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On Monday, the 35-year-old first baseman crushed a 97 mph fastball from Dodgers right-hander Pedro Baez over the center field wall for a crucial three-run home run in Game 4 of the NLDS. His blast gave Washington a 5-1 fifth-inning lead, helping the team to an eventual 6-1 win. It was his fourth career postseason long ball. Zimmerman is nearing the end of a hefty contract, and his $18 million club option for 2020 is likely to be declined by the Nationals because of an overall dip in his performance....

Slovakian star Rybarikova was defeated by Barbora Strycova in Austria in the 2017 final, but the seventh seed will not challenge this year after losing 6-3 6-4 to Van Uytvanck on Monday. Sixth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - the 2015 champion - fared better as she progressed to the last 16. Viktoria Kuzmova was edged out 7-5 7-5 by the Russian in the first match of the main draw. 0 votes

A year later than planned, the Ryder Cup is back and the pent-up excitement will make for one of the exhilarating tournaments yet. On home soil at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, Team USA find themselves in the familiar position of being the 8/15 favorites on Betfair to win back the title, while team Europe are 6/4 to lift the trophy. Europe have already been on the charm offensive by arriving at Wednesday’s practice session sporting green and gold tops and cheeseheads of the Green Bay Packers to win over local support, which is rule one when entering as the underdogs....

The 47-year-old has missed the cut in six of his last seven tournament starts while his world ranking has plunged to 670th. “I’m currently dedicating all of my time to our preparations for the Ryder Cup and unfortunately the U.S. Open is not the place to be when your game isn’t 100 percent,” Clarke, the 2011 British Open champion, said in a statement. “I’m very sorry to miss Oakmont but I’m sure it will be a brilliant week....

The feeling was that Ryota Murata might have taken Rob Brant lightly when he lost his WBA “regular” middleweight championship by unanimous decision to the American in Las Vegas in October. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year Well, back on his home turf in Japan, Murata made sure to change the narrative — and with blunt force. Murata put Brant on wobbly legs with an overhand and chopping right before proceeding to unleash a ferocious barrage of punches to get a rousing second-round TKO and snatch his title back at the Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan on Friday....

Carpenter and Bassett have been the center of romance reports for several months particularly after Basset’s rumored ex-girlfriend, Olivia Rodrigo released the hit-single “Driver’s Licence” in January 2021. The pair became friends after Bassett was encouraged by his management to message the singer via Instagram about a song he was working on. Love triangle The rumored “love triangle” between Carpenter, Rodrigo and Bassett is a little complicated, especially since High School Musical: The Musical The Series, co-stars Rodrigo and Bassett have never confirmed whether they were an item back in early 2020....

According to a report in Boxofficeindia.com, the Hindi version of the movie, written and directed by James Erskine, collected almost Rs 7 crore while the revenue from the Marathi, Telugu, English and Tamil versions moved it past the Rs 8.5 Cr mark. The impressive box-office collection even led to remarks that Sachin: A Billion Dreams could well turn out to be Cricket’s Baahubali. In case you didn’t know… While Sachin Tendulkar has been conducting special screenings of the movie for a few celebrities and cricketers, including the members of the Indian cricket team who watched the movie before departing to England as they look to defend the ICC Champions Trophy they won in 2013, for close to a week, it was only on Friday, May 26, that the movie hit the screens for the general public....

Like many Americans, I watched the fall of Saddam’s statue in Ferdous square on TV in 2003. I was in Suleimaniya, northern Iraq. For two months, I had been reporting from the north with approximately 200 other journalists. We interviewed American troops after they parachuted on to a muddy airfield near Erbil, followed American special forces and Kurdish pesh merga guerrillas when they teamed up to attack Ansar al Islam, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi’s first jihadi group in Iraq, and watched as the American military pushed toward the capital from the south....

Cancer is ruled by the Moon, the planet of instincts, emotional needs, and family. This influences most Cancers to be interested in committed relationships and even starting a family. [1] X Research source Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, the planet of growth and change. This compels them to be drawn to adventure and the unknown. If they’re in a committed relationship, they’ll still need opportunities to explore and try new things....

