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That’s the impression, at least, Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer and Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich got from Manfred telling ESPN’s Mike Greenberg on Monday that he’s “not confident” there will be a 2020 season. Just last week, Manfred said before the MLB Draft he was “100 percent” confident a season would be played. RIVERA: Do MLB owners care about baseball? As Bauer asked on Twitter, “What changed between those statements?” His answer was that Manfred, and by extension the owners, just don’t want to pay players for anything more than one-third of a 162-game season so as to protect their bottom lines....

The Netherlands’ players hinted that their Euro 2012 campaign had been undermined by changing-room disunity after their participation in the tournament ended with a 2-1 loss to Portugal. A team that arrived at the competition as one of the favourites after finishing runners-up at the 2010 World Cup and plundering 37 goals in qualifying will travel home dejected following three consecutive defeats. The draw that placed the Dutch in the finely balanced Group B was not kind, but no-one could have predicted the tame losses to Denmark, Germany and Portugal that followed....

The Bayern Munich winger has earned 88 caps for his country, featuring at six major tournaments since making his debut in 2003. But Robben has struggled with a number of injury issues in recent years, and last played for the Netherlands in November 2015. The 32-year-old has scored three goals in six appearances for Bayern this season and international boss Danny Blind has brought him back into the fold with the Netherlands third in Group A of World Cup qualifying....

Mexico may want to lay low for a while. The 1-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain wasn’t a smash-and-grab result, but it may have been petty theft. The team definitely escaped with a result — one it might not have earned. Luck, or the assistant referee, smiled on El Tri and the team leaves with six points from this window’s two matches. Mexico’s 10 points also keep the team atop the Hexagonal stage of World Cup qualifying....

The Ole Miss defensive lineman spoke Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine about his off-the-field character issues and inconsistent productivity on the field. The 21-year-old didn’t shy away from questions about a drug possession charge that emerged after he fell through the window of an Atlanta-area hotel in December. MORE: NFL Combine in photos | Lovable Joey Bosa acts like a great “It was a rash decision and uncharacteristic by me....

In their first collision at UFC 213, Whittaker defeated Romero in order to win the interim UFC Middleweight Championship, however, while speaking to Submission Radio recently, the former champ claimed that he hasn’t fought like himself ever since that victory over ‘The Soldier of God’. (H/T: BJ Penn) Since his first collision against Romero, Robert Whittaker has fought twice, defending his Middleweight Title over the former at UFC 225 and eventually losing the belt to Israel Adesanya in the main event of UFC 243....

For many, it was the perfect match-up. Whittaker was coming off a title loss to Israel Adesanya via a second-round knockout - meaning that there wasn’t any claim for him to get a rematch. He accepted that and decided to fight one of the most dangerous men in the division. However, Ariel Helwani of ESPN revealed on Twitter that Whittaker had pulled out of the fight due to “personal reasons”....

The upcoming WoW expansion back may still be three months away, but beta builds for the new content are already available for some lucky players. In the process of scouring the data for the latest build for hints as to the expansion’s content, Wowhead stumbled across what is likely the early version of the in-game memorial to Williams. The Wowhead team took to Twitter to share the discovery with the rest of the Warcraft community…...

KSI, also known on YouTube as JJ Olatunji, is a multimillion subscriber YouTube content creator who has made several transitions throughout his career. Starting as a casual creator before switching to video games, he has made a transition to music by producing his first official album, “KSI All Over The Place.” Meanwhile, Roblox is one of the biggest games to play on Xbox without a gold subscription, and has a large audience, making it perfect for a team-up between KSI and Roblox....

The latest Roblox Corporation patent intends to use new systems and existing computing capabilities in order to present Roblox players with “suitable” age-appropriate content like recommending child-friendly game modes to kids below a certain age. Because there are so many Roblox creators similar to games like Minecraft, there is a wide array of game modes for players to explore ranging from platforming or speedruns to mini-games and tycoon simulations. Given this large collection of creations to sort through, Roblox Corporation’s patent may make exploring the marketplace easier as it may recommend better content for each player....

