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Djokovic, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, was ranked No. 2 but was given the top seeding by the All England Club ahead of top-ranked Rafael Nadal. Nadal, a two-time Wimbledon champion who is coming off his ninth French Open title, was seeded No. 2 for the grass-court Grand Slam, which starts on Monday. Murray last year became the first British player to win the Wimbledon men’s title since 1936. The women’s seedings stuck to the WTA rankings....

Most players are too conservative, says Yale game theorist Barry Nalebuff, Ph.D. After you’ve won, say, $8,000, your reward for nailing the next question isn’t just $16,000, but also the chance to keep playing for a million. His advice: guess more. If you plan to use the audience lifeline (which usually gives the correct answer on pop-culture questions), pipe down a bit. Sharing your thought process aloud can lead them astray, says Leah Furman, co-author of “So You’d Like to Win a Million....

Chris Gayle marked his return to top-flight West Indies duty with a blistering fifty in the second one-day international against England at The Oval here on Tuesday. The 32-year-old Jamaica left-hander made 53 in just 51 balls with five sixes and three fours before he fell lbw to off-spinner Graeme Swann. Gayle, arguably the world’s best limited overs opener, had not played an international match for 15 months following a dispute with West Indies Cricket Board officials....

Reddit user m4ddan took to the Windows 10 subreddit to protest the forced rollout of a previously-optional update that caused numerous problems for their experience playing games: “It has the same issues we had experienced with the previous optional update. Random stutter, unstable FPS, V-Sync seems broken sometimes, if I screen share on Discord my FPS in games becomes very unstable with V-Sync enabled.” Plenty of others aired their own grievances in the comments, with many noting the same issues even on PCs equipped with powerful components like the Ryzen 5 3600 processor and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card....

This column is in the spirit of good fun and as usual, your comments and opinions are welcomed. Winners and Losers for Game Week 12 Winners: Manchester City Home Form On the evidence of this win, and in fact, their home form this season, City are the best team in the EPL. Negrado and Aguero have struck a deadly partnership and in the game against Spurs this weekend, Nasri looked like the player that convinced Sir Alex to battle City for his signature when he decided to leave Arsenal....

The 34-year-old’s long-term health is reportedly not in question as Letestu is expected to make a full recovery, but he will be limited to only “very light activity” during that time period. Myocarditis is described as “a disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscle,” by the Myocarditis Foundation, which was established in 2005 to raise awareness for the disease. The inflammation “enlarges and weakens” the heart, thereby forcing it to work harder to circulate blood and oxygen throughout the body....

Now, he gets a chance to compete on his own, and pull on a U.S. sweater as part of the first post-NHL Olympic squad in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month. Since being picked in the second round of the 2004 NHL Draft — the same draft where Washington took Alexander Ovechkin first overall — Bourque has become as important a player in the American Hockey League as his more famous Russian counterpart is to the NHL....

One of the main attractions at this year’s Winter Olympics is set to be hockey, as Team USA will hope to return home with gold medals proudly hanging around their necks. The women’s team enters the Olympics as reigning gold-medallists and will seek to defend their title. Their roster features 13 of the players who took gold at the winter games in South Korea four years ago. The likes of Brianna Decker, Amanda Kessel, Kendall Coyne Schofield, and Lee Stecklein will all be competing at their third Olympic games....

A cold weather pattern has entered the Midwestern region, and as of Tuesday morning, the storm is lurking over the Rocky Mountains. Parts of Montana are expected to receive almost five inches of snow. The storm is expected to move through the Rockies and affect parts of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa, after hitting Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. While most of the snow can be expected in the mountains, most regions affected by Bessie will see fewer than six inches of snow, including parts of Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa—but Denver can expect six to 12 inches....

The storm is developing along a front above the Northern Rockies, a region which includes the states of Montana and Idaho, and will begin producing snow over the area overnight Friday and until Sunday, an NWS short range forecast discussion published Friday morning read. Temperatures in the region are expected to get lower than 50 degrees Fahrenheit, or 10 degrees Celsius, according to AccuWeather. The Weather Channel reports that this is significantly below average for this time of year....

