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Believe in the goodness of life and the people around you. Your problems will start to fade soon if you follow your intuition and embrace the future. Allow yourself to say “no” to people or projects that don’t support your higher purpose or your overall well being. Your intuition is your connection to higher powers. Listen to what it tells you, especially in times of doubt. Remember to hold on to your individuality in a new relationship....

What's new Mike Trout is the best player in baseball — and fantasy baseball — and he'll make just $1 million this season. Baseball-reference.com estimates the Angels' opening day payroll will be $149.4 million, which would be the seventh-highest in all of baseball. So, if the best player in the game is taking up just 0.7 percent of LA's total team payroll, the Angels should have a pretty damn good team, right?...

The Angels announced they have hired Maddon to replace Brad Ausmus as manager. ESPN reported Maddon, who turns 66 in February, will receive a three-year deal worth $4 million to $5 million a year. The reunion is no surprise, as Maddon spent his entire professional life in the Angels organization before moving on to manage Tampa Bay in 2006. He signed with the franchise as a minor league catcher in 1975 and held a variety of roles throughout the system before ascending to the major league coaching staff in 1994....

Today’s angels want to seed companies that won’t soon supplant them with bigger VC firms, says Jeffrey Sohl, director of the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research. The center estimates angel investment this year will surpass $22 billion, up 12 percent from 2003.

But with racially divisive events recently in the news, the Utah-based Pioneer League club announced Friday it was canceling the Aug. 10 event. MORE: Charleston team plays game day after massacre “Minor League Baseball, and the Orem Owlz, is about baseball, togetherness and family fun for all fans of all races, religions, and orientations,” Owlz general manager Justo Vazquez said in a statement. “Our goal in this promotion, like any of our promotions, is to have fun and make fun of everyday normalcies....

Liga MX gave us the full spectrum Friday night, but ended with a harsh reminder that there are things far more important than what happens on the field. Anibal “Mano” Ruiz collapsed on the field in an empty stadium Friday, with fans banned from entering because of a fight between Veracruz and Tigres supporters weeks earlier. He had a heart attack before a game that wouldn’t have been played because of a Liga MX referee strike, announced just moments before he was rushed off the field in an ambulance....

Sanchez said he was feeling better Tuesday, but he experienced pain while throwing Monday. Manager Brad Ausmus said Sanchez will not be able to return for Saturday’s doubleheader against the White Sox. MORE: Potential impact moves | Spector: AL Central up for grabs “With the situation we are (in) right now, of course I’m concerned,” Sanchez said. “I don’t like being on the bench, just seeing everything happen. I know the team is going to do very well, we’re going to start playing better....

RELATED: Animal Crossing: 10 Essential Items For Your Island While she’s become a staple in the Animal Crossing world, several fans have started theorizing about what Isabelle’s life must be like. When is she watching all these TV shows that she talks about? What exactly does she do behind the desk of Resident Services? Some of these theories might hold the answers, but others seem a bit too far-fetched....

Leif sells many different plants and flowers, including roses for players without them, but what many long-time Animal Crossing fans will be satisfied with is the inclusion of shrubbery. Shrubs can be planted as a sort of living fence around the island. These plants can also have flowers that bloom in different seasons. RELATED: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Villagers That Secretly Hate You With shrubs acting as both a fence, a tree, and a flower, some players may not know how to take care of them....

This time around however, players are sent to an island getaway where they’re free to establish a society through crafting various items and even changing the landscape if they so choose. While there are still plenty of fish to catch, bugs to collect, and fruit to harvest, Animal Crossing: New Horizons places an additional emphasis on collecting resources in order to craft all sorts of DIY recipes. These range from cosmetic gear, items to decorate a house with, to vastly more important things like axes, fishing rods, and more....

The thirty-second clip gives Nintendo fans a peek at a vibrant and cleverly-designed approximation of one of the most famous burgs in Zelda history. Partially presented via fixed camera angles reminiscent of Link’s childhood adventures in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, u/Naydinfar-Crossing’s castle-like island village makes use of tons of custom Zelda-themed designs and decorations to impart effects otherwise achievable in-game. RELATED: Hilarious Animal Crossing: New Horizons Clip Shows Bug Dropping Snowball On Player’s Head...

Turning Red stars a young girl named Meilin “Mei” Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese student who is torn between being her mother’s dutiful daughter and the wildness of adolescence. As Mei deals with changes to her interests, relationships, and body, she must also deal with a condition that causes her to turn into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. One gamer has taken Mei’s room from the film and recreated it in Animal Crossing: New Horizons....

Given how impactful Superman’s legacy has been and continues to be in modern media, it makes sense that many fictional personas, even across genre and nationality, would draw inspiration from the Man of Steel. Here are seven anime characters that are seemingly inspired by Superman. 7 Saitama One Punch Man’s titular protagonist, though his current superhero pseudonym in the story (which has a penchant for on-the-nose naming techniques) is “Caped Baldy”....

RELATED: Hilarious Comedy Anime That Parody Shounen Tropes It happens in nearly every long-running form of media because it gets simpler to just throw in a crowd-pleasing catchphrase or goofy joke based on one character feature or flaw. This includes anime, which has some infamous examples of characters getting dumber, shyer, or generally one-note season by season. 6 Tsukuyomi – Negima At first, this mercenary for the Fate Girls was just that: a villain reluctantly following someone else’s orders just for a payday, albeit one with a curious interest in the side-character Setsuna....

At the “Trigun: Stampede: Lock & Load!” panel, hosted on Saturday night of Anime Expo, Yasuhiro Nightow was met with fanfare in accompaniment with other concept artist, Kouji Tajima and anime producers Kiyotaka Waki and Yoshihiro Watanabe or Studio Orange, as well as Katsuhiro Takei of Toho Animation. As the studio behind acclaimed CGI-anime including BEASTARS and Land of the Lustrous, Orange is specially equipped to render the setting of Trigun in a new way....

Some viewers might simply crave the heartbreak they never had, among other reasons for seeking romance anime with sad endings. Failed relationships in anime, after all, are an important part of the maturing process— even for anime protagonists; besides, it can’t always be rainbows and butterflies, for they only appear after the rain. 8 Your Lie In April - Two Prodigies Had Their Music Cut Short Among the chief reasons for a lot of failed relationships in a lot of shows and films....

Former President Donald Trump on Monday night confirmed that FBI agents had conducted a raid on the Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort that he uses as a residence and operates as a club. Trump decried the move as “political persecution.” However, reports later emerged that the raid was conducted in relation to Trump allegedly keeping classified presidential documents on the property. Cuomo, a Democrat, broke with his party’s line in his Twitter statement, expressing concern that without the DOJ explaining the reason for the raid, it could be viewed as political....

Morning Consult, which has regularly tracked the outgoing governor’s approval rating, reported a significant drop in his support following New York Attorney General Letitia James’ August 3 report that said he sexually harassed multiple women. The day the report came out, the poll found that Cuomo had an approval rating of 52 percent, while 43 percent of respondents said they disapproved of him. Just a few days later, on August 9, that approval rating plummeted to 38 percent, while 56 percent said they disapproved....

The former Butler big man, battling a rare form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, was rushed to the ICU after collapsing at work. He spent 10 days in there, many of those days in a medically-induced coma. MORE: Butler’s Smith lands in ICU But my, how much can change in a month. In the days since, Smith has been released and returned to work. His wife, Samantha, opened up about the couple’s worst, most uncertain days....