Paris Saint-Germain cruised to a 4-1 win over Lille on Saturday to extend their lead in France to 16 points ahead of their heavyweight Champions League clash with Liverpool. Bradley Barcola, Marquinhos, Ousmane Dembele and Desire Doue all struck in the first half at the Parc des Princes as PSG extended their unbeaten run in Ligue 1 this season to 24 matches. “It’s a perfect scenario ahead of a game like the one against Liverpool,” said PSG captain Marquinhos. “We’re in great shape and all the signs are good. We’re winning and we’re full of confidence. We must not stop and the staff are pushing us hard to give it our all.” Jonathan David grabbed a consolation after coming on as a substitute for Lille, who go to Borussia Dortmund
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When this women’s college basketball season began, most folks figured that the race for the national player of the year would come down to three returning guards: UConn’s Paige Bueckers, USC’s JuJu Watkins and Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo. And indeed, all three players have been mightily impressive this season and likely secured spots on the All-American First Team. A fourth player quickly rose to the top to join them in that debate and conversation in UCLA center Lauren Betts, who is averaging about 20 points and 10 rebounds per game and is the nucleus of a Bruins’ squad that started the year 23-0 and looks like a legit contender for the national title. But it feels like there’s a fifth player we should be talking about for a spot on
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Feb 27, 2025; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Nashville Predators center Ryan O’Reilly (90) steals the puck from Winnipeg Jets center Vladislav Namestnikov (7) during the second period at Bridgestone Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steve Roberts-Imagn Images First-period goals by Filip Forsberg and Tommy Novak held up as the host Nashville Predators snapped the Winnipeg Jets’ 11-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory on Thursday. Goaltender Juuse Saros made 23 saves as Nashville ended a two-game losing skid, arguably the most important coming in the final minute as Saros turned away a wrist shot by Nikolaj Ehlers on a golden chance to tie the affair. Neal Pionk scored the lone goal for the Jets, whose franchise-record winning spree began on Dec. 22. Eric Comrie finished with 28 saves for Winnipeg. The Jets failed
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The tenth season of the six-team Pakistan Super League (PSL) will begin on April 11 with a fixture between defending champions Islamabad United and two-time champions Lahore Qalandars in Rawalpindi. The matches – 34 in total – will be played across Rawalpindi, Karachi, Multan and Lahore, with the playoffs slotted for Rawalpindi (May 13) and Lahore (May 14 and 16) and the final also in Lahore on May 18. The refurbished Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore will host the most matches, 13, including two of the playoff fixtures and the final, while Rawalpindi will host 11, including the opener and the first qualifier, and Karachi and Multan will host five matches each. There will be a total of three double-headers: Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators in Rawalpindi and Karachi Kings vs
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NEW YORK – Gervonta “Tank” Davis has observed the exodus of pound-for-pound peers to Saudi Arabia and firmly stood his ground in the U.S. Davis watched as rival and four-division champion Terence Crawford became the first to headline an American card in August. He saw the sport’s most popular fighter, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, shrug off Turki Alalshikh’s boast that a UFC bout he was backing in September would “bury” the Mexican star’s Las Vegas card, only to be in business with him five months later. And he looked on as David Benavidez boarded a flight to attend Saturday’s light heavyweight championship bout in Riyadh. On Saturday night in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Baltimore’s WBA lightweight titleholder Davis, 30-0 (28 KOs), is content producing the most lucrative live boxing gate in the
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BELFAST – For the second consecutive week, trainers Andy Lee and Billy Nelson will pit their wits against one another. Last Saturday, in Saudi Arabia, Lee’s heavyweight Joseph Parker emphatically stopped Nelson’s Martin Bakole, so this week the Scot will be hoping to draw a measure of revenge when his welterweight contender, Lewis Crocker, meets Lee’s Paddy Donovan. It is an enthralling match, with Nelson confident his man wins based on Crocker’s experience in with better competition. Lee, however, is adamant his fighter is the goods and has again referred to Donovan as “a generational talent.” “I’m probably biased as well, but everything I say and whatever I might predict or if I say someone’s going to win a fight unrelated to me, eventually it’ll be confirmed and proven right,”
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Portland Trail Blazers’ guard/forward Shaedon Sharpe has turned down the dunk contest multiple times at this point, but he might need to do it in order to save the competition. The high flyer has a bevy of highlight reel dunks to his name in his young career, but this one might take the cake as the 2024-2025 NBA Dunk of the Year. This angle is even better: First of all, OH MY GOD! Any time that a player throws the ball into no mans’ land and the opposition intercepts it, you just know that something insane is going to happen. This is how the Vince Carter dunk against France happened, same with Carmelo Anthony’s against the Jazz. You never throw the ball back across the court into the mass of
