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After weeks of uncertainty about who would remain the long-term starter for the Bears, Nagy appeared persistent that Andy Dalton would stay the starter if he was healthy coming back from his knee injury that occurred in Week 2. Well, Dalton is healthy as he showed up to practice Wednesday for full participation. In a turn of events, Nagy went back on his word about keeping Dalton the starter, which he only announced Monday....

Gilbert didn’t have a great rookie season, and by the looks of things, isn’t off to a strong start in 2015. On Monday, beat writers criticized Gilbert’s defense during a joint practice session with the Bills. It’s typical for a player to struggle in camp on occasion, but it sounds like Gilbert had the worst practice of all time. MORE: Most overpaid draft picks of the past 15 years | Browns’ hunger for Rice makes sense...

Nurkic scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Kanter had 16 and eight, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 130-115 on Saturday. “It was an early game. Whoever wakes up first wins,” Nurkic joked of the 1 p.m. start. The Sixers struggled in their second game without Embiid, the All-Star center who is expected to miss at least a week with a sore left knee. Ben Simmons had 29 points and 10 assists and Tobias Harris scored 20....

Both sides were missing key players, though the pre-match build-up was dominated by Cristiano Ronaldo’s inability to feature after once again testing positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. His absence was certainly felt as Juventus were bested at home by a Barcelona side that has been heavily criticised in recent months. Álvaro Morata had a hat-trick of goals ruled out for offside after VAR review and although the Spaniard’s efforts were admirable, there wasn’t much else to encourage under-pressure head coach Andrea Pirlo....

With title rivals Roma not playing until Tuesday, the champions took full advantage and Cuadrado’s marvellous goal provided the perfect response to second-placed Napoli’s 7-1 thrashing of Bologna earlier in the weekend. Inter beat Juve at San Siro in September and Stefano Pioli’s men came into this game with designs on a title fight after a run of seven consecutive league victories. However, following Inter’s Coppa Italia reverse against Lazio in midweek, Massimiliano Allegri’s side also proved too strong after Cuadrado’s first league goal of the season turned an entertaining contest in their favour at the end of the first half....

Rome, Aug 7 (IANS) Manchester United target Paul Pogba will return to Italy to train with his club Juventus on Monday, according to Italian champions’ manager Massimiliano Allegri. Pogba has been holidaying in the US while his agent Mino Raiola tried to broker a world-record 100 million pound move for the France midfielder from Juventus to United. On Friday, United manager Jose Mourinho had said that the English Premier League club was trying “everything to close the market as quickly as possible....

Juve raced into a 2-0 lead inside the first 10 minutes of the first leg of the Champions League last-16 tie, but goals from Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen sealed a draw for Spurs to put them in the driving seat ahead of the return game at Wembley. The Serie A champions faced a lot of criticism for their performance in Turin, prompting striker Gonzalo Higuain, who scored both of their goals, to blast the “armchair fans” for their comments....

Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez? Click here to see the countdown of the 50 best players in the world in the 2016 Goal 50 The Argentina international has been out of action since suffering the muscular problem in Juve’s 1-0 defeat at the hands of AC Milan on Oct. 22. He has missed games against Sampdoria, Napoli, Lyon and Chievo due to the injury, but the Turin side hopes to welcome him back on the training pitch in early December....

After a 1-1 draw with local rivals Torino on May 6 forced Juve to wait for a record sixth successive Serie A title, Massimiliano Allegri’s side were unable to get the job done last Sunday as they fell to a 3-1 defeat against Roma. Their next chance to claim the title comes at home to relegation-threatened Crotone on Sunday, but before that they take on Lazio in the Coppa Italia final on Wednesday....

