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FIFTEEN years ago today Roger Federer played Rafael Nadal for the first time.

Actor Lorraine Toussaint got a call from director Julie Taymor, who was working on a biopic, The Glorias: A Life on the Road. The forthcoming film is centered around the life of famed activist Gloria Steinem, and Taymor was clear that she wanted Toussaint to be involved.

3F union is the new main sponsor of the top Danish league

If the current rate of growth, calculated at 2.2 per cent, is maintained, Canberra's population will double to 842,000 by late 2050.

With the pending 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July, it is fitting to consider the risk-management measures applied by NASA to the venture.

The Oregon Ducks are the biggest underdog of the week at sportsbooks taking on the Virginia Cavaliers on Thursday as the Sweet 16 betting slate gets underway.

A Bregman vs. Rendon comparison; bold predictions for the season; the continuance of three true outcomes

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: A’s acquire Kendrys Morales in deal with Toronto...
• Gallegos: How the A’s decided on their final Opening Day roster spots...
• Gallegos: A’s Mailbag: Dallas Keuchel, food trucks, trade with Giants?
• Slusser: After Luzardo, Olson injuries, can A’s be as resilient as last season?
• Van Niekerken: When Oakland A’s owner Charlie Finley pulled out all the stops for Opening Day...
• Kawakami: The new and healthier Giants pragmatism... Читать дальше...

Boom, Yosted.

Welcome to SB Nation FanPulse, a survey of fans across MLB. Each week, we send 30 polls to plugged in fans from each team. Royals fans, sign up HERE to join FanPulse.

Despite a championship ring and back-to-back World Series appearances, manager Ned Yost has always been a polarizing figure in Kansas City. Some were surprised he has stayed on through a rebuild process, but in many ways he seems looser than ever before. Rustin Dodd at The Athletic had a terrific profile... Читать дальше...

All 30 teams begin their quest for a World Series title today.

The MLB Daily Dish is a daily feature we’re running here at MLBDD that rounds up roster-impacting news, rumors, and analysis. Have feedback or have something that should be the shared? Hit us up at @mlbdailydish on Twitter or @MLBDailyDish on Instagram.

• After what seemed to be a long winter and offseason, it is finally Opening Day for Major League Baseball! Every team starts with a clean slate and hopes to win a World Series. Читать дальше...

How long is the perfect power nap? NASA scientists have figured out that question and the answer is shorter than you think. Continue reading…

Want to pay your last respects to Fort Worth’s last Tuskegee Airman? Below is a map showing the funeral route for Robert T McDaniel, 96, who died March 19. Police … Click to Continue »

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday urged House intelligence panel chairman Adam Schiff to resign, after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish evidence of collusion between the 2016 election campaign and Russia.

When it comes to all-action fights, few permutations could be put together that would beat out UFC on ESPN 2’s main event, which may as well be dubbed the Battle of the Leg Kicks.

The family of longtime Ecuadorean political heavyweight Carlos Polit, sentenced at home for extorting bribes from a construction giant with a massive Miami footprint, is linked to at least three … Click to Continue »

Los Angeles is a hotbed of live music, and L.A. Weekly is here to help navigate this embarrassment of riches. From Compton's own Vince Staples to O.G. punks the Dickies to Russian surf rockers Messer Chups, here are the 12 best music shows in L.A. this week!

There is a new air of class in the world of cannabis in recent years that’s seen part of the event space go from dabs to delectable, with some of the hottest chefs in SoCal pairing seasonal lineups with a wide array of California craft cannabis.

When news came, late last year, that Tsang would be a 2018 MacArthur Foundation “genius,” it was on the tails of a residency at a Berlin museum – and shortly before starting a three-year directing stint at a national theater in Zurich.

The first thing I noticed about Streets Of Rage 4 was the weight. As I walked series mainstay Axel down a familiar, darkly-lit street filled with ne’er-do-wells to beat up, I could feel the heft in his build, the impact of his punches, the thud in his steps. It felt good.

As the smartphone market gets saturated, phone makers are ramping up their efforts to lure away each other’s customers. But when you come home from the store (or sign for that package), you’ll have to move your life from your old device to the new one. It’s not hard, if you pay attention. Here’s how.

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H&K stopped manufacturing the G41 sometime in the 1990s, although it still appeared in H&K catalogs in the early 1990s alongside shortened versions of the HK33. Nowadays the rifle is almost totally obsolescent, having been surpassed by far lighter, modular, ergonomic rifles.

In the 1980s, many countries were looking to transition from rifles that fired the older 7.62x51mm round to ones that could fire the new 5.56x45mm round. Читать дальше...

Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore hope the medical breakthrough will expand the pool of available organs and help change perceptions of HIV.

Amazon will reportedly add 800 jobs to its Austin location focused on engineering, research science and cloud computing.

There’s a reason they call high blood pressure the silent killer. The Center for Disease Control says 75 million Americans suffer from hypertension, a sobering one in three adults. Worse, it says only 54 percent have their condition under control—a fact made more awful by the fact that hypertension is a contributing…