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The reality that impacted this contest, though, was that the Los Angeles bullpen continued to do its best impression of the Tigers’ bullpen, and that’s not a compliment. In fact, that has the Dodgers on the verge of elimination. MORE: Must-see photos | Kershaw on short rest | Molina to be fined for shoving ump | Schedule In all three games of this series, the first reliever brought into the game by Don Mattingly has given up a home run....

Kershaw, of course, started the NLDS opener against the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium and basically cruised through the first six innings before St. Louis rattled off eight runs in a stunning seventh inning (six charged to Kershaw) and wound up winning the game, 10-8. MORE: Series photos | Postseason schedule | Game 3 odds and pick Stiil, Kershaw is the NL’s Cy Young lock and potential NL MVP, so one shaky inning wasn’t going to stop Mattingly from giving him the ball as many times as possible....

Champions League Worst Team of the Round The Bosnia-Herzegovina international’s contract expires at the end of the season and he has been heavily linked with the Gunners, as well as Manchester City and AC Milan. Wenger, however, insists reports claiming that a deal has been agreed with the 23-year-old are untrue. “We can deny that story at the moment,” the Arsenal manager said ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City....

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu told Mundo Deportivo that the club had an “agreement in principle” to renew with Iniesta, 33, that would be finalised over the coming weeks. But when asked on his return from international duty with Spain at Barcelona’s El Prat airport on Wednesday if he had agreed a new contract at Camp Nou, Iniesta simply told reporters: “No.” The episode with club great Iniesta is the latest suggestion of dissatisfaction within the Barcelona ranks with operations at boardroom level....

The Blues boss was asked about Wayne Rooney, who was allegedly shown to be drunk after England versus Scotland, and said that he allowed his squad to be responsible for their actions. Guardiola: I was drunk on international duty too Rooney has apologised for his “inappropriate” conduct after The Sun published photographs allegedly showing him to be drunk at the national team’s hotel during the past week’s international break....

Only a strange thing happened when Nick Saban, king of all things SEC and the state of Alabama, arrived at the Hyatt hotel for his annual coronation at SEC Media Days: the adoring hoard of fans that showed up the previous eight years for but a glimpse of the gleam in his eye weren’t around. MORE: Top 15 programs since 2000 | SEC: Rejuvenated Spurrier | Hype real for Auburn QB...

Multiplayer Perhaps the biggest change coming to No Man’s Sky is true multiplayer. Players will get to explore the vast universe with friends, or make enemies as a space pirate throughout the galaxy. Voice chat for console and text chat for PC will allow players to easily communicate with others around them. New multiplayer missions are also available from the Galactic Commission Station on the bridge of the player’s freighter....

Orange County, home to Disney World and a bevy of other tourist attractions, was one of 11 Florida counties to declare a health warning about St. Louis encephalitis, but with throngs of tourists in town to enjoy the waning days of summer, it quickly grabbed the most attention. Because there is no known cure for the disease (which can cause flulike symptoms, brain swelling, coma, even death), public-health officials weren’t taking any chances....

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told NBC Sports on Tuesday that the league found no violation of the its gambling policy on Gronkowski’s party-ship event, Gronk’s Booze Cruise. An NFL attorney said Monday that the NFLPA and Gronkowski’s agent were informed that the cruise, which took place from Feb. 19-22 on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship that included a casino, could violate the league’s gambling policy. Turns out, no infringement was committed....

The Red Devils return to domestic duty on Sunday with a Premier League away date at Middlesbrough. Klopp backs Mourinho over fixture Jose Mourinho’s men will head to the Riverside boosted by progress in the Europa League and a lengthy unbeaten record in top-flight competition. They will, however, be without injured record signing Pogba and suspended talisman Ibrahimovic. Ander Herrera will also be missing as he serves a ban for his FA Cup red card, meaning that Mourinho will be forced to shuffle his pack....

This much regarding the Nintendo Switch was confirmed during a rundown of The NPD Group’s February 2018 Video Game Market Highlights. The information in question can be found at the 2:45 mark in the YouTube video directly below. While no further analysis was provided by Piscatella, such a record will likely lead to more positive growth in terms of sales for the system this year, especially considering the fact that there are even more highly coveted first-party software releases in the works....

While the bulk of the Super Smash Bros. teaser trailer is spent with the Splatoon Inklings, they aren’t the only characters featured. Both Mario and Link are given a moment in the spotlight, as well. But what’s even more interesting is the brief look at what most assume is the game’s roster (in part or in full), largely hidden in shadow below the game’s flaming icon. Luckily, the figures are given enough detail to allow for many to be recognized....

It has been found out from the Nintendo Switch screenshots of the remastered trilogy that the game will be downgraded for the handheld console. This article features some of the screenshots revealed so far, which look slightly inferior to the PC/console versions. GTA remastered trilogy news: Nintendo Switch screenshots of the game reveal lower quality graphics compared to other versions GTA fans can see how different the Switch version (on the left) looks compared to the PC/console versions in the above pictures....

First of all, the Fire Emblem mobile game will be more “accessible” than the entries in the series we’ve seen on traditional handhelds and home consoles. Whether or not that means the permadeath feature that has been a big part of Fire Emblem’s DNA will be absent in the mobile game remains to be seen, but Nintendo is looking to offer fans a similar value they get with the other games in the series....

The company revealed the news of this Splatoon 2 tournament on its official Twitter page. There, Nintendo confirmed that there would be a pre-release exhibition tournament for the upcoming shooter, complete with a request for those interested in finding out more to wait for further details. So far, that’s all that Nintendo has let slip about this particular tournament. However, with E3 2017 getting steadily closer, no doubt the publisher will be looking to make its plans better known in the near future....

One of the biggest reveals from Nintendo’s latest financial briefing is that it is working on a big, new Switch game that will be released sometime during the 2019 fiscal year. FY19 begins on April 1 and ends on March 31 2020 and Nintendo didn’t offer up any more specific clues about the game’s release window (e.g. holiday 2019). What the Nintendo Switch platform holder did reveal, however, is that this upcoming game is something that “fans would be delighted to know,” with this lone sentence leading to wild speculation....

Asian number one Nishikori has not played competitively since last August after suffering a torn tendon in his right wrist during a practice session at Cincinnati. He said he still wasn’t ready for a gruelling Grand Slam campaign. “I am very sorry to announce that I will miss the Aussie Open this year,” he said on his website of the opening major of the year, starting in Melbourne on January 15....

Northern Illinois wideout Aregeros “Ducey” Turner showed off just how athletic he really is. Turner was messing around on the football field and made a catch in the middle of doing a backflip. MORE: College football division rankings | 10 programs with post-spring momentum | Recruiting ploy backfires He makes it look so easy. Turner’s athleticism is nice, but he did against no defenders. We’d like to see him pull this off during some MACtion (he did catch 37 passes for 398 yards and two TDs last season)....

At NJPW New Year Dash, Jay White teamed up with EVIL, Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi of the Bullet Club to face CHAOS members Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI. In a shocking result, it was Switchblade who took the pinfall loss to Ishii. With no post match angle, the questions heading into NJPW New Year Dash still remain. Was this Jay White’s final match in NJPW?...

In the tournament’s first match, Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii of CHAOS continued their success throughout the tournament so far, by defeating the Hunter Club duo of Yoshitatsu and Billy Gunn. Goto & Ishii are many people’s favourites to win the whole thing, so this should come as no surprise. Seeing Billy Gunn in a New Japan ring against Tomohiro Ishii in 2016, that would be the surprise, not to mention that Gunn is consistently outperforming his younger partner....