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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil’s first gold medal has boosted Olympic ticket sales and organisers expect attendance to pick up in coming days, although some venues including the Copacabana beach volleyball arena are still struggling to fill seats. Judoka Rafaela Silva, who grew up in Rio’s notorious Cidade de Deus favela, burst into tears on Monday as she held up her medal to a roaring crowd as the Brazilian national anthem played....

Premiering the footage exclusively through IGN, the wrestling title looks to be the sharpest iteration the series has seen thus far. Legends like Triple H, The Rock, and Undertaker all look like they’ve made a rather spectacular transition over to the digital rendition of WWE’s squared circle, while more modern Superstars such as Charlotte Flair, AJ Styles, and Shinsuke Nakamura have followed suit. Those eager to see the latest WWE 2K18 gameplay trailer can do so below:...

The grainy leak (below) appears to show a promo image of the new Galaxy Fold device in the same bronze colour the Galaxy Note 20 series is expected to be available in. Promisingly, the outer display of the Z Fold 2 looks to cover most of the front of the device when closed, which would vastly improve the poky front screen design of the original Fold. Elsewhere the camera module looks very similar to the leaked Note 20’s....

[HTML1] It’s about time! We’ve been waiting on details about the next incarnation of Treyarch’s popular Call of Duty Zombies mode since Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was officially unveiled back in the spring. The mode was first introduced in Call of Duty: World at War as one of their four-player co-op features (something Infinity Ward has never been able to replicate in the Modern Warfare series) and it made a triumphant return in Black Ops two years ago with themed maps and wild characters....

Curtis, who was roped in to play Dr. Patricia Tannis in the Borderlands movie, took to social media to post a sneak peek of co-star Blanchett’s character Lilith from the film. She refers to Lilith, one of the most significant characters in the Borderlands universe, as the “legendary heroine, psycho blasting, vault hunting vixen with a bad attitude,” a caption that fans approved of wholeheartedly. RELATED: Borderlands Movie Synopsis Suggests Big Changes from the Source Material...

[HTML1] As the days continue to count down until the April PC release of The Elder Scrolls Online, more and more details are becoming available about the upcoming ZeniMax Studios MMO. Many PC gamers have already had a chance to get some hands-on time with the fantasy RPG thanks to beta access, but those without beta keys will have to settle for the gameplay footage that the development team has been releasing....

Harvard has been the establishment’s petri dish of power for centuries, so there is nothing remarkable about this story of lofty goals except for this: the two men in the Ivy halls were black. Obama’s rise is both the result and a symbol of a coming of age of a new leadership contingent. Reared in a post-segregated society, embraced by top credentialing institutions, they have amassed power and wealth through law, politics, foundations and the upper ranks of corporations, investment banks and hedge funds....

Powell, the Class B New Orleans Pelicans owner/general manager/manager, was frustrated by his underperforming and uninspired squad in July 1901. “Powell fired every member of his tail-end New Orleans club and recruited an entirely new team on the same day,” the Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball reported. MORE: When a team turned a triple play without touching the ball Cutting the whole team on one day? Talk about cleaning house....

Members of the chorus issued a statement saying they were humiliated and then taunted by some fans when, after they were assembled on the field Saturday, a recording of a woman singing the anthem played. MORE: The most controversial players in MLB history On Monday, the day after a Padres investigation concluded that DJ ArtForm (real name: Art Romero) was responsible, he wrote on his Facebook page that he accepted responsibility but was adamant that it was, in fact, a mistake and not an act of hate:...

Local Glastonbury, Connecticut firefighter, who was identified in a Twitter thread and by The Journal Inquirer as James Stanley, was videotaped on Sunday saying that NARCAN — the medication designed to reverse an opioid overdose — should be done away with and that “when people overdose, you let them die.” Michael Oretade, president of the Connecticut Black Lives Matter outreach organization BLM860, told Newsweek that the group planned to collect donations for a mutual aid food drive on Sunday when a group of conservative citizens arrived to protest their work....

Now-if anyone female and under the age of 82 is still present-let us go on to talk a little about that job in the context of attitudes toward women in general and wives in particular in Washington. In my time here I have seen those attitudes transformed. We aren’t “girls” anymore, and that’s not just because some of us aren’t girls anymore by even the most generous standards. The whole giggly, girly, patronizing, little-woman junk, the ladies’-lunch-with-party-favors-and-pink-dessert culture, if they live on at all, live on somewhere out of sight....

In addition to Reeves, John Wick: Chapter 4 will see the return of Laurence Fishburne as The Bowery King, Ian McShane as Winston, the manager of the Continental Hotel, and Lance Reddick as Continental concierge Charon. The upcoming film will also welcome Rina Sawayama, Donnie Yen, Shamier Anderson, Bill Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Scott Adkins, and Clancy Brown. RELATED: John Wick: Keanu Reeves Reveals Some Of His Own Ideas For The Film Series...

Back in April of this year, Marvel announced that this new Marvel MMO was on the way and since then, The Marvel Massively Multiplayer Society has been slowly revealing details, most importantly that the game allows players to play as their favorite characters from Marvel’s vast library and that it’s free-to-play. Today, we’ve gathered the character images released thus far. Before we get to the pretty pics, we can recap a details which have been confirmed....

Suarez scored twice as league leaders Barca hammered Depor 4-0 at Camp Nou, but was denied a hat-trick after seeing an incredible ‘rabona’ finish from a narrow angle ruled not to have crossed the line late in the first half. Replays seemed to justify Suarez’s mystified response to a goal not being given. La Liga is the only one of Europe’s major leagues not to use goal-line technology or Video Assistant Referees (VAR) and Valverde was equally baffled at the lack of assistance given to officials in Spain’s top flight....

Owen slated for fat Ronaldo joke Following the Manchester United and Arsenal strikes, Reza Ghoochannejhad took advantage of a low cross drilled in behind him by flicking it over his head and into the back of the net. The wonder goal helped Heerenveen to defeat Wolfsburg 2-1 in Saturday’s friendly fixture during their winter break training camp. They return to competitive action - when Reza will dream of scoring another scorpion kick no doubt - next Saturday against Den Haag....

Two further days will see four more winners book their tickets to the finals to be held at the Oxford Golf Resort, Pune between 15-17 March, 2017. BM Rangaswamy logged a net score of 73.6 points in CAT A (0-16) handicap category while Kiran C topped his handicap category CAT B (17-24) with a score of 74.4 points. Speaking after his round Mr. BM Rangaswamy said, “I really don’t know what to say....

Requirements to Use Wi-Fi Hotspots Computers (and other devices) connect to hotspots using their internal Wi-Fi network adapters. Public Wi-Fi hotspots sometimes require paid subscriptions. To sign-up with these hotspots, you’ll provide credit card information online or by phone and choose a service plan. Some service providers offer plans that work at thousands of hotspots throughout the country. Service providers supply the profile information required to access their Wi-Fi hotspots. This information includes:...

Nene, as her six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren called her, was the backbone of the entire family. The pandemic robbed her loved ones from visiting her during the holidays, or giving her a proper goodbye during her final days. As has tragically become the case for many around the world, she died alone in an overcrowded hospital, hers being the Hollywood Presbyterian hospital in Los Angeles—the location of my birth 35 years ago....

This is where we have to point out that it's just four games and Hamilton wasn't expected to be a .300 hitter and blah blah blah — the bottom line is Hamilton was expected to steal bases and score some runs, and so far this year, he's done neither of those things. He's 0-for-13 and got thrown out on his lone steal attempt — which came after he entered Friday's game as a pinch runner....