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After a frustrating first half where Chennaiyin failed to put away easy opportunities, their Brazilian maestro Rafael Crivellaro broke the deadlock with a delightful effort from almost the halfway line, his sumptuous lob catching Roy Chowdhury off his line. Chennaiyin’s leading goalscorer of the season, Nerijus Valskis, then added the second, taking advantage of a poor clearance from NorthEast after Roy Chowdhury had saved from Andre Schembri. Owen Coyle was delighted at the post-match presser with his team’s efforts....

The nature of the partnership is such that the Indian side will have the liberty to utilize Marbella FC’s infrastructure for pre-season training, as well as their medical personnel and facilities. There is also an understanding between the clubs that they will have the option to loan players either way, and invest strategically in top talents either club may have. This also gives a chance to Hyderabad FC’s young players to gain exposure and train at Marbella FC’s facilities with the club’s coaches....

Four regions shortlisted to host ISL’s 2020-21 season Kerala, Goa, West Bengal and the Northeast region have been shortlisted as the preferred regions to host the seventh edition of the ISL. Three to four venues will serve as hosts of the ISL within a single region. The aim is to avoid air and rail travel to protect the health of the participating team members. The ISL teams will stay in protected areas to prevent any infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease....

SC East Bengal Preview ISL debutants SC East Bengal have had a pretty dismal start to their campaign. However. they managed to add some spark to their otherwise drab season when they clinched a win over Odisha FC. The 3-1 victory marked their first-ever win in the competition. Robbie Fowler’s side saw three different goalscorers in the form of Anthony Pilkington, Jacques Maghoma, and Bright Enobakhare. With buoyed spirits from their first-ever ISL win, the Red and Golds will be raring to go against FC Goa....

NorthEast United FC and Odisha FC both had just one win from their last five games. The game started on a positive note for Odisha FC. Daniel Lalhlimpuia gave Odisha FC the lead in the 17th minute through a tap in from an Aridai cross. Aridai Cabrera doubled the lead for the Kalinga Warriors in the 22nd minute. NorthEast United FC tried hard to get their name on the scoresheet, but they failed to do so....

What made Leicester’s achievement even more commendable was the fact that they did so by possessing one of the smallest squads in the league. However, having a relatively small squad also meant that there was certain stability and consistency about Leicester’s line-up in most games last season. And this stability and consistency went a long way in guiding Leicester to the title. However, defending a title is a completely different ball game from winning one....

The 27-year-old forward signed a six-year contract extension with the team, New York announced Thursday. He was due to become an unrestricted free agent when free agency begins on July 1. While the Islanders didn’t disclose the terms of the new extension, Newsday reported the deal is worth $6 million annually. Nelson had a career season with the Islanders, scoring a career-high 53 points (24 goals, 28 assists) while playing in all 82 games this season....

Fifth seeded John Isner claimed his sixth career title and first on clay by beating Nicolas Almagro in straight sets in the final of the US Clay Court Championships on Sunday. The hard-serving American blasted seven aces en route to a 6-3, 7-5 win over the Spanish clay court specialist at River Oaks Country Club in Houston. Isner, who was the runner-up in this event last year, went one better this time, being broken just once in the 81-minute match....

Blending diplomacy with sports, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman presented a tennis racquet embossed with signatures of leading national players to his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna, an ardent tennis fan. Presenting the racket to Krishna at a joint press conference after wide-ranging talks here, Lieberman, also Israel’s deputy prime minister, spoke in a lighter vein about Krishna’s passion for tennis. Krishna was pleasantly surprised. He was also presented an intricately designed plaque that commemorates the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between India and Israel....

Now, after the most recent airstrikes in this new round of fighting between the Israeli government and the Hamas militant group that controls the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a third wave of COVID-19 is creeping up on its overwhelmed, exhausted medical workers. In eleven days of airstrikes and rocket fire, 244 are dead—including 12 Israelis and 232 Palestinians—and hundreds more wounded, the vast majority in Gaza, which has a densely packed population of two million....

