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With a gentle wind at their backs on the front nine and soft greens making pins accessible, Thursday’s morning starters capitalised with a flurry of early birdies. MORE: First-round images from St. Andrews | Johnson vs. history | Tiger’s torment | Live leaderboard And Johnson, playing alongside the 21-year-old who edged him for U.S. Open glory at Chambers Bay last month, was also able to improve his score on the trickier inward half as he signed for a 7-under 65....

Openers Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum gave Chennai Super Kings (CSK) an explosive start, as they carved out an emphatic six-wicket win over a lacklustre Mumbai Indians (MI) with 20 balls to spare at the Wankhede Stadium here. Dwayne Bravo (13; 5 b, 1x4, 1x6) struck the winning runs with a loft over long-on, as Chennai reached 189/4 in 16.4 overs, in reply to a challenging 183/7 posted by Mumbai on Friday....

According to the Chicago Tribune, Aldridge was walking the child in a stroller with a man near an elementary school on Chicago’s south side, on her way to register a child for school, when two other men approached from behind and opened fire. She was struck in the head and the arm and was pronounced dead at a local hospital around 4:15 p.m. The baby was uninjured and was taken into custody by a relative at the scene....

John Gibson made 31 saves to keep the Ducks in the game through the first two periods and Rickard Rakell answered Hertl’s goal with the first of Anaheim’s four goals in the final 22 minutes to send San Jose to a 5-2 season-opening loss Wednesday night in Erik Karlsson’s first game with the Sharks. “It seized the momentum back for us,” coach Randy Carlyle said about Rakell’s equalizer. “Big power play....

Few could have predicted that the Blue Devils would win four games in four days — the first time in the tournament’s history — to win the conference, and with good reason. Duke has mostly disappointed this season. But the No. 5 Blue Devils did just that, beating the Fighting Irish 75-69 in a hard-fought win to get the championship — and stir up discussions about how the NCAA Tournament should be seeded....

The Blue Devils played their spring game Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium — well before most FBS teams have begun practice. “Today you saw what spring practice has been — continued momentum,” Cutcliffe said. “There were a lot of positives on both sides of the ball, on both the Blue and White units.” MORE: Top 25 players in 2014 | SN’s best RBs | Spring game schedule Duke is coming off its first 10-win season in school history....

The film industry is another story, though, as there have traditionally been a few times of year that are seen as the poorest times to release a new movie. These months are referred to as “dump months” and this is an interesting concept… especially since there is one genre that seems to have escaped this fate. RELATED: Are Studio Comedies Becoming Box Office Poison? According to TV Tropes, the “dump months” are usually August/September and also January/February....

Adding Ryan Malone is probably a good thing. The Rangers’ fourth line has been a trainwreck in the last two games (though Jesper Fast has probably been the best of the three), and Malone was a positive puck-possession player last year in Tampa. His market crashed because of off-the-ice stuff. Also of note is J.T. Miller’s removal from the lineup. You may remember Miller was called out by Vigneault last year....

RELATED: Dune: Every Novel Written By Frank Herbert, Introduced None of the following characters appear in either the Villeneuve or Lynch versions of Dune, or the original novel. They only make their debuts in the sequels or supplemental materials written by Frank Herbert or his son Brian, in collaboration with other authors. Their roles are pivotal to the events of the series even if they don’t appear in the first installment, which is really just an introduction to a vast epic....

RELATED: 10 Video Games To Play If You Love Dungeons & Dragons Depending on how your DM likes to play things out, you could be their near-guarantee that their next challenging boss fight won’t wipe the party or you could be the only answer to kill-hungry DMs. 10 Bless (via: Wizards of the Coast) The baseline of party buffs. This seemingly insignificant d4 can mean the difference between a hit or a miss, a save or a fail, life or death!...

Recently, several drafts for a new Dungeons and Dragons OGL came to light through leaks and official statements. The first draft introduced greater control over third-party content creators and included royalties and license-back clauses. The second draft walked these decisions back, but still had some troubling sections many players feared would be used to police third-party products. However, in a surprise decision, Wizards of the Coast has backed down on its push to revoke the old OGL and replace it with a new one....

Now, the same player has applied his monster creation knowledge to the second-generation region: Johto. From the previously teased starters to the mascot legendaries, this Dungeons & Dragons player has essentially created a full monster manual of Johto Pokemon. The creator tried to cover a vast range of CRs for this region, so some Pokemon may be weaker or stronger than some would consider them in-game. Furthermore, as anyone who has ever tried to homebrew something knows, unintentional imbalances are unavoidable....

Dunne mixed eight birdies with two bogeys at the Corales Golf Club in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic on Thursday. The Irishman is joined by Australian Matt Jones and American Joel Dahmen at the top of the leaderboard. South Korean Im Sung-jae is outright fourth after a five-under 67, while a group of six including Aaron Baddeley are a shot further back. Defending champion Brice Garnett could only manage a 71 to be back in a tie for 43rd....

Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson fired impressive rounds in the morning to build an early cushion atop the leaderboard, and the two could still share the lead when they tee off Friday afternoon. MORE: Must-see photos from Round 1 | Tiger’s 80, shot by shot | Sergio criticizes greens | Live leaderboard Johnson flexed his muscle with a 5-under 65, his best round in a major. He punished the course, smashing drives down the fairway and making clutch putts....

The actor and former pro wrestler took to Instagram to share a message of solidarity to his followers and to publicly grieve for Floyd who died on Monday in Minneapolis, aged 46. Floyd, who is black, was killed in police custody when he was pinned to the ground by a white police officer, sparking a mass outcry, protests, and riots across the country. Footage emerged of Floyd repeatedly telling Officer Derek Chauvin he couldn’t breathe as he knelt on his neck....

(Source: CJZero) OK, it’s the flop. Let’s hope the fine from the NBA isn’t too big. MORE: Subtle adustments helping Howard | Grizzlies, Spurs pull off late magic Howard and the Rockets defeated the Nuggets 115-111 in overtime Wednesday night.

Bet on 17-18’s Serie A winners The Argentina international has been touted as a possible replacement for Neymar should Paris Saint-Germain break the world transfer record to lure the Brazilian international away from Camp Nou. The 23-year-old has impressed since joining the Bianconeri from Palermo in 2015, winning Serie A twice and helping Juve to reach the final of the Champions League last term. It remains to be seen if the Scudetto holders can retain the forward should concrete interest from Barca materialise, but Dybala appears content to remain in Turin, at least for now....

The latest entry in the Duke Nukem series came out in 2011 and was considered a flop, largely because the game spent so long in development that its themes aged, and it couldn’t live up to all the changes that it had gone through. But for those interested, a build of the game from all the way back in 2001 has leaked and can now be downloaded. According to a report from DSO Gaming, it wasn’t supposed to see the light of day until next month, but perhaps the attention it was receiving motivated the leakers to release it early....

Set in the Forgotten Realms setting, Candlekeep Mysteries is an anthology highlighting seventeen new adventures designed to operate as one-shots or options to be plugged into existing campaigns. The new book is unique for Dungeons and Dragons 5e in that, while there have been anthology books in the past like Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Tales from the Yawning Portal, this new book features much shorter adventures and some at higher levels that are designed to be inserted into other games or played stand alone....

Based on the iconic Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game, Honor Among Thieves stars Chris Pine as the lead of an ensemble cast that also includes Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant. Meanwhile, Scream 6 will see Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega reprise their respective roles as Sam and Tara Carpenter, the leads of the fifth installment of the horror franchise that effectively rebooted the film series and passed the torch to a new generation of characters....