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Wrestling is, at heart, theater turned up to 11 and it fits perfectly with the biggest show of the year that we’d also see some of the biggest and grandest entrances of the year. Especially for people like myself, who can barely remember the differences between WrestleMania 24 and WrestleMania 26 or really any of the ones past about 20. I may not remember who, say, John Cena wrestled at 22 in Chicago off the top of my head, but I certainly remember how he made his entrance there....

The Game Awards is a night of celebration for some of the biggest and best titles a year has given gamers. Alongside the awards, a lot of fans also look forward to the big teases and reveals that can happen, such as when Alan Wake 2 was announced at The Game Awards 2021. However, people all over the world will tune in on December 8 this year to see which of their favorite games from 2022 are crowned as the best in their given category, with the biggest prize to take home being the Game of the Year award....

The first major release of the month is Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, fighting its way onto the popular handheld console on October 3rd. Next up is the genre-bending Alien: Isolation on the 7th, available for Playstation, Xbox and Windows PC. On the 14th, acclaimed open-world action title Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition arrives on the PS4, Xbox One and Windows PC. Just Dance 2015 busts a move on the 21st for all major systems, and Civilization: Beyond Earth goes where no one has gone before, landing October 24th for Windows PC, Mac OSX, and Linux....

The facts of the case, first reported by The New York Times on Aug. 19, remain murky. A senior FBI official familiar with the investigation cautioned it is still at an early stage, and along with other officials he expressed concern the story may have been prematurely overblown by some media. “All we know is that lots of money was going in and out of these accounts. Whether it’s nefarious or not we really don’t know,” the FBI official said....

“A game of such magnitude, and a player of his age?/ “ “The manager is taking a big gamble with the team “ “He has the experience but it’s the game of the decade and 39 is very old in football” Criticisms rose as the teams set up in the famous tunnel of the theatre of dreams. It was a winter in 1973; Lynn gave birth to her first child in St....

These were not apathetic voters; we were on the West Side of Manhattan, where people look at politics the way a python looks at mice. And many were members of a hard-core group I think of as the ABBAs; their mantra is “anyone but Bush again.” But even they were finding the race so far dispiriting, a diffuse collection of possibles who were not quite coming into focus as definites, or even probables....

Mike Gerson–author of Bush’s best spoken–moments, master of the Biblical cadence–had crafted an unusually lengthy opening statement, which began with a sober military “sitrep” and ended with Bush’s mantra that “freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.” And so, in the glittering East Room, the “presser” came to pass. The postevent punditry was predictably withering. The president had ducked and dodged, it was said, and had suffered a deer-in-the-headlights moment when asked to name a mistake he had made after 9/11....

Well, here’s my advice: don’t listen to the purists. This year’s World Cup has been one of the most glorious spectacles in sport precisely because of the upsets, the surprises and the thrilling rise of unpolished outsiders. This World Cup is, in fact, the first truly to deserve its grandiose name. When the lords of football brought the tournament to Asia, they certainly had their minds set on globalizing the game....

For years, fans had given up hope that The Great Ace Attorney games would make their way to western shores. This was mainly due to the series’ heavily declined sales since the Nintendo DS era and Capcom’s fear that a game set in 19th century Japan and England wouldn’t appeal to players outside of the franchise’s core audience. Six years later, and the landscape for gaming is different. Games like Ghost of Tsushima prove that even western developers are eager to explore Japan’s history in video game form....

While it’s currently a mystery when the movie itself will be released now, distributor A24 announced in a press release today that The Green Knight: A Fantasy Roleplaying Game is now available to purchase on its website for $35, with orders planned to ship on August 7. RELATED: Dungeons and Dragons Begins Testing New Feats Designed by professional game master Timm Woods, the game will provide “an epic reimagining” of the classic Arthurian tale of Sir Gawain and the life-threatening challenge he accepts from the immortal Green Knight....

