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There were hugs, handshakes, a video tribute, and a whole lot of good vibes on a night the NBA-best Dubs beat the LeBron James-less Cavaliers. MORE: Warriors owner apologizes to Jackson for slam | Kerr: Can’t catch ‘96 Bulls And Jackson mostly returned the affection during his work as an ESPN analyst. (Jackson declined to speak to the media before the game.) He was gracious toward the man who replaced him, Steve Kerr, and the squad he turned into an NBA title contender....

Labuschagne was dismissed for just 14 runs in the second Test against South Africa in Melbourne. In the same Test, Steve Smith scored a fantastic knock of 85, which has propelled him to second position in the rankings. Smith pipped Pakistan skipper Babar Azam to the spot by a solitary point. Azam, meanwhile, slipped to third position in the Men’s ICC Test Rankings among batters. However, his sensational 161 in Karachi against New Zealand ensured that he reached his career-best tally of 882 rating points....

The former Seahawks running back gave a rare interview with 60 Minutes Sports, in which he confirmed that he will not return to the NFL. MORE: Surprising NFL retirements | Players under 30 who retired “I’m done. I’m done,” Lynch said. “I enjoyed my time playing. Now it’s time to watch my cousins do they thing.” In the most Lynch way, he caused a stir in February when he tweeted out a picture of cleats hanging from a power line with a peace emoji....

Martial was handed the coveted shirt number upon his arrival from Monaco in 2015, but had to settle for No.11 instead when Ibrahimovic joined from Paris Saint-Germain. Man United reigns over Man City “I am not going to lie about it, it hurt him when Manchester United took the number nine jersey off him. He was surprised by it and he was disappointed for a few days,” Martial’s advisor Philippe Lamboley told RMC....

Kaymer shot a 67 on Friday, following up on his opening-round 64, and held a comfortable clubhouse lead at 13 under par. MORE: PGA Tour winners of 2014-15 | Golf Digest leaderboard | Simpson goes old school, goes low The two-time major champion is feeling mighty confident on the National Course. He has won there three times (2008, 2010, 2011) and is threatening to do it again. “Once you lead by four of five shots or even more, like what I’ve done at the U....

Keown said in an interview with BBC Sport’s Alistair Magowan, “The Gunners’ firepower hardly compares to Premier League rivals Manchester City and Chelsea, and if their only fit striker, and top scorer, Olivier Giroud were to get injured it would spell disaster. Other than Giroud, Wenger’s options look limited: Theo Walcott is out injured for the season and I feel Nicklas Bendtner is nowhere near fit enough. Yaya Sanogo is another striker on the treatment table....

Martin Luther King III told CNN on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that he questioned whether President Trump’s claims about his economic achievements were “documented and true.” The human rights activist also argued that America would see “violence decrease” and the African American community living in “a different way” if it was as well off as the president suggested. In an MLK Day message to his 71 million followers, President Trump tweeted: “It was exactly three years ago today, January 20, 2017, that I was sworn into office....

Truex’s engine apparently failed on Lap 41 of Sunday’s Hellmann’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. He headed to pit road, smoke billowing from his car. Truex offered a classy response to his setback shortly after exiting his car. “Originally I thought it might have been a tire because it was shaking and it got worse and worse and worse until it was time to pit,” Truex told NBC Sports. “Once I slowed down and hit pit road and felt the vibration still there in the engine, I knew we were in trouble....

The 37-year-old, who retired from the ATP Tour following the 2015 US Open, succeeds Jim Courier, who was in the role for eight years. Fish won six singles and eight doubles titles on the ATP Tour during his playing career and represented his country in 11 Davis Cup ties between 2002 and 2012. “Ever since I started playing professionally and started understanding what the Davis Cup was and how special it was, even as a player, I wanted to be the Davis Cup captain,” Fish, who had an 11-8 record in the competition, told the United States Tennis Association (USTA)....

When Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle first released, it was a surprising experiment that proved to be rather successful, merging the worlds of Rabbids and Mario into a Turn-based tactics game in the vein of titles like XCOM. The sequel provides its own twist on this format, making it more of a Real-Time Strategy game and allowing for greater exploration. However, this was not always the plan, as Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope producer Xavier Manzanares stated the sequel did originally feature the grid from the previous entry....

The lyrics were created for and decided by a Japanese radio show contest that gave fans the chance to write original lyrics for the song and send them in for consideration. After scouring the results and selecting a winner, Nintendo actually endorses the Go Go Mario sing-a-long and released the track on vinyl. The track is obviously in Japanese, but it is definitely still worth a listen even if you don’t speak the language....

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is out today exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. Source: Polygon

You can now get hands on a 4.1 version of Mario Kart 8. More so, the latest update has also removed a recurring problem of files getting deleted due to the game with the new fix. For gamers, good news comes with arability of the unlocked Mirror mode with this latest update. In fact, you can now play on 200cc level. Therefore, you may forget the woe of not clearing 150 cc till date....

Starting with the Nintendo Switch version of Mario Kart 8, the game appeared to have a new feature and even a new playable character. It appears as though players that pick up the Switch version of the game can hold two items at a time and will be able to play as King Boo. King Boo is nowhere to be found in the Wii U Mario Kart 8 game, and players are limited to holding one item in that version, which is series tradition....

Greene made the remark during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last month, but a video of the remarks were uploaded on Tuesday drawing new attention to her inaccurate statement. “I wanted to take my regular, normal person, normal, everyday American values, which is: We love our country. We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America—not for what, China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam—whatever, wherever,” the GOP lawmaker said....

After visiting the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Greene held a press conference outside Congress, where she apologized for the remarks. After noting that her father passed away in April, and he taught her to own up to her mistakes, she added that she was “a very normal person.” “I’ve made a mistake, and it’s really bothered me for a couple of weeks now, so I definitely want to own it,” Greene said outside of Congress on Monday morning....

The Republican who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district posted a video to her Twitter account on Wednesday showing her putting the letter through a shredder. Greene was one of seven GOP members of the House who received warning letters for a first offense of not wearing a mask in the House chamber, following their involvement in a protest against the rule on Tuesday. “This is what I think of Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s letter,” Greene tweeted, adding the hashtag #FreeYourFace....

The Mavericks have just two wins and are in the midst of their worst losing streak since Mark Cuban bought the team in 2000. MORE: All-time Mavericks players Despite the troubles with the current team, Cuban is still regretting what happened in 2004 with Steve Nash. Cuban wanted Nash to re-sign with the Mavs on a shorter deal and didn’t match the Suns’ six-year, $63 million offer despite Nash wanting to stay in Big D....

“To summarize what I’ve done, I’ve been able to come in as a nonexistent talent, to becoming Sexual Chocolate, to my mother dying and my taking time off and in the process getting my strength back to the point where I competed again in 2002 and became legitimately the World’s Strongest Man at the Arnold Strongman Classic after a seven-year hiatus; after all that we finally hit the eight to 10 years where I became a high-level talent and became a World Champion during that time period … twice....