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The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced ahead of the match that the two teams faced no nationality restrictions in compiling their squads, leaving Barca free to pick from their clutch of new South American recruits, Brazilian pair Arthur and Malcom and Chile’s Arturo Vidal having arrived at Camp Nou in the off-season. Sevilla had already been antagonised by the RFEF’s decision to stage the Supercopa, traditionally a two-legged, home-and-away tie, as a one-off match in Tangier....

And the hype has never been thicker. Though federal law bars explicit health claims on products sold as dietary supplements, retailers will gladly promise you the sexual potency of a young Rasputin, the energy of a hamster or the memory of the Amazing Kreskin. Varro Tyler, a Purdue University pharmacognosist (an expert in the medicinal uses of herbs), says consumers are getting more misinformation about natural remedies than they have since the turn of the century....

Asa Butterfield is no stranger to Dota 2 or video games in general. The celebrated British actor of Hugo, Ender’s Game, and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas fame has a nerdy side that is little known to the public eye. Butterfield has been an avid Dota player for quite a long period of time. Blitz, on the other hand, is a former professional player turned coach who is also considered to be one of the best analysts of the popular online multiplayer game....

Several years later, in July 2020, Shadows of the Damned disappeared unexpectedly from the Microsoft Store and the digital version of the game could no longer be purchased. It was speculated but never confirmed that Grasshopper Manufacture’s decade-long publishing deal with EA had ended, which resulted in the publisher having the game delisted from the storefront. RELATED: No More Heroes Games Rated for PC However, about a week after Shadows of the Damned was removed from the Microsoft Store, the title reappeared....

In an item accompanying our March 12 photo of the recent earthquake in Washington state (“Shaken in Seattle,” A Thousand Words), we should have said that Highway 101 is in the western part of the state, not the eastern part.

The truth is, he never went away. A couple of years ago the multiculturalists had supposedly frog-marched him out of school curriculums. Yet in his native England, every kid must now read two plays and take a national exam; no mass suicides reported. In the United States he’s still studied in more than 90 percent of high schools. In universities, postcolonialists, feminists and specialists in ““queer studies’’ rope him in as either a fellow subversive or No....

In April, India’s cricket board decided that one game of an upcoming three-test series against New Zealand would be a day-night affair, pending trials of the pink ball. The 26-year-old, who picked up five wickets playing for Mohun Bagan in the day-night final, said South Asian conditions favoured swing with the pink ball, which was an exciting prospect. “With red or white balls, there was some visibility problem as it took (on) the colour of grass,” he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India....

On Saturday night at Shamrock FC 285 from the Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, Alan Vasquez went up against Axel Cazares. Vasquez and Cazares went to throw right hands at the same time, hit each each flush and both fell to the mat. Vazquez made it to his feet first and was declared the winner when Cazares couldn’t make to back to his feet. The most famous double KO in MMA was in 2007 during The Ultimate Figher 5 Finale between Gray Maynard and Rob Emerson....

Shannon Badgett, 53, was charged with communicating a written threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism on Wednesday. Haines City Police said he had been arrested in Florida two days earlier, after one of his social media contacts reported his messages. In the Facebook posts, Badgett wrote that he would be heading to D.C. “unless President Trump calls for martial law,” the Associated Press reported. “Going to be a target rich environment,” he is alleged to have written, before adding “Pew....

Sharpe didn’t hold back then on Monday, after he was spoofed by Jay Pharaoh on the NBC season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend. Pharaoh teamed with Kenan Thompson, who played Sharpe’s former Ravens’ teammate, Ray Lewis, during a cold-open parody of NFL analysts’ reaction to the league’s recent off-field troubles on a sendup of CNN’s ‘State of the Union." Pharaoh had previously appeared as Sharpe on the ‘Weekend Update’ segment on another episode....

The effort and excitement from Shaquem Griffin? That remained the same. “We had to slow him down on some stuff early. In the walkthrough he was going too hard. We had to chill him out a little bit,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. The next chapter of Griffin’s football career got underway with the first day of Seattle’s three-day minicamp for rookies. In a way, it was a welcome return to normalcy for Griffin after months where the focus was strictly on what he’s overcome missing his left hand and whether he would be given a chance in the NFL....

The 29-year-old Russian was banned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) earlier this month following a positive test for the banned drug meldonium during January’s Australian Open. “In her appeal to the CAS, Ms Sharapova seeks the annulment of the Tribunal’s decision to sanction her with a two-year period of ineligibility further to an anti-doping rule violation,” sport’s highest tribunal said in a statement. “Ms Sharapova submits that the period of ineligibility should be eliminated, or in the alternative, reduced....

The five-times grand slam champion, who recently served a 15-month doping ban, learned on Tuesday she would not be given a wildcard into the French Open, with the question over whether Wimbledon will grant her one as yet unanswered. The 30-year-old’s comeback has divided opinion, with some fellow players criticising the decision to award her wildcard entries into WTA claycourt tournaments in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome. The Aegon Classic in Birmingham has now offered Sharapova the chance to fine-tune her grasscourt game after she committed to appear there next year as well....

The deal is for $29.7 million, according to The Columbus Dispatch. More important, it is an amicable end to what could have been a contentious contract process. It’s also a clear indication the Jackets are pleased with and plan to keep Bobrovsky as their No. 1 goal. He certainly is being paid like one, with a salary cap figure of $7.425 million that is second only to the New York Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist....

Ramos has become public enemy number one in Liverpool and Egypt after his clash with Salah during the first half of last month’s Champions League final saw the attacker forced off with a shoulder injury. Madrid went on to win the game 3-1 to claim a third straight Champions League crown, while Salah’s participation at the World Cup was also temporarily put in doubt. However, former Liverpool midfielder Redknapp, who made more than 300 appearances for the club over 11 years, has defended the Spain hardman....

Allegri insisted that his side put on a decent display but lost Sunday due to bad luck, reports Xinhua. “It was in a way our best performance of the Serie A season so far. We were lucky to get back the 2-2 draw at Torino, so we paid for that good fortune this time around,” he said. “People said Milan were lucky at Torino, so here we were unlucky, as Mario Balotelli didn’t convert a penalty and we hit the bar too....

Over the years, Milan have disappeared further down the league table, dissolving into mid-table obscurity. Many factors have facilitated the breakdown of this once great football club. Haphazard management, a humongous addition and retention of average players and a revolving door for coaches are amongst the prime factors accelerating the collapse of this magnificent footballing institution. Also read: Serie A could see a return to the glory days after revamp is planned...

Sometimes associated with the home-death or home-funeral movements, a death doula generally offers/assists in a wide range of services that can vary greatly, depending upon the circumstances, but generally seeks to provide a holistic, hands-on, non-medical approach to the fundamentally natural process of dying for all parties involved. While it can assume many forms, the intent of a death doula is typically to help transition or “bridge the gap” for both the living and the dead created by the focus of medical practitioners on saving lives versus the role of funeral directors and others whose functions begin after death occurs....