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As a result, the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans will take part in only the third Tuesday night game the NFL has ever played. While the TNF acronym has become a staple of professional football since Thursday Night Football made its debut in 2006—the NFL had held Thursday night games as early as in the late 1970s, with some of them occasionally broadcast on ABC and ESPN—Tuesday night football is a collector’s item....

Saumojyoti S Choudhury Bhubaneswar, Nov 28 (PTI) Standing on the cusp of creating history, two-time defending champions Australia are keen to put up a good show at the ongoing hockey World Cup to ensure uninterrupted flow of funds from its government till the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Aiming to win a rare hat-trick of titles, Australia chief coach Colin Batch said a disastrous outing here could seriously affect its preparations for the Tokyo Olympics as its government may not release additional funds....

Sports is a numbers game, and the landmark legislation that paved the way for women’s sports in the U.S. is full of them. There’s the name: Title IX. Thirty-seven is a key figure, too. That’s how many words are in the law—not one of them is “sports” or “athletics,” by the way—which bans discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions and programs that get federal funding. And then, of course, there’s 50, the number of years since Title IX was enacted....

After winning the toss, Dindigul chose to chase. Skipper Narayan Jagadeesan’s decision was vindicated when his new-ball bowlers began to place Kanchi Veerans under significant pressure. The visitors got themselves off to a woeful start as a needless run-out caused the end of opener Vishal Vaidya. Kanchi Veerans captain Baba Aparajith faltered badly under heightened expectations. He laboured to an 8-ball 1 before attempting a wild slog early in the innings....

Hot tip: don’t move. Do nothing. Take a few deep breaths if you need to. Do not check on your portfolio. Do not look up gold prices. Do not try to figure out what zero-coupon bonds are. If you’re truly investing in stocks–that is, if you’re putting away money that you won’t need for 10 years or longer–just keep doing what you’re doing. Over history, stocks have been the best place to grow your long-term savings, returning on average 11 percent annually since 1926, as measured by the S&P 500....

Gronkowski made his mark in the divisional round as a strong run-blocker while the Chargers’ strong, deep safety play held him to just one catch for 25 yards. But that was a different kind of matchup. The Chiefs have been a sieve in tight end coverage all season. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME PICKS:Patriots vs. Chiefs | Rams vs. Saints Kansas City has given up 92 catches for 1,118 yards and 10 TDs to tight ends this year, playoffs included....

If God is a frat boy, heaven may turn out to look a lot like Panama City Beach did last week. The sleepy little honky-tonk beach town-the Deep South’s summertime “Redneck Riviera”-is taking on mighty Daytona Beach for the heavyweight national championship of intercollegiate rest and recreation. Panama City is wooing vacationing college kids with an attitude that less inebriated poli-sci majors might recall as laissez faire. Police Chief Lee Sullivan says his 40-man force will let the dudes party on until the last can of Coors Light gets crushed on a pimply forehead Easter weekend: “They’re here to have fun....

“Bruce Rondon, because of his effort level, has been sent home,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus announced Tuesday afternoon. “Other than saying that [general manager] Al Avila and myself completely agreed on it, there will be no other details or comment.” MORE: Five reasons David Price should win the AL Cy Young Rondon, who is 1-0 with a 5.81 ERA, a 1.61 WHIP and five saves in 35 outings for the Tigers this season, was being used as closer....

Last week the screws got a bit tighter: IBM chief John Akers unveiled one of the biggest cuts ever. It will eliminate 20,000 jobs at a cost of some $3 billion. biore important, the company took another step in a strategy that it signaled several years ago: to break up monolithic IBM into a loose federation of more competitive companies. Akers called it “a fundamental redefinition of how IBM does business....

The intention behind TikTok Now is to give you and your friends a little nudge to share more of your “authentic moments” on the platform. TikTok hopes to blend the more typical video production and sharing experience with something a bit more personal and possibly less planned. In essence, TikTok Now is a combination of reminders and dual-camera snapshots. Once per day, the app will ask you to either take a snapshot or record a 10-second video right then and there—to capture whatever that specific moment might be....

