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"I've been on the road with the team and it was hard," Michael Kidd-Gilchrist told Sporting News. "I was watching from the sideline for a whole month. I want to get back out there. I can't wait for tonight." Kidd-Gilchrist will finally get that opportunity when the Bobcats play against the New York Knicks at Time Warner Cable Arena on Tuesday. With averages of 9.1 points and 5.3 rebounds, Kidd-Gilchrist's presence brings another athletic body and top-notch perimeter defender....

River and Boca will play the second leg of their Libertadores Cup final at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Sunday after it was postponed last month following an attack by River fans on the Boca team bus. CONMEBOL, South America’s football federation, moved the game from Argentina to Spain amid fears of further fan violence. Although exposed to intense scrutiny from fans of his own club, D’Onofrio said he has already received death threats from fans of their biggest rivals....

Finley suffered the injury in Friday’s 52-0 victory over Idaho State. MORE: 34 unbeaten teams — who loses next? | Bowl projections Boise State coach Bryan Harsin outlined Finley’s status on Sunday. He told reporters both of the team’s backup quarterbacks, freshman Brett Rypien and sophomore Thomas Stuart, will likely share time during Finley’s recovery. In his first season as starter for the Broncos, Finley has recorded one touchdown and four interceptions in his first three games....

The actor, who was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine tumor in 2018, died Wednesday at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, his publicist told Gulf News. In a statement Khan’s publicist said: “‘I trust, I have surrendered’, these were the some of the many words that Irrfan expressed in a heartfelt note he wrote in 2018 opening up about his fight with cancer. And a man of few words and an actor of silent expressions with his deep eyes and his memorable actions on screen....

Bolt participated in his first training session with Central Coast Mariners on his 32nd birthday on Tuesday, having joined the A-League club for an “indefinite” training period. The fastest man ever over 100 and 200 metres retired from athletics in 2017 and, having spent time with Borussia Dortmund, Mamelodi Sundowns and Stromsgodset, Bolt has set his sights on becoming a professional footballer. A contract with the Mariners may emerge if he impresses in training, yet Bolt’s biggest aspiration is to turn out for his beloved United....

The cause of this hostility is the widespread belief–though there has been no hard proof–that her husband is the man who ordered the Omagh bombing. News reports in Britain and Ireland have repeatedly identified Mickey McKevitt as an IRA veteran who served the underground army as a bomb expert and weapons master, and as the leader of a splinter group called the Real IRA, which took responsibility for the blast....

Note: All Wins Above Replacement (WAR) figures are from baseball-reference.com Moises Alou Year on ballot: 1st Pro: Six-time All-Star, two Silver Sluggers, .516 career slugging percentage, .303 career batting average, best player ever named Moises. Hit three home runs in 1997 World Series. Con: Played in one of the most offensively dominated eras in baseball history, would be considered in the Hall of Fame as a slugging outfielder, but only hit 332 home runs and never hit 40 in a season (though he did hit 39 in 2004)....

First-half goals from Jack Cork and Ashley Barnes condemned Paul Clement’s side to their eighth loss in their opening 12 top-flight games of the season. Swansea 17/10 to beat Bournemouth And the Cote d’Ivoire international who returned from a hamstring injury in the loss appealed to the South Wales outfit’s supporters, urging them to stick with the team during their ‘difficult moment’. “Our position is not good at the moment so we need to stay together, fight and learn from our mistakes from Saturday," Bony told club website....

From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle is Booker T.’s first attempt at an autobiography. Although it is a relatively short book, it offers a lot of insight into the life of the former 6-time World Champion. Now, before you get your hopes up, I will tell you that if you are looking for a detailed book on his career a la the autobiographies of Mick Foley, Chris Jericho, etc....

As the much anticipated test series between India and Australia gets underway in a weeks time, bookmakers across Australia have placed their bets and instead of Australia, it is India who are being considered as the favorites to win the Border-Gavasker Trophy which begins with the Boxing Day test at Melbourne from 26th December. Tab Sportsbet’s Glenn Munsie said that 80 percent of the bets have been put on an Indian victory, and it is the first time that the Australian side has fallen so much in pecking order....

For decades, in a risk-averse book industry looking for surefire hits, authors like Harris have gone it alone in the grueling parallel universe of vanity presses, local bookstores, and specialty conferences, where writers double as one-person publicity departments. Now help may be at hand. In October, San Francisco-based Chronicle Books plans to unveil what it says is a pioneering “mutual referral” deal with the Silicon Valley self-publisher Blurb, known for its print-on-demand online bookstore and glossy photography books....

Smith bases his novel very loosely on the true story of Andrei Chikatilo, the notorious serial killer who was tried and executed for the murders of 52 women and children in Russia between 1978 and 1990. But the young British writer cleverly pushes his story back to 1953, when Stalinism is still very much alive even though the tyrant dies. Leo was a war hero who was naturally drawn into the secret police, and Smith leaves no doubt about his willingness to serve his country and its ruthless system....

Costas was asked if NFL players were disrespecting the military and first responders by kneeling during the national anthem. He delivered a powerful response, saying sports, patriotism and the flag have become so conflated that other gestures are excluded or criticized as unpatriotic. MORE: Tom Brady disagrees with Donald Trumps comments “This is no disrespect to the military,” said Costas. “Martin Luther King was a patriot. Susan B. Anthony was a patriot....

Willis’ family announced the death in a statement to Sky Sports, where he worked as a pundit. The cause of death was not announced but the family asked for donations to a prostate cancer charity. The pace bowler played 90 test matches for England and became a broadcaster after his retirement in 1984. “We are heartbroken to lose our beloved Bob, who was an incredible husband, father, brother and grandfather,” the family statement said....

It was as a fan, not a beginning journalist, that I hoped that I’d be able to at least catch glimpses of the already legendary player in the lobby. To my surprise, things turned out very differently. Bobby and his wife Pat, who always was armed with a smile and never wore an ounce of pretension, quickly struck up a real friendship. To my Polish-born wife Christina, still relatively new to the U....

Argentina were eliminated in the last 16 of the World Cup, having lost the previous final and finished as runners-up in the Copa America in 2015 and 2016. Despite going deep into tournaments prior to their early exit in Russia, the perception is that a national team boasting the likes of Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero and Angel Di Maria have underachieved. Boca and River meet on Saturday in the first leg of a continental final that has captured the imagination of fans around the world, and Barros Schelotto believes the clubs have put Argentinian football back on the map....

Naomi Irion, 18, was found east of Reno on Tuesday after detectives received a tip leading them to that area, the sheriff’s offices in Churchill and Lyon counties said in a joint statement issued on their social media pages. The Washoe County Medical Examiner confirmed her identity on Wednesday, according to the statement. “No further information can be released at this time as this is still an open and active investigation,” the statement said....

Line: Dayton -4, Total: 127 (current NCAA Tournament point spreads and totals) Boise State Record: 25-8 ATS: 19-11 OVER/UNDER: 11-10 Overview: Boise State is better known for football and its odd-colored home field, but the Broncos’ basketball squad makes a case to be paid attention to as well. They finished the season on a 15-2 SU run, losing to Wyoming in the Mountain West semifinals. Bettors may be even more impressed than the selection committee, as the team missed the money just three times in that final 17-game stretch....

Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt says he is not worried about racing against American Justin Gatlin at the Rome Diamond League Thursday. Gatlin, the Olympic 100m bronze medallist from London last year, has a season’s best of 9.91 seconds and has already won two legs of the 14-meet Diamond League meet, reports Xinhua. Bolt has won the last two 100m events at Rome’s Golden Gala which include the meet record of 9....