Argentina international Benedetto joins centre-back Alvaro Gonzalez in moving to Marseille, where he will hope to go some way towards replacing Mario Balotelli. Balotelli scored eight goals in 15 Ligue 1 matches in an entertaining stint with the club. He left when his contract expired at the end of last season. Benedetto has taken the number nine shirt worn by the Italian, who has been linked with a switch to Flamengo....
MORE: Stars who retired before age 30 The former Seahawks running back last week traveled with ex-teammate Cliff Avril (along with Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch and Buccaneers tackle Godser Cherilus) to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. There, the athletes helped rebuild an elementary school and hosted a mobile medical clinic among other activities, per Seahawks.com. “It’s awesome to have their support, it’s awesome to be in a situation where guys are willing to take that step with you,” Avril said of having other NFL players come along with him....
Pogba brother shows off crazy shirt The England international replaced Juan Mata after 70 minutes, bringing up his half century in the process, and was immediately involved in the action. Rashford raced to the byline and got the ball across to set-up Zlatan Ibrahimovic for what was United’s second goal of the night as they cruised to a comfortable Europa League last 32 first-leg triumph. Still only 19 years old, the United academy graduate has reached the 50 appearances milestone in a little under a year....
As hard-core ““GWTW’’ fans know, Mitchell was inspired by her own romantic misadventures. Bootlegger Red Upshaw (Dale Midkiff) is Rhett Butler. A doomed soldier played by Clark Gable’s son, John, evokes Ashley Wilkes. Steadfast John Marsh (Matt Mulhern) is Scarlett’s boring No. 2 husband, Frank Kennedy. And beautiful, headstrong Mitchell is Scarlett as only a movie of the week can render her: fabulously codependent and, yes, a victim of abuse....
Butina also said Russia is not shelling Ukraine but the latter nation’s own military is firing on cities and civilians within its borders, The Daily Beast reported. “Russia is not bombing citizens,” Butina told the BBC’s Nick Robinson. “Russian military troops actually are having humanitarian corridors.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to refer to his assault on Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion.” Meanwhile, his country has been cracking down on media outlets in their coverage of the conflict, as well as individuals who spread “fake” information about Russia’s armed forces, the BBC reported....
Meldonium, which is used for patients with heart disease, was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of banned substances on the 1st of January this year, although Sharapova said her team were unaware at the time that it had been banned. Also read: What is meldonium, and how did Sharapova use it? Sharapova could have faced a maximum of four years for the ban – the standard suspension period for an athlete found using a performance-enhancing drug, while experts had expected the Russian ace to face an 18-month ban....
Standing in her way: Serena Williams, who also played a third-round match on Friday. MORE: Scenes from Wimbledon | CoCo Vandeweghe reaches round of 16 | Milos Raonic knocked out Sharapova’s latest victory came against No. 29 Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania. It took 83 minutes ended 6-4, 6-3. The women’s fourth seed, Sharapova is on course to face Williams in the semifinals. She now is in the Round of 16....
The 24-year-old left for Ligue 1 in a reported €8million deal in August and has enjoyed a promising start to his career in France, scoring six times in eight league appearances. Mariano’s form has led to speculation Madrid could attempt to bring him back to the Santiago Bernabeu in January, with Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo struggling for goals and Alvaro Morata having left for Chelsea. However, he insists he is unaware of any buy-back option, telling Onda Cero and Radio Marca: “I signed for five years with Lyon but I don’t know if Madrid have any purchase option....
The Westworld actress has accused the performer—real name Brian Warner—of “essentially [raping her] on-camera” during the filming of “Heart-Shaped Glasses.” Wood is has accused her ex of “horrific abuse” after she became involved with him when she was 18 and he was 38, between the years of 2006 to 2011. In Phoenix Rising, a new documentary about Wood’s life and career which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the 34-year-old describes shooting the music video as “complete chaos” and said she was left feeling “disgusting” after claiming that her then-boyfriend actually penetrated her during a simulated sex scene....
