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This will be the second career meeting between the two players. Their previous match was at the Beijing Open last year where the American got the better of the Chinese in front of her home crowd, in a rather one-sided encounter. Will the story be the same this time, or can we expect a much tougher match in Madrid, if not an upset? It is possible we will have the latter - not just because Zheng is a very skillful player, but also because of the rather poor form of the American this year....

Madrid has not said whether it stopped looking for a full-time replacement for Julen Lopetegui, who was fired on Oct. 29. Solari, a former Madrid player, was appointed as the interim coach but had not been ruled out as a candidate. His chances of staying increased after he led Madrid to four straight victories since replacing Lopetegui. “What I can say is that we are very happy (with Solari),” said Emilio Butragueno, Madrid’s director of institutional relations....

This addition to the pantheon of Mythical Pokemon, whose appearance seems to blend tiger-like features with a sort of primate build, has a lot of visual similarities to the outfit worn by a human character Ash Ketchum and his trusty Pikachu will encounter in a jungle during the film. Fansites like PokeBeach.com, where the silhouette appears to have been first released, also point out that the thirty-second trailer for the movie features a baby version of the jungle-dwelling character and the shrine used by Celebi in 2001’s Pokemon 4Ever....

This information comes as part of yesterday’s MTG Arena: State of the Game, in which Wizards of the Coast detailed its plans to add “remastered sets” to the new digital platform. These “remastered sets” will be condensed versions of old Magic: The Gathering sets, and they will include only “the most relevant cards” from these sets. This implies that MTGA’s “remastered sets” will contain all of a set’s constructed playables, and Wizards states that this will “eventually lead to additional format support....

Magic: The Gathering has had a few different updates in the past two months. While June opened with a few card bans, there were also another seven MTG cards banned due to racist content. The same number of cards is banned this month, but this time it is due to their impact on the game’s meta. RELATED: Magic The Gathering: 10 Pro Arena Tips For TCG Newbies According to Wizards of the Coast’s announcement, three cards in the Historic format — Agent of Treachery; Winota, Joiner of Forces; and Fires of Invention — will be moving from the suspended list into the group of banned cards....

RELATED: Magic: The Gathering Arena Gifting Players With Free Cards Specifically, WotC has revealed the names of the four major Magic: The Gathering sets scheduled to release in 2020. Almost certainly, there will be supplemental expansions for formats like Commander released alongside these major sets, but the four new sets recently announced by Wizards are what players can expect to be added to the MTG Standard format over the course of next year....

With each new digital release it has become a bit of a tradition for Magic Arena to offer a special digital pre-release events featuring sealed and draft tournaments all throughout this week. Now that the pre-release activities are over, players can begin the usual Limited Draft and Sealed tournament grind and collect the cards to add them to their Constructed decks for various formats. RELATED: Disney’s Lorcana TCG Needs Unique Mechanics to Stand Out From Competitors...

One of the components of Magic Arena that might come as a surprise to paper Magic or MTGO players are Wildcards. These special rewards offer players the chance to exchange the Wildcard for any actual card of the appropriate rarity. This is a powerful perk and will help players put together competitive level decks without spending a ton of real money to purchase packs. Here is how to redeem and use Wildcards in Magic Arena:...

Here is how the magic numbers for Major League Baseball’s division titles look on the morning of Friday, Sept. 11: MORE: Should MLB follow the NBA’s rule change? | Full standings AL East First-place team: Blue Jays Magic number to eliminate: 2. Yankees (23) 3. Rays (13) 4. Orioles (12) 5. Red Sox (11) AL Central First-place team: Royals Magic number to eliminate: 2. Twins (13) 3. Indians (10) 4....

Here is how the magic numbers for Major League Baseball’s division titles look on the morning of Friday, Sept. 18: MORE: Every team’s worst September collapse | Full standings AL East First-place team: Blue Jays Magic number to eliminate: 2. Yankees (14) 3. Rays (5) 4. Orioles (3) 5. Red Sox (3) AL Central First-place team: Royals Magic number to eliminate: 2. Twins (6) 3. Indians (4) 4. White Sox (1) 5....

