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His time at Coors Field reads like this: 15 years, four winning seasons, two postseason appearances. O’Dowd wasn’t the only team executive to resign Wednesday. Senior vice president Bill Geivett followed him out the front office door after Colorado’s fourth consecutive losing season. The Rockies are starting fresh from within, appointing Jeff Bridich to run the show. Bridich has served as the team’s senior director of player development since 2011....

Had that happened, it would have been five losses in a row for Cowboy Cerrone. Naturally, that comes as concern for Dana White, who has been vocal about his support for Cowboy Cerrone and how active he is. Luckily for Cowboy Cerrone, he will most likely run it back with Niko Price and he has a chance to finally snap his non-winning streak. Despite this, Dana White isn’t too sold on Cowboy Cerrone or his future in the UFC....

Simpson was recently diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyotrophy, a condition in which structural abnormalities in a person's heart prevent it from working properly. If undetected, the condition can cause sudden cardiac arrest and even death in otherwise healthy people. "Its discovery precludes the participation in competitive sports," Purdue team doctor Greg Rowdon said in a press release. While the Champaign, Ill., resident can no longer participate in basketball activities, he will remain on scholarship with the Boilermakers....

Following the match in a surprising turn of events, Dani Alves told media that he hadn’t even heard of Manchester City until a few years ago, and thought that United were the only team in Manchester. “I didn’t realise until about five years ago that Manchester had two teams. Of course Manchester United have been one of the most famous and successful clubs in Europe for many years – but I thought they were the only one,” said Alves....

The retired racecar driver proposed converting a bedroom into her own space. Patrick says she has her essential oils, salt rock lamp, yoga mat and meditation pillow in a windowless room in the house, and she wanted one with windows instead. “He’s got a man cave with his pop shot and ping-pong table and bar, and I need a woman cave,” Patrick told interviewer Hannah Storm on Monday at the annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit in California....

Two years later, Patrick is worried about just making the race going into this year’s Daytona 500. She backed up her strong qualifying run in 2013 with an eighth-place finish in the race after running in the top five all day. MORE: About Danica’s Super Bowl ad | Is Patrick really getting better as a racer? She was expected to carry that speed back to Daytona and Talladega — the other restrictor-plate track — last year, but it didn’t happen....

His brother, Daniel Artest, hopped on the site not long afterward to tell the world just how he felt about his brother's soon-to-be former team. As foreshadowed at the top end of his rant, Artest deleted his tweets shortly after posting. Artest's morning on Twitter, in reverse tweeting order: Metta World Peace has been quiet since his first tweets announcing the buyout. 

He was sitting at a table during the Chicago Blackhawks’ media day session, though, doing his job, and he hasn’t played enough hockey lately to talk about that instead. As media swarmed his teammates with question after question about Jonathan Toews’ leadership and Duncan Keith’s stamina, Carcillo hung tight, answering question after question about the death of his friend, Steve Montador, and the action he took in its wake....

This year’s 2014 Big One for One Drop runner-up Daniel Negreanu recently celebrated his 40th birthday, and could be hitting the golf course soon thanks to a gift he received from EPT commentator Joe Stapleton. MORE: Schemion, Smith flip-flop at the top of GPI World Rankings | Daniel Negreanu Player of the Month | WSOP November Nine Set The present contained several boxes of unique golf balls with former Full Tilt Poker part-owner Howard Lederer’s image placed on each one....

Then, it became the DeAndre Daniels Show. Then, it became the “Can Connecticut Hold On” Show, a much more stressful viewing opportunity for the decidedly pro-UConn crowd. In the end, the seventh-seeded Huskies did hold on for the 81-76 win against the third-seeded Cyclones. They advance to the East region’s Elite Eight to face the winner of No. 4 Michigan State and No. 1 Virginia on Sunday. Napier, Connecticut’s star senior guard, was brilliant from the opening tip, knocking down his first four 3-pointers in the first half en route to 19 points and five assists....

