The 2019 edition started on the 24th of September and is slated to go on for a month until the grand finale, which is scheduled to take place on the 25th of October. This season, the 38 teams in the competition have been divided into 4 groups. While the Elite teams will be part of group A and B, the lower division teams have been placed in Group C and D....
Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was named Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year on Friday ahead of Beckham and three other candidates. The award was determined by fan vote. MORE: Beckham SN’s top rookie | Bridgewater wanted no part of Browns | First-round rookie contracts “This award means a lot to me. I’m glad to have the fan base that I have,” Bridgewater said, according to Vikings’ web site. “They’re the reason I was even in consideration for this award....
But Ragnar’s time has apparently ended after the team announced it has cut ties with Joe Juranitch, the man who portrays Ragnar, because of a contract dispute. MORE: Mascots: The good, bad and ridiculous | Man charged with stealing minor league mascot’s outfit According to The Associated Press, Juranitch was asking for $20,000 per game over the next 10 years — or a total of $1.6 million for regular-season home games, and $2 million if exhibitions (two per year) were included....
Kirk Cousins led the starters for two drives, the last one yielding a chip-shot field goal by Dan Bailey, and finished 6 for 8 for 68 yards without a turnover. Second-string quarterback Sean Mannion made up for an interception that safety DeShawn Shead returned 88 yards for a score by finding Smith with a short throw into the end zone just before halftime. Then Kyle Sloter delivered the touchdown pass to Zylstra in the third quarter, polishing off a decent night for an offense that underwent an offseason scheme change after an underwhelming first year with Cousins at the helm....
“Aston Villa Football Club has today suspended Gabby Agbonlahor pending an internal investigation. This is following allegations concerning his conduct at the weekend,” the club said on its website. “There will be no further comment from the Club in relation to this matter until the investigation has been completed.” It is not illegal to possess laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, in Britain. The gas can induce a feeling of euphoria when inhaled....
The junior has withdrawn his name from the NBA Draft and will return for his senior season. “It was a good experience going through this process but I’m looking forward to focusing on graduating next year and becoming a great leader,” Jenkins wrote on Twitter. MORE: Relive Kris Jenkins’ buzzer beater | National championship game photos NBA prospects are allowed to withdraw from the draft within 10 days after the NBA combine, which is scheduled for May 11-15 in Chicago....
Vincent Kompany turned 33 last month, and his age is not a good combination with the injuries that have curtailed his appearances in recent seasons. Although his availability has been sporadic and largely limited, his presence around the team alone has been as important as the performances of those taking to the field for the treble-chasers each and every week. Natural leader It is Kompany’s leadership qualities that leave Manchester City with a huge decision to make....
Tatiena Stanieva shared multiple videos on Facebook in a post that also contained a long description of her experience at the Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi train station. She wrote that she had tried to get to Izmail, a city on the Danube River in southwestern Ukraine, but her train was canceled. Stanieva said she felt “powerlessness” and “fear” at her failed attempt to leave. She wrote that she “covered my face with my hands and began to sob....
The region’s National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) confirmed in a tweet that an “explosive eruption” was recorded from the volcano on Friday last week (April 9), and it has continued to show extensive activity in the days since. More than 10,000 residents are under evacuation orders as of Tuesday and mass power blackouts have impacted the majority of the island. Footage released on Monday by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), of Colorado State University, showed satellite video of the large eruption taken the day prior, showing large clouds of ash billowing from the volcano’s crater....
The fire broke out in a Mott Haven housing complex in the Bronx at around 5 p.m. on Friday. Firefighters responding to the blaze went door to door checking each unit, eventually finding a 32-year-old man and his 6-year-old son, Aiden Hayward, passed out in a hallway. The boy later died from smoke inhalation after being taken to a nearby hospital, where he stayed throughout Saturday. As of Sunday, the father was still receiving treatment....
