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It’s usually the same song and dance: Washington inspires confidence that this is the year things are different with a couple quick playoff victories. But history suggests it’s nothing more than a delusion, another round of sick and inhumane punishment for long-starving D.C. hockey fans. No team in the history of the NHL (and really, all professional sports) has proven so proficient at blowing leads in the playoffs as the Capitals....

Split has always been a controversial map in Valorant. While some fans loved the design, others criticized it for being overly complicated. It was removed from the active pool in the Competitive and Unranked Queues on June 22, 2022, with Patch 5.0. However, that wasn’t the end as it will be returning at the beginning of Episode 6. This article covers all the areas Split has received with Valorant Episode 6 Act 1....

From championship bouts to grudge matches, AEW will give wrestling fans it all on Saturday as the promotion gets ready for the next chapter of its story. AEW Champion Jon Moxley looks to continue to be at the top of the promotion when he takes on MJF. Hikaru Shida tries to defend her AEW Women’s Championship against NWA Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa, and Kenny Omega and Adam Page hope to retain their AEW Tag Team Championships against FTR....

Nehwal, who later revealed that she hadn’t been in the best of health, found her rhythm from the second game as she fought her way back from 9-11 down to pocket it 21-16. With Saina growing in confidence in the decider, the Dane could not do much and succumbed to a 21-8, 16-21, 13-21 defeat. It remains to be seen if this comeback can inspire the Indonesia Masters champion to upset the top seed and World No....

Our favorite oversized, overpriced and flat-out gorgeous slipcased volumes this year celebrate in plenteous minutely copious splendors of creation. The two volumes of The Field Guide Art of Roger Tory Peterson (Houghton Mifflin. $300) reproduce his chastely colorful and precise paintings of American birds. And the 17th-century Tibetan Medical Paintings (Abrams. 2 vols., $195), which originally illustrated a contemporaneous treatise on healing, contain thousands of small, vivid images, illustrating herbs, medical instruments, anatomy-and pathologies from dropsy to demonic possession....

Pietersen, who was unceremoniously dropped from the side reportedly at the behest of Cook and the team management, said that the cricket board was reluctant to sack the captain ahead of the 2015 World Cup to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, Feb 14-March 29. “I think it is selfish that the captain is not talking positively about winning the World Cup. In Alastair Cook’s own words it is ‘far fetched’ to believe we can win the tournament,” Pietersen wrote in his column in The Daily Telegraph....

It does so by influencing other organs, like the kidneys, colon, and the urinary system, to regulate the amount of sodium and potassium in the bloodstream. When sodium is retained, water increases as well, resulting in a rise in blood volume and blood pressure. An aldosterone test measures the amount of the hormone in your blood. Typically, the test is a blood test, but a 24-hour urine collection test can also be done depending on how your healthcare provider wishes to measure your aldosterone levels....

Currently, Aleister Black is one of the Superstars who are high up on Paul Heyman’s list. If reports are to be believed, the RAW Executive Director wanted The Dutch Destroyer to win this year’s Royal Rumble and face Brock Lesnar. Black was on this week’s edition of WWE Backstage, where he was asked by Christian about how it is to work with Paul Heyman on RAW. The Dutch destroyer expressed his happiness having people like Paul Heyman, Edge, and Christian himself to help him develop his game inside WWE and also provide timely advice....

With Spring Training just around the corner, Alex Bregman is feeling the excitement of the 2023 season, with momentum on his side, both on the field and in his personal life. You may recall that on November 5, during the victory against the Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series, Bregman shattered his left index finger. However, he was able to resume swinging the bat at the beginning of January....

In a highly touted appearance on the show, a masked Ye—appearing alongside well-documented antisemite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes—bizarrely claimed that Hitler invented microphones and highways, denigrated Jewish people and Israel, and praised the rule of the genocidal dictator, saying he “liked” Hitler and claiming nobody knew the meaning of anti-semitism until he started sharing conspiracy theories about the Jewish race in recent months. “They did good things, too,” Ye said of the Nazis....

The far-right pundit sought Chapter 11 protection for three of his companies, including his website Infowars, in Victoria, Texas. Each company has estimated liabilities of as much as $10 million, according to court documents. Speaking on the subject on The Alex Jones Show on Monday, Jones denied he or InfoWars were going bankrupt. He said he filed for Chapter 11 for his affiliate companies to pay their creditors in full....

“It is an incredible honor to be one of the first women featured on the cover of EA SPORTS FIFA,” said Morgan. “I know people all over the world play this game and I’m really excited that FIFA 16 is putting such an important spotlight on women’s soccer. And now to share the cover with today’s greatest player is surreal.” MORE: Scenes from the USWNT World Cup parade | Sepp Blatter pranked with fake money shower | USWNT to play England in Yankee Stadium...

Capitals beat writer Katie Carrera reports Mikhail’s heart issues began after Russia’s Feb. 16 game against Slovakia, which Russia won in a shootout. However, Ovechkin was not aware of his father’s health problems until after Finland eliminated Russia on Wednesday. According to Carrera, that was at the family's request so that Ovechkin was not distracted. Still, even if this didn’t affect Ovechkin’s play, it’s a reminder that sports, while often exciting and memorable, can quickly become secondary to far more important issues....

The France international was one of the most prolific strikers in Europe last season, scoring 27 goals in Ligue 1, a feat that only Cristiano Ronaldo (48) and Lionel Messi (43) could better across Europe’s top five leagues. After such exploits, Lacazette has understandably courted interest from the elite of European football, but Fournier insists he will not be leaving Stade de Gerland this summer. Olympique Lyonnais,” replied the Lyon boss when quizzed where Lacazette would be plying his trade next season....

Jorge Alfaro homered and drove in three runs, Nick Pivetta took a three-hitter into the seventh inning and Philadelphia squeezed past the Orioles 5-4 Thursday night. The game was the makeup of a May 15 rainout. Coming from New York before heading to Miami, the Phillies got 12 hits off Kevin Gausman (4-7) while building a 5-0 lead against the team with the worst record in the majors. “There were some tired guys out there, but they grinded it out,” manager Gabe Kapler said....

On the second day of individual competition, Alfie completed his all three league stage matches having straight 3-0 win to get a bye to quarters. Alfie, Aditya Mehta, Brijesh Damani and Laxman Rawat got one match bye and they will play directly quarters. Alfie notched up tournament’s highest break so far (125) to beat Kolkata’s Rishabh Dugar 3-0 before defeating former Asian champion Yasin Merchant by an identical same scoreline....

The 56-year-old Louisiana trucker has spent the last 17 years on death row after murdering his two-year-old daughter, JG, in Texas in 2002. He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Friday at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Department of Justice (DoJ) said Bourgeois “abused, tortured, and beat to death his young daughter.” After a paternity test identified him as the father in the spring of 2002, a court ordered that he pay child support to the mother and Bourgeois took temporary custody of the infant....

Before getting into those details, though, it is worth mentioning that Fortnite’s car radio has been temporarily disabled at the time of writing. As such, players may not currently be able to listen to all of the songs listed below from within the game, but they can at least get a sense of what they will be hearing when developer Epic Games is able to get the feature back up and running....

Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 4, Week 2 Fortnite Season 4, Week 2 has 8 challenges, and they are: RELATED: Fortnite Officially Adds Silver Surfer Skin Search Chests at Salty Springs (7) Eliminations at the Authority (3) Dance on Top of Different Sentinel Heads at the Sentinel Graveyard (3) Destroy Boats at Craggy Cliffs (7) Redacted <Dilbort Challenge 1> (4) Ride a Motorboat Under Different Colored Steel Bridges (3) Search S. H....