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It’s 20 years since the beginning of your in-ring career in WCW. In your first match at Halloween Havoc you captured the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Did you ever think you would still be doing this, two decades later? No, I didn’t, I had no idea what I was getting into. I just knew that I was a fan, I was young, I was a good athlete and it just seemed like the coolest job in the entire world to do....

Big Tech—and hundreds of other Fortune 500 companies—have each saved billions of dollars annually since the GOP-majority Congress passed President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Despite the corporate tax break windfall, Big Tech employee donations to Democrats increased by 16 percent since 2016, when rampant accusations of “conservative bias” first sprang up against Silicon Valley. Big Tech donations this year have particularly helped Democratic candidates in tight U....

Did the Buckeyes, who finished 12-1 and won a conference championship, have a case for the College Football Playoff? “I don’t know,” Meyer said. “I don’t really want to get into that tonight. I think those people, I think they’re in Dallas, wherever they are, and it’s a tough situation they’re in. There’s a lot of great football teams out there, and we’re one of those great football teams. I think there should be a lot of merit in winning your conference, which we did....

Sports Business Journal reported Notre Dame “should expect around $60 million from a new TV contract” which would be a substantial increase from the $25 million the school gets from NBC through 2025. NBC and Notre Dame are expected to keep that partnership running while the network goes in business with the Big Ten. This is the part where the Big Ten and commissioner Kevin Warren should throw up deuces and say goodbye to Notre Dame for good....

Weeks after Joe Paterno’s wins were restored, Penn State announced it will have its share of revenue from the conference’s bowl appearances restored starting this upcoming bowl season. “We are grateful to the Big Ten and the Council of Presidents and Chancellors for their decision to restore Penn State’s share of the Conference bowl revenues to the University in the upcoming football season,” Penn State President Eric Barron said. “These funds will help to support our 31 teams and more than 850 student-athletes....

Vishakapatnam - Hours before his first match in over 10 months, cricketer Yuvraj Singh said that this would be the biggest day in his life since the World Cup final last April. ‘I guess this would be my biggest day after world cup final. I’m really overwhelmed with the love and support of everyone who have send me wishes,’ said Yuvraj on twitter account @YUVSTRONG12. Yuvraj recently recovered from a life threatening rare germ cell cancer....

A day after polls started closing, the presidential election is still too close to call, although Biden is within six points of victory, according to the Associated Press. Even if the former vice president reaches the 270 electoral college votes needed to win, lawsuits could prevent a winner from being declared for weeks, and at this point in the game both candidates are expecting to be declared the winner....

The poll, which was conducted by OH Predictive Insights, surveyed 600 likely voters in Arizona from May 9 to May 11. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. According to the poll, Biden received 50 percent of supporters in Arizona, while 43 percent sided with Trump. Biden has held a steady advantage over Trump in the state since March, receiving support from 49 percent of respondents then and 52 percent in April....

FiveThirtyEight reported the president’s approval rating as of Thursday, his 240th day in office. Though Biden’s rating dropped from 50.3 percent in August, it is higher than Donald Trump’s 38.8 percent at the same point during his presidency. However, the poll shows that Biden currently has less approval than Barack Obama did, with 53.4 percent on his 240th day in office, while George W. Bush had 83.2 percent and Bill Clinton 48....

Ghost guns are handmade firearms, which can be assembled without commercial serial numbers and sold to buyers who have not undergone background checks necessary for retail purchases. In the aftermath of two mass shootings that took place in Georgia and Atlanta last month, a group of Democratic state attorneys expressed concern about the lack of regulations effected to manage ghost gun sales in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland....

A new Quinnipiac poll, released Wednesday, showed Biden leading Trump by 11 points in Florida, with 51 percent of likely voters supporting the Democrat and 40 percent supporting the Republican. A previous September 3 poll showed Biden ahead by 3 points in the state with 48 percent of support compared to Trump’s 45 percent. Trump trailed behind Biden by an even larger margin—13 points—in Pennsylvania. The former vice president pulled 54 percent of support among likely voters, compared to the president’s 41 percent....

The new budget phone is a Snapdragon 632-powered device that marks a significant improvement over the MediaTek chip-toting Redmi 6. There’s also a 4,000mAh battery that the company claims has a standby of up to 400 hours, and a 6.26in HD+ display with Gorilla Glass 5 and a waterdrop notch to house the 8Mp selfie camera. In common with recent Xiaomi phones it includes an IR blaster and upgraded sound, now louder and better quality than we’ve seen previously in the line-up....

The NFL hoped more teams would consistently attempt two-point conversions when it moved the PAT back to a distance of 33 yards this season. Pittsburgh is the first to aggressively, fully take advantage of offensive prowess to put opponents further on their heels. MORE: Teams that should go for two every time | Week 3 picks | Betting lines The Steelers, to begin their 43-18 rout of the 49ers in Week 2, went for two on their first two touchdowns....

If Georgia is a test case for Russia’s evolving policy in the “near abroad,” the rest of the former Soviet republics had better start worrying. Moscow’s professed goal of being the peacekeeper in the region, which it considers to be part of its vital interests, doesn’t necessarily alarm the West. The evidence on the ground suggests that Moscow isn’t up to the task, anyway. In Georgia, the Russians have wrenched a series of painful concessions, then failed to reward Shevardnadze with badly needed military support....

This year’s conference play has been defined by the fact that any team, regardless of conference standing, can beat any team on any given night. The Big Ten has been ripe with upsets from bottomfeeders like Penn State knocking off Michigan, Illinois topping Maryland or Indiana beating Michigan State in overtime, just to name a few. MORE: Watch Big Ten tournament games live with fuboTV (7-day trial) Upsets aside, Michigan and Michigan State have established themselves as the cream of the crop....

Create A Championship is by far the most requested feature for WWE 2K20 post-launch. Players are able to create a unique championship, including its belt, and then customize the roster of wrestlers for which the championship is earnable. That includes any character on the roster, men or women, as well as custom characters. Surprisingly, there are relatively few reviews of the new mode yet, perhaps indicating that even WWE fans may not be coming back to 2K20 even with Create A Championship....

It’s hard to believe, but it’s now been 20 years since 2001, so some of the industry’s greatest games are celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2021. Considering this, it would be great to see some of these games honored and for their anniversaries to be celebrated in some way. Regardless of whether or not that happens, though, fans may want to bust out their old consoles and revisit some of these classics that defined 2001....

According to memorandum by the White House, the funds are meant to be used for military education and training in order to “provide assistance to Ukraine and to make the determinations required.” The memo didn’t break down how the funds will be allocated; however, Reuters reported that the financial assistance would go into additional small arms and anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine. The U.S. defense assistance comes after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Saturday warned Western countries that shipments of weapons to Ukraine are considered “legitimate targets” and could be hit by Russian forces....

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale assault on Ukraine on February 24 after weeks of warnings from the U.S. and Western European leaders that an attack was imminent. The U.S., Canada and European allies have been united in implementing substantial sanctions targeting the Russian economy, as well as Putin and other Moscow elite. “As Putin continues his merciless assault, the United States and our allies and partners continue to work in lockstep to ramp up the economic pressure on Putin and to further isolate Russia on the global stage,” Biden said in his Friday remarks....