Bohn went out in 29, and had 10 birdies on the day. He took advantage of The Old White TPC’s rain-softened conditions, and was hot with his putter. Bohn is one of four players tied atop the leaderboard at 11 under, so it should be a wild ride Sunday. MORE: PGA Tour winners of 2014-15 season | Bubba Watson to paint over Confederate Flag Young guns Justin Thomas and Danny Lee are searching for their first PGA Tour wins, and will start the final round one shot back at 10 under....

Last month, both Moulton and Buttigieg disclosed that they had suffered from mental health issues, in each case as a result of military service. Then, just as quickly as it was said, the point evaporated into the ether. Buttigieg made no mention of it in the debate on June 27 (Moulton did not make the cut for this stage) or in the mental health program he announced on Wednesday and his and Moulton’s statements received minimal traction in the media....

Five years after his death, Gleason lives on in the 39 " Honeymooners" episodes from the 1955-56 season still repeated on late-night TV-and in two new books that vary as widely in quality as the movies he made. The lesser is Jackie Gleason: An Intimate Portrait of the Great One (253 pages. Pharos. $19.95) by W. J. Weatherby, a U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. Weatherby pads his book with blah Milton Berle quotes (“He did everything”) and an account of a visit to talk-show host Joe Franklin, to pose the question, " How did you place Gleason as a celebrity?...

Even after the occasional predictability of a regular season dominated by the Big Three drivers, the stage is set for an intriguing playoff push. It all starts Sunday in the 98-degree heat of Las Vegas, where every event just seems bigger. “You can feel the energy from the teams and the drivers before this playoff, even more so than you have in years past,” said Kurt Busch, a Las Vegas native....

You’d think he was running for Toastmaster. Standing in front of a wall of glass last night with the lights of midtown Manhattan sparkling behind him, John McCain put aside the petty sniping of the campaign trail and asked the elite names gathered for the Time 100 Gala–Dan Senor, Campbell Brown, Rahm Emanuel, Paul Wolfowitz, Lance Armstrong, Brian Williams, Joe Scarborough–to raise their glasses to his Democratic opponents. “Senator Obama is a man of unusual eloquence, who has performed the very worthy service of summoning to the political arena Americans who once wrongly thought it of little benefit to them,” he said....

The now-Bengals quarterback first drew attention to his post-game celebration after his Tigers won a national championship. He lit up another after Cincinnati won the AFC North. He enjoyed another after the AFC Championship. His celebratory smokes have become an iconic part of his successful runs through college and pro football. Why does he smoke them, and what kind of cigars does he enjoy? Take a look: Joe Burrow’s LSU cigar Burrow had one of the greatest seasons in college football history....

Like Google, Shazam’s name has crept into popular consciousness as both a verb and a noun. In fact, a song or sound identified by the app is known as “a Shazam." That isn’t all it has in common with Google since Shazam is an innovative, sound search engine. Keep reading to find out more about Shazam’s origins. Shazam’s Origins When Apple launched the App Store in 2008, Shazam was among the original smartphone applications....

There’s only one problem: Berger and Reno refuse to go. And the president doesn’t plan on discarding either of them, officials say–especially not his old friend Berger. On Friday, both bluntly denied allegations of negligence in dealing with Chinese spying in U.S. nuclear labs. They said they had no intention of resigning. That’s not to say Berger and Reno aren’t feeling the strain –particularly the workaholic national-security adviser, a behind-the-scenes fixer unused to the spotlight....

The numbering scheme for 802.11 comes from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), who uses “802” as the name of a committee for networking standards that includes Ethernet (IEEE 802.3). “11” refers to the wireless local area networks (WLANs) working group inside their 802 committee. IEEE 802.11 standards define specific rules for WLAN communication. The best known of these standards include 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac. The First 802....

Today, there are memes that summarize the exhaustive nature of 2020, and some that expect the replacement of one numeral won’t change that much overnight. Another, more optimistic group, however, is ready for a positive start and a much happier New Year. In their minds, the ball drop at midnight signifies something entirely different that could bring welcome respite from the insanity. Whichever way you spin it, whether counting down until midnight with caution or with excitement, some memes are hilarious and more than relatable....