After going public in March, Roblox has released a shareholder letter documenting some amazing metrics for the sandbox creation title. Roblox is a game about making games, and Roblox creators managed to pull in a massive sum of money in the last year. While not every creator monetizes their projects, those that do bring in a surprising profit. RELATED: Roblox is Hiding A Terrifying Clown Video Out of the many content creators on Roblox almost 800 of them earn more than $30,000 annually from their games....

Created by Tod Machover, an MIT-based composer who grew up with an engineer father and a pianist mother, the show boasts big-name talent. The librettist is former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky and the lead will be sung by James Maddalena, who sung the part of Nixon in the celebrated opera “Nixon in China.” The show is funded by Prince Albert II of Monaco. The show will open in Monaco next year before a U....

Rocket League will be the same experience on the Switch as it has been on its previous platforms, although it comes with a few significant upgrades - Rocket League will have wireless multiplayer on the Switch, and its release will coincide with the addition of Mario and Luigi hats for the cars in-game. With those new features, however, came some fear that Rocket League on Switch might become a little more expensive as a result....

The gathering was meant to discuss economic reopening strategies for the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic. Fertitta remarked about his GM as an aside after someone else mentioned China. “You know, it’s funny you brought up about China," Fertitta told the room. “I should have realized it was gonna be a bad year for China when my general manager tweeted out ‘Freedom for Hong Kong.’” Said Trump in response: “You kept that quiet, right?...

However, the developer’s insistence to double down on just a couple of its franchises seems like a major missed opportunity. Many of Rockstar’s established IPs are bursting with potential, and keeping them on hold means that Rockstar is missing out on a lot of money. RELATED: The Case for a Red Dead Redemption Remake Before GTA 6 Bully One of the most influential and inventive games of its time, Bully sees players take control of a mischievous brat Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through his school life in Bullworth Academy as well as the surrounding neighborhood in the town of Bullworth....

Sure, gamers know that a lot has changed since the second Max Payne adventure, and Payne has become much more grizzled and his world has a wider reach, but what they don’t know is how much of the game’s previous features will be preserved for this outing. There’s been claims that Max Payne 3 will still feature bullet-time and many other cool ideas that were mainstays of the series, but now Rockstar has come out to talk about both the inner workings of this next-gen Payne, as well as drop a few hints about what will be returning from Max Payne’s past....

Starting June 21st, 3 PM GMT, Riot has put up an epic Treasure Hunt Puzzle for the League of Legends community on its official website. It gives fans a chance to test their brains before patch 11.13 goes live on Tuesday at 4 PM GMT. The three-step puzzle hides secret codes and hints, leading to a glimpse of the new champion, for which fans have been waiting since January....

So far in the season, many episodes have been criticized for inconsistent pacing, and Rising of the Shield Hero season 2 episode 11 is no exception. That being said, Rising of the Shield Hero season 2 episode 11 is at least engaging and exciting, and it sets up the season’s final confrontation extremely well. Follow along as this article fully breaks down Rising of the Shield Hero season 2 episode 11....

How to Open the Hidden Chamber Scattered throughout the Abandoned Aqueduct stage are two buttons must be pressed simultaneously to pop open the hidden chamber door. Due to the random nature of Risk of Rain 2, finding the buttons may be tricky, but they are often located behind large rocks. Once two players have pressed them, they will be given access to the hidden chamber. If a player is playing solo, it will require some tricky object placement....

“I thought myself to be the dumbest guy in [terms of] history knowledge…but these guys just beat me,” the veteran Boca Juniors forward joked ahead of Sunday’s showdown with River Plate in the Spanish capital. “That’s all I have to say.” Many others will have plenty to say about the long-delayed second leg between the two Grandes for some time to come. From the moment a group of River fans attacked the Boca team bus on its way to El Monumental, the whole situation has been an unseemly mess....