Yes. It is a live, unscripted sports event, so anything could happen.
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"I am against such an approach — it's not a sports event," he said.
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Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Before the sports event kicked off, Mr and Mrs.
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The shooter at the Jacksonville e-sports event acquired his guns completely legally.
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When you tune into any e-sports event, you're likely to see only men.
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Enter: the Fed Cup, the biggest annual international women's sports event in the world.
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"It was, bar none, the greatest sports event I've ever been to," Mulvihill said.
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If his kids have a school activity or sports event, he attends everything possible.
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Patrick Chappatte France prepares for its own version of an unfortunately timed major sports event.
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As always a Japanese combat sports event provided the perfect blend of cruelty, decency, and absurdity.
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At an Eton-College sports event in 2006, Prince William can be seen kissing Middleton's cheek.
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On the other hand, it's a huge sports event ... so, what's wrong with being a fan?
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It was what every sports event with a ball should have from this very moment on.
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What motivates teams, leagues and sports event operators to choose one cause over another can vary.
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The idea of walking into a corporately sponsored sports event is now not a new idea.
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Other options may include a new attraction, a major sports event, or celebrations that mark milestone anniversaries.
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What's new is, the individuality of players is important in making a sports event engaging and interesting.
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A suicide bombing at a sports event left more than a dozen people, including children, in pieces.
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Organizers have said the race attracts the largest single-day attendance of any sports event in the world.
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I discovered an orderly crowd, more typical of those attending a sports event at this 8,500-seat arena.
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Animal Planet's annual showdown between adorable (and adoptable) puppies is quite paw-ssibly the cutest televised sports event.
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St. Barts, at not quite 10 square miles, is too small to host nearly any major sports event.
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In the end King defeated Riggs, and their match became the most watched television sports event of all time.
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If the Saints played the Rams on Saturday, I think it'd be the highest-watched sports event all year.
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I don't think anyone would feel comfortable watching a sports event if one of the athletes is left dead.
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"It's the most-watched sports event worldwide so there's a lot of eyeballs watching the Olympics," Pritchard told Mashable.
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Abdul Rashid Dostum, was accused of abducting his rival, Ahmad Ishchi, 63, during a traditional sports event last month.
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At the same time, Tatts said the offer overvalued its wagering business, which runs horse- and sports-event betting.
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It's become a sports-event ritual as sacrosanct as the seventh-inning stretch or the singing of the national anthem.
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The massive prize pool combined with Fortnite's unparalleled mainstream popularity make this possibly the biggest e-sports event in history.
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But it was not the first time she has had a little fun on camera to promote a sports event.
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The best among them compete at an e-sports event, and the winner gets a seventy-five-thousand-dollar contract.
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The New York City Marathon, coming Sunday, is the latest sports event to be ensnared in the Russian doping scandal.
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As a Dutch Bulgarian living in Luxembourg, I thought the 21.5 soccer World Cup would be a boring sports event.
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The elder Mr. Tillis was an emotional father who never missed a youth sports event and cried at every one.
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Churchill Downs in Louisville hosts the Kentucky Derby every year, which is the longest continually running sports event in America.
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DreamHack is one of the largest e-sports event organizers, with multiple events and plenty of money passed out each year.
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Undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather has finally agreed to what will surely be the most watched combat sports event in history.
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Global Sports HAMILTON, Bermuda — No major international sports event has a longer history than the America's Cup, which began in 1851.
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Harry established the Paralympic-style sports event in 2014 to draw attention to men and women who were injured in combat.
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But just 10 percent had bet on a pro sports event, mostly because there were few legal ways to do it.
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These methods can also be useful during a major sports event or a natural disaster such as an earthquake, Allahdadian said.
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A third Chechen War is not the outcome the Kremlin would prefer to engender from an incident related to a sports event.
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Allen lost in last year's FIFA interactive World Cup final but has qualified for every ranking FIFA e-sports event this year.
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Baxter believes the evidence was there on Friday that it should one day be in the biggest sports event of them all.
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The two Koreas have competed as a single nation in table tennis and soccer but have never at a multi-sports event.