Getting to eighth place now, that’s not their goal. Being there — or higher — in two weeks is what matters, and on Tuesday night the Magic looked very much like a team poised to end a long postseason drought. Nikola Vucevic scored 24 points and grabbed 16 rebounds, Jonathan Issac added 19 and the Magic extended their longest winning streak in eight years to six games by topping the Miami Heat 104-99....

European championship quarter-finalists Iceland, who made eight changes from the side that beat Kosovo on Friday to stay second in World Cup qualifying Group I, took the lead on 21 minutes when left back Magnusson curled a free kick over the Ireland wall and into Keiren Westwood’s left-hand corner. Ireland handed debuts to Brentford defender John Egan and Aston Villa midfielder Conor Hourihane in a starting lineup that was also much changed from last week’s goalless draw with Wales that put Martin O’Neill’s side level on points at the top of Group D....

The 26-year-old scored 17 top-flight goals to help the King Power Stadium win the 2015–16 Premier League title. Mahrez was also crowned the PFA Player of the Year for his displays that season. This term, the winger has registered eight league goals and seven assists, with his latest coming in their 2-0 win over Watford. And the French tactician has insisted that the Algeria international’s game has improved, all round....

The Right Man for the Job Lt. Gen. David Petraeus is a soldier of formidable intelligence, talent and courage, and is an invaluable asset to any army the world over (“Iraq’s Repairman,” July 5). He is right to stress the importance of winning Iraqi “hearts and minds,” but we are finding more and more that those hearts and minds are not easy to understand. How can anybody explain the sympathies of people who exuberantly celebrated the capture of Saddam Hussein but greeted the recent transfer of authority to the Iraqi interim government with silence?...

Dealing With Alzheimer’s I’m a baby boomer and have many friends and family members going through exactly what you describe (“Confronting Alzheimer’s,” June 18). Luckily, my parents haven’t gotten to the point of not being able to understand. But my mother is very stubborn about letting any of us control her life. Your article is the best conversation starter. My sister and my mom have both read it. And since NEWSWEEK is a respected magazine, my mother is willing to listen for the first time to our pleas to let us help her....

As a school psychologist who works with adolescents, I appreciated your Jan. 29 cover story about alleged kidnapper Michael Devlin (“Living With Evil”). While reading about the nightmare of this kidnapping, nothing gave me pause more than the report by an upstairs neighbor who heard “weird sounds, like whimpering, screaming and pleading” that seemed like Shawn Hornbeck was trying to get his kidnapper to “stop doing something.” There is a strong taboo in our society about being a “rat....

New and Improved Leadership? In your article “Can Lula Lead?” (world affairs, Oct. 21), John Maguire, senior managing director of New York-based Medley Global Advisers, is quoted as saying that if Lula governs as a populist, “the markets will tear him apart.” This is ominous. Brazilians do not need this sort of advice or threat. When asked if there is a silver-bullet solution to Brazil’s economic predicament, Maguire answered yes, but qualified it by saying, only if the new president could negotiate a trade deal with the United States....

Namely, Darius from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Legacy of the First Blade DLC first appeared in Assassin’s Creed 2. This easily overlooked fact has implications for the other teases, but even stands alone as a prominent characteristic. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Community Celebrates Amunet and Female Assassins with Sisterhood Symbol Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade - Darius Assassin’s Creed Odyssey players first meet Darius during the Legacy of the First Blade DLC, where he initially serves as a boss fight before becoming an ally to Alexios or Kassandra....

Paul di Resta’s amazing race Paul di Resta started with medium tyres at the 17th position and raced 56 laps with them before making his first and only pit stop. This strategy earned him a fully deserved 7th position. Other drivers like Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen too went 42 and 47 laps on their respective medium tyres (so much for talking about the tyre-gate!) But the difference is di Resta started on Medium tyres while the others switched to them after wearing out their super-softs....

Now, some recent developments in the realm of VR arcades might make Ryan’s doubts about VR’s future seem more plausible than ever. Thanks to an interview by way of Protocol, it seems Disney’s line of “The Void” VR arcades are currently in danger of shutting down operations completely. RELATED: Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge VR Game Gets New Trailer, Release Date The Void was founded by Ken Bretscheider and was originally conceived as a virtual reality theme park....