The teams entered the postseason heading in opposite directions, and that trend continued in Game 1. Tampa Bay has lost six straight games while the American League Central champion Guardians have won 25 of their last 31 games.

Padre fans beaming: Emma Stone, 33, and husband Dave McCary, 37, were all smiles much of the night when they attended game one of the NL Wild Card series between the New York Mets and San Diego Padres in Queens, New York City, on Friday

She was deservedly nominated for an Academy Award and in The Lost King she gives another wonderful performance, again as a woman reduced, in this case by the debilitating condition ME, who again falls for a monster: King Richard III.

BRUSSELS, Sept 30 (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators will decide by Nov.8 whether to clear Microsoft Corp’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of «Call of Duty» maker Activision Blizzard, according to a European Commission filing on Friday.

«There are a lot of interested people, there is a lot of talent here in Venezuela, a lot of players,» said Abreu.(Reporting by Deisy Buitrago in Cagua; Writing by Steven Grattan; Editing by Christian Plumb, Alexandra Hudson)

He is one of some 3,000 young Venezuelans competing in the multi-million dollar «eSports» industry, a lucrative business with international signings, prizes and millions of viewers which has started to boom in the Andean nation, despite economic chaos, poor internet connection, power failures and local restrictions on war games.

Tampa Bay will look to bounce back behind right-hander Tyler Glasnow (0-0, 1.35 ERA in the regular season), who rejoined the team’s rotation last week after missing nearly 14 months because of Tommy John surgery.

One day after ending an eight-game postseason losing streak, the Cleveland Guardians will look to record another milestone when they face the visiting Tampa Bay Rays in Game 2 of the best-of-three American League wild-card series on Saturday.

«The European Commission’s review of the deal is progressing in line with the expected regulatory schedule and process, and we remain confident that the acquisition will close in fiscal year 2023,» a Microsoft spokesperson said.

Five years ago, in Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar-winning The Shape Of Water, Sally Hawkins played a mute who fell in love with a kind of monster, a humanoid amphibian, more prosaically described as half-man, half-fish.

But just as in The Shape Of Water, the Hawkins character wants the world to know that the object of her obsession is monstrous only by misperception. Richard III, she thinks, has been dreadfully maligned, poker Pkv above all by William Shakespeare.

Stone also stars in the upcoming film Poor Things, which is in post-production, alongside the likes of Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, Jerrod Carmichael, Margaret Qualley, Suzy Bemba and Christopher Abbott.

Professional gamers who aspire to become international superstars train an average of 40 hours a week. It’s a dream job for many teenagers, offering such advantages of recurring income, the ability to work from home and combining hobby with career.

McCary’s resume in entertainment includes serving as a segment director on Saturday Night Live from 2013 to 2019, and as director for the first two seasons of the popular web series Epic Rap Battles of History. 

‘They’re both really physical football players in the run and in the pass,’ Stefanski said. ‘When you’re playing run defense and you’re knocking people back and you’re setting the edge and sometimes you’re setting the edge so someone else can make the play.

CAGUA, Venezuela, Sept 1(Reuters) – Gamer Gabriel Parra was ecstatic to see himself hailed as the «Venezuelan star» after scoring the fastest time in an international Formula 1 eSports racing competition in May.

Going strong: The couple e first started dating in October 2017, and eventually they would go on to get married nearly three years later in September 2020; they are pictured at a Los Angeles Clippers game in January 2019

«The truth is that when I saw the result… it was something magical, surprising, a dream I always had as a child that came true,» said 23-year-old Parra, who lives in central-Venezuela’s Aragua state, and started playing video games at the age of four.

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The dream of earning a living as a professional gamer is particularly resonant for many young people in Venezuela given the sparse opportunities otherwise available in a country with a minimum monthly salary equivalent to about $22 a month.