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The opposing team, and the enemy within (i.e., the internal media leaks that sprung as Buffalo’s season sputtered to a close). MORE: NFL playoff picture The first reports that coach Rex Ryan would potentially be fired in-season surfaced shortly before a Week 11 game against Pittsburgh. Such missives quoting anonymous sources continued until Ryan was dismissed five days before the team’s season finale against the Jets. Felton said the reports, and their timing, served to undermine the team itself....

Buffalo is No. 1 ahead of No. 2 Kansas City. Cincinnati, the reigning AFC champion, is No. 3. This is the teams’ biggest matchup since the 1988 AFC championship game. Josh Allen was an MVP front-runner early but has faded. Joe Burrow has crept into the MVP conversation late but is unlikely to jump Patrick Mahomes. Allen vs. Burrow remains a marquee QB matchup with two tricky defenses involved....

Now, the organization recognizes Steve Wiebe as the official first million point Donkey Kong record holder. Notably, both Wiebe and Mitchell appeared in the famed King of Kong documentary. It is worth mentioning that Mitchell didn’t weigh in on the public dispute and investigation as it was on-going, but it appears he isn’t just rolling over on his record. In fact, Mitchell has vowed to get his record reinstated....

What follows is a selection of this fall’s large number of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. But it’s not all dissection and self-evisceration. In these books, some astonishing people come to life again. JOHN EDWARD HASSE’S LIFE OF DUKE Ellington, Beyond Category (480 pages. Simon & Schuster. $25), takes its title from the Duke’s term of highest approbation. To Ellington, the greater a thing, the more it defied classification, and his own protean character certainly warrants this characterization....

Dubbed as a “post-apocalyptic kung-fu fable,” Biomutant will have players traversing a humungous open world through the eyes of an endearing fuzzy creature that is fully customizable. At its core, Biomutant is a true RPG that features a branching storyline, a karma system, flexible combat, and most notably an extensive character customization suite. RELATED: Biomutant PC Requirements Revealed Creating the Perfect DNA Strand In Biomutant, players will have to choose their initial mutation that will set the foundation for their characters....

There’s evidence to suggest that BioShock 4 will have more RPG elements that previous games in the series, including dialog options and a more open-ended world design. These elements could not only make BioShock 4 feel very different from Infinite, but it could also have huge implications for the story based on one key detail in BioShock Infinite. RELATED: The Case For BioShock 4 to Be Set in the 1970s...

The Hammers are without a win in their last five Premier League matches and sit 12th in the table as they go into Saturday’s game against Hull City. Bilic guided West Ham to a seventh-place finish in his first season at the helm, but he has not been offered an extension on his current deal, which expires at the end of next season. When asked about the reports of mounting pressure on his position, the 48-year-old said: “It doesn’t worry me, I don’t read about it, I’m not making phone calls or whatever....

In August 2010, Gates and Buffett spearheaded a movement of the U.S.’ richest people to promise to give away most of their wealth to address problems in society. Known as the Giving Pledge, it now includes 200 people around the world with the aim of setting a “new standard of generosity among the ultra-wealthy.” But The Bloomberg Billionaires Index released on Friday shows that the Microsoft co-founder can’t outrun the growth of his fortune, which is worth $22....

As Gates has previously mentioned, he uses an Android smartphone rather than an iOS device, preferring the “flexibility” of the open-source operating system versus Apple’s proprietary competitor. Bill Gates Is an Android Man In an interview with CNBC and NY Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bill Gates elaborated on his smartphone operating system of choice, stating that “I actually use an Android phone.” However, that’s not to say Gates hasn’t played around with an iPhone, as you’d expect from one of the world’s richest men and technology thought leaders....

If he returns to action, will it be WWE or combat sports? Goldberg was very assured that his return to the combat sports arena seems more likely at this point in his career than a return to the WWE. However, given that he has been busy with filming movies off late, things on that front have slowed down. “Like I said, it’s all dependent upon me and I kind of got lost in the shuffle with these movies....

The comedian and talk show host slammed the Games in his closing monologue on the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time. He recalled how, last April, he had branded the theme of the 2021 Academy Awards “we dare you to be entertained” after a show in which he felt producers refused to let viewers take a break from “thinking about sad things and bad people in the world.” He suggested the Olympics was following a similar route....

Lucas had made his second start for KU in that meek Big Monday loss to Iowa State. He scored two points. He’d gone scoreless in the first. So he was averaging 1.0 points per game as a starter. Hey, this was what he’d wanted all along. He wanted to be in that lineup, and this was his chance. DECOURCY: Imperfect Kansas is perfect for this NCAA Tournament “Landen and I, truth be known, we haven’t always seen eye-to-eye,” coach Bill Self told Sporting News....

The “Bad Guy” singer faced backlash last week when a compilation video emerged that apparently displayed the musician using the pejorative against people of Chinese descent and also speaking in an offensive accent. The TikTok video shared by user @lcxvy shows clips of the star appearing to use the word “c****” and also mimicking an Asian accent in an offensive manner. “I’m being labeled something that I am not,” the 19-year-old began in her apology statement on Instagram....

“I’m not anti- or pro-vax. I’m pro choice,” Beasley said in his statement. “With that being said, the issue at hand is information being withheld from players in order for a player to be swayed in a direction he may not be comfortable with. When dealing with a player’s health and safety, there should be complete transparency regarding information that is vital in the decision-making process.” Beasley asked reporters to stick to football questions during the news conference, but the song released afterward containing lyrics that said there “ain’t a vaccine” for him have called into question the sincerity of his statement....

The Patriots fall to 3-1, but had you asked them before the season if they would have taken a 3-1 start, they probably would have said yes. Tom Brady returns from his four-game suspension next week, when New England visits the Browns. It’s just the second time the Bills have won at Gillette Stadium since it opened in 2002. They are now 2-13 in the Patriots’ digs. MORE: Bills-Patriots stats, highlights...

All four divisional games this weekend were determined on the final play of the game, but the Chiefs were the only home team to win and the only team to win with a touchdown rather than a field goal. The last four drives of regulation produced 25 total points in final two minutes: Bills touchdown and 2-point conversion, Chiefs touchdown, Bills touchdown, Chiefs field goal. The Bills took a three-point lead with 13 seconds remaining, but the Chiefs quickly got into field goal range as Patrick Mahomes connected with Tyreek Hill for a 19-yard completion and Travis Kelce for a 25-yard pass play....

Tapeworm isn’t the first card game that McMillen has created. Binding of Isaac: Four Souls was a card game based on the titular game that launched in 2018, but Tapeworm will be the first card game made by McMillen that isn’t related to another IP. The game is similar to dominoes, with players connecting segments of differently colored worms to deplete their hands, but the addition of cards that allow players to cut segments of worm, block each other off, or otherwise shift gameplay adds another layer of complexity and fun into the equation....

David Perron scored an empty-netter in the final minutes for St. Louis. The 25-year-old Binnington had played just two games in mop-up duty this season behind Jake Allen. He was sent to the minors in December to keep fresh and earned three wins with a shutout to earn AHL player of the week honors. He was called up — and got the call to start against the hapless Flyers....

An open-world BioShock game is a huge departure from the franchise’s previous games. That said, there is some value to this transition, as the game’s overall setting and style of world-building would fit nicely within a larger game world. Granted, there haven’t been any recent announcements about BioShock 4, so the open-world rumor hasn’t yet been confirmed. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to argue what an open-world BioShock title could bring to the table....