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The veteran broadcaster turned down a new contract to continue anchoring NBC's NFL pregame show.

Miguel Borja missed a number of chances and had a penalty saved as Colombia drew 0-0 with Australia at Craven Cottage.

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Media consumption is at a saturation point. After rising for much of the last decade, total digital time spent has been nearly static since the start of 2015. As a result, it's increasingly difficult for content producers to win over minutes of consumers' time.

One platform, though, is poised to move the needle... Читать дальше...

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• The new iPad Apple unveiled Wednesday seems ill-suited to solve its woes in the education market.
• Apple doesn't seem to understand how kids use devices or what schools need.
• Compared with Chromebooks, the notebooks running Google OS that dominate the US school market, the new iPad is pricey, fragile, and impractical.
• After all, how often do adults drop their phones? Now, give every kid an iPad, and you can imagine the chaos.
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Stocks closed sharply lower Tuesday, pulled down by a late-afternoon drop in technology stocks that helped erase much of a powerful rally from the day before. Banks also weighed heavily on the market as bond yields declined. Safe-play stocks like utilities rose. The market was coming off its best day in more than two years following a steep slide last week. On Tuesday: The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 45.93 points, or 1.7 percent, to 2,612.62. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 344.89 points... Читать дальше...

It’s more than theoretically possible to make a great movie out of little more than one person’s painting the portrait of another. Jacques Rivette did it in “La Belle Noiseuse,” and that little marathon went on for over four hours. But it’s quite a trick, and it’s not one Stanley Tucci can pull off, at least not in “The Final Portrait,” which he wrote and directed. The film tells a story drawn from real-life. Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss painter and sculptor, asked the American writer... Читать дальше...

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• There's a good chance you've been mispronouncing a lot of food names.
• Macaron is pronounced "mah-kuh-ROHN" and shouldn't be confused with its coconut cousin "macaroon."
• The delicious Vietnamese dish known as pho should be pronounced as "FUH."

Sometimes food names can be tricky to pronounce. That’s because many are rooted in a foreign language (hello, French recipes!) with pronunciations that-unless you’ve studied the language-are difficult to decipher. Читать дальше...

Carl's Jr. has a terrible-good idea: In honor of Ready Player One, rename all of the fast food restaurant's sliders as "SpielBurgers."

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers on Tuesday detained three Palestinians who slipped across the border with the Gaza Strip in possession of knives and grenades, officials said, as tensions rise along the volatile frontier. 

Arsenal are set for wholesale changes this summer and a number of players within the Gunners’ squad have a vast amount of speculation orientating around their future’s. One of those attracting plenty of headlines is England international Jack Wilshere, who is rapidly approaching the end of his contract and looks increasingly likely to be available on a free transfer this summer. Wilshere is not happy with the renewal offer currently put on the table by the Gunners, which demands... Читать дальше...

CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) — Mark Prosser, the son of the late former Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser, has been hired as Western Carolina's men's basketball coach. An assistant at Winthrop the last six seasons, Mark Prosser was introduced at a news conference at Western Carolina on Tuesday. He succeeds Larry Hunter, who stepped down earlier this month after 13 seasons. Prosser helped Bucknell, Wofford and Winthrop to NCAA tournament appearances during his tenure at each school. He was head coach at Brevard... Читать дальше...

The Dutch coach has been officially named to the Union’s technical staff.

England were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy after Lorenzo Insigne netted an 86th-minute penalty, awarded by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), on Tuesday to take the edge off what had been a highly satisfactory World Cup build-up week for the hosts. England went ahead in the 26th minute with a fierce shot by Jamie Vardy and, following their 1-0 win in the Netherlands on Friday, looked on course for another big scalp and a sixth consecutive clean sheet without ever really hitting top gear. Italy, in... Читать дальше...

Lothar Matthäus is impressed by what Klopp has done at Anfield and wouldn’t be surprised if they won the Champions League. Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp look a revived force in European football, and even if they aren’t quite where they want to be yet—regularly winning titles and trophies domestically and in continental competition—it’s been hard not to notice. So said former Bayern Munich star Lothar Matthäus following the weekend’s legends game at Anfield, when 1991’s FIFA Footballer of the Year... Читать дальше...

Lorenzo Insigne converted a late penalty to cancel out Jamie Vardy's opener and secure Italy a 1-1 draw against England at Wembley.

Arsenal News HQ brings you the latest Arsenal news, match analysis, transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours from trusted media outlets around the World. In disappointing news for everyone who was hoping Mathieu Flamini would buy Arsenal from Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov someday, the former Gunner isn’t actually a billionaire. Flamini never really won Arsenal fan hearts on the pitch during his two spells in North London. At first he was only really a utility player for the club. After... Читать дальше...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's top religious body accused Qatari-owned Al Jazeera TV of being a "mouthpiece for terrorist organisations", two days after Yemen's Houthi movement fired a barrage of missiles at the kingdom. 

WASHINGTON — Charlie Ergen’s bravado is doing the Justice Department no favors. Dish Network’s billionaire chairman boasted during a 2014 carriage dispute with Time Warner that his pay-TV service could do without CNN because the cable new network was no longer must-have programming, according to Tuesday testimony in the blockbuster trial of the Justice Department’s...

A Toledo man convicted of raping and robbing a 14-year-old girl was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison.

A Somali regional lawmaker was fatally shot Tuesday in Mogadishu, police said. Ruqiya Abshir Noor was shot in her home in the city's Shibis district, according to police.  Abdiwakil Abdullahi, police commander in the neighboring Bondhere district, who received the report of the killing, told VOA Mogadishu that Noor suffered serious injuries and was transported to Mogadishu's main hospital, Medina, where she was pronounced dead. Noor was a member of the Southwest Regional Parliament, in one of the federal member states of the country. Читать дальше...

Dean Kruel is charged with a felony counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and two counts of aggravated battery.