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It’s a tough call, but I’m leaning toward the latter after the White Sox’s Ronald Belisario and the Cubs’ Hector Rondon combined to give up eight earned runs in their respective games Monday night. Belisario blew the save; Rondon just blew in general. Now there could be winds of change coming for both teams. MORE FANTASY BASEBALL: Hit & Run | AL Fantasy All-Stars | Updated rankings Belisario, who gave up a three-run homer to Chris Davis on Monday, has blown three of his 11 save chances since taking over the closer role from the injured Matt Lindstrom while his ERA has spiked from a respectable 3....

Secondly, with 3 IPL teams in the top 4, it exhibits the sheer dominance of Indian cricket and promises some really talented local talent coming up. However, alongside this, there were some really special players with memorable performances in the tournament with the bat who mesmerized the crowd and influenced their team successful run in a huge way. We look at the top 5 batsmen in CL 2013. Sanju Samson New kid on the block, 19-year-old rising wicket keeper batsman, Sanju Samson was surely the find of the tournament....

For those of you who gathered 300 coins and earned the Gold Status can look forward to a Nintendo themed calendar, but those who were able to rake up 600 coins and gain Platinum Status have earned the holy grail of Nintendo memorabilia. It’s an exclusive/super rare/eBay delicacy Mario statue that features not only the pudgy plumber, but his pro-green brother, Yoshi, Toad, Peach, Bowser, and a lone Goomba peeking out of a warp pipe....

Understandably, there are many baseball fans who enjoy hyper-analyzing their teams after games — but that shouldn’t be the case on Opening Day. That won’t stop fans from chiming in and overreacting, though. Leave it to Cleveland baseball fans to complain after they watched their team lose the season opener 3-2 to the Tigers in Detroit under nasty conditions. There was even snow early in the game. One of them called into “Drennan Live,” hosted by Cleveland sportscaster Bruce Drennan, wanting to complain about the loss and nitpick strategy and effort....

Per Mertesacker headed Arsene Wenger’s side into a 39th-minute lead from a corner but Troy Deeney equalised from the penalty spot in the 71st minute after Hector Bellerin had bundled over Richarlison. The game looked set to end in a draw until Cleverley pounced on a loose ball in the penalty area and drilled a shot high into Petr Cech’s goal. Watford have now leapfrogged both Arsenal and Chelsea into fourth place, on 15 points, while the Gunners fell one place to sixth and remain on 13 points....

Global warming-related events can be anything from tropical storms to wildfires or flash floods. Even if people in the affected areas make it to safety through evacuation, one of the biggest impacts is property damage or loss. A recent United Nations analysis shows that somewhere in the world, there is an extreme weather event or climate disaster occurring every day. The occurrences have seen a five-fold increase over 50 years....

Using climate models and statistical learning techniques, a team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland were able to identify climate change’s “fingerprint” in global daily mean temperatures, which had been calculated from measurements collected in locations across the world. The researchers highlighted that while local daily mean temperatures might fluctuate significantly year-on-year, global daily mean measurements show a consistent trend towards global warming. They say their data modeling enables them to pinpoint the “fingerprint” of climate change on global measurements for any day since late March 2012 and every month since 2001....

The Americans will be favored to continue that trend when the teams meet on Thursday, and Clint Dempsey stands a good chance of adding to that total. He is currently just one behind Landon Donovan on the USMNT’s career goals list, and could tie or break the record if he can recapture the scoring form that helped him notch four during the March qualifiers. ‘Mexico furthest thing from our minds’...

The Seattle Sounders, Dempsey’s club team, announced Friday he would miss a Saturday game against rival Portland to be examined. The health issue has caused no decline in his recent performance. In fact, Dempsey lately had been playing some of his best soccer of the MLS season. He scored five goals over the past four games, including a hat trick on the road at Orlando City FC and two goals in a 3-1 victory over Portland last Sunday....

