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The good news is that it is unlikely to impact his status as Chicago’s opening day starter. MORE: Price to start Tigers opener | The era of vanishing offense | Looking back at PED suspensions Lester signed a six-year, $155 million free agent deal in December with the Cubs. The left-hander’s arrival, along with other offseason moves, has spurred talks of a World Series title among Cubs fans. Lester’s spring training debut with the Cubs earlier this month drew a Cactus League-record crowd of 15,331 in Mesa, Arizona....

Now, everything gets real crazy. Anthony Rizzo had four hits and scored three times, and the Chicago Cubs set up a tiebreaker game for the NL Central title by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 10-5 on Sunday. “We know what’s at stake. Obviously we needed to win today, by all means,” Rizzo said, “and tomorrow is the same thing.” Shortly after Milwaukee completed an 11-0 victory over Detroit, Jorge De La Rosa worked a hitless ninth inning to move the Cubs back into a tie with the Brewers at 95-67....

The latest Epic Games Store game to get achievements is also one of this week’s free games. Players who feel like jumping into the blocky dungeon crawler Riverbond can now unlock achievements on the Epic Game Store. RELATED: Epic Games Store Reveals 2 Free Games for April 28 Riverbond boasts 57 achievements in all, for a total of 1000 available XP. These achievements were already available on the Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 versions, but they are now available on Epic Game Store as well....

In the week of October 12 to October 18, 49.7 percent of the country and 59.4 percent of the lower 48 states were in drought conditions, affecting nearly 135 million people according to the U.S. National Integrated Drought Information System as of October 27. A drought map can be seen below. Droughts are not uncommon in some regions of the U.S., but for many the current situation is record-breaking. The southwest U....

Yet there is a difference. The main one is possession. The Irish hog the ball and the English wish they could. Thanks to overwhelming ball control, Ireland has won their last two rugby matchups, spoiling England’s Six Nations Grand Slam bid in 2017 at Lansdowne Road, and clinching their own Grand Slam in 2018 at Twickenham. A Grand Slam isn’t on the line on Saturday in Dublin, but a grand event is guaranteed by teams who have shared the last five championships....

Of all the side effects of Hong Kong’s economic ties with mainland China, the most damaging may be the least talked about: the mistress phenomenon. As business ties have grown, so have second families. The two worlds were never supposed to meet: Hong Kong men supported women and children in dirt-cheap China, and their Hong Kong wives never had to let on if they knew. A recent high-court ruling threatens to blow the lid off the cozy arrangement by allowing hundreds of thousands of children of Hong Kong parents to immigrate....

Schilling, one of the premier pitchers of his generation, won 216 games and notched more than 3,000 strikeouts in a 20-season baseball career that ended in 2007. He will go down in baseball lore as the Red Sox pitcher who ignored a bloody ankle injury to pitch Boston to victory in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS. MORE: Curt Schilling should be a Hall of Famer But in the past year, Schilling has dealt with another bloody situation — a bleeding mouth, the result of oral cancer....

Sliwa, a Republican, shared a video of himself at Pier 76 in the city’s Hudson River Park on Facebook live on Tuesday. He can be seen placing stickers bearing the name of Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul over Cuomo’s name on an official sign. Hochul will succeed Cuomo as governor once his resignation takes effect later this month, becoming the state’s first female governor. Sliwa has expressed a wish to work with Hochul if he becomes mayor....

Morgan Taylor, a student at High Point University, went to the salon on Thursday night to get her nails done. Midway through, she looked over and saw a skinned animal being cut apart on a blue tarp on the floor. The woman doing the work was dressed in the same uniform as the salon’s other employees. The manager of Diamond Nails spoke to Fox 8 and told them that the deer carcass was brought in at 8:30 p....

The picture, which was taken by wildlife photographer Jennifer Hadley, was snapped on the Falkland Islands, which are about 300 miles east of the southern tip of South America. “This photo was taken on my way to Antarctica at a beach on Carcass Island, which is part of the Falkland Islands,” Hadley told Newsweek. “These are gentoo penguins,” she said. “They are quite comedic and can be seen surfing the waves before ‘crashing’ onto land awkwardly....