Korda took 2 hours and 59 minutes to defeat Medvedev, who lost in last year’s Melbourne Park final to Rafael Nadal in a thrilling five-setter. Following the end of the tournament this month, the Russian will fall out of the ATP top 10 rankings for the first time since 2019. Daniil Medvedev was confronted in his post-match press conference about the decline in his form since the 2022 final. The seventh seed was thoroughly perplexed, stating that he had no explanation whatsoever....

Trevathan on Wednesday was presented his Super Bowl 50 ring by Bears GM Ryan Pace on the field at Halas Hall so the entire Bears team could watch. “I wanted them to know, this is what it’s all about,” Trevathan said (via WGN). “It’s all about year-in-and-year-out getting this ring, man. PHOTOS: Super Bowl rings through the years “I kind of know what it takes now. You have to put in them days....

Bernadine Healy: There were three sites attacked and the American Red Cross immediately went to work at each site. In Pennsylvania, we sent in our air team. We also sent teams to the Pentagon. In New York, the head of disaster [response] for the New York City chapter was there meeting with the city management team–they meet regularly–at the time that this happened. She was there at the site working immediately....

RELATED: 5 Games To Play If You Like Dark Souls (& 5 You Should Avoid) Difficulty is certainly an inevitable part of the conversation when one talks about Dark Souls, with enemy placements and the like being dissected by many gamers who try to figure out what separates this title from the rest of the AAA industry and their bog-standard challenge. Ambushes should definitely be taken into context in this regard, with Dark Souls featuring 10 particular encounters that will surely take any new player by surprise....

RELATED: Dark Souls: Best Dexterity Weapons, Ranked If players squint a little harder, they might just catch a glimpse of some odd-looking things or some dysfunctional relationships among the game’s NPCs. Some events both hidden and explicit can be outright grotesque or morally dubious that it makes deicide and the player’s beef jerky-skinned hollow character seem more suited for a younger audience, proving that Dark Soulscan be even darker....

RELATED: Dark Souls 2: All Bows, Ranked There are 10 curved swords in the game and while many are awesome and viable, they vary in usability depending on one’s build and playthrough goals. Most players have found that the ornately bent blades which are the best in combat are those with the ideal mix of range, damage potential, and unique effects. 10 Eleum Loyce Despite being the last of the curved swords that the Bearer of the Curse will likely encounter since it can only be acquired after giving 50 Loyce Souls (farmed from the charred Loyce knights) to Alsanna in the Crown of the Ivory King DLC....

The color of your vulva usually coincides with the tone of your skin and can range from pink to brown. Being familiar with your body and what is normal can help you identify changes in pigment. This article explains what causes dark spots on the vagina and vulva. What Causes Dark Spots? To understand when dark spots on your vagina are abnormal, get to know what pigment is typical for you by becoming familiar with how your genitals look....

A stranger wandering into the Office of Management and Budget’s mid-year review last month might have reasonable wondered: why is this man smiling? Not just smiling, but smirking. After all, the beefy fellow standing behind the podium had, in his years as a top Reagan-Bush official, done as much as anyone to enlarge the federal debt from $ 1 trillion to $4 trillion, or $16,000 for every man, woman and child in America....

That didn't happen. He was still on the Saints roster as of early evening on Tuesday. Like the rest of us, Sproles found out through Twitter that the Saints may actually be planning to trade him. He, understandably, wasn't too happy about finding out that way. Sproles isn't alone in being the last to know. Former NFL offensive tackle George Foster, who was drafted 20th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft, can commiserate with Sproles' situation to a certain degree....

RELATED: Hilarious Games That Parody Dating Sims However, along with the smiles and happy endings, there’s no shortage of tensions, broken hearts, and bad endings across the genre that can leave many players feeling betrayed or even punished for the choices they’ve made. While working for a happy ending is a common feature of the genre, some games take this a step further by punishing certain character choices entirely, intentionally or otherwise....