Barcelona vs Real Madrid"Barcelona handles Espanyol, keeps pace with Real Madrid in La Liga title race Espanyol 0-3 Barcelona: Visitors keep pressure on Real Madrid after Luis Suarez strikes twice in derby

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona and Real Madrid kept up their neck-and-neck title race in the Spanish alliance on Saturday, when both groups won to remain level on focuses at the top.

Suarez's foresight and destructive outside-of-the-foot flick leveled with Real Madrid's 2-1 triumph over Valencia prior on Saturday, and lifted Barcelona once again into the lead position. The two Spanish goliaths are currently even on 81 focuses. Barcelona holds the no holds barred sudden death round. Madrid, in any case, has a diversion close by — it has four to go, while the authoritative champs have just three.Lionel Messi overhit a go to Neymar and a Messi-Suárez one-two finished when Suarez hoped to play another go as opposed to completing the move.Gerard Pique's stunning cross-field pass then practically came up short on play as Barcelona kept on looking not at all like a side pursuing the title.

Their football was horticulture and it was not the night to be at anything other than rather their best in light of the fact that, thundered on by uproarious Espanyol fans, the home side were in the inclination to ruin their opulent neighbor's title push.

Sergi Roberto headed into the side netting in an uncommon strike forward for him as Barcelona kept on being disappointed yet there were all the more promising signs for them towards the finish of the primary half as Espanyol seemed to blur and Luis Enrique's side started to get nearer to the house side's objective.
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The midfielder has affirmed that he has left Ikon Allah Boys to join the Bauchi Elephants for whatever is left of the NPFL season.

Wikki Tourists want to end the principal stanza in a respectable position on the group table with a decent outcome against Abia Warriors in Umuahia on Wednesday. Niger Tornadoes midfielder, Chidiebere Ajoku has affirmed his most recent move to Wikki Tourist and he is planning to have a constructive outcome with the Elephants.

The Giant Elephants are seventeenth on the log with 21 focuses from 17 matches and club's commander, Mustapha Ibrahim has uncovered that they are raging Umuahia with the assignment to pick most extreme focuses which will take the Bauchi based outfit from the drop zone.

Ajoku scored four objectives this term for Tornadoes, however he has uncovered that Wikki Tourist have dependably been thumping at his entryway and he has chosen to do a change to help the northern club in the second round of the 2016/17 Nigeria Professional Football League season.

"I am extremely cheerful to have made this move. It wasn't that I wasn't doing admirably at Niger Tornadoes yet change is steady . I've had this welcome from Wikki Tourist for some time however I believe it's the perfect time and it's all great that I made the move," Ajoku told Goal.It will be another test for me yet I am constantly arranged for another enterprise. I will miss the whole Niger Tornadoes family, my partners and particularly my mentor Abubakar Bala who is something beyond a mentor, he is a companion and a father"The position Wikki Tourist is on the association table doesn't generally make a difference. What tallies most is the will to have effect and I would like to do that here at Wikki Tourist," he included

"We realize that Abia Warriors will jump at the chance to accompany every one of the traps they can consider however we should be right on target with our basic leadership to guarantee that we end the diversion exceptionally well and come back to Bauchi with no less than a point."

Prosecutors are investigating a third claim of responsibility for explosions that hit Borussia Dortmund's team bus, according to reports.

Borussia Dortmund was forced to play their UEFA Champions League game against Monaco just one day after the startling attack on the team bus injured defender Marc Bartra. In the wake of the attack, an investigation is still ongoing into just who was responsible.

 German prosecutors have communicated questions about the legitimacy of letters that had proposed Islami c aggressors completed an assault on the transport of soccer group Borussia Dortmund.Three indistinguishable letters imprinted in German found close to the scene of Tuesday's assault in Dortmund had expressed it was done "for the sake of Allah", supporter ARD revealed, refering to other media. Specialists have been communicating doubt for a considerable length of time about the causes of the letters asserting duty. Security sources have said examiners are taking a gander at whether left or conservative fanatics may have completed the attack.A day after the assault, the inside pastor of the German condition of North Rhine-Westphalia portrayed the letters as "unusual"Dortmund's CEO Hans-Joachim Watze pledged his side would "play not just for ourselves". I think you could see the delight of playing today in the primary half since we're cheerful to be [alive] and we're upbeat to play football here. "We need to demonstrate that fear and detest can never decide our activities

What U.S. ladies, U.S. Soccer each consider wins with new CBA determination

From conversing with individuals on both sides, there's a major liberating sensation in the wake of Wednesday's declaration of another five-year CBA between U.S. Soccer and the U.S. ladies' players. Following 23 in-person transaction days and three days of brings in 2017 alone, the U.S. players can return to concentrating altogether on what occurs on the field, starting with Thursday and Sunday friendlies against Russia in Texas.

