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[ad_1] In the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, English football player Steve Hodge looped a ball to his goalkeeper, which was blocked by Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, enabling Maradona to score one of the most notorious goals against Hodge’s team. It would become one of the most talked about goals in professional football: …
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[ad_1] A cavalry of crypto enthusiasts flocked to Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood Thursday evening, waiting outside. Jack Hanley Gallery for the chance to meet in person the messiahs of the arts online. Celebrities like Jimmy Fallon were in the mix. Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, was a rock star welcome putting the finishing touches …
[ad_1] Last year, NBC Sports executives called the Tokyo Olympics their toughest undertaking ever. Now this experience is starting to seem like child’s play. For this month’s Winter Games in Beijing, NBC faces an even tougher mix of combat that threatens to destroy one of the network’s signature products and one of the last major …
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[ad_1] The viral phenomenon that took off on social media where you throw random words and see what gets a response – but first the “Live Saturday Night” keynote. Hosted by “SNL” alum Will Forte and featuring musical guest Måneskin, this weekend’s broadcast kicked off with a parody of the Fox News program “The Ingraham …
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[ad_1] Naples, Italy — Paolo Sorrentino, cigar in hand, on the terrace of the Grand Hotel Vesuvio, pointed broadly at the view of the bay before him. “Naples is beautiful, but it is very difficult to catch or grasp it,” he said. “I decided not to try and just tell the story of the characters.” …
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[ad_1] The extended family they live in is a noisy, burning, sometimes violent clan. A genealogical map is not presented: the viewer is thrown into domestic turmoil, like a new wife or a country cousin, to make sense of things as they are. We are invited to a sprawling lunch full of bad manners, cruel …
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[ad_1] As with his novels, many of the stories in King’s first collection of short fiction, “Five Tuesdays in Winter,” precede loss and are fueled by desire—the pursuit often depends on its articulation, the ability to “find words.” As the protagonist of the title story, a mute used book dealer, says, for whatever lurks inside …
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[ad_1] The ball bounced off Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s bat at 114 miles per hour. It had a ridiculous 15-degree launch angle and landed just above the fence in left field, 356 feet from home plate. And with that – his 45th home run of the year – Guerrero became the sole owner of the American …
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[ad_1] Kelli Hand, known as K-Hand and named “Detroit’s First Lady” for her musical achievements, was found dead in her Detroit home on August 3. She was 56. It was confirmed by a Wayne County medical examiner spokesperson, who said the cause of death was related to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Paramount Artists, representing Ms. Hand, …
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[ad_1] Athletes can make a lot of money when they win an event. But they can do even more – much more – when they get a sponsorship. first place on Forbes’ list of 2020 One of the highest paid athletes is tennis star Roger Federer, who earned $106.3 million that year—just $6.3 million in …
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[ad_1] By February 2021, after hearing expressions of interest from Qatar and Hungary, the IOC board announced that it would recommend Brisbane as its only candidate for the 2032 Games. Privately, Brisbane’s rivals remained enraged. Qatari officials wrote to the IOC to register their countries’ complaints about the process. The chairman of a German parliamentary …
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[ad_1] TOKYO – Not an official sponsor of the Olympics. It will remain invisible to the millions of viewers who started tuning this week. But without it Tokyo Games it couldn’t have happened. The power behind the Olympic veil is Dentsu, an advertising giant with almost legendary power and influence in Japan. As the gatekeeper …
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