The Voice 2016 Alisan Porter and Christina Aguilera - Finale: "You"ve Got a Friend"
Adam Wakefield gives an entertaining performance to prove he is in it to win it during the performance night of The Voice Season 10 Finale on Monday (May 23) in Los Angeles.
The singer, who is on Blake Sheltons team for season ten of the competition series, performed three times during the episode.
Adam sang When I Call Your Name as his solo sang, Lonesome Broken and Blue for his original song, and The Conversation for his duet with Blake.
He is the final contestant remaining on Blakes team this year.
The Voice 2016 Adam Wakefield and Blake Shelton Finale: The Conversation
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The Voice 2016 Adam Wakefield Finale: Lonesome, Broken and Blue
The Voice 2016 Adam Wakefield Finale: When I Call Your Name
The Voice 2016 Adam Wakefield Music Video: Lonesome, Broken and Blue (Digital Exclusive)
Blizzards Overwatch is out today, making it the first brand-new property from the World of Warcraft developer in close to two decades. And while it looks like what would happen if Pixars B-team designed a multiplayer shoot-"em-up, theres a lot of hidden complexity in the way its roster of playable characters interact.
The most obvious touchstone for Overwatch is Valves Team Fortress 2, another cartoony multiplayer FPS with multiple characters, each with very different skills. Players of that class-based game will find a lot of overlap here. But Overwatch also shares a lot in common with another Valve game Dota 2 and other games in the horribly named MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) genre. Youre not viewing the action from the position of an omnipotent sky G*d like you are in Dota 2, sure, but Overwatchs focus is in how the unique skills of each of its 21 heroes can be used to kill, protect, and disrupt other players, rather than the simple twitch skills of shooting enemies in the head.
Thats not to say shooting isnt important you should be shooting people whenever you can in Overwatch but as with Dota 2, better players develop a knowledge of not only every characters unique abilities, but how best to combine them to either put up a stalwart defense or a strong attack in the games short objective-based rounds. Overwatch shares a lot of DNA with Dota 2 and Blizzards own Heroes of the Storm but its not exactly the same as those games. Rounds rarely last more than 10 minutes, for one, where Dota 2 games can stretch to the hour mark, and are usually upwards of 40 minutes.
Overwatchs servers only went live today, making it too early to say if the final version of Blizzards latest will pull people away from either Team Fortress 2 or games like League of Legends. But based on its beta, Overwatch has been scratching the MOBA itch Ive had ever since I made the call to quit Dota 2 cold turkey. The following tips come from tens of hours spent playing that beta, an early version of the game that nonetheless showed how the many heroes interact.
Heres what you need to know to get started.
Dont bother with the tutorial
At best, Overwatchs tutorial is pointless, but some players might even find it detrimental. The playable section teaches you remedial basics like how to move, shoot, and look around, but for some inexplicable reason it also suggests that each of the games heroes has a sprint option. This is true for Soldier 76 the gun-toting cyborg you control for the tutorial but decidedly false for the other 20 characters in the game, who have their own personalized abilities.
Players who try "sprinting" as the tutorial informed with these other characters will find themselves plopping down turrets, or launching themselves into a forward roll, or firing out a hook, or something else that might not be so useful in a combat situation. Save yourself the time, then, and jump straight into a game with bots.
Know your role
Overwatchs characters are split into four categories: assault, defense, tank, and support.
Assault characters can dish out large amounts of damage with powerful weapons in short periods of time. Theyre the tip of the spear in any attack, and when deployed correctly, can clear a path through bottlenecks and choke points. Theyre not blessed with huge pools of health, however, and usually cant weather a full-frontal attack. Instead, most assault heroes are best played by dashing in, inflicting a big burst of damage, and disappearing back behind your team.
As the tag suggests, defense characters are good at stopping the advance of an enemy team, and many of them work best when used to lock down specific portions of the map. The pool includes snipers and characters who can either build, or turn into stationary turrets, along with two champions who can block off paths entirely either with a vast wall of ice, or by filling them so full of timed explosives no one would want to go near.
Tanks are designed to be the big and noisy distraction for the enemy team. Their number includes heroes with the most health, able to absorb damage through their powerful shields or self-healing abilities. Canny tanks pull the attention away from more immediately lethal team-mates, allowing them to operate unmolested.
Three of the four support characters are healers, each capable of replenishing an allys health bar, while the fourth can build teleporters to help speed your teams advance to the front lines. Support characters tend to be the flimsiest available to players, and are best played behind the rest of your team, but they have some surprisingly powerful weapons as their disposal, too.
