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Thus was the Jimmy Black Exception born. Nearly every NCAA championship in the past four decades has been won by a team with an elite point guard, someone who enters college as a 5-star prospect or leaves as a first-round NBA pick or, preferably, both. Their names are known to all who have been following college basketball for more than a few years: Greg Anthony, Bobby Hurley, Mike Bibby, Mateen Cleaves, Raymond Felton, Jalen Brunson....

Directed by Matthew Vaughn but featuring an all-new cast, The King’s Man is the third installment in the franchise and acts as a prequel to the commercially successful first, Kingsman: The Secret Service. Focusing on how the spy agency came to be, it is an origin story told against the backdrop of WWI. At the center of the movie is Orlando Oxford (also known as The Duke of Oxford), founder of the independent intelligence agency played by Ralph Fiennes....

The Serie A side battled to a 4-2 win over Liverpool at the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday, but suffered a 7-6 aggregate loss as Jurgen Klopp’s men booked a Kiev showdown with holders Real Madrid. While Roma were awarded penalties in both legs, Monchi felt another pair of spot-kicks were missed in the return meeting as he lamented his team’s luck. “It’s time to raise our voices, not just Roma either, as Juventus suffered the same against Real Madrid [in the quarter-finals],” he told Mediaset Premium....

According to the media release by the Hawaii Police Department, officers responded Sunday at 11:30 pm to a report of a disorderly patron present at a bar. The investigation revealed that a 29-year-old Vermont male, later identified as Miller, became agitated while patrons at the bar began singing karaoke. The Flash star started yelling obscenities at the patrons and allegedly grabbed the microphone from a 23-year-old woman, which resulted in the disorderly conduct charge....

The temporary restraining order follows Miller’s unruly behavior, which centered around the actor losing their temper over patrons singing karaoke at the Hawaii bar. Miller allegedly snatched the microphone from a 23-year-old woman and later lunged at a 32-year-old man playing darts, which resulted in the charges placed upon Miller for disorderly conduct and harassment. Additionally, The Flash star was yelling obscenities in the bar, which prompted the establishment’s owner to call the police after attempts to calm Miller had failed....

Today’s Footy Mumble is a bit thoughtful. Have the WAGs lost control on the players considering so many are moving to the very un-glamorous city of Manchester? Also, Rafa is surprised while Ronaldo is sad. Read the previous edition here. So, apparently Sir Alex Ferguson has finally realised that his midfield doesn’t have enough gum to stick together, what with the team needing Scholes to bail them out against the Saints....

So let’s take a look at the four most important matches still to be played in the Premier League this season. Saturday, April 18: Chelsea v Manchester United There have been some titanic battles between Chelsea and United in recent years and this looks like being another one. United come to Stamford Bridge in top form with wins over Liverpool, Spurs and Manchester City in recent weeks. All of which indicates they could be a massive threat next season, but this is 2014-15 and Chelsea are eight points clear of them with a game in hand....

How free is China today? The Chinese authorities like to answer such questions very precisely (Chairman Mao was 70 percent correct and 30 percent incorrect, the Communist Party has determined). Without any phony attempts at precision, it seems fair to say that China is more and more free for a very large number of people and not at all free for a very small number of people. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are now able to change jobs, get divorced, take vacations, complain vociferously on talk radio and vote out their village leaders....

Last year was dominated by the Federer and Nadal who shared the spoils by winning two Grand Slams each with Federer being the reigning Australian Open Champion. We are here to have look at the future stars and the ones who will dominate the court in times to come after the ‘Big Four’ hang their boots. With the championship starting on 15 January, we look at the top contenders to win among the stars of the next generation....

Still, beyond finding out which games won which categories, the event usually has some interesting events such as the Orchestra going on too. Beyond that, the Game Awards is an excellent venue for game reveals and announcements, with this year set to top even last year. In fact, according to host Geoff Keighley, more than 10 game reveals are coming for the first time during this event. He went on to say how honored he was that so many developers worked on something secretly to reveal at the Game Awards....

