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He said he and the late John Lewis concluded, “it had the possibilities of doing to the Black Lives Matter movement and current movements across the country what ‘Burn, baby, burn’ did to us back in 1960.” Biden, and even President Barack Obama, would follow suit in pointing to the potential of the movement that arose to national prominence after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, to divide rather than bring people under its banner....

“The Republican Party is in deep disarray and he’s solid as granite. I mean, he’s right where he was when he left,” Tim Malloy, an analyst for the Quinnipiac University poll, told Newsweek. Just days after the Senate acquitted Trump in his second impeachment trial, three out of four Republicans — 75 to 21 percent — told Quinnipiac they would like to see the former president play a prominent role in the GOP....

It comes as voters in so-called Super Tuesday 2 states—Michigan, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington state—headed to the polls. After Biden dealt a humbling blow to Sanders’ campaign in the Super Tuesday voting contests last week, the Vermont senator will need a good showing tonight to regain momentum for his campaign. Biden made a comeback last week after former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar and former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke dropped out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed the former vice president’s campaign....

Howls coming from Alberta oil country are for Eakins’ head. There’s talk of trades to fix the mix on a team that, despite having the No. 1 pick in more recent drafts than the worst NFL team, hasn’t been able to put anything together. There might be no stronger message than the ones fans delivered Saturday. It went something like this: “Boo!” These Oilers are a ghost of the franchise that went to the Stanley Cup finals in 2006....

Asensio, 21, has starred early in the season, scoring four goals in five games in all competitions, including a brace against Valencia on Sunday. The three-time Spain international was lauded by Vazquez, who joined him in Julen Lopetegui’s squad as a replacement for the injured Vitolo. “He is spectacular,” Vazquez told Cadena SER about Asensio. “He is at a very high level and still has to grow. We hope to enjoy him a lot....

RELATED: Pokemon: Most Evil Human Characters In The Anime Ash’s hat is almost as big a part of the character’s iconography as Pikachu. No matter what the style of his overall outfit, the baseball cap will always sit atop his messy hair, and when he turns it backward, viewers know it’s time to get serious. Each hat has its own little touches that make it great, and how they mesh with the rest of his outfit is also important....

In the 1st Test, England tried getting Steve Smith out in the slip and gully region, a strategy established repeatedly in the English summer. According to Sachin, in order to tackle the nagging off-stump line, Smith shuffled across and exposed his leg-stump and in that process, he also covered the line of off-stump. With the complete knowledge where his off-stump was, he left the ball and was smart enough in his shot selection....

Archer played an integral role in England’s Cricket World Cup triumph on home soil and is set to be unleashed for a Test debut in the second match of the series against Australia at Lord’s on Wednesday. The Barbados-born paceman has come a long way in a short space of time after qualifying to represent England earlier this year. Former West Indies international and assistant coach Drakes nurtured Archer’s talent at the Sir Everton Weekes Centre of Excellence and still works with the 24-year-old pace sensation when he returns to Barbados....

The hosts hold an astounding Ashes record at home as they have not lost a series in England since 2001, which provides them with a psychological advantage. Furthermore, their recent ODI success followed by a prefect Irish rout (by 143 runs) makes them favorites ahead of the action. While for Australia, the return of their elite batch (Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft) in the Test squad is certainly a big boost....

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is a huge sci-fi real-time strategy game. Its battlefields can feature hundreds of units at a given time, making for truly epic wars. The RTS also features both single-player story campaigns and multiplayer, providing a diversity of content for all players. But, again, the best part is that it’s absolutely free. It even comes with two free DLC packs, the Co-op Map Pack and the Juggernaut DLC....

The former English spinner stated: He further added that it is a part of his job to protect the cricketers from the negative stuff outside the cricket world. Giles concluded: Off-field controversies of Ben Stokes 2019 has been the year of Ben Stokes as the all-rounder had helped his nation win their first Cricket World Cup in July while his heroics also helped England draw the Ashes series versus Australia....

But when the roster was announced on Wednesday, it was revealed that she would not be making the trip overseas to represent the country in 2021. However, Harris said in an Instagram post on Wednesday that while to say she is not disappointed “would be a massive understatement,” she chose to look on the bright side of what her life has brought to her in 2021. “The last several months have been extremely difficult but I’ve met it with hard work, grace and finding joy off the field....

Ashwin has not taken part in the current series after bowling 86 overs in the first Test in Adelaide and since then has been laid low by left -sided abdominal strain. While Indian team management kept Ashwin in the final 13 and officially announced that a call will be taken on Thursday morning before the start of the match, Kohli made it clear that all is not well with the burly Tamil Nadu off-spinner....

Bangladesh played Asia Cup finals twice, and that remains as their best memory from the tournament. On the other hand, the island nation of Sri Lanka won the tournament five times, and that is the most by any team next to defending champions, India, who won it a record six times. Sri Lanka are far ahead of Bangladesh as they won 36 matches out of 44 against Bangladesh. Three out of those defeats of the Tigers came throughout the last two years....

Speaking ahead of the first game in Group A between Hong Kong and Pakistan, Rayudu admitted that the presence of MS Dhoni will be a big boost to the side as he is everyone’s “go-to man”. “Obviously he (Virat) is a big miss and loss to the team. However, we still have enough quality in the team to go out and win. He (Dhoni) has been India’s captain and always been the go-to man for everybody in the team,” Rayudu said....

The 14th edition of the tournament is scheduled to start, from 15th September, the qualifier is going to start on 29th August. Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka have made a direct entry to the Asia Cup whereas the remaining two slots are up for grabs in the qualifiers. Virat Kohli-led Indian side are one of the favorites to win the tournament with most of their bases covered. With nearly a month to go, We will look at the possible Indian squad....

India and Pakistan are both part of ‘Group A’, with Hong Kong being the third team. Two teams from each group will proceed to the next round, and unless there is a really big upset, India and Pakistan will proceed from ‘Group A’ to the ‘Super Fours’. All the teams that qualify for the next round will play each other in the ‘Super Fours’. According to the tournament schedule, the Group A winner will play the Group A runner-up on the 23rd of September....

India are grouped alongside Pakistan and Hong Kong in the tournament won’t be having any difficulties in qualifying for the next round. With the Indian bench strength, one can expect the fringe players to play the tournament and go all the way in spite of the other teams naming their first-choice squad. India’s actual Asia Cup squad: Rohit Sharma(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, K Khaleel Ahmed...