Start as an easier character
The tutorial might be lacking, but it has the right idea in starting players as Soldier 76. Hes the easiest character for new players to understand, as his basic abilities will be familiar to anyone who has ever played a first-person shooter before. In addition to his sprint, 76 carries an accurate and powerful assault rifle that can also launch rockets, and hes capable of healing himself and allies with a medkit that he drops on the floor
His only real complexity comes in the deployment of his ultimate ability, earned after a certain amount of time spent playing a match. Press Q and 76 will flip down a tactical visor that marks enemies, allowing you to automatically aim and shoot at them by simply holding the trigger. The execution is easy, but the skill comes in using it in a target-rich environment.
Similarly solid beginner characters include Reinhardt, whose near-invulnerable shield and huge health bar make surviving a fight easier; Bastion, who can turn into a turret and spew out a withering hail of bullets; and Lucio, who heals teammates simply by being near them.
Try everyone
With that said, new players should try every hero as soon as possible. Putting down an enemy hero is as much about understanding their set of abilities as it is about accurate shooting: you need to know that Reaper can temporarily turn into an invulnerable ghost, or that when D.Va vacates her robot exoskeleton, it can sometimes self-destruct in your face.
It sounds mightily daunting, having to learn the multiple abilities, weapons, and passive skills of 21 heroes, but the best experience is trying them yourself. That way youll get a feel for how long you can maintain Reinhardts shield, or when a Tracer has jumped too far into enemy territory, or where a Symmetra is likely to have placed her teleporter.
Change your hero
Youll probably find your favorite character pretty quickly, but dont get too attached to them at least not so obsessed that you cant switch out in the middle of a fight. At the very least, change character if someone else selects your favored hero to widen the skills available to your crew. But changing character can also break down problems your team had been having before all too often fights feel unwinnable in Overwatch until one player swaps character to one better suited to the problem at hand.
Defensive bottlenecks stacked with turrets and shielded tank characters, for example, are absolute murder to attack head-on for flimsy heroes like Genji or McCree. But swap out to Pharah, and her rockets can easily clear out static defenses, firing from odd angles high in the sky thanks to her jetpacks. Or if your team is full of high-damage heroes, but you cant sustain a push outside of your home base due to your low health pools, consider switching to Reinhardt and hiding your allies behind your giant shield.
Its difficult to say if Overwatch is balanced at this point, but it almost always feels like you have the code for whatever lock youre facing in one of its characters skill sets. The players willing to try a few combinations will usually open the way faster.
Do your job
Whoever youre playing as, remember Bill Belichicks mantra: do your job. If youre a tank like Reinhardt, that means soaking up bullets and protecting your friends, not singling out speedy solo targets and chasing them down his slow speed and lack of ranged attack options mean youll usually be wasting your time. If youre Tracer, that means completing hit-and-run attacks, dancing through the enemys flanks and tearing them up before flitting back again. If youre Junkrat, that means firing an endless stream of pipe bombs into contested areas, scoring free kills, and irritating the enemy team to the point they quit the round and uninstall the game.
Trying to make frontal assaults with characters like Reaper is usually suicide, and youll hurt your team for doing it, but remember most characters have skills that give them a second battlefield role. Tracers best used to pick off solo stragglers she can gun down quickly, but her ultimate a proximity mine is most useful chucked at the largest concentration of enemy forces. Reinhardt can usually absorb turret bullets with his shield, but his secondary ability fires a flare that will also disable the automated guns for a short time, switching his role from defensive to offensive.
Keep your ears open
Each Overwatch ability comes with its own soundbite. Youll start to recognize which audio clip goes with which skill after a few rounds, but as a rule of thumb, the louder the shout, the more dangerous the ability. Play with your speakers turned up, and if you hear one of these yelps, it probably means its time to vacate your current position.
Reapers Death Blossom ultimate in which he spins around pelting nearby enemies with lethal shotguns is one of the loudest shouts, the masked killer snarling "die, die, DIE" as he starts the move. Similarly noisy is Junkrats RIP-tire, an explosive rubber death wheel that telegraphs its arrival with the sound of a motor being kickstarted, and Hanzos Dragonstrike, which fires two giant, green dragons alongside his Japanese war cry.
Dont save your ultimate
These "ultimate" abilities are Overwatchs most powerful moves, and they can take out multiple players if deployed correctly. But waiting for the perfect moment at which to deploy them when the entire enemy team is arranged in a line, or clustered together, or distracted by a teammate isnt always the best idea. Its usually better to use your ultimate liberally, securing a few kills or clearing an objective point, allowing it to build up again over time. Five sub-optimal uses of your most powerful skill is always better than finishing the game with your ultimate meter full, but the monstrously powerful skill left unused.
