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But who will be manning the sidelines? As in years past, coaches for the 2022 NBA All-Star Game will be decided by the standings. The head coach of the team with the West’s best record on Sunday, Feb. 6 will be tabbed to coach Team LeBron while the head coach of the team with the East’s best record on Sunday, Feb. 6 will coach Team Durant. Per NBA rules, last year’s All-Star Game coaches are ineligible to coach this year, disqualifying Jazz head coach Quin Snyder and 76ers head coach Doc Rivers....

After winning 86 games last season and pushing the World Series champion Royals to the brink in the ALDS, expectations were high this year for the Astros. Like last year’s Cubs, who won 97 games, the Astros seemed like they’d arrived a bit early last season. If that team was pretty good, this year’s team could be really good. Scary good. MORE: No need to change PED policy | How high can White Sox soar?...

When Theo Epstein came in, he cleaned house and made no qualms about the fact that the rebuild would be a slow, arduous process. It would be meticulous, not utilizing shortcuts that would seem fruitful in the immediate but lead to even more futility down the road. But in the end, it would work, he said. MORE: Antony Rizzo, MVP? | The best player at every age So, with the exception of the most dedicated fans, baseball largely ignored the franchise for several years....

There was something magical about seeing Spider-Man brought to life so vividly on the big screen, something more free and wonderful and fun that other movies like Batman just hadn’t quite captured. Spider-Man is also one of the most relatable heroes to its own target audience. It’s unlikely that any billionaires went to watch Batman, or that any invincible aliens came to the planet to watch Superman. But to every youngster in attendance at the theater in 2002 Peter Parker wasn’t just some action hero, he was the audience too....

That the studio was willing to listen to the backlash and delay the movie’s release (remember, it was first supposed to be out this month) so the film’s visual effects artists could design a better Sonic has impressed fans and left them wondering how much their backlash cost them. This led to rumors this week that, between the delay and the extra VFX work, the Sonic redesign had cost a sizable $35 million, pushing the film’s total budget all the way up to $125 million....

Over the last decade, the racing genre has increasingly moved into an open-world setting. Burnout masterfully adapted to this change where others faltered. Burnout Paradise was met with considerable praise, but this was the last significant game since 2012. Paradise did receive a remaster last year, yet this isn’t a new entry in the series. It is surprising is that the remaster topped the UK games charts and sold the most copies at launch since the infamous Burnout 3: Takedown....

Parvez not being handed his India cap on the Zimbabwe tour of one-dayers, which ended Saturday, has unnecessarily become the talking point, thanks to his state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah going to town criticising his non-selection, even when his father Farooq Abdullah, who is the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, did not react so vehemently. When has Omar Abdullah started taking such keen interest in cricket? And what is this specious argument that if 14 players got to play, why not the 15th?...

The general consensus seems to be that the PS5 price point will be $499. This would make the PS5 cheaper than the 60GB PS3 was at launch ($599), but a little more expensive than the PS4 was at launch ($399). It would also make it cost roughly the same as an Xbox One X, which is currently the most powerful gaming console on the market. Analysts have predicted the PS5 price to be $499, and Mark Cerny himself has said that the PS5 price will be “appealing....

Those who have yet to dive into either title should resist the urge to jump on the latest installment and instead start at the beginning of this psychic, fashion-punk saga. Even though both games feature a similar premise, structure, and stand satisfyingly on their own, newcomers might be confused by NEO’s dense worldbuilding, and will inevitably fail to completely appreciate some of the sequel’s big reveals and twists. RELATED: 10 Games To Play If You Liked Neo: The World Ends With You...

What’s Happening With the Twitch App for Desktop? Twitch announced that its desktop app will shut down on April 30, 2022. This effectively leaves the platform without a dedicated app for computer users. Considering that most people stream directly via a browser, the decision isn’t surprising. While many people are only just finding out Twitch even had a desktop app, others complain about the decision, saying they enjoyed the app far more than they do the website....

Kyle Rittenhouse faces two counts of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide after traveling from his home town of Antioch to join up with militia groups at the protest on August 25. The suspect was originally accused of traveling across state with an AR-15 rifle he was not legally allowed to possess and using it to kill Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and injure Gaige Grosskreutz. The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office have said an investigation by the Antioch Police Department has now found that the gun used in the Kenosha shooting was purchased and stored in Wisconsin....

According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are currently over 25,000 confirmed monkeypox cases across the globe, including over 6,000 reported in the U.S. “Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal,” the CDC said in a frequently asked questions page on the current monkeypox outbreak....

My wife Lauren, herself a resident at the hospital, and I had done all the typical things—repeatedly taken pictures of her belly and read about the size of the fetus each week of a typical pregnancy (from the “size of a poppyseed” to a blueberry to a plum.) Like most parents, we knew anything was possible. But there’s no way to be prepared for what happened next. The technician performing a nuchal translucency (NT) test abruptly left the room....

This time around, Liverpool are placed third in the group with only 6 points from a potential 15. The gulf in quality among the likes of PSG, Napoli, Redstar and Sevilla, Maribor, Spartak Moskva clearly having played a significant role. Liverpool, however, have a history of rising to big occasions especially at a fired up Anfield. Following Klopp’s rallying cry, one can fully expect Anfield to rise to the challenge as they have done on so many instances in the past....

Thanks to the sales failure that was the Wii U, it’s easy to forgive people for not believing in the Nintendo Switch. Many wrote the system off as another gimmicky Nintendo system that would fail to resonate with hardcore gamers, let alone capture the casual audience that became so enthralled with the Wii. However, not even a year after its debut and the Switch is already proving doubters wrong, with it being on pace to surpass the Wii U’s total lifetime sales by March 2018....

Predictably, the new heroes introduced in Overwatch 2 - Kiriko, Junker Queen, and Sojourn - have been at the heart of this debate, with the new roles they provide to combat greatly changing how matches are being played. Of all these added heroes, Sojourn is perceived as the most overpowered by many fans, some of whom are demanding a nerf to the damage hero. There are a few key reasons why, especially coming off of other nerfs to Overwatch 2’s cast....

Wenger plays down Barcelona talk Arsene Wenger has even gone so far as to say in front of the press that there was a gap between what Ozil can do and what he is doing. That kind of gentle rebuke is about as close to a rollicking that Wenger dishes out. Fans, meanwhile, are frustrated with what appears to be indulgence on Wenger’s part towards the £42.5 million playmaker in spite of his anaemic play....

Adamo Canto, 37, took signed pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain. The BBC reported that the catering assistant also took a signed photo of Prince Harry—in a case that may trigger difficult memories for the two princes. Canto is not the first palace employee arrested over taking royal belongings: the former butler of the princes’ mother Diana was found with 310 of her possessions in his home....

Pep Guardiola took the opportunity to hastily convene a committee of goalkeeper Ederson, centre-back Ruben Dias, midfielder Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland. Things hadn’t exactly been going well for the Premier League champions. Playing with typical ambition under new head coach Roberto De Zerbi, Brighton had pinned their illustrious hosts back, pressing the City defence and midfield man-for-man to stall their usually smooth build-up. “How do you make good distribution when you have a man follow you to the toilet?...

Beating both Arsenal and Manchester United in the space of five days would deliver an FA Cup final and, almost certainly, a top-four finish. What Conte can learn from Mou & Allegri Green shoots of progress are visible but the revolution expected this time last year is on hold, and City have a lot of work to do in the transfer market this summer if the Guardiola era is to really take hold....