While there are a lot of layers of points of interest to the assention, both sides ended up content with specific parts of the arrangement. From the players' side, they believe it's huge that they can control aggregate similarity rights for authorizing. From the alliance's side, they considered it to be a major win that they could diminish the base number of players under contract from 24 under the past assention. There were 22 "organization players"players whose pay rates are sponsored by the NWSLin the class' declaration Thursday, and there will be even less in future years. Additionally fascinating to gather from discussions is that Becky Sauerbrunn is presently seen as the true chief inside the group, due to a great extent to her influential position in labor talks. Carli Lloyd, the ostensible chief, had decreased her part in the process of giving birth talks after the players let go official executive Rich Nichols, whom Lloyd had bolstered. 

Initiate Press' position of authority inside the group has likewise expanded because of her part in the arrangements.

Manchester United Snubbed by £85 Million Summer Transfer Target

Manchester United exchange target Antoine Griezmann has made the clearest sign yet that he won't move to Old Trafford this mid year, as indicated by reports.The Atletico Madrid forward is accounted for to be high on José Mourinho's list of things to get when the exchange window revives on July 1, with Griezmann esteemed at £85 million (about $106 million).  In any case, the 26-year-old says he's become worn out on being addressed about his future and says he hopes to stay at the Vicente Calderon.

Slanting: Going "Atomic" on Gorsuch Promises More Politicized Courts "It's dependably a similar question and I now don't realize what to state," Griezmann stated, as cited by Spanish daily paper AS. "I wind up rehashing myself and I unquestionably observe myself here. I feel it's an answer that I've given such a variety of times now yet that very question is very tiring." Signs that the Frenchman won't move to Old Trafford this late spring makes Manchester United's requirement for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to sign an agreement augmentation much more critical. The 36-year-old Swede's agreement terminates toward the finish of the season and he has made no open affirmations yet that he will remain.

Joined is 6th in the Premier League and four focuses off Manchester City in fourth.

As CBA talks advance, Sauerbrunn eyes mending process between U.S. ladies, men

U. S. ladies' national group co-chief Becky Sauerbrunn disclosed to SI's Planet Fútbol podcast, out on Tuesday, that the U.

U.S. ladies' national group co-chief Becky Sauerbrunn revealed to SI's Planet Fútbol podcast, out on Tuesday, that the U.S. ladies' players are "getting closer" to another aggregate haggling concurrence with U.S. Soccer-and that she trusts there will be "a recuperating procedure" to straightforwardness pressures between the players on the U.S. ladies' and men's national groups.

"We're getting nearer," said Sauerbrunn, who's in camp with the U.S. ladies in front of Thursday's benevolent against Russia in Frisco, Texas (8:30 p.m. ET, FS1). "There are clearly still holes in specific parts of the CBA that we haven't settled upon, however as far back as we endeavored to change the tone [in late December] ... we've had 20 or more arrangements where players are available with our arranging group."
Sauerbrunn, who has gone up against an expanded position of authority inside the group, said the arrangements have been muddled, not minimum in light of the fact that the CBA for national cooperative people has incorporated their compensation for national group amusements and in addition the NWSL (which is financed by U.S. Soccer). Sauerbrunn said the U.S. ladies' players aren't prepared yet to have a compensation structure quite recently like that of the U.S. men, whose national group pay is separate from their club pay.

"For so long, the national group has been our wellspring of security for the player pool," Sauerbrunn said. "The men have their genius groups. The national group has been our genius group' in quotes. Thus for us as a players affiliation, we're looking forward and saying, O.K., where is the ladies' amusement going? What might be the most helpful for the program?'

"We completely think heading off to a compensation to-play model is what's to come. The issue is ladies' soccer is not at the stage yet where our player pool can discover our wellspring of security from the NWSL. Thus as opposed to making this immense move, we're slowly meeting in the center, and after that going from that point."

Sauerbrunn said that while no last arrangement has been come to yet, the two sides have gained ground in transactions.

"We've thoroughly considered of the container, and they've acknowledged a ton of it, and I imagine that was truly troublesome for them," she said. "So I think we have gotten a considerable measure nearer on specific parts of the structure than we have in past months."

