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[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: The Philadelphia 76ers, fuelled by 23 points from NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid, rallied to beat the Miami Heat 105-104 on Wednesday (Apr 18) and book a first-round playoff clash with the New York Knicks. Embiid, still struggling for peak form after missing two months following knee surgery, stepped it up in […]

[ad_1] MANCHESTER, England : Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was beaming with pride after his team dug deep for long periods on Wednesday to keep Manchester City at bay and squeeze past them on penalties into the semi-finals of the Champions League. “I love it when a team gives their all and sacrifices everything in […]

[ad_1] MELBOURNE : Former Australia women’s captain Meg Lanning said she struggled with weight loss and insomnia before her shock retirement from international cricket last year. Lanning, who won the T20 World Cup five times and the 50-overs edition twice, pulled out of the Women’s Ashes last year for medical reasons and quit the national […]

[ad_1] MANCHESTER, England : Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was gracious in defeat after their dreams of an historic second successive treble were dashed by a stubborn Real Madrid on Wednesday in a Champions League quarter-final game the English club had thoroughly dominated. Fourteen-times champions Madrid held on to dispatch the holders 4-3 in a […]

[ad_1] MELBOURNE : Former England lock Geoff Parling has returned to the Wallabies as an assistant coach, completing Joe Schmidt’s tight roster of staff. Parling, who played three tests for the British and Irish Lions, had a short stint as forwards coach under former Australia boss Dave Rennie in 2020. A long-serving assistant coach at […]

[ad_1] No. 3 seed Coco Gauff outlasted Sachia Vickery for a 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 win on Wednesday in an all-American, second-round match at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany. Gauff overcame a 4-2 deficit in the third set and 15 double faults for the match to continue her dominance against fellow Americans. Jessica […]

[ad_1] MANCHESTER, England : Real Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin was their penalty shootout hero as they beat Manchester City on Wednesday to reach the Champions League semi-finals but he said his save from Bernardo Silva’s spot-kick was down to pure luck. Real midfielder Federico Valverde was named UEFA’s man-of-the-match, but Lunin had made a strong […]

[ad_1] MANCHESTER, England :Antonio Ruediger scored the decisive penalty as Real Madrid beat holders Manchester City in an edge-of-your-seat 4-3 shootout victory to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League after the teams were locked at 4-4 on aggregate following extra time on Wednesday. City’s Bernardo Silva and Mateo Kovacic both misfired in the shootout […]

[ad_1] The move worked early, with the Portuguese finding space down the left flank and linking well with Musiala in the centre. Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta opted for the defensive stability of Takehiro Tomiyasu in place of Jakub Kiwior at left-back to neutralise Leroy Sane but the Japanese, who was making his first start since […]

[ad_1] Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp knows all about heroic comebacks in European competition but even their barnstorming fightback against Barcelona in the 2019 Champions League will not prepare them for Thursday’s task in Atalanta. Klopp’s side suffered a resounding 3-0 home loss in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final and travel to Italy […]