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Following in the footsteps of their Cinderella remake, Disney are working on a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, featuring Emma Watson in the lead role of Belle. It looks to draw heavily on the celebrated 1991 animated version, with Ewan McGregor as the talking candelabra Lumiere and Ian McKellen as Cogsworth the clock. Directed by Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1and 2), Beauty and the Beast is due for release in the US on 17 March 2017
One genius Game of Thrones fan predicted the meaning of Hodor"s name in 2008, three years before the show even started.
Sunday"s episode revealed the giant"s backstory in a time-warping twist that left viewers" minds blown.
But one disciple, who read George R.R. Martin"s books before the world-famous TV series expanded upon them, was unsurprised.
Sunday"s episode revealed the giant"s backstory in a time-warping twist that left viewers" minds blown
One genius Game of Thrones fan predicted the meaning of Hodor"s name in 2008, three years before the show even started
Eight years ago, budding author Stuart Etter from Orlando, Florida predicted that Hodor is an abbreviation of hold the door.
Under the name Myrddin, he wrote on fan site westeros.com: "The poor guy is just asking someone to hold the door for him, since he"s always carrying someone else around. After a while, "Hold the door" became "Hold the doorHold the doorHoldoorHodoor. Dammit! Hold the door!" His mind finally snapped, and now all he can say is Hodor."
Episode five shows a young Wylis being warged into by Bran Stark and having a seizure while repeating the phrase "hold the door" which merges to become "Hodor".
Simultaneously, present-day Hodor is holding back the White Walkers while shouting the same phrase.
Mr Etter said thatseeinghisprophesycome true was surreal and that it was odd when somebody sent him a link to his 2008 post before he watched the episode.
He told Newsweek:"I remembered writing it, but honestly I haven"t thought about it much since. So, when I watched the episode later that night, it did hit me right before it happened: "Hold the door."
Eight years ago, budding author Stuart Etter from Orlando, Florida predicted that Hodor is an abbreviation of hold the door
"It"s even more surreal that someone on Reddit was able to find my eight-year-old post buried within an archived thread on a fansite. I"m just glad there are no videos of me doing something stupid floating around," Mr Etter jested.
Mr Etter said he was able to make the prediction because he"s a writer who likes puzzles and wordplay.
"When the question was posed on the forum "What does Hodor mean?" I saw the words hidden within the name," he said.
One disciple, who read George R.R. Martin"s books before the world-famous TV series expanded upon them, was unsurprised by the revelation
President Obama may have lunched with Vietnamese president Tran Dai Quang in the Presidential Palace, but he spent dinner in more modest surroundings: at a local restaurant in Hanoi. Obama joined TV personality and travel guru Anthony Bourdain for a meal at a restaurant called Bn cha Huong Lin.
Bourdain shared a photo of the pair with the caption "The president"s chopstick skills are on point. The president is seen holding a bottle as he chats with Bourdain over bowls of noodles.
The TV host noted on Twitter that the two were eating bun Cha, a Vietnamese dish of grilled pork and noodles. Bourdain said he picked up the $6 tab.
Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic French Open 2013 Highlights (Semifinals)
By Becky Elliott, AccuWeather Meteorologist
May 23, 2016; 1:20 PM ET
The 2016 French Open, the second tournament in the series of four that comprise the Grand Slam, kicked off at Roland Garros stadium this week.
Play started with cloudy and soggy conditions on Sunday, forcing play to stop.
Rain continued to fall on Monday, forcing additional delays after only 10 of 32 scheduled matches were completed on Sunday.
The French Open is the only tournament in the Grand Slam system that plays on a clay court, and various weather conditions can have a huge impact. Any amount of rain or moisture can drastically change how the court plays.
Spectators with umbrellas leave the courts as rain interrupted first round matches of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Sunday, May 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
"If the court is damp and cool, the court plays slower. Tennis b***s get heavier and the overall conditions slow down," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Bernie Rayno said.
They will still play if it"s raining, as long as it"s light rain, Rayno added.
One of the major players in this tournament is Rafael Nadal, who is vying to be the first player to reach double digits in their French Open titles. Nadal is known to be one of the best clay court tennis players.
Spectators wait for matches to start for the French Open Tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, Monday, May 23, 2016 in Paris. Showers over Paris on Monday have forced the organizers to delay the start of play. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Drier weather is expected on Tuesday. Temperatures will slightly increase to 17 C (63 F), but the sun will make a return, helping to make it feel warmer during the afternoon.
