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The Ravens announced Sunday they have traded the Norwegian kicker to the Vikings for a draft pick. The move is pending a physical. According to ESPN, which cited unidentified league sources, the Vikings sent a 2020 fifth-round pick to Baltimore. Before it became official, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer declined to discuss the trade during his press conference after Sunday’s practice. “If we indeed made a trade, it’s to try and get better guys,” Zimmer said, per the Star Tribune....

Tony Porter and Ted Bunch — co-founders of “A Call To Men,” a national organization that encourages men to end violence against women — have worked with Rice since November and say he deserves an opportunity to play football again. MORE: NFL single-season rushing leaders | Vikings fans give Peterson rousing welcome “We have been around a lot of abusive men, but our experience with Ray has been tremendously positive,” Porter said this weekend....

Monday night’s 5-3 Yankees win over the Rays was more than your typical division matchup, with tempers flaring once again between those scrappy underdog Yankees and the division-leading, powerhouse Rays. It started in the first when starter Masahiro Tanaka plunked Joey Wendle with two outs, which was, apparently, for some reason, deemed intentional by media and fans. FAGAN: Red Sox “reset” tweet showcases fundemental flaw in baseball A 95 mph fastball to the back seems pretty out of the ordinary for Tanaka, who usually has good control on the mound....

The 23-year-old left-hander, who is listed as Tampa Bay’s No. 2 prospect and No. 23 overall in MLB according to MLB Pipeline, was nothing short of phenomenal on the mound. He took a perfect game into the sixth inning and retired the first 16 Rangers hitters he faced. McKay exited after allowing just one hit and one walk over six shutout innings (on 81 pitches) and earned his first career win....

Tampa Bay agreed to a deal with free-agent shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, according to CBSSports.com’s Jon Heyman, to compete with 32-year-old Yunel Escobar for the Opening Day start. Cabrera, 29, spent his entire 9-year career with the Indians earning two trips to the All-Star Game before being dealt to the Nationals last season. Last season, Cabrera batted .229/.312/.389 between Cleveland and Washington with 14 home runs and 61 RBIs. In 2014, Escobar batted ....

Razer is one of the leading manufacturers of PC gaming peripherals and laptops, with its Razer Blade line of laptops dating back to 2012. The Blade lineup is often considered one of the best choices for gaming and productivity workloads, as Razer routinely packs in the latest processors and graphics cards from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. In recent years, Razer has adopted OLED screen technology for the Blade 15 series of laptops to excellent reviews....

So, what better than a Razer gaming mouse to help you gain that competitive edge? Well, you’re in luck, because Prime Day 2021 sees Razer dropping the price of its prized peripherals. Get Up to $50 Off a Razer Gaming Mouse Razer has two mice up for grabs this Prime Day. The first is the Razer DeathAdder V2 mouse (is that a Golden Axe reference? I suspect so). This mouse normally retails at $69....

Robert Lewandowski scored the first goal within three minutes, after he was through on goal with a pass from Thomas Muller. A penalty decision in the 37th minute was overruled by VAR after Marcel Sabitzer was perceived to challenge Lucas Hernandez unfairly in the box. It seemed as though Bayern would end the first half on top but a penalty was given, this time at the other end of the pitch....

McCall was team engineer for RCR driver Ryan Newman, who was winless but was among the four finalists in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, in which he finished second to Kevin Harvick. He was under a three-year team engineer contract with RCR through the 2015 season. 2014 REVIEWS: Top stories | Best races | Controversies | Worst moments | Best drama | Fights | Surreality RCR argued that McCall taking the crew chief job at Ganassi in 2015 would violate the one-year non-compete clause that does not allow work for another team in a “capacity identical or similar to that in which he participated” for Childress....

In 2012, the web novel was serialized on Japanese user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Nar, and presently, has four volumes and about four different side stories. To commemorate the decade-long franchise, Nagatsuki decided to share delightful news concerning the ongoing story’s ending with fans. RELATED: Re:Zero: How Much Has Subaru Changed Since Season 1? Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World has been met with mostly positive reception from the anime community, spanning two seasons so far....

