no one will believe it’s real. “If Cristiano Ronaldo is the one who has to wake the world up, I have to say that this Portuguese really is an envoy from God. Thank you!” she wrote originally in Portuguese. “I believe that, today, thousands of people who have come to believe so much in this pandemic, in the tests and the measures taken will, like me, see it is the biggest fraud I’ve seen since I was born,” she continued, adding, “A phrase that I read today and that I stood up to applaud: ‘Enough fooling the entire world’....
The then 18-year-old Ronaldo had become the most expensive teenager in English football at that time. His arrival at United saw him getting the prestigious number 7 shirt amidst a lot of expectations. In an overall 292 appearances for United, Ronaldo scored an impressive 118 goals and even received the Ballon d’Or as well as the European Golden Shoe in 2008. The Portuguese then joined Real Madrid for a then record transfer fee of £84....
