Mbappe scored twice in a standout display in the 4-3 win over Argentina in the last 16, helping Didier Deschamps’ side reach the last eight for the third time in the past four World Cup finals. The 19-year-old’s performance, coupled with France’s general strength in depth in attack, makes them favourites to overcome Oscar Tabarez’s team in Nizhny Novgorod, even though Uruguay have lost only one of the last eight meetings....
The official website for the upcoming series released a teaser video alongside the series’ cast and staff. The new anime will adapt various stories from the manga and is set to run for four cours, though it might not all be consecutive. RELATED: Bakemonogatari Manga Adaptation Nearing Conclusion David Production will handle the series’ production, with directors Hideya Takahashi and Yasuhiro Kimura spearheading the project. Yuuko Kakihara will handle the scripts while Naoyuki Asano is in charge of the character designs....
The United States has been a leader in COVID-19 cases and deaths for the bulk of the pandemic and is the only country in the world to report the loss of 600,000 lives. Of those deaths, about 400,000 occurred under former President Donald Trump, a milestone that was hit on his last full day as president, and about 200,000 have been reported since President Joe Biden took office. With increases in vaccinations and more knowledge about how to treat COVID-19, deaths in the United States are on the decline....
The case was brought against the former branch manager of Popular Bank in New York. The manager allegedly conspired with other employees of the bank to fraudulently apply for more than $3 million in small business relief loans, according to Reuters. Over 500 individuals have seen charges pertaining to pandemic-relief falsehoods, sparking “unprecedented levels of fraud,” said the U.S. Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery. While cases of fraud by individuals have surged for some time, this is believed to mark the first incidence of it occurring within a bank....
Date: 3 September 2021 Tournament: US Open 2021 Round: Third round (Round of 32) Venue: New York, United States Category: Grand Slam Surface: Outdoor hardcourt Prize money: $40,560,000 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel & ESPN | UK - BBC TV & Radio | India - Star Sports / Disney+ Hotstar VIP Simona Halep vs Elena Rybakina preview 12th seed Simona Halep will face 19th seed Elena Rybakina in the third round of the 2021 US Open on Friday....
Fourth place finish mathematically possible : Hiddink The 2-1 loss at Leicester that led to Mourinho’s sacking somewhat put Chelsea’s Champions League qualification for next season in uncertainity, but Hiddink has already told the players to target automatic qualification for the competition as long as it’s mathematically achievable. “Generally, I set targets,” Hiddink said. “The target is, because mathematically it’s possible, to get in fourth position. To do that, we have to be exclusively good....
Jones racked up perfect scores of 50 for each of the three dunks he threw down — and if you take a look at the judges’ faces, you’ll see why. Pure awe. MORE: Watch Derrick Jones fly over four players | Way-too-early Top 25 for 2015-16 season The 6-6, 180-pound guard out of Archbishop Carroll (Pa.) who signed with UNLV in November was snubbed from the McDonald’s All-American game. He told BallIsLife that there’s no doubt in his mind he could’ve won that dunk contest as well....
BioWare is a studio not needing any introduction, being responsible for some of the greatest western RPGs of the last 20 years. Producing entries in massive franchises like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, to crafting its own universes in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, BioWare has shown time after time it knows how to create sprawling RPG worlds with strong narratives....
Season 1 finalists, U Mumba seem to be replaying history repeating their successful run with their sixth straight win in Season 2 of Star Sports Pro Kabaddi. Can they finish on top with an unbeaten record? That will be answered come Saturday when they play Dabang Delhi, who have had a mixed bag of success having won three of their five matches till date and lie in fourth place behind Telugu Titans and Bengaluru Bulls....
With nearly 30 years of history, the Warcraft universe has dozens of books available for readers. Historically, World of Warcraft has released a companion novel alongside its expansion packs, such as Shadows Rising for Shadowlands. However, Dragonflight had no such novel announced with it. RELATED: New World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Codex Lore Book Announced World of Warcraft recently released Exploring Azeroth: Northrend–the third installment of the journal-like lore book series it began a few years ago....