At the point when asked in February by the Planet Fútbol podcast whether he would utilize the expression "break even with pay" (to the U.S. men) to depict the assention he planned to reach with the ladies' players, U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said he favored the expression "fair pay."

Sauerbrunn said she concurred with that portrayal.

"We're attempting to make sense of where ladies' soccer is going, so we might not have an indistinguishable correct structure from the men," she said. "So equivalent isn't the correct word. It would be evenhanded, in light of the fact that we are requesting an alternate structure."

Sauerbrunn said that she and her partners were to a great degree strong of the U.S. ladies' hockey group's battle for an enhanced work bargain as of late. She included that she was additionally inspired by the bolster the ladies' hockey group got from the U.S. men's hockey players.

Whenever inquired as to whether she wished there was a superior connection between the U.S. men's and ladies' soccer players, she said yes.

"I think a mending procedure needs to happen," she said. "At an opportune time [in USWNT work talks], it was especially the men make more than the ladies do, and they most likely aren't as fruitful.' And I surmise that set a truly awful tone. There are still awful emotions about that. I believe it's truly heartbreaking. Since I think if the men supported us, I surmise that voice, the alliance would hear that. The nation would hear that. So I trust there comes a point where we can get together ... what's more, talk through it. Or, then again simply have a recuperating minute.

"Since we cherish the men. We know whether they do well, the program does well. They produce a ton of income, and that cash backpedals into the program and advantages everyone. So we wish them the best, and we unquestionably trust they would wish us the best."

Sauerbrunn said as a co-skipper she had moved toward one of the U.S. men's players and might want to do as such once more.

"I connected with one of the players a while back," she said. "I thought possibly our players affiliations would perhaps meet up and put an announcement out. In any case, it just never happened. A few meetings turned out, and you could tell that a portion of the men weren't exactly certain how they felt about the entire equivalent pay for equivalent play, so it sort of fell by the wayside. Ideally that is something I might want to correct later on, on the grounds that I think having a decent connection between the men and the ladies would be an okay thing."

Jason Day grinning again as he shares mother's growth rebound

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tears are normal in golf. There are tears of delight when triumph is accomplished, tears of thrashing when titles are lost. Rarer are the tears of dread, the sort of tears that moved down Jason Day's face a month ago when he pulled back from the WGC-Match Play Championship and told the world his mom has lung growth.

He utilized the words "12 months to live" and "surgery" amid a passionate question and answer session in Austin, Texas, and clarified how a child must be at his mom's side since Jason Day would not be his identity without Adenil "Dening" Day.

"I owe everything to her," Day said Tuesday. "She's the person who got me from where I was to go to golf foundation, meet my mentor and get to where I am at this moment."

Day is grinning once more. It's Masters week, and the entry of golf's first significant title places everybody in a lovely disposition. In any case, you got the inclination Day would be similarly as cheerful at the Ritz Cracker Open on account of his mom's enhanced wellbeing. A tumor that deliberate 3.5 centimeters was expelled from her left lung amid a five-hour surgery, and Day said specialists have disclosed to her she won't require chemotherapy. She's as yet feeble, however there is expectation she may have the capacity to go to the Masters.

"I'm, exceptionally satisfied and extremely content with how things have advanced from the begin of the year to now," Day said. "I feel sort of a ton lighter one might say that my brain is not weighing intensely on the circumstance that my mother was experiencing. So to have the capacity to have that happen and after that have the capacity to come here and get my psyche off things is very pleasant."Malignancy influences such a large number of individuals. It's an exceptionally agonizing thing to experience and watch a friend or family member really experience it. I simply needed to state much thanks for the bolster that everybody has given me and my group and particularly my mother. We're, extremely satisfied to have the capacity to traverse this stage and ideally she can carry on with a long life."

Day portrays his mom as 4-feet, 11-crawls of assurance, officially hoping to return to work and revealing to her child to do likewise.

"She's truly modest and she can be exceptionally scary," Day said. "I don't state excessively to my mother. She only sort of needs to give you this look and I know."

Usually, Day would be among the top picks to win the current year's Masters, and given the Australian's record here, regardless he is. Throughout the most recent 10 years, his scoring normal of 71.4 positions second just to Tiger Woods' 70.9, and his eight PGA Tour disarms the most recent three years ties Jordan Spieth for the most. In any case, he hasn't contemplated golf considerably in the course of the most recent month and will play his seventh Masters more on muscle memory.

