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Dembele had to be withdrawn in the first half of his side’s dramatic 2-1 victory on Saturday, leaving the field after sustaining the problem while attempting a back-heel near the corner flag when the match was still goalless. Barcelona 9/1 to beat Sporting 1-0 Barca confirmed during the game that the 20-year-old had suffered the problem in his left hamstring during what was his full La Liga debut and would undergo tests to determine the severity of his injury....

The 26-year-old - who started out his career playing in midfield but more recently has been converted into a right-back - revealed he had dismissed interest from other clubs to pledge his future to Barca until 2022. A regular under head coach Ernesto Valverde this season, Roberto has helped his boyhood club establish a seven-point lead over nearest rivals Atletico Madrid at the top of the table. “Since I started talking about the renewal, I wanted to be here....

Against Girona on Saturday, the 20-year-old played his first full 90 minutes of the campaign and on Thursday away to Las Palmas, he could start back-to-back games for Barca for the first time since signing from Borussia Dortmund in an initial €105 million deal last summer. And after a disappointing start for their big signing, who was brought in last August after Neymar left the club, the Blaugrana are now doing everything they can to ensure everyone will soon see the player at his best....

Gratacos, the director of training and education at Camp Nou and a key figure in the running of the famous La Masia youth system, suggested on Friday that Messi would not be the same player without his stellar team-mates’ support. ‘Messi is not as good without team-mates’ “Barcelona are not here only because of Messi,” he said at the draw for the Copa del Rey quarter-finals. “He’s very important but it was the team who won [against Athletic Bilbao in the last 16]....

On their official website, Barcelona confirmed Pique was given permission by Luis Enrique to miss Saturday’s training session and the head coach later told a news conference he would sit out the match at Los Carmenes. “We are giving Pique a rest as he is a crucial player and has played a lot of football,” he said. Mane matches Suarez derby record “We should clone Pique, because he gives you a lot on the pitch....

Sharing a video on her TikTok page, Do It On A Dime, the woman shared a snap of her chaotic kitchen cupboard, a common sight in many households. But you can easily declutter your cabinet with minimal cost, as she revealed you only need three items from Dollar Tree to make your own Lazy Susan at home. Filming her kitchen, she said: “You’ve got a messy cabinet. Put marbles in a Dollar Store cake pan, add another on top, and you’ve got a $3 Lazy Susan....

With Reza on this hill are hundreds of other migrants in a vast hangar where components for the channel tunnel in nearby Calais used to be manufactured. The French Red Cross established a shelter here at the request of local officials, who were overwhelmed by clandestins, or illegal immigrants, camping out in local parks. “For the last two or three years the situation was completely out of control,” says Michel Derr, the Red Cross administrator....

Bailly: Why I snubbed Man City & Barca The signing of the Brazil international in 2013 has long been a complicated subject, with the transfer fee the Catalan club paid for him heavily disputed. The current case has been brought forward from Brazilian supermarket chain DIS, who owned 40 per cent of the rights to Neymar prior to his sale to Barca in 2013 and claim they are owed more from his sale....

The center back left Camp Nou for the Bundesliga side ahead of the 2016-17 campaign and is impressed with the backing BVB gets at Signal Iduna Park. “When you are a first-team player at Barcelona and live in the city, you realize that lots of people are devoted to the team, to Barca, but it’s practically the same here,” Bartra told the official UEFA website. “You see a sea of yellow in the city, on cars — there are Dortmund badges everywhere....

The former Blue Jays and Phillies pitcher died in a plane crash in November 2017. Roy Halladay finished with a 203-105 record and a 3.38 ERA during his 16-year MLB career. Before Brandy Halladay’s speech, there was a video shared highlighting Roy’s career. She admitted she couldn’t watch it just yet. “It’s overwhelming, the amount of people here today. I can’t believe you came this far. I’m so grateful that you’re here,” she said, addressing the crowd....

Mike Piazza recorded a video in support of recalling the California governor and advocating for Republican Larry Elder’s candidacy in a video that Elder shared on Twitter that went viral. Newsom, a Democrat who has been the California governor since 2019, is facing a recall from more than 40 challengers, and Californians will vote Tuesday to determine whether Newsom gets to continue his term. If a majority of Californians vote “no” on a recall then Newsom will stay in office....

Now, where have we heard that before? MORE: See SN’s midseason college hoops award winners We’ve heard it from coaches: “College basketball is a guard’s game; it’s not a big man’s game.” – Kelvin Sampson, February 2007. We hear it from journalists: “College basketball is a guard’s game. Time and time again, teams that win national titles and make deep runs in the NCAA Tournament do so because they have great guard play....

The inadvertent fist pump-turned-punch knocked Mountain West official Rick Batsell to the floor and kept him there for several minutes, per the Idaho Statesman . Jones was not penalized for the incident. In fact, he took a free throw after Batsell got back to his feet because his score had come through contact. “Done alot of things I regret, just learned from it,” reads Jones’ pinned post from 2017 ....

The scientists, led by Marc Valitutto with the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute, detected the novel viruses in free-ranging bats living in the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. Coronaviruses are a group of viruses containing the pathogens that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS,) Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS,) and recently identified COVID-19. According to the researchers, none of the viruses identified in the study appear to be closely related to the pathogens that cause the three aforementioned diseases....

Morata upped to 10/1 to win PL Golden Boot! The Belgian appeared to be caught smiling by the television cameras when the Spaniard smashed his spot-kick wide of the post in the shoot-out at Wembley. Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois also missed the target with his effort, with the Gunners converting all four of their penalties to win 4-1 after a 1-1 draw in normal time. It was summer signing Morata’s first competitive appearance for the Blues, with the 24-year-old striker replacing Batshuayi as a second-half substitute....

Each team will be in action on Wednesday play three total games during the event. “It’s a wonderful tournament,” the Tar Heels’ Roy Williams said. “Looking at all the tournament fields, I think it’s the best field of any of the preseason tournaments. It’s a big-time challenge for us.” The Tar Heels kick off the action against Butler (12 p.m. ET, ESPN) and are laying 10 points at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook....

Shepherd, a junior at BYU, and her friends all hang out at one table in the Wilkinson Student Center, not because it’s in an ideal location nor because of some social order that separates kids by club affiliation, but mainly because there’s only enough of them to take up one table. Of the university’s more than 30,000 undergraduate students, less than one percent are Black. The school’s white population is higher than any other university in the state, both public and private (although these figures do mirror Utah’s membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which operates BYU)....

PSG have no chance of getting Coutinho Carlo Ancelotti’s team continue preparations for the new season with games against Arsenal and AC Milan in China before they land in Singapore to face Chelsea and Inter in Singapore in the ICC later this month. However, Germany international goalkeeper Neuer misses out through a broken metatarsal, while Vidal, Joshua Kimmich and new signings Sebastian Rudy and Niklas Sule are absent because of their part in the Confederations Cup....

The Germany goalkeeper pulled out of the world champions’ squad for the recent internationals against England and Azerbaijan with a calf problem cited as the reason. Bayern claim he has subsequently sustained a foot injury in training ahead of Saturday’s game with Augsburg at the Allianz Arena. WATCH: Muller nets stunning volleys A Bayern statement read: “Manuel Neuer underwent a successful minor operation by Prof Dr Markus Walther on Wednesday evening after sustaining an injury to his left foot in training....

The 23-year-old also reveals why his father once gave him a Borussia Dortmund jersey and remembers sometimes tedious training sessions in the family garden, which occasionally ended in tears!