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Rajasthan Royals (RR) skipper Steve Smith smashed an unbeaten 79 off 53 balls to steer his side to a thrilling seven-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Sardar Patel Stadium here on Tuesday. The winning runs came from the captain’s willow, as Rajasthan hunted down MI’s total of 164 for five. With five balls still remaining, Rajasthan reached 165 for three....

Australian cricketing legend Steve Waugh, on Tuesday, praised former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly, crediting him with having instilled toughness in the national side. Calling Ganguly a “great captain”, Waugh said: “He brought toughness to the Indian side”. However, Waugh parried a query on comparing Ganguly and Mahendra Singh Dhoni as captains. “There are both good. But they are different as captains,” he told mediapersons at Udayan, a home for children of leprosy patients at Barrackpore, 25 kms from Kolkata....

Murphy said the state could have the “freedom” to close businesses if a new relief bill were passed during a Tuesday appearance on CBS This Morning. Host Tony Dokoupil had asked the Democratic governor if having federal funds available would lead to him “considering shutting things down in the state of New Jersey.” “We’d have more degrees of freedom, without question,” said Murphy. “If we see there’s transmission. For instance, in restaurants we saw them morphing into clubs after 10 o’clock....

The next victim may well be the 11-month-old government of Prime Minister V. P. Singh. Singh, a centrist, faced a no-win decision: pander to the Hindu majority and abandon the ideal of secularism, or crack down on them and alienate a vast voting bloc. Choosing the latter, he managed to please no one; Singh will be hard pressed to survive a confidence vote set for Nov. 7. The Hindu fundamentalists who once supported him have deserted his coalition; and rather than congratulate Singh on his defense of secularism, India’s other parties immediately began plotting to exploit the situation....

The Red Devils have got off to a flying start to the new campaign and earned nine points of a possible nine from their opening three matches. They will be tested at the Britannia Stadium, however, by a Stoke side that has already beaten Arsenal on home turf this season. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the UK, the match will be available to watch live on television on BT Sport 1 and by stream via the BT Sport app....

Both sides are in a heated race for the promotion playoffs place and are separated only by goal difference in the EFL Championship standings. A rejuvenated Stoke City made it three games unbeaten with a 2-0 win over Bristol City on Friday. Nick Powell and Steven Fletcher scored in each half to hand Michael O’Neill’s men a second straight win and their 14th of the season. The Potters have now picked up seven points from nine, and this slight resurgence has seen them move into 11th place on the log....

They are currently 10th after picking up 12 points in their opening eight games – a start Potters fans will be satisfied with, but they know their team could have done better. That defeat in Wales was their first defeat in five games whilst weekend opponents Rotherham United only won their first game in five on Wednesday. They triumphantly swept aside Sheffield Wednesday to take them four points clear of the bottom three....

So what does ““the perfect synthesis of innovation and ultimate luxury’’ get you? If you already suspect that the future might look less like ““Star Trek’’ and more like dialing 777-FILM, then the Century Plaza’s Cyber Suite probably won’t change your mind. During our night’s stay, the room often seemed determined to thwart our every cyber desire. Take Alexander, the ““Butler in a Box.’’ Alexander is a voice-recognition system built into a small metal box in the entryway....

The All-Star guard suffered a tailbone contusion on the final play of the third quarter after launching a deep 3-pointer. Curry’s momentum took him toward the sideline, but without fans or members of Houston’s coaching staff in his way to stop him, he backpedaled all the way to a piece of metal flooring and landed hard on his tailbone. He could be seen grimacing as he attempted to get back to his feet....

The Warriors star is expected to return to action on Tuesday for game two of their second-round series against the New Orleans Pelicans, and just hopes he does not embarrass himself after being sidelined since March 23 because of a sprained medial collateral ligament. “Just not suck after missing five weeks,” Curry told The Undefeated. “That’s my goal. “If I do get the green light, just play my game. Do what I do on both ends of the court to help the team....

