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The club have gone ahead and announced the appointment of youth coach Cristian Brocchi as the first team manager at least till the end of the season. According to multiple Italian reports, it is believed that the club president Silvio Berlusconi met Brocchi over a long dinner before confirming him as the new manager. Last night, hours before the official confirmation was out or sent to the press, Mihajlovic thanked his fans with an ambiguous Tweet....

The a monopolistic nature of the tie-up gives an unfair advantage to the mobile operator and allows them to act with high handedness every once in a while. This problem can be overcome by unlocking your iPhone 6S that does away with the need to depend on any single mobile operator. An unlocked iPhone 6S gives you the freedom of choosing a mobile operator of your choice. The software unlocking method does not work for iPhone 6S and hardware unlocking is a risky method that should be avoided....

It’s no quick fix. Even if Congress instantly adopted the plan (and that won’t happen), it wouldn’t rescue many already ailing banks. Although most of the nation’s 12,400 banks are healthy, roughly 1,000 - including some major banks - are not. Their problems mostly reflect poor management: they made a lot of bum loans. But outdated government regulation allowed the troubles to occur. Historically, each of our major bank reforms has repaired the failure of the previous reform....

If anything, the atmosphere was getting even more belligerent. “This is the most dangerous time in the Mideast in 20 years,” a senior White House official acknowledges. Within the occupied territories, U.S. and Israeli officials fear, Palestinians are growing so impatient with the lack of political progress that the uprising may escalate from stones to the use of guns and bombs. PLO chairman Yasir Arafat himself seems unable to challenge the rejectionists within the organization; externally he appears to be drifting closer to the hard-line Saddam Hussein....

Subprime borrowers have modest credit scores and little or no cash for a down payment. They took “exploding” loans, at 7 to 9 percent for the first two or three years, expecting to refinance at lower rates. But the market turned against them. Their rates are jumping to 10 or 15 percent, which they can’t afford. So far, most lenders are handling defaults one slow case at a time. If they offer any help at all, it’s a stretched-out payment plan (including late charges and piles of mystery fees)....

Advance copies of the book have made its author the hot topic in New York literary and theatrical circles. Besides Roth, Bloom candidly discuses her two previous marriages and her numerous affairs with the likes of Yul Brynner, Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton. (No, she didn’t have an affair with Elvis, but he flirted with her once.) But it’s Bloom’s attempt to give Roth a dose of his own invective that has people talking....

With Survivor Season 41 just around the corner, the show has likely been on the minds of gaming enthusiasts who want a proper video game adaptation. One studio stands out when trying to decide who should make it: Telltale Games. Known for titles such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Tales From the Borderlands, Telltale has produced plenty of narrative-driven games all about player choice, specifically in dialogue, making the studio perfect for a Survivor video game adaptation....

The white marble statue was erected amid the chanting of Vedic prayers in Atarwalia, the village of Bhojpuri film star Manoj Tiwari in Kaimur district. “It is a small gesture for the ‘God of Cricket’,” Tiwari told media in the village, about 100 km from here. Tiwari said Tendulkar, who played his last cricket match for India last week in Mumbai, was “an incarnation of God in the world of cricket”....

Despite being hospitalized since Friday, the president is in good spirits and feeling as well as can be expected, given the mild symptoms he experienced, according to accounts from his medical team and the president’s own messages. His doctors hope to discharge him from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday or Tuesday, and the president will continue to recover at the White House. As Trump continues his own treatment plan, at least nine others who were with him in the week leading up to his diagnosis also face a road to recovery, as well....

On that let us have a look at a World Test XI that could give India a run for their money at home. World Test XI that could beat India at home: 1. Dimuth Karunaratne Over the years the opening spot has been a struggle for most Test teams. But Sri Lanka have found a solid opener in Dimuth Karunaratne. Post the Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene era, Karunaratne has been the backbone of Sri Lanka’s batting lineup in Test matches....

Chopra took to his official Twitter account where he wrote that Ravindra Jadeja is being picked ahead of Ravichandran Ashwin because the former is an all-round package as compared to the veteran off-spinner. Chopra wrote: The former opener added that Jadeja’s selection is in line with the team’s balance and management’s strategy of playing five bowlers. He signed off by stating that team-selection is about balance and not about justice....

