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Former Australian pacer Brett Lee and explosive Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan were the other big names that the IPL franchises chose to ignore. Among prominent Indians who went unsold were pacers RP Singh and Praveen Kumar, former India spinner Murali Karthik, middle-order batsman Subramaniam Badrinath and top Ranji performer Pankaj Singh. List of unsold players (Base price in Rupees): Ross Taylor (Batsman) – 2,00,00,000 Tillakaratne Dilshan (All-Rounder) – 2,00,00,000...

Essentially, as Masuda sees it, the Pokémon franchise has always and will always continue to be a series that finds the greatest success in the handheld market. By way of its very nature, the pick up and play mentality of handheld consoles compliments the bite-sized structure of Pokémon. Gamers will be quick to point out that there were Pokémon titles that did exist on home consoles, namely the Pokémon Stadium and Colosseum titles, but those were little more than battle-centric experiences....

Fellaini was not available for selection for Belgium’s upcoming matches with Iceland and Switzerland due to a lack of fitness following a groin problem. However, United boss Jose Mourinho was forced to start Fellaini for Sunday’s Manchester derby due to a thigh injury suffered by Paul Pogba. Despite not being fit for international duty, Fellaini played the full 90 minutes in United’s 3-1 defeat, which could have left Martinez wondering why he was not allowed to call on the 30-year-old....

That month-ago loss to the Gophers was avenged with another vintage defensive effort. Happ had 15 points and 13 rebounds to help No. 19 Wisconsin hang on to beat Minnesota 56-51 on Wednesday, the sixth straight win for the Badgers. “Gritty group that I’ve got,” coach Greg Gard said. D’Mitrik Trice hit a 3-pointer with 1:44 remaining and 3 seconds left on the shot clock to give Wisconsin (17-6, 9-3 Big Ten) a 52-46 lead and seal a fourth consecutive victory on rival Minnesota’s home court....

Noble and the club have activated an option in his deal to further his stay with the Hammers, with whom he has spent his entire career. The 31-year-old joined West Ham’s academy in 2000 and has made 446 competitive appearances for the club since turning pro in 2004. Speaking to West Ham’s official website, Noble said: “It was an option in my contract that I signed a few years ago now, and it’s an extra year, which is fantastic for me and my family....

Published in 2017, the video features VanVleet playing a one-on-one-on-one tournament against Marcus Posley, then a guard for the G League’s Sioux Falls Skyforce, and Warriors microwave scorer Jordan Poole, who was entering his freshman season at Michigan at the time, in an empty gym. Spoiler alert: VanVleet smoked the two of them, scoring 19 points to Posley’s seven and Poole’s three. VanVleet was a man among boys. He put his entire arsenal on display — silky midrange pull-ups, herky-jerky sidestep jumpers, crafty finishes around the basket, you name it....

Aesthetics: Both have distinct designs with the Nokia Lumia having a smooth polycarbonate exterior while the Galaxy Note has a leathery feeling rendering it a premium look. The Lumia 1520 is available in black, red, and white and yellow. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has been unveiled in pink, black, white, rose gold white, black, and red. Display: The Lumia has a six-inch screen while the Note 3 has the 5....

In the latest event, it tested the durability factor of the Lumia 920 against the Galaxy S3 to see which of these phones could last longer under physical duress. Both these phones got strapped in and were attacked with darts. The Galaxy S3 suffered a cracked screen and couldn’t be switched back on again after multiple dart attacks. However, the Lumia 920 left everyone astounded – forget not being affected, it didn’t even have a single scratch on its body to show what it had been through!...

The Galaxy S4 has recently hit the markets and Samsung’s been marketing the phone real hard so it can go on to become as successful as the Galaxy S3. And even though Apple is yet to confirm the next-gen iPhone, rumors about the upcoming iPhone 5S/6 are doing the rounds of the tech community every single day. When you look at the Lumia range, you can see just how hard Nokia has worked on each and every device....

