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title: “Boning Up At Home” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-29” author: “April Royster”

The Frenchman plundered a hat-trick against Athletic Bilbao at the weekend to take his tally to 29 goals in all competitions this season. Fourth-place Getafe are on course to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in their history after a remarkable season and Bordalas is concerned by the threat posed by Madrid’s in-form forward to their tilt at history. “Benzema is a great player, not because right now he is performing in an awesome way, but I always thought he’s a great player,” he told a media conference....

An eagle at the last on Friday had seen Rahm join Willett at the top of the leaderboard through two rounds, but it appeared the same hole would prove his undoing 24 hours later. Rahm, leading by a single stroke heading to the par-5 18th, sent an awful drive toward the bushes and looked to be facing a first double-bogey of the week. The Spaniard’s problems were compounded by Englishman Willett’s proficiency at the same hole, lining up a birdie putt from four feet....

This doesn’t mean that gamers won’t be having fun with fast cars from other brands. There are more than enough Porsches and Mercedes Benzs to keep gamers ripping the streets up. However, for gamers who want to indulge in BMWs, Need for Speed Unbound isn’t the game for that. RELATED: Comparing Need for Speed Unbound’s Lakeshore City to Most Wanted’s Rockport The Cars of Need for Speed Unbound Need for Speed Unbound expands the franchise a lot by adding a host of new features....

“A guy like (Eichorst) who has no integrity, he doesn’t even understand what a core value is," Pelini told players in an audio tape listened to by the Omaha World-Herald. “And he hasn’t understood it from the day he got here. I saw it when I first met with the guy. “To have core values means you have to be about something, you have to represent something, you have to have something that is important to you....

So on Saturday, the A’s, who play much closer to Oracle Arena than the Giants, made sure the NBA MVP is welcome any time. MORE: Curry’s family keeps him grounded | Curry preps for NBA Finals with mini-horse | Curry and LeBron born at same hospital “He’s got an open invite,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said via CSN Bay Area. “I’ve talked to Steve Kerr before, so they know it’s an open invite to come out here and take BP, do whatever they want to do out here....

MORE: Edge talks similarities with Roman Reigns and explains his Rocky moment As Lashley prepares to defend his U.S. title at Elimination Chamber (Sunday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m. ET, WWE Network) against Keith Lee and Riddle in a triple threat match, the muscle of The Hurt Business talked with Sporting News to explain why his faction is nothing like The Nation of Domination, what it’s like working with MVP again and the idea of an all-or-nothing title match at WrestleMania where The Hurt Business would put its “Raw” tag team titles and United States championship on the line against The New Day with Intercontinental champion Big E....

Walker was injured in Charlotte's loss Friday night to the Celtics in Boston. PHOTOS: Players who’ve won NCAA and NBA championships | MORE: Early-entry list Clifford says Walker had an MRI on Saturday that showed no serious problems. He hopes to have Walker back on the floor Monday night when the Bobcats travel to face the Atlanta Hawks. Luke Ridnour will start in Walker's spot, and Jannero Pargo will see additional minutes in a reserve role....

Premier League Team of the Week Tevez appeared to say farewell when he was substituted in the closing stages of Boca’s 4-1 win over Colon on Sunday, waving to the supporters inside La Bombonera and embracing Barros Schelotto on the touchline The 32-year-old, who saw a pitch invader drop to their knees in his path and hug him as he made his way off, was seemingly in tears as he took his seat in the dugout, but his coach refused to confirm it was the talismanic striker’s final appearance for his boyhood club....

CBS Minnesota reported that the body of one child was found by divers in Vadnais Lake in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, on Friday evening, and that the other three bodies were retrieved on Saturday morning. “Our hearts go out to the families involved here, and their friends,” Ramsey County Undersheriff Mike Martin said Saturday, according to the news station. “Our goal was to find the children and the mother and to return them to their families, and we’re glad that we were able to do that....

