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Captain Neymar rates Brazil as the best
Manchester United are eyeing up a 200million (£173m) offer for Barcelona forward Neymar . Reports yesterday suggested Neymar , 25, could be heading for the exit door at the Nou Camp. Neymar signed off by adding that coach Luis Enrique helped them grow as a unit. We now have more confidence to seek our identity and we did it. Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague has had his say, and is adamant Neymar will be a Barcelona player in 2016/17.
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Anthony Crolla beaten in rematch with WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares
Linares, 31, comes from Venezuela, and hasn't lost a bout since 2012 when he suffered back to back knockout losses to Antonio DeMarco and Sergio Thompson. But Linares, competing in his 10 world title fight, emerged victorious, copping a unanimous decision in a bout where the local man had several good moments.
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GGG outlasts Jacobs in close unanimous decision
It marked the first time that Golovkin had not won by KO in 24 fights, and the first time that he had ever been taken to 12 rounds. Judges Don Trella and Steve Weisfeld both scored the fight 115-112, and Max DeLuca had it 114-113 for Golovkin, who scored a knockdown in the fourth round.
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Soren Kjeldsen, Alex Noren win groups in wild day at Match Play
Highlights from the second day of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. The duo traded blows over the next three holes before Kjeldsen escaped from the pack to win four straight holes after the turn. Garcia beat American Kevin Chappell 4 and 3 after halving with Ireland's Shane Lowry to open, so he must win to advance over Rahm, 2-0 after beating Lowry 2 and 1.
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Ailing Arsenal loses for 4th time in 5 Premier League games
The Gunners' fans continued to call for the veteran boss' head after their team slumped to a fourth loss in five English Premier League games - this time a 3-1 defeat at West Brom. "We lose game after game at the moment and that for me is much more important than my future". "We're very disappointed", he said. Robson-Kanu pounced on a mix-up between Ospina and an Arsenal defender 75 seconds after coming on as a substitute for Salomon Rondon to poke the ball into an empty net in the 55th ...
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Chiozza hits 3 at buzzer in OT, leads Florida past Wisconsin
The Badgers were on an emotional high at the end of regulation when Zak Showalter hit a running three-pointer just to force the extra session. Florida faces conference foe and No. It's the first visit to the Elite Eight for the Gamecocks. Now the NCAA's winningest program will play another of basketball's titans Sunday in top-seeded North Carolina with a trip to yet another Final Four on the line .
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Mark Webber suggests Fernando Alonso will quit McLaren in 2017
Alonso had little doubt where McLaren lay in the Formula One pecking order, even next to F1 minnows like Haas and Sauber. "[There are] few times I've had such a an uncompetitive vehicle, without any winter preparation, having to save fuel in a brutal way - I think we had to lift about a second per lap - and even so we were in the points.
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Russell Martin: Scotland still dealing with disappointment of missing Euros
He said: "There's no grey areas to it". That was a real blow for the home side as the Slovenian defenders were struggling to deal with the Celtic player's constant movement. Wednesday night's drab 1-1 draw in a friendly with Canada at Easter Road has hardly filled the Tartan Army with the same enthusiasm given the wretched campaign they have endured so far.
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Indian Wells masters: It's a attractive feeling, says Roger Federer
Federer now joins Djokovic as a five-time victor at the event and becomes the oldest champion in the tournament's history, surpassing Jimmy Connors who was 31 when he triumphed in 1984. Federer dominated all facets of the match, hitting more winners (23 to 17) and fewer unforced errors (15 to 21) than Wawrinka, along with winning 78 percent of his first serve points to his fellow Swiss' 70.
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Martin McGuinness, Irish rebel turned politician, dies at 66
McGuinness was hailed as a peacemaker for negotiating the 1998 peace deal, sharing power with his once bitter enemy Paisley and shaking hands with the British Queen, though the gestures were condemned by some former comrades as treachery. For over a decade the former IRA Commander held a power sharing office with the heads of Unionism, before standing down in January, collapsing the power-sharing Government at Stormont.
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Tunnel bust-up mars Man United's 3-1 win at Middlesbrough
It's what we did here without many players but with a great answer in terms of attitude and desire from all the boys. Manchester United dug in to pick up a 3-1 victory at Middlesbrough to move up to fifth in the Premier League table. Gestede initially appeared to bite defender Eric Bailly in a stoppage time melee on the edge of the visitors' area in an altercation missed by referee Jon Moss and his assistants.
