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THQ Nordic announced the news today as part of the Embracer Group Q1 Report Webcast Presentation, which included financial results from other publishers such as Deep Silver and Saber Interactive. Amid all the usual numbers and business jargon, it was revealed that sales of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated have surpassed one million copies since its June launch, exceeding THQ Nordic’s expectations and resulting in its best fiscal quarter yet....

More importantly, a sport is filled with great stories whose underlying themes transcend what has occurred on the field of play into a virtual and vicarious world. In other words, it’s a goldmine for filmmakers. Why is sport such an effective vehicle to tell a story? Essentially, it does three things better than just about any other medium; Sport enunciates morals and values Sport is the manifestation of the human condition...

This will be the second meeting between the two sides in two weeks after Sporting Lisbon got the better of Braga in the Portuguese Super Cup final two Saturdays ago. Sporting Braga’s 11-game unbeaten run came to an end at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro two Saturdays ago as they fell to a 2-1 defeat against Sporting Lisbon in the Supertaca final. Following their Super Cup heartbreak, Sporting Braga picked up their first win of the season last Saturday when they claimed an impressive 2-0 victory away to Maritimo....

Voting for the honors took place in September. Overall, eight AL teams are represented in the result. A total of 26 players received at least one vote. Abreu, Anderson and Bieber paced the balloting with 11 votes each, while the White Sox and Indians were the only teams with multiple players chosen. Sporting News named its first MLB All-Star team in 1925. SN 2020 MLB AWARDS: Jose Abreu voted MLB Player of the Year | NL All-Stars...

The undisputed King of Baseball Cards has remained an iconic brand in the collectibles industry for seven decades, pumping out multiple baseball sets each season to satisfy a continually growing and rabid base of sports-card collectors. At Sporting News, where baseball ties also run deep, we recognize a kindred spirit when we see one — which is why we’ve re-established a cool partnership with our cardboard-loving cousins. MORE: Ranking the top 15 baseball card sets from the ’80s and ’90s...

Jose Abreu’s power was a known quantity heading into his first season in Major League Baseball, and that ability to crush a baseball is a primary reason the White Sox decided to give the slugger a six-year, $68 million contract after a stellar career in Cuba. A few weeks into his time with the White Sox, a long-time scout told Sporting News that Abreu was a rarity, a player who rated as a legitimate 8 on the 2-to-8 scouting scale....

In today’s show, co-hosts Matt Lutovsky (@MLutovsky) and Troy Machir (@TroyMachir) discuss: The end of the USMNT’s run at the World Cup Tim Howard’s legendary performance and how it will be remembered Where US soccer goes from here – both from a team standpoint and fan standpoint The anti-soccer crowd doing battle with the anti-anti-soccer crowd The start of NBA free agency Chicago’s (collegiate?) wooing of Carmelo Anthony Marcin Gortat’s deal with the Wizards and Shaun Livingston’s deal with the Warriors Patty Mills’ shoulder injury (with a little on Kiko Alonso’s knee injury) Kobe Bryant’s latest attempt to troll and pump himself up...

title: “Sports Use Your Noggin” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-10” author: “Noel Robinson”

Of course, there are medical reasons for such broad recovery times. “If Bruschi was a pro golfer, he wouldn’t have played for three months,” says Dr. Stephen Nicholas, a former New York Jets team doctor and now chief of the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma. “Playing linebacker doesn’t require the same wrist rotation or stress that being a hitter does. I’d put a linebacker in a hard cast and let him play the next week....

In a year in which it put astronauts in space, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket that will deliver a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The launch was supposed to take place on Thursday but following an unusually high pressure reading in the upper-stage liquid oxygen tank, this was delayed first to Friday, then a further day. The website for SpaceX said it targeted “December 19 for launch of the NROL-108 mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida....

The Serie A side are without Radja Nainggolan for Thursday’s Europa League trip to Eintracht Frankfurt due to a calf injury and it is unclear whether Mauro Icardi is available. Icardi has not played for the club since being stripped of the captaincy last month, but Inter said on Wednesday a “cordial” meeting has been held with the player and his agent, Wanda Nara, who is also the Argentina attacker’s wife....

Juve saw their advantage at the top of the table cut to a single point by Napoli last weekend, Kalidou Koulibaly heading home a last-minute winner in Turin. Inter head into the game fifth in Serie A, a point outside the Champions League qualification places with four matches remaining. And Spalletti, whose team have won their past two league games, is focused on his own side rather than being worried about a Juve reaction....

The Croatia international has been linked with Jose Mourinho’s side for a number of weeks and encouraged rumours that he wants to move when he ’liked’ Paul Pogba’s Instagram post welcoming imminent new signing Romelu Lukaku. Spalletti hopes to convince Perisic to stay at San Siro but he suggested that he would be prepared to stand firm even if the winger confirmed that he wanted to head for the Premier League....

The sports and entertainment group backing the Spanish league’s bid to take a regular-season soccer game to the United States says it was contacted by the Spanish federation to discuss holding a separate game — the Super Cup final — in the country. The federation, which has raised its concerns over the planned Barcelona-Girona league game near Miami in January, denied the claim by the Relevent group on Sunday. The federation said it had never sought the help of any company to take the “Supercopa” to the U....

Dearie, a New York-based federal judge, laid out his plan for the review of the documents in a court filing Thursday. The plan signed by Dearie proposes that he’ll require help from James Orenstein, a retired magistrate judge, who will bill Trump at a rate of $500 per hour. The potential added legal fees come after a series of recent court setbacks for Trump. Appointed special master last week, Dearie is responsible for sorting out records recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August that are potentially protected by attorney-client or executive privilege....

There’s reason to think not. Times have changed since Einstein worked by day as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office, and by night as a World-Historical Physicist. Back then, science and technology were still largely the province of private patrons and individual inventors working in their basement labs. These days, vast networks of laboratories sponsored by governments, universities, big corporations and wealthy venture capitalists are all pushing to find the new new thing....

‘Marketing’ is not really a proper word in college circles," says John Appley, an Oberlin spokesman. “But as the admissions process becomes more competitive, you’ve got to show what distinguishes you from everybody else.” Helgeson, a composition and theater major, says access to art–borrowed from the university museum–was a key draw. He stood in line with hundreds of students overnight to get the Pollock. Next semester? “There’s a Picasso I’m really hoping to get....

In a video uploaded to YouTube a few days ago, user Savestate managed to finish the entirety of Ocarina of Time in a record-breaking 3:41. The most impressive thing about this feat is they managed to do it without using the full release. Instead, they took the five-minute demo and decided that this would be an ideal opportunity to see if they could get to the closing credits before the timed demonstration ended....

Speek is a new entrant in the secure messaging space that aims to take this up a notch. It’s a decentralized messaging app that doesn’t require an ID or a phone number and routes communication via the Tor network to deliver a more secure messaging experience. Here’s a look at Speek and the instructions to use it on Linux. What Is Speek? Speek is a decentralized app that uses multiple technologies in tandem to offer a secure messaging platform on the internet....