Hours before the accident became news, Wade shared an Instagram video of himself out on the links with Woods. “So, I told y’all I was about to do something amazing today and I got an opportunity—I say, the G.O.A.T., he’s not comfortable with it—but an opportunity to come out here with this guy right here, man. Tiger, thank you for teaching me something. How good am I or how bad am I?...
The New York-based startup, which launched March 31, intends to continually develop new missions based on current events. (A subscription costs $9.99 a month.) A re-creation of the recent shoot-out in northwest Pakistan between the Pakistani military and Taliban and Qaeda forces is in the works. While there are many videogames re-enacting historic conflicts like World War II and Vietnam, it’s Kuma’s “nearness in time to the event that’s new,” says Steve Butts, editor of the gaming Web site IGN....
Two females, Sibaya and Malkia, and two males, Tuli and Paka, live at the world’s oldest zoo, the Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna, where they turned one on June 22. “The four are almost as tall as their mother. Sometimes, you have to look twice to distinguish them from [their mother] Afra,” said Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck, zoo director. The zoo director reported the quads live on their own without maternal care....
Small wonder Bush doesn’t want discussion to focus on the war. The president and his advisers strongly reject any comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq (although, ironically, Vietnam’s outcome, three decades after U.S. forces abandoned Saigon, has been positive). Bush’s aides say U.S. troops enjoy far greater public support than did their predecessors in Vietnam. They also say morale inside the military is far higher than it was during Vietnam. Most of all, Bush’s national-security team rejects the notion that America could safely pull out of Iraq, as it did from Vietnam....
How to View EXIF Data in XnView MP To view EXIF data, simply open an image. The lower left pane reveals metadata about the image. The EXIF section, or the EXIFtool section, of that pane reveals all the metadata encoded within the image. XnView MP supports editing of IPTC information. The International Press Telecommunications Council has set authoritative standards about photo metadata that are widely accepted. To modify IPTC information, select an image then click Tools > Metadata > Edit IPTC/XMP....
Opinion makers were mesmerized by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s “India Shining” message, which declared that India’s economy was on track to join China’s as a bona fide Asian miracle. In the last quarter GDP had risen faster than any country’s in the world, including China’s; foreign-exchange reserves were piling up. The party was cast as the proponent of aggressive reform. Yet the rosy numbers were driven more by a boom in global emerging markets and a good monsoon than by any substantive policy decisions....
But recent developments/shake-ups within publisher THQ have been suggesting otherwise, that new head Jason Rubin might want to take Vigil and put them in charge of a different project after Darksiders 2. Thankfully Vigil Games’ Haydn Dalton has come out to explain that Darksiders 3 is entirely possible, but it might be smaller in scale. Obviously, as Dalton explains, the success of Darksiders 2 will weigh heavily on THQ’s decisions regarding a sequel, but it’s entirely possible at this point....
The only match which began was the one between Haryana and Bengal, which took place at the M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Due to the rain, the match was reduced to 21 overs per side. Haryana opted to field first and did a decent job of restricting Bengal to 140 in their 20 overs. It was the captain, Manoj Tiwary, who led from the front as he scored a quickfire knock of 60 in just 43 deliveries to help take his side to 140....
The Vikings activated Bradford off injured reserve on Saturday after a left knee injury sent him to the sideline earlier this season. Bradford played in just one full game this campaign, throwing for 346 yards and three touchdowns in a week one win over the Saints before suffering a non-contact knee injury late in the game. He made his return against the Chicago Bears week five, but was benched before half-time and has not played since....
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Vikings defensive backs decided during the week of practice to defend the Packers’ top receiver differently than what Zimmer had mapped out. The original plan called for Xavier Rhodes, the Vikings’ top cornerback, to shadow Nelson per usual when the two teams play with Zimmer at the helm for Minnesota. The Star-Tribune reported Rhodes instead stayed on his side of the field throughout the first half of Minnesota’s loss....