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Wall scores 37 as Wizards down LeBron, Cavs 127-115
Wall stayed in attack mode and finished the quarter a ideal 8-8 from the field with 18 points and five assists as the House of Guards combined for more points (27) than the Cavaliers scored in the quarter (26) as the Wizards took a 40-26 lead at the end of the first quarter.
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Wisconsin ousts defending NCAA champions Villanova
The most awesome thing about Villanova's run this season was the fact they did so well without shooting guard Phil Booth for nearly the entire season. The committee clearly felt that the Badgers' slump during February was reflective of who they were as a team. While Wisconsin did not hold an advantage with him out, Villanova only outscored the Badgers 17-13 over that span.
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Brady's missing Super Bowl jerseys tracked to Mexico
Why would Brady care about a jersey , whatever the value would be to collectors? "We're highly confident that these are in fact the jerseys , based on our investigative efforts", he said . "If I don't, I don't". "It's unfortunate, because that's a nice piece of memorabilia", Brady told the media the next day when he accepted the Super Bowl MVP trophy.
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Real Madrid to play Bayern in Champions League quarterfinals
Rummenigge says the fact that no team has ever defended the Champions League title plays into Bayern's hands. "We have a lot of confidence and want to win the Champions League this season". "We will have to play two great matches to get to the next round", Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta said of Juventus . Ancelotti, who led 11-time winners Real to their tenth Champions League title in 2014, was looking forward to a special tie.
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Waugh finds elements of himself and Ponting in Kohli's captaincy
Good luck to them. Playing alongside Rahane has given Smith an opportunity to know him and his assessment is that the Mumbaikar is less emotional. "The more pressure we can put on the better". Thakur, who was removed from the post of BCCI President early this year by the Supreme Court in the wake of the Lodha Committee recommendations, said that cricket australia has always tried to dictate terms to India .
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Purdue falls to Kansas 98-66 in Sweet 16
Lost in Translation star Murray was caught on camera several times jumping up and down, waving his fist in the air, and rubbing the heads of fellow fans as his son's team made it through to the tournament's Elite Eight, where the Musketeers will face number one seed Gonzaga.
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Ricciardo misses start, exits early at F1 Australian GP
Max Verstappen admits there is much for Red Bull to work on ahead of Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix. "I just went in and then the rear went away". "I feel more and more relaxed with every year and every race." the teenager replied. "Throughout the season maybe things will happen, you have to be prepared for that, but we are coming here pretty confident, I would say, with that".
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Wild 3-Pointer Gives Florida March Madness Win Over Wisconsin
The Gamecocks hadn't played an NCAA Tournament game since 2004 or won one since 1973 until this memorable 3-0 run. And stepping up to the free throw line and put them down. Anytime you try to get a shot off, you have two or three guys on you. In order to get around Hayes and past midcourt, he dribbled three more times .
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Quick goal sets Northern Ireland on way to win over Norway
Brunt was inspirational on his Northern Ireland return back in November - making one and scoring another - and his set-piece delivery will be key once more. Should the Norwegians leave Belfast with nothing it would move Northern Ireland to 10 points at the halfway stage of the World Cup campaign. " Norway came with nothing to lose, they had to win the game to keep themselves alive in the group and that made them a very risky opponent".
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Nadal advances to start bid for 1st Key Biscayne
So Nadal backed up on returns and played higher balls against Kohlschreiber's backhand. Nadal said the key to his comeback had been his ability to change the tempo and rhythm of the match. "But I've put in the work that I can, I have prepared the best I can for this tournament and while I'm not necessarily in the best position right now, fortunately it is a long tournament", he said.
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Smith, Maxwell fire Australia to 401-7
India , in reply, were 120 for one at stumps and trailed the Australians by 331 runs. Kohli could not field after landing awkwardly on his right shoulder while trying to save a boundary in the post-lunch session on day one of the match on Thursday.
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Ross Barkley doing extra training at Everton
It will surely come as a disappointment to the player who has worked hard to get back into the worldwide scene after being dropped previous year. "I thought the Lithuania game might have been a good one for him to come into, but the way, unfortunately, it played out we couldn't get him on the pitch".