As usual, despite many fans agreeing with most of the nominees, there were a few noticeably absent nominations. Such an example is Forza Horizon 5 and Returnal missing from the Game of the Year category. Of course, these lists nominations are not the be-all-end-all for awards. The Game Awards also has another set of voting that takes place starting today. RELATED: The Game Awards New Game Announcements to Be in the Double Digits...

On the eve of what is almost universally predicted to be a Democratic White House sweep of huge proportions, the admonition about excessive pride could hardly be more timely. In the old funny papers the model for all this was the stuck-up, stuffy old guy whose black silk high hat was dislodged by a snowball hurled by some scruffy kid. In the new funny papers, which I believe to be the cartoon-strippish account of Washington politics played out across the press and in the broadcast media on the same sort of daily, three-panel, serial take, the guys in the top hats are of course Newt Gingrich and his 1994 congressional majority....

One of the most impressive feats the series has achieved thus far was managing to shrink its open world experience down to fit on a tiny handheld device. Sony was hyping up the PSP prior to its release, touting that it would be able to deliver games and graphics that would be on par with the PS2. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories released on the PSP in 2005 and 2006 respectively, and despite being critically acclaimed, have somewhat fallen to the wayside compared to other entries in the franchise....

Only a tiny minority of HIV-infected Africans can afford private AIDS treatment, and even fewer get it for free. But those numbers are jumping as the prices for trademarked retroviral drugs collapse. African governments are quick to point out that even if the drugs were free they would need to spend heavily to create the health-care infrastructure to treat the infected masses. But the new economic reality of AIDS treatment in Africa already is brightening what had been an unremittingly bleak picture....

Reading all the tea leaves, I’d bet on an end to this unhappy recession sometime this summer. By late fall, employers should start needing more workers to fill the new orders coming in. Here’s where the strongest jobs rebound is apt to be, in the view of DRI/McGraw-Hill, Inc.: The Pacific states-thanks to their high-tech industries and their advantage in the Asia trade. The Southwest-thanks to the prospect of free trade with Mexico and the growing amount of business diversification since the horrifying oil bust....

A whopping 160 million people—nearly two thirds of all eligible American voters—cast their ballots this year, and experts predict that number could climb even higher as votes continue being counted across the nation. Currently, 2020 voter turnout is projected to sit at roughly 67 percent. That’s the highest it’s been since the 1900 election between Republican President William McKinley and Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan, which saw a 73.7 percent turnout....

While Team USA did have a successful Tokyo Olympics 2020, they did have their fair share of surprises and twists. Let’s take a look at some of the highs and lows of Team USA’s outing in Tokyo. Caeleb Dressel’s five-gold showing Arguably the best American swimmer after the great Michael Phelps, Dressel thrives in the spotlight. Caeleb Dressel won five golds in Tokyo and missed out on a sixth solely because of a coaching error....

While it hasn’t always been accepted by the medical community, and its acceptance still isn’t universal, fibromyalgia has come a long way and current research continues to offer proof that it’s a very real physiological illness. The most-often cited historical account of fibromyalgia comes from a 2004 paper by researchers Fatma Inanici and Muhammad B. Yunus. This history was compiled from their work as well as new information from the past decade....

Many fans feel that Peter Jackson’s movie adaptations of The Hobbit fell short in this regard, with a lack of characters that the audience deeply cares about, or even wants to root for. The familiar faces like Gandalf and Galadriel felt fairly unchanged, but the host of new characters in this trilogy didn’t inspire the same passion and unfaltering devotion that many fans experienced with the cast of the original trilogy....

That was eight years ago. When D’Costa’s husband started showing signs of AIDS, she quit her job as a clerk to nurse him full-time. He died two years later-and his family promptly threw her out of their home in India. She found a room in a hostel, but was forced to leave there as well when the other residents refused to share a room with her or let her use the toilet....