Local Milwaukee NBC affiliate TMJ4 first reported on the incident Tuesday after previously receiving a tip. The news station reported that Eric Ratzmann and Eric Fields were on duty and searching for a robbery suspect when they detained a man walking in an area of their city’s South Side. After cuffing the suspect and placing him in the back of the car, Ratzmann can be heard yelling at the man: “You just spit at me, motherfer!...

Those are adding up for Utah. Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points and the surging Jazz held off the Chicago Bulls 102-98 on Thursday night. The Jazz went on a 24-4 run in the third quarter to grab a nine-point lead and emerged with their 10th win in 12 games after Chicago tied it in the closing minutes. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert each scored 17 for Utah. Mitchell hit two free throws with 19 seconds remaining, and Gobert had 12 rebounds....

Vincenzo Montella’s men came into the match having lost four straight games in all competitions - three in Serie A - and avoided a defeat that would have sealed their worst run of league losses since April 1986. After Gianluigi Donnarumma had made a superb save from Ladislav Krejci, Milan sealed the most unlikely of victories when Gerard Deulofeu set up Pasalic to score from close range despite the hosts’ numerical advantage....

“The IAAF is pleased to announce the names of the 10 men and 10 women who have been shortlisted for the 2013 World Athlete of the Year Award. The candidates have been selected by an IAAF panel of athletics experts,” said the IAAF on its website Tuesday. Though he could not set a new world record in 2013, Bolt still enjoyed a convincing dominance in the men’s 100m and 200m events, claiming both titles at the World Championships in Moscow in August....

The eight-time Olympic champion’s “indefinite” try-out period with the A-League’s Central Coast Mariners collapsed on Friday after contract talks failed. The club reportedly offered him only a fraction of the AUD 3 million (USD 2.1 million) his managers were seeking, and the outside sponsors needed to make the deal viable could not be found. “It’s sad that it didn’t work out,” the Jamaican 100m and 200m world record holder told Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper at the Derby Day horse races in Melbourne, where he arrived in a suit, sunglasses and with a gold-handled cane....

Bolton Wanderers boss Owen Coyle confirmed Friday that England defender Gary Cahill is set for a switch to Stamford Bridge. The English international will become the first buy for Chelsea boss Andre Villas Boas who has made his intentions clear of recruiting new blood in the January transfer window. Bolton have agreed to accept Chelsea’s offer of seven million pounds for the 26-year old centre-back. “There has been a fee agreed between the clubs and we have now given Gary’s representatives permission to speak to Chelsea....

A low-pressure system will build across the central Plains, leaving behind a trail of snow, sleet and freezing rain in the area, as well as in the Midwest and parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley, before a new low pressure system develops near the New England coast by Saturday night into Sunday morning, the National Weather Service (NWS) predicts. “Wintry precipitation should spread east across the Great Lakes and into portions of the Ohio Valley Friday night into Saturday morning, and into the Northeast and portions of the Mid-Atlantic during the day on Saturday,” the NWS notes....

A Day, a Dog Front Street Dog gets thrown out of a car in the country. Dog wanders around loose. Dog causes traffic accident. Accident gets bigger and bigger. Dog is curious but, as dogs will, wanders off. Dog wanders into town. Dog finally meets a friend. OK, this textless look at a very eventful day in the life of a dog isn’t “Moby Dick” or even “Old Yeller,” but in page after page of loose and beautiful charcoal sketches, Gabrielle Vincent deftly captures the essence of dog–the absentminded scratching, the sidelong look like he’s about to be fired....

The Belgian striker opened the 2017-18 campaign in stunning form, with an immediate return offered on the Red Devils’ £75 million investment in his talent. Man Utd 7/4 to beat Arsenal He has, however, endured something of a barren run of late, netting once in his last 11 appearances. The 24-year-old drew a blank again in a 4-2 victory over Watford, with one gilt-edged opportunity to get him back on track squandered....