Posts

In deciding not to play this season, Bell ultimately is mitigating three risks: the chance of injury, the chance of ineffectiveness and the chance of overuse. Here we examine those three risks to determine whether Bell made the right decision from a financial standpoint. MORE: Bell claimed he loved Steelers but had funny way of showing it Risk of injury Running backs are close to the top of the NFL in injury rates....

The Steelers’ star running back told ESPN’s Josina Anderson that weed isn’t a priority. Good thing, because he’s slated to miss the first two games of next season as a result of being busted for possession last summer. MORE: NFL players arrested in 2015 | Bell says he didn’t know he could get DUI for being high | Ex-player says league doesn’t care about marijuana “Marijuana is not an important thing for me,” he said....

Liverpool have 27 points from 12 games, ahead of Manchester City on goal difference. Third-placed Chelsea, on 25, can leapfrog both of them when they visit struggling Middlesbrough on Sunday. The visitors dominated the first half and came close when former Southampton forward Sadio Mane, who moved to Liverpool in the close season, forced a good save from goalkeeper Fraser Forster. Georginio Wijnaldum drove a long-range effort over the bar for Liverpool before the leaders wasted their best chance when Roberto Firmino shot wide with the goal at his mercy after a defence-splitting pass by fellow Brazilian Philippe Coutinho....

If you find that confusing, if not counterintuitive, hey, don't worry about it — because it is. Nonis was speaking on TSN 1050 on Thursday afternoon. He was asked directly if he was willing to trade Kadri, the team's most talented center, and answered thusly, according to a transcript by @Hope_Smoke: "I think it's easy to say that Kadri is struggling but he's having a decent year. It's not like he's not putting up points....

According to esports insider Rod Breslau, Leafy was banned from YouTube because his channel had “multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully, or threaten.” In the early morning hours of August 22, Leafy publicly reached out to YouTube on Twitter to see if there was anything that he could do to get his channel reinstated or if the company would release a statement on the matter....

Also read: Will North America prevail this year in Worlds? The registration has already begun for the event, and players in EUW/EUNE/RU can enroll in the tournament. Anybody who has completed the placements in ranked ladder and is at least honor level 2 or above is eligible for the Clash. The registrations for the Clash will close on October 4, followed by its matches on October 5 and October 6....

Coach Fabin Samuel acknowledged that his team was superior to India and that his team could have scored a few more. “We could have scored more. I am happy with it.” He mentioned that the Indian team didn’t play to the potential they showed in the last game against Colombia. “To be frank, they didn’t pose any threat to our team. I don’t know why?” “The plan was to start on a high note, play fast and see if India can cope....

On his team’s performance today, coach Santiago Denia said, “The match was difficult as expected. Players were smart enough to understand what were the changes needed and to play a good game.” Denia though refused to call it a good performance. He continued, “I would not call this a perfect win. We still need to improve to achieve the objectives. We got three points which are important but there is still room for improvement....

The university released a statement Tuesday, announcing that it had killed the football program. “The Athletic Department faces many challenges given the rapidly evolving NCAA landscape and soaring operating costs, which place extreme pressure and a growing financial burden on programs like UAB’s. Costs are continuously spiraling upwards driven by cost-of-attendance payments to players, meals, equipment, facilities, coaches, travel and more,” the statement read. MORE: Braxton Miller, free agent QB | Championship game rankings | Who is Cardale Jones?...

Ali Mabkhout scored twice while Ahmed Khalil and Tariq Ahmed got on the score sheet as well to round up a comfortable victory at Shah Alam Stadium in Malaysia. Initially, UAE were meant to play Lebanon but Laos stepped in when the match had to be cancelled. Bauza will no doubt be please with starting his tenure with an emphatic win but the real test lies ahead as UAE face Thailand in their World Cup qualifier on June 13....

Delhi Capitals battled to a 77-67 win over Chennai Slam in Game 2 of the finals series and kept their title hopes alive in the UBA Pro Basketball League 2016. Delhi raced onto an early lead and although Chennai tried to mount a comeback in the third quarter, the Capitals held on for the win. Telugu film star Naga Chaitanya was in attendance at a jam-packed Gachibowli Indoor Stadium....

It is understandable as it takes years of experience with a hardware to really maximise performance, but even so, Ubisoft are saying that their current launch line-up won’t suffer a drop in quality. When asked by CVG if the transition to the next generation of consoles would be an issue for the company, Ubisoft’s executive director Alain Corre said it won’t be. While he acknowledged that previous launch releases have been rushed, he said that this time it won’t be a problem as developers were able to get their hands on both Microsoft and Sony’s hardware early....

Ubisoft’s notorious “Online Services Network” requires gamers be always online in order to play games like Assassin’s Creed 2. This obviously has led to much frustration as flaws and errors make legitimate customers wish they’d pirated the game - and turn some into doing it. A new hack has now been unleashed to the internet - and it reportedly removes the DRM entirely. The hack is credited to a group named Skid Row, who warned other hacking groups that their exploited files have been ‘reverse-safegaurded’ so that others won’t be able to steal their work....

The official Ubisoft Twitter account for Spain is the culprit this time. Friday morning, the account posted a message featuring a photo of Splinter Cell protagonist Sam Fisher shadowed, sporting his iconic 3-eye night vision goggles. The message itself reads, with a quick translation, “You need to understand the darkness to face it…” followed by the hashtag “#SamFisher.” The tweet remains published several hours after the fact, with no follow-up or additional information provided....

Ubisoft’s NFT project, termed Ubisoft Quartz, turns in-game cosmetics into collectible NFTs, allowing players to have truly unique assets to show off with. However, Ubisoft’s announcement of their NFT support has not been universally well-received. While some see Ubisoft Quartz as an innovative way for gamers to own their in-game assets, others see it as another means for gaming companies to exploit gamers. RELATED: NFT Video Games Could Be a Step Backwards...

However, the Colorado Republican, admits that unabashed attitude could have potentially cost her her House seat. In an interview with Colorado Springs’ KRDO-FM on Friday morning, Boebert—who has already declared victory in her tight race against Democrat Adam Frisch ahead of a likely recount—admitted that her “loud” rhetoric over the last several years may have turned off many of the independent voters she needed to win as she struggled to secure a majority in a district Republicans were favored to win by double-digits....

The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has called on wealthy countries to stop eating beef because of the environmental cost of its production. In an interview this week to promote his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Gates told the MIT Technology Review: “I don’t think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat. I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef....

Her cancerous brain tumor makes every day unpredictable. And whatever happens, she’s accepted it. MORE: Lauren Hill’s ‘one last game’ in photos The Mount St. Joseph freshman isn’t as strong as she was two weeks ago, when she took the basketball court in the national spotlight. She made a pair of layups during a Division III basketball game in front of more than 10,000 fans who dabbed their eyes as the ball went through the net....