There is never a bad time for a striker to score, but Viktor Gyokeres’ relief was obvious as he ended a barren run with two goals in Arsenal’s 4-0 win over Atletico Madrid. It can be the start of a prolific spell, manager Mikel Arteta believes. After three goals in his first four matches, £64m signing Gyokeres failed to find …
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EAST LANSING – Now in his sixth season at Michigan State, Darius Snow has seen a lot. Three different head coaches to go with an interim one, the COVID season off the jump, a career-threatening injury and just about everything in between. That includes a surge of the Spartans playing night games in recent years, and the linebacker occasionally weighs …
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TORONTO — The Rogers Centre crowd exploded in the first inning. After three playoff sweeps and six postseason losses, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. gave his home fans an October moment to cheer. The star first baseman launched a towering fly ball to left field on Saturday, stealing the Toronto Blue Jays an early lead with a solo home run. The crowd-popping …
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An ongoing drought in Vermont is causing problems for dairy farmers who have been pushed to adapt and take costly measures to care for their cattle. Feed crops like grass, alfalfa and corn are not growing well. Farmers say that has diminished returns on their crop investments and is forcing them to spend thousands on supplemental feed for their cows. …
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The PGA Tour’s season-opening event The Sentry is to be moved because drought conditions in Hawaii have made the host course unplayable. The event usually takes place in January at the Plantation Course at Kapalua on the Island of Maui. However, drought conditions in the region mean water conservation measures have been imposed, including at Kapalua. Tour officials visited the …
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Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter, Querétaro, Mexico Arterra/Getty Images Querétaro is known for its impressive stone aqueduct Located in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct. But the city, and state of the same name, is also recognised for a very different reason – as Mexico’s data centre capital. Across the …
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A pair of second-generation pecan farmers worry that their future is grim after weather events fueled by the changing climate have led to a year of total crop failure at their orchard in Texas. What’s happening? Texas news station KXXV spoke with Gail and Mark Blanpied, who own Rascoe Pecans. “Those pecans, I don’t know what it was about my …
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New cave evidence shows the Maya endured a devastating 13-year drought, helping explain why their once-thriving cities fell into decline. Credit: Shutterstock Deep inside a Mexican cave, a stalagmite has revealed that the Maya civilization faced repeated droughts so extreme that they may have altered history. Researchers discovered that wet-season rainfall failed for years at a time, including a staggering …
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ANGIE HAN Once upon a time, when broadcast ruled the roost, summer was a fallow time for TV. The traditional season would end in the spring, to start up again in the fall; it wasn’t that there were no new shows, but they’d be exceptions in a sea of reruns. Of course, that’s all changed in the past couple of …
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