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Smith will race in Almirola’s stead in Saturday night’s Monster Energy Open, an exhibition qualifier for the All-Star race on Sunday. The No. 43 team can qualify for the main event by winning either one of the event’s three stages. Almirola is out indefinitely with a compression fracture of the T5 vertebra in his back, sustained in the crash involving Danica Patrick and Joey Logano on Lap 199 of the 267-lap Go Bowling 400 at Kansas....

RELATED: Reggie Says Switch Was ‘Make or Break’ Console for Nintendo Among the other highlights, Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo will apparently go over Reggie’s leadership style, perseverance, his approach to happiness, how to dominate the business world, being brave in the industry when others don’t agree, how to create a vision, how to be creative, and more. The book will likely be heavy on Nintendo content, but that doesn’t appear to be the only focus....

Most likely, Red Dead Redemption 2 players have checked on Arthur Morgan’s stats and seen that he is underweight. It doesn’t seem to matter if they have regularly consumed food or if Arthur’s cores are full, there will simply be times where the stat says underweight. But if Arthur can be underweight, is it possible for him to be overweight? Luckily, plenty of players have sought out to answer that question and it turns out even just getting Arthur overweight is a chore....

RELATED: Red Dead Online: 10 Daily Challenges Everyone Should Do Even so, despite the relative ease of some daily challenges and a dedicated fan base to help facilitate them, some daily challenges are nearly impossible to accomplish, especially if one prefers to play alone. Here are ten such challenges and why they are so difficult. 10 Finish in the Top 3 To start rather basically, any daily challenge that requires a player to finish in the top three of any game mode is going to be a feat in itself....

In what Rockstar Games has described as a “massive update,” the update will reportedly feature “a brand new Frontier Pass,” with an “all-new Role, plus a new Outlaw Pass, tons of community-requested features and fixes, and much more to play and discover in the months to come.” The update will include many “highly requested” features, including musical instruments, the ability to run businesses through the Master Control Terminal, and more....

The game continues to expand on the rivalry between Harriet and Gus as part of the new Naturalist role added this past August. Players can either collect animal samples for Harriet in exchange for a reward, or hunt them down to be turned into pelts by Gus. Ever since it became available, the intense rivalry between the two characters has only widened. RELATED: Red Dead Players Notice Weird Inconsistency with Gus’ Animal Hats...

Gaining and Losing Honor There are a ton of actions in the game that can impact Arthur’s Honor level. While some actions are obvious, there are some more smaller deeds that can have a positive or negative effect on the player’s Honor. Players can raise their honor level by helping random strangers with their requests, sparing lives instead of murdering, giving to the camp, and paying off bounties. While those are the obvious boosts, there are some more subtle boots to honor, like swiftly killing an animal instead of using multiple shots, disarming opponents in duels, petting animals, and releasing small fish back into water....

Set in a fictional recreation of the American Old West in 1899, the riveting and dramatic plot in Red Dead Redemption 2 should be enough to keep players engrossed for a long time. The narrative in question follows the life of Arthur Morgan and his position in the notorious Van der Linde gang. On top of this, its immense interactive open-world can add even more hours onto the main campaign should players choose to explore every inch of the map....

They’ll enter the jail as Arthur claiming to be a bounty hunter, but the lawmen of Strawberry won’t let Arthur in to see the prisoners, Micah included. Instead, Red Dead Redemption 2 players must go around the back of the jail and talk to him through the jail windows, where then Arthur will either use dynamite or a nearby steam-powered winch to blast a wall through, begin a big shootout in Strawberry, and escape with Micah....

The world of Red Dead 2 is approximately four times the size of the map featured in Red Dead 1, and is home to some dark secrets. With how content rich the overall game is, there’s a lot for the player to discover and encounter well into the game’s runtime. RELATED: Avowed Should ‘Steal’ One Thing from Red Dead Redemption 2’s Map Design One player, YouTuber cad5150 recently discovered a hidden interrogation cutscene that can be triggered during one of the in-game missions....

The map in Red Dead Redemption 2 is truly massive, with some estimations putting it at around 29 square miles, and others noting that it is approximately double the size of Grand Theft Auto 5’s Los Santos. Not only is Red Dead Redemption 2’s map huge in scale, it is also dense with content, with roughly 109 missions available in the game when including story and honor missions. Taking all of this into account, as well as a number of other boxes that need to be ticked in order to get 100% completion in the game, it is certainly a lengthy process for any player attempting to tackle the challenge....

