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Chelsea’s leading lights set sights on league and cup double

Chelsea are 10 points clear at the Premier League summit with 11 games to play and face Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Monday. Kante, who won the championship with Leicester last season before moving to Stamford Bridge, told Chelsea TV: “We’re going to try to win everything.

HOPE

Hope is what we have been holding onto for this upcoming season. with Lynch and Shanahan it has brought a new era, excitement and has left us being optimistic.

Live updates from the MHSAA hockey state championships

Three high school hockey teams will be crowned state champions today at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, and MLive will be there the whole way providing updates. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice and Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern kick things off at 10 a.m. in the Division 2 final.

Frampton expects to fight Selby before Santa Cruz

Carl Frampton says he is “not optimistic” of securing an immediate rematch with Leo Santa Cruz and may seek to set up a home bout with Welshman Lee Selby instead. Frampton lost the WBC featherweight title back to the man he had taken it from in January, in what was his first professional defeat.

Snake Bytes 3/11: Team USA in Action

While Taijuan Walker kept the Brewers off the bases on Friday, Nick Ahmed had a big day in his quest to win the starting SS gig, driving in two runs with a double and a triple. For the second day in a row, Yasmany Tomas was not in the Diamondbacks’ lineup, allowing the outfielder to rest a strained lower back.

Team Offense, Texas Rangers

The 2017 series on team offense continues with the Texas Rangers. The Rangers finished fourth in the American League and seventh in the majors in 2016 with 4.72 runs scored per game.

CCJ Judge Urges Jealous Guarding Of The Rule Of Law

St Kitts and Nevis : A Caribbean Court of Justice jurist has advised that people should jealously guard the rule of law. CCJ Judge, Vincentian Adrian Saunders made the point while delivering a lecture as part of the Good Governance Lecture series initiated by the Team Unity administration.

Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea to scout Moussa Dembele

Silva and Aguero on target to seal Guardiola’s return to Wembley as Manchester City beat Middlesbrough to book FA Cup semi spot LIVE: Bournemouth v West Ham, Everton v West Brom and Swansea v Hull… all the Premier League action as it happens Spurs need to show they aren’t a stepping-stone club if they want to stop Alli following Bale to Spain SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: England should beat Scotland with ease… but if Farrell doesn’t play it could be very close Alli and Kane don’t need to leave for Man United to win titles like I did… they can do it with Spurs, says Sheringham ‘I expected something dodgy and this has proved it’: Varnish not surprised by British Cycling’s cover-up following sexism claims ‘You’re either God and you walk on water or you are the Devil.

David Silva, Sergio Aguero send Manchester City into FA Cup semifinals

David Silva and Sergio Aguero scored in each half as Manchester City became the first team to reach the FA Cup semifinals with a comfortable 2-0 win at Middlesbrough on Saturday . A dominant City cruised into the last four after Silva gave them a third-minute lead and Aguero struck in the 67th minute, with the visitors missing numerous chances to win by a bigger margin.

Michigan State Basketball: Highlights, top performers vs. Minnesota

While Michigan State basketball remains the only team to have made it to Friday of the Big Ten Tournament in each of the 20 years it’s been around, the Spartans didn’t get to advance to the finals for the third straight season. Tom Izzo knew Minnesota was going to be tough to beat three times in one season and that the Gophers were.

Manchester City mocked (again) for empty seats at the Etihad

City had the chance to cut the gap at the top to Premier League leaders Chelsea, who they still have to play, to eight points, but Guardiola’s side struggled as they lost ground in the title race. It was a strangely subdued performance by City, the result perhaps of Guardiola having opted to rest David Silva and Raheem Sterling from his all-star cast of attacking talent.

Rohan Bopanna -Pablo Cuevas bow out of Indian Wells Masters1 hour ago

Indian Wells, March 11: Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Uruguayan partner Pablo Cuevas lost 6-2, 3-6, 7-10 to Serbians Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki in the opening round of the ATP Indian Wells Masters here on Saturday. The Indo-Uruguayan pair, who were the favourites, started on a positive note by winning the first set comfortably.

Preview: Afghanistan eye clean sweep against Ireland in third T20I18 min ago

Greater Noida, March 11: Afghanistan will look to continue their winning spree when they take on Ireland in the third and final Twenty20 International here on Sunday. Ireland, who was outplayed by Afghanistan in the last two games will be looking to make amends across departments to win the last match of the series, according to the International Cricket Council’s official website.

India vs Australia: David Warner backs Pat Cummins to lead Australian attack29 min ago

Melbourne, Mar. 11: Explosive Australian opener David Warner has backed Pat Cummins who has been called to replace injured Mitchell Starc for the remaining Tests of the Border Gavaskar Trophy against India, saying the right-arm pacer has the “firepower” to lead the attack. “We know he’s got a lot of pace which he will definitely bring and that’s one thing we always talk about,” cricket.com.au quoted Warner as saying on Cummins’ call-up.