Despite links to Major League Soccer this summer, talk of a move from current club PSV to the Spanish side picked up last week. U.S. soccer’s ultimate journeyman On Thursday, Betis vice president Lorenzo Serra Ferrer spoke about the move for the 30-year-old in a press conference, making it clear that club is expecting to get a deal done. “He’ll give us a lot,” said Serra. “He is a great footballer with an impressive resume....

Here are a dozen position players with major league experience who could find themselves elsewhere by spring, ranked by what their value on the trade market should be. Xander Bogaerts Position: SS/3B Opening Day Age: 22 Contract Status: Under team control through 2019 Bogaerts had a somewhat disappointing .660 OPS in his first full season in the major leagues thanks to extended slumps in June and August, but he also hit 12 homers while mostly playing a premium defensive position in his age-21 season....

In LeBron James, DeRozan and the Toronto Raptors keep running into the ultimate grandmaster. Their inability to beat him might force coach Dwane Casey into a cruel checkmate. Toronto’s postseason fizzled out against a familiar foe on Monday night when James and the Cleveland Cavaliers finished off back-to-back second-round sweeps of Toronto. It’s the third straight year the Cavs have bounced the Raptors from the playoffs. After a franchise-record 59 wins, good for the top seed in the Eastern Conference, it was as tough a defeat as DeRozan has endured....

The Toronto Raptors guard has been cleared for Monday’s against the Golden State Warriors but will wear a mouthpiece when he takes to the court. VanVleet was left with blood streaming down his face in the fourth quarter of Friday’s Game 4 victory after he took an inadvertent elbow from the Warriors’ Shaun Livingston, suffering a chipped tooth as well as his head cut. He was clearly dazed on the play and received seven stitches but has not suffered any symptoms of a concussion since the hit....

Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan, though, apparently isn’t that recognizable in Toronto. In fact, according to a series of tweets from Cavs beat writer Chris Haynes, a worker at Air Canada Centre had no idea who DeRozan is. MORE: Five lessons learned from Raptors win Ouch! MORE: Former castoffs paying dividends for Raptors Really, though, this little incident involving an overzealous security guard shouldn’t serve as an indictment on Toronto fans in general....

The lobster—now named Cheddar—was found by a culinary team at a Red Lobster restaurant in Florida. Live lobsters are usually dark in color, with hints of brown and red. However, Cheddar is a bright orange color. Lobsters usually only turn this color when they are cooked to be prepared as food, however Cheddar was very much alive. Cheddar, originally destined for the plate, was saved by employees who instantly noticed the lobster’s bright color, a press release from the restaurant said....

The second printing of the Alpha set in Sept. of 1993, called the Beta set, even has cards worth thousands of dollars. Below is a list of the rarest and most valuable Magic: The Gathering cards and what they are worth today. The card prices here are for mint/near-mint card conditions. RELATED: Magic The Gathering Arena: Things You Need To Do In The First Hours Of The Game Updated on November 25, 2022, by Jeff Drake: So many gamers are kicking themselves for not buying Magic: The Gathering cards when they first started appearing on store shelves....

United were outplayed in a 3-1 defeat to their bitter rivals in the EFL Cup semi-final first leg at Old Trafford on Tuesday, leaving them with a mountain to climb at City in three weeks’ time. There are parallels with the situation Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side found themselves in last March, when they headed to face Paris Saint-Germain in a last-16 tie after losing 2-0 on home soil. On that night in the French capital, Rashford’s last-gasp penalty secured a 3-1 win and sealed progress on away goals....

The boy whose rapid rise to fame with Manchester United was handled with the calm demeanour of a man twice his age was given one of the toughest examinations yet of his temperament on Monday night. But he delivered in abundance to steer England to within a whisker of the World Cup finals in Russia next summer. Making only his second competitive start for his national side in the qualifying fixture against Slovakia at Wembley, Rashford gave the visitors a huge helping hand in the opening moments but showed tremendous resilience and character to lead the Three Lions to a crucial 2-1 victory in Group F....