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DC shared artwork this week depicting Batman throwing a Molotov cocktail. This stark imagery is superimposed over bright pink text that reads: “The future is young.” The poster is being used to promote the December 11 release of DC Black Label comic book Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child, written by popular comic scribe Frank Miller. Black Label is a DC Comics imprint featuring titles for more mature audiences....

Batshuayi has suffered an awful season in west London in his first year with the club, but he will feel that all his time on the training pitch have been vindicated after he was called upon in the 75th minute. WATCH: Conte gets a soaking He was sharp and found the space that Costa, Hazard and Pedro couldn’t spot, applying a poacher’s finish in the 82nd minute as Fabregas scuffed his long-range shot into the air, with Cesar Azpilicueta chasing a lost cause to get the assist....

The headliner in this tournament is Kansas, which will be led by freshman star Andrew Wiggins. We take a look at when and where to watch all the games. AROUND THE NATION: Nine players off to surprisingly strong starts TOURNAMENT BRACKET All times Eastern NOVEMBER 28 Villanova 94, USC 79 Kansas 87, Wake Forest 78 Iowa 77, Xavier 74, OT UTEP 78, Tennessee 70 NOVEMBER 29 Semifinals Iowa 89, UTEP 53 Villanova 63, Kansas 59...

A 5-0 thrashing of Besiktas in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie means Bayern have now won 14 games in a row to match a club milestone from 1980. And the signs were ominous as soon as Muller had given Jupp Heynckes’ side the lead before the end of the first half. Bayern had already been put in an advantageous situation just 16 minutes into the contest as a bad Atiba Hutchinson back pass was picked off by Robert Lewandowski....

Vincenzo Montella’s side stunned Manchester United in the previous round but Bayern, who sealed their sixth consecutive Bundesliga title at the weekend, proved a bridge too far. A 2-1 defeat at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan last week could not be turned around as Sevilla played out a 0-0 draw in Bavaria, where Joaquin Correa hit the crossbar before being sent off for a lunge on Javi Martinez in stoppage time....

The midfielder, who is out of contract this summer, has long been expected to join the Bundesliga champions, with Frankfurt sporting director Bruno Hubner stating in January that the move was set to be completed. Bayern has now confirmed that the 23-year-old will join the club July 1 after agreeing to terms at the Allianz Arena. "I'm very pleased that this transfer has worked out," he told Bayern's official website....

Not only is she the longest-reigning SmackDown Women’s Champion—at 265 days and counting—she’s one half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions, alongside her best friend, Sasha Banks. And now, the 31-year-old—whose real name is Pamela Martinez—is forging a new direction for herself in the ring. After seven years of being the most beloved character on NXT before moving to the main roster, the California native shocked the wrestling world by turning heel in late 2019, losing her kid-friendly persona behind in favor of that of a snarky, obnoxious baddie....

Rhoades appeared Tuesday night on ESPN Central Texas radio’s “You Make the Call” show and talked about some key issues at Baylor. MORE: Can a two-loss Big 12 team make the CFP? Here is some what Rhoades said, in part: On whether the search for fired coach Art Briles’ permanent replacement has been affected by the ongoing scandals: “I worry that it will. I don’t think it has to date, at this point in time....

This time, a university athletic department official is free on bond after his arrest in early November stemming from an alleged postgame attack on a sportswriter, Waco, Texas, TV station KWTX reported. MORE: Dirty incidents, jerks give sports a bad name Associate AD Heath Nielsen, 47, was charged with misdemeanor assault after police say he grabbed reporter James McBride by the throat and pushed him away from a Bears football player on the playing field Nov....

“A lot of really good news on that end,” Baylor coach Art Briles said Monday. “Of course he had the surgery on Friday. I’m sure everyone’s aware of where he was and how it went, but just from my knowledge talking to some people involved, everything went as well as could be expected. We expect a full and healthy recovery.” MORE: CFP rankings | Five things to know about Baylor’s new QB | SN Poll...

After rebounding UConn’s Christyn Williams missed free throw with less than 20 seconds to go in regulation, Baylor called a timeout to draw up a final play. Facing a one-point deficit, the Lady Bears got the ball into the hands of DiJonai Carrington, who drove down the left side of the lane and came up well short on a jump shot. The live angle appeared to show two Huskies defenders going straight up and forcing Carrington into a tough attempt....

Geography cost Liverpool Alexis deal The two Madrid sides meet in a Champions League semi-final, next week, with a place in Cardiff at stake for both teams. Torres is in his second spell with Atletico, after re-joining in 2015 and has vast experience in Madrid derbies, insisting that nothing more than a victory will do against their rivals. “In the end, winning is the only thing you will remember,” Torres told Marca....

The most important thing is for the shareholder to understand what the fund manager is doing, whether there are limits or not. Getting the information out is up to the fund-management company, but understanding it is up to the investor–it’s a two-way street. If you send loads of material home but the investor never reads it, the fund company has done all it can. The investor has to take the time to read the prospectus, to understand the flexibility of the fund, to ask questions....

On Sunday, the Guangdong bureau of China’s Maritime Safety Administration announced a new round of drills off the country’s southern coast that will run from Monday to Saturday, The South China Morning Post reported. The administration’s bureau on the southern island of Hainan had already said Saturday that it would conduct a similar drill off its South China Sea coast at the same time. Chinese forces will also be holding separate drills in the north of the country, with one exercise in the Yellow Sea that ends on Wednesday and a coast guard drill off Hebei province that runs until the end of September....

The biggest catalyst for the country’s extreme makeover, of course, is the looming 2008 Summer Olympics. Over the past few years Beijing’s race to erect prestigious Olympic venues and create a “Chinese-style Manhattan” scarred the Chinese capital with vast, yawning construction sites. Now many are morphing into glittering, cutting-edge architectural gems. Yet the “Olympic effect” is more than a physical face-lift. Preparing for the Games has become a nationwide exercise in soul-searching and self-improvement, too....

The Belarus Information Minister said it blocked Nasha Niva’s website after the Prosecutor General’s Office accused the outlet of posting unlawful information, according to the Associated Press. Authorities searched Nasha Niva’s office, arrested its chief editor, Yahor Martsinovich, and editor Andrey Skurko and searched their apartments, according to The Belarusian Association of Journalists. “It’s a crackdown on the editorial office in the worst Soviet-era tradition,” Nasha Niva journalist Аrtsem Harbatsevich told AP in a telephone interview from Minsk....

Lokeren announced the news on Thursday, expressing its sadness at the death of the 24-year-old, who suffered heart failure. A club statement read: “Much too soon, we say goodbye to Gregory Mertens. We are a football club. Everyone in and around the club breathes football. But suddenly something happens which we realize that football is just football. Today is such a time. “Now we will have to learn to live with the loss....