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The second leg was moved to Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu after the original fixture at River’s El Monumental stadium was postponed last month, following an attack by their fans on Boca’s team bus. South America’s football federation, CONMEBOL, ruled River should lose the chance to play at home, with the game moved abroad amid fears of further fan violence. “It is a weird final,” Tevez said Thursday after Boca had trained at Las Rozas, the base of the Spanish national team....

Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) also said that bad weather meant they were not able to recover the plane and it was therefore closing down the operation. The light aircraft was carrying the 28-year-old footballer to his new Premier League team Cardiff City when it disappeared near the British island of Guernsey on January 21, along with 59-year-old pilot David Ibbotson. Sala’s disappearance prompted outpourings of grief across the footballing world, including at his former club Nantes in France where the plane was flying from....

Here in the capital to cheer for Dabang Delhi in the ongoing Pro Kabaddi League, she chatted exclusively with Sports Keeda and opened up about her experience, the sport of Kabaddi in general and how she has grown extremely fond of it. Here are the excerpts from the interview: Q. Hi Lauren, we understand it was the first time you watched a game of kabaddi live, tell us about your experience?...

Apart from their 2-2 draw away to Atalanta, Juventus have encountered relatively few problems in the league this season. They will be looking to extend their unbeaten run to 25 matches against a Bologna side who have won only once in 2019. The hosts lost to Roma last Monday to fall into the relegation scrap. They are four points from safety, and they are in danger of being caught up by Frosinone who are only two points behind....

The Jamaican superstar is pursuing his long-held dream of playing professional football and arrived in Gosford, 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Sydney, last month for training with the Central Coast Mariners. The 32-year-old has been with the A-League side for three weeks and in late August made a 20-minute cameo for the club in a pre-season game. “Usain Bolt will be abroad from Sunday, 9 September to Sunday, 16 September for a previously planned commitment,” the Mariners said on Saturday....

“I call them by their first names, Jack and Carolyn,” I told her with pride. “They’re my father’s parents. And my grandmother wears lots of jewelry, just like you.” “Aren’t you precious?” the flight attendant said. I smiled because I loved the name, precious. It reminded me of precious stones like rubies and emeralds and diamonds. And even semiprecious stones, like onyx, which was the black stone men wore, and the ugliest one of all....

The fighter, the athlete and the guy who, people say, never gives up. ‘Rafa – My Story’ recounts the story of Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest tennis players that this generation has seen and possibly the greatest ever player on clay, giving an insight into his life. The autobiography, written along with John Carlin is a great read, especially for some who are not as naturally gifted and aspire to be a tennis player....

Surely it’s Tony Blair. Well, not quite. It’s Adam Lang in “The Ghost,” a new thriller from British novelist Robert Harris, which reviewers say is “a fictionalized attempt to stab Tony and Cherie Blair firmly in the front.” It’s a well-paced tale of wrongdoing in high places, but the familiar lead characters are what excited critics. Harris, an author of upmarket thrillers (“Fatherland,” “Pompeii”), was formerly a journalist close to the Labour Party elite....

Pune, Jan 3 (PTI) Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan saved six match points in an edge-of-the-seat thriller against Leander Paes and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela to move to the semifinals of the Tata Open Maharashtra, here Thursday. After splitting the two sets, the Super Tie Breaker turned out to be a cliffhanger in which Paes and his Mexican partner had as many as six chances to close the match but the Asian Games gold medallists held their nerves to remain alive....

In a video shared on December 13, Scamp can be seen waiting patiently while his owner @mikewtok talks on the phone with “Santa Claus.” “Hello, is that Father Christmas?” @mikewtok asks. “I’ve got Scamp here, I know he’s on the naughty list, but he’s going to try harder. I know he’s running out of time.” He then lists all of the presents the 2-year-old dog would like for Christmas this year, including a ball, a toy, some treats, a puzzle, a bone and to go for a “run around....

While the Eagles have been on the rise this season, newly-promoted Stuttgart are enduring a rather challenging time in the topflight. Their predicaments led to the sacking of coach Hannes Wolf last month, something Boateng reckons could work in the favour of the thirteenth-placed side. “It’s going to be a really difficult game," Boateng told his club’s official website. “The change in coach has given the whole Stuttgart team a boost....

Newsweek has confirmed that the 58-year-old actor was of shooting scenes for his acclaimed AMC series in New Mexico when the incident occurred on Tuesday. As first reported by TMZ, Odenkirk was subsequently taken to hospital, where he currently remains. Newsweek has contacted a representative for Bob Odenkirk for comment. As the news circulated, Odenkirk received an outpouring of support from a host of well-wishers, who took to Twitter to share their thoughts and prayers....

Now on its 13th season and with a movie under its belt, Bob’s Burgers is one of the most popular adult animated shows to date and even though nearly every season since the third has had a Thanksgiving episode, all have shown variety and creativity. Not a lot of shows have tackled the subject of Thanksgiving to the quantity that Bob’s Burgers have and while the show could move into new forms of media, its continuous holiday episodes are always 20+ minutes of pure joy into the world of the titular character Bob Belcher and his favorite holiday....

The next full round of Superliga games is billed for January 24-26, ending a six-week mid-season break, but Argentina Under-23 players will be engaged in qualifying for the Olympic Games. Argentina play Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela between January 18 and January 30, looking to advance to the next stage in February and close on one of two CONMEBOL places at Tokyo 2020. Boca had just two players named in the squad last month - Nicolas Capaldo and Alexis Mac Allister - yet they led protests against the Superliga schedule....

The Norwegian Eliteserien side saw off FK Žalgiris in the third round of the qualifiers, while the visiting side claimed an emphatic 6-3 aggregate win over Ludogorets. Bodo/Glimt continued their surge to the top of the Eliteserien standings as they claimed a comfortable 4-1 victory away to Sarpsborg last Friday. They have now turned their attention to the Champions League qualifiers, where they saw off FK Žalgiris 6-1 on aggregate to cruise through the third round....

The scale of the bailout, as projected by most of the eight analysts who spoke to Newsweek, is likely to stoke a growing political controversy over share buybacks in which companies transfer cash to stockholders instead of building up reserves or investing in their business. Boeing, which has been struggling for the past year with the safety of its 737 Max jet, has spent over $43 billion buying back stock over the past decade....

Down the stretch it was a different story, when the four-time MVP’s absence was noticeable and costly, even as coach Luke Walton found a variety of other reasons to blame. Bogdan Bogdanovic made a 3-pointer at the buzzer and the Sacramento Kings rallied from 15 points down in the fourth quarter to beat Los Angeles 117-116 on Thursday night. “This is the first close game we’ve been in that he’s not there,” Walton said....

Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez? Click here to see the countdown of the 50 best players in the world in the 2016 Goal 50 The winner of nine Olympic gold medals has repeatedly talked of his desire to play football and will make his dream a reality soon when he starts training with the Bundesliga side. It is no surprise, then, that one of the key orchestrators in the agreement, Puma, which sponsors both the club and the Jamaican, is ready to benefit from it....

Often, a bone marrow biopsy to extract solid tissue is done at the same time as a bone marrow aspiration. With this, a sample of the liquid portion of the bone marrow is removed so it, too, can be evaluated. This article discusses how and why the bone marrow biopsy is performed. It will help you to know what to expect if you need to have this biopsy, as well as possible risks and complications....