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Leicester hold on to secure impressive win at West Ham
Looked solid enough throughout, but ended up marking no one for the second West Ham goal. Before that, they have the West Ham game to think about followed by games against Stoke City, Sunderland and Everton. Shakespeare doesn't expect a hangover from the Champions League celebrations. The Gabon hot-shot scored his ninth goal in his last five games in Borussia Dortmund's 1-0 win at home to relegation-threatened Ingolstadt.
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Thompson, Curry outshine Westbrook as Warriors down Thunder
Let us start with the personnel, for starters. Aside from glorious, spectacular revenge-Petty Curry at his finest, as Rohan Nadkarni wrote-Monday was also a reminder that Curry will still determine everything Golden State can be over the next few months.
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LeBron James Takes Brutal Knee to Groin From Wizards Big Man
CLEVELAND - It was another atrocious showing on the defensive end for the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday in their 127-115 loss to the Washington Wizards . "You can see it in his eyes", Beal said. "When he leads like that everybody else follows". -Bojan Bogdanovic (lower back soreness) was a late scratch from the lineup.
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White Sox, SS Tim Anderson agree to $25M, 6-year contract
During the winter, the Chicago White Sox traded Chris Sale and Adam Eaton as part of their rebuilding process. Anderson will receive $850,000 in 2017, $1 million in 2018, $1.4 million in 2019, $4 million in 2020, $7.25 million in 2021 and $9.5 million in 2022.
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'Comfortable' Ozil soon to decide on his Arsenal future
The 39-year-old now combines his work as a football pundit for Sky Sports with his role as Roberto Martinez's assistant in the Belgium national team set-up. "When you have a player like that in midfield, who gets a lot of balls back". Wenger is very, very important for Arsenal for now and for the next season.
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India bowl out Australia for 137 runs
Resuming on 248/6 and still trailing by 52, the duo frustrated the Australian bowlers as India took the lead and Jadeja made a half century. "We will bat the way we do", Ashwin said. Jadeja was adjudged caught behind off the very first ball of the third morning bowled by Cummins but he promptly used DRS to get a favourable decision after the TV replays confirmed that there was no edge.
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Awesome Arrogate rules the world in Dubai
I thought that was it and I was mad at myself for bringing him here. He hasn't been tested in his last couple of races, but we'll see here and we'll see about the 2000m. "A Dubai World Cup 1-2, that would be something". "I always worry about the break with this horse". In both races, Arrogate defeated Chrome, who won the Dubai World Cup a year ago at Meydan Racecourse by five lengths despite jockey Victor Espinoza hanging on to a loose saddle for most of it.
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Lopez has 23 points as Nets top slumping Hawks
He scored 10 points and added three boards, well below his season average of 18.1 points and 7.7 rebounds. After visiting Dr. James Andrews of the Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in Pensacola, Florida and conferring with Dr.
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Kansas, Purdue plan to make for a stylish Sweet 16 matchup
And star freshman Josh Jackson has brushed off his many off-the-court issues to send his National Basketball Association draft stock soaring. Could they keep doing it in the NCAA tournament? "We took advantage of it". "They're going to make you pay on every single thing you mess up". Clearly, they had more talent than a lot of their foes. Third-seeded OR (32-4) narrowly escaped Michigan Thursday 69-68 when the Wolverines' Derrick Walton Jr.
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Warriors eye win against Kings in playoff home-court quest
Draymond Green added 23 points and eight assists of his own, while JaVale McGee came off the bench and just missed a double-double with nine points and 10 rebounds . For the Golden State Warriors , The Splash Brothers are always the duo to watch. They are 3-12 since the All-Star break and they are now tied with the New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers for the 5th worst record in the National Basketball Association.
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This Is The Reason Mesut Ozil Hasn't Signed His New Arsenal Contract
And the 39-year-old Frenchman admitted in a recent interview that, while he is still learning as a coach, his long term aim is to become a manager, possibly with Arsenal . Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette has been linked with a move to the Emirates, he has scored 29 goals for the French side this term, and 121 in 266 matches overall, while Monaco's young starlet Kylian Mbappe has also reportedly been targeted by the club after failing with a bid a year ago.
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South Carolina beats Baylor 70-50 to advance to Elite Eight
After Wisconsin's Khalil Iverson hit the front of the rim on a breakaway dunk, Chiozza drove by the Badgers defense at the other end for a layup that tied it at 81 with 24 seconds left. "I'd let it go and watch and then be ready to scream timeout if it looks ugly but I want them to just play on and that's what we practice", Calipari said.