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STORIES IN THE PIPELINE: CAPE TOWN - Press Conferences ahead of the first Test match between India and South Africa. MUMBAI- IPL Player Retention Press Conference. LUCKNOW - Report of Premier Badminton League tie between Awadhe Warriors and Mumbai Rockets. KOCHI - Report of Indian Super League match between Kerala Blasters and Pune City. STORIES ON THE WIRE: SPO-TENDULKAR-INTERVIEW (PTI EXCLUSIVE) By Kushan Sarkar New Delhi, Jan 4 (PTI) South Africa is not known for producing spin-friendly tracks and that’s why Sachin Tendulkar wants Indian pacers to create “enough rough” on the Newlands pitch for R Ashwin, something that Zaheer Khan did for Harbhajan Singh in 2010-11....

We first got word of New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the 3DS back during E3 2011, but it’s been quite some time since Nintendo has said much more about the game. Super Mario 3D Land has shown us that the 3D leg of the Mario series can really flourish on Nintendo’s new handheld, and we hope that the more classic version of the series can benefit from the tech as well....

Grace Van Patten stars as daughter of the Marconi family, Zoe in the drama series. Acting alongside the likes of Nicole Kidman, Michael Shannon, Melissa McCarthy and Luke Evans, Van Patten’s character has unexpectedly taken center stage in the plot of the show. Ahead of the final episode, “Ever After,” Newsweek spoke to Van Patten who shared hints about what to expect as the story wraps up. Nine Perfect Strangers’ “trippy” finale Micro-dossing and the effects of hallucinogenics has been the driving force of Nine Perfect Strangers, and Van Patten says there’s still more dramatic wackiness to come from the final episode on Hulu....

Whitty said: “The doubling time at the moment is slower than it was in March when it was three or four days. One of the problems we had in the first wave was we initially underestimated how fast the doubling was occurring at that stage and it’s very important we don’t do that for a second time. “Once exponential growth starts… things go very quickly. We are going up from a base, the tail of the first wave, in terms of deaths still occurring and these deaths on top so it’s not a straight like-for-like comparison....

In a viral Reddit post published on r/mildlyinfuriating, one Redditor (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) shared a photo of two cars parked directly in the middle of a cul-de-sac, and explained what exactly is happening in the image. Captioned, “Neighbors in semi-cul-de-sac don’t use their driveways, but park end to end in front of them into the street,” the viral post has received more than 17,000 votes and nearly 1,000 comments in the last day....

In March 2020, No Time To Die became the first one of the first major projects to be affected by the pandemic, having to push back its release date on account of the virus. Following suit, many other ongoing projects were also put on hold. But, it seems like fans of the series can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel with the new release date being confirmed by MGM and Universal Pictures....

Last Friday night on SmackDown, it was announced that Bray Wyatt would return to the ring on January 28 to face LA Knight in a Mountain Dew Pitch Black match. As of this writing, the rules and explanations of this match are non-existent. Former Million Dollar Champion LA Knight was a guest on WWE’s The Bump to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about his upcoming match with Bray Wyatt at the Royal Rumble, Knight admitted he has no idea what the match will be yet....

NBA 2K20 Top Overall Ratings LeBron James - 97 OVR Kawhi Leonard - 97 OVR Giannis Antetokounmpo - 96 OVR Kevin Durant - 96 OVR James Harden - 96 OVR Stephen Curry - 95 OVR Anthony Davis - 94 OVR Paul George - 93 OVR Damian Lillard - 92 OVR Joel Embiid - 91 OVR Kyrie Irving - 91 OVR Nikola Jokic - 90 OVR Russell Westbrook - 90 OVR...

This means that it may be a case of now or never for the ‘Tiva’ reunion of Ziva and Tony DiNozzo (played by Michael Weatherly) that fans have been crying out for ever since de Pablo left the series. Though CBS and the NCIS crew have not confirmed anything yet, various interview and clues from the series hint that we may just get an appearance from Tony in the midseason premiere, “In the Wind....