One week to the day after Suzuki played his last MLB game in front of a massive crowd in Tokyo, Gordon penned a huge tribute to the future Hall of Famer. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whip-around show on DAZN “Thank you, Ichiro. First of all, I want to say thank you for being a great friend to me and being my favorite player to this day,” Gordon wrote....
Soliani revealed two characters in particular he would have liked to include in Sparks of Hope, mentioning Daisy and Wario specifically. While Mario’s flagship Princess Peach will be returning from Kingdoms Battle alongside her own Rabbid counterpart, Daisy has yet to be featured in the Mario and Rabbids crossover. The director also revealed Wario as one of his wishlist characters for Sparks of Hope with Rabbid forms of Wario and his brother Waluigi appearing first in Kingdom Battle....
Mario Kart 64 was originally released in North America on February 10, 1997, nearly two full months after its debut in Japan, and around five months after the Nintendo 64 hardware arrived. It sold just shy of 10 million copies, enough to make it the second best-selling video game after Super Mario 64. Arguably, Mario Kart 64 was the game to truly cement the kart racer as another one of the numerous genres Nintendo defined with its games....
Slowly but surely, new stuff has been dripping into the game. That drip-feed will continue with the themed event starting this Tuesday, November 19, at 10:00 PM PST. In keeping with the time of year, the event will be winter-themed, a fact that the Mario Kart Tour Twitter page confirmed with the following message: “What’s that outside? Has it started snowing already? That can only mean one thing…the next tour is the Winter tour!...
Super Mario Maker 2’s last major update was in December when the game introduced, among other things, the Link power-up. The power-up completely changed what could be done in a level, and how players thought as they constructed their levels. It was limited to the Super Mario Bros level style only, but hundreds of great Link-centric levels have been created since that update. With Update 3.0, the exciting list of new power-ups, creation tools, and enemies is sure to bring a few level builders back to the game....
Greene repeatedly touts stories about high-risk people beating COVID-19 and vaccinated people still getting sick from the virus, casting doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines. On Friday, Greene posted on Twitter that vaccines are “only necessary when there is no treatment for a disease” and advocated for research to focus on the development of treatments, not vaccines. “But there are life-saving treatments for COVID and the variants now are hardly killing anyone,” Greene said....
Jonathan Greenblatt made the comments during an appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room on Monday to discuss the recent spike in antisemitic attacks in the U.S. coinciding with this month’s escalation in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Host Wolf Blitzer asked Greenblatt about the lack of condemnation of Greene by the House Republican leadership after she prompted an outcry by comparing mask requirements on the House floor to the Holocaust....
A staunch opponent to vaccine and mask mandates, Greene has been pushing people to resist getting vaccinated and defy mask requirements. She ramped up her efforts this week, sharing stories of people who still got COVID-19 despite being vaccinated. Greene posted on Twitter Tuesday that vaccines don’t work, so the FDA should not approve them. “These vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus and neither do masks,” Greene wrote on the social media platform....
Dallas’ outspoken owner Mark Cuban, while fielding questions, was asked about ESPN reporter Chris Broussard’s report that Cuban was “driving around downtown Houston begging ([through] texts) Jordan’s family [for] address to DeAndre’s home.” MORE: ESPN ex-pats’ life beyond Bristol | ESPN trolls with Clippers/Mavs commercial Cuban answered that question by saying of Broussard, “My sources say he’s an idiot.” Broussard’s report caught a lot of attention at the time because of how absurd it was....
Mark Few had been head coach at Gonzaga just four years at that point. Gonzaga was a nice little story in the world of college basketball. It was the mid-major program that had stunned everyone to reach the Elite Eight in 1999 and then, despite the departure of head coach Dan Monson for Minnesota, followed that up with a couple of Sweet 16s. People knew who Gonzaga was now, but in September 2003, they did not know what it would become....
With nine men on the line Oregon tried to send QB Marcus Mariota in motion. A lineman then jumped the gun, giving the Ducks another false start. MORE: 10 best playoff scenarios | 2014-15 bowl schedule | Miles-Pelini reunion at Michigan Oregon coach Mark Helfrich was less than impressed. Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez, meanwhile, was furious. Oregon had to move back and kick a field goal, which they missed.
