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Since the Nationals’ playoff-clinching win was on the road, the team had to improvise its postgame celebration. After celebrating with some adult beverages in the visitors’ clubhouse, the Nationals took their act back onto the field, where the Braves’ postgame concert featuring Cole Swindell was taking place. MORE: Fans egg mayor for relocating stadium | Yanks furious at Rays’ pitchers | Unprecedented batting title While most teams probably prefer to celebrate a pennant at home, winning on the Braves’ soil must feel good for the Nationals considering the recent animosity between the two teams....

Momentum is as good as your next day’s starting pitcher. It’s a game of inches. It’s not over till it’s over. Fill in the blank with your favorite baseball cliché. It’s probably just another way to say this: Nothing means anything in baseball. We’ve got our stats and our projections and our matchups and our feelings, and it all makes for fun discussions and heightened expectations, but none of it tells us with certainty what we’re about to see....

The dorm, currently known as Myles Standish Hall, was named after the military leader of the Pilgrims. The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag recently launched a petition for the building to be renamed Wituwamat Memorial Hall in honor of the leader killed by Plymouth Colony settlers. “Long celebrated by many as a New England folk hero, Myles Standish is remembered by this lands’ first peoples for the extreme acts of violence he committed against their ancestors,” the online petition said....

Specifically, integrating audio with haptic feedback will lead to some “very cool opportunities” for developers, according to Naughty Dog Audio Lead Robert Krekel, who stated he got to play around with a prototype some time ago. Controllers are a central aspect of a console, so Sony innovating on the design of the DualShock, essentially scrapping it for what seems to be a radical new design is interesting, even if the DualSense has features nobody asked for....

Sanders suspended his presidential campaign in April but fought to keep his name on ballots nationwide in order to gain enough delegates to potentially influence the Democratic Party platform. Although Joe Biden was officially nominated at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Tuesday with 3,558 delegates, Sanders picked up 1,151 delegates. Sanders’ nomination was seconded in a speech by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Supporters of Sanders gravitated toward his progressive policies, including a Medicare for All national health insurance program and the Green New Deal, an economic platform centered around combating climate change....

The recently concluded Nordic Games in Denmark is a marquee event for Racketlon, which combines all four primary racquet sports in Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis and Squash. Despite having a small active community, the sport is relatively unknown in India. However, Racketlon has become the ultimate test for the agile athlete, in both Europe and North America. A match comprises of 4 sets of 21 points each, with each sport being played one after the other....

The Warriors (5/2) don’t really need to do anything to their record-73 regular season win team. However, they are reportedly the frontrunner to land Kevin Durant if he decides to leave Oklahoma City via free agency. The Cavaliers (3/1) are second on the odds list and not expected to make major changes to their roster. That might be a bad thing as there’s going to be a natural letdown for LeBron James and company after bringing the first major championship to the city of Cleveland since 1964....

The Jazz lost their mammoth, Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert in the early minutes of the first quarter due to a technical on him. Even after his ejection, the Rockets were not able to capitalize on such a glaring gap inside the Jazz’s defense. Chris Paul and James Harden were trying to do too much and in return costing the team crucial turnovers due to which they were never able to make a comeback and have a run for the victory....

The Knicks recently gained a lot of spotlight after they traded away their budding superstar, Kristaps Porzingis in an effort to offload bad contracts and create cap space for two max free agents. They are now going to be major players in the upcoming Free agency and also have a shot at Zion Williamson in the 2019 NBA draft. The Knicks are currently the worst team in the NBA and have a 10-42 losing record....

RELATED: NBA 2K22: Beginner Tips For MyCareer This is because the more reliable way to get points comes from right around the rim. Whether it’s a dunk or a layup, the way to win in NBA 2K22 is to have a finisher with badges that give them an edge over opponents. These are the badges that give centers nightmares. Updated on May 11th, 2022 by Hodey Johns: Character builds that rely on finishing are seldom alike....