Titled “Gut Punch,” the episode has been teased with a number of sneak peeks and trailers in the two weeks that NCIS has been off air. Here’s what we learned from those promos and clips. The official synopsis for NCIS Season 11, Episode 18 reads: “Vance [Rocky Carroll, who also directed the episode] assigns McGee [Sean Murray], Torres [Wilmer Valderama] and Bishop [Emily Wickersham] to COVID compliance duty at a foreign affairs summit, where they discover a link to another NCIS team’s murder case....

[HTML1] With the intention of bringing new life to pre-existing franchises on the Wii U, it wasn’t all that surprising to learn during the latest Nintendo Direct that NES Remix would be coming to the eShop. The new downloadable 8-bit romp features 16 classic NES games, but with a few major twists. Now players are tasked with completing challenges while tearing through select portions of classic games, and there are a ton of new experiences awaiting....

Similarly to last year, the 2020 commercial featured a number of NFL players. The overall commercial features a kid running with a football as former and current NFL players emerge to cheer him on. That kid is Maxwell “Bunchie” Young, a young football star who has received plenty of attention for his speed. The commercial finishes by bleeding into the actual broadcast as it cut to show Young and several children on the field at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami....

Goforth didn’t sulk. He didn’t let the snub affect his offseason training regimen in Los Angeles. Goforth was a three-star recruit coming out of Long Beach Poly High School. This was just another example of him being overlooked. “Finding out about not getting the Combine invite was humbling for me,” Goforth told Sporting News. “But I had a positive mindset. I felt like it gave me more time to scout the competition that was at the Combine and see where I needed to be with my numbers....

Having played a couple of exhibition matches at the Citi Open in Washington last week, Gauff was asked by the ATP Tour social media which men’s player she would like to befriend. When the 17-year-old named Kyrgios, it propelled the Aussie to ask the youngster for a possible mixed doubles partnership at the Australian Open - to which she enthusiastically replied, “Let’s make it happen”. During a press conference ahead of her National Bank Open campaign in Montreal, Coco Gauff was asked to share her thoughts on playing mixed doubles at the Australian Open....

The development team has been consistently adding new content for players to sink their teeth into and now the team has another new announcement to share with players, and fans of Capcom’s Monster Hunter series should be excited. The next major event collab will cross over with the action-RPG series to coincide with Monster Hunter Rise’s recent Switch launch. RELATED: Ninjala Celebrates Six Million Downloads with Free Jala The Monster Hunter collab event will run from April 27, 2021, until May 26, 2021, and there are a ton of new items and features coming as well....

The latest Nintendo Direct highlight had “too many farming sims” There were indeed a handful of farming games showcased during the livestream. These include HARVESTELLA, Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, Fae Farm, and more. Here are just a few of the hilarious responses from fans: Several other notable farming games on the Switch, including the acclaimed Stardew Valley and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. However, fans were visibly confused at how these upcoming games were crammed into a 40-minute timeframe....

After the beautiful footage that was revealed at E3 and Hello Games’ Sean Murray’s quotes about the gameplay; it seems like just about every gamer out there will want to get their hands on the space exploration game. There has been suspicion that the game would eventually be released on the PC, but up until today that had just been wishful thinking. Murray, the managing director at Hello Games, revealed that a PC version will follow the PS4 version after the timed-exclusivity period expires....

Quickfire goals from Marko Pjaca and Dani Alves helped the Serie A champions to a 2-0 win at the Estadio Dragao three weeks ago, with Porto likely needing to score at least three goals to stand a chance of reaching the last eight. Dybala wants to score past Casillas Barca’s turnaround against PSG last week - from 4-0 down to win 6-5 on aggregate - may give Porto’s travelling fans hope, but Nuno says the comparison will not help him plan a victory against Massimiliano Allegri’s side....

For a Steelers team that suffered from poor quarterback play in Roethlisberger’s absence last season, the veteran’s pass velocity in workouts with teammates this week has offered encouragement. Wide receiver Ryan Switzer shared his impression of the sessions with The Athletic, saying Roethisberger doesn’t look like someone returning from elbow surgery. “Man, he let it rip,” Switzer said. “There was no restraint, no hesitancy, he was just out there. He has been throwing like that for a while and, in my opinion at least, getting out there on that field for the first time and throwing full-speed routes was refreshing....