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The Americans’ passage into the Word Cup quarterfinals was assured as they prepared for their final second-round game against Brazil on Monday in Shenzhen. The Czech Republic’s victory over Greece eliminated Giannis Antetokounmpo and his crew in the earlier game of the doubleheader, clinching the Americans’ advancement. So their 89-73 victory was mostly for pride, and to increase USA Basketball’s run of consecutive victories in senior men’s competition to 58....

Spain was the last team to be a first-time winner when it triumphed over Greece 13 years ago in Japan. The tournament has returned to the Far East this year and Spain has good reasons to be optimistic about history repeating itself. La Roja’s roster is very experienced and there’s a feeling the World Cup and next year’s Olympics will be the final hurrah for a large number of players....

The decline wasn't unexpected. Fielder made a move from Milwaukee and its homer-happy ballpark to the more spacious Comerica Park in changing leagues. In 2012, Fielder hit 30 home runs, his lowest total since he hit 28 as a rookie in 2006. Last season, he hit 25. After consecutive disappointing playoff performances, the Tigers traded Fielder to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler. The Tigers picked up $30 million of Fielder's remaining salary due....

On Monday, Goal got its hands on the new game ahead of release and sat down for an exclusive interview with FIFA 18’s gameplay producer, Sam Rivera to find out why this year, fans may find themselves playing with teams and players they’ve never tried before. With so much going on in the transfer market this season, do you expect players to still prefer to play as the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid?...

The Bosnia and Herzegovina international thrashed Chievo 4-1 at the weekend, with Dzeko netting a brace as the club strengthened their grip on third place in Serie A. Andrej Kramaric joins Dzeko up front after scoring all three goals in Hoffenheim’s 3-1 win over Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga. Idrissa Gana Gueye is the only Premier League representative in the starting XI after playing a starring role in Everton’s 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town....

The wide pairing were rewarded for their performances against Newcastle United and Stoke City respectively. Nicolas Otamendi also gets a ratings boost after scoring the winner in the Manchester derby, while West Ham’s Winston Reid is included in the latest XI. Samir Handanovic’s upgrade makes him one of the highest rated goalkeepers in the game, with Quincy Promes also receiving another in form card following Spartak Moscow’s 3-0 win over rivals CSKA Moscow....

Both men were provisionally suspended in October in relation to a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.01 million in today’s dollars) made by FIFA, and authorized by Blatter, to Platini in February 2011. PHOTOS: The bad boys of soccer’s biggest scandal | World Cup winners throughout history Blatter and Platini, who also served as FIFA vice president, claimed this related to work carried out by the former France captain for FIFA between 1999 and 2002, citing a “gentleman’s agreement....

Questions remain for U.S. U-20s The North American contingent — featuring the U.S., Mexico and Canada — proposed a fast-tracked timeline that would have given the bid a year to meet FIFA’s technical standards without competing against any rivals. The FIFA Council instead put forth a plan to accept additional bids until Aug. 11. But the council did agree to the condensed timeline that would award the 2026 World Cup in June 2018, instead of the original plan to confirm the host in 2020....

British surprise package Shellzz - real name Shaun Springette - looked on course to shock the more high-profile Rocky by beating the Frenchman on his favoured Xbox One console to secure $160,000 in prize money. But Rocky - real name Corentin Chevrey - netted with just seconds left on the clock through legend card Pele to take a 5-4 aggregate lead in the thrilling two-legged matchup. After a qualification process involving millions of players, the FUT Championship Series pitted the top 32 gamers - 16 on Xbox One and 16 on PlayStation 4 - in a knockout tournament, with the top eight booking a spot at the FIFA Interactive World Cup in London....

Oh yeah? Tell that to 3DO, the upstart California game maker. Right now, Ridge Racer is selling only in Japan. But sooner or later it will come to America – and smack up against yet another road-racing video, Crash & Burn. The run-in will be more than symbolic, for the real-life videogame business has come to resemble fantasy auto racing: full of sudden reverses, hellbent chases and high-speed brushes with disaster....

The school will take the time to create safety protocols, the Associated Press reported. Reynolds School District Superintendent Danna Diaz said in an email that more than 18 months of classroom disruptions have “taken a toll” on students and staff. The school returned to in-person learning this fall, but it was stunted by COVID cases among students and staff and resulting quarantines. Diaz said students are “struggling with socialization skills” and require more support socially and emotionally....

Two football schools, a defensive outfit many said wasn’t suited to tournament success and “not Duke.” That’s what we’ve got. INSIDE THE MADNESS: 80 years of Final Four memories We’ve also got four teams with a legitimate chance to win the NCAA championship. That doesn’t happen often. There’s usually somewhere there that will be happy to compete for as long as it lasts but whose fans will cherish that Final Four T-shirt with the awareness it never will get better than that....

Since the men’s basketball bracket expanded out to 64 teams, Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Villanova have combined for 14 of the 36 national championships won in the sport. Each team has been in the national championship over the past 10 tournaments, and Kansas is the only program that has not won a title in that span. It last won a title in 2008. MORE: Watch March Madness games live with Sling TV...

Government and Schools There are governmental sources that may pay for hearing aids for those who qualify. Medicaid: Most state Medicaid programs will pay for hearing aids. Veterans Affairs (VA): If you are a veteran with a service-connected disability of 10% or greater, hearing aids may be provided by the VA. In some cases, state vocational rehabilitation agencies may pay for hearing aids for deaf clients. If your family does not qualify for federal programs such as Medicaid, there may be a Children’s Rehabilitative Services program (or something similar) under the state government that would pay....

Convention wisdom says no. That opinion has become almost universal throughout major college athletics and is shared by both the supporters of the NCAA’s basic model and its harshest critics. That same line of thinking says that competitive inequity has arisen in spite of the NCAA’s attempts to curb it. But what if it was because of the NCAA’s rules? Correlation should not be confused with causation but that does not rule out the latter....

Yes, very. Americans who came of age in the 1960s were the first generation born in the shadow of the atom bomb; just awakening each morning was something to be thankful for. But they were also the first generation born into mass affluence, for whom material sustenance and comfort were a given, a situation that breeds spiritual hunger. So in addition to everything else the baby boomers were known for–political activism, sexual freedom, Yuppie careerism and a taste for expensive imported cheese–they have also distinguished themselves as what the sociologist Wade Clark Roof calls, in the title of his 1993 book, “A Generation of Seekers....

Half the fun of Biblical archeology is finding concordances between physical remains and Scripture. The Galilee boat provides several. Built of cedar planks and oak frames, the boat measured 26.5 feet long, 7.5 feet wide. The fore and aft probably had good-size decks. Mark 4:37 describes how a terrified disciple came to Jesus “in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow,” and told him that a great storm had kicked up on the sea....