Machado, 31, made 130 appearances for Saprissa over the last three years, leading the club to four Primera Division titles in that time. Houston Dynamo sign Honduran striker Alberth Elis “Adolfo Machado is a player we’ve been tracking for quite some time. We are extremely pleased to welcome a defender of his quality and pedigree to the Houston Dynamo,” Houston general manager Matt Jordan said in a club release....
MORE: Live college football scores from Week 1 The Cougars aren’t just the 15th-ranked team in the country; they were beating the No. 3 Sooners 19-18 at halftime because that play by Ward set up a field goal as time expired Ward is a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate and the on-field frontman for Tom Herman’s rapid build at Houston. He had 2,827 passing yards,1,114 rushing yards and 38 total touchdowns last season, and more are on the way....
Quests were first introduced in the League of Explorers expansion alongside the adventurers Brann Bronzebeard, Reno Jackson, Elise Starseeker and Sir Finley. As an homage to where Hearthstone has been, both the team of explorers and Quests will be making their return in Saviors of Uldum, but with a twist. “Quests are being done in a totally different way,” Final Designer for Hearthstone Dean Ayala told Newsweek. “Before you’d complete Quests and you’d get something so powerful that you would either complete it and win or you wouldn’t complete it....
The visitors had posted a massive score of 214/2 and the hosts had managed to take the chase all the way till the very last over, with RCB needing 13 runs from the last four balls. A boundary from Sreenath Aravind, a brace and a bye later, KB Arun Karthik was on strike with RCB needing six to win off the final ball. As if destiny would have it no other way, Arun Karthik read the slower ball from Dan Christian and got under the delivery to deposit the ball way over the mid-wicket fence that triggered wild celebrations in the RCB camp....
That’s one of the residual questions from the ACC Kickoff, where talk of the network’s Aug. 22 launch on ESPN dominated the two-day event. ACC commissioner John Swofford answered those questions, making it clear the Irish are a full-and-equal partner in the new venture. Notre Dame will maintain its five-game football arrangement with the other 14 football schools. That’s the continued agreement for now, but Swofford answered the big question about the future....
It would be nearly impossible for Bethesda to give all of the NPCs in its open-world games unique voices in the traditional way—hiring that many voice actors would be a logistical nightmare. The use of repeating voices also helps Bethesda take advantage of generic dialogue that characters can share when they aren’t talking about things specific to their character. One industry trend, however, could completely change the way The Elder Scrolls 6 handles its voice acting....
A report from think tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue details how the online giant appears to recommend anti-vaccine books, extremist material and QAnon disinformation through its “Customers who bought this item also bought” and “Customers who viewed this item also viewed” features. The institute found that users who searched for a particular QAnon text were recommended other materials containing 9/11 and anti-semitic conspiracy theories or books by David Icke—best known for believing that the world is controlled by shape-shifting lizard-people....
With Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Season Pass, the adventuring doesn’t end when players see credits roll. There’s plenty to do in the world now, and when locations like Ireland are added to the game via DLC. Of course, the game will come to an end some day and a new Assassin’s Creed will take its place as the newest, like some time in 2021. PLEASE NOTE: This article contains MASSIVE SPOILERS for Valhalla and the modern-day story, so turn back now if wishing to avoid them....
The £12 billion ($15.9 billion) 10-point plan, launched by Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021 has been labeled a Green Industrial Revolution by the government. Johnson promises to invest in the U.K.’s industrial heartlands, creating thousands of jobs for people in the North East, Yorkshire, West Midlands, Scotland, and Wales - all seen as part of his attempt to “level-up” areas of the U....
California’s Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly explained that from June 15, with the exception of a few situations, fully vaccinated individuals will not need to wear a mask indoors, such as in grocery stores, restaurants, bars and gyms, or outdoors unless it’s required by a local health department or business. California’s NBC Bay Area reported Ghaly said at a briefing Wednesday: “Fully vaccinated people can resume everyday activities without wearing a mask, except in a few limited settings that are required by federal and state rules....
With Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War no longer being the active game and its support coming to an end, fans have started to look back at the game more fondly. In its finished state, it is a far stronger title and a serviceable entry in the Black Ops series. Further, some interesting comparisons can be made between the latest Black Ops game and its predecessors, with multiplayer, Zombies, and the campaign all being clear evolutions of Treyarch’s popular subseries....
To reward fans and keep them playing, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has continually added new content, balancing changes, and bug fixes, but there are a few weapons that are still quite annoying to deal with in multiplayer. Both rocket launchers and riot shields have some serious balancing issues that have yet to be addressed by the developers, and even worse, they are so unbalanced that they can operate totally outside the otherwise well-crafted loop of FPS gameplay....
In executive suites, a buy-or-be-bought mood has driven a wave of takeovers that shows no sign of cresting. In Brussels, a scandal plus a war seem to be producing a more capable–and more ambitious–group of European Union institutions. In Frankfurt, the new central bank is learning (sometimes the hard way) how to manage a world-class brand of money. What does it mean for you? Perhaps just simpler shopping, and a cheaper car to drive across the Oresund link, from Denmark to Sweden....
The passage of the social spending and climate plan represents one of Biden’s greatest achievements to date during his presidency, and comes just days after he signed into law his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure agenda. In a statement released after the bill’s passage, Biden thanked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House members who worked to get the legislation approved. The president also said the bill “puts us on the path to build our economy back better than before by rebuilding the backbone of America: working people and the middle class....
Based on parts of the literary work Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin and serving as a precursor to the critically acclaimed Game of Thrones series that also featured on HBO, House of the Dragon tells the tale of the House Targaryen two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, which are likewise based on Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. House of the Dragon details the intrigues of the titular house leading up to a war of succession that left it weakened and spelled the beginning of the end of its rule....
The housing market has already started giving signs of a slowdown, as a combination of record-high mortgage rates, unaffordable house prices and inflation has squeezed many potential home buyers out of the market, plunging demand. In June, new home sales dropped for the fifth time this year, falling by a dramatic 5.4 percent compared to May, after having already reached their lowest level since April 2020 in April. And yet, despite the expectations of experts and despite home price growth losing speed —going from a peak of 20....
This time though things are going to be a lot more challenging for the team as they are drawn into a dark web that has been laid by a serial killer network that was created during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster), David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), Jennifer “JJ” Jareau (A.J. Cook), Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness), Tara Lewis (Aisha Tyler) and Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez) are back to crack the case, but they are without two members of the team: Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Matt Simmons (Daniel Henney)....
Christian Garland actor Demore Barnes and Kat Tamin star Jamie Gray Hyder both announced they were leaving the NBC show, so both had to be written off. Exactly how their characters are leaving SVU was revealed across the two-hour finale. What caused their characters to leave, and did they survive trying to take down the powerful sex trafficking ring? Here’s how the show said goodbye to Kat and Garland....
She said studying online due to the pandemic gave her the perfect opportunity to “invest in herself”—and she secured a stable digital marketing income by 2021. This allowed her to begin traveling the world while working remotely—visiting countries such as Costa Rica, Tanzania, and South Korea. After posting on TikTok, she developed a social following. Soon, social media and content creation became her main source of income. She now makes $11,000 a month globetrotting as a “digital nomad” to share her adventures with her 139,000 followers....
Kerik, 46, has wielded that authority reassuringly in the wake of the terrorist attacks. When he took over the department a little more than a year ago, few expected him to do much beyond closing out Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s term as peaceably as possible. Instead, he’s had to steer a force of 41,000 that is stretched thin as it confronts a brave new world of security threats. In the eyes of many, he’s performed well, deploying cops to meet a host of new policing demands while also reducing crime by 13 percent so far this year, compared to the same period in 2000....