A high of 17 C corresponds to 63 F, while winds of 10-20 km/h equates to 6-12 mph.
Additional dry weather is expected on Wednesday with a high temperature around 19 C (66 F).
The threat for rainfall will return on Thursday and continue into the weekend as daily showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast along with higher temperatures. High temperatures will range from 21-23 C (70-73 F).
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French Open players will have to wait until at least 2018 before weather will no longer have an impact on the clay court, as renovation plans for Roland Garros remain in limbo.
"Its urgent to build a roof by respect for our audience," French Open tournament Director Guy Forget said at a press conference on Monday.
Spain"s Rafael Nadal returns in the quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament against Serbia"s Novak Djokovic at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Content contributed by AccuWeather Meteorologist Eric Leister
Inside The NBA: Crew Discusses Draymond Green"s Kick To The Nuts On Steven Adams | 2016 NBA Playoffs
By Matt Dolloff, CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) The 2016 NBA Playoffs have delivered some riveting games through the first two rounds and change. But, unfortunately, the awesomeness of the games was overshadowed this past weekend by two cringeworthy incidents involving two of the leagues most high-profile players.
LeBron James, who so desperately wants to be the face of the league, would be devastated if that pretty face got smacked. And if another players arm so much as grazes LeBrons chin, youd better believe hes going to make sure the referees notice. Despite never, ever needing to flop, James did it again Saturday night in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Toronto Raptors.
Watch as a flailing arm catches the mouth and chin area of LeBron, who acts as if a SWAT team had just blasted him with a beanbag bullet and then table-topped him to the ground. The performance worked at first, as LeBron drew a technical foul on the Raptors DeMarre Carroll, but the foul was overturned when refs realized it was not Carroll but James own teammate Tristan Thompson who hit him.
It appears that the contact with James mouth is legit, but not nearly violent enough to warrant such a theatrical display. James told reporters after the game that he was not trying to sell a call while constantly looking away, closing his eyes, and obtusely chuckling at the very idea of him flopping.
You dont need to be a CIA operative to see that LeBron generally looked like a big fat liar during that presser. And this whole incident came from a guy who once said: I dont need to flop. I dont even know how to do it. So it doesnt mean much to me.
The objectionable antics didnt stop with LeBron over the weekend. Warriors forward Draymond Green could be in trouble after kicking Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams right in the crotch area for the second time in as many games. The first incident, a knee to the privates during a jump shot in Game 2, could be argued as an accident.
The second? Its a wonder how Green didnt send Adams through the Chase Center roof:
The last incident, which occurred during Sunday nights Thunder blowout win in Game 3, drew a flagrant 1 foul call and could be subject to further discipline from the NBA.
Green told reporters that he thought the foul might have been rescinded and even denied any intention to send Adams private parts hurtling into outer space. Not that he or LeBron should be expected to admit to their actions, especially with potential discipline still to come, but to do it with such a smugly incredulous attitude is pretty insulting to fans and followers of the game.
Theres no place in any sport for the amount of flopping and bush-league antics that happens in the NBA, whose efforts to curb it have not seemed to make a dent in the mindsets of players, especially when some of the very best players in the league are doing it.
Im no Bob Ryan when it comes to basketball coverage, but you do not need to be an expert to know that flops and crotch-kicks have no place in pro sports, especially not from world-class talents like James and Green. It pains me that I have to comment on this rubbish rather than the wild back-and-forth between the Warriors and Thunder or James domination that came before and after the flop as he battles for a third NBA championship.
Until the NBA starts imposing draconian penalties for flopping and cheap shots, theres not much reason to believe that paltry fines (by pro athlete standards) would make any kind of difference. Its one thing to go easy on the penalty in the moment that it happens, but actions like LeBrons flop and Greens kick should be zero tolerance kind of behavior that is easily differentiated from legitimate reactions.
It may be a slippery slope for the NBA to tread, but its a better option than what you have now. James and Green should be worried about their game statuses, but instead, they will continue to engage in tomfoolery with little to no real consequence.
The NBA Playoffs can be must-watch action at times, but for the quality of the product, actions like those of James and Green are a painful low blow.
Matt Dolloff is a writer for CBSBostonSports.com. His opinions do not necessarily reflect that of CBS or 98.5 The Sports Hub. Have a news tip or comment for Matt? Follow him on Twitter @mattdolloff and email him at mdolloff@985thesportshub.com.