Ukraine narrowly beat Poland 2,5-1,5, with Natalia Zhukova bringing the key point, and is now in serious contention for one of the medals. From the other matches, it should be noted that the 2011 World Junior Champion Deysi Cori beat the top-rated player in the Section, Anna Muzychuk (2606), as Peru defeated Slovenia by 2,5-1,5. Top round 11 matches are Russia – Kazakhstan, Bulgaria – China, Ukraine – Germany and France – India....

Electric guitars are such expressive instruments that it has proven hard over the years to capture that expression and use it to control software or hardware synthesizers. One approach has been to load up the guitar with special sensors that capture the notes and turn them into MIDI, the international language of musical instrument control. Another has been to use a computer to do the same, but usually with a delay....

The Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway fell into a routine Saturday, and then Sunday, too. The rain would come, and then it would go. The track would dry, and then it would get wet again. Over and over again. It finally escaped the frustrating cycle Sunday afternoon as drivers at last saw the green flag after multiple rain delays bumped the race back an entire day and change....

The top two in the table meet at the Etihad Stadium on Thursday in a pivotal fixture for both clubs, with Jurgen Klopp’s Reds heading to Manchester with a seven-point cushion over the reigning champions. City had led the way at the start of December but endured a dip at the end of 2018, suffering three defeats in the month, against Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Leicester City. Aguero helped get them back on track with the third goal in a 3-1 win at Southampton on Sunday and the striker insists Pep Guardiola’s squad can catch Liverpool, while also believing “three or four teams” could yet win the league....

I guess the judges must have thought the same thing because they didn’t choose one. When we returned to the school cafeteria for the annual fall dinner that evening, we saw that all the pumpkins had been awarded the same black and gold ribbon. My son, eagerly searching to see if he’d won, kept asking me, “Which pumpkin won? Where’s the winner?” What could I say? “Well, it looks like everyone won....

For all those who have been waiting for this new age OS, it will be available all major territories. You will be able to download an upgrade or buy it at the store on the launch date. So it’s just a wait of 14 weeks. Microsoft has earlier said that it will offer only three versions of the OS. Two of these will be for Intel-based PCs (Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro) and Windows 8 RT for ARM-based tablets like the Microsoft Surface....

And Roger Clemens has to be thrilled a syringe, not a betting slip, was his screw-up of choice. SPECTOR: There’s no reason, ever, to reinstate Rose | PHOTOS: The career of Charlie Hustle Because Major League Baseball doubled down on the idiocy of keeping Pete Rose out of baseball, refusing to lift a permanent ban on him because he a) bet on his team way back when; b) continues to bet (legally) on baseball right here and now; and c) and I am paraphrasing here, for failing to properly prostrate himself and provide an up-from-the-roaches, Lifetime TV version of a life redeemed....

The Ninja Gaiden reboot series was a big success at first, but things fell off the rails and there hasn’t been a new game in the series for quite some time. But even though Ninja Gaiden is once again on a lengthy hiatus and Team Ninja is not working on a new Ninja Gaiden game, now is really the perfect time to bring the franchise back from the dead (again)....

Droughts and floods are supercharging health crises. As a result, over 76 million people in the greater Horn of Africa and the Sahel are experiencing extreme hunger, and millions are close to famine, leaving them more vulnerable to infectious diseases and the complications of malnutrition. Climate change is a top threat to health globally—its effects on food systems are just one manifestation. Whether as a result of drought or flooding, extreme hunger weakens any individual, particularly children, impairing their mental and physical development for life....

According to Spanish newspaper ABC, Vidal has filed a complaint against his club to La Liga and the Spanish Footballers’ Association. It is alleged that the Chile international has only been paid €1.7m of the €4.1m he is owed. Vidal, strongly linked with a January return to Serie A, is frustrated at being underpaid but is leaving the legal matter to his representatives. “I’m not in charge of that - that’s why I have my agent, my lawyer, who takes care of the awards and stuff,” Vidal told Chilean radio station ADN....