Gomez was jeered when introduced in the second half at Wembley, where England’s dominant victory booked their place at next year’s tournament. The Liverpool defender was involved in a clash with Sterling leading up to the encounter, with the Manchester City star dropped by England after the incident. Sterling was unhappy with the England fans who targeted Gomez, saying the 22-year-old had done nothing wrong. “To all the England fans, I wanted to leave things at [sic] it was but tonight I have to speak again,” he wrote on Twitter....

He also talks about how the industry has changed since his time. Here are some highlights: How wrestling has changed: “It’s a different game out there right now. These kids aren’t getting enough time to tell the whole story…. the product inside the ring is at a more accelerated pace, so what comes with that is not total selling of everything you can sell. You do something to elicit a response… It’s a short attention span theater and guys are moving faster than I’d like them to be, they’re overselling a lot of stuff in the wrong way and underselling stuff in the wrong way as well....

The 64-year-old is known to most as the mustached presenter of Family Feud where he usually dresses in understated suits, but Harvey has taken to embracing color in a big way on his days off. On Thursday, Harvey became a trending topic on Twitter after his latest outfit post sparked a wave of hilarious memes. Dressed in leather pants, a bright cobalt blue jacket and chunky black boots, social media users can’t help but compare his compelling sartorial choices to that of many cartoon characters....

The Warriors coach called Lillard’s heave a “good shot,” ahead of Golden State’s matchup with the Clippers. “It’s a good shot for Damian. It’s a good shot for Steph (Curry),” Kerr said. “The game is being redefined I think, as we play it. The stuff I’ve seen this last year I didn’t think I’d ever see. People playing on the other side of James Harden and asking him to go to the rim....

After host Katie Nolan cleverly dubbed Ryan and older sister Riley the “Splash Sisters,” she asked whether Kerr saw Ryan bringing anything to the table that Riley does not. His reply: “Like, a pacifier, maybe?” MORE: Steph Curry through the years | Riley Curry hits the Nae Nae The entire video is worth a watch, but the best part comes at the end, when Kerr is asked whether he would consider trading the days-old baby....

“Steve Sarkisian is aware of the termination and is deeply disappointed,” an unidentified source told SB Nation. “But right now his No. 1 priority is getting himself well. To that end, he has checked himself into a residential treatment facility.” MORE: Week 6 photos | Sarkisian not only person accountable Position coaches told Trojans players of his firing Monday afternoon, before a statement was released to the media. “We are fine,” a player who asked to not be identified told ESPN....

Bannon is preparing to surrender to authorities on Thursday to face charges in a case that echoes a 2020 federal investigation over the alleged defrauding of people who contributed to a $25 million “We Build The Wall” campaign. Trump went on to pardon Bannon, just as the former president was leaving office. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is reported to have opened its investigation soon after Trump left the White House in January 2021....

Well, we didn’t expect this year even to happen, so every year now is a good one. The design lifetime was 90 days, and we’re coming up on three years. Spirit spent most of the year exploring a feature we call Home Plate, an explosive volcanic deposit with interesting geology. Because it’s shaped like one. The news from Opportunity is that it arrived at Victoria Crater, which is nearly a half-mile across, and the deepest window into the subsurface of Mars we’ll get....

South Africa are set to to be without Dale Steyn once again at the Champions Trophy when they face Pakistan at Edgbaston tomorrow. Steyn, widely regarded as the best fast bowler currently in world cricket, missed the Proteas’ opening 26-run Group B defeat by India in Cardiff on Thursday with a side strain. And South Africa captain AB de Villiers, speaking to reporters at Edgbaston on Sunday, was pessimistic about Steyn’s chances of facing Pakistan....

Under the CARES act agreed by Congress in March, single taxpayers earning less than $75,000 annually got $1,200, married couples earning under $150,000 got $2,400, and children under 17 got $500 each. The IRS largely relied on bank account data or addresses from tax returns to make the payments but this made it tricky to make payments to those who do not file taxes. This meant that for people, such as those on Social Security benefits whose incomes fall below the threshold required for filing a tax return, may have got the $1,200 stimulus payment, but not received he extra $500 per dependent under the age of 17, because the IRS did not have that information....