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Beloved comedian Saget, 65, was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, several hours after having performed at a stand-up comedy show in Jacksonville, Florida. He was pronounced dead at the scene. As tributes continue to flood in for the star, Entertainment Tonight has shared its final interview with Saget, who left behind his wife of three years and his daughters—Aubrey, 34, Lara, 32, and Jennifer, 29—from his marriage to Sherri Kramer....

The family and the university have been silent on the matter, but a GoFundMe page has been created by a family friend stating the allegations. “(Smith) was trying to avoid conflict and walk away from the situation when Rick was assaulted by one of his teammate shady actions…which landed him in the hospital in the ICU. Rick is suffering from a skull fracture, brain hemorrhage and his entire brain is swollen,” the page reads....

The 53-year-old Hoyos, who helped coach Lionel Messi as a teenager at Barcelona and was in charge of Bolivian first division side Bolivar in 2011-12, replaced Julio Cesar Baldivieso. “What’s important now is that everyone, directors, clubs, press and fans support the new process…and work to change Bolivian football,” FBF head Marco Peredo told reporters in the city of Cochabamba where Hoyos was unveiled. Bolivia, who have struggled for years on the international stage and last reached the World Cup finals in 1994, are one from bottom of South America’s 2018 World Cup qualifying group with three points from six matches....

NEWSWEEK: You’re in New York City for a United Nations forum on indigenous issues, and the focus this year is on the impact of climate change. How is climate change affecting Bolivians? Evo Morales: Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It’s brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the planet earth. That’s why I think it’s very important to review those policies, and we really have an obligation as human beings to seek solutions....

Already relegated from the second tier, Bolton’s final home fixture with Brentford, scheduled for April 27, was postponed amid an ongoing player strike over unpaid wages - a decision that was backed by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA). The club’s ownership situation remains unresolved, with a proposed takeover by Laurence Bassini having reportedly not progressed, but the EFL has indicated that Wanderers’ trip to the City Ground on Sunday will take place....

It has yet to be determined who issued the bomb threat, but it’s worth mentioning that this threat comes at a time where companies across the United States are being evacuated for similar threats. A Bitcoin e-mail scam, attempting to ransom $20,000 worth of virtual currency out of the organizations being threatened, is possibly to blame for these widespread incidents. While it’s possible the bomb threat at Infinity Ward is a unique situation, it seems likely that the studio is also a victim of the Bitcoin e-mail threats....

Goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan – opening his Gunners account – and Aaron Ramsey gave Arsene Wenger’s struggling Premier League team victory at San Siro on Thursday. Gennaro Gattuso highlighted errors made at the back by Milan, but Bonucci felt it was a question of mentality that led to the end of their 13-game unbeaten run. “We did not have the right mentality right from the get go,” Bonucci told Sky Sport Italia....

City chief executive Ferran Soriano claimed last month that Bonucci had called the club ahead of this season stating a desire to play under Pep Guardiola. But the Italy center back, who has won five Serie A titles with Juve, insists no such conversation took place. “I never called anybody and they never called me personally,” Bonucci told RAI. “I feel I have the Juve shirt sewn to my body because I breathe it every day, but wearing the national team shirt is also an honor....

—JOHN STUART MILL ON HIS FATHER, IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.) —LUCRETIUS, DE RERUM NATURA Imagine that you can perform a feat of which I am incapable. Imagine, in other words, that you can picture an infinitely benign and all-powerful creator, who conceived of you, then made and shaped you, brought you into the world he had made for you, and now supervises and cares for you even while you sleep....

While many of these Wordle spinoffs may be considered knockoffs, many others attempt to add their own unique spin to the formula. The recently released Bookdle falls into the latter category, being a literature-themed puzzle game based on Josh Wardle’s popular formula. RELATED: Summle is a New Math Game Inspired by Wordle Created by Hannah Park and Chase Wackerfuss, Bookdle is open about its status as a Wordle clone, acknowledging as much in its “how to play” section....

