According to the official press release, the folks behind All Elite Wrestling and Warner Media “have agreed to launch another night of AEW action, offering more of the fans’ favorite wrestlers, with a second show straight-to-series.” “When Tony Khan first shared with me his idea of starting a new wrestling league, I was impressed by his audacity to go up against a contender that has been the only game in town for twenty years, and ultimately believed that together we could bring his vision for a new, authentic, gritty product to bear,” says Kevin Reilly, chief content officer, HBO Max, president, TNT, TBS, and truTV in the press release....

With the recent rule change, which made the event into a two-man relay, the Skills Challenge was up in the air. Lillard teamed with Trey Burke to represent the Western Conference in a head-to-head battle for the title against rookies Victor Oladipo and Michael Carter-Williams. Because the rookies had some trouble with the passing portion of the Skills Challenge, the door was open for Lillard. His team picked up the win with a time of 45....

Despite their lack of representation at the club level, the work put in by the Sports Authority of Gujarat (SAG) has earned the state success in age-group categories. The SAG, along with the Gujarat State Football Association led by president Dhanraj Nathwani and secretary Gulab Chauhan have plans to bring the state of Gujarat into the spotlight of Indian football. State League At the state level, Gujarat FA are organizing several age-group tournaments....

It is only natural that the state has a thriving footballing system that helps churn out such stars. The state has had notable clubs do well at the national stage in the past like Kerala Police, FC Kochin, State Bank of Travancore (SBT), in the nineties especially. But there was also a dull period in Kerala football when there were no clubs in the national top-flight for a while before clubs like Viva Kerala came to prominence in the late noughties....

Don’t blame Raiola for Donnarumma exit Italy international Verratti, who has previously been linked with a switch to Juve, has told PSG of his desire to leave the club this close-season, with Barca set to make a €100 million bid. Reports in Catalonia suggest Barca director Javier Bordas met the 24-year-old and his agent Donato Di Campli while on holiday in Ibiza. But Juve boss Allegri thinks Verratti, who was pictured at the same restaurant in Ibiza as Barca star Lionel Messi this week, will ultimately remain at PSG....

Juventus were hoping to re-establish a seven-point lead at the top of Serie A when they made the trip to Stadio Luigi Ferraris, but were handed a reality check after going down 3-0 inside half an hour. Mou sent off…again! Giovanni Simeone - son of Atletico Madrid coach Diego - scored twice early on, before an Alex Sandro own goal left Juve with a mountain to climb. Miralem Pjanic pulled one back late on, but the match was already out of Juve’s reach and Allegri was particularly irritated by his team’s inability to get to grips with Genoa’s physicality....

Dallas, which is set to begin training camp later this week, wanted the 27-year-old wide receiver to take a pay cut and is reportedly planning to release him. Hurns discussed the situation Tuesday during a brief interview with NFL Network. “I’m good,” Hurns said. “Just wished they did this earlier, they asked me for a pay cut Monday, (a) couple days before camp.” Hurns signed a two-year deal, worth up to $12 million, with Dallas in March 2018....

The veteran NFL wide receiver, who last played for the Bears and is currently a free agent, decided to put on his reporter hat Tuesday morning, but not to reveal his plans for the upcoming season. Robinson hopped on Twitter and declared that … Cavaliers center Andre Drummond will be joining the Nets? NBA TRADE DEADLINE: Date, time, latest rumors, news, top targets “Per sources, Andre Drummond will be signing with the Nets,” Robinson tweeted....

Last month, Barbara Thornton and her husband Jack discovered the creature swimming near the shore by her backyard near the Wekiva River in Seminole County with black tape over its eyes and snout. They said that the hind limbs were bound up so tightly that it was hindering the reptile’s circulation. “It’s very sad,” Barbara Thornton told Fox 35. “It makes you wonder about the human condition and how someone could be so cruel to do something like this....

The Sheriff’s office said: “After receiving a call of an alligator loitering in the parking lot, deputies were quickly dispatched to assess the situation.” Enlisting the help of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), the team was able to capture the alligator and remove it from the parking lot. A spokesperson for the FWC told Newsweek: “On Aug. 31, an alligator in the parking lot at 4710 Commercial Way in Spring Hill, FL, Hernando County, was reported to the FWC....

“Sometimes I hug Darth Gator he is out alligator ambassador did you know that Darth is an invasive species in California where the Zoo is which is why they’re illegal as pets,” the Instagram caption reads. There are almost 136,000 likes on that post. In the video, Juliette Brewer, who works at her father Jay Brewer’s zoo, is seen lying on the floor with the large gator on top of her....

Steffany Spratling and her husband were fast asleep last Thursday when they were awoken at 2 a.m. by the sound of their dog barking, reported Fox 35 News. Instantly, their minds jumped to the worst conclusion. “We thought someone was outside,” Spratling told the station. “My husband started looking out of the window that my dog was standing at but couldn’t see anything.” When Spratling turned on a porch light, she didn’t find a person staring back at her....

The NCAA doesn’t need to pay players. It can just let others do it by getting rid of “amateurism” and allowing players to pursue endorsement deals and profit from their likenesses. MORE: SN’s 2016 NFL Mock Draft | Did Jones make mistake by staying? There’s your solution right there, albeit one that probably wouldn’t be permanent and surely wouldn’t come without issues. It’s also nothing new — this has made sense for years, and many people have seen that....

So much of “Almost Famous” is based on Crowe’s life that the film has already begun generating its own folklore. Speculating on what’s truth and what’s fiction has become the latest Sunset Boulevard parlor game; rumors that Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner vetoed Crowe’s original casting choice because the actor was too fat rage through Hollywood. Wenner, who enjoyed his “Hitchcockian walk-on” in the movie, says he is pleased with Crowe’s ultimate choice....

Timeline 1920s 1926: Grunya Sukhareva, a child psychiatrist in Kiev, Russia, writes about six children with autistic traits in a scientific German psychiatry and neurology journal. 1930s 1938: Louise Despert, a psychologist in New York, details 29 cases of childhood schizophrenia, some who have symptoms that resemble today’s classification of autism. 1940s 1943: Leo Kanner publishes a paper describing 11 patients who were focused on or obsessed with objects and had a “resistance to (unexpected) change....

Devotees of Carey’s stand-up act won’t be surprised to see him working blue. Some fans of ““The Drew Carey Show,’’ his G-rated ABC sitcom, however, might be more shockable. Comedy-book buyers, beware: on the Paul Reiser-to-Howard Stern continuum, this naughty tome is a lot less ““Babyhood’’ and a lot more ““Private Parts.’’ Carey happily owns up to his stripper fixation, pornaholism, pierced nipples and other personality kinks with the attitude ““Hey, I’m just a regular guy from Cleveland....

While Krayem and PFA CEO John Didulica differ slightly on the details of what a second-tier competition under the A-League might look like, both are completely convinced that there has never been a better time to make it happen. In fact, Krayem reckons a professional second-tier competition is feasible within 18 months and confirmed it is something Fury would be interested in. “I think if all parties worked together, there’s no reason why a second tier couldn’t happen in the 2018-19 season....

We were staying at the chateau of some friends, the Aga Khan and his wife, Sally. It was beautiful but very cold. Ronnie wanted to have some time alone with Gorbachev so that they could establish some kind of personal relationship and size each other up. So we took a walk, and down by the lake there was this boathouse that was wonderful–right size; a small, not huge fireplace; beautiful view of the lake–and we both said, “That’s it, that’s where it should be....