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1. The Dodgers think it is absolutely adorable that people are talking about the Cubs going to the World Series. Really, that’s just great. Oh, here’s new shortstop Jimmy Rollins to provide offensive value and solidify the infield defense. So long to Dee Gordon, who didn’t hit a lick in the second half of the season, and hello to Howie Kendrick, acquired for Andrew Heaney, one of the players in the Gordon deal, and really making the Marlins look silly....

Major League Baseball announced the sanctions Thursday, two days after the Cuban player took a swing at Giants catch Nick Hundley in the seventh inning of the Dodgers’ 2-1 home loss. Hundley also was fined. Barring an appeal, Puig is scheduled to begin the suspension Friday at Seattle. The fracas started when Puig swatted his bat in frustration after fouling off a pitch from Tony Watson, and Hundley said something to the slugger while still in his crouch....

But viewers were less interested in the famous names and more intrigued by a strange head that appeared behind home plate in the bottom of the first inning. MORE: Cardinals vs. Dodgers live score, updates, highlights The giant head disappeared in the second inning before the TBS broadcast showed that it hadn’t exactly left the game. So what was the big head supposed to be anyway? It certainly wasn’t the Dodgers’ mascot, as Los Angeles has never had an official mascot....

I don’t know PHP, but the site is giving this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c06/h04/mnt/96420/domains/offthepost.info/html/wp-content/plugins/facebook-like-button/inc/rec_widget.php on line 11 That’s not the plugin I deactivated, so it has obviously caused a problem elsewhere. Any ideas?

The Serbian did not know what had hit him as he trudged off Court Suzanne Lenglen following a shock quarter-final defeat to surprise package Marco Cecchinato at Roland Garros in June. Djokovic had showed signs that he might be capable of ending a two-year major drought with coach Marian Vajda back in his corner on the famous clay where he completed a career Grand Slam in 2016. Yet in a tiny conference interview room which he curiously retreated to following his stunning loss to Cecchinato, one of the all-time greats sounded like a man who knew he had already reached his peak...

No one makes first-round wins at grand slams look quite as effortless as Roger Federer. This was one of the easiest match of the Swiss player. He crushed Albert Ramos by 6-1 6-1 6-1 and it took only 79 minutes. After loosing in the semis in the French Open earlier this month to Djokovic, he was back in tremendous form today. The 30 year old, Federer last won the Wimbledon title in the year 2009....

He was less forgiving when it came to the way he was treated by the crowd at the All England Club. “There is a certain unwritten borderline where you feel that it’s a bit too much,” Djokovic said about being booed at times by the partisan crowd on Centre Court. “I didn’t deserve to be treated the way I was treated by certain individuals.” Neither the crowd nor a big mistake by the umpire could unglue Djokovic, though, as the three-time champion won 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to reach the round of 16 for the 11th time at the All England Club....

Good Samaritan laws protect caregivers from prosecution for medical mistakes, as long as the caregivers are acting in a voluntary manner without any expectation of reward (like the good Samaritan from the Bible story). The protection that Good Samaritan laws provide is not unlimited and is different from state to state. Reasonable Person Rule Good Samaritan laws are not meant to protect unpaid rescuers from making any and all mistakes possible....

If you’re ESPN, you just grin and bear it. That’s what the Worldwide Leader in Sports will do this weekend as the NFL threatens the NBA and ESPN/ABC’s traditional sports hegemony on Christmas Day. Sunday will be the first time since 2011 the NFL has played on Dec. 25, and the first time in a decade it has played multiple games on Christmas. IYER: Here’s an NFL TV schedule that makes sense...

But is it? Let’s take a peek. What Is a PS5 M.2 SSD? When Sony launched the PS5, it promised that users would (eventually) be able to store games and save data on an M.2 SSD, thanks to the expandable storage slot Sony built into the console. Now, that ability is available on all PS5 consoles; Sony rolled the feature out in a previous update. Not all M.2 SSD cards are compatible with the PS5, though, and Sony released a list of criteria that an M....

Adding an extra layer of security to protect your various social media, online shopping, mailing and cloud accounts often proves to be the shield that reduces the probability of getting hacked. The same applies to your device and system security too. The extra layer of security we are referring to is Two-Factor Authentication, also known as Two-Step Verification or 2FA. What is 2FA? Enabling 2FA means you’d have to enter a code (which you receive on your phone) after you have typed in your password for the service, social media platform, and/or device concerned....

So do you need antivirus software on your computer? What about your smartphone? What’s the future for separate antivirus suites? Why Do You Need Antivirus Software on Your Computers? There is a very wide online network and now, the majority of computers can communicate with each other. Everyone can send files, data, and different content to each other. Computers or mobile devices can download random content over the internet. Technologies such as antivirus software are needed to control all these potential areas of vulnerability....

On weekdays, Joseph Alsousou shuttles between the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the John Radcliffe Hospital in the city of Oxford. He stays in a house near the hospitals where he works because his family home is about three hours away in Wirral, Merseyside. When he returned from a shift, his landlady told him she wanted him to leave, despite his insistence that she was at low risk, the BBC reported....

RELATED: The Best Characters In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Ranked Many of the actors from the first movie reprise their roles from the first installment, including Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Stephen Strange’s former girlfriend. Although this actor is getting plenty of attention now, she has an impressive resume already that goes back more than a decade. 7 Spotlight (2015) Plenty of big Hollywood names are part of this story, which focuses on a group of journalists that investigated the rampant sexual abuse being covered up by Roman Catholic authorities at schools and children’s homes in and around Boston....

The incursions are a crucial concept in the MCU and refer to the moment in which the multiverse timeline contracts. While they are briefly mentioned in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the 2015 comic book miniseries Secret Wars provides further insight into their origins and the true consequences that incursions have on the fabric of time. The fact that the film decided to introduce the concept teases the possibility of a Secret Wars storyline....

This new era is set to begin with David Tennant and Catherine Tate returning before the fourteenth Doctor takes over, although the specifics of the story remain to be seen. However, it’s unclear how often Tennant will remain in his former role, as actor Ncuti Gatwa is confirmed to be coming to the show to take on the role of the Fourteenth Doctor. Considering that both a new Doctor and a new showrunner will be coming to the program, viewers can expect to see a lot of change in the show’s upcoming seasons....

Dr. Angelique Coetzee said she first became aware of the new variant at her private doctor’s office in the South African city of Pretoria when patients came in with symptoms “different” to other strains, she told The Telegraph. Symptoms included people from different ethnic backgrounds suffering from intense fatigue and a six-year-old child who had a high pulse rate, although none lost their sense of taste or smell. Dr. Coetzee told the publication: “Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before....

David Bennett, 57, received the transplant on January 7 in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death but said his condition had started deteriorating several days ago. Dr. Bartley Griffith, the surgeon who performed the transplant, said the hospital staff was “devastated” by Bennett’s death. “He proved to be a brave and noble patient who fought all the way to the end,” Griffith said in the statement....

RELATED: Dodgeball Academia: How to Throw a Slow Ball and a Fast Ball That being said, there is more to this challenge than just “time the counters better.” Dodgeball Academia is a complex game and there are lots of statistics at play behind the scenes. With the right amount of preparation, pressing one button at the right time will be as easy as it actually sounds. “Cheating” Menu > Options > Accessibility Settings > Difficulty Settings Set Damage Taken to 0%...