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ESPN’s Tim McMahon reported both pieces of news Sunday on his Twitter feed. MORE: Playoff predictions | Stan Van Gundy says LeBron James ‘gets to do what he wants’ Barea and Williams formed the Mavs’ starting backcourt for Game 1’s 108-70 loss to OKC. Barea missed the entire second half of Saturday’s game, and Dallas coach Rick Carlisle was admittedly worried about his status going forward. “I’m very, very concerned,” Carlisle said....

After completing a world-record €222 million transfer for Neymar, PSG are now reportedly set to sign 18-year-old forward Mbappe in another lucrative deal - with a €180m fee being mooted. Mbappe – also linked with Real Madrid and Manchester City after his 26 goals in all competitions helped Monaco to Ligue 1 glory and a Champions League semi-final berth last season – was an unused substitute in Sunday’s 4-1 rout of Dijon....

Messi scored the only goal from the penalty spot as Argentina beat Chile 1-0 in a World Cup qualifier last week but ended the match in dispute with the official. FIFA studied video footage of an enraged Messi and handed down the ban on the day of Argentina’s qualifier in Bolivia – Edgardo Bauza’s men crashed to a 2-0 defeat in his absence to leave their hopes of reaching Russia 2018 in jeopardy....

Something feels different this time around, though. There isn’t the same buzz surrounding the looming clash, which takes place Sunday. The key reason it feels different this time is because both the U.S. and Mexico have other pressing matters to deal with, matters that have made the latest installment of ‘La Guerra Fria" (The Cold War) take a back seat. Pulisic ready to take on USA stardom For the Americans, it is a slow start to the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying that has left them with a hole to climb out of....

Modernizers say one man is responsible for these and other encouraging signs: Mohammed Khatami, the moderate cleric who was elected president in 1997. They detect his influence in the country’s explosion of independent newspapers; its overtures toward Europe, and, however slowly and ambivalently, toward the United States, and Tehran’s apparent decision to stop exporting Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. But while it is clear that the Khatami regime is following a quite different course from its predecessors’, the verdict is very much still out about what these changes really signify and where they will lead in the new century....

Episode 1: “When the Doorman is Your Main Man” by Julie Margaret Hogben (Oct 2015) Episode 2: “When Cupid is a Prying Journalist” by Deborah Copaken (November 2015) Episode 3: “Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am” by Terri Cheney (January 2008) Episode 4: “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive” by Ann Leary (September 2013) Episode 5: “At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity” by Brian Gittis (October 2014) Episode 6: “So He Looked Like Dad....

Leading the tributes was Oscar-winning actor Allison Janney, who won two Emmys for her role as recovering addict Bonnie. Reacting to the news of the show ending on Instagram, she wrote a post that thanked the cast and crew for their eight years working on the show. Notably, her Instagram post mentioned Anna Faris, whose sudden departure at the start of the current season eight is likely a contributing factor to the show coming to an end....

What happened at the end of Money Heist Part 4? At the end of the last episode of Season 4, titled “The Paris Plan,” Alicia has tracked down The Professor and is ready to shoot him. Exactly how she got there is down to the “Paris Plan” of the title. In this plan, The Professor revealed to the world the torture that the government had inflicted on Rio, in an interview that was broadcast across Spain....

Researchers have understood for some time how gas clusters collapse to form stars and that “galactic death” occurs when the gas and dust that forms the building blocks of stars is either exhausted or is somehow cut off, thus preventing further star birth. All-sky observing programs, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), have confirmed that not all galaxies in the local Universe are actively star-forming, revealing an abundant population of “quiescent” objects which form stars at significantly lower rates....

Morata 9/1 to be PL top scorer Costa proclaimed that “I must return to Atletico Madrid” in his latest statement as his divorce from Chelsea turns ugly with legal action ongoing between both parties. Meanwhile, the Blues have begun their title defence with a 3-2 loss at home to Burnley and now face their London rivals Tottenham on Sunday. Morata scored and assisted on his full debut and Le Saux feels that his former club’s new £68 million hitman will be a perfect replacement for Costa....

NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros Games confirm that Nightwolf is available now for PS4, but they are still working on getting the character to appear for Xbox One users. Original Story Nightwolf is the second Mortal Kombat 11 DLC fighter to be released and will be available to download on August 13 for those who purchase the Kombat Pack. The Kombat Pack includes six fighters, with the already released Shang Tsung being the first....

The addition of these three new characters brings the total DLC fighters in Mortal Kombat 11 to seven. Kombat Pack 1 added Nightwolf, Sindel, the Joker from DC Comics, the Terminator and Spawn from Image Comics. With the announcement of these new characters, Tyler Lansdown, NetherRealm Studios community manager and one of the hosts of the digital series Kombat Kast, gave a bit of backstory on each new character and how they’ll fight in Mortal Kombat 11....

“Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani,” McGowan tweeted along with a gif of a waving Iranian flag. Her apology followed confirmation that President Donald Trump ordered the drone strike on Baghdad that killed Maj....

When will Mulan come to Disney+? Although Disney is about to put the recently released animated movie Onward onto Disney+, viewers should not expect them to do the same with Mulan. Onward had the misfortune of being released just before thousands of cinemas closed across the world, so putting the movie onto Disney+ was mostly seen as a way of Disney cutting their losses on a film that they had already put out....

Following the scream, I counted the footsteps that came down the hallway; they stopped in front of my bedroom door and something told me not to look up. I knew it was my father. The night that changed it all When I awoke the next morning, I ran to my mother’s bedroom and saw her bed was in disarray. I immediately began looking for blood stains because I knew that something had happened to her....

I have been living in New York City for almost 40 years. But, up until about 10 years ago I was focused on working, being a Japanese expat and enjoying this very diverse, metropolitan city. Then, through a combination of pure chance, luck and perhaps destiny, I became involved with an organisation which completely changed everything for me. One Friday in 2009, a friend called and asked if I could help as a volunteer interpreter the next afternoon....

I am the mother of someone who suffers from a substance use disorder, and I remember clearly that this was the moment I truly understood what I was up against. My once smart, beautiful and brilliant son was 3,000 miles away and had reached a point where his own pain and his own need to stay high using drugs trumped his ability to be accountable to anyone—even the family that loved him....

In essence, natural law is a broad philosophical tradition which holds that there are certain principles of right and ,wrong which human beings, through the diligent use of reason, can discover and apply in the creation of a just society. Some natural-law exponents are religious thinkers who ground their philosophy in a divine creator; others are secular philosophers who regard certain moral principles and rights as beyond doubt or compromise....

The semifinal rounds were best-of-three series. The first matchup was between Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell and Suns guard Devin Booker, with Booker sweeping. The second semifinal pitted Suns center Deandre Ayton against Clippers guard Patrick Beverley. Ayton advanced in that round in two games to set up a finals series against his teammate. MORE: HORSE tournament schedule, list of players Booker took care of the championship round with a two-game sweep....

Three names stand out from the crowd so far this season having received dramatic ratings increases based on their performances. MORE: Did Cavs improve at trade deadline? “NBA 2K18” weighs in Victor Oladipo, Pacers (plus-9 to 88) The All-Star guard has thrived in Indiana, averaging 24.1 points per game, up from 15.9 last season in Oklahoma City. Oladipo is also posting career-highs in assists (4.2), rebounds (5.4), steals (2.1) and field goal percentage percentage (48....