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In April, the region hosted a gathering of "the world's most advanced and bravest professional sporting athletes," dubbed the Extreme Sports Event.
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Last week, President Donald Trump declared a national health emergency, which was followed by school closures, sports event cancellations and panic buying.
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The run-up to the world's biggest winter sports event has also been overshadowed by an escalating crisis on the Korean peninsula.
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Reallocating medals has become standard practice — depressing testimony to how often that sports event you just watched turns out to be a sham.
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The main aim is to maintain interest in the world's multi-sports event throughout the two-year break between summer and winter Olympics.
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This isn't the first time that fans have tried to bring the Chicago-born performer to the biggest sports event of the year.
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A trip to attend a one-off extreme-sports event held at the desert site of Saudi Arabia's $500 billion NEOM megacity project.
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The island nation's Formula One Championship race is not the only sports event to be affected by the growing number of coronavirus cases.
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Tuesday's decision could have consequences for another major sports event scheduled to be held in Russia, next year's $11 billion soccer World Cup.
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Turner told CBS News that people scheduled to attend a conference, see a concert or attend a sports event shouldn't alter their plans.
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The Asian Games remains the largest multi-sports event that features cricket and Guangzhou 2010 and Incheon 2014 included both men's and women's competitions.
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Betting on a sports event increases the likelihood of watching it on TV, according to a new telecommunications, media and technology report from Deloitte.
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"The reality is that we want it to be a sports event and stay away from any political discussion," Vegni told The Associated Press.
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The War Dogs actor was completely unrecognizable at Wednesday's sports event when he presented the Best Comeback Athlete award with racing star Danica Patrick.
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So, for example, a user could start a live broadcast to comment on another previously videoed event, like a computer game or sports event.
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Rachel Platten had every singer's nightmare become a reality when she forgot the words to the national anthem at a sports event on Saturday.
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But many more looked earnest, just like Americans do when they stand up, hand on heart, for the national anthem at a sports event.
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The V2650 even has three mics that adjust themselves automatically in an effort to capture sound in challenging environments like a concert or sports event.
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King defeated Riggs in the match than became the most-watched television sports event of all time, and sparked an ongoing conversation about gender equality.
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When her much-hyped 2015 U.S. Open appearance ended in the semifinals, I cried — the only sports event to bring me to tears since childhood.
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As adults we lived too far apart for a spontaneous hamburger or a cup of coffee, or a guy-like sharing of a sports event.
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If you were sitting next to Litsky at a sports event, "you were always in the right place," a former Times colleague, Malcolm Moran, recalled.
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But this was the day of Bahrain's Formula One Grand Prix, the biggest sports event in the country, so that was embarrassing for the government.
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With players donning stark white tennis attire and guests dressing to impress, the sports event is unique in its focus on elegance at all levels.
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The Super Bowl is the professional sports event of the year, but more importantly, it is the day when our nation consumes literally 1.25 billion wings.
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"Live TV in this particular incarnation, which is a mega sports event, is still the one domain of linear TV that seems to thrive," he said.
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Either way, the unauthorized flying machine is violating a no-fly zone in place for Europe's biggest sports event since deadly attacks in Paris last November.
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"Broke a glass," he said, explaining that he had been watching a sports event, went to grab the remote control, and then knocked over the glass.
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A mere 24 hours before the opening ceremony of the Games, the outbreak has threatened to undermine an otherwise watertight start to the global sports event.
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The typhoon struck the Philippines as the nation hosted the Southeast Asian Games, a biennial sports event that draws top athletes from 11 Southeast Asian nations.
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"Live sports is what drives live TV today — [the Olympics] is still the most extraordinary live sports event," said Barry Lowenthal, CEO of The Media Kitchen.
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But Harry will retain his connection to the Invictus Games, the global sports event for wounded, injured and sick service members that he founded in 2014.
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But it was not until September that they made their first public appearance together at the Invictus Games in Toronto, a sports event for wounded veterans.
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Obama even takes us into the Treaty Room, which he jokingly calls "the Presidential Man Cave," due to its occasional use as a sports event viewing room.
