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The New York Yankees are reportedly interested in dealing for 2017 Gold Glove Award winner Stroman before the July 31 trade deadline. Toronto could look to move Stroman, who has one year of control following this season and enter free agency in 2020. The 28-year-old pitcher discussed the trade rumours after Toronto’s 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday. “I’m starting to really, truly understand the business of baseball and the business of sports,” Stroman said....

The breaking point for Leicester was a 4-1 loss to Crystal Palace on Saturday that left the team eight points above the Premier League relegation zone in 12th place. The run of bad results started in January when Leicester was knocked out of the cup by fourth-tier Newport, although the only game the team hasn’t lost since then was a draw with second-place Liverpool. Puel had to guide Leicester through grief when Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died after his helicopter crashed leaving the stadium after a game in October....

Rayo was winning the Spanish league match 2-1 until the 87th when substitute Ousmane Dembele drilled in a headed back pass by defender Gerard Pique, who joined the attack. Suarez then scored his second goal to complete the fightback when he was left unmarked to stab in Sergi Roberto’s cross at the far post. “The game was very difficult for us, but we knew how to turn it around,” Suarez said....

Critical race theory is something very specific: It’s an attempt to deal with how race affects even neutral seeming laws. That’s what it actually is. And yet, over the past year or so, it has become so many other things that people don’t like about how people talk about race. It is important to actually define these terms. If you don’t like the book White Fragility, just say you don’t like that book—and explain why....

“Mr. Biden’s proposals would encourage the wealthy to find new workarounds to reduce the amount of tax they or their heirs pay,” reported the New York Times. “Mr. Biden could have limited that workaround by proposing a cap on itemized deductions for high earners, as he did in the campaign, but such a plan was not included in his $4 trillion economic agenda introduced this spring.” This makes little sense if you assume Biden’s tax policy is simply a way to raise revenue....

Storari, who previously spent time at Milan from 2007 to 2010, re-joined the club from Cagliari on Tuesday, with shot-stopper Gabriel going the other way on loan until the end of June. Messi needs Neymar to become a leader Veteran Storari left Juventus for Cagliari in July 2015 having won four Serie A titles playing as second choice to Gianluigi Buffon in Turin. And he will now serve as deputy to Milan’s teenage keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma....

The U.S. war on Iraq was short. The dictator Saddam Hussein fell more quickly than expected. The aftermath was far worse. After the United States pulled out, Iraq quickly splintered along ethnic and religious lines: Kurds in the north, Shiites in the south, a Sunni majority in between. Saudi Arabia followed, as the oil-rich east and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in the west broke away from the reign of Riyadh in the center....

Jack may be the leader in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, but he is just one piece of the larger party. As the game progresses, players may find themselves wanting to adjust the jobs assigned to Neon and the other party members. Not to worry, that is possible (though not until a few hours into the game’s story). RELATED: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s Job System Could Redefine the Soulslike Character Build Formula...

RELATED: The Witcher: The Best Monsters Inspired by Folklore The same goes for video games. More often than not, some characters follow noticeable tropes, like the pretty boy heroes in classic RPGs, the stoic martial arts men in old fighting games, or the wacky, furry animals in platform games. However, some video game characters have more curious inspirations behind their designs. Here are a few eyebrow-raising examples. 7 Pokemon and Mushiking Come from the Same Japanese Kids’ Game Pokemon needs no introduction, but what’s Mushiking?...

The home side are just two points above the drop zone, while the visitors are rooted to the bottom of the French top-flight. This could well be perceived as a relegation six-pointer. Both clubs have been abysmal at the back this season, and are the two worst defensive teams in the league. Strasbourg’s marginally-better positioning on the league table is due to their attack, which has scored eight more goals than their midweek opponents....

Chris Stratton’s first career shutout couldn’t have come at a more opportune time to get his club out of a deep, weeks-long funk. Stratton pitched a two-hitter, Austin Slater backed him with a two-run single, and San Francisco snapped its longest skid since 1951 by beating the Colorado Rockies 2-0 on Friday night. “We’re trying to get wins. We’re not giving up,” Stratton said. “It’s just kind of been a tough little go right now but we’re doing all we can to win games....

Two years ago the Meidi-ya Food Factory Corp. in Osaka began selling premium jams, jellies, fruit sauces and yogurts manufactured under the process. Though three times more expensive than conventional heat-sterilized products, the company’s High Pressure’S product line has been a hit. Meidi-ya has increased production from 100,000 cups annually to 1 million. “I don’t mind paying extra money for better taste,” says Ikuko Kawakami, a 28-year-old Tokyo housewife....

“The move to Mixer allows me to focus on what I love: gaming,” Grzesiek told Newsweek. “I just want to stream for my fans and directly engage with my gaming friends and Mixer allows me to do that with more interactivity and variety.” Grzesiek’s first Mixer stream on Thursday night playing the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare peaked at 78,000 viewers and his Mixer channel currently has 360,000 followers....

During the 2022 Summer Game Fest, Geoff Keighley announced a brand-new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter game. Within the trailer, fans of the fighting game were delighted with the news that a series favorite character would be returning: Guile. In anticipation for Street Fighter 6’s 2023 release, here’s a refresher on Guile’s history throughout the franchise. RELATED: Every Returning Character in Street Fighter 6 So Far Who is Guile?...

This includes the showcase of a new simplified control scheme in the game, along with the announcement of Capcom and Udon Entertainment making a set of Street Fighter 6 comics that tie into the plot of the game. Game Informer also recently did a rapid-fire interview between two key members of the development team, director Takayuki Nakayama and Shuhei Matsumoto, asking them a variety of questions in quick succession....

Street Fighter 6’s World Tour mode has the player making their own custom character, which they can use to explore various locales in the Street Fighter universe such as Metro City. The game’s director, Takayuki Nakayama, went a little more in-depth about how the World Tour mode would work in a recent interview with IGN Japan. He stated that this was indeed intended for inexperienced or casual players of fighting games who wanted to explore the world of the franchise....

A back injury in May only made him more certain. And while on his way to a four-win season where he scored more points than any other driver, he was even more sure of his decision. The Hendrick Motorsports driver, whose first race was Richard Petty’s last in the 1992 season finale at Atlanta, wanted to go out on his own terms. He wanted to go out winning races. He wanted to spend more time with his kids, who are now ages 7 and 4....

And that's just the off-the-field stuff. On the field, he inherits a team mired in mediocrity with a 30-21 record over the last four years, but still talented enough to come within 30 minutes of winning a share of the 2013 Big 12 title. Strong will be introduced as the Texas football coach Monday. In a statement released by the school Sunday, Strong said he was excited to be taking over one of the "premier programs" in the country....

Speaking to his supporters in Raleigh, Obama was magnanimous in victory, congratulating Clinton on what seemed an apparent win in Indiana early in the evening even before most networks had called the state and lauding her as a “formidable” candidate. But then he reminded her of the impossible arithmetic she faces. With the Illinois senator’s 14-point win in North Carolina, he has now all but ensured that Clinton cannot catch him in pledged delegates in the six remaining primary races, even if the disputed Florida and Michigan results are thrown in....