Players can sign up for the Rockstar Social Club via an in-game menu that can link to their Xbox LIVE gamertag or PSN account. What kind of support can players expect to see for Redemption? Quite a few actually: Social Club Challenges - Members who complete a series of special challenges will have the ability to access an exclusive collection of cheats. To unlock “Pike’s Basin Challenge,” the first of many challenges to come, beat the “Justice in Pike’s Basin” mission, and complete the Pike’s Basin gang hideout by helping rancher Errol Hewitt defeat a gang of bloodthirsty cattle rustlers....

Matt Kemp’s two-run double in the 12th lifted the Braves to a 3-1 win over the New York Mets. Red Sox catcher Sandy Leon blasted a three-run home run for a 3-0 walk-off win over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Fenway Park. The Astros and Seattle Mariners needed a baker’s dozen to decide their game, which ended on George Springer’s walk-off homer as Houston completed the sweep with a 5-3 win....

The Red Sox now find themselves in firm control of the AL East. Benintendi’s RBI single with two outs in the 10th capped Boston’s rally from three runs down in the ninth against New York closer Aroldis Chapman, and the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep with a 5-4 victory Sunday night. “Any 10 hopper that goes through for a hit feels pretty good,” the usually quiet Benintendi said, breaking into a grin....

With a new arena scheduled to open in 2017, Wings ownership has another intriguing brand in mind. MORE: NHL’s highest-paid players | Greatest goalies | Must-see fights Welcome to “The Baddest Bowl in Hockey.” The Ilitch family via Olympia Entertainment registered the phrase with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, hhe Detroit Free Press reported. A sponsor for naming rights to the new arena is expected in the next few weeks, according to Chris Ilitch, CEO of Ilitch Holdings, the report said....

He pioneered the first NHL players’ union despite intense opposition from team management, began the tradition of taking the Stanley Cup closer to fans by skating it around the ice and refused to attend his own Hall of Fame induction ceremony because only men were allowed. “I was led by a feeling of fairness,” Lindsay once said. Lindsay, the 5-foot-8, 160-pound tough guy who provided muscle and meanness on the Detroit Red Wings’ famed “Production Line” of the 1950s, died Monday at the age of 93 in his home in Michigan, according to Lew LaPaugh, his son-in-law and president of the Ted Lindsay Foundation, which raises money for autism research....

Rookie left-hander Framber Valdez won in his big-league debut, and Josh Reddick homered to give the Astros the lead for good as they beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Tuesday night. Reddick’s tiebreaking home run in the fourth inning put the Astros ahead 2-1, and Yuli Gurriel added an RBI single in the sixth for a two-run lead. Valdez, called up from Triple-A Fresno earlier in the Tuesday, gave the ballclub a lift with his four-plus innings of one-run ball in relief of Brad Peacock....

Reddit has obviously done annual roundups before, looking over global aggregate data to identify the most popular threads, Ask Me Anything (AMA) interviews and topics from a given year. In fact, the 2021 recap is already available and includes lots of fascinating insights, like the fact that users primarily come to the site for cryptocurrency advice, and to watch livestreams of beehives. While that part of the feature isn’t particularly ground-breaking (and feels similar to what Google already does with its year-in-review), the new personalized recap is a first for Reddit....

In a now-viral post on Reddit’s r/mildlyinfuriating, a movie theater employee expressed their frustration with having to clean up after moviegoers and showed the subreddit’s 76.3K members what type of sticky messes recent patrons left behind — including a photo of garbage strewn about multiple rows of seats and a theater floor covered in spilled soda and popcorn. This, u/Key-Disaster-3682 said, happens all of the time. “I work at a movie theatre and this is a regular occurrence,” they captioned the original post....

Young Indian driver Tarun Reddy achieved his best racing weekend with a double podium finish in the UK Formula Renault Championship by finishing second, third and fourth. The 16-year-old, who is also leading the MRF 1600 National Racing Championship, went fastest in Friday practice at his debut on the Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit. The Chennai boy’s second place in Race 1 was his best result till date in Britain and he backed it up with two more excellent performances in his MGR Motorsport car....