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NBC noted as part of its announcement for Playmaker that it has been streaming live sports event since 2006, when it broadcast the Olympic men's hockey final.
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Mike DeWine of Ohio was ahead of the rest of the nation in banning spectators at a sports event and urging universities to move to online learning.
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Whether I'm at a crowded bar, restaurant, sports event or concert, I'll be a spectacle, isolated by my inability to join the conversations of those around me.
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The video — titled "Police Abuse, Civil Rights Violation at Urbandale High School 10/14/16" — shows a confrontation with several police officers at a youth sports event.
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For the first time in his career, Floyd Mayweather got PUT ON HIS BACK during a major sports event -- and the whole thing was caught on camera!!
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Homestands have all the trappings of a traditional sports event, including fan contests, autograph signings, and satellite events for fans to enjoy when they're not watching the competition.
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The stabbing followed an argument in which he scolded his son for getting angry at the noise generated by a sports event at a nearby school, media said.
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But if any game should probably be fun to watch, and experiencing at least a little boost in popularity ahead of a big e-sports event, it's Overwatch.
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Goldsmith also says that abusers might use the strong emotions that come up during a sports event as a cover to take those emotions out on a partner.
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But in what is likely to be the most-streamed sports event ever, NBC will also offer 22012,28 hours of coverage online, more than it has ever unleashed.
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The fans in the sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden responded, in turn, with two hours of sustained quietude that belied their presence at a professional sports event.
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The only time it's believed to have broadcast an international sports event live on its main channel was the North Korea-Portugal match in the 2010 World Cup.
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The announcement is a major boost for the IOC, strengthening its financial future as interest in the world's biggest multi-sports event has waned in the last few years.
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Today developer Epic detailed the upcoming e-sports event, which will culminate in a final tournament at an undisclosed location in New York from July 2000th to the 22019th.
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The team has won, and it has reportedly cost the bookmakers 33 million pounds, or $36 million, the biggest loss on a single sports event in British gambling history.
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But then, you can't ignore half of humanity: the World Cup is by far the world's most-watched sports event, viewed last time by more than 22014 billion people.
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The Super Bowl is a one-of-a-kind event, and it's no surprise that over 2628 percent of Americans attended a professional or amateur sports event last year.
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Some 6,000 athletes took part in the Games, the first major multi-sports event for the continent, with qualification spots on offer for August's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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He calls it shooting the "edges of the fringes of events" — essentially capturing the interesting moments that someone attending (or even photographing) a sports event may never pay attention to.
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These betting providers also allow the players, sponsors and other stakeholders of a particular match-up or e-sports event to bet against themselves, which obviously creates conflicts of interest.
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To date, almost every time a network has announced they are streaming a sports event in VR — including the Super Bowl — it has only been available for Gear VR users.
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Qatar is no outlier to the West: It is scheduled to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a month-long international soccer tournament and the world's most popular sports event.
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Noted Judy Jetset walked around the bar at the Playwright Irish Pub in Midtown Manhattan, checking in on the 40 people she had brought together to watch a sports event.
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To capitalize on American Pharoah's Belmont victory, which was named Sports Event of the Year by Sports Business Journal, the New York Racing Association put tickets on sale in January.
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Strategies being considered include wider curbs on private cars depending on whether their license-plate numbers are odd or even, creating special lanes for the sports event, and building gardens.
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Costas -- who has hosted nearly every sports event imaginable, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby -- had been critical in the past of the NFL's role in the concussion crisis.
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Formula One SHANGHAI — Probably no other sports event has as many existential questions about the use of technology to assist its participants than the technologically highly advanced Formula One series.
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The government started giving out even more exemptions in 2002, as South Korea was putting on another major sports event: the soccer World Cup, which it co-hosted with Japan.
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Doping scandals have plagued the build-up to the world's biggest multi-sports event with Russia potentially facing a complete Games ban following the publication of the McLaren report on Monday.
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Like every other live sports event, the best way to watch this one is by turning on your TV. It's easier to watch live sports on TV than on the internet.
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King ultimately defeated Riggs in a tennis match at the Houston Astrodome, and it became the most-watched television sports event of its time – and turned King into a sports superstar.