At 37, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still India’s go-to man in tense situations. His gloves still work magic behind the stumps, and his hands still conjure magic with the bat. Even the current captain Virat Kohli looks up to him for inspiration. Dhoni, even after a decade and a half will, without a shadow of a doubt, be India’s most important cricketer going into the 12th edition of the World Cup....

The teams have started out the preparations for the tournament. The squads have been announced and the boards are now busy preparing the players. The warmup matches will take place between May 24 and 28. Each team is scheduled to appear in two games to suit with the English conditions. All eyes will be on current champions Australia, coming to England with dreams of defending the title. India will be another title contender at the twelfth edition of the World Cup....

Like most gigs, Eye for an Eye is simple. Infiltrate a building, make your way past dozens of enemies and either annihilate or leave your target unharmed. On reaching there, players will notice two ways inside the building. The simplest way to go inside is the front gate, although it’s being guarded by an enemy. Netrunner players can easily use a quickhack to distract the guard by hacking the generator on the side and then sneak inside....

This job puts V, the player character, alongside the fan-favorite Panam, and sees you carry out a search and rescue. Along the way, you have a nice opportunity to romance, Panam, and there are some sweet rewards for the quest. So, here’s the complete guide to the best outcome in the Riders On The Storm quest, and of course, spoilers ahead. What, Where, And How Riders On The Storm is a major side job....

RELATED: The Toughest Decisions Players Have To Make In Cyberpunk 2077 (& What Happens When You Make Them) From skipping important quests to making bad decisions, there are several mistakes players can make that affect the overall story. Of course, most try to avoid the pitfalls. Yet, without knowing what they are, it’s difficult to bypass them. Therefore, here are the main ones. 10 Siding With The NetWatch Agent Over The Voodoo Boys V’s desperate search for ways to remove Johnny’s chip leads to The Voodoo Boys....

According to a new financial report given to CD Projekt Red’s stakeholders by the studio’s management board, those stakeholders will not be paid dividends for the current financial year. The company has stated that the reason for this is to use that money which would otherwise be paid out as dividends to fund the pre-release marketing for Cyberpunk 2077. It would make sense then to assume that the studio is preparing to announce the game’s release date, and subsequently invest heavily in the pre-release marketing that will necessarily follow such an announcement....

The first notable change coming in Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.3 is a tweak to the GPS. After downloading the new update, Cyberpunk 2077 players will notice that their GPS will be more zoomed-out than it was previously. This should make driving cars in Cyberpunk 2077 and traveling to mission objectives a much smoother experience than it has been since launch. It may seem like a small change to some, but quality of life improvements like this are definitely important....

Johnny Silverhand has appeared in both Cyberpunk 2077 and the tabletop role playing game that inspired it. He debuted in the original TTRPG, Cyberpunk 2020, released in 1988. Johnny was an ex-soldier who later became a famous rocker and anti-establishment folk hero. Later, in an expansion to Cyberpunk 2022, the character was assassinated. In CD Projekt Red’s sequel, Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny makes a return, albeit in the form of a digital spirit haunting the player character....

The many faces that V comes across are arguably what make Night City such an interesting place to explore, regardless of whether their role in the overarching plot is big or small. Most of them force V to make difficult decisions at their end with no real indication of which option is good or bad, correct or wrong. Some of them may play into Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming DLC while others are simply excellent standalone missions....

The situation is that while the game isn’t out until December 10, copies are already out in the wild. Whether a retailer has started selling copies early, whether copies have been stolen, or whether CD Projekt Red has provided review units to different media outlets, what matters is that people are playing Cyberpunk 2077 right now. While CD Projekt Red acknowledges that reality, it doesn’t want anything spoiled. As such, it’s putting a blanket ban on content creation until launch....