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Report UP Warriorz couldn’t capitalise on the blazing start from Grace Harris and couldn’t defend their below-par total Nat Sciver-Brunt scored a smashing half-century • BCCI Mumbai Indians143 for 2 (Sciver-Brunt 75*, Matthews 59) beat UP Warriorz 142 for 9 (Harris 45, Vrinda 33, Sciver-Brunt 3-18, Sanskriti 2-11, Ismail 2-33) by eight wickets Nat Sciver-Brunt put on an exceptional all-round show to propel Mumbai Indians to the top of the table with an eight-wicket win over UP Warriorz in Bengaluru. She took three wickets and followed it up with an impressive unbeaten 75 off 44 balls to chase down the target of 143 with 18 balls remaining. Warriorz initially rode on Grace Harris’ quickfire 45 and Vrinda Dinesh’s solid 33 but lost eight wickets for 54 runs to eventually end with a
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Namibia have eased into the second round of qualifiers for the 2026 TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) finals after a 1-0 victory over fellow Cosafa side Eswatini at the Dobsonville Stadium in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The win sees Namibia advance 4-0 on aggregate after they had claimed the first leg in Eswatini 3-0 last week. The fixture was played in honour of the late former Namibia President Dr Sam Nujoma, who passed away at the age of 95 earlier this month and will be laid to rest on Saturday. Namibia now advance to face Zambia in the next round, which will be for a place in the 2026 Wafcon finals. Zambia, who appeared at the last Fifa Women’s World Cup, will present a mighty challenge for coach
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers stop Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) at the goal line during the first half of a 2024 NFC wild card game at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images INDIANAPOLIS — Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst supports the bid to end the rugby-style QB sneak made popular by the Philadelphia Eagles, commonly referred to as the Tush Push. The Packers were outed as the team who made the proposed rules change for consideration by the NFL’s Competition Committee. “We’re not very successful against it, I know that,” Gutekunst said Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. “To be honest with you, I haven’t put much thought into it. It’s been around for a while, we’ve used it in different fashions with our tight end
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There’s no doubt the Los Angeles Rams are at a crossroads. The team is four years removed from their Super Bowl win, but even Sean McVay’s brilliance can only carry the current roster so far. It’s for this reason the team is planning to trade Cooper Kupp, and entertaining offers for Matthew Stafford. It’s time for a reset in LA, not a rebuild — and that means any discussion about how to maximize their assets is smart, instead of forcing things while watching aging players fade into obscurity. On the topic of aging players fading into obscurity [Aaron Rodgers bursts through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, except he’s an anthropomorphic jug of ayahuasca]. Aaron Rodgers is already reportedly pulling strings to try and land a gig with the Rams
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The Auburn Tigers have been arguably the best team in college basketball this season, holding the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 for the last seven weeks as they’ve gone 25-2 in the loaded SEC. Auburn’s year started off with a marquee 74-69 victory over the Houston Cougars back in game No. 2 of the season and they haven’t looked back since, going an impressive 13-1 in conference play with the lone loss being a single-digit game against the No. 3 Florida Gators. Looking at the Tigers roster, they have an All-American-caliber player in forward Johni Broome, who has averaged 18.6 points, 11.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.6 blocks per game, making a strong case for the Wooden Award this season. But, Auburn’s entire rotation is loaded, as
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Broncos Despite having three years remaining on his contract with the Bills, Von Miller said during a recent podcast appearance that he plans on returning to the Broncos at the end of his career. “I bleed orange and blue,” Miller said Friday on the DNVR Broncos podcast. “I’m Broncos Country for life. I’ll end up back in Denver whenever that is, whether that’s two years, three years, four years. But down the road, for sure I’ll be back in Denver… Denver will be home when it’s all said and done.” “I’ll make my way back to Denver,” Miller added. “All the greats do. From Peyton Manning to Champ Bailey , to everybody. If it’s good enough for The Sheriff, it’s good enough for me.” Mike Klis reports Chris Morgan is expected
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Olympic and St. John Junior Secondary Schools have performed exceptionally in the girls’ and boys’ category in the recently concluded first Junior NBA and Safaricom tournament at the Sabis International school in Nairobi. The M-PESA Jr. NBA program launched last week by the National Basket Association (NBA) Africa and Safaricom saw Nairobi play host to one of the four regional basketball tournaments for youth ages 13-16 in the country. The Olympic boys’ and girls’ teams were the stars of the court in the maiden tournament that had an impressive turnout of 24 schools with more than 500 junior players. In the girls’ semi-finals, Olympic Junior Secondary team beat Daima Junior Secondary team 26-4 in a one-sided match on the outdoor courts as St. John Junior Secondary team was made to sweat before
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Javed Akhtar became a target of trolls for praising Virat Kohli© AFP | X (Twitter) Virat Kohli’s sensational performance against Pakistan in the ICC Champions Trophy sent the entire Indian cricketing spectrum into euphoria. Celebrations rang all across the country as India thumped Pakistan to seal their fate in the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals. Even celebrities took to social media to laud Kohli and the Indian team’s performance on the big occasion. Lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar, however, became a target of trolls on social media as he shared a post celebrating Kohli’s performance in Dubai. Coming into the match on the back of a topsy-turvy run that saw his place in the team being questioned, Kohli slammed his 51st ODI hundred as he decimated Pakistan in the Group A