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It's not a question fans like to think about as they wallow in the best sports event of the year, but it is one that only the court can ultimately resolve.
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By adopting this purpose-led approach the world's biggest one-day sports event became the most shared, most participatory, most giving, most sustainable and most commercially successful Super Bowl in history.
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I'm reminded of the classic rule for ladies to remove their hats when in a theater, but wouldn't a sports event, where the team encourages the practice, have a different sensitivity?
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Robinson's Neighborhood" and "White Like Me," a satire of the film "Black Like Me. Murphy's return on Saturday night might be the biggest non-sports event on television this fall season.
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"On North Korea participating in a sports event in South Korea, if they apply to come under regulations and procedures, our position is to approve it under regulations and procedures," he added.
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It's a happy place, relatively chill for a professional sports event (at least during regular season games), where a massive quantity of positive energy gets directed to the people on the field.
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The rescue happened Saturday on the last day of the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, an annual wheelchair-sports event presented by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
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That decision came following the withdrawal of four of the six cities bidding for the 2024 Olympics, amid concerns about the cost and complexity of organizing the world's biggest multi-sports event.
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Instead of popular opposition or violent protests, then, the main threat to the success of the Rio Olympics is likely to be something just as damaging to a major sports event—apathy.
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The PyeongChang games will see the most widespread use of 360-degree virtual reality (VR) cameras of any major global sports event, giving at-home viewers a more immersive experience than ever.
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Picciani, a young politician from Rio, said preparations for the global sports event were on schedule and security for the games was guaranteed, playing down differences with the new Defense Minister Raul Jungmann.
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The ritual at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece traditionally marks the countdown to the world's biggest multi-sports event with the lighting of the torch and a torch relay.
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The free-to-play battle royale shooter is closing out its second week since release, and it's still retaining its top spot on the Twitch leaderboards following its successful first e-sports event.
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"I'm proud to be able to race the most important mountain bike race in the calendar at the biggest sports event in the world," Sagan said in a statement from his Tinkoff team.
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These so-called "aerial fulfillment centers" would be used in places where lots of people have suddenly gathered, like a sports event or music festival, to help deliver things like food and souvenirs.
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It turns out that, just four months ago, Blind was an aspiring Fortnite pro and college student who attended Tyler "Ninja" Blevins' Las Vegas Fortnite tournament, the first major Fortnite e-sports event.
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The quadrennial global sports event exposes apparel brands worn by top athletes to hundreds of millions of viewers, but growing competition and higher costs may be reducing the benefits of major endorsement deals.
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Wimbledon is not the only London sports event becoming more environmentally friendly - the Oval cricket ground has reported that it has reached 90% of its target to become completely single-use plastic free.
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The 215th Gay Games, an international sports event that bills itself as the world's largest and "most inclusive" — anyone can participate, even straight people — will come to a close on Sunday in Paris.
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"Audio signal processing for virtual acoustics can greatly enhance a movie, a sports event, a video game or other screen viewing experience, adding to the feeling of &aposbeing there,&apos" the document reads.
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The $30 million milestone is particularly notable because it helps The International remain the biggest e-sports event on the planet — at least in terms of prize money, despite a very aggressive new competitor.
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Those critical times might be a video streaming service during an important live sports event, an e-commerce company launching a new campaign or a news site breaking its biggest scoop of the year.
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Security concerns Violence has marred the lead-up to the games, with many concerned that Rio isn't safe or prepared enough to host the world's biggest sports event, set to open at 8 p.m.
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The refusal of accreditation to report on a major sports event was "unique in the history of ARD's sports journalism," the broadcaster said, describing the refusal as an "unheard-of violation of press freedom".
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The Super Bowl is the biggest sports event of the year, and it accounts for a sizable portion of the $149 billion in sports bets made last year, according to the American Gambling Association.
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Coverage was also given to the Super Bowl, the most anticipated and watched sports event in the U.S., and fans were able to watch the NFL Finals from five different perspectives in virtual reality.
