Unified middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is moving up two weight classes to take on Sergey Kovalev for the WBO light heavyweight championship. Canelo is putting on 15 pounds to fight the hard-hitting Kovalev in a bid for a world title in a fourth weight class. It’s a huge jump in weight for the 29-year-old …
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Apple has lined up some big names to help launch its Apple TV Plus streaming service, perhaps none bigger than the trio of stars attached to The Morning Show, a news-broadcast drama available to stream now on Apple’s service. The 10-episode series reportedly cost $150 million to make, with sizeable salaries for stars Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell. Here’s what …
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The new Apple TV Plus streaming service is the latest place online to find some big actors, but none can match the imposing bulk of Aquaman and Khal Drogo himself, Jason Momoa. His new series, See, launches Friday, Nov. 1. Reported to have cost $15 million per episode to make, the show is a Game of Thrones-style fantasy where everybody is blind. In …
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The sun was already setting on the Dubs dynasty with the departure of Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson expected to miss the upcoming season. And now things look even bleaker after Stephen Curry broke his hand. Suddenly, it’s D’Angelo Russell’s team, and he’s in his first year with the Golden State Warriors. Wins might be tough to come by for the team …
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Game Seven. Those are two of the best words a sports fan could hear. Wednesday night, baseball fans will be the lucky recipients of such a gift with the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals set to play the final game of the 2019 MLB season. After the Nats jumped out to a 2-0 lead heading back to the nation’s capital, the Astros rallied off …
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The 2019-2020 NBA season’s opening week continues Wednesday night as 11 games follow the opening night tip-offs of the Pelicans, Raptors, Lakers and Clippers last night. The defending champ Raptors needed overtime to outlast the up-and-coming Pelicans — even without star rookie Zion Williamson, who is out for six to eight weeks after knee surgery — while former Raptor and Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers to take round …
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Microsoft rolled out new Surface Pro tablets at its annual Surface hardware event in New York earlier this month. Apart from the addition of a USB-C port and updated processors, the new Surface Pro 7 models are very similar to last year’s Surface Pro 6. In fact, they look nearly identical and share the same 12.3-inch display. The biggest difference between …
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At its Made by Google event in New York on Tuesday, Google unveiled a host of new hardware products. You’ll need to wait until next spring for the new Pixel Buds, but you’ll be able to put your preorder in today for the rest, including the Pixel 4 phones, Pixelbook Go laptop, Nest Mini speaker and Nest Wifi mesh router. …
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For the National League Championship Series, and the Nationals, it all comes down to tonight. In the last seven years Washington has made the playoffs four times, only to lose in the NLDS. The 2019 Nationals now find themselves on the brink of a World Series berth — the first for the franchise. Up a commanding three games to zero after …
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A convertible Asus Chromebook is at its lowest price ever on Amazon, while two Chromebooks from HP and Lenovo on sale at Best Buy have dipped to all-time lows. The Asus and Lenovo models are at the luxury end of the Chromebook spectrum with aluminum enclosures instead of plastic, full HD touch displays and either 64GB or 128GB of storage. …
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