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Djokovic and eight-time grand slam champion Agassi will team up for the French Open and possibly beyond as the former world number one attempts to get back to the peak of his powers. A winner of 12 majors, Djokovic – who split from Boris Becker last December – lost to Alexander Zverev in the final of Sunday’s Internazionali BNL d’Italia. Djokovic is relishing the opportunity to work with Agassi, having only claimed one title in 2017 after losing his spot atop the ATP Tour rankings to Andy Murray last year....

Nadal started the match aggressively and quickly went up a double break in the first set, banishing all concerns about the fatigue that many feared he would feel owing to the string of three-setters he played earlier in the tournament. But Djokovic signalled his intentions by getting one break back before the Spaniard could run away with the set. Nadal held on to clinch it 6-4, but by this time the Serb had sunk his teeth into the match....

The world number one has now won 13 matches against Chardy and all 30 sets following a 6-1 7-6 (7-2) victory at La Caja Magica on Thursday. Djokovic played with a swagger in the first set before Chardy warmed to the task in the second, but was unable to win a set point at 5-4 on Court Manolo Santana. The 15-time grand slam champion came out on top in a tie-break and will face Marin Cilic in the last eight after winning 81 per cent of points on a first serve that laid the foundations for yet another win over the 47th-ranked Chardy....

Cube simply responded with an emoji of the middle finger. “If you take him at his word, Ice Cube is attempting to do something very noble: He wants concrete political change for Black people in real time, in exchange for Black support at the polls in (checks watch) two weeks,” the article notes, later adding: “Cube is promising votes he can’t deliver for money he’s unlikely to get for change it can’t cover....

As Dmitry Bivol sat in his post-fight news conference at the Etihad Arena, with the demeanour of a man who had just completed a light jog as opposed to a formidable prizefighter who had disarmed and dominated the previously undefeated Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez in an impeccable WBA light-heavyweight title defence, his promoter Eddie Hearn was in wide-eyed full flow. “Dmitry Bivol is about legacy and about belts and he wants to become undisputed....

But, lo and behold, another Saints Row: The Third clip has been sent our way, and it’s here for all to see. Much like the previous co-op oriented trailer, this one also shows the different types of shenanigans players can get into with a friend. More importantly the trailer shows off some of the new “toys” that Saints Row: The Third offers gamers, namely the aerial drone. We have seen a few of the more technology-heavy vehicles and weapons that will be available in previous trailers, but this is pure awesome....

One of those standardized regulations was the use of OBD2 system diagnostics, which was primarily used to regulate car use. While regulating car use, the use of an OBD2 scanner made diagnosing your vehicle drastically easier if something went wrong, although it could do many more things. What Does the Check Engine Light Mean? The bright orange or yellow engine light on your instrument cluster is nothing to ignore. The check engine light, or malfunction indicator lamp, is illuminated once the ECU recognizes that something is out of its recommended parameters, indicating that something is wrong....

Considering Ethan’s continued character arc and Chris Redfield being a prominent player, many fans are wondering how much of the past is necessary knowledge to best understand what’s in store during Resident Evil Village. Specifically, it remains a mystery how much of the events within the DLC for Resident Evil 7 will carry over into the main storyline of Resident Evil Village. Of course nothing is completely certain until the game is officially released, but there remains room for speculation based upon the events in the DLC packages themselves, both of which are canonical to the overall narrative....

Rivers was fined for “verbal abuse” and “not leaving the court in a timely manner” during the Clippers’ 127-122 double-overtime loss to the Nets on Tuesday. MORE: 12 biggest early-season surprises, disappointments Rivers was arguing a foul call in the first overtime period with official Lauren Holtkamp when another official, Ken Mauer, issued a technical foul on the coach. That’s when the rage set in. Rivers was given a second technical and ejected....

While the Avengers series of movies maintained a more mainstream, audience-friendly style, with the advent of Disney Plus the MCU has diverged into a wider, more dramatic place. Raimi himself is no stranger to the superhero genre, helming the original Spider-Man trilogy of movies for Sony and his own dark superhero film Darkman in 1990. With that being said, just how close to his horror roots can Raimi go with Multiverse of Madness, and more importantly will Disney let him go there?...

