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The trio of Crash Bandicoot games developed by Naughty Dog were quintessential to the first PlayStation. The games were a platformer style and introduced a goofy orange bandicoot with iconic moves like spinning, jumping, and ground-slamming. Many attempts at sequels were made after the core trilogy, some attempting more open-world designs or new gameplay mechanics, but most of them never quite landed with fans of the originals. RELATED: Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Gets Impressive Reveal Trailer The developer of Crash Bandicoot 4, Toys for Bob, is attempting to stick more to the original trilogy, building the game from the ground up and not using any existing code....

Still, there is a prevailing sentiment that the 2020 college football season could happen. FOX Sports analyst Urban Meyer is one of those voices that is holding on to some optimism. “I didn’t say every conference is going to play. I didn’t say every team is going to play,” Meyer said last week. “I said we’re going to play college football. I really believe that conferences, presidents, ADs and the commissioners are going to work together with the head coaches, and they’re going to work this thing out....

The distribution plan is part of the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination, which connects both national pharmacy chains and independent pharmacies with states and territories to boost vaccination efforts across the country. The program will start with a small number of retail pharmacies and ramp up to about half the pharmacies in the U.S. The first shipment will include a million vaccine doses to about 6,500 pharmacies around the country, according to Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID-19 coordinator, who announced the program during a White House briefing for reporters last week....

Several trends point to another year of interrupted schooling. The first is inconsistency in vaccination rates across the country. The best defense against the coronavirus and its variants is a vaccine, but low vaccination rates create a path for the more transmissible Delta variant to spread. Inevitably, a positive test will lead to large numbers of students out of school. In England, one million students were absent from school one week in July due to quarantine and self-isolation protocols....

Vermont, which is the most vaccinated state, with 73 percent of its population fully jabbed, saw an 18 percent rise in new daily COVID cases over the last 14 days before November 24, according to New York Times data. The northeastern state recorded an average of 370 new COVID-19 cases a day over the past week before Wednesday. Newsweek has contacted the state’s Governor’s office for comment. Rhode Island, which is 72 percent vaccinated, saw a 69 percent rise in new cases during that same 14-day time period....

In the U.S. alone, the number of people who have died with COVID-19 exceeded 900,000 this month and the number is increasing all the time. Around the world, the death toll is over 5.8 million according to the World Health Organization (WHO), though some estimates of excess mortality—a measure comparing all deaths recorded with those expected to occur—have put that figure close to 20 million. What this means is that burial facilities have faced unprecedented pressure as they attempt to allocate space and resources to store the bodies of those who have passed away....

According to information from Johns Hopkins University, which uses data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for the week of December 6 to December 12, 14,952 ICU beds are in use for COVID-19 patients. Overall, 78 percent of ICU beds in the U.S. are being used, according to the Johns Hopkins University information. The number of ICU beds currently in use for COVID-19 patients is up from the summer, as the graph shows below 10,000 ICU beds occupied for COVID-19 patients throughout most of July....

On the first play of the fourth quarter against the Giants, the Cowboys running back needed one yard. He got it. MORE: Murray’s record more significant than Manning’s | Giants LB is ’not the Mike’ Murray took a handoff from Tony Romo, went to his right and was tackled one yard later, making him the first running back in NFL history to start a season with seven 100-yard rushing games....

Those picks, and the decisions that go with them, are under more scrutiny after the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback followed his remarkable rookie season with a somewhat pedestrian encore. And Prescott is among those doing the scrutinizing — each night at camp in the film room. “When I go back, I’m being super-critical of myself, of the throws, of the placement, of where I should have went with the ball,” Prescott said Sunday....

But it looks like it may take some time before Cooper has a new contract. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones provided a brief update on how negotiations have been going when it comes to the 25-year-old receiver. “There haven’t been a lot of negotiations with Amari, period,” Jones said, per the Dallas Morning News. “And I’m not free to be able to share why. I think at some point we’ll start that....

The victory marks the first time in franchise history that the Cowboys have won nine straight regular-season games. That was just one of several milestones reached in the impressive win at AT&T Stadium (more on that later). MORE: Week 11 NFL scoreboard Some NFL observers saw this game as a classic letdown spot for Dallas. The Cowboys were coming off a huge road victory in a back-and-forth contest last week at Pittsburgh, and they next face longtime rival Washington off a short week on Thanksgiving Day....

The combined record of the Cowboys’ opponents is exactly .500, at 128-128 last season, putting them in the middle of the pack in unadjusted strength of schedule. Here’s breaking down Dallas’ schedule this year and what it means for the team’s chances of making the playoffs for the third time in five seasons. SIGN UP to stream the upcoming NFL season LIVE on DAZN in Canada Cowboys schedule 2018 Cowboys regular-season schedule...

Smith hasn’t played a down of football since he was suspended by the NFL in 2015 for violating its substance-abuse policy. The Cowboys, it appears, believe he has turned over a new leaf. “Clean and sober now, incredible how much he’s turned his life around,” Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer said on Football Now in reporting on the signing. This is hardly the first time Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has gambled on a controversial player: Alonzo Spellman, Dimitrius Underwood, Greg Hardy, Rolando McClain and Randy Gregory are just a few examples....

Dez Bryant is one of the players that can inject a game with the large doses of excitement that fans and bettors look forward to in primetime NFL games. He’s on the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook for 87.5 receiving yards. Bryant had a big game in the first contest against the Giants, catching nine passes for 151 yards. That performance and his six-reception, 158-yard outbreak against the Jaguars in London has us leaning to the OVER....

The Rams will try to show just how impressive SoFi Stadium is — with a win — when they host the Cowboys on “Sunday Night Football” in Week 1 (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC). While the Rams are trying to rebound from their Super Bowl hangover with coach Sean McVay, the Cowboys are breaking in a new head coach, one-time Packers Super Bowl winner Mike McCarthy. The Rams said goodbye to Todd Gurley and Brandin Cooks in the offseason offensively, but Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey continue to shine brightest on the marquee defensively....

Chasing 94 to win the Tallawahs did not need to rush, but that did not stop Chris Gayle getting off the mark with a towering six off Steven Jacobs. That was an impressive beginning from Gayle, but he and his team were selective in their shot making at first. Even going at just over a run a ball inside the batting PowerPlay kept them well ahead of the rate....

While the game claims to bring an all-new Crackdown experience to the Xbox One, we were left underwhelmed by what’s on offer in the open-world shooter. Find out why we’re so disappointed in our Crackdown 3 review. Crackdown 3: Pricing and availability Crackdown 3 will be available to play worldwide on 15 February 2019 across Xbox One and PC. It may be more expensive on the Microsoft Store, but you’ll get access to both the PC and Xbox variant with cloud-syncing between platforms as part of the Play Anywhere scheme....

It’s About Time won’t be the only Crash title launching soon, however, with King Digital announcing that a new mobile game will be joining the franchise very soon. Titled Crash Bandicoot: On the Run, the game will see Crash Bandicoot and his cast of friends navigating through a series of Crash worlds while fighting iconic bosses from the series’ past. RELATED: Survey Reveals 10 Most Popular Gaming Franchises Alongside the announcement, King Digital has released a minute-long reveal trailer which provides a better look at the tone and gameplay of the upcoming mobile release....

With most viruses, the body’s immune system will create defensive proteins called antibodies, some of which fight infection and others of which recognize the virus if it returns. It is this latter response that affords people immunity once the infection is cleared. With COVID-19, there is evidence that the immunity can vary for a number of reasons, including the severity of the initial infection and any underlying dysfunction of an person’s immune response....