The Decider Dalton Vs. Roethsliberger

After them, however, it gets a lot more interesting. As if just figuring out the No. 4 quarterback wasn’t hard enough, when you start digging deeper, you will need to sort out a slew of sleepers. In the seventh of our special positional preseason editions of The Decider, we’re here to help you figure out the toughest QB decisions in your upcoming draft. MORE FANTASY FOOTBALL: Rivers vs. Wilson | Romo vs....

January 6, 2023 · 2 min · 251 words · Peter Miller

The Destruction Of La Masia Why This Barcelona Will Never Produce Another Messi Xavi Or Iniesta

Barca depend on Messi - Luis Enrique Pep Guardiola was, more than anybody else, the symbol of La Masia’s success. The Catalan coach was the first major talent to emerge from Barca’s fabled farmhouse - now a state-of-the-art facility at the club’s training ground - and later built his team around graduates from the academy - Victor Valdes, Carles Puyol, Gerard Pique, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Pedro and Lionel Messi among them....

January 6, 2023 · 6 min · 1077 words · Bruce Gordo

The Dimaggio Nobody Knew

Still, Dominic knew him cold. In the vast, empty, echoing Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Dominic made the eulogy … and filled it with the records of which Joe was so proud: the MVP years, batting crowns, home-run championships and World Series winners. After all, it was Joe himself who insisted for the past 30 years that he be introduced (last–always last) as Baseball’s Greatest Living Player. That couldn’t be said anymore, of course....

January 6, 2023 · 26 min · 5349 words · Zachary Sherman

The Diva Is A Porn Star

From time to time, as if limbering up for a sports competition, one or another would get up, stretch, then casually hurl a paving stone through a nearby shop window. This was the signal for the cops, like birds ruffled by a sudden noise, to put away their newspapers and strap on their helmets. By noon, stones would be raining down like hail as several hundred anarchists-for-the-day ran through the streets bellowing, “Pigs....

January 6, 2023 · 3 min · 534 words · Troy Akers

The Division This Is When You Can Pre Load The Game

According to Ubisoft, those who bought a digital copy of the title on Xbox One will be able to start pre-loading today, March 2, while PC players can have it installed on March 3 via Steam and Uplay. Unfortunately, though, PlayStation 4 fans anxious to have The Division ready to go before its launch next week will have to wait the longest, as pre-loading for Sony’s platform will begin on March 6, at 12:01 AM local time....

January 6, 2023 · 2 min · 414 words · Louis Hunt

The Division 2 Update 3 And Raid Will Release Soon Update

First things first, The Division 2’s Public Test Server has been shut down for the time being. The purpose of the PTS was to test changes coming to The Division 2 in TU3, so it only makes sense that it concludes its initial run. Title Update is said to release next week, but Massive did not give a firm date. Most likely, it will launch on Thursday with the usual weekly maintenance but there may be a different approach considering how big the update is and how many changes it introduces....

January 6, 2023 · 2 min · 309 words · Eric Schulte

The Earth Island Rules

So powerful has Earth Island become that tuna companies live in fear of being blacklisted, and help fund its efforts to track their fishing habits. To say this is a rare turn in the growing global battles between activists and corporations is an understatement. It’s as if lumber companies were paying the tree huggers of Earth First to police their logging operations. At least 97 percent of tuna on the world’s supermarket shelves now meets Earth Island rules on what is dolphin safe, a standard so rigid that many other wildlife activists consider it too radical....

January 6, 2023 · 6 min · 1196 words · Jamie Miller

The Elder Scrolls D D Alignments Of The Daedric Princes

RELATED: 10 Ways The Elder Scrolls Could Be A Dungeons & Dragons 5e Campaign Setting The chart’s utility goes far beyond the realm of D&D and can be a handy tool for describing characters in any setting. The universe of The Elder Scrolls is certainly no exception—even when it comes to those most enigmatic of figures, the Daedric Princes. 17 Azura: Neutral Good Creator and patron deity of the Dunmer, Azura is perhaps the most benevolent Daedric Prince....

January 6, 2023 · 7 min · 1357 words · James Bishop

The Elder Scrolls Potential Locations For The Next Game

Understandably, the big question on many gamers’ lips was exactly what these games would be, with many fans of Bethesda’s work hoping that one of the titles would be a new game in the Elder Scrolls series. After all, even though Skyrim still manages to pull in a huge number of users, The Elder Scrolls players have long been hoping for a new game in the series, and it feels like the time is right for another installment in the acclaimed fantasy RPG franchise....

January 6, 2023 · 9 min · 1817 words · Sharon Oldroyd

The Elder Scrolls Queen Barenziah Lived A Crazy Life

In The Elder Scrolls games, players can find two different books that tell her story — “Biography of Barenziah” and “The Real Barenziah.” While the books generally follow the same timeline, the latter delves more into Barenziah’s personal life, painting a very different picture of the queen. RELATED: Rune’s Story in Skyrim Is Still A Big Mystery After Anniversary Edition Two Different Accounts of the Queen in the Elder Scrolls The “Biography of Barenziah” is a three-volume book series that was written by Stern Gamboge, an Imperial Scribe....