On that note, here is the latest from Turin on the 31st of October, 2020. Juventus overpaid for the services of Fiorentina’s Federico Chiesa, says Claudio Marchisio Former Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio feels that the Bianconeri overpaid for the services of Italy international Federico Chiesa. Juventus paid an initial loan fee of €10 million to Fiorentina with an option to buy for €40 million to acquire the player. Juventus have had four new arrivals in the summer - Arthur from Barcelona and loan signings Alvaro Morata, Weston McKennie and Chiesa, the former Fiorentina midfielder, who scored ten goals in the Serie A last season....

Juventus are already without the injured forward duo of Paulo Dybala and Marko Pjaca. And with Higuain also injured, thanks to an injury during their 3-0 win over Pescara in the Serie A on Saturday, the Turin heavyweights are only left with a sole fit striker in Croatian Mario Mandzukic. The 28-year-old Argentine skipped the group training on Monday. “The forward’s condition will be monitored closely over the coming days,” Juventus said in their website....

RELATED: Mediocre JRPGs That Are Worth Playing Just For Their Endings While the best JRPGs these days include the hyper-realistic and grounded Final Fantasy VII Remake and the open-world science fiction drama of Xenoblade Chronicles, the genre is also known for hammy writing and melodrama. The games below are all extremely cheesy thanks to their stories and characters, but this is why many people love them. This isn’t to say they have bad stories, either....

Fondly called ‘Merlin’, David Silva has been Manchester City’s most reliable player throughout the decade. For 5 long months in the midst of a gruesome schedule, Silva was shuttling between training in Manchester and his premature son in Valencia. Through a decade of immense tactical changes, through 3 different managers and through all his personal struggles, he remains the best friend the ball has ever had in the Premier League....

Monuments celebrating the Confederacy have become targets for demonstrators in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes in May. Floyd’s death sparked civil unrest in the U.S. and a wave of protests. Some individuals in Southern states have defaced or attempted to topple Confederate monuments, viewing them as tangible symbols of hatred and oppression....

Here’s even further good news: it’s also a pretty fun game on its own. However, if those same Yakuza fans are hoping for something drastically different, they’re going to be woefully disappointed. Judgement takes place around the same time or a few years the events in Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life. Players fill the role of Takayuki Yagami, a former Yakuza-turned-former lawyer-turned- current private eye. When his old law firm is tasked with defending one Yagami’s former Yakuza associates on a murder charge, the firm hires Yagami to help investigate....

RELATED: 13 Best Yakuza Games, According To Metacritic From the main character to some nasty villains, a lot goes into making these characters great. Some of the most entertaining details might not even relate to the story, but rather the game’s production. Knowing these aspects not only gives fans a look behind the curtain, but a better understanding of their favorite personalities. 10 Masaharu Kaito’s History With The Matsugane Family Starting his allegiance with the Matsugane family at an early age, Masaharu didn’t wait long after middle school before joining up....

The rest of the evidence turned up slowly but steadily in the days ahead. There was a piece of fiberglass impregnated with crystals of explosive residue and tiny markings on the drill bit used to break the lock on a gate to a quarry where blasting munitions were stored. Meanwhile, traces of a chemical used to make detonation cord were found on the prime suspect’s clothing–and on the knife he had allegedly used to cut the bomb fuse, and the earplugs he’d worn to shield his ears from the blast....

After the first half of "60 Minutes" detailed the league's case against Alex Rodriguez, who on Saturday was suspended for the entirety of the 2014 season, CBS' Scott Pelley offered the final word. "And Bud Selig has announced his retirement as commissioner of baseball," Pelley said. "Part of his legacy is the establishment of the toughest anti-doping rules in all of American pro sports." Why was MLB willing to air the dirty laundry of a case that it basically won?...

For fans who have read the manga, Season 2 will likely cover the longest, brutalist, and deadliest arc known as the “Shibuya Incident Arc.” Beyond just this rollercoaster of an arc, there is interesting world building, and incredibly interesting and oftentimes important characters who are introduced to shake up the lives of our main protagonists. Here’s a sneak peek at Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen and how its upcoming events will absolutely break the internet....