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The Portuguese Football Federation confirmed the news in an official statement on Tuesday, which reads: Ronaldo will sit out Portugal’s Nation’s League meeting with Sweden on Wednesday night as he begins a 10-day period of self-isolation. Following the positive test, the remaining players underwent new tests on Tuesday morning, and all produced a negative result and are available to Fernando Santos for training this afternoon. The 35-year-old is also set to miss Juventus’ trip to Crotone in Serie A this weekend, as well as their Champions League group stage opener against Dynamo Kiev on October 20....

Wellstone’s cage-rattling debut is the second act in a remarkable political ascendance. Early on, pollsters gave the Carleton College political-science professor no chance to topple two-term Republican Rudy Boschwitz, smugly seated atop a $7 million war chest. But Wellstone was able to parlay smoldering anti-incumbent voter sentiment and two decades of liberal activism in the labor, farm and nuclear-freeze movements into a 20,000-strong grass-roots organization. He barnstormed the state in his ramshackle bus and used his shoestring budget to air hip, irreverent ads painting the well-heeled Boschwitz and the GOP as disengaged from Minnesotans’ concerns....

BRISBANE (Reuters) - Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft said England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow had headbutted him by way of a friendly greeting in a Perth bar last month as both men played down the incident on Monday. With his captain Steve Smith sat beside him laughing, Bancroft recalled the meeting that prompted sensational reports in the Australian media on the eve of the home side’s victory in the first Ashes test at the Gabba....

“Life has been good for me. I have been spending time with the family. I wouldn’t be able to do that if I wasn’t sitting in the sidelines,” Warner told reporters in Dhaka after he was unveiled as captain of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) franchise Sylhet Sixers. “It is about getting the best out of myself and growing as a human being. My most important thing was being a father and husband at home....

England have kept an unchanged side from the one that claimed a thumping first test win by 211 runs, with captain Joe Root believing the balance of the team is right for the conditions. South Africa’s batting has been bolstered by the return of captain Du Plessis after he missed the first test for family reasons. He takes the place of off-form JP Duminy, who had also provided a part-time spin option....

One Betty Nichols is too many, but the department’s problem seems to have been shockingly widespread. An internal audit report, released last week, outlines numerous examples of flawed procedures and lost evidence. A preliminary search of the department’s database turned up 242 unsolved homicide cases with possible damaged or lost evidence since 1976. The report also describes sickening conditions at the city’s evidence warehouse, where temperatures soared above 100 degrees, a leaky roof damaged storage shelving and mice “and other vermin” destroyed and contaminated evidence packaging....

Real to beat Deportivo O2.5 goals 4/5 The Portuguese forward reacted angrily to being dismissed during the second half of a 3-1 victory for Zinedine Zidane’s side over Barcelona in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup. Ronaldo had joined the action as a substitute, helping to put Real 2-1 in front with a typically stunning strike at Camp Nou. He was booked after removing his shirt in celebration, with the 32-year-old going on to mimic Lionel Messi’s iconic jersey-holding celebration at the Santiago Bernabeu from April....

In case you didn’t know… The 2018 edition of the FIFA Awards was at the heart of controversy for various reasons, one of them being Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah winning the Puskas award for the best goal of the year. The Merseyside derby goal garnered 38 percent of the votes, which came as a shock to football fans who believed that there were other goals which were more worthy of the prize....

The Juventus striker has scored 607 goals for four club sides (Sporting Lisbon - 5, Manchester United - 118, Real Madrid - 450 and Juventus - 34) in four different countries, and 95 goals for his national team Portugal. Ronaldo’s tally of goals for his national team is the highest by any European player and second only to Iranian legend Ali Daei’s tally of 109, who is the only player in international football to have scored over 100 goals....

While Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled brings with it a complete graphical overhaul of the original game, PS4 users will have access to exclusive 32-bit inspired skins to choose from for various characters. This content is strictly a cosmetic one, and by the looks of the trailer, only the playable characters, such as Crash, CoCo, and Doctor Neo Cortex to name a few, can have their visuals modified, while the rest of the game is presented with its expected high-definition visuals....

While the original game was boatloads of fun to play, it did not allow players to change the design of their characters’ karts. However, the latest gameplay trailer of Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled reveals that players will now have to option to change the design of their characters’ karts with a plethora of skins, colors, and parts to choose from. Moreover, Sony revealed last month that the PS4 version of the game will be have console-exclusive goodies that will surely delight players of that system....

A user might want to create multiple Gmail accounts with different usernames but the only problem that arises here is that a valid phone number is required at the time of signup and a single phone number cannot be used with more than a few Gmail accounts. Of course, one cannot keep on buying SIM cards for every Gmail account that he/she creates. So, for those of you who want to create multiple Gmail account but do not have enough phone numbers, there are a few tricks that you can use to escape the phone number verification problem....

A few years ago, I was in Denmark running a workshop to support ongoing change management initiatives for a client. Many of the participants were HR professionals working to deploy diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across their global organization. During the change workshop, one participant from Japan admitted he was struggling with the initiative. He understood why DEI was important, but he was uncertain about how to talk about DEI with his colleagues or implement the initiative in his own country of Japan....

After a stunning start to the season that saw the Nerazzurri top Serie A in December, their league campaign stuttered with a run of nine games without a win. That ended any hope of the Scudetto for Spalletti’s side, but three wins in their last four have reignited their Champions League dreams. And Crespo, who had spells with both Milan clubs between 2002 and 2009, believes Inter’s resurgence means their midweek clash could go either way....

The Australian pacemen tormented England’s lower order with bouncers on the fourth day in Brisbane to set up the hosts’ 10-wicket win in the series opener. The barrage was reminiscent of the preceding home series in 2013/14, when the Mitchell Johnson-led pace battery mowed through England’s tail repeatedly to help secure a 5-0 whitewash for the hosts. “(Bowling short) certainly hasn’t changed from four years ago,” Lehmann told reporters at the Adelaide airport ahead of the second test beginning on Saturday....

Sri Lanka will look for a vastly improved batting performance against hosts England on Thursday as they try to stay afloat in the Champions Trophy. Angelo Mathews’ team were shot out for 138 against New Zealand in Cardiff on Sunday, and only a hostile four-wicket spell from sling-arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga helped them save face in the narrow one-wicket defeat. Sri Lanka, World Cup finalists in 2007 and 2011, must now defeat both England and Australia in day-night matches at the Oval to keep their semi-final hopes alive from group A....

Australia won the closely-contested match by beating New Zealand by 3 wickets. The Test in itself was a huge hit, as throngs of fans filled the stadium to watch the historic match. The success of the pink ball has had cricket boards around the world toying with the idea to host day-night Tests in their respective countries. “It is certainly on the radar. We haven’t had any formal conversations with the ECB....

That comparison isn’t entirely off the mark, but it’s clear that Crimson Desert differs in several key areas compared to The Witcher 3. Other than the general framework of an outsider who’s got a troubled past, who ends up somehow being enthralled in the political dealings of a foreign land, the world and general gameplay is very distinct in Crimson Desert. Whether it’s the expansive and detailed world, the off-the-wall dungeons involving the manipulation of time and physics, or the much more bombastic and barbarian-esque combat style, Crimson Desert moves and plays very differently compared to the studio’s previous efforts in Black Desert Online....

For Cris Tales, that unique idea was being able to see the past, present, and future at once, and then creating a world steeped in Colombian culture with traditional animation to explore those time periods. Silva said he loves to play with weird concepts, and is motivated by the process of experimenting and creating new ways to interact with games. However, he also acknowledges it’s possible to put too much love into something, and not always with positive results....