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Bylsma's Pittsburgh Penguins played Ryan Miller's Buffalo Sabres on Saturday, but Miller, one of six goalie candidates for the Olympic team, wasn't in net. He didn't plan to be in uniform at all, actually. Miller had a good excuse, though; after he stopped 45 shots in a 1-0 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Friday, the team called up Matt Hackett to back up Jonas Enroth against the Penguins. Hackett found out at midnight, drove from Rochester to Buffalo and then snagged a ride down I-79 to Pittsburgh....

Atletico Nacional win FIFA Fair Play award for Chapecoense gesture The 32-year-old spent six months in the Premier League after joining the Hammers in January 2013, but failed to make a first-team appearance after being named among the substitutes twice and making a number outings for the Under-23 side. Many Brazilian sides have helped Chapecoense following the tragic air disaster which took the lives of 19 of their players, with the striker’s arrival from Fluminense until the end of 2017 marking the 23rd new face at the club....

Viktor Cherkesov once served as a KGB officer in St. Petersburg. Between 1992 and 1998, he headed the security service’s successor, the FSB, for the St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, during which time he became a close ally of Putin, the BBC reported. Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, there have been a number of deaths—some shrouded in mystery—of people connected to Putin. No cause has yet been given for Cherkesov’s death as Russian news outlet Rosbalt said that it followed a “serious illness....

Barcelona to tempt Messi with fresh contract offer Ze Roberto was part of a Liga and Champions League winning side at the Santiago Bernabeu, later adding four Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal titles with Bayern between 2002 and 2009. The veteran added this year’s Campeonato Brasileiro crown to the Copa do Brasil triumph of 2015 attained in a successful spell at Palmeiras and he has opted to continue his career for another year in hope of winning the Copa Libertadores title for the first time in his career....

Former Oklahoma Sooners center Gabe Ikard, who went undrafted this past weekend but was later signed as a free agent by the Tennessee Titans, had an interesting story about what the school did to make sure his girlfriend dated him for him, and not his football skills. MORE: 99 athlete WAGs | Word of advice to UFAs | Draft results From Fox Sports: “They did some digging and I’m actually compliant official with my girlfriend,“€ Ikard told SoonerScoop....

Former Texas A&M quarterback Kyler Murray will transfer to Oklahoma, the school announced Thursday. Murray was a five-star recruit and the national high school player of the year as a senior in 2014-15. He started three games toward the end of his true-freshman season with the Aggies. MORE: Master list of QBs who will transfer this winter | Sooners can win it all Mayfield, who started as a walk-on at Texas Tech, led the Sooners to the College Football Playoff after transferring to Norman and sitting out last season....

“This overreach is just the latest example—one on a long list of evidence—that this administration will not hesitate to disregard the law in pursuit of their own agenda, even to the point of trampling workers and employers along the way,” Meadows said in a statement. Meadows is now a board member of conservative legal advocacy group America First Legal. AFL, which is led by former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller, was founded after Trump left the White House and has set out to challenge several of Biden’s actions he took office....

A recent New York Times article chronicled Rice’s battles with excessive drinking as a star athlete in Chapel Hill from 1987-91, and those troubles extended to the start of his coaching career in 1992. But it’s been 17 years since King last took a drink, a vow he took when he finally realized the grip alcoholism had on his life after entering a rehabilitation program following a drunken driving arrest in 1996....

Jeff Pietrzyk has accepted a plea deal that will require prosecutors to pursue no more than two years and three months’ prison time, according to The New York Times. He is the former Administrative Assistant to the former Vice President of the UAW, Joe Ashton, and the 10th person to be convicted in a ongoing probe into corruption in the UAW. Pietrzyk admitted that he took payments to steer union contracts toward vendors to make watches, jackets and backpacks for union members....

In 2012, one day after his 30th birthday, the former US Open champion announced he would be retiring from tennis after the US Open. He had won his opening-round match at Flushing Meadows the day before, and now he knew each match for the remainder of the tournament could be his last. That is the situation Serena Williams finds herself in as the US Open begins Monday. The 23-time grand slam champion announced in Vogue magazine on Aug....

Former World Heavyweight Champion Mark Henry returned to RAW after being out for nearly 10 months with a career-threatening injury. Henry’s music hit post Daniel Bryan’s victory over Rey Mysterio and he focused his attack solely on Mysterio after shoving Bryan at ringside. Sin Cara tried to come to the aid of Mysterio but got laid out by Henry for his troubles. Henry then decimated Mysterio courtesy the World’s Strongest Slam and a Vader Bomb....

Very few people have enjoyed the kind of success that Mr. Hugo Savinovich has enjoyed in his career. After a legendary career with WWE, he is currently involved with AAA and is also affiliated with AEW. I asked him what he thinks about Rey Mysterio’s upcoming title shot against Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series: He would go on to say that the Creative team needs to book Rey Mysterio as the captain of a Latino stable....

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QUALIFYING RESULTS: Lewis Hamilton qualifies in last Last year’s race was the 12th edition of Grand Prix in Shanghai. The race will see a return to the 2015 qualifying format, after the FIA trialled the new knockout qualifying format in 2016, and keeping it for the Grands Prix of Australia and Bahrain. Following disapproval from drivers, teams and management, team officials and drivers decided they wanted to return to the old qualifying format....

Formula One Sponsorship Liveries have been the integral part of the sports and are in existence since 1960s. As the sponsors have witnessed a huge significance in the game, the national color has been replaced and liveries are much in trend displaying the logos in an absolute clear manner. Liveries remain to be one of the most vital factors in the viewership as well as sponsorship as every team wants to outshine the other with their branding ....

SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) - Formula One rivals Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo saw Valtteri Bottas take off like a rocket at the start of Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix and concluded the Mercedes driver had either jumped the lights, got lucky or was not human. Both immediately went on the radio to ask their teams, Ferrari and Red Bull respectively, whether the Finn had gone too soon. And both were still shaking their heads in disbelief after Bottas was cleared of any misdemeanour and went on to win the race....

In this guide, players will be able to see which NPCs have been put on the island to substitute the ones that were there before. It also contains information on their locations and what services they will provide the player and their team during their Fortnite matches through the rest of the season. All NPC Locations There is a total of 15 characters to be found on this new Fortnite map....

Heinze started his career at Newell’s Old Boys, and then he went on to play for Valladolid, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Marseille and Roma subsequently, winning three major titles in France, Spain and England. He has also represented Argentina in the World Cup on two occasions. “Mine is a 20 Oscar film, I can’t ask for more.. after returning at 34 and becoming a champion, being part of Newell’s history, it’s the perfect ending,” Heinze told reporters last week....

The Bulgarian forward joined Kerala Blasters in the summer of 2017 to reunite with former Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen who had taken charge at the club. Defender Wes Brown also joined the side but the team got off to a dismal start in the fourth season of ISL. Berbatov also struggled with fitness and was injured at the start of the season. The striker could only score one goal in nine appearances for Kerala Blasters....

Garrison Lassiter’s lawsuit, filed December 30, 2019, claims the Reds denied him a tryout for the team because of his age. According to the Reds’ tryout schedule, potential players are required to be between the ages of 16 to 22, which Lassiter’s lawsuit claims is “clearly age preferential.” Lassiter, who is currently 30 years old, alleges that the Reds held him out of tryouts for the past three years....