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Bartra, who has graduated from Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy complimented his team’s dominating display saying, “I can be happy for the team and personally. [The performance] comes at the right time because this was a game that arrived when our rivals were catching us up, and we’ve not only won three points but also psychologically stamped our authority on the table.” He added that the players should be happy after also keeping a clean sheet in a resounding performance....

On February 14, 14 students and three teachers were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Former pupil Nicholas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of pre-meditated murder. Borges, 15, took five bullets to his back and limbs as he barricaded a door to protect classmates from the shooter. A keen young footballer, Borges spent two months at the Barca Academy in Lauderhill, near Fort Lauderdale, in 2016....

The Bulgarian had two separate spells at Nou Camp, one between 1990 and 1995, where he played 149 games and scored 77 goals and another tenure between 1996 and 1998, when he played 26 matches and scored 7 goals. Van Gaal managed Barcelona for a period of 3 years between 1997 and 2000, during which he won two League titles, one Copa del Rey and a UEFA Super Cup as well....

According to Fichajes, Barcelona are eager to sign a long-term replacement for veteran defender Gerard Pique. The 35-year-old is in the twilight stages of his career and has been unable to maintain consistency in his performances in recent years. Martinez’s contract with Ajax is set to expire in the summer of 2023. Ajax could therefore be forced to sell the 24-year-old for a bargain price this summer rather than risk losing him on a free transfer at the end of the 2022-23 campaign....

It was more of conceding than confirming as the director wished his club’s boss well ahead of his next decision. Despite remaining joint-top of the LaLiga table with 40 points, the Blaugrana are far off the pace in terms of their lofty standards and otherwise relentless footballing philosophy. Club coach Ernesto Valverde has been subject to serious scrutiny in recent months, even more so after their surrendering 2-3 defeat at the hands of Atletico Madrid in the Supercopa de Espana....

Former Asian Championships semi-finalist Saina Nehwal has missed out on a top-8 seeding due to a slide in the rankings. In case you didn’t know… In 2017, Srikanth became just the fourth player to win 4 Superseries titles in one year when he beat Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto in the final of the French Open Superseries. Kidambi also won Indonesia, Australia, and Denmark Open Superseries on his way to a career-best ranking of 2nd....

With that win, the 16-year-old ensured a medal for India. He next takes on the fourth seed Ikhsan Leonardo Imanuel Rumbay of Indonesia for a place in the summit clash. This is a marked improvement for the talented Indian teenager at this tournament from last year. He bowed out in the Round of 16 in 2017. This will also be Sen’s second medal from this event. In 2016, he had made it to the semi-finals, losing to Sun Feixiang of China....

Reliever Pedro Strop’s hamstring injury while running the bases was a notable exception. Baez delivered the go-ahead run with a bunt single in the 10th inning as Chicago beat Washington 4-3 in a makeup of a game postponed earlier in the week. Baez, an MVP candidate, also homered and drove in three runs. He has 31 homers and leads the NL with 103 RBIs. Chicago stretched its lead in the NL Central to 1½ games over idle Milwaukee....

Only three players had played every minute of Manchester United’s Premier League campaign up to the point when Bailly suffered a knee ligament injury during the second half of the 4-0 loss at Chelsea. David de Gea and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were two, and the third was Bailly himself. De Gea was responsible for the concession of costly goals against Stoke City and Chelsea on the day while Zlatan is on his longest barren streak in front of goal for a decade....

With 1:23 to play in the second quarter of the Browns’ Week 3 game against the Jets, Baker Mayfield, playing in place of a concussed Tyrod Taylor, approached the line of scrimmage for his first NFL play. A linebacker noticed the rookie quarterback’s presence behind center and started yelling, reminding Mayfield that he was fresh meat and that this was the NFL, not the Big 12. The Jets were coming for the 23-year-old, or so he was told....

What players can currently see of Baldur’s Gate 3 is reason for many to hope for a polished, innovative take on the RPG genre, as comparisons to DnD and how accurately BG3 pays homage to the tabletop RPG are aplenty. Many DnD players will know that real-life groups and parties tend to have different values and preferences. Some groups love puzzles and traps, other want to min-max and roll through combat situations left and right, and many prefer to invest more heavily into roleplay and character relationships....

Smith today fought back tears as he claimed full responsibility for the ball-tampering scandal that destroyed his reputation, while David Warner and Cameron Bancroft also offered their apologies for the scandal that plunged Australian cricket into turmoil. The developments in South Africa and Australia have not escaped Rohit’s attention. “The video of Steve Smith being escorted at the airport and his most recent press conference resonated with me. The spirit of the game is of utmost importance there’s no denying that,” Rohit wrote on his twitter handle....

The nominees were announced on Monday, September 3rd, and the three chosen finalists were Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus/Real Madrid/Portugal), Luka Modric (Real Madrid/ Croatia) and Mohamed Salah (Liverpool/Egypt). All three of them are deserving in their own right but to ignore the contributions of Messi last season is very questionable. Let’s have a look at some of the facts. Cristiano Ronaldo scored 44 goals and had 8 assists in 44 appearances last season, picking up four trophies along the way, including the UEFA Champions League....

The Ballon d’Or winner is chosen on the basis of a combination of votes from journalists, national team captains and coaches. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have exercised a duopoly of sorts over the Ballon d’Or over the past decade and more. The pair have won 11 of the last 12 Ballon d’Ors. Messi is widely tipped to win a record seventh Ballon d’Or this year. The award was canceled in 2020 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic....

Messi is a record five-time winner of the individual honour, but he is expected to be joined on that tally by Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo this year. The duo have shared the past nine Ballons d’Or and are widely considered the world’s two best players. For Valverde, whose team host Olympiacos in the Champions League on Wednesday, he said he had no doubt who was best. “We all know who is the best player in the world [Messi],” he told a news conference on Tuesday....

Mbappe, 19, scored four times in 13 second-half minutes as PSG thrashed Lyon 5-0 to become the first team to begin a Ligue 1 season with nine straight wins. The winner of the Best Young Player Award during France’s successful World Cup campaign, Mbappe said the biggest individual honour – the Ballon d’Or – was something he one day wanted to win. “The Ballon d’Or? Why not? I don’t forbid anything,” he said....

Emergent was shut down in mid-April by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to a contamination problem with the vaccines produced there. Emergent tossed out tens of millions of doses of the vaccine which were contaminated with an ingredient for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which was made in the same factory. The company did not say when exactly production would resume. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

The Orioles are in fourth place in the American League East with 80 wins and have a winning percentage of 0.516. They have a negative away record of 36-41 and are 4-6 in their last ten matchups. Up to $1,250 back on your first bet when you join Caesars here The Sox are struggling, languishing in last place in the American League East with 74 wins. They have a winning percentage of 0....

Bangladesh have fallen off after a promising start and lie at 8th spot in the points table. The team played brilliantly to win their first match against South Africa but the ‘Tigers’ as they are famously called, lost a close encounter against New Zealand. In their most recent match, Bangladesh didn’t arrive to the party as hosts England gave the tournament’s dark-horses massive hiding. One positive for Bangladesh so far has been their star player Shakib Al Hasan’s scintillating form....