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Celtics point guard Terry Rozier scored a game-high 20 points off the bench on eight-of-12 shooting with four rebounds and three assists midweek. Rozier glided through Cleveland’s defense, making clutch shots all night. Marcus Smart and Jayson Tatum added 15 points apiece, and Jaylen Brown scored 14 points. Former Cavs star Kyrie Irving struggled with his shot, but still scored 11 points with nine rebounds and six assists. Cavaliers guard Isaiah Thomas was held out of the line-up for rest after making his season debut on Tuesday, scoring 17 points in 19 minutes....

In the Group Phase, only the top two sides in each of the eight groups of the First Round will progress to the Second Round. The top two sides in each of those groups will then advance to the Final Phase, which opens with the Quarter-Finals. Drawn in Group C with Iran, Puerto Rico and Tunisia, Spain, the No. 2 side in the FIBA World Ranking presented by NIKE, will be prohibitive favorites against each of those opponents....

Moutet, 20, beat Milos Raonic in the second round and on Friday overcame Fernando Verdasco and top seed Stan Wawrinka in three sets to reach his first final at this level. However, getting the better of Rublev - the runner-up in 2018 - proved too much of a challenge, with the promising 22-year-old kicking off his season by claiming a third ATP Tour title of his career that will send him into the top 20 for the first time....

Rudi Garcia has been appointed as the new head coach at Roma. As per the reports on L’Equipe, Garcia, who was holding talks about moving to the Italian side for the past few days, finally met up with James Pallotta – the majority share holder in Roma – and signed a two-year deal worth €1.5 million-a-season, which has an option for a one year extension. Pallotta expressed his faith in Garcia by saying: “We are very excited and confident that Rudi Garcia is the right coach for AS Roma....

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan executed the warrant at Giuliani’s Upper East Side apartment, seizing multiple electronic devices. Giuliani, the personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, has been investigated over alleged lobbying ties to Ukrainian officials since 2019. Giuliani appeared on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight to vigorously defend himself against the probe, calling the search warrant “illegal” and “unconstitutional.” He claimed the investigators took about “seven or eight” of his electronics and “two of someone else’s,” but steadfastly refused to seize the former New York City mayor’s much-touted hard drives allegedly containing incriminating information against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter....

While on the other hand, Fiji managed to win only a single match and this was a crucial fixture for them to keep their hopes to proceed into the quarterfinals alive. Wales, who came in as favourites, won the match with a margin of 12 points. In the first half of the game, the scores of both the teams were close as Wales scored 14 while Fiji scored 10. While in the second half, Wales left their opponents behind as they scored 15 points while Fiji managed to score only 7 points....

Yu Ruiyuan of China led the table with 8.5 points despite losing to compatriot Zeng Chongsheng in the 10th and penultimate round of the SDAT-RMK 4th Chennai Open International Grandmaster chess tournament here Wednesday. Sharing the second spot with 8.0 points were top seeds Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), defending champion Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine), Akshayraj Kore (India) and Marat Dzhumaev. The top board game between Kore and Aleksej turned out to be an interesting fare....

RELATED: New Assassin’s Creed Novel Leaks, Suggests Release Window of Next Game However, it’s worth pointing out that the companion novels for past Assassin’s Creed games have not necessarily released on the same day as the games themselves. So it’s possible that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will actually come out a few weeks before the novelization and launch in October instead. This wouldn’t be terribly surprising, as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Origins, and Syndicate all launched in October....

In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s inaugural season of post-launch content, the MAC-10 SMG and Groza Assault Rifle were added to the game’s gun lineup. While the Groza fits comfortably in the AR category, being a solid, well-rounded weapon that does decent damage at all ranges, the MAC-10 proved dominant upon its release. Becoming a powerhouse in both multiplayer and Call of Duty: Warzone, it will be interesting to see how the new SMG stacks up....

In mid-February, Activision announced that a new Call of Duty: Warzone game is in development at the company. The company confirmed that the game will be a companion to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sequel, and will likely only include content from this game. This is owing to the fact that Call of Duty: Warzone began to experience balancing issues when more and more content from subsequent mainline Call of Duty games began to be added to it....