Multiply Maggie Walker’s case a hundredfold, and you get an inkling of Hilfiker’s tragically frustrating job. Technically a family practitioner, he more aptly describes his profession as “poverty medicine,” which he likens to “the medicine practiced in the Third World.” It is a profession characterized by shortages; there is never enough money or time to do a proper job of doctoring. There is one surplus: “It’s a specialty with an enormous population of patients in America, yet virtually no practitioners....

That’s all it took for the franchise to launch an internal investigation that led to the arrest of two stadium security guards, Juan Prada, Fernando Sierra and a third man, Jesse Dagnesses, who was identified as the eBay seller. MORE: Crimes that rocked the sports world | SPECTOR: Can Dodgers win it all? According to the Los Angeles Times, the three men were arrested on suspicion of burglary and later charged with conspiracy to commit a crime....

There was just one problem. It was a windy night in Los Angeles and the breeze blew in hard as Lux’s hit sailed to deep left-center field. Ultimately, it knocked the ball down, made it playable for the centerfielder and gave the Giants a 2-1 series lead over their NL West rivals. Lux clearly thought the ball was gone off the bat. He even celebrated and pointed at it as it flew towards the outfield....

According to USA Today, the Dodgers remain interested in re-signing Greinke but like Zimmermann “an awful lot as well.” MORE: Johnny Cueto’s options | Where will Greinke go? | Destinations for David Price Zimmermann, who will be 30 next season, went 13-10 with a 3.66 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 164:39 K:BB ratio in 201 2/3 innings with the Nationals. He made $16.5 million last season. The right-hander has excelled after overcoming Tommy John surgery in 2009, posting a 3....

Unfortunately for Dodgers fans, that’s apparently not going to happen, as the company contracted to manufacture 42,000 of the collectibles allegedly never made them. Dodgers officials aren’t standing for that. According to TMZ, the team on Tuesday sued promotions company Plan P2 Promotions for $175,000 for breach of contract. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN The contract called for “100% hand-painted, break-resistant poly-resin” bobbleheads with Lasorda’s likeness....

The Serb fell to his first defeat of the season in a high-quality contest lasting more than two-and-a-half hours, which saw the Spaniard lose his first set of the week but come back to beat the world number one. “What happened? I lost the match. That’s it,” a clearly frustrated Djokovic said in his post-match press conference. Agut took Djokovic’s serve in the second game of the final set for the decisive break and secured victory on his first match point....

The Serbian has won his last three tournaments – two ATP 1000 events and a grand slam – and can climb to the top of the ATP rankings if he betters Rafael Nadal’s performance this week. Djokovic registered a 19th consecutive triumph despite a difficult first set, the tournament’s most successful singles player initially performing some way below his brilliant best. The in-form second seed broke early in fairly rudimentary fashion, before exerting himself to rescue three break points and maintain control of the first set....

Djokovic, the three-time champion, saved three set points in the third set which finished two minutes past the 11 pm (2200GMT) tournament curfew. The match will resume Saturday. Earlier Kevin Anderson became the first South African man in 97 years to reach the Wimbledon final after beating John Isner 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (9/11), 6-4, 26-24 in six hours and 36 minutes. It was the second longest singles match ever played at a Grand Slam...

In May, he outclassed Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, proving too big and too good for the weight-traversing pound-for-pound superstar, earning a deserved unanimous decision win in Las Vegas. The size equation will be reversed in Abu Dhabi this week when Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) takes on another Mexican, Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez. Although he is a former WBO super-middleweight champion, Ramirez is a huge specimen in the 175lbs division and weighed in at over 200lbs on fight night for his previous outing — a fourth-round stoppage of Dominic Boesel a week after Bivol had downed Alvarez....

Last weekend, CBS 2 in Chicago reported that from 5 P.M. Friday to 5 A.M. Monday, there were more than 100 people shot—and at least 13 were killed. Twelve of these shooting victims were children, and five of them perished. We do not yet know the demographic breakdown of this weekend’s victims, but we do know that African-Americans accounted for roughly 81 percent of Chicago’s homicide victims in 2019, and 79 percent in 2018....