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Collison, a key reserve for the Clippers last season, will receive the midlevel exception from the Kings. MORE: Lowry returns to Raptors | Bradley agrees with Celtics | Mills will re-sign to Spurs Brad Turner of the Los Angeles Times, who first reported the signing, spoke to Collison about the decision to leave the Clippers, a decision he said it was tough to make. “The Kings were the most aggressive team by far in the free agency, and I respected that on all levels," Collison told the Times....

Brooklyn has a disabled player exception available following the season-ending foot injury suffered by center Brook Lopez. That would allow the Nets to absorb Hill’s salary without sending back salary to the Lakers. Following the deal that sent Steve Blake to the Warriors on Wednesday night, that would push the Lakers down close to the tax threshold, saving about $11 million. MORE: Steve Blake traded to Warriors | Spencer Hawes sent to Cavs | Photos of Kevin Grow...

How would he be? On the first morning of the Trent Bridge Test, Faf could have been anything but confident. He was returning from a paternal leave to lead a side that had lost the previous game as badly as any team could have in Test cricket. Their strike bowler was facing a one match ban forcing the captain to make sweeping changes in the team. He opted for a five bowler strategy....

After the Indian batting failed the team on both occasions, some changes in the playing XI are obvious. Virat Kohli’s record of seldom going in with an unchanged XI also substantiates this claim. So, let us have a look at three probable changes going into the second Test which starts on Saturday. #3 Ishant Sharma in for Jasprit Bumrah If we are to take Kohli’s word that current form is the criteria for selection, Ishant should have featured in the first Test match itself....

Following a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service to lawmakers, opposition United Future Party member Ha Tae-keung told reporters Thursday that the agency revealed how Kim Yo Jong, the first vice department director of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party Central Committee, is being tasked with “steering overall state affairs.” She is “in charge of the strategy toward the United States, and especially toward South Korea,” Ha added, emphasizing that she would still be ultimately reporting to her older brother....

Chelsea started the game on the front foot putting constant pressure on the Southampton box. The Saints had a hard time to get hold of the ball in the initial stages. Eden Hazard’s effort blocked from close-range. Amidst all these, Danny Ings missed a sitter from three yards for Southampton much to the dismay of Mark Hughes. But the inevitable happened when the ball fell to Eden Hazard who made no mistake to put the ball back of the net and score his seventh goal of the season....

LONDON (Reuters) - Gareth Southgate will lead England towards the 2018 World Cup and 2020 European Championship after being appointed permanent manager of the national team by the FA on Wednesday. The 46-year-old succeeds Sam Allardyce who departed 67 days into his reign after being caught up in a newspaper sting. In a statement released after a meeting of the Football Association board at St George’s Park, the FA said the former England defender had agreed a four-year contract....

But our helicopter is unarmed … Maybe we should send a helicopter up anyway? How far is it? About 120 km. About an hour. It has to get ready first. Maj. Con. N. Gvozdenko: I’m afraid it was birds. Small birds. No. If the pilots saw it … They didn’t see anything, those pilots, they’ll say they saw a lot of things. But the pilot insists on it. A plane appeared from somewhere....

Broadly speaking, many Warhammer 40K games don’t successfully manage to convey the sheer scope and might of most of their featured factions, but Space Marine 2 aims to leverage a unique advantage that other development studios didn’t have access to. In a recent interview, Saber Interactive’s creative director Oliver Hollis-Leick went into some detail on what could set this new project apart. RELATED: Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Gets Behind-the-Scenes Video...

Sony’s PlayStation has reached its fourth generation, but it is worth your hard earned cash? Find out in our full PS4 review. See also: What is PlayStation Now? PS4: Design and price The PS4 looks more like the PS2 than it does the PS3. Whether you like the wedge-shape design or not is up to you, we’re not going to spend long talking about it. However, the PlayStation 4 is undeniably slender and compact....

In the past, the presence of Destiny 2 and all of its expansions on Xbox Game Pass meant subscribers had access to pretty much everything Destiny 2 had to offer for no additional charge. Given how important expansions are to Destiny 2, a lot of players were able to get a fairly nice deal on Xbox systems if they were subscribed to Xbox Game Pass. While Destiny 2’s expansions are part of the games that have been removed from Xbox Game Pass on console, PC players still have access to them, and it’s a great perk for those that want to save money and have access to a variety of games....

Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 during a June 11 live video after months of speculation and delays. The show, which lasted just over an hour, featured tons of game trailers, but no specifics as it pertains to the price, reveal date, features and more. But the one thing Sony did show was the console’s design, which looks futuristic (and fancy). MORE: A complete guide to the Sony PS5 If you notice a little difference, that’s because there is: the console on the left has a disc drive, while the one on the right is solely digital and will house game and content downloads solely....

At the end of February last week, however, the usual PlayStation Blog post revealing such games was strangely absent, and Sony didn’t offer any details regarding the matter. Even after Microsoft detailed its own offerings as part of the Games With Gold program (which is pretty good), Sony kept quiet, and rumors began swirling about the reasons behind the delay, and just what games would be offered for free come March 2015....

We’ve used both phones and here we break down the differences, positives and negatives to help you decide which to buy. Sony Xperia XZ3 vs Samsung Galaxy S9: Price and availability The Sony Xperia XZ3 retails for £699 in the UK, and comes with a range of freebies. This is a decent price for a flagship phone released in 2018 and makes it less than the Galaxy S9 which is £739....

Sony announced a slew of new products for its MWC 2015 announcement. It launched the Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet, but there was no Xperia Z4 smartphone, one year after it launched the Xperia Z2 and at the point in its release cycle when the Xperia Z4 would be expected (the Xperia Z3 was announced in September last year at IFA). Sony Xperia Z4 UK release date: When is the Sony Xperia Z4 coming out?...

Sor Rungvisai burst onto the boxing scene with a controversial win over former pound-for-pound great Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Chocolatito left it all in the ring after an accidental headbutt busted him open in Round 3, but the judges didn’t see it that way. Sor Rungvisai did win the first two rounds and sent Chocolatito to the canvas for the first time in a decade. The fight turned in favor of Gonzalez following that headbutt, but it was all for naught, as the fight ended in a victory for Sor Rungvisai....

NAGORSKI: What do the Balkans need? SOROS: I’m endorsing the key ideas in the plan developed by the Center for European Policy Studies, a Brussels think tank. It has four elements. One is that the EU takes control of the customs service of the countries of Southeastern Europe. Second, [the EU] would pay compensation to the governments for the loss of customs revenues. Third, there’d be a subsidy element in this because [the payments] would be based on normal rather than war-ravaged conditions; it’s a pump-priming mechanism....

Judge Donovan Frank agreed with the Vikings’ claim that their contract with the bank “unambiguously” prohibits illuminated and mounted rooftop signs on the towers where 5,000 employees work each weekday. MORE: NFC predictions | AFC predictions Frank ruled Wells Fargo “likely believed” the signs violated a two-year agreement with the team regarding what was permitted on the rooftops: signs painted flush on each rooftop no larger than 56 feet by 56 feet, according to the Star-Tribune....

With the national church’s elevation last week of an openly gay man, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to a bishop of New Hampshire, conservative Episcopalians are vowing to divorce themselves from the organization, essentially breaking off relations with an institution that has been in place since the Revolution. These dissident dioceses account for perhaps 20 percent of the American church’s 2.7 million members. In the international Anglican community, meanwhile, numbering about 77 million, conservative leaders (mostly in developing countries) say they will boycott meetings with the American church....