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Trump’s impeachment on Wednesday, with the articles expected to pass in the Democrat-contolled chamber of Congress largely along party lines. While some Republicans have expressed concern and criticism of Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, which led to the impeachment inquiry, GOP leaders have largely defended the president and dismissed the entire investigation. “The biggest difference between this time and last time is in 1998, Democrats and Republicans equally took this process seriously,” Lockhart said in an interview with CNN....

Tuesday, he took it to the next level — or, more precisely, sub-level — and hit nothing but air on not one, but two straight free throws. Somewhere, Joakim Noah weeps. Even though Jordan is shooting a career-best 52 percent from the line this season, he was 4 of 12 from the charity stripe Tuesday. MORE: These 12 big men could be on the move by the trade deadline...

For those unfamiliar, Clubhouse is an audio-only (and, currently, Apple-only) social network where members gather in virtual rooms and listen to one another speak. Some fans liken it to a living room conversation among friends. Though topics are often business- and tech-related, there are also chats about sports, the arts and religion. Though the app is still only in beta and not available to the public, it’s already gained much buzz after some very high-profile guests have joined chats, including Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Drake....

There are reasons for either treatment approach. Most fractures of the clavicle heal well with rest and a sling, but specific features about the break—and your overall health—may mean surgery is warranted. This article explains the rationale behind a decision to treat clavicle fractures with surgery, as well as when it should be avoided. It will help you to better understand the benefits and risks of your treatment options....

For the third time in as many tournaments on clay this year, the Spanish star bowed out in the semi-finals, losing to Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Madrid Open on Saturday. Nadal, 32, has won a record 11 French Open titles – those successes coming in just 14 years – and will again head to Roland Garros as one of the favourites. Speaking after his 6-4 2-6 6-3 loss to Tsitsipas, he said his run on clay this year was closer to what would be considered “normal”....

A spokesperson for a professional cleaning company, Housekeep, told Newsweek that the most common cleaning charges laid on tenants by their landlords are carpet cleaning, oven cleaning, refrigerator cleaning, bathroom descaling, and rubbish removal. Shelter, a registered charity that campaigns for tenant rights in Great Britain, says you only need to clean the house to the exact same standards you found, and this should be noted on an inventory or a check-in report....

The 27-year-old Sigurdsson, who has been linked with a move to Everton in recent weeks, has been vital to Swansea’s bid to avoid relegation, scoring eight goals and providing 11 assists in 29 league appearances. “It is good for a player to have ambition to play at the highest level, I have no problem with that. Gylfi is highly motivated to help us remain in the league,” Clement told reporters on Thursday....

MORE: Top 40 college football players | Preseason Top 25 After Clemson finished the 2015 season 14-1 with a National Championship game appearance, it’s no surprise the Tigers were chosen as the preseason favorite to win the ACC Championship — again. En route to that title, Clemson was also picked to dominate the Atlantic Division, but not without a fight from a Florida State team that follows the reigning champ in each poll....

Neymar scored the opening goal and assisted the next three, and Lionel Messi closed out the scoring with the final two goals as the PSG stars showed they are already on their game under new manager Christophe Galtier. What probably has their foes shuddering is that they’ve done it without superstar Kylian Mbappe. The French World Cup champion missed last week’s match due to suspension, and then was ruled out with an adductor injury against Clermont....

The Q was a magical place when LeBron was there. Every night, the fans would know that they were going to witness something special, something unique because LeBron was playing. In LeBron James they trusted. For 7 seasons, night after night, they rejoiced because they knew James would lead them to that elusive championship title in the end. For 7 seasons they hoped until one day, James decided he had had enough and decided to take his talents to the South Beach, where he joined Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in a title bid....

Ronaldo: Messi and I are not good friends Pep Guardiola’s men made an impressive start to the season but the Spaniard is now enduring the longest barren run of his managerial career following a 1-0 defeat to local rival Manchester United in the EFL Cup on Wednesday. Nevertheless, Clichy sees no reason for concern just yet and feels the side is on the right path. “At the moment we are not getting what we deserve,” the left back told the club’s official website....