Nowhere is that clearer than in Sony Style, the attractive new publication of the Sony Corp. Appearing biannually on newsstands–for $4.95 an issue–Style’s 300 pages is a tribute to feature editors everywhere. A story about “freedom of speech” turns out to be a paean to cordless telephones; the heartbreak of information overload is a pitch for a new floppy disc. “These advertisers are saying they want to go one-on-one with their customers,” says Bill Murphy of Meredith Corp....

Expectations for BlizzCon 2019’s Opening Ceremony announcements are very high. Blizzard’s official schedule for BlizzCon 2019’s scheduled panels and events includes 6 mysterious, unlabeled “Coming Soon!” panels. Each of these panels is certain to be tied to a major announcement planned for BlizzCon’s Opening Ceremony. That could mean announcements for 6 different games or multiple announcements for big franchises like Overwatch or World of Warcraft. Fans will have to watch to find out....

As the world of professional basketball continues to be rocked by ?the NBA referee scandal, truehoop.com gets a cross section of the roundball cognoscenti to weigh in on the controversy. A member of the Guam Senate is found to be an avid World of Warcraft player—one who pops up in the gamepolitics.com and kotaku message boards to chat with his fellow gamers. w00t! title: “Blogwatch What S Hot And What S Not” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-23” author: “Avery Quinn” President Bush cites two Iraqi bloggers as evidence that the surge has gone well....

No surprise, then, that the Russian and American presidents have been chatting a lot lately, and that one of Putin’s pet subjects is oil. In a recent conversation, Putin asked Bush for reassurances that oil would not be permitted to drop too low (say, $21 a barrel) if there were an Iraq war, administration officials said. Oil came up again last week when Putin’s chief of staff, Aleksandr Voloshin, made the rounds in Washington....

Blood sugar spikes are often brought on when eating too much food containing carbohydrates. When you eat food containing carbohydrates, your body breaks down the carbohydrates into a simple sugar called glucose. Glucose then enters your bloodstream. When the amount of glucose in your blood starts to rise, it sends a signal to your pancreas to release a hormone called insulin. Insulin’s job is to act like a key to unlock the doors of different cells in your body....

Bloodborne players will fight one of three final bosses, depending on which ending they get. The first of these bosses, Mergo’s Wet Nurse, is the only boss that is required to fight regardless of which ending one gets. A notable change this boss makes compared to others is that rather than a typical grand orchestral soundtrack, this boss battle is accompanied by an ominous lullaby that sounds like it is being played off a music box....

Toronto and the 27-year-old outfielder have agreed to a five-year extension, the team announced on Tuesday. Grichuk was set to become a free agent after 2020. The deal is worth $52million, according to a report from Sportsnet. Grichuk slashed .245/.301/.502 in 124 games last season, his first with the Blue Jays. He hit a career-high 25 home runs and tallied 61 RBIs. Entering play on Tuesday, he had two hits in 16 at-bats with a home run in five games so far in 2019....

That’s because the team will not be serving the adult beverage in cans for the rest of the playoffs, a decision made after a fan narrowly missed Hyun Soo Kim with a can of beer he hurled at the Orioles left fielder as he was fielding a fly fall during the AL wild-card game, the Canadian Press reported. PLAYOFFS 2016: The top 50 players in the postseason Ken Pagan, 41, was arrested for criminal mischief in the can-throwing incident after a photo of him was released by Toronto police....

Here’s the latest news item that has Bleed Blue Nation wailing: Vladimir Tarasenko, the team’s leader with 36 goals and 71 points, is day-to-day with a lower-body injury. MORE: Drew Miller’s skate-to-face eye scare | If playoffs began today … Before booking that ticket to jump off the Gateway Arch (as if that could happen), Blues fans should consider what coach Ken Hitchcock told reporters on Wednesday: “Everybody’s day-to-day, everybody will be ready for the playoffs....