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The Nerazzurri were twice pegged back in Sunday’s Serie A encounter, with Cengiz Under’s stunning strike and an Aleksandar Kolarov penalty cancelling out Keita Balde Diao’s effort and Mauro Icardi’s thumping header. Roma were incensed in the first half when Rocchi opted not to award a spot-kick for an apparent Danilo D’Ambrosio trip on Nicolo Zaniolo, with Roma legend Francesco Totti questioning why VAR did not spot the offence when discussing the incident after the game....

The tree is a Christmastime staple in Manhattan, and this year’s Norway spruce, standing 77 feet tall, will draw throngs of visitors throughout the holiday season. A star is already atop the spruce, and on Wednesday the official lighting will take place with a holiday spectacular at Rockefeller Plaza. Catching the tree lighting in person can be tough, as thousands of people line the sidewalks vying for a viewing spot....

Houston acquired Westbrook this offseason in a trade with the Thunder, sending Chris Paul and two first-round picks to Oklahoma City while agreeing to swap two additional first-round picks. The deal doubled-down the expectations placed on the Rockets to reach the NBA Finals, especially now that their perennial roadblock — the Golden State Warriors — will enter the year without Durant and Klay Thompson (torn ACL). “If we don’t win, I’ll take all the blame for it,” Harden told reporters at Rockets media day Friday....

For the Rockets, things have gone just as planned. With their 118-97 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday they have started the season 17-4 and went 12-1 in the month of November. As for the Thunder, the season is not going so well. With their 121-108 loss to the Magic, Russell Westbrook’s team have lost three in a row, five of their last six and now sit at 8-12 for the campaign....

Houston is reportedly close to cementing a contract with Mike D’Antoni, The Vertical has reported. MORE: NBA Draft mistakes | Magic Johnson glad D’antoni resigned from Lakers D’Antoni will receive a four-year deal that will include a final year option, according to the report. D’Antoni, 65, would replace interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff, who helped lead the Rockets to the first round of the NBA playoffs, where they were beaten by the Warriors in five games....

Houston’s top target this summer was reportedly Jimmy Butler. But, it missed out on the wing as the Heat landed him in a sign-and-trade with the 76ers. The Rockets, however, “are better off without” Butler, “considering chemistry and what it would have cost them,” league scouts and executives reportedly told ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. The 29-year-old averaged 18.7 points last season and has made four All-Star teams over his eight-year career....

A year ago “MP3” was as arcane a term to most people as “WWW” was five years ago. Today everyone knows what “.com” means–and “MP3” is on the verge of that kind of recognition. Short for “MPEG-1, Layer 3,” it denotes a compression technique that shrinks audio files to less than a tenth of their original size. Aspiring musicians use it to slap their tunes on the Internet for anyone to download; gearheads use it to transfer songs from their CDs onto their computers to make custom mixes....

Many rumors about Grand Theft Auto 6 have been going around since before the second release of GTA 5 on PS4 and Xbox One. Rockstar Games fans may not have long to wait now, as the company recently put out a job listing looking to hire a live operations coordinator. This may substantiate one major detail from a recent Reddit leak. RELATED: Rumor: Grand Theft Auto 6 Map Leaks Online...

However, the company frowns on players taking advantage of glitches and gaming the system to fatten their wallets without permission. Rather than receive a big wad of cash, GTA Online players who chose to abuse the apartment garage money glitch have been awarded with a rather unpleasant punishment: their accounts have been reset back to day one. RELATED: Grand Theft Auto Online Dataminers Find Secret UFO Mission Everything from money, vehicles, and even level progress have been completely wiped from the accounts of players who exploited the glitch, no matter the amount of money they obtained....

Rishabh Pant scored 245 Test runs in January, at an average of 81.66. He started the year with a brilliant 97 in the third Test in Sydney against Australia. Pant’s counter-attacking style pegged back the Aussie bowlers and forced them to go on the defensive, as India pulled off a miraculous draw. The 23-year-old also scored 89* in the second innings of the series decider at the Gabba, guiding India to a historic three-wicket win in Brisbane....

The 3-man team at Hopoo have been working on Risk of Rain 2 for about three years now and despite that, it’s launched with more content than EA’s latest disaster - Anthem. Gameplay Risk of Rain 2 takes what Risk of Rain did and converts it into a 3D third-person shooter. Like all rogue-likes, ROR2 has permadeath and overall the gameplay transitions really well with another dimension being added. The only major problem I faced was sometimes not realising which direction an enemy was attacking me from....

Eric Winston, the long-time (and currently unemployed) guard and NFLPA president, has spoken up in response to the dangerously uninformed words of the Panthers’ Ron Rivera and the Bengals’ Marvin Lewis describing concussions. First, Rivera, who told reporters Wednesday that rookie wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin had suffered a “mild” concussion Sunday against Cincinnati – that he had “a little bit of a headache” on Monday, then couldn’t practice Wednesday while he was undergoing the mandated concussion protocol....

What if all the magic we witnessed from Duke’s RJ Barrett in the Blue Devils’ Champions Classic destruction of Kentucky is merely the beginning? If it becomes this effortless every night for Barrett, he’ll take every one of the many college basketball player of the year trophies and transport them across this nation’s northern border before spring arrives. He’ll become the first Canadian to win the Naismith Trophy, and the Wooden and the Robertson and the one presented annually by Sporting News....

TIP: This king of the road is so large it deserves its own gift shop. Short of that, consider the optional hot tub.

Tip: An alternative to the Corvette for $11K less.

This is the first time that the tournament is being played over five months with as many as three international breaks – a first. In every tournament, there are highs and lows. This edition saw many firsts, as well as some incidents which the league and the team would want to forget soon before they start afresh next season. The reputation of the league was mired by the incident of age-fraud just in its second week....

The graph has been always up for the creepy guy ever since, and Bray has turned into a cult figure that has the ability to inject a sense of fear into the minds of the fan community. In an era of plastic gimmick, a character which can stir emotions like this needs special recognition as he only loses out to Daniel Bryan in the current roster. His ability to captivate the fans with the microphone and push them to the edge of their seat with his in ring antics makes Bryan a expendable superstar which needs to be utilized correctly by the creative....

According to NFL Media, Gronkowski suffered what is believed to be a punctured lung in Sunday night’s 31-24 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. MORE: NFL Week 10 wrap up Gronkowski, who has 25 catches for 540 yards and three touchdowns, is expected to miss no more than one game. It’s not clear how Gronkowski suffered the injury, but it’s likely to have occurred in the second quarter when Seahawks safety Earl Thomas gave new meaning to “Gronk Smash” with a big hit to break up a pass at the Seattle 25-yard line....

The team said Gronkowski’s status “will be evaluated on a week-to-week basis and listed accordingly on the practice participation and injury reports.” MORE: NFL players out for rest of 2015 | Week 13 Power Rankings Gronkowski is listed as doubtful for Sunday’s home game against the Eagles. The Patriots said Gronkowski’s readiness “will be determined in the days or hours prior to the appropriate game. Any timetable reported prior to that final determination would be speculative....