How much would it cost to sign Cristiano Ronaldo? Like Pepe recently, Ronaldo believes Madrid could have done more to protect him in the ongoing case, which claims he has failed to pay €14.7 million in taxes during his time at the Spanish side. Currently away with Portugal on Confederations Cup duty in Russia, Ronaldo posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday with a finger over his lips and a caption that read: “Sometimes the best answer it’s to be quiet”....

Ronaldo may have a lot of respect for Sir Alex Ferguson for ‘teaching me the game’, but the Portuguese has warned Manchester United, saying that he would go all out to knock the English side out of the Champions League. The Real Madrid striker has managed an incredible 179 goals in 178 games, after joining the Galacticos in 2009. He knows that he will be the central figure of the match, once he returns to Old Trafford for the first leg....

Appearing on Fox Sports’ “The Herd,” the UFC president confirmed Rousey will face Amanda Nunes on at UFC 207 on Dec. 30. The 29-year-old has kept a low profile since her loss to Holm, so her return will surely draw a lot of attention. MORE: A look back: Rousey vs. Holm “It was never really about a psychological problem with Ronda,” White said about the long delay between fights. “The thing with Ronda is she wanted time off....

City’s Van Dijk move hinges on Mbappe The Manchester United star and former England internationals were among around 1,400 people who invested in a film financing scheme called Ingenious Media, with a large number of footballers said to have signed up. Those investing in Ingenious had to put in at least £100,000 with the guarantee that they would be given tax breaks of 100% should any losses occur. The scheme was investigated by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and ruled to have taken advantage of reliefs by reporting artificial losses, insisting that only 30% was tax deductible....

Root was hospitalised on the final morning of the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney with gastroenteritis but England ODI skipper Eoin Morgan said he would play in the series opener in Melbourne. “Joe is good and should be fit to play tomorrow,” Morgan told reporters on Saturday. “He’s extremely important. He’s been a fantastic leader within the group and, on top of that, there’s the weight of runs he’s scored and the manner that he’s scored them....

The sixth season of the Charlie Brooker production is currently underway, one of a handful of projects under his new shingle Broke & Bones, and fans have a lot to look forward to based on the casting announcements—and putting in one of the most genre-savvy members of the Culkin clan isn’t bad. Black Mirror has long held up a, well, mirror up to society’s obsession with current technology and social media trends offering everything from cyber-stalking run amok to obsessive use of technological implants to a black and white 1950s B-movie style horror story about those Boston Dynamics robot dogs being used to hunt human beings down in the future (that recent news stories have shown those dogs armed really confirms just how terrifyingly prescient Black Mirror is and remains)....

The 14th edition of the prestigious European Tour event will see a 50-player field fight it out for the top prize. World No. 1 Rory McIlroy headlines the field as he looks to keep his rank safe from second-placed Scottie Scheffler for the third week in a row. Having won the FedEx Cup title in August, the Irishman will look to clinch both the PGA Tour and DP World Tour season finales in the same year for the first time....

While announcing she is no longer a “Hollywood democrat” the actress also accused Gov. Gavin Newson’s wife—Jennifer Siebel Newsom—of trying to silence her about Harvey Weinstein. Republican candidate Elder is attempting to unseat Newsom in the forthcoming election. The former Charmed star, who was a leading figure in the #MeToo movement, made the accusation firstly on Thursday during an appearance on the political talk show, The Rubin Report. She also elaborated her claims in a lengthy Twitter thread posted on September 12....

The economic trajectory of director Cameron’s career is a fever chart of Hollywood inflation. ““Terminator,” the heavy-metal sci-fi sleeper that made his name back in 1984, was a low-budget beauty costing $6.5 million. Two years later his ferocious ly exciting ““Aliens” came in at $18.5 million, which looks cut-rate today. The price tag on ““The Abyss” (1989) was 40 mil. Then began the run that made him the perennial King of the Most Expensive Movie Ever Made....