Justin Moon, 36, wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 when he contracted the virus over the summer and had to be hospitalized. Until then a generally healthy person, he spent 39 days on a ventilator and while he recovered from the virus, he now faces a long road to recovery and is encouraging others to get vaccinated to prevent others from going through the same experiences. “There’s only one other step beyond where I was at, and that’s cremation or going in your box....
Lucknow - The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it would soon invite bids for selection of consultant for a proposed international cricket stadium and a cricket academy project in Lucknow. The decision was taken at a high-level government meeting chaired by Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner (IIDC) Anil K. Gupta and attended by senior officials of departments of housing, finance, sports and the Lucknow Development Authority among others....
While Sporting will be making their return to the top flight for the first time in four years, Pune FC will be playing their first I-League game following the departure of Derrick Pereira, who was in charge of each of their previous 104 I-League matches. Dutchman Mike Snoei is Derrick’s replacement and will be aiming for a winning start much like his counterpart Moshood Bola Abdul Aziz, who will be in charge of an I-League game for the first time as well....
Smile, John. You now have a top-three pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. At this point in 2019, six teams — the Bengals, Redskins, Giants, Dolphins, Jets and Falcons — and maybe more can consider their seasons lost. Yet half of those teams won their games in Week 10, a purely sweet feeling for the coaches and players for those teams but a bittersweet feeling for anybody in Miami, New York and Atlanta who is already thinking about next year’s selection process....
But today’s decisions in two cases essentially uphold the status quo. The court backs Bakke’s vague support for race-based preferences, but strikes down a plan it said came too close to reverse discrimination. The justices-splitting along predictable conservative-liberal lines-uphold the admissions program at the University of Michigan law school, ruling 5-4 in Grutter v. Bollinger that diversity is a “compelling state interest” that justified the school’s attempt to achieve a “critical mass” of minorities....
Anno, Assassin’s Creed, Brothers in Arms, Far Cry, Might & Magic, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Silent Hunter, The Settlers, Tom Clancy, Trials, and Watch Dogs are all robustly represented on Uplay+. If it’s a Ubisoft game made available on PC in the past 20 years, it’s likely to be in the Uplay+ game library. Ubisoft will also offer the Gold/Deluxe/Premium Edition versions of each game so as to make as much DLC available as possible....
Excluding Pete Carroll, who won two national championships at USC before winning a Super Bowl early in his long tenure with the Seahawks, it’s been a shaky run of simliar hires in more recent history. Carroll also is a bit of an outlier, given he had previous pro head-coaching experience with the Patriots and Jets before his return. Meyer was the 12th first-time NFL coach from the college ranks since 2001....
Of all the marquee matchups to be played this weekend, Michigan-Ohio State still grabs the headlines. Why is that? Because it is arguably one of the greatest rivalries, not just in college football, but in all of sports. MORE: College football’s craziest fans | College Football Playoff rankings | How J.T. Barrett ended up at Ohio State To gear up for the big game, Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer revisited the best (or maybe worst) memories he had of the Big Ten rivalry....
Germany, which defeated US 3-0 in a group encounter just a fortnight ago, were more aggressive at the beginning of the match, creating a series of chances with efficient crosses from both sides, reports Xinhua. The Americans barely held onto their defence before they made some attacking headway as Maya Hayes took a driving run and shot from her position on the right side of the forward line. In the 44th minute, defender Crystal Dunn used her speed and power to cut in from the flank and pull the ball back for Kealia Ohai, who scored the goal from near the penalty spot....
The Americans still have to face Canada. “Just because we qualified for the World Cup doesn’t mean we’re going to take our foot off the gas,” Alex Morgan said. “We want to win this tournament and we always think of playing Canada as an important game for us.” Morgan and Tobin Heath each scored twice in the first half and United States earned a World Cup berth with a 6-0 victory over Jamaica on Sunday night in the semifinals....
