After a tense week of games, in which the Astros recovered from being down 2-1 by winning twice in Philly before sealing the title at Minute Maid Park in front of their home crowds, 73-year-old Baker was ready to party. Amid the wild celebrations in the locker room after the game, there was a moment for the beloved manager to take on a beer luge, with his team urging him on to drink....
The Astros used their off day on Thursday to get back on track after losing three straight games to the Yankees in New York. Back in Houston for game six, Hinch urged his team to move on from their losses in New York. “Those games are behind us, so there’s no real reason to look back now,“Â Hinch said. “They’re in the books. All we really need to focus on is the game at hand....
They remain more segmented and confused in their form and function than their smartphone counterparts. The combination of Google based software and manufacturer specific hardware means they are a varied market. For every excellent iPad contender, there is a genuine stinker. Asus is hoping it’s made the former. The Asus ZenPad 3S is similar to an iPad in name and looks, but is quite different in use. On the face of things, it is a stunningly thin, well-built 9....
The 86-year-old aced the par-3 12th hole for his second career hole-in-one. He smacked his 3-wood low onto the green on the 121-yard hole and watched as his ball trickled in. MORE: Check out this expanded College Football Playoff “I never hit the ball very high,” Bowden said Tuesday, via The Tallahassee Democrat. “I rolled it in the gap and it went right in. I had already walked away. I saw it rolling towards the hole and thought, ‘Oh boy, I have a good shot....
Of the 100 people shot, 18 were killed, the police department said. The total surpassed the number of shootings throughout last year’s July Fourth weekend, which saw 70 wounded and 17 killed, including a 7-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy. Police Superintendent David Brown attributed the influx of shootings to the court system, which discharges people charged with violent crimes from custody on electronic monitoring. “The courts releasing people charged with murder back into the communities…is creating an unsafe environment for all of us,” Brown said during a news conference....
As the high court returns next week for the 1992-93 term, Thomas will get more opportunities to distinguish himself for jurisprudential acumen. The court’s docket-one-third complete-includes cases on criminal rights, free speech, capital punishment and abortion protests. Those are ideological tinderboxes, and Thomas has shown great willingness to light a match to them. But his burden continues to be Sisyphean: to erase the public’s memory of him left by his lurid Senate confirmation hearings....
Saroha, an Arjuna awardee, finished fourth with a throw of 26.63 metres in his six attempts in the final at the Olympic stadium. Serbia’s Zeljko Dimitrijevic clinched the gold with a world record throw of 29.96m. His countryman Milos Mitic bagged the silver with a throw of 26.84m while Slovakia’s Marian Kureja threw 26.82m to settle for the bronze medal. India’s other participant in the category, Dharambir Nain, finished a distant ninth with a throw of 21....
Asad, 22, has been with Velez for his entire professional and youth career. The right-footed attacking midfielder has made 55 appearances for Velez since making his pro debut in 2012, scoring four goals. NYCFC loans Jefferson Mena to Barcelona SC “We’re thrilled to add another exciting young player to our club,” Atlanta United president Darren Eales said in a club release. “He’s an attack-minded player with a very high ceiling, and we’re confident in his ability to showcase his quality in MLS....
It’s the first time in 22 years that Atlas has even made the Mexican league final, but Los Zorros thoroughly deserved it, finishing with the second-best record over the 17-game regular season. It was powered by the best defense in the league (only 10 goals allowed) and the fourth-best attack. Despite the success, Atlas fans maintained tempered expectations having grown accustomed to playoff disappointment. That didn’t happen this time....
Griezmann was a 90th-minute substitute against former team Atletico, who earned a 2-2 draw away to stuttering Barca in LaLiga on Tuesday. A €120million signing from Atletico at the start of the season, Griezmann arrived amid much hype but the star forward has struggled at Camp Nou, where he has started on the bench against Sevilla and Athletic Bilbao in recent weeks. Griezmann has scored eight LaLiga goals this season and 14 across all competitions for second-placed Barca, who could fall four points adrift of bitter rivals Real Madrid on Thursday....