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It seems there is no sporting event NBC believes beyond their reach; in fact, it kind of feels like a sports event isn't really an event at all if Johnny and Tara aren't there.
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The tie-up draws from a similar project developed during the Olympic Games in 2016, when TIM provided displacement data to help Rio de Janeiro's mayor in organizing security and transportation for sports event.
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She said that Aponte followed her home after they had gone as part of a group to an unspecified sports event, and asked to come inside to use the bathroom and for a tour.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore Grand Prix organizers are stocking up on disposable face masks to sell to spectators if the worst air pollution in three years threatens to taint the city-state's marquee sports event.
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Doping scandals have plagued the build-up to the world's biggest multi-sports event with Russia under investigation following a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suggesting systematic doping in that country.
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Operators will need to know where other drones are flying in order to prevent collisions, as well as which areas to avoid and when, like if there's a major sports event or a wildfire.
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That change, Cramer says, begs the question of why people would want to go to a live sports event or Wrestlemania when they can just stay home and play NBA 2K, Madden or WWE 2K?
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Singapore held its first Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2008, which at the time was the largest sports event the city-state had ever hosted, and the first F1 race to be held at night.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has urged Tokyo to keep costs for the 2020 Summer Games below $20 billion as the hosts continue to grapple with ballooning expenses for the multi-sports event.
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Streamers and pro players had a collective freakout over the introduction of game-breaking mech suits, and Fortnite's post-World Cup e-sports event, the season-long Fortnite Champion Series, came and went without much fanfare.
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On a political level President Dilma Rousseff was suspended pending an impeachment trial for corruption with interim President Michel Temer taking over just months before the country hosted the biggest multi-sports event in the world.
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Users will then be able to manage those notifications based on those channels (which I think means that I'll hopefully never have to get a notification from The New York Times about a sports event again).
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Chinese athletes bagged the most gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a feat accompanied by a wave of national pride, the culmination of China's "100 year dream" to host the world's most prestigious sports event.
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But a question mark over the country's ability to host an international multi-sports event has hung over India since the 2010 Commonwealth Games, a $6 billion event billed as Delhi's answer to the Beijing Olympics.
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This first preseason game was big enough that the longtime San Diego Union-Tribune sports columnist Nick Canepa felt the need to remind readers that this was not the biggest sports event in the city's history.
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The Olympics, the biggest sports event of them all, go ahead as planned, Tokyo organisers insisted on Friday, a few hours after the flame was lit in ancient Olympia at the start of the torch relay.
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The three-day competition is the largest sports event ever orchestrated on the island, a seasonal refuge for urban-weary New Yorkers and tourists, according to Sarah Krautheim, a spokeswoman for the Trust for Governors Island.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A man struck Arnold Schwarzenegger with a flying kick at a sports event in South Africa on Saturday, though the actor and former California governor later reassured fans that they needn't worry about him.
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The telecast is the first time the network has aired an e-sports event on its main channel in the US. Previous broadcasts, such as the Street Fighter V world championship in 2016, have aired on ESPN2.
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Brazilian researchers say they believe that Zika, which has been linked to severe birth defects, came to their country during another major sports event — the 2014 World Cup — when hundreds of thousands of visitors flowed into Brazil.
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Camera crews (such as the Aerobo team of drone operators shown on a live sports event set below) seek to leverage the view from drone cameras for filming a variety of live broadcasts, movies and TV films.
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With some 3,600 people, many of them civilians, losing their lives during three decades of sectarian violence, the idea of hosting a global sports event in the region was nothing more than a fantasy during 'The Troubles'.
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Their existing gambling contracts with officials in Hartford would grant both casinos the rights to open sportsbooks, similar to the lucrative ones in Las Vegas that take wagers daily on most any sports event in the world.
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While the money raised at the event paled compared with what Mr. Fishman gave away himself, the exposure of aligning with a prominent sports event may have done more to further his cause than any single check.
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"It's a great honor for us to host the Giro d'Italia, it shows the world has confidence in the ability of the state of Israel to organize a very big sports event," Tourism Minister Yariv Levin told Reuters.
