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Ciara will headline the pregame festivities by singing the national anthem, while country music artist Canaan Smith will sing “America the Beautiful” right before the game starts. MORE: Best of the 2015-16 bowl season | Most-intriguing bowl matchups At the Championship Tailgate, which will take place between 1-7 p.m., country singer Eric Church will perform his most recent album, Chief, among other hits. Opening for Church is the Nashville-native group Moon Taxi, which has headlined at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits....

Wall, who advanced from the 22nd Congressional District Republican primary earlier this month, has posted several articles discussing pregnancy and coronavirus and touting President Donald Trump’s ability to “put partisan politics aside” as he fights the COVID-19 pandemic. But Wall’s March 24 Facebook post claiming coronavirus will “save more lives this week than it takes” created exactly that type of partisan fighting between pro-choice and anti-abortion residents. She thanked Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for issuing an executive order directing all licensed health care facilities, “including abortion providers,” to immediately cease what the two conservative lawmakers described as “all medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures....

The Rev. Markel Hutchins said he and others wanted a chance to discuss what they think is a racist attitude permeating the entire organization. He did not request a meeting before hosting a news conference outside Philips Arena, where the basketball team plays. MORE: Danny Ferry’s inflammatory comment | Levenson’s sale opens Pandora’s Box “Evidently the culture of racism and bigotry that is pervasive and ever-present in the Atlanta Hawks leadership is embarrassing to the city of Atlanta and undermines the very best of Atlanta’s history of race relations and being a leader for the nation and the world,” Hutchins said....

USA Today Sports+ this week published excerpts of leaked emails from Shields’ manager, Mark Taffet, and promoter, Dmitry Salita, to Paul and promoter Nakisa Bidarian, dating to Paul’s fight on Triller against former NBA star Nate Robinson. Paul knocked out Robinson in the second round in November 2020 on a card that featured Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. Paul has attempted to work with Shields, and it appears Shields’ team reached out to Paul at some point about being on that card....

That was the case Sunday, too, when Erik Jones limped to victory in the 2020 Clash at Daytona with a banged-up race car. Jones was one of just five cars left on the lead lap (and one of six left in the race) after a series of late-race crashes took out 12 of the 18 cars that started the Clash. MORE: Daytona 500 TV, streaming info Ryan Newman earned the pole for Sunday’s 75-lap Clash at Daytona thanks to a random draw Saturday....

Cruis’n USA is considered by many to be among the best racing games on the Nintendo 64. The game was released in 1996 on the Nintendo 64 after its arcade launch. Cruis’n World and Cruis’n Exotica would follow up that initial release, creating a trilogy of sorts. And now Eugene Jarvis is thinking about remastering those three games. RELATED: Nintendo Fan Mods an N64 so it can Play Switch Games...

RELATED: Smartest Shonen Anime Villains, Ranked In an academy where ranking is important, students must devise strategies to climb to the top. Although there are exceptions, like the nonchalant protagonist of the series, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, who chooses to observe the academy’s activities from a non-participatory standpoint. Regardless, the anime is still a competitive one with formidable characters. With this in mind, which characters in Classroom of the Elite anime can fans wholeheartedly call the most intelligent?...

Banks usually observe the same holidays as the Federal Reserve System, and will generally be closed on these holidays. The holidays observed by the Federal Reserve System are New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. So are banks closed on Christmas Eve? Despite President Donald Trump making Christmas Eve a federal holiday this year—giving some federal employees the day off—as the day before Christmas is not an official holiday, banks will likely remain open....

The Factory Challenge in Free Fire is one of the most popular custom room challenges created mainly by well-known content creators. The factory is one of the Bermuda map locations, where players drop onto the factory’s roof to battle it out. This article compares Chrono and Kla, two of the most sought-after players in the game, to find out which is a better pick for the Factory Challenge. Assessing the abilities of Kla and Chrono in Garena Free Fire Kla (Ability - Muay Thai) As his in-game description states, Kla is a renowned Muay Thai practitioner....

Goodman’s father’s final wish is for his funeral to be held at Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church, the first church he ever attended. His other request is for Jessie to sing the hymn “The Anchor Holds” at the ceremony. But Pastor Jay Scruggs refused Goodman’s father’s dying wish. (The Goodman family requested the father not be named.) “As long as I was going to take part in any way, [my father] could not have his service there,” Goodman told WTVC....