A statement by the National Weather Service (NWS) Friday said the Nor’easter is expected to develop off the Mid-Atlantic coastline on Friday before impacting eastern parts of the Northeast and New England this weekend. Moderate to heavy snow and gusts are forecast to begin along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts on Friday evening as the low arrives off the coast of North Carolina, the agency said. “Numerous hazards are likely from heavy snow, with significant accumulations across eastern Long Island/New England, to gusty winds and coastal issues....

The storm has already battered states with massive snowfall and blizzard conditions as it made its way from the mid-Atlantic to the east. The East Coast should expect excessive rainfall throughout the day on Friday before the weather eventually changes to snow by Saturday morning, according to National Weather Service. The organization also warned of chances of flash flooding in the Northeast as the heavy rain mixes with melted snow some states received days ago....

The National Weather Service said that widespread wintry weather is expected from the central Plans to the northeast through Tuesday, while strong to severe thunderstorms are likely across the Deep South on Monday. The agency has issued winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories for parts of the Southern Rockies into the Central Plains, mid-Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley and central Appalachians. This could cause travel disruption and create icy driving conditions as far north as Boston and Albany in New York state, The Weather Channel reported....

Messi announced a shock retirement after failing to drive his team to victory at the recently held Copa America Centenario, beaten by Chile in the final. The defeat had serious ramifications in Argentine football with coach Tata Martino resigning from his post and several other high profile players thinking of emulating Messi. Argentina even struggled to put together a team for the Rio Olympics as several local clubs refused to release footballers....

A five-minute video Smith posted to his YouTube channel in 2018 is being analyzed by some online, as they note the similarities to Smith’s now infamous dust-up with Rock after the latter insulted Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. He also expressed his regret of the incident because the kid who hit him was “kicked out of school” and “threw his life away” because of Smith. The video has over two million views on YouTube since it was posted on May 15, 2018, but it’s causing a stir after resurfacing on Reddit with commenters discussing his story....

Just the Opposite: The Net doesn’t isolate; it brings new communities together. E-mail lets long-distance friends stay in touch. Chat rooms bring shy folks out of their shells. Sure, it’s not face to face, but neither is the telephone. Weird Science: Some call for ‘a more random selection of survey respondents studied over a longer period of time.’ (AP Online) Said an analyst, ‘It’s preliminary work and it doesn’t tell us much....

2016 PREVIEW: NFC predictions | Breaking down new-look Giants In case you need a refresher, Cruz hasn’t played in an NFL game since October of 2014, when he tore his patellar tendon, ending his season after just six games. He missed the entire 2015 season with a calf injury. Before the last two seasons, however, Cruz was one of the best at his position. You could catch him salsa dancing in the end zone as he scored 23 touchdowns and averaged more than 1,200 yards per season from 2011-13....

Rafa finished with a whopping 41 winners against just 19 unforced errors. The Spaniard has now won his last 28 sets in a row, having clinched his 10th French Open title last month without dropping a set. He next faces the big-serving Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, who is seeded 16th. Absolute domination by Nadal in the opener In a highly anticipated contest between the master and the apprentice, it was experience that stood out and by miles, especially in the opener....

The Slovak defeated qualifier Petra Martic in the fourth round to reach her first ever Grand Slam quarter-final. The Women’s tournament has seen some brilliant performers as well with a few of the top ranked players producing commendable performances in the tournament. Here are the top five female performers of the Wimbledon so far. #5. Coco Vandeweghe The strong-serving American made headlines by reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open which also helped her to enter the Top 20 of the WTA rankings for the first time....

Top players would be in pursuit of different milestones when they step out on the All-England Club. Led by defending champion Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, who is vying for a record ninth title, the playing field has has no derth of exciting names. The likes of Stephano Tsitsipas, Felix Auger-Aliassime and a few of the newcomers on tour would definitley be looking to make their presence felt on the big stage....