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Outside the marquee events like college basketball and football and professional leagues like MLS, streaming rights to many of the smaller games and niche matches cost very little — no more than $1,000 per sports event, game or match.
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And then there are more day-to-day use cases like, you go to the Warriors game or a concert or sports event, and the connectivity is overwhelmed because you have that one base station for that area.
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With the help of VR startup NextVR, the NBA tipped off the 2015-16 season with the VR broadcast of the Golden State Warriors and New Orleans Pelicans game, the first live-streamed sports event using the medium.
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It was probably the most high-profile post-sports event proposal since at least 2007, when Ian Johnson of Boise State's football team proposed to his girlfriend, Chrissy Popadics, after the Broncos' wild Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan has averted an Asian Games boycott by its hockey players after the country's federation gave assurances that overdue daily allowances would be paid in full before the multi-sports event begins in Indonesia later this month.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - The second edition of the European Games this summer is the main gateway to the 270 Tokyo Olympics for European athletes but the multi-sports event is still in search of a clear identity amid growing competition.
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Yesterday, at SportsBusiness Daily's World Congress of Sports event in California, Nike's global basketball sports marketing director George Raveling—who might be feeling squeezed by Ball—said LaVar was the worst thing to happen to basketball in 100 years.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday demanded a commemoration for its athletes killed at the 1972 Olympics at each Games opening ceremony, telling the International Olympic Committee "a black flag" will always fly over its multi-sports event.
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The point was that Mr. Louboutin, whose name is on nearly 200 boutiques around the world, chose for his first outing at the fair to sponsor a sports event played by cultural and economic outsiders in the Pacific Northwest.
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The IOC also said it would not organize or give patronage to any sports event in Russia, including the planned 2019 European Games, and that no member of the Russian Sports Ministry implicated in the report would be accredited for Rio.
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The IOC is desperate to end this rocky bidding process with two solid and arguably more transparent partners in place for the next 11 years, a decision which they hope will restore some credibility to the world's biggest multi-sports event.
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Beyond those championships and regular-season A.C.C. games, the other major college sports event set to take place in the state is the Belk Bowl, which will pit an A.C.C. football team against one from the Southeastern Conference on Dec.
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Ahmad Ishchi, a former governor of Mr. Dostum's home province of Jowzjan, claimed in December that he had been abducted by the vice president and his bodyguards from a sports event, and then raped with the tip of a gun.
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Last month, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee said that organizers are more likely to cancel the summer games rather than to postpone or move it elsewhere due to the many moving parts involved in the major sports event.
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At this sports event, dedicated to the memory of the tennis champion and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, the courts and rackets tend to be small — they come from Net Generation, which makes everything child-size — while the entertainment options are vast.
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When a parent signs a reading log saying a child read for 10 minutes that night but they really didn't, because they were out late for a sports event or just didn't have time, they are basically doing the same thing.
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"The Super Bowl is going to get the highest rating by far of any entertainment or sports event in the United States regardless of the matchup," Dennis Deninger, who teaches a class at Syracuse University called The Super Bowl in Society, told Reuters.
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But didn&apost the press downplay the fact that all but a few, perhaps only one of the Eagles players had agreed to come to what is normally a sort of a non-partisan you know sports event at the White House.
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The IOC decided in July to award both Games at the same time, following the withdrawal of four of the six cities bidding for the 2024 Olympics, amid concerns about the size, cost and complexity of organising the world's biggest multi-sports event.
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Following street protests and calls for a boycott of the chain by China's tourism administration, APA in June temporarily removed the books from hotels hosting athletes for a sports event - but said it would not do the same during the 2020 Olympics.
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It comprised a panel discussion on drone racing, a mini-ramp for skateboarders, free wine and hors d'oeuvres, and the one and only Ghostface Killah on the mic; all under the banner of an energy drink-styled extreme sports event called #DayOfDrones.
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But Twitter also brings people together over news of a more positive nature, whether that's tweeting about World Cup – Twitter's most discussed sports event ever with 672 million tweets, for example, or Pope Benedict becoming the first Pope to create a Twitter account.
