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Mario and friends (and enemies) are no strangers to picking up just about any sport there is and putting a friendly and chaotic spin on the experience. Unlike more realistic sports games, which focus mostly on matches, maybe some challenge modes, and multiplayer, Mario sports games have all attempted to add in some sort of progression to make playing alone a bit more fun. Some games have full-on campaigns, while Mario Strikers: Battle League has a variety of cups you can progress through for new rewards, also…

For those of you who are counting, it has been 21 years since the Colorado Avalanche last appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals. So, as the team prepares to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning starting Wednesday, it’s fair to say that a lot has changed in those two decades. Here are 10 pop culture moments from the last time the Avs were in the finals (against the New Jersey Devils) that are guaranteed to make you feel old. Photo by Craig Walker, The Denver PostMembers of the Ascent ice crew work on painting the Avalanche logo on…

Many people start each morning off with coffee.Coffee is a beverage consumed around the world on a daily basis by billions of people. There are preferences as to the strength of the brew, how the bean is roasted, and what to add in the way of flavorings. But no matter how you brew it or enhance it with flavors, coffee is loved around the world. In this article, you can read how it can be healthy as well.1. It’s a wakeup and boost for the dayAnyone who has had at least one cup of coffee knows how energizing it can be. In…

Artemis Technologies out of Belfast, Northern Ireland, has launched what is claimed to be the world's first commercially viable all-electric foiling workboat, which cuts through the water with minimal wake at up to 34 knots and offers a per-charge cruising range of up to 60 nautical miles.The launch announcement by the spin out from the Artemis Racing team that was founded in 2018 by Olympic sailing champion and America's Cup veteran, Dr. Iain Percy OBE, follows sea trials of an 11.5-m (37.7-ft) prototype workboat named…

From Rachel Joyce to Jonas Jonasson to Emma Hooper, novels about older people going on long journeys have almost become a genre: later-life pilgrimage fiction. In Paper Cup, Karen Campbell gives it a new slant; her protagonist who takes an extended walk is a homeless alcoholic. The freezing doorways, dirty skips and uncaring streets of Glasgow are where Kelly sleeps and lives, trying and often failing to stay off the drink. Late one night on a bench in George Square, a drunk bride-to-be celebrating her hen night with a…

Have you ever dreamed of judging a cannabis competition? Good news: You’re high-ered! The High Times Cannabis Cup has returned to Colorado and is currently seeking judges to try locally-made products, including flower, topicals, edibles and concentrates and help determine the best of their kind available in the Centennial State. (See the full list of categories below.) Entries into The Cannabis Cup, started in Amsterdam in 1988, were traditionally judged by panels of experts, but in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

Ember was already the company that made a travel mug that you could control the temperature of using your iPhone, but now it's also the maker of a dinky little coffee cup as well. The new Ember Cup is small at just 6 ounces, making it perfect for those more diminutive drinks like flat whites and espressos. Ignoring whether you really need to control the temperature of a coffee that you'll drink in a few gulps for a moment, the new cup itself is pretty cool to look at. It comes in two colors — black and copper — with…

The late Roger Michell’s final film has now been posthumously released. It is a blandly tasteful and celebratory BBC One-style documentary for the platinum jubilee, with a melancholy new relevance, as if we are entering a new “regency” age. Sad to say, it goes down like a cup of tepid, milky and over-sugared tea.Michell’s previous cinema documentary, Nothing Like a Dame, about Britain’s brilliant theatrical dames, had been full of fun. This is merely reverent. There is no original material: the film is stitched together…

India created history after winning the iconic Thomas Cup badminton tournament earlier this month. Chirag Shetty, who was part of the team tweeted asking Anand Mahindra to expedite the delivery of his car. Anand Mahindra further escalated the issue on Twitter and said that even he has booked an XUV700 for his wife and they are waiting to get the car. Since that makes the XUV7OO the Choice Of Champions we will have to work extra hard to get it to you ASAP. @vijaynakra I hope you see this! (By the way, I’ve ordered one…

Breadcrumb Trail Links World NHL Hockey The bidding's long gestation period means the final price likely will be through the roof. Wayne Gretzky lifting the Stanley Cup while with the Edmonton Oilers. Photo by Files /Postmedia Article content Got $500,000 or so kicking around? Article content If you do, you can own Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers sweater that he wore in the 1988 Stanley Cup clincher. It was the legendary star’s last championship. And it comes complete with Champagne stains…