“Federal officials should continue to thoroughly investigate the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City,” Cooper said in a statement. “Public confidence would have been better served with a special prosecutor and by quickly making public the incident footage. Our state should pass specific laws to increase transparency, confidence and accountability in the justice system.” The FBI confirmed last month it had opened a federal civil rights investigation into the killing of Brown, a 42-year-old Black man who was killed on April 21 while officers were executing search and arrest warrants at his home....

The Winston-Salem Journal published an op-ed titled “Our view: Cawthorn is deplorable,” in which they blasted the North Carolina Republican for calling Zelenksy a “thug” and “evil.” He also claimed that the Ukrainian government is “incredibly corrupt” and that Zelensky pushes “woke ideologies.” “Of all the many, many, many reasons we could find to legitimately criticize North Carolina’s gift to Crazytown, Rep. Madison Cawthorn…it’s perhaps his latest exploit that has us truly seeing red,” the Journal wrote in its op-ed....

Fort Bend Marshall’s Malik Hornsby (2020) committed to play for Brown on Wednesday and it’s easy to see what the Tar Heels coach and former University of Texas coach likes about the QB. Hornsby is not as highly recruited or rated as Young was but it’s hard to deny the parallels. The 2020 recruit ran an offense at Marshall which could both stretch the field vertically and beat you by using the quarterback’s athleticism....

One of the design cues the shoe carried through its run has been big, bold imagery on the side, starting with a massive Jumpman logo on the earliest release and even into the recent “Photo Reel” colorway. MORE: LeBron James “Cereal” shoes | Damian Lillard calls out fan over shoe sale The North Carolina Tar Heels get the latest “big and bold” version of the Air Jordan XX9 for the Sweet 16 featuring Rameses, UNC’s mascot, on the side of the shoe....

North Korea was one of 31 countries to condemn Australia’s delay in raising the age of criminal responsibility and detention of immigrants at a U.N. human rights session on Wednesday. China and other Beijing allies also levelled charges at Australia, along with nations including Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Portugal and Mexico, The Guardian reported. But North Korea’s intervention raised eyebrows, given the well-documented generational human rights abuses rampant inside the secretive nation....

“The U.S. has tried to contact us since mid-February through several routes including New York,” North Korean First Vice Minister Choe Son Hui said in a statement carried Wednesday by the official Korean Central News Agency. “It recently requested to contact us by sending e-mails and telephone messages via various routes. Even in the evening before the joint military drill it sent a message imploring us to respond to its request through a third country....

No amount of preparation, however, could counter what the Huskies senior delivered on a wintery night. Lynch broke his single-game FBS rushing record for quarterbacks with 321 yards and No. 18 Northern Illinois completed its first unbeaten regular season in 50 years with a 33-14 victory over Western Michigan. "Jordan Lynch is the best player in college football and that's no disrespect to anyone else" said Fleck, a former Northern Illinois star receiver and assistant coach....

If we’re going to criticize Kentucky for rolling John Wall and Anthony Davis through, and Kentucky for rolling Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Devin Booker through, and Kentucky for rolling DeMarcus Cousins and Brandon Knight through, how do we let CMU off the hook for Josh Groban’s hit-and-run approach to college education? MORE: 15 best coaches | Jerry Stackhouse can still ball out | Cliff Alexander says his mom was “tricked”...

In its appeal, Northwestern wrote: “In this unprecedented decision, the Regional Director set out to alter the underlying premise upon which collegiate varsity sports is based. By finding that Northwestern University’s football program is a commercial enterprise and that its football scholarship student-athletes are ‘employees’ within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act (‘Act’), the Regional Director ignored the evidence of Northwestern’s primary commitment to the education of all its student-athletes, evidence that fully supports that its student-athletes are primarily students, and not employees....

That said, anything but a win against a struggling side this weekend could see them slip off pole position and possibly be as low as fifth going into the weekend should they lose. Nottingham Forest fell to a 2-0 defeat to high-flying Reading at the weekend, subjecting them to their ninth loss in the league this season. Another loss in this midweek fixture could see them drop back into the bottom three as they linger above the drop zone by two points in 21st....