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In an effort to seem even-handed, or just to make policy seem like another sports event, the news will sometimes present one of the 99 experts who share a well-considered view alongside the single so-called expert with a fringe view.
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The IOC said on Monday that it would not organise or give patronage to any sports event in Russia, including the planned 2019 European Games, and that no member of the Russian Sports Ministry implicated in the report would be accredited for Rio.
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Click here to view original GIFThe North West 200 is the largest sports event in Ireland, and every May since 1929 motorcyclists gather to race down public streets between the towns of Portstewart, Coleraine and Portrush at speeds in excess of 200mph.
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Not only had Russia been nailed in a state-sponsored doping scandal at the last major international sports event it hosted, the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, its soccer team was widely regarded as a joke, both at home and abroad.
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The writing has appeared to be on the wall for some time for what would have been Africa's first major multi-sports event but a hammer blow was struck on Tuesday when sports minister Fikile Mbalula suggested no agreement had been reached on the budget.
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The race is considered the world's most dangerous motor sports event — 28 Dakar participants have died since the competition's launch in 1978 as an off-road scramble from Paris to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, with one-day stretches of up to 600 miles.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Doping samples at next year's Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast will for the first time be stored long term for future testing as officials send a strong message that the host country will not "tolerate cheats" at the multi-sports event.
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Cricket historian Boria Majumdar said that there is likely to be a bigger Indian audience for the IPL this year than for the FIFA World Cup, the international soccer tournament held once every four years that is the most watched sports event in the world.
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Finding the right Uber car might not be very hard at an empty parking lot, but when you're coming out of a nightclub or a sports event, there might be dozens of similar cars (most of them invariably Toyotas) waiting to pick someone up.
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It is a team of athletes whose roads to Rio de Janeiro have surely been hard, but whose journeys may ultimately be more heartwarming than those of any of the other 5003,000-plus athletes who will compete beginning Friday at the world's biggest sports event.
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Yeah, I think it's the difference, it really highlights the difference between the Olympics, which is as much a cultural event as it is a sports event, and the audience that comes to the Olympics, which is massive and very diverse demographically, in every aspect.
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More recently, the League of Legends World Championship semi-final happened last weekend, drawing in a peak of just about 4 million concurrent viewers — a number that, according to Breslau, made the event the most watched e-sports event of all time in the west (excluding China).
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"The sharing economy will benefit from the Super Bowl, and people that participate with companies like Uber and Airbnb can expect to see a spike in sales when the Super Bowl comes to town," Roth said, adding that a major sports event has a psychological boost on the citizens.
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The Games in the Belarus capital Minsk from June 2000-0003 will host more than 2000,22023 athletes across 22020 sports but they are facing competition from the European championships, another multi-sports event hosted for the first time in 2018 and which has several major federations on its side.
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Human rights critics fear the sports event will strengthen the hand of President Vladimir V. Putin, who has made good use of the tournament to smooth over an unpopular pension reform at home and burnish Russia's image abroad, and bolster his authoritarian, conservative and nationalist approach to governing.
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All this is a relief to South Korea's leader, President Moon Jae-in, who feared the North would find a way — missile launches, terrorism, a nuclear test — to cast a pall over a sports event meant to highlight the South's emergence as one of the world's most dynamic economies.
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Arena de Baixada—home of Clube Atletico Paranaense and the venue for May 14th's event—has a 40,000-seat capacity and holds the distinction of being the whole continent of South America's first stadium to have a retractable roof: key to holding a combat sports event as significant as this.
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Yet at a news conference Friday with FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss the draw, an event considered the highlight of the countdown to the world's most-watched sports event, Mutko instead spent more than an hour fending off questions about the doping scandal connected with the Sochi Olympics in 513.
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" The statement did not specify what would constitute a violation, though other UEFA documentation defines crowd disturbances broadly, including actions ranging from fighting to throwing objects to disrupting national anthems to "the use of gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit any message that is not fit for a sports event.
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Every time I see one of these dudes at a sports event, I am taken by how happy they are to be there in contrast with how nonplussed an entire stadium full of people are while watching theses men, who are important to no one but their families and MAYBE their subordinates.