TikTok Combats Election Misinformation After TikTok just barely avoided a ban from US app stores, the platform has announced the launch of its new election guide in a post on the TikTok Newsroom. Not only does the guide aim to educate users about political candidates for federal, state, and local governments, but it also teaches users how to vote in every US state. Additionally, the hub provides voting resources for students, people with disabilities, overseas citizens and military members, as well as for people who have had prior convictions....

Older Tiles were great: they did the job they were supposed to do – let you track down your lost keys or wallet – but once the internal battery died, you had to buy a new one. At around £25 /US$25 a pop, with a small discount for ‘re-Tiling’ it meant plenty of people felt the disposable nature was bad for the environment, as well as their wallet. The new range changes all that, allowing you to pop in a standard coin battery when the original runs out....

Cook Isn’t Sticking Around for 10 More Years Kara Swisher of The New York Times interviewed Cook on a wide range of topics dealing with everything from the mythical Apple Car to to Mark Zuckerberg, from Elon Musk to the Biden administration, and beyond. The CEO has been running Apple for just shy of 10 years after Steve Jobs died but doesn’t expect to remain at the helm for another decade....

The online survey, conducted by Center Street PAC, found Ryan ahead of Vance with 43 percent support to the Republican’s 34 percent support as of July 3, while 23 percent were undecided in what may be a crucial contest for control of the Senate. Other recent polls have shown a much closer race and one put Vance ahead. The Ohio Senate race is listed by Center Street as one of the group’s “target races” and their website describes Vance as having “embraced radical positions....

Last season, the former NFL quarterback homered to the opposite field in his first plate appearance for the Columbia Fireflies. Then on Thursday, Tebow – who is playing in the New York Mets organisation for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies at the Double-A level – took the first pitch he saw from Portland Sea Dogs pitcher Teddy Stankiewicz over the right field wall for a three-run homer. Tebow is now two for two with two home runs and five RBIs in two season-opening at-bats....

On the very first drive of the game, the Horned Frogs opened up the playbook for some trickeration, as quarterback Trevone Boykin threw a pass in the flats to wide reciever Kolby Listenbee. As Listenbee went to throw the ball down field, Tebow called out that the pass would go for a touchdown. MORE: 2015 Heisman Watch | Reasons to watch every bowl game Sure enough, Listenbee found Aaron Green down the field for a 31-yard touchdown....

The 20-year-old was shot after being pulled over on Sunday afternoon. Following this, he drove his car several blocks away before a collision with another vehicle. He died at the scene of the crash, police said. Protesters have since gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department headquarters and clashed with local law enforcement. Walz said he was monitoring the unrest and that he and his wife were praying for Wright’s family....

The unkept vow involves the company’s stated intent to make its wildly popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) software work with other instant-messaging programs. AOL has about 150 million registered users of its program. The company boasts more than 2 billion instant messages (IMs) sent daily. Yet AOL users can’t zip off their how-de-dos to those using Microsoft’s MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger, or even ICQ, AOL’s less ubiquitous, “edgy” IM service....

Most of us are avid Apple fans and there seems to be some interesting rumor brewing regarding iPhone which is enough to take Apple obsession to whole new level. As per China Times, Apple would be launching three new variants of iPhone in 2013. Two of the models would be coming in June and the third one would be slinged in last quarter of the year. When stories of Apple iPhone 5 stormed the technology world, Apple denied the existence of any such device but coming from such solid source ,it has hard not to believe that a sequel to iPhone 5( most probably iPhone5S) and a 4....

And they lost badly to a team one might call “OK” and feel secure in that description. Games like UK’s 87-82 defeat at LSU are why it’s precarious to consider margin of victory in evaluating the success of college basketball teams. Did anyone really believe the Wildcats were only five points worse than the Tigers in that game? Even the UK players appeared not to buy it, because when trailing by five points with 15 seconds remaining, they made no concerted effort to commit a purposeful foul and stop the clock....