The exciting thing is that every year there is intense competition for this award, and the hype has always peaked after every passing season. However, for a rookie, just coming out of the college, it is not easy to adapt to the NBA environment, which is much more intense and arduous than college ball. There have been cases of top draft picks who have entirely flopped in their first ever NBA season even after so much hype was created around them....

Among the slate’s highlights, according to The New York Times: LeBron James and the Lakers facing the NBA champion Warriors in Oakland, Calif. James took on the Warriors four consecutive years in the NBA Finals as a member of the Cavaliers, winning once. He is expected to turn the Lakers into a team that can compete with Golden State for the Western Conference championship. SN’s NBA POWER RANKINGS: Lakers make big jump...

Everything from personalized cookies to players enjoying a cheat day, take a look at how people are enjoying this tasty holiday. The defending NBA Finals champions are celebrating accordingly. Teams are getting creative and making their own cookies to show school pride. MLB teams take a look at players enjoying cookies. This is why your mom told you not to play with your food. One team even shows you how to make your own cookie to celebrate....

Sandeep, a practicing corporate lawyer in Chennai, had finished first runner-up in the MRF F1600 last year, thus missing a ticket to the Mazda Road To Indy shootout, and is determined to go one better this time. “I pushed really hard today, almost to the very limit,” said Sandeep after posting a best lap of one minute, 39.999 seconds around the 3.716 Kms track to set himself up for this weekend’s triple-header....

Most teams already had the majority of their classes from college football’s first early signing period — which saw Georgia take the early lead under second-year coach Kirby Smart — but plenty of last-minute moves helped tweak the final rankings. MORE: Where top recruits committed Georgia easily earned the top spot over Ohio State, which came into NSD as the No. 1 team. Alabama also failed to close as strong as it has in recent years, knocking the Tide back all the way to No....

Zimmerman and Ross, who both won World Series rings with the Nationals in 2019, and veteran Leake will not play due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. The 2020 MLB regular season is scheduled to begin on July 23 or 24 and has been shortened to 60 games because of the COVID-19 crisis and bitter negotiations between the league and the players’ union. In a statement, Washington’s general manager Mike Rizzo said: “Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross have decided not to participate in the 2020 season for the personal health and safety of themselves and their loved ones....

But Adam Kilgore, the Nationals beat writer for the Washington Post, reports that Ripken doesn’t appear to be a likely candidate for the opening . Ripken’s baseball credentials and local ties are obvious—he spent his 21-year Hall of Fame career playing for the Baltimore Orioles—but he doesn’t have any managerial experience, on any professional level. Speculation about Ripken as a possible replacement for the retiring Davey Johnson ramped up when outfielder Jayson Werth endorsed him for the job in the final week of the regular season, and Ripken himself has talked about being open to the possibility of managing at this point in his life, without specifically addressing the opening in Washington....

The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) Twitter page shared a picture of two Italian aircraft. “#Scramble, new immediate take-off for the Eurofighter Italians engaged in Air Policing activities in Poland to intercept 4 Russian fighters that had affected Polish and Swedish airspace before being forced to re-enter Kaliningrad airspace,” the page tweeted. The page tweeted a follow-up picture that showed another Italian aircraft taking off. It also clarified that the Russian aircraft first entered Polish airspace and then Sweden’s airspace....

The Natural Solutions Foundation, along with self-proclaimed “Vitamin Lawyer” Ralph Fucetola and his business partner Dr. Rima Laibow, were ordered to stop distributing a nano silver treatment that they claimed could treat or cure COVID-19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday. The order came as part of a consent decree in the settlement of a 2020 lawsuit against the company from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The suit alleged that nano silver products were sold by the company despite not being “generally recognized by qualified experts as safe and effective to prevent, treat or cure COVID-19....

The topic came up during the last episode of RETRO Replay’s The Last of Us playthrough uploaded to YouTube February 25, where hosts Nolan North and Troy Baker interviewed Ashley Johnson, the voice of Ellie, and The Last of Us’ Creative Director Neil Druckmann. Around the 44-minute mark, Druckmann talks about how The Last of Us was such a success that they did not know how to top it, and thus moved on to other projects because Sony was open to it....