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Tournament: Abu Dhabi WTA Women’s Tennis Open 2021 Round: First round (Round of 64) Venue: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Category: WTA 500 Surface: Outdoor hardcourt Prize money: $565,530 Live telecast: USA - ESPN / Tennis Channel Elina Svitolina vs Jessica Pegula preview The 2021 WTA season opens with the Abu Dhabi Open, where World No. 5 Elina Svitolina is the second seed. Her first-round opponent will be USA’s Jessica Pegula, who is unseeded given that she is ranked No....

Date: 9 January 2021 Tournament: Abu Dhabi Women’s Tennis Open 2021 Round: Round of 32 (Second round) Venue: Abu Dhabi, UAE Category: WTA 500 Surface: Outdoor hardcourt Prize money: $565,530 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel Hsieh Su-Wei vs Marta Kostyuk preview Hsieh Su-Wei started her 2021 season with a big upset over the eighth-seeded Marketa Vondrousova at the Abu Dhabi Women’s Tennis Open. That’s exactly the sort of push that the Taiwanese No....

Former Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic saw his Torino side take a deserved first-half lead when Andrea Belotti fired the visitors ahead, but the in-form Rossoneri burst into life after the interval. Club legend Arrigo Sacchi said before the game that Vincenzo Montella was “painting a masterpiece” at Milan, and the guile and menace with which they broke Torino down after an hour at San Siro suggested the praise was justified....

Last month, we flew from Monrovia, Liberia to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire for Monrovia Football Academy’s first international youth football tournament. Football clubs and academies traveled from across West Africa to showcase their Under-15 and Under-18 players’ talent to scouts from Manchester United, Bordeaux and Nice, among others. The week’s most consistent message – from European scouts, football agents, and staff members of visiting academies – was that football could ‘give a poor young African a new life’ by buying him a ticket to Europe....

This article discusses barriers to treatment for people with psoriasis and how to overcome them. Access to Care and Psoriasis Access to care means having the ability to see the kind of provider you need, when you need to see them. It also means getting effective, affordable treatment for your health condition. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Research Health and Quality, factors affecting access to care include:...

The two sailors aboard a 20-foot fiberglass vessel puttering nearby, however, probably had very specific plans to die. To them, the Cole was a despicable symbol of American power and prestige. According to the assessment of U.S. intelligence analysts, the men or their sponsors probably knew the Cole’s layout and capabilities, information that is available on the Internet. They surely knew that it was outfitted with some of the most sophisticated weapons and sensors in the U....

Literal-minded readers-those, say, who feel clever unmasking the novel’s “Icarus Prentice” and “The American Reader”–may still say Cheever is cashing in on the family name. But in so blatantly courting the accusation-with the title, a crucial plot turn, even the jacket, which co-opts the trademark Cheever “C” from his father’s books-he paradoxically answers it. What keeps you reading “The Plagiarist” isn’t gossip value but entertainment value: witty dialogue, memorable characters, mini-zingers ending each episode....

Downsizing, of the people variety, was especially hot early in 1996, thanks to AT&T’s January announcement that it was cutting 40,000 jobs as part of splitting itself into three separate companies. This was the quintessential downsizing story: many workers who had done nothing wrong would lose their jobs, AT&T’s stock soared, Wall Street hailed AT&T chairman Robert Allen as a genius despite his mistakes’ having contributed to the company’s need to fire people....

Exhibit A: opinion polls are driving Israel’s most significant recent political shift–the creation of the Center Party. Disgruntled politicians from the country’s two leading parties looked at poll numbers and decided last January that a new centrist grouping had a chance of breaking years of paralyzing stalemate between Labor and Likud. Polls also determined the choice of a candidate. Months before he retired from active military service, Israeli armed forces chief of staff Gen....

Moss was later treated at Walter Reed. From the accompanying print story: Oh recalled that it wasn’t apparent just how delicate the situation was until they began cutting away Moss’s combat uniform and unraveling all the gauze bandages. When he saw the tail fin of the RPG round, he yelled, “everybody get out!” “I had never even seen an RPG before, but I figured anything with a rod and fins on it had to be a rocket of some kind....

According to his website, Foyt was working on his bulldozer at his Texas ranch when he disturbed a hive. He was treated at a local hospital and released Thursday. Foyt, 83, described the incident to Racer.com: “It was scary, I won’t lie. I pushed down a tree with my bulldozer and thought I saw a bunch of honey bees, but they weren’t. So I threw it in reverse and got away from them....

Ultimately, however, both sides were able to avoid the unpleasant process, settling on $19 million plus incentives before things got too hairy. The Yankees have avoided arbitration since 2017, when things infamously got ugly with Dellin Betances. Yankees president Randy Levine not only won the hearing against Betances, he publicly humiliated the reliever in a call with reporters after. “It’s like me saying, ‘I’m not the president of the Yankees; I’m an astronaut,’” Levine said at the time, per The New York Times....

In that story, Tyler Dunne reports some interesting things he’s heard from a source regarding Rodgers’ toxic relationship with his family. MORE: McCarthy is a part, but not whole, of Packers’ problems The report also claims Rodgers didn’t attend his grandfather’s funeral, he fired a business manager he knew since high school and that his family isn’t welcome in Green Bay. These are all pretty big personal decisions to make, but the reasoning behind the actions is still unknown....

The Packers finally defeated the Seahawks 27-17 in Week 2 of the regular season, breaking a four-game losing streak against Seattle. Many think Rodgers poked fun at Wilson by saying “God was a Packers fan” during a postgame interview. PHOTOS: Wilson’s career | That other Rodgers | CASH: What if God is a fan? Wilson, who is a devout Christian and known for thanking God during his interviews, responded well to the shot, something Rodgers’ brother, Jordan, said he admired....

Saturday At Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Ala. Lap length: 2.66 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 117 laps, 130.4 rating, 48 points, $58,020. 2. (8) Chris Buescher, Ford, 117, 88.8, 43, $48,925. 3. (32) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 117, 103.9, 42, $35,675. 4. (13) David Ragan, Ford, 117, 80.2, 0, $26,025. 5. (1) Sam Hornish Jr., Toyota, 117, 105.5, 39, $35,900. 6. (38) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 117, 84....

Only one of Bryant’s daughters, Gianna, 13, was with Bryant on the aircarft. The two were traveling to a basketball tournament at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, Calif. ABC confirmed Gutman’s suspension in a Wednesday statement issued to the Los Angeles Times, but did not specify its length. MORE: Rick Fox shaken by false reports claiming he died in Bryant helicopter crash “Reporting the facts accurately is the cornerstone of our journalism,” an ABC News representative told the Times....

Witnesses had described seeing Maria Kolesnikova being arrested and put into a car in the center of Minsk by masked men on Monday. There was international concern over her fate and that of two other members of the opposition’s Coordination Council. Protests have continued across the country following the disputed election in which Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won widespread support. Kolesnikova appeared with her at public rallies and took over the mantle of the main face of the opposition after Tikhanovskaya left the country for neighboring Lithuania....

But a digital artist has brought the founding fathers and notable presidents to life, thanks to modern technology. While some photos do exist, they’re grainy and blurry at best, while there are only paintings to go on for the likeness of Jefferson. Reddit user Eoford used digital mastery to create life-like images of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Franklin and Jefferson, mimicking a modern-day presidential photograph with the men stood against an American flag....