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After Tampa Bay prevented an ALDS sweep with a blowout win in Game 3, Houston manager A.J. Hinch announced Justin Verlander will start Tuesday’s Game 4. “He’s one of the best pitchers in the world,” Hinch told reporters. “It’s no more complicated than that. He’s ready, and it’s his game.” MORE: Takeaways from Rays’ Game 3 win Verlander threw seven scoreless innings in Game 1 on Friday, meaning his Game 4 start will be on three days of rest....

In Game 3 against the Astros, the Phillies became the fourth team in history to hit five home runs in the World Series as they teed off on Houston’s starting pitcher right out of the gate. Though McCullers settled in for a pair of hitless frames, they tagged him all over again in the fifth for two more homers as the Phillies routed the Astros in front of the Philadelphia crowd to take a 2-1 World Series lead....

Team RAW was captained by 10-time Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair and comprised of Natalya, Sarah Logan, and WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Asuka and Kairi Sane. SmackDown’s team consisted of Sasha Banks as the captain, Nikki Cross, Lacey Evans, Carmella, and Dana Brooke while Team NXT, captained by Rhea Ripley also featured Candice LeRae, Toni Storm, Bianca Belair, and Io Shirai. During the match, Asuka got into a heated argument with team captain Charlotte Flair and walked out after Charlotte insulted her....

The women were found shot to death at the side of a road in the town of Bavispe in the border state of Sonora, Mexico. The perpetrators, according to Lafe Langford Jr., a relative of some of the victims, are a Chihuahua-based cartel who had encroached on another cartel’s territory. The women and their children were simply caught up in a crossfire that had nothing to do with any of them, mistaken for the cartel’s rivals....

Soul music, according to people who chart such things, maps ecstatic gospel testimony onto postwar rhythm and blues. Vandross and Neville turn this equation around, mixing rhythm and blues with snootier, baroque pop styles. They are tender love men, crooners who patiently fuss over their ballads, rather than blow them out. They are almost archaic voices of masculine vulnerability, innocents at play in the fields of love. “Power of Love,” Vandross’s first new album in three years (he released a compilation of hits in 1989), marks a long-due commercial breakthrough, his first crossover pop success after eight million-selling albums....

Atlanta’s latest episode is titled “The Big Payback”, yet another proper title for it might as well be “Oh boy, here we go again” because this one-off chapter takes a deep cut into a couple of the United States’ most heated debates: reparations and critical race theory. Of course, it does this in the most Atlanta way possible, with clever writing that’s not bound to crack many laughs but still is worthy satire nonetheless....

Atlanta are without a win in their last five games, having only picked up two points from those games, one of which was a home draw against Inter Miami, in a game that ended 0-0. Inter Miami, on the other hand, have picked up five points in their last five games, which is a decent run of form for them considering that they have only picked up eight points from their 11 games so far this season....

Diego Godin and Antoine Griezmann kept their LaLiga title challenge alive as they kicked off a huge week with a 2-0 win over Girona at the Wanda Metropolitano on Tuesday. Atleti head to Catalonia on Saturday for a mouth-watering clash against Ernesto Valverde’s side, who saw their lead at the summit cut to eight points after a sensational 4-4 draw against Villarreal, last-gasp goals from Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez rescuing the champions....

Real had earlier looked set to win the trophy in their first competitive game since the departures of Cristiano Ronaldo and coach Zinedine Zidane when a Sergio Ramps penalty put them 2-1 up in the second half. That came after Karim Benzema cancelled out Diego Costa’s first-minute opener in the Estonian capital, but Costa hauled Diego Simeone’s side level again late on to force extra time. Simeone’s men then looked stronger in the extra period as they won this competition, the annual meeting of the Champions League and Europa League winners, for the third time in nine seasons....

The 26-year-old sat out Friday’s training session as a precautionary measure and will play no part in Saturday’s LaLiga meeting with Levante. Oblak, who has kept 20 clean sheets in 37 league matches this season, is struggling with a mild distention to the adductor muscles in his left thigh. Atletico head into their final match of 2018-19 assured of a second-place finish. 0 votes

Atletico went into the game Sunday night knowing that a point would be enough to lift them above Barcelona and on a night charged with emotion following the death of former Spain coach, Luis Aragones, a former Atletico player, who coached the club on four separate occasions, there was never any result on the cards other than a home win, reports Xinhua. David Villa opened the scoring after 37 minutes but the game was not decided until the 72nd minute when Diego Costa made it 2-0 after the visitors had seen two confident penalty appeals for handball turned down....

Meanwhile, Diego Costa seems to be unsettled by the rumor mill speculating on his return to Atletico Madrid. The Chelsea striker also has injury worries with a back injury that has seen Antonio Conte leave him out of all the pre-season friendlies until now. However, Costa appears keen to start against AC Milan in the next friendly and win the manager’s trust that will see him stay at Chelsea....

RELATED: Assassin’s Creed: Protagonists With The Best Backstories, Ranked Thankfully for players, Bayek eventually becomes proficient in all manners of weaponry. And in Assassin’s Creed Origins, Bayek gains access to both ordinary and legendary weapons that could turn the tide of combat. However, in the early game, just which are the best weapons in Assassin’s Creed Origins? Updated December 30, 2022, by Rhenn Taguiam: With Assassin’s Creed Mirage seeing Basim Ibn Ishaq as he journeys the streets of Baghdad in his transition from lowly thief to full-fledged member of the Assassin Order, fans may be eager to see this title bring the series back to its roots....

[HTML1] It’s no secret that Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has a ton of work to do to earn back the trust of fans after Unity. The stealth action series was at its peak two years about with the pirating shenanigans in Black Flag, but last year’s focus on online co-op didn’t quite have the same magic. Unity was a financial success, just like Syndicate is sure to be, but to become a fan favorite series again, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate needs to deliver in a serious way....

[HTML1] Ubisoft has today revealed their first piece of story DLC for Assassin’s Creed Unity titled Dead Kings. The expansion will follow up with Unity protagonist Arno post-campaign, as he visits the city of Saint Denis, and the crypts of fallen French kings that lurk below. In celebration of the DLC’s announcement, Ubisoft has unveiled a first look CG trailer for Dead Kings that gives players some clues about the upcoming adventure....

RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: 10 Best Weapons This is a final warning that spoilers will follow. Barring the inclusion of any purely cosmetic items and prequel-style content, the DLC will most certainly be addressing the wild ending of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which was closer to a categorically bad ending than a good one and therefore needs some serious resolutions or else the next installment in the series will be tethered to addressing the baffling circumstances of the endgame that have left the fans hungry for conclusions....

This moment is a bit odd. It’s left open to interpretation, it isn’t followed up in the main story of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and the Templar themselves have no role in the modern-day story since. That’s not to say the Templars are gone, though. It’s much more likely that something big is building behind the scenes, but whether Otso Berg remains the “face” of the organization is still up in the air....

Today, Ubisoft announced that it’s implemented its newest Legacy Outfit, confirming that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players can now access Ezio’s iconic costume. All they have to do to redeem the reward is play two Assassin’s Creed games and link them to their Ubisoft Connect account, at which point the outfit will be free to redeem on the website. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Community Finally Finds Major AC Rogue Easter Egg...