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What’s so special about this particular demo? It will give gamers a chance to play the “Restaurant” level of the campaign (most likely the level this footage is from), try out the single-player Arcade Mode, and every single multiplayer mode (Fragile Alliance, Undercover Cop, and Cops & Robbers) on the map “Financial District.” Unable to get a download token? Fear not, there will be a demo accessible to everyone available for the Xbox 360, PS3, and the PC when the game approaches launch....

The World Cup finalists are set to kick off their tour of South Africa with the 1st T20 international that takes place in Durban today and they are missing several of their key players. Apart from McCullum, who gave the series a miss citing an “intense period of cricket dating back to the World Cup,” New Zealand are without the services of experienced batsman Ross Taylor as well as their pace spearheads Trent Boult and Tim Southee....

It is the kind of thing that can happen on the way to conference play, and conference tournaments, and the NCAAs. Playing and winning always is delightful. Periodically, preparing to play and win can become less so. MORE: Mason voted to SN All-America team for ‘16-17 “I almost got emotional,” Self told Sporting News. “I said, ‘Frank, is there anybody in this gym that loves this school more than you?...

Both teams are part of the American League Central division. New PointsBet players get 4 x $200 in free bets when they join here Detroit (62-92) has finally given their fans something to cheer about. Despite being out of the playoffs, they have a series win against the Royals. The Tigers are enjoying a solid 7-3 record in their last ten games, second best in the division, after the Cleveland Guardians....

Robert A. Weick, 33, pleaded guilty in May to amassing a large cache of child pornography that included about 500 videos and sharing some of the media with other internet users over a peer-to-peer network. In August 2014, a Federal Bureau of Investigation Task Force Officer identified an IP address suspected of sharing child pornography, using a modified version of the peer-to-peer software eMule that allows individual computers to distribute files to other computers without a centralized server, court records showed....

Unless, that is, you’re more concerned about winning. “I wasn’t exactly highly recruited in high school,” Jake Waters said. No kidding. Neither was just about every other player on the Kansas State roster. Jake Waters isn’t unique to Kansas State. He is Kansas State. The very idea of where he was and how he has arrived as the quarterback of the surging Wildcats is the foundation of what Bill Snyder has built for decades in tiny Manhattan, Kans....

France beat Bulgaria 1-0 away on Saturday to move within touching distance of qualifying for next year’s World Cup in Russia, but Kante limped off shortly after half an hour and was replaced by Adrien Rabiot. “I can’t count on him for the next game. It’s a muscular problem behind the thigh,” Deschamps said. “Kante and Rabiot pretty much swapped. It is fixed for Tuesday. “N’Golo had a crucial part to play, obviously....

Kardashian filed for divorce from the rapper and designer in February, almost six years after they had tied the knot during a lavish ceremony in Italy. And as rumors swirl that his ex has embarked on a romance with Pete Davidson, West—who recently changed his name to Ye—made a case to save his marriage as he attended Los Angeles Mission’s Annual Thanksgiving event on Wednesday. “The narrative God wants is to see that we can be redeemed in all these relationships,” said the “Jesus Walks” hitmaker....

The Uruguayan has scored two goals in 17 Premier League appearances for Middlesbrough this season, but handed in an official transfer request having been the subject of a bid from Leicester City last week. January’s completed transfer deals However, Karanka confirmed that there has been no second offer from the champions and he is confident that the playmaker will remain a Boro player. “There has not been another bid, he will be here at the end of January, 100 per cent,” Karanka told a news conference before Noro host the Baggies on Tuesday....

Middlesbrough visit Old Trafford on Saturday hoping to halt United’s five-game winning run in all competitions and give a boost to their own Premier League survival push. It will be the first time that Karanka, who was appointed Real Madrid assistant by Mourinho during his spell in charge at the Santiago Bernabeu, will get the chance to face his mentor as a manager in his own right. And although he is full of praise for Mourinho, he is not willing to grant the United boss any favours....

‘Ozil goal pure football orgasm’ Valdes held City’s incessant attack at bay, save for Sergio Aguero’s 150th goal for the club, until Marten de Roon fired home a stoppage-time header to earn a point for the Teessiders at Etihad Stadium. Having lifted the European Championship and World Cup with Spain, as well as multiple La Liga and Champions League titles at Barcelona, Valdes has enjoyed regular action this season for the first time since a serious knee injury prematurely ended his Camp Nou career in March 2014....

“The Presidential Medal of Freedom is not just our nation’s highest civilian honor — it’s a tribute to the idea that all of us, no matter where we come from, have the opportunity to change this country for the better,” President Obama said in the news release. “From scientists, philanthropists, and public servants to activists, athletes, and artists, these 21 individuals have helped push America forward, inspiring millions of people around the world along the way....

On their official website, Real Madrid said they would monitor the situation. Benzema has missed the previous two training sessions with the rest of the group indicating that he will take no part in the all-Spanish quarter-final tie. The extent of the injury, however, is unclear. Any estimation of how long he is expected to remain on the treatment table is unavailable. Ancelotti will be in a spot of bother as he will crucially also miss the aforementioned Luka Modric and the Welshman Gareth Bale through injuries as well....

The 21-year old is still basking in glory after a highly successful 2017 campaign. His 17-goals elevated him as the top marksman in the 2017 Kenyan Premier League campaign. Similarly, no one bettered his six goal haul in the domestic cup this term, a feat he managed in five matches. This form has understandably caught the attention of new Harambee Stars coach Paul Put, who’s named him to lead the line at the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup which begins on December 3....

Moscow - Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov said today that he was not going back to Russia any time soon. “I have serious doubts that if I come back to Russia, I’ll be able to leave it again. So I’d abstain from returning to Russia,” Kasparov told reporters in Geneva where he was to receive an award. The former world champion cited his fears to be prosecuted as one of the leading member of an opposition group....

In the second part of the lecture Kasparov will describe a number of Turing Tests that have been performed for chess. For a while it was impossible to reliably tell computer games from those of humans. However, today the task has become simpler because of the ruthless precision of computer play, which has reached a level of many hundreds of elo points above the best human players. At the turn of the millennium, 45 years after his death, Time magazine listed him among the twentieth century’s 100 greatest minds, alongside the Wright brothers, Albert Einstein, DNA busters Crick and Watson, and the discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming....

Quigley, 39, gave a friend an update that she was “alive” after being hospitalized in Los Angeles at the weekend. “I’m alive. I’m not great. But I’m ok,” Quigley texted her comedian friend, Brian Redban. TMZ reports that Fuquan Johnson, who was a writer for Comedy Parlour Live, died after taking the drug which was laced with fentanyl at a home in Venice, Los Angeles, on Friday night. Three others are reported to have been found dead at the scene....

In a conversation, later recounted by the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley, Kate said George was just beginning to understand “how important” his great-grandmother was and that Louis was asking questions about whether they could still play games at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, even though the queen was no longer there to join in. The queen’s death occurred at Balmoral on September 8. It was announced by Buckingham Palace on Sunday that two of her great-grandchildren, George and Charlotte, would take part in the procession of her state funeral on Monday at Westminster Abbey, London, alongside their parents and uncle and aunt, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle....

There’s a new rivalry to watch in the water next month at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, and that’s the women’s 400-meter freestyle race between Katie Ledecky of the United States and Ariarne Titmus of Australia. Titmus qualified for the Tokyo games with her swim of 3:56.90 on Sunday, which is less than a half second from Ledecky’s world record of 3:56.46 from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics....