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Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have dominated the award for the past decade, winning five each, while Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder Luka Modric is many people’s favourite for the 2018 prize. Hazard has been named on the 30-man shortlist and has made a stunning start to the Premier League season, leading the race for the Golden Boot with seven goals. But the 27-year-old will enter the last year of his Chelsea contract at the end of the 2018-19 season, leaving the Blues in a similar position to when they sold Thibaut Courtois to Madrid this year....

RELATED: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About HBO Max’s Infinity Train Not only have they lived up to this label but each year brings new and astonishing shows that push what the medium of TV can do. From OZ to Raised By Wolves, HBO remains a place for innovative and groundbreaking TV shows. Their new streaming service, HBO Max continues the network’s legacy of greatness with numerous classics available to stream and many more soon to arrive....

The order by Justice Siddharth Mridul came on Singh’s plea seeking contempt action against his estranged wife for not vacating his mother’s house according to the settlement order of May 24 this year. As per the May 24 order, Singh had to pay Rs 2 lakh to his estranged wife within two days and Rs 98 lakh was to be deposited in the court within a month. She in turn had agreed to vacate Singh’s mother’s house within two months of deposition of the amount, which she would be eligible to withdraw, after leaving that house....

Salah, who arrived at Liverpool from Roma in the off-season, has nine goals and two assists in 12 Premier League games this campaign. The Egypt international, 25, is starring in his second spell in England, having struggled for game time across two seasons at Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Ahead of Saturday’s meeting between Chelsea and Liverpool, Hazard was full of praise for Salah. “He is still my friend....

Sachin is no God by any measure. He has an average in the lower 50′s, a 24 match century-less streak, a below average record against a languid Pedro Collins and more so he was never a game-changer (barring the late 90′s) like his contemporaries Brian Lara and Virender Sehwag. So what makes me write about Tendulkar then? Panegyric eulogies should hail heroes and not average folks who were just plain lucky to have been selected at an age of 16....

Following their respective Week 7 games, several NFL players and coaches took some time for self-reflection. Some of it is positive, some of it is delusional, most of it is negative. PHOTOS: Best images from Week 7 The 49ers don’t lack confidence despite their 1-6 record; the Browns continue to be a factory of sadness; despite getting ejected, Jaguars rookie Jalen Ramsey said he wouldn’t do anything differently; Jets coach Todd Bowles is fine with his quarterback playing “pissed off;” one NFL kicker admits he isn’t playing very well; and Vikings coach Mike Zimmer calls out his offensive line following an “uncharacteristic” performance....

Brisbane Heat are struggling in the competition, languishing in the bottom half of the table. They have won only three of their 12 games, and have 15 points in their kitty. They are coming off a heavy loss against the Melbourne Stars in their last game. Batting first, Brisbane Heat managed only 149 in their allotted twenty overs. Ben Duckett, coming in at no. three, top-scored with 51. Their bowlers failed to create inroads as the Stars chased down the target in the 14th over....

Harry Giles was a great high school athlete. For the first three years of high school he played for Wesleyan Christian Academy. In his freshman season, he led Wesleyan to a state championship while averaging 12.5 points per game along with 9.5 rebounds. Unfortunately for Giles, he was sidelined in his sophomore year with a knee injury. This would be the first of many injuries he would endure in the coming years....

Year 5 has brought with it plenty of changes, and it may be hard for some Hogwarts Mystery fans to keep track. For those wondering, here is everything new in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery’s Year 5. Diagon Alley After weeks of waiting, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery fans can finally travel to Diagon Alley in Year 5. They have to progress all the way to Chapter 10 to do so, but it’s worth the effort, as it lets players explore not just Diagon Alley, but the creepy Knockturn Alley as well....

RELATED: Harry Potter: Things You Need To Know About Durmstrang Institute For Magical Learning Dumbledore, played by Richard Harris for the two first films of the series and then by Michael Gambon for the rest of the story, is a fascinating character. He was a man of secrets, which fans didn’t get to see much in the movie adaptations of the novels. Fans can always hope to discover more about Albus in the upcoming movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, which is expected to release April 15, 2022, but in the meantime, they can read these facts only book readers know about the great wizard....

For May’s Community Day event, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite players are going to have some extra motivation to test out some newly released features. The day is all about Wizarding Challenges and players will likely be putting the new Knight Bus feature to good use as they visit Fortresses without leaving their homes. RELATED: Harry Potter Wizards Unite: Quidditch Cup Part 1 - All Tasks and Rewards Similar to other May events in Wizards Unite, the upcoming Community Day has been optimized to be playable from home....

Last week, Niantic announced that the mobile AR game would be adding brand new skill trees in the form of SOS Trainings. The feature sounds very exciting and offers some fun, new ways to grind through resources to power up characters that is separate from the usual leveling system. The feature didn’t get a specific release date, but update 2.14 seems to have laid all the groundwork needed and brought the SOS Training launch one big step closer to reality in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite....

The castle itself will be familiar to fans of the film and novel franchises, as well as the classes offered for its students. Likewise, the iconic houses that students are initially sorted into in their first year are the same in Hogwarts Legacy’s 1800s time period. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin will all be available as Hogwarts houses players can choose from in Hogwarts Legacy. This is one of fans’ most desired features from the game, and one fan has gone as far as to show their excitement with custom console designs....

In order to unlock the new Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery items - which include a sweater, a pair of pants, and a pair of sunglasses - players must achieve milestones in a quest called Too Cool For School. The quest is timed and players only have a few days in order to complete it, meaning that they will need as much help as they can get. Rember to Fully Complete All Quests One particular area of the quest that is bound to trip people up is that they may not have understood the quest’s completion conditions....

Schreier confirmed the news after the game failed to appear at Xbox’s and PlayStation’s next-gen game reveal conferences. Many fans assumed that the game would appear at one of those conferences, given it was the first time players were able to see footage/gameplay from true next-gen titles. RELATED: A Harry Potter RPG for PS5, Xbox Series X Reveal Would Make for a Magical Summer Beyond the confirmation that the game is still in active development, however, Schreier didn’t give many more details about in the project, except for the fact that he has no idea when it’ll actually be announced....

Of the nine drivers in jeopardy of being eliminated from the Chase, only two qualified in the top 12 at the high-banked, 1-mile track. Kevin Harvick won his seventh pole of the season with a lap of 162.933 mph. Kyle Busch was second at 162.404 mph, followed by Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Larson, Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Austin Dillon, Brian Vickers and Kasey Kahne....

Though Haryana did well to take eight gold, Tamil Nadu’s M Loshini Mangesh beat Nisha Singh, a Haryana boxer, on points (5:0). The other four gold medal winners included two from Manipur, one from Uttarakhand and one from Andhra Pradesh. Mushkan Singh started the proceedings for Haryana in 34 kg class, winning her final against Punjab’s Bhavna Ajay Kumar 4:1 but in the next bout in 36 kg, Nisha, taking on the Tamil Nadu girl, could not continue the winning trend for Haryana as Loshini was very consistent with her punching that earned her full points from the judges....

Take, for instance, California state senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, who incredibly compared Californians who objected to legislation that made it impossible for Uber drivers to operate as independent contractors with children having candy taken away: “It’s kind of taking away the lollipop that they had: the ability to decide essentially when they worked.” I got to witness another example in person, at a memorable dinner featuring an L.A. mayoral candidate. When it was my turn to ask a question I said that while I adored public transportation in cities that are designed for it, Los Angeles wasn’t one of them—and were she elected, as she pushed for funding of public transportation, could the candidate also step up construction of freeways to lessen the traffic we all have to sit through?...

The Bopannas and Mankads shone brightly like shooting stars and faded away towards the less physically challenging doubles. This was followed by the rise of Somdev Devvarman who, with regular wins, remained in the top 100 of the world for a significant period of time. While Devvarman was taking giant steps to the top, a young 16-year-old Yuki Bhambri had his moment in the sun when he won the 2009 junior Australian Open title at Melbourne Park....

Keep thinking. Go all the way back through the decades of your early adulthood and come back again to now. Anything at all there in any realm of your life whatever that you might wish you hadn’t done or that You are just a little bit ashamed of or that would be awfully painful and embarrassing to you (or others) to have to talk about on national television now? Any family members or close friends whose ethical conduct you’d just as soon not have to answer for?...