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The Selecao meet Russia in Moscow on March 23 and Germany in Berlin March 27. The delegation will begin to arrive in Moscow on Sunday, March 18, and will report to the Radisson Royal hotel. READ MORE: How will Brazil line up without Neymar? | The latest Brazil squad | Tite’s tactical evolution Training will commence on Monday at 15:30 local time at the training ground of Spartak Moscow, located at Volokolamskoye shosse, 69, Moscou....

The university’s board of trustees announced Monday that Rebecca M. Blank would become the institution’s 17th president upon taking office in Summer 2022. Blank is currently the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position that she has held since 2013. “I am honored and delighted to accept the job as Northwestern’s next president,” said Blank in a statement. “Northwestern is a school that I have known and admired for years....

Since, as Green Bay has gone 1-3 in dropping games to Dallas, Atlanta and Indianapolis, the Packers have dropped to an uninspiring third place in a three-team division race. MORE: NFL power rankings | Week 10 picks The 5-3 Vikings are a sinking ship, but they still have the lead in the standings and a defense that keeps them in every game. The 5-4 Lions are surging, supported most by the career-best play of Matthew Stafford....

Addition without subtraction — it is the perfect model for successful franchises. Teams have the ability to add key pieces to strengthen their rosters without moving players that have been integral to their success. This year has been no different. NBA TRADE DEADLINE: Biggest winners and losers Most fans would not consider adding a veteran of 10-plus years to be a splash — they would be correct — but history suggests that sometimes a ripple is all a contending team needs to make....

The main event features a middleweight bout with former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva facing off against former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz. The co-feature is a battle of top ranked welterweights as Tyron Woodley battles Kelvin Gastelum. MORE: Astonishing UFC photos | Weigh-in mishap | Diaz misses open workout There are a lot of reasons to watch tonight’s show and we narrowed it down to five reasons to watch UFC 183....

But not all athletes are created equal. I've identified five players who are best equipped right now to be future NFL players: Leonard Fournette, RB/LB Committed to: LSU What stands out: The power. Listed at 6-1, 226 pounds, Fournette is almost unstoppable at the high school level. An absolute run-away freight train. Elite core and hip strength allows him to break tackles at all levels of the defense. Great spin move....

Alex Rios, OF, Rangers. It’s easy to make a pro-Rios case and an anti-Rios case. Pro: he’s hitting .320 with 12 steals and seems due for a power surge since he only has three homers. Anti: He only has three homers. Rios has never been much of a slugger, topping out at 25 HRs and only three times hitting more than 18, but he should hit more going forward – emphasis on should....

Davidson is ranked as the 24th-best overall player in the country by 247Sports.com and the No. 2 strongside defensive end. MORE: Weekly recruiting flash | SN Week 1 picks | 5-star QB rankings since 2005 The 6-4, 268-pound lineman out of Greenville High School (Ala.) also considered Georgia, Florida, Clemson, LSU, Michigan and FSU. Earlier Friday, four-star RB Elijah Holyfield, the son of Evander Holyfield, picked Georgia over Alabama and Auburn....

The one thing international stars are surely more aware of is the fact that the fast and physical style in MLS makes it grueling for players who aren’t at their physical best. This reality is what former Barcelona star Xavi pointed to when he revealed why he wound up passing on MLS. It is also the reality Andrea Pirlo endured during his largely disappointing tenure with New York City FC....

On the surface, not reporting to camp seems like a reasonable way for an underpaid veteran star to force his team’s hand. But digging deeper, it’s easy for a player to lose ground if he has little leverage with which to begin and the daily no-show fines quickly turn into a big financial hit. Before 2014 camps open around the league next week, here are five veterans to watch as potential holdouts, ranked by likelihood of sitting out for the start....

The image shared on Tuesday showed five people in the room, including Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, with Putin on one main screen in the front and two smaller screens on the walls. A subsequent press conference by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan shed some light on the talks between the American and Russian leaders. Contrast that with Trump’s five meetings with Putin, in which critics complained that little was known about what was said in their highest-profile face-to-face conversations....

New England is 3-1 in the previous matchups, and this marks the second AFC championship matchup between the teams. For the other, you have to look all the way back to Jan. 12, 1997, which was the Jaguars’ second season in the NFL. The Patriots won that matchup 20-6 before advancing to Super XXXI, and 21 years later, there are striking similarities. Here’s a look at the then (and now) heading into Sunday’s matchup....

You can see video of the whole thing below. The blaze happens at around the 1:30 mark. We can only hope "Fall Out Boy" wasn't playing at this game.

California resident Mike Hughes, 63, made international headlines last year when he reached an altitude of nearly 2,000 feet in another homemade rocket before guiding the vehicle down to a successful—albeit somewhat bumpy—landing. For his latest daredevil act, Hughes told Newsweek he wants to better his previous achievement. He was speaking ahead of the launch—which is set to take place near the town of Amboy in California’s Mojave Desert....

Brembs and his colleagues weren’t so sure. To investigate whether fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are automatons or not, they tethered flies in a completely uniform, white enclosure. The flies had no visual cues from the environment and are fixed in space. Their behavior should therefore resemble random noise. But a mathematical analysis showed that it did not, and no random computer models successfully modeled the flies’ behavior, the scientists report in the open-access journal PloS ONE....

The agency, which didn’t specify what caused the failure in its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, wrote that technicians are currently working to restore the system and that a hotline is available for additional information. Former NASA Associate Administrator for Communications Bettina Inclán wrote on Twitter that she was on a United flight at the time of the FAA system outage and that she was informed by the flight’s pilot of a “nation wide outage of FAA computer systems....

DeSantis issued the order requiring visitors from the Tri-State area to self-quarantine in March. Visitors who failed to abide by the order were subject to a $500 fine and a jail term of up to 60 days. People arriving by car or by plane were required to complete contact information forms and told to self-quarantine. Members of the Florida National Guard (FLNG) were deployed to obtain the information forms from travelers....

Those responsible for the gathering offered free meals to 100 patrons who opted to dine at the establishment without wearing a face mask, Reuters reported. A video of the weekend’s rally showed the central Florida restaurant and bar, 33 & Melt, served dozens of customers that day. No one in the video appears to be wearing a mask. Near the beginning of the video, law enforcement officers identified as agents from Florida’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, a branch of the state’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, enter 33 & Melt and confront the establishment’s owner....

“It is clear that the social cost and community-wide anxiety triggered by the opening of even a single pedestrian beach access point is not worth the few walks on the beach it would provide for our residents,” the city said in a statement through its website on Wednesday morning. This comes as the country, and most recently Florida itself, has locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus....

The transmissions were received via marine band radio off the coast of Florida. The unknown culprit, speaking in an American accent, cited links to the Russian government and threatened to set off anti-submarine weapons known as “depth charges” and shoot down planes. The latest threat was sent to the Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg command center on August 13 via VHF channel 22A, the Coast Guard confirmed to media yesterday....