January 6, 2023 · 6 min · 1202 words · April Jimenez

The Elder Scrolls 6 The Political Factions Of Hammerfell Explained

Thanks to this, The Elder Scrolls 6 will have a fresh batch of political factions that will likely influence the game’s story, much in the same way that the civil war within Skyrim directly impacted its plot. Hammerfell is quite similar to Skyrim in terms of geopolitical tensions, with two distinct and powerful political factions forming in the province for a variety of reasons. RELATED: The Elder Scrolls 6: Hammerfell’s Most Important Locations Explained...

January 6, 2023 · 3 min · 574 words · Maurine Mosley

The End Of The Spanish Empire

The candidates have done their part, too, in turning this into the eBay Election: it seems anything and everything is for sale. When Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero pledged to create 2 million new jobs over the next four-year term, the Popular Party’s Mariano Rajoy promised 2.2 million. When Zapatero said he would cut income taxes, Rajoy offered to cancel them (on annual incomes below €16,000). When the Socialist Party promised to plant 45 million trees—one for every Spaniard—the PP thought hard and promised 500 million....

January 6, 2023 · 8 min · 1623 words · Vonnie Garza

The Estrogen Complex

It is a plot twist worthy of science fiction. Hundreds of the bedrock chemicals of the postwar age-PCBs used in the manufacture of electronics, pesticides such as endosulfan and atrazine, polycarbonate plastic found in many baby bottles and water jugs, chlorine compounds that bleach paper-resemble the human sex hormone estrogen. Although the compounds were concocted in the lab for purposes having nothing to do with human biology, their molecular structure turns out to be so similar to estrogen’s that they fit into the same “receptors” in the body....

January 6, 2023 · 5 min · 980 words · Elton Cross

The Eternals Almost Made A Cameo Appearance In Moon Knight Series

Moon Knight centered on the conflict between Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector/Steven Grant and Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow, with the former serving as the avatar for the Egyptian god Khonshu while there latter led a cult dedicated to resurrecting the goddess Ammit. Meanwhile, Eternals told the story of a group of superpowered beings who were secretly living on Earth for thousands of years, silently helping humanity move along and often being regarded as gods themselves....

January 6, 2023 · 3 min · 475 words · Angela Wade

The Eu Is Complicit In China S Atrocities. Enough Is Enough Opinion

The European Convention on Human Rights prohibits member states from deporting anyone to a country where they would be at grave risk of torture or other inhuman and degrading treatment. Yet last week, Maltese authorities turned down an appeal by a married Uyghur couple who had sought to overturn their denial of refugee status. Promptly detained upon the decision, they faced the imminent and irreparable risk of deportation to China if not for an urgent interim measure by the European Court for Human Rights issued this Monday....

January 6, 2023 · 3 min · 548 words · Sanford Dannels

The Evil Within 2 Trailer Introduces The Twisted Photographer Stefano Valentini

In a brand new trailer for The Evil Within 2, players are introduced to Stefano Valentini, a photographer obsessed with capturing the moment of death. During their time in Union, players will not only come across Valentini’s work depicting the grisly deaths of his victims, but they’ll need to also evade and defeat many of his monsters roaming the world. Originally serving as a war photographer, Valentini’s obsession and decent into madness took hold during an accident which cost him an eye....

January 6, 2023 · 2 min · 268 words · Angela Silva

The Face Of The Future

You would think so, listening to the pessimism now fashionable among U.S. demographers. To many of them, 21st-century America looks crowded, mean-spirited and glum–a balkanized nation increasingly split between haves and have-nots, old and young, and immigrants and the native-born. By 2050 the population of the United States could rise to more than 500 million persons, more than double the 1990 census and enough growth to scare anyone who cares about the environment....

January 6, 2023 · 9 min · 1846 words · Rosario Smoot

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier Are The Flag Smashers Actually Evil

In Marvel Comics the Flag-Smasher, named Karl Morgenthau, is born to very wealthy European parents with his father dying due to political protests while working as a diplomat. These events instill Morgenthau with a fervent drive to banish the concepts of nations as a whole -hence the name Flag-Smasher-, also somewhat overlapping with Red Skull’s anti-American ideals, except for the fact that Morgenthau despises every single country. Communists, Nazis, America, and its allies; he wants to smash every single one of them....

January 6, 2023 · 4 min · 818 words · Charles Royster

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier The World Needs To Lay Off Bucky

It is true that he’s responsible for a considerable number of deaths – most of whom were relatively innocent, like Tony Stark’s parents – but he was under the influence of Hydra’s brainwashing when all of that happened. He never assassinated anybody as Bucky. As seen in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s brutal flashback sequence, the Winter Soldier was a completely different guy. Hydra turned Bucky into a mindless drone who would use his super-strength and metal arm to do their evil bidding....

January 6, 2023 · 4 min · 773 words · Kurt Brown

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier Why John Walker Stayed A Villain But Wanda Didn T

Phase 4 of the MCU is in full swing with WandaVision having wrapped up and The Falcon and The Winder Soldier marching towards its final episode. After over a decade of films and series focused primarily around The Infinity Saga, the properties premiering on Disney+ are deepening ancillary characters such as Wanda, Sam Wilson, and Bucky Barnes. WandaVision explored the stages of grief following Wanda’s loss of her brother Pietro/Quicksilver then her beloved Vision while The Falcon and The Winter Soldier explores PTSD and militarism....

January 6, 2023 · 6 min · 1129 words · Sherrie Randall