"I didn't get a club from Match Play until when I arrived Friday," he said. "Clearly I was occupied with my mother and occupied with my family and all that stuff and not so much considering playing golf. Perhaps it is ideal."

Day was the most sultry player in golf this time a year ago after five wins in 2015, including his first major at the PGA Championship. He included wins at the 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational and Match Play before landing at Augusta, where he tied for tenth. He is winless in six begins this year with his best complete a tie for fifth at Pebble Beach.

"I'm going to simply do the best employment I can with what I have," Day stated, including, "Simply being a great deal more joyful and having fun significantly more, the swing feels like I'm hitting it a considerable measure better."

It's the ideal opportunity for tears of bliss once more.

2017 NFL draft prospect commencement, No. 13: Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford

What you have to know: In 2015, McCaffrey scrambled for 2,019 yards and increased 3,601 universally handy yards-setting the Pac-12 record-which was adequate to complete second in Heisman voting, less than 300 focuses behind victor Derrick Henry.

By correlation, 2016 was seen as somewhat of a mistake. Regardless he piled on 1,603 yards surging and a profession high 16 touchdowns-not terrible for a "down" year. His numbers would have been considerably higher had he not missed two diversions with a hip harm, and he additionally picked to sit out Stanford's bowl amusement to plan for the draft. Be that as it may, before Stanford's bowl trip, McCaffrey was energizing. Over the last five amusements of his school vocation, he arrived at the midpoint of 198.2 yards on the ground and scored 12 consolidated touchdowns (surging and accepting).

Qualities: Ever hit the juke catch while playing a football computer game? At that point you comprehend what it would appear that when McCaffrey cuts. His shocking alter of-course ability is similarly as viable behind the line, when he plants to flame through a path, as it is in the open field-McCaffrey put a great many defenders on his highlight reel in those one-on-one circumstances.

How great a competitor is McCaffrey? Simply check the join numbers: 4.48-second 40-yard dash, 37.5" vertical, 6.57-second three cone, 4.22-second short transport. He doesn't have an unmatched north-south burst, however consolidating sub-4.5 speed with his horizontal development makes him the playmaker he is with the ball in his grasp.

The trickiness probably assumed a part in his prosperity as an arrival man and collector. He could contribute either spot at the following level, in spite of the fact that it's truly in the passing diversion where he may separate himself. McCaffrey (5' 11", 202 lbs.) is a characteristic course runner and hands catcher, to such an extent that he could end up observing a dominant part of his snaps in the space, contingent upon which offense he arrives in.

"Something I truly pride myself on is not simply being a running back that can get the ball, however in the event that I move out to the space, I turn into a beneficiary," McCaffrey said. "On the off chance that I move out to "X" or "Z," I turn into a recipient and not only a running back. I truly attempt to pride myself on course running, finding and having the capacity to be a confound anyplace on the field."

Progressive as he is on the border, McCaffrey did plentiful work at Stanford between the handles. He needn't bother with quite a bit of a wrinkle to clear to the second level, and he keeps running with the tolerance to give his obstructs a chance to unfurl.

Shortcomings: Filed under "it is the thing that it is," we discover McCaffrey's construct. He may include some muscle once he hits a NFL weight program, as new kid on the block are wont to do, however his casing's as of now quite well cut. He is not worked to be a prototypical 230-lb., chime cow back. In all actuality, that did not prevent him from conveying an overwhelming workload at Stanford, yet the 672 consolidated hostile touches he had in 201516 may conflict with him, as well that is a considerable measure of tread off the tires for a back, and he missed recreations to damage.

McCaffrey's side-to-side development transforms any endeavor to square him up into a remarkable attempt, but at the same time he's not going to lower his shoulder and move the heap much. The quality again becomes an integral factor when McCaffrey is made a request to piece, despite the fact that those minutes ought to be few and far between given how hazardous he is as an accepting risk.

The McCaffrey negatives are nitpicking in light of style inclination. On the off chance that a group needs a power back to granulate out conveys, it should look somewhere else. On the off chance that it needs a flexible player worked for the present day diversion, McCaffrey must be close to the highest priority on the rundown.

Will Conor McGregor Fight in the UFC Again?

Many have addressed regardless of whether we'll ever observe UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in the Octagon again, particularly in the event that he gets the blockbuster bout he fancies with Floyd Mayweather.

Small time who has somewhat preferable understanding into the circumstance over most is his long-term colleague and preparing accomplice Gunnar Nelson. He trusts that we will see McGregor in the Octagon once more… if the conditions are correct.

