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The big winner, or in this case loser, was Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict, who was fined $69,454 for three separate plays: roughing the passer, a face mask pull and unnecessary roughness. He is appealing the fines. MORE: NFL’s most infamous fights among teammates | It could be worse for the Bengals Burfict wasn’t fined for being involved in a pregame scuffle that set the stage for the physical matchup, but he did draw the ire of the Steelers when it appeared he intentionally dove at quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s ankles as Roethlisberger followed through on a pass during the first half of the game in Cincinnati....

Ventrone was born in Pittsburgh, graduated from Chartiers Valley High just a few minutes from “Dahntahn” and briefly attended Pitt as a walk-on before transferring to Villanova to complete his college football career. MORE: A history of Penguins and ‘Pittsburgh gold’ So maybe that’s why he seized the day and put together a hilarious Instagram video that might not serve the stated purpose of getting the Penguins fired up for their opportunity Thursday night to clinch the Stanley Cup on home ice at Consol Energy Center — but could very well generate enough laughs to loosen whatever tension develops in the Pens’ locker room....

Starfield looks to be breaking new ground for Bethesda, embracing its sci-fi theme by allowing users to travel across the galaxy in spaceships with the ability to visit thousands of planets. Starfield is bringing a lot of new ideas to the table, but it also has a lot in common with the Bethesda games that came before. Starfield gameplay videos have shown that the game is very similar to Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises in terms of core gameplay, though the similarities don’t stop there....

Starfield could go in any number of design directions, taking influence from both more recent Fallout and Elder Scrolls games while introducing totally unique features all of its own. If the game is going to succeed, however, it needs to lean into Bethesda’s single greatest strength. RELATED: Starfield’s NASA-Punk World Needs Non-Lethal Combat Bethesda And Freedom Bethesda games are about freedom, even if that freedom comes at the cost of tighter, character-driven storytelling....

With gameplay footage unveiled at the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase on June 12, fans eagerly got their first true insight into what Starfield is about and how the gameplay looks. While reveling in top-notch graphics that capture the look and feel of space technology and where it may lead in a realistic future, comparisons were immediately drawn to No Man’s Sky, a 2016 open-universe sandbox survival game from Hello Games....

In my 15 years on the sports beat, I have succeeded in having that honest conversation just once, and I confess I used a pretty potent drug, administered liberally over a three-hour dinner, to loosen the interviewee’s tongue. The athlete, a swimmer of renown who would go on to Olympic glory, had spent much of the evening complaining about the difficulty of competing against the cheaters from China, much as American swimmers had ranted about the doping of East Germans many years before....

So how to explain events of late? Why first San Diego, coming off a bye, gets poleaxed by a visiting Jets team that had previously appeared hapless. Then Denver, off a bye, is shredded by an Oakland team that had not only lost four straight but was coming off a deflating overtime defeat to cross-bay rival San Francisco. Of course, Denver had already whipped the Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, off their bye week and playing at home in Foxboro....

Before the contest, the U.S. soccer team, having lost three games in a row, seemed in rather desperate straits in their bid to qualify for next June’s World Cup final in Japan and South Korea. The U.S. stood fourth in its group–behind Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico–with only two games to go and three teams to qualify. It appeared that the Americans would have to win their last two games to earn their fourth straight Cup appearance....

Scattered showers are easier to deal with than sustained winds of 30 mph and gusts of 40 or faster. Aerodynamics are a huge part of stockcar racing. This year’s changes to lower downforce are an ongoing experiment for the sport. MORE: 10 drivers to watch | Kyle Busch dominates Xfinity race | Driver ratings So when Kurt Busch leads the 39-car field to the starting line at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, every driver will have a major question in mind: How will my car handle in the Kobalt 400?...

In the absence of hard facts, fans have been speculating on how the upcoming installment will make use of the advanced capabilities of the newest Xbox console, as well as how the developer will adapt the State of Decay formula to compete with other survival horror titles on the market. It’s been a few years since State of Decay 2 launched in 2018, and the past few years have seen some great titles in the same genre, so State of Decay 3 really needs to up its game if it wants to compete....

9- It was the 9th Instance for Australia when they have defeated any team by a margin of an innings and 200 plus runs in a test match- only England, with 15 such instances, is above Australia. 1993- The last and only time a Team lost a test by an innings and 200 plus runs at Hobart- at that time, it was New Zealand which suffered this humiliation at the hands of Australia....

This is the best bowling figures in an innings in Test matches in 2013 so far. Here are the 10 best performances so far in Tests this year: *Stats updated till December 4th 2013 0 votes

It was only a matter of time before he took the record all by himself and it happened earlier today in the next round of Ranji games where Madhya Pradesh are facing Baroda at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association stadium in Dharamsala. On a historic occasion, he scored a fifty to help his side reach 217. In the previous round of Ranji games, in which he equalled an all-time Ranji Trophy record, the Madhya Pradesh captain also reached a personal milestone....

Below is the list of the largest victory margins by teams in the ICC Champions Trophy, combining all the editions so far. New Zealand’s 210-run win over U.S.A. in the 2004 edition tops the list here. *Updated till 6th June, 2013 0 votes

BA.2 is thought to be more contagious than the other Omicron type known as BA.1, which has been, and continues to be for many countries, the dominant version of Omicron. In Denmark and South Africa, however, BA.2 is the dominant Omicron strain and in other countries its proportion continues to increase. As of February 25, data from the U.K.’s Health Security Agency (HSA) showed that BA.2 accounted for 30.5 percent of sequenced cases in the country during the previous week....

As reported by publications TheGamer and The Verge, the global version Steam is currently inaccessible in China. It’s unclear if the Chinese government has actually banned the global version of Steam, if it has been pulled down temporarily on purpose for some other reason, or if the services have just been taken down through some kind of DNS attack, but more information should come to light shortly. RELATED: New Chinese Regulation Limits Access to Marriage Gameplay for Children...

The ruling was handed down by the Paris Regional Court after nearly three years of proceedings. The decision is a major victory for UFC-Que Choisir, a French consumer rights group that had been battling Valve over the issue. Now, Valve will have a variety of clauses in their user-agreement annulled, including one that essentially banned the resale of digital games on the platform. This should have a profound effect on the service in the European Union, as Valve will now have to allow what is essentially a second-hand market for digital games....

Of course, this leads a lot of gamers to wonder which title will be available on PC next, and a lot of speculation pointed towards the PS5 exclusive roguelike Returnal coming to the platform. The first clue that Returnal was coming to PC was in a Steam listing for a title codenamed “Oregon,” which was suspected to at least be related to the game due to some localization strings referencing in-game locations....

Official documentation sent out by Valve (the company behind the Steam platform) to developers explains that moving forward, “with Steam Bundles, if a customer already [owns] some items in the Bundle, they will pay for and receive only the items not already in their account”. Valve further explains that “past Complete Packs were sometimes a bad deal for customers that already [owned] one or more of the products in the pack” and that players may have seen these as “bad economic sense” and so avoided buying them ....