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We have a true split slate today with a seven-game early slate (1:05 PM ET roster lock) to go with a seven-game evening slate (7:05 PM ET roster lock). Note: We are not including the earliest game between the Braves-Reds because the main sites are not including the game in their main slate. MORE: Optimal late DK lineup | Hitter, SP picks | 2016 Fantasy Football Draft Guide I don’t know how you guys feel about split slates, but success ultimately depends on the type of player you are....

In Washington this week, los dos amigos, President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox, are expected to give the world a clunky new buzzword: “regularization.” Their original idea was blanket amnesty for Mexicans living illegally in the United States, but that trial balloon landed with a thud this summer. It turns out immigrants of dozens of other nationalities living in the United States didn’t think it was fair that their illegals be treated as second-class noncitizens....

Speaking from a sports bar in the French city of Lyon, where the final match was held, Palkot started his report with a crowd of soccer fans behind him. As he began announcing that the U.S. team had won, a man in the bar started the chant in the crowded pub, yelling out “fuck Trump” repeatedly. The others in the bar joined in quickly, with Palkot noticeably struggling to hear and speak above the noise behind him....

The three individuals—two from Australia and one from the U.K.—were forced to abandon the yacht they were travelling on when it began taking on water in the waters off New Caledonia, a French territory comprising dozens of islands. The problems started after a thick rope which had been floating in the ocean became caught in the engine, tearing a hole in the hull, The Australian reported. “It was just panic stations,” Ben Johnson, one of the three seafarers, told the newspaper....

Highlighted by a new video released by Paradox Interactive, Crusader Kings 3’s developer, the character customization feature offers a ton of options. While the video itself clocks in at just under a minute, viewers get to see a decent amount of the character creation process, which seems to allow players to customize even the minutia of their character’s look. There’s a slider for just about everything, so there will undoubtedly be options to make fine-looking characters, along with any whacky ones players might want to create....

Miguel Sanó homered and hit the tiebreaking RBI double in the fifth following the ejection of Royals starter Mike Montgomery, who started that inning by giving up a home run to Mitch Garver. The Twins have 293 homers, one more than New York in the chase for the major league record set last season by the Yankees with 267. Far more importantly in the pennant race, the Twins trimmed their magic number for clinching the division to six, meaning any combination of their wins and Cleveland losses would give them the title....

An individual spotted the three-foot-long dolphin at around 10:30 a.m. stuck on the shore at Battery Park in the city of New Castle. The dolphin reportedly became stuck in the rocks when tide went out, John McDerby, captain of the National Resources Police from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said. The individual who first spotted the dolphin said the animal was crying when they arrived. While dolphins do not cry tears like humans do, the highly intelligent animals make distressed noises in fraught situations....

On Wednesday night, contestants on the ABC game show were being asked about “Fine meme-ories” when host Alex Trebek read a clue describing the Crying Jordan meme. POSITION RANKINGS: Point guards | Shooting guards | Small forwards “For some reason, a picture of this athlete crying after his NBA Hall of Fame induction in 2009 became meme-worthy in ‘16,” Trebek said as the answer. Thankfully one of the contestants got the question correct and earned $400....

Palace sign Van Aanholt The Eagles boss is looking to make several additions to his squad before the end of the January transfer window as he aims to lead the club to Premier League survival. Palace have brought in Jeffrey Schlupp and Patrick van Aanholt from Leicester City and Sunderland respectively this month, while Allardyce says he is looking to land two more players before the window ends. One man who could move to Selhurst Park after the window slams shut is Caceres, who has been a free agent since his Juventus contract expired last summer....

A report from the Daily Star claimed that Adams and former IMG and Chelsea executive Paul Smith had secured the backing of European investors for a £200 million takeover at Selhurst Park. Palace to beat Huddersfield at 4/5 But Parish posted a link to the story on his Twitter account, along with a denial. Palace to finish 15th? “This story is not true, there are no deals in place or discussions to sell the club,” he said....

Dhoni and Vijay enjoy a massive fan following in Chennai and fans have gone berserk ever since photos of the two legends meeting each other surfaced online. Vijay was shooting at Gokulam Studio when MS Dhoni bumped into him. Vijay also invited MS Dhoni to his room and both of them spent some quality time talking to each other. Incidentally, Vijay is a very big supporter of Dhoni and Chennai Super Kings and is often seen in the stands when the Super Kings play at the MA Chidambaram Stadium....

CSK are the only team who are out of contention for the IPL 2020 playoffs, and don’t have much to play for in this game. However, they’ve already spoiled two parties in their last two games and will want to make KL Rahul’s life harder in their final game of this tournament. KXIP, on the other hand, went on a brilliant winning run that took them to the cusp of a playoff berth, but a defeat to the Rajasthan Royals in their previous IPL 2020 game has left them needing to beat CSK....

Havana, Sep 10 (IANS): Cuba achieved its best performance in the London Paralympics 2012, which ended Sunday, winning nine gold, five silver and three bronze medals. The best Cuban athlete was runner Yunisdis Castillo, who won three gold medals and set three world records, reports Xinhua. Castillo, who is a right-arm amputee, had the best performance of the Cuban delegation. Last Saturday she won her third gold medal in 400-meter (T-46), set up the world record with 55:72 seconds, followed by South African Anrune Liebenberg (56:65) and Polish Alicja Fiodorow (58:48)....

Regimes do not give up power willingly, and popular protests may not make any difference. Just ask the Maduro regime in Venezuela, which has smashed uprisings repeatedly. Still, the demonstrations in Cuba are big enough that the Biden administration finally offered some quiet praise after remaining silent for days (just as the Obama administration did when Iranians protested against the Mullahs’ regime in 2009). The Cuban protesters have yet to hear an unambiguous message of support from the Squad or Bernie Sanders, who periodically offered qualified praise for the Castro dictatorship....

“We’re going to win the NL Central. Quote me on that,” Rizzo said Thursday on CBS Radio . “We should be the team, with all due respect to every other team, they’re just as good talent-wise, but we’re going to do some things this year. That’s what we’re expecting. That’s what we’re putting our sights on. We’re not going to accept anything else.” — Why Sporting News picked the Cubs to win the 2015 World Series...

The fan made the so-called “white power” gesture behind field analyst Doug Glanville’s back on NBC Sports Chicago’s telecast. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Glanville, who is black, played for the Cubs during part of a nine-season MLB career. “Such ignorant and repulsive behavior is not tolerated at Wrigley Field,” Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney said in a statement released early Wednesday morning....

Someone in the Cubs game day operations department made an incredibly poor choice during the team’s game against the Cardinals on Sunday night, and on Monday, the team is in damage-control mode. After reliever Aroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth inning in Chicago’s 6-4 loss to St. Louis, the public address system played the song “Smack My Bitch Up” for everyone at the ballpark to hear. MORE: The most controversial players in MLB history...

Instead of firing a strike down the middle, Epstein went after Clark the Cub, Chicago’s happy-go-lucky mascot. MORE: Celebrity first pitches Epstein has had it in for Clark for a long time, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports. This may be the first ceremonial brushback in professional baseball history. “I tried to brush him back – at least move his feet with a two-seamer in off the plate. Which I did....

By the time the friendly NPC Ratau appears to gift the main character with suitable space for their new temple and cult dwellings, they’ll already have a few seeds tucked in their cloven hooves. Best to get them planted and cultivated as possible to be used for cooking, building, and other spiritual diversions. 2 How To Find Seeds Drops. Fallen enemies will drop materials like Bones and Meat, but this is not where the Lamb will find seeds....