After hooking his ball well left of the green on the short par-4 17th at the Valero Texas Open, Baddeley decided to take an unplayable-lie penalty and re-tee his ball for his third shot. Not only did Baddeley hit this one straight, he knocked it straight into the hole. MORE: Leaderboard | Spieth feeling ‘better than last year’ heading into Masters Even though he managed a birdie, Baddeley could have walked away with a rare albatross, via a hole-in-one, on a par-4....

That statement is included in documents filed in support of an appeal of Hernandez’s conviction, The Herald News reported Thursday. MORE: Hernandez’s baggage will be NFL’s, too | Urban Meyer warned Belichick about Hernandez Hernandez’s attorneys say “no rational jury” could have arrived at the verdict, arguing that prosecutors never produced evidence sufficient to find Hernandez guilty of the most serious charges against him. The motion filed Tuesday is part of the regular appeals process and asks Judge E....

The former Patriots tight end filed suit against Dallas-based Securus Technologies in Massachusetts state court last week, but the action was moved to federal court last Friday. MORE: Most heinous crimes connected to athletes In the filing, Hernandez’s attorneys cite a 2015 report by The Intercept that a Securus database that included thousands of recordings of inmates’ calls was compromised by hackers between 2011 and 2014, and a report last month by the Boston Herald said Hernandez was among those affected by the breach....

Mostofsky was seen wearing fur pelts and an officer’s bulletproof vest while carrying a police shield in several videos recorded in Washington D.C. last week. On Monday, FBI agents arrested Mostofsky on four federal charges after he stormed into the Capitol alongside hundreds of President Donald Trump supporters and QAnon conspiracy theorists. Mostofsky is one of many Orthodox Jews who attended the January 6 protest against President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and was seen in several wire photographs standing next to rallygoers holding Confederate flags....

Second-year player Davante Adams could be the cream of Green Bay’s receiving crop in the near furture, based on what Rodgers sees. That’s bad news for Packers opponents, who already have to deal with Pro Bowl receivers Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb. MORE: Why Packers are SN’s Super Bowl pick | Boykin holds nothing against Green Bay “Davante is a very polished player, and he has an excellent demeanor for a guy who’s going to be a star,” Rodgers told ESPN Wisconsin after Tuesday’s minicamp practice....

Make no mistake, not only is Rodgers a baaaaad maaaaaaan, in the words of Stephen A. Smith, he’s also a paid man: Rodgers signed a four-year extension with the Packers in August 2018, keeping him in a Green Bay uniform through the (seeming) end of his career. At minimum, the twilight years. Green Bay has been very, very green to Rodgers: More than simply the years on his deals, with over $200 million banked in his NFL life, Rodgers has become one of the highest paid players in NFL history, with his total earnings placing him in the top 10 in NFL history in total earnings....

The Packers quarterback confirmed that he didn’t want to enter the 2021 season as a “lame-duck quarterback,” and given his standing with the organization, he felt like he wanted a bigger voice in the room when it comes to personnel and having a seat at the table. Rodgers spoke after practice on Wednesday for the first time: Some highlights from Rodgers’ illuminating, refreshingly honest press conference: — The genesis: Rodgers said that his issues with the Packers this offseason began with a conversation in February, in which he expressed desire to have more of say in things that affected his job directly....

“I’m terrified of sharks because I watched ‘Jaws’ as a kid,” said Rodgers. “While I do have a fear of sharks, I do think it’s heartbreaking to hear about the hundred millions that are killed indiscriminately during the year." The Packers quarterback put his $140 million arm at risk, when he had to stiff-arm a 10-foot blue shark during his dive. “I just put my hand on top of that shark, and I just swiped it down to the right," said Rodgers....

Roanoke, Virginia animal shelter Angels of Assissi reported that Luna had been tied to a pole and abandoned in the local park. Animal Control retrieved the terrified dog before she found her way to Angels of Assissi. Vets did a thorough workup on the dog they deemed to be in “horrific condition.” In late November, the organization took to Facebook. “We don’t know how anyone could leave her, especially in this horrific condition, but we will do everything we can to help her heal,” they wrote in a post....