Binion’s lies away from the Strip, in the slightly seedy old downtown. Outside, it’s a glare-bright day as Mike Caro steers his car through the even seedier Vegas outskirts. A desert wind blows along the vacant lots, trapping tumbling plastic bags in the scrub brush. Caro utters his credo: “In the beginning, every thing was even money.” The self-proclaimed “Mad Poker Genius,” famed author and player, wants this above all to be clear....
There’s no real way around that. The Indians went 49-15 (a .766 winning percentage) against the six AL teams that finished under .500 this season -- the Astros, White Sox, Twins, Mariners, Blue Jays and Angels. They went a combined 12-27 (a .308 winning percentage) against the other four AL teams that made the playoffs. Those are numbers. They’re facts. They’re not a condemnation, not a roundabout way of saying the Indians didn’t deserve to play in the 2013 postseason....
This question originally appeared on Quora. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and access insider knowledge. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Answer by Laurence Shanet, Former College/Satellite Tennis Player, Tennis Coach, USRSA Certified Stringer: Like most shots in tennis, the key to a great kick serve is racquet head speed. Because many club players hit second serves that are really just half-speed versions of their first serves, many recreational players don’t realize that advanced players actually swing at least as hard at their second serves as they do at their first serves....
The day after Hepburn died I went to the video store in search of Howard Hawks’s 1938 “Bringing Up Baby,” perhaps the screwiest and most sublime of all screw-ball comedies. As great as she is in “Alice Adams,” “Little Women,” “Holiday,” “The Philadelphia Story,” “Woman of the Year,” “Adam’s Rib” and “Pat and Mike”–not to mention her lacerating, tragic performance as Mary Tyrone in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”–this was the Hepburn whose company I most craved....
CAPLAN: The late Yehudi Menuhin was both a fan and a mentor for you. What did you learn from him? CHANG: Menuhin taught me that the violin is the closest thing to the human voice. He said: “If you listen to a singer reaching for a high note, you’ll notice that she’s going to slide up to it. That slide should sound the same way on our instrument.” He wanted everything to sound natural, like the human voice....
The gender gap in health is especially dramatic in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of all AIDS victims are women. “It is a shocking fact,” U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said recently, “and one of which I, as an African man, feel ashamed, that a girl in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa is six times more likely to be affected than a boy.” Polygamy, sexual coercion and violence against women all contribute to this shameful fact....
"We were hoping that wasn't going to be the case," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said before Tuesday's game in Texas. "Losing two guys like that for the entire season is a difficult blow. One's a blow, two is tough. You move on, but you certainly have a lot of sympathy for the two guys that are having to go through that, because they've meant so much to this team over the last couple of years....
In case you didn’t know… Father of Aanchal, Roshan Thakur is also the secretary general of the Winter Games Federation of India (WGFI). He was very excited about his daughter’s performance and expressed that the achievement is a breakthrough for the sport in India. The heart of the matter The achievement is laudable as there is hardly any scope or infrastructure for winter sports in our country. Even if there are some aspirants for such sports, there is little support from the federations or the governments....
Donald held Garcia at bay with his right arm, using punching movements to rock the rookie’s head back and forth before practicing what appeared to be a shed move. Moreover, the All-Pro defensive tackle placed his hands around Garcia’s neck for the majority of the drill. No other defender was seen practicing the move in this brief clip below. Instead, they were seen milling around watching Donald put Garcia through the wringer after team positional drills:...
Then again, said Massachusetts defense lawyer Michael DelSignore, “At the end of the day, there’s probably no one else they can call. So I’m not surprised they’re not going to call more witnesses.’’ MORE: Hernandez’s fiancee testifies 10 hours | Story Hernandez told Pats | Relationship with Lloyd DelSignore, who has periodically analyzed the case against the former Patriots tight end for Sporting News and blogs regularly about it, said the defense lawyers’ cross-examination of the government’s witnesses have telegraphed their case well enough....
Packers star Aaron Rodgers is so “disgruntled” with Green Bay that he has told members of the organization that he does not want to return to the team, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who notes that the Packers are “aware” and “concerned” about Rodgers’ feelings. Rodgers is reportedly unhappy for multiple reasons, including the Packers’ decision to select Utah State quarterback Jordan Love with their 2020 first-round pick. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Rodgers and the Packers have been negotiating a “long-term contract” following his 2020 MVP season....
NFL coaches and players have voted the Green Bay Packers quarterback SN’s Offensive Player of the Year for 2014. But they didn’t do it because of his league-best 99.04 overall QB rating from Pro Football Focus . To understand Rodgers’ greatness, one simply must sit back, r-e-l-a-x , watch and enjoy. MORE: 2014 All-Pro team | J.J. Watt wins Defensive Player of the Year | Arians wins Coach of the Year...
“New Zealand is normally a gentlemanlike team to play against, but sometimes they do come out and go for what they want, and we’re expecting that,” de Villiers said at the pre-match media conference on Monday. “We’re expecting the unexpected. In knockout games, things don’t always go your way. In World Cups, they don’t always go your way. Whatever gets thrown at us tomorrow, I believe we have the right personnel to deal with that....
He admits how Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and himself make the core of the RCB batting order, enjoying each other’s company while playing in front of the Bangalore crowd. He then goes on to speak about the impact that Chris Gayle has at the top of the order, ‘standing tall’ and ‘bludgeoning the ball in the V’, using his bat like a ‘club’. He doesn’t stop short of praising Virat Kohli, writing that the Indian captain’s bat is like a ‘surgeon’s knife’, and he has the unique skill to sniff out gaps and place the ball through them....
Baekgu’s owner, a 93-year-old woman suffering from dementia, was reported missing on August 25 after she fell unconscious in a field, according to The Korea Times. When the woman, identified only as Kim, could not be found her daughter contacted authorities and filed a missing person’s report. When authorities checked surveillance footage of a nearby farm, they saw the elderly woman leaving her village in Hongseong county at dawn with her dog but never returning....
Abbott made border security a central theme of his reelection campaign and easily ousted Democrat Beta O’Rourke during the November 8 midterm elections. In the months leading up to the election, Abbott took a staunch stance against illegal immigrants by authorizing the Texas National Guard and the state’s Department of Public Safety to return apprehended migrants back to the Mexico border. Abbott has been one of the biggest critics of President Joe Biden’s border policies, which the White House said “is working to rebuild our immigration system after four years of chaos and mismanagement,” on its website....
“They’re trying to redefine what it means to be a woman,” Wambach told USA Today. “So many women believe … that we’re just supposed to be polite and say, ‘Thank you so much, we’re so grateful to be here.’ And you know what, that was so four years ago.” The national team that competed in France started political conversations, faced criticism about their celebrations and grew awareness around the pay gap between the women’s and men’s game — demanding a change to be made....
The 21-year-old missed the only penalty in the shoot-out as Frank Lampard’s men were edged 5-4 by Liverpool after a 2-2 draw in Istanbul on Wednesday. But Abraham, who scored 26 goals for Aston Villa in the Championship last season, said he always had belief in his spot-kicks. “I’ve scored a few. Unfortunately I missed one of the most important ones for Chelsea,” he told UK newspapers. “They say the top players always miss penalties and it’s about how you react....
Overwatch launched in 2016 and was the first original IP released by Blizzard since 1998’s sci-fi strategy game Starcraft. The colorful hero-shooter pit two teams of six against each other in objective-based competitive multiplayer, though more traditional multiplayer modes like team deathmatch and free-for-all were added in subsequent updates. The team-focused gameplay meant team build and composition were extremely important, tasking players to find the right combination of damage dealers, support healers, and aggro-drawing tanks....