The word ‘authority’ will be removed from the name of the apex sports body as it has no place in this field, Rathore asserted in an interaction with journalists, adding that sports is all about “service”. At present, a major chunk of the SAI’s budget is diverted to non-sporting works. The Centre will outsource such facilities so that it can focus on its core job of grooming sporting talents, he said....

The Saints, despite having a strong defense, struggled last year after Jameis Winston went down with a torn ACL. Trevor Siemian struggled to win games before Taysom Hill nearly led them to a playoff berth. This year, New Orleans will turn to Winston again while trying to replenish some holes in its defense. Having Marcus Williams walk in free agency takes away a key part of the Saints defense, but the team’s most glaring hole remains at wide receiver....

Former NFL punter Pat McAfee, who hosts a new daily show on DAZN (10 a.m. ET-noon), was curious about the origin of Lutz’s unique nickname. At the end of his interview with the New Orleans kicker Tuesday, McAfee asked for clarification: It’s just Wil with one L? “Yeah, just one L. We gave an L to Houston,” Lutz said. MORE: Join DAZN to watch The Pat McAfee Show and more this fall...

“Based upon the new guidance provided by the IOC, it was the unanimous decision of the participating World Sailing Board Members to declare Sozykin eligible to compete in Rio 2016,” it said in a statement on Wednesday. World Sailing has communicated its decision to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Russian Olympic Committee. The IOC provided the new guidance on Tuesday to all summer International Federations indicating that an athlete should not be considered as “implicated” if the McLaren list does not refer to a prohibited substance which would have given rise to an anti-doping rules violation, reports Xinhua....

The Kremlin has said that the U.S. provision of the tanks amounted to “direct involvement” in the war in Ukraine, but a segment on the state channel Russia 1 questioned whether the Abrams would be of any use at all. Following the theme pushed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who said that the Abrams “would burn up just like all the others”, the channel poured scorn on the tanks and their potential to make a difference on the battlefield....

The comment on the program 60 Minutes was made by Olga Skabeyeva on the Russia-1 channel where there are frequent call for strikes against Western countries in retaliation for their support of Ukraine’s war effort. During a discussion on Monday, Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian member of parliament and a former army commander, disparaged President Joe Biden’s appeal to Vladimir Putin not to use weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms....

Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, which is located near the Russian border with Ukraine, wrote on social media that students who were mistakenly called up to fight in Ukraine as part of Putin’s mobilization decree would be returned. “Today I am making sure that the students who were called up in the first days return home,” he wrote, adding that he has contacted the relevant officials “about the need to send our students back....

In its daily update, the General Staff of the Armed Forces said on Friday that Russia was focused on establishing full control of the Donetsk region, the captured districts of Kherson, as well as parts of the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv regions. Ukraine said that over the span of 24 hours, Russia had carried out 45 air and five missile strikes in which there were civilian casualties. But it stated that Kyiv’s forces were “conducting a successful counteroffensive in the Kharkiv direction” in which they had advanced almost 30 miles in three days....

The disagreement began as the talk show panelists discussed whether “the Ukrainian people” even existed and had their own language. It comes as Ukraine’s forces have liberated formerly Russian-held territories in a counterattack. Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis shared the clip on Twitter on Tuesday evening. It has already been watched more than 345,000 times. Davis tweeted: “‘Are We The Baddies?’ moment on Russian TV: One pundit, responding to his genocidal colleagues, who assert that Ukrainian nationality and language do not exist- suddenly realized he is in the company of actual Nazis and says, ‘This is clear cut nationalism....

The environmental dangers that Rust presents are numerous, from active threats like wildlife to passive threats like weather and radiation. There is craftable equipment to lessen these dangers, such as clothes, tarps, sleeping bags, and hazmat suits, but most of them require cloth to craft. RELATED: Rust Beginners Guide Finding cloth can be a bit confusing at first, however. Unlike real life, players don’t craft cloth from other items. Instead, Rust treats cloth almost like a natural resource....

Based on the superhero team of the same name from Marvel Comics, The Avengers have been the preeminent drivers and main characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s overarching narrative through all its phases. Now, with sweeping changes to the team and new villains in the works, Black Panther 2 director Ryan Coogler seems a likely choice to head up the next mainline MCU film, which was named Secret Wars after the highly popular comic book arc it will likely draw heavily from....