Middlesbrough v Man City, FA Cup football LIVE score

JAMIE CARRAGHER ON XABI ALONSO: Why he was Liverpool’s pass master, the wounds that never healed with Benitez over Barry and his gloating call from Euro 2008 after Spain’s historic victory ‘They have to go’: Varnish calls for British Cycling board to resign as she considers legal action after shocking sexism claims cover-up Spurs need to show they aren’t a stepping-stone club if they want to stop Alli following Bale to Spain ‘United are in great form… jumping all the way from sixth to sixth’: Chelsea mock Mourinho’s men ahead of cup clash SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: England should beat Scotland with ease… but if Farrell doesn’t play it could be very close ‘I expected something dodgy and this has proved it’: Varnish not surprised by British Cycling’s cover-up following sexism claims ‘You’re either God and you walk on water or you are the Devil.

American Heart Association says Playing Pokemon Go may help people reach 10,000 daily steps goal

Playing the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go may increase people’s daily steps, especially among young adults with low physical activity levels or those who are overweight or obese , according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention / Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health 2017 Scientific Sessions. In Pokemon Go, a location-based augmented reality game, players move around a physical location capturing animated creatures on smartphones and other mobile devices.

Herath leads Lanka’s crushing win over Bangladesh7 min ago

Rangana Herath grabbed six wickets in the second innings to become Test cricket’s most successful left-arm spinner as Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by 259 runs in their first Test at Galle today. Herath finished with 6-59, his 23rd five or more wicket haul, which took his tally in Tests to 366 wickets, going past New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori, who has 362 wickets to his name.

Tight times

Impressive: Adam Greentree claimed five wickets for Norths on day one of the Tamworth Cricket First Grade minor semi-final. Those two words are the best way to describe what occurred on the opening day of the Tamworth Cricket First Grade minor semi-final between Wests and Norths on Saturday.

88 Madagascar athletes to train for five months in China

Eighty-eight Malagasy athletes will be sent to China for five months of training this year, Malagasy sports minister said on Friday. “Eighty-eight Malagasy athletes in five disciplines will be selected by Chinese experts and Malagasy technicians and will leave this year for five months of training in China,” Madagascar’s minister of sports Anicet Andriamosarisoa said during the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese ambassador to Madagascar Yang Xiaorong.

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The Patriots sent their 2017 first-round selection and a third-round pick to New Orleans for Cooks while the Saints will send back a fourth-round pick, said the person who spoke Friday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the teams have not announced the deal. In the 23-year-old Cooks the Patriots add another speedy and productive young receiver to a group that already includes Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell and veterans Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola.T Cooks has appeared in all 16 regular-season games for New Orleans the past two years and is coming off back-to-back 1,100-yard receiving seasons, in which he also had 17 touchdowns.

Saints take out Southern Blitz

The big men meet as Saints player Tai Wesley holds the ball up, despite the attentions of Rams forward William Neighbour. The Wellington Saints have laid down a pre-season marker, beating both their National Basketball League rivals at the Hunter’s Wines Southern Blitz tournament in Blenheim.

Cummins called in Starc’s replacement for remaining India Tests

Ranchi , Mar. 11 : Right-arm Australian pacer Pat Cummins have been called in as replacement for injured Mitchell Starc for the remaining two Test of the ongoing Border Gavaskar Trophy. “In selecting Pat, we were looking for a strike bowling replacement option,” ESPNcricinfo quoted Cricket Australia chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns as saying.

Award recipient epitomizes service, caring

The list of organizations the 52-year-old Beacon Falls resident volunteers with includes the International Institute of Connecticut, the Beacon Falls Lioness Club and the Beacon Falls Rotary Club. About seven years ago, Longo started volunteering with the United Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls by helping out with the organization’s annual Festival of Trees.

Academy column: High expectations and learning from Adam Lallana

In our latest Academy column, we speak to Liverpool U23s’ head of development and assistant coach Tim Jenkins about supporting Mike Garrity and why the club’s hopeful youngsters can learn from watching Adam Lallana. We have some very talented young players here at the Academy and we want to give them the best chance they can possibly have of making a career in the game, with the number one target being to play for Liverpool’s first team.

Anderson ton sinks Eagles

An unbeaten century to Westbury’s Dane Anderson has helped the Shamrocks to a first innings victory over Mowbray in their final round Cricket North clash. An unbeaten century to Westbury’s Dane Anderson has helped the Shamrocks to a first innings victory over Mowbray in their final round Cricket North clash at Ingamells Oval on Saturday.