"It will rely on upon specific things," Nelson said in a meeting with ESPN. "Cash is not by any means the only thing he thinks about, by any means. He cares about it a ton, however in the event that a battle energizes him and he supposes it's an incredible test — if it's impacting the world forever and all that sort of stuff — he'll do it."

Realizing that about McGregor, it's not in the least astounding that the UFC's first double division champion would need to set himself up against one of the best boxers ever.

A bout with Mayweather ticks off all the crates. 

Enormous cash? Check. A blockbuster session with Mayweather would be the greatest payday for McGregor — or whatever other UFC contender — ever.

An extraordinary test? Check. While McGregor's battling abilities incorporate boxing, he hasn't had the need or an opportunity to refine his boxing aptitudes to the moment detail that Mayweather has.

Leaving a mark on the world? Check. Never have two battle sports competitors of varying orders at such a first class level contended on such a tremendous stage.

Regardless of whether the Mayweather session meets up, we likely haven't seen the remainder of McGregor, who is at present on paternity leave, get ready for the introduction of his first kid.

"He needs to keep himself occupied somehow in light of the fact that he's a beautiful hyper fellow," Nelson proceeded. "He's not quite recently lounging around the house. In the event that he wouldn't have anything to do, he'd most likely be planning something naughty. He'll generally make sense of something. He needs fervor."

Canada's gold medallists Jonathan Toews (left) and Sidney Crosby posture amid the Men's Ice Hockey Medal Ceremony amid the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 23, 2014 (AFP Photo/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND)

Aarhus (Denmark) (AFP) - The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday hit out at the North American National Hockey League for declining to give best players a chance to partake in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics one year from now.

"This must be an enormous dissatisfaction for the players who unquestionably needed to play at the Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018," said an IOC proclamation discharged inside hours of the NHL declaration.

"The IOC feels exceptionally sad for the competitors."

NHL clubs had supposedly squeezed for budgetary remuneration from the IOC as a byproduct of suspending its season for three weeks in February. Be that as it may, the IOC said it couldn't go past the travel and protection pay offered for past Winter Games.

"The choice is significantly more deplorable, as the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) had offered similar conditions to the NHL as at past Olympic Games, where the protection and travel expenses were secured," said the Olympic initiative.

"The IOC, which circulates 90 for every penny of its income for the improvement of game on the planet, clearly can't treat a national business association superior to not-revenue driven universal games organizations which are creating sport all around."

The IOC demanded that even without the star players, the Pyeongchang ice-hockey competition "will in any case be an exceptionally energizing one, in light of the fact that the players from the various expert ice hockey alliances and their competitors will take an interest, and will be especially invited by their Olympic groups."

The NHL Players' Association (NHLPA) and beat players including New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who won Olympic gold in 2006 with Sweden, have denounced the NHL move.

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has said he will partake in the Games for Russia regardless of what his group says.

Kyle Larson here and there flies business to spare cash.

Trust it or not, Kyle Larson will periodically fly on business aircrafts to Cup Series races.

The focuses pioneer made the disclosure on Friday, saying that he jumped at the chance to fly either financially or on the Chip Ganassi Racing contract plane to spare cash.

"No doubt, I fly business as much as I can and fly with the group," Larson said. "That is a ton of cash to be private flying, particularly toward the West Coast. Definitely, I'm shabby with my cash with regards to flying. Furthermore, I jump at the chance to pile on the miles so I can perhaps get some free treks."

 
In the high-dollar universe of the Cup Series, a top driver conceding that he doesn't fly on a private stream consistently is a major ordeal. While many lower-level drivers fly financially all through the NASCAR plan, the top stars of the Cup Series regularly take a private fly from city to city. Larson preferences being thrifty, be that as it may. Also, we don't reprimand him. Despite the fact that he said he flies top of the line frequently. That sounds like an extravagance to huge numbers of us, however that is as yet a funds over flying secretly.

"I'll buy a top of the line ticket now. Be that as it may, several years back, I know [Ricky Stenhouse and Danica Patrick] clearly she's an extremely well off individual, however she doesn't comprehend why I would buy a mentor ticket when mentor is $120 versus top of the line being $500. Will spare that cash. Be that as it may, now, I fly with every available amenity. What's more, as well, [son] Owen is more established than 2 years now, so you need to buy him a seat, which truly stinks. In any case, I'll fly business as much as I can, particularly the West Coast stuff. I think business is better. The group plane, you need to stop for fuel. No Wi-Fi. Business' not awful."