Argentine head coach Diego Simeone inspected the training with all available players, including those who did not train on Tuesday like Spaniard Fernando Torres and Argentine Nico Gaitan – both recovering from muscle stress – and Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, who performed specific training in the pre-season after returning from his vacation, reports Efe. Borja was given permission by the club to be absent from training for the second day so he could negotiate his future, which could see him joining Swansea City FC in the English Premier League....
For example, rumors have indicated that the Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok protagonist will be named Jora, regardless of whether players choose a male or female version of the character. This insinuates that, unlike Alexios or Kassandra, there’s no difference, and they won’t both appear in the game to some capacity. Notably, this would be the first time that fans of the franchise would actually be able to choose the gender of their character (and it still be that character), so it would seem that the franchise is making sure to add some variety with this latest game in terms of character....
For all of its well-deserved praise, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla does have a few key areas that should be improved. Fans have been begging for the return of stealth gameplay in all the latest games, claiming the recent trilogy has gotten too far away from its roots. However, one other area that shouldn’t be ignored is how Valhalla tackled loot, rewards, and gear. If Assassin’s Creed Red wants to be Ubisoft’s next hit game, it will need to learn from its predecessors....
The first few installments in the franchise followed the adventures of Desmond Miles, as he peeked back in time and witnessed the lives of his many ancestors. The Assassins’s Creed franchise has since moved onto a new protagonist in Layla Hassan, first introduced in 2017’s Assassin’s Creed: Origins. The modern day portions of each game has always been present, but never at the forefront and certainly not the main attraction....
As seen in the image below from the Redditor and Assassin’s Creed fan known as “DoktahManhattan”, it looks as if some signs found in the opening of AC3 make reference to both Origins and Odyssey by displaying the Ancient Egyptians’ Eye of Horus symbol and the Omega letter from the Greek alphabet on a wall. What’s more is that the two aforementioned markings are followed by a third that depicts what appears to be a symbol for a torii – that is, a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine....
In order to catch the sound of a cat’s footfall, players must locate a cat, but not any cat will do. A Feline’s Footfall quest in Valhalla has players chasing a golden cat. To locate the cat, players will want to fast travel to the central most location on the Asgard map. Once players arrive atop the peak overlooking Asgard, they can look down and notice a bridge-like structure beneath them with pillars on top of it....
Thankfully, getting past Caustow Castle’s barred door to get the Book of Knowledge is actually really easy, but doing so is time consuming for a different reason. This area in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla can’t be accessed unless the player is on or has completed the quest King Killer, as the area needed to bypass the barred door is locked until that point. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: How to Dual Wield Heavy Weapons...
Eivor’s initial reason for traveling to Vinland is to hunt down Gorm Kjotvesson, the son of Kjotve that the player banishes from Norway at the start of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. In order to get to Vinland, players will first need to find all five clues relating to his location. This can be done by hunting down and killing the five members of the Order of the Ancients that work directly under him....
To put things simply, making Trygve jarl (by selecting “I see Trygve as jarl, and you with me.”) will result in Vili joining Eivor’s crew, and players will be able to assign him to their raiding parties thereafter. Conversely, this will not be possible if a fan opts to make Vili jarl (by selecting “I see a jarl in you.”), and this difference is essentially where the consequences of this choice in AC Valhalla end....
The Order of the Ancients, the precursor to the Templar Order, is alive and well in Middle Ages Britain. As such, the Hidden Ones, the precursor to the Assassin Brotherhood, have sent a pair of acolytes to establish a new bureau in England. To do this, the pair join forces with main character Eivor, who helps them kill the British members of the Order of the Ancients. One of the members that Eivor is sent to assassinate is known only as The Adze, and finding her true identity isn’t easy....