College football is here, and if you’re going to play good, why not look good doing it? Who knows how Cincinnati’s season will turn out? But one thing is certain: The Bearcats will be fresh as Hades for homecoming. The team’s official Twitter account revealed images of the Under Armour uniforms it will don when it faces UConn on Oct. 24, and they’re pretty sweet. Check them out. MORE: See photos of Cincinnati’s Nippert stadium uniforms | Washington gets largest CFB stadium naming rights deal ever That’s not too bad for the Bearcats, and kudos to Under Armour for not resorting to any of those doing-too-much designs it’s done for Maryland in years past....

The No. 13 Bearcats are off to an 8-0 start in conference play and are 19-2 overall, but Jackson played only six minutes of their 80-76 victory Sunday at Temple. He twisted his ankle and had to be helped off the court and did not return as his teammates built a 19-point lead, then allowed the Owls to rally for a late tie before two Sean Kilpatrick free throws and a blocked shot by Jermaine Sanders secured the victory....

Newsweek: What’s the most important thing for success in business? Daniel Lamarre: Creativity. If you are not prioritizing creativity—the dictionary definition of “making or bringing into existence something new”—you are wasting your time. No company deserves to exist unless it is constantly discovering new ways to make its customers’ lives better. Without creativity, there is no business. How can creativity be incorporated in an organization? What about in non-artistic fields or more traditional ones?...

Darebin City Council, in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria (Vic) state, opened the job to people identifying as “non-male” to apply for the position before it closes on September 16. In the job advertisement, the city council asked for a street sweeper operator and stated it was open to women, non-binary and transgender persons. The role requires the street sweeper operator to maintain cleanliness and general appearance of the council’s footpaths, nature strips, roads, car parks and laneway cleaning....

RELATED:The Best Mods For Civilization 6 Newcomers jumping into this new game mode for Civilization 6 might find themselves at a bit of a loss as to how to begin building their business empire. Here are some tips for beginners to Civilization 6’s game mode that’ll help anyone begin building their corporations as quickly as possible. 10 Plan For A Culture Victory Building a Corporation and establishing a Monopoly over a specific resource is one of the main goals for the Monopolies and Corporations game mode....

Vineeth has earned his first call-up to Wim Koevermans’ Indian squad for the upcoming friendly match against Palestine in his native state of Kerala. The match scheduled to take place at Kochi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on February 6 could see Vineeth making his debut in the all blue kit of Team India. The Kannur-born footballer had an excellent season in the I-League for his club Prayag United so far and hopes are high to get a chance to earn his first senior international cap in front of the home crowd....

Chennai - Australia captain Michael Clarke and former captain Ricky Ponting attracted the highest base price in the list of 101 players that feature in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction to be held here on Sunday. The Australian duo will go under the hammer with highest reserve price of $400,000 (approx Rs.2 crore). Clarke played for Pune Warriors India in IPL 2012 after they bought him on a one-year contract outside of the auction....

The Skeleton King is the King of the Undead and has abilities focusing on his uncanny gift to collect the souls of the dead with “Soul Summoning” and resurrect them as skeletons to do his bidding. The more slain enemies the Skeleton King piles up, the more his Skeleton count grows. The Skeleton King is a flexible card Champion that can be used in a variety of different builds. You unlock Skeleton Knight at Level 11 and continue to upgrade him from there as you would any other card....

One interesting new feature that has been revealed is Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands’ new overworld map that seems to be heavily inspired by JRPGs. The overworld map offers a new way to see the world as well as introducing random encounters to the series. Random encounters should bring some nice variety to the game while also opening up the possibilities for the kind of encounters and enemies that players can come across since they won’t have to fit into a level....

Longtime PlayStation fans may already have a sizable collection of classic games that they purchased through the PS3’s PlayStation Store. In fact, some fans may have rushed out to panic-buy classic PS1 games when Sony announced that it was going to shut down the PS3 PlayStation Store. Those gamers may feel as though their purchases were wasted now that PS Plus Premium is going to give subscribers access to a lot of classic games....