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David Stern, looking toward his retirement next February after 30 years as commissioner of the NBA, says he certainly isn’t going to drop out of sight. Stern said Thursday that he looks forward to stepping back from the day-to-day grind but is also keen to continue to help grow and develop the league from an advisory role. “It is time to step down and step aside,” Stern said Thursday during his last NBA finals news conference prior to game one of the league championship series between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs....

Australian Captain Steven Smith called Warner and Nevill in as a declaration with Australia at 2/176 before umpires offered both teams an option to call an early draw. Warner was named man of the match for his aggressive innings. Middle order batsman Adam Voges was named Player of the Series and was awarded the inaugural Richie Benaud Medal for the best player in a Test series between Australia and the West Indies....

The Mets captain and third baseman has been placed on a 15-day disabled list with a mild strain of the right hamstring, the team announced Wednesday. The 11-year veteran pulled his hamstring sliding into second base on a steal attempt during Tuesday’s 6-5 win over the Phillies. Though he tried to remain in the game, Wright asked to leave just five pitches later. He underwent an MRI at Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan Wednesday morning and received a cortisone shot....

After losing six straight while All-Star forward Anthony Davis struggled with a strained elbow, the Pelicans won their second straight Saturday night, defeating the Phoenix Suns 119-99. Davis led the way with 26 points and 12 rebounds. “It was real big for us,” Davis said of the follow-up to a 107-98 home victory against Chicago three nights earlier. “You know you can’t get too far down in the West or it’s going to be trouble trying to get back up in the standings, so, for us to come back home and take care of home court, it was big time for us....

The playoffs are the primary focus as he clears the fences at a remarkable rate. Davis homered for the second straight night to back Brett Anderson’s gem, and Oakland blanked the Texas Rangers again 6-0 Tuesday night. Davis hit a two-run shot in the seventh for No. 38 of 2018, his fourth home run in three games and ninth in 15. “I’m just trying to do my job and do what I do,” the soft-spoken Davis said....

The biggest question for both Yannick Noah, the French skipper, and his Belgian counterpart, Johan van Herck, is the doubles pairing. In the singles on Friday, Noah will no doubt open with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (ranked number 15 in the world) and Lucas Pouille (18). Richard Gasquet (31) seems too far behind to risk. In the doubles, Noah has generally preferred the specialist pairing of Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who won the 2015 US Open and the 2016 Wimbledon doubles together....

NBA All-Star Davis was back on the floor from injury and a trade request as the Pelicans topped the Minnesota Timberwolves 122-117 on Friday. Davis received a mixed reception in New Orleans after his agent Rich Paul last month revealed the Pelicans star had no plans to re-sign ahead of free agency in 2020, while the Los Angeles Lakers tried to facilitate a trade prior to the deadline. The Pelicans center was booed and cheered in his 32-point performance, which also included nine rebounds and three blocks....

John Garvin’s comments come in response to Twitter user GermanStrands expressing their love for Days Gone on PS4, using a screenshot of its Metacritic score that shows a 71 Metascore from 109 reviews and a user score of 8.4 from 10K ratings. Someone else followed up by suggesting they don’t forget the PC score, posting another screenshot showing its 76 Metascore from 47 reviews and a user score of 8....

title: “Days Of Rage” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-27” author: “Stanley Winston”

IF INTIMIDATION WERE AN Olympic event, Aleksandr Karelin would own it. The Russian behemoth stands 6 feet 3, weighs nearly 300 pounds and wrings out men his own size like damp washcloths. Karelin is the long-reigning king of heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestling. He hadn’t lost a match in 10 years when he confronted American Matt Ghaffari in Atlanta last week. And he had pummeled Ghaffari in 20 previous encounters. To no one’s surprise, Karelin beat the poor man again Tuesday night, 1-0 in overtime, to secure a third consecutive Olympic gold medal....

He said: “We want to change and we’re going to change. I agree we must have better results. I agree we are not the kind of club that is going to wait two, three, four, five years to have a team. “We have to accelerate the process, but we are not going to change. We want this team to play in a certain way and that’s the way we’re going to work....

The Spain international brilliantly kept out Joel Matip’s close-range effort with his foot in the first half to ensure that Jose Mourinho’s side left Anfield with a point. De Gea kept a clean sheet in the same fixture last season by virtue of spectacularly pawing away Philippe Coutinho’s curling effort, but would not be drawn on whether he thought the stop from Matip was better. “I tried to react quickly and sometimes football is so quick,” he told Sky Sports....

Netherlands midfielder De Jong will join Barcelona in a €75million switch, although that huge move being on the horizon has done little to disrupt his or Ajax’s rhythm. Erik ten Hag’s side have seen off Real Madrid and Juventus to storm into the semi-finals of the Champions League, where they take on Tottenham in London in the first leg on Tuesday. The battle for the Eredivisie is set to go to the wire, where Ajax top the table but are level on points with PSV with two rounds of fixtures remaining, while De Jong’s boyhood club Willem II await in the KNVB Beker final....

RELATED: Dead By Daylight: The 10 Best Survivor Perks, Ranked There are a handful of features the games does perfectly. From the wide cast of characters, players can choose from to the extensive progression system, Dead by Daylight offers plenty of variety. However, there are some drawbacks the title has that don’t make it the best asymmetrical horror game. 10 Best: Killer Options Dead by Daylight has 18 playable killers....

Interestingly enough, looking back at the initial release of Dead by Daylight, some fans might note that Behavior Interactive didn’t exactly come out of the gate running. With only a small selection of killers when the game debuted, it was always up in the air if the developer would be able to get it off of its feet both for competitive players and as a casual eSport on Twitch....

Despite Dead by Daylight having an expansive underlying story revolving around a creature known only as The Entity abducting people from various timelines and historical periods, breaking their minds by forcing them to take part in its cruel trials, the game’s playable roster has very few characters with origins firmly rooted in the distant past. The latest addition to the killer roster, however, is inspired by the dark ages and has brought along some friends....

The Ripper would have attempted to portray Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer of 1888 in London as a sympathetic character, but also suitably unbalanced vengeance killer. According to Polygon’s interviews with the game’s developers, The Ripper would have followed Jack in a reimagining of history as he attempted to take down not the innocent victims that history portrays, but a clan of vampires plaguing the city’s streets, all with the assistance of a group of Freemasons....

Substantial changes to the game include Isaac being able to talk and Nicole being given exposition, which greatly enhances the remake’s storytelling capabilities. But the narrative in Motive’s Dead Space is also given creative freedom in its New Game Plus feature. Here, players can achieve an alternate ending as opposed to the default one that was reprised from the original Dead Space, and it is well worth endeavoring through Dead Space’s New Game Plus playthrough because of its narrative implications and new interactions that fans will have during this playthrough....

Hardcore MMO shooter Deadside gives players a variety of bags and backpacks to choose from in order to haul around their gear. In a world in which players fight over every resource, having a few extra Bandages or Painkillers or some more ammunition can make a huge difference. Since carrying capacity affects survivability as much as profit, choosing the right backpack is a big deal. Here’s everything there is to know about the best backpacks in the game....

Challenges There are many cultural challenges for familes that include children of deaf adults (CODA). Take for example finding daycare programs or babysitters that can communicate with the deaf parent and the hearing child. Other challenges stem from behaviors that result from parents not being able to hear. For instance, a daycare provider who was caring for a hearing child of deaf parents noticed that the child tended to scream or yell....