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"As the national teams of Russia, the host nation, and Saudi Arabia prepare to lift the curtain on this year's cup, I'm reminded that global sports event also mark an opportunity for the world to put differences aside and join hands as one human family, united in friendly, peaceful competition," Branson says.
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It's no secret that security will be tight at the 50th anniversary of the most anticipated annual sports event in the U.S. An internal FBI and Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by an NBC affiliate outlines some of the agencies' biggest security concerns around Super Bowl 50 events in the California Bay Area.
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If seeing a live sports event is your idea of summer fun, then you know how expensive that can get: Last year's U.S. Open tickets sold for an average of nearly $27 each in the resale market, for example, and even a box seat behind the home plate at a Minnesota Twins game can cost nearly $313 this season.
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By examining other vehicle sizes, the team found that 2,000 10-person vehicles could meet 95 percent of demand, or the system could use a variety of vehicle types and reassign them based on incoming requests — perhaps by sending multi-passenger vans to a big sports event or concert rather than a larger fleet of smaller cars.
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FROM PEN: Supergirl's Melissa Benoist on her Viral Sign from the Women's March on Washington Riggs claimed that women's tennis wasn't in the same league as men's, so King took on — and defeated — Riggs in the match that became the most-watched television sports event of all time, and sparked an ongoing conversation about gender equality.
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Netflix is pursuing more interactive content, including, maybe, a rom-com Some earlier predecessors of interactive audio-visual content include sports event streaming, in which the user can decide which particular stream she follows and how she interacts with the live content, for example rewinding the stream and spotting the key moments based on her own interest.
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"If you think that a mega-sports event in the midst of a major virus outbreak in a host city dealing with a turbulent economy, sitting on top of a turbulent political situation, sitting on top of a turbulent social condition, doesn't pose a significant public health issue, then, sure, 'On with Games,' " Igel wrote in an e-mail to CNN.
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Advertising and sponsorships make up the bulk of corporate spending on e-sports, but the Birmingham Arena was also outfitted exactly as you might expect for a night out at a sports event: umpteen varieties of junk food and fizzy drinks on offer, merchandise from all the most popular teams, and Intel and Alienware booths to show off the latest PC hardware.
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The publisher will be holding two events — one in LA from June 12th through the 14th, the other in London on the 12th — where fans can get hands-on time with the company's latest games, as well as engage in some kind of competitive e-sports event (much like Activision, EA recently launched a new division focused entirely on e-sports).
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The idea is that you can use Alexa when you are multitasking at home and too busy to get on the computer or your phone; or are in the middle of something else like a dinner party or sports event and do not want to turn to your screen; or are just not in the mood to do anything but demand something out loud.
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So great was the excitement of Russia beating the 2010 World Cup champions that Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov compared the street celebrations to Moscow marking the defeat over Nazi Germany in World War II. For a team that had the lowest ranking in the tournament, it was Russia&aposs highest-profile win in any sports event since the Sochi Olympics were tarnished by medals being stripped from the country for doping.
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Here's the week that was in 17 headlines: Monday: Dems announce probe into allegations of obstruction of justiceFast food once again served White House sports event with TrumpAG Barr won't recuse from oversight of Russia investigation Tuesday: WSJ: Cohen lawyer discussed possible pardon with Trump lawyersTrump signs measure aimed at preventing veteran suicidesSpicer says he'll cooperate with House Judiciary probe of TrumpTrump Org insurance broker subpoenaed by NY State Finance Dept Wednesday: Cohen gives docs to panel on alleged changes to 2017 testimonyTrump revokes order on reporting civilians killed in US airstrikesNielsen defends the administration's immigration policies Thursday: Michael Cohen sues the Trump OrganizationPaul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison Judge tosses Daniels' lawsuit over hush money agreementKelly dismisses need for wall along full US-Mexico border Friday: Ex-Fox News executive Bill Shine out at the White HouseTrump alleges Cohen asked him 'directly' for a pardonMiami Herald: Trump watched Super Bowl with ex-owner of spa linked to Kraft arrest And here's the Point: Shine leaves the White House without a ton to show for it.
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