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The home side would be surely looking to repeat last season’s heroics in the corresponding fixture when they overturn a first half deficit to defeat Rafa Benitez’s outfit by an astonishing 3-1 margin. With Sam Allardyce, as always, struggling for points, frowns on his forehead would grow more clumsier and the ‘bites’ on his chewing gum would be landing far heavily than before. Jose Mourinho on the other hand, or the self proclaimed one, hasn’t head a great start to his ‘Second Homecoming’....

With the West Indies requiring 19 runs for victory off the last over, the Barbadian needed just four of Ben Stokes’ final six deliveries to seal a four-wicket victory at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens on Sunday. “Anyone who was here witnessed one of the great T20 matches. It was won, it was lost, then won, then lost. No side really deserved to lose it,” former England captain Nasser Hussain wrote in his Daily Mail column after West Indies chased down England’s 155 for nine on a difficult batting surface....

The West Indies were bowled out for a respectable 299 in their first innings after resuming the day on 188 for five, with the right-handed Samuels hitting 103, reports CMC. Captain Denesh Ramdin chipped in with 31, Bishoo got a career-best 30 and Jason Holder a cameo 22, as the West Indies battled three rain interruptions to add 111 for the loss of their last five wickets at the Grenada National Stadium....

Bangladesh’s resistance was assisted by sloppy West Indies fielding, with five catches going down, despite the Caribbean side’s 10-wicket win in the first Test at Arnos Vale here, reports CMC. Bangladesh’s second innings hero Mushfiqur Rahim, who scored 116, survived four chances – dropped by Darren Bravo, Jerome Taylor and twice by Chris Gayle while Kirk Edwards put down a simple chance offered by Mahmudullah. “It is a cause for concern....

The Pakistan Cricket Board is staging the series in a bid to showcase its ability to host international matches following a deadly 2009 terrorist attack against the Sri Lanka test team in Lahore. For the second consecutive day, cricket passed without incident as West Indies fought back to finish 132-6 in reply to Pakistan’s 132-4. The visitors scored a dominant 18-0 in the one-over decider with Deandra Dottin smashing two sixes and a four against off-spinner Sana Mir...

On Thursday, the Spaniard shot an 8-under-par 62 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, matching the lowest round of his PGA Tour career. Rahm made the most of TPC Southwind’s pristine greens, carding five birdies in the first nine holes alone. “That’s what made it so comforting because I knew, especially with the greens being this pure, if I started a ball on line I was going to have a chance,” he told the PGA’s official website....

“When did the president learn of Hope Hicks’ positive COVID-19 result?” Faulkner asked. “I don’t know the answer to that. I’m not going to get into an exact timeline, but it’s safe to say the president took precautions,” McEnany responded. Faulkner continued to question McEnany about whether Hicks knew about her diagnosis while accompanying Trump and the first lady for the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday night or with Mr....

It’s likely the Omicron variant is more transmissible than Delta, according to Fauci, but researchers need to continue studying the variant to determine if it’s as deadly. If it predominantly causes mild disease, Omicron could be the “best-case scenario” because it could break Delta’s hold as the dominant strain without fueling surges in hospitalizations and deaths. “It would certainly help end the pandemic,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said....

Enrollment The Initial Enrollment Period begins when you are 65 years old. Specifically, it begins three months before and ends three months after your birth month, which gives you a seven-month window to sign up. You may still be working and have health coverage by your employer at the time you first become eligible for Medicare. If you work for a company that employs at least 20 full-time employees, you can defer your Medicare enrollment to a later date....

Team owner John Henry told reporters Friday that he wants the Sox to stay below the $208 million tax threshold in 2020, although team chairman Tom Werner tried to create wiggle room with a caveat about “circumstances.” The main incentive to staying under the tax next year is that an overage in, say, 2021 would be taxed at 20 percent, the lowest percentage under baseball’s collective bargaining agreement. Boston will pay essentially a 35 percent tax on its estimated $36....

In a dark environment, your pupils dilate to let more light into your eyes. This light is received by the retina, which houses the cells that help people see colors (cone cells) and in the dark (rod cells). When there is a problem with the rod cells because of a disease or injury, you can’t see well or at all in the dark, resulting in night blindness. Nyctalopia Symptoms Nyctalopia is itself a symptom....

Los Angeles has endured its fair share of obstacles in August, largely due to the absence of Melvin Gordon and Philip Rivers. San Francisco, meanwhile, is piecing together positive momentum as it prepares for Week 1 of the regular season. MORE: Watch 49ers vs. Chargers live on fuboTV (7-day free trial) As is always the case this time of year, though, it’s just the preseason. With most of the starters cemented, the attention moves down the depth chart to notable backup battles and final roster spots....

Kyle Shanahan’s team has kept the engine running smoothly without Jimmy Garoppolo and Deebo Samuel, backed by the most impressive defense in football. The Raiders, meanwhile, have been anything but smooth. A forgettable loss to the Steelers helped officially end their bid for a second consecutive playoff berth, and the only major storyline left for Las Vegas this season is the question of whether Derek Carr will return in 2023....

Pogba injury Man Utd’s new £90m problem England manager Gareth Southgate confirmed to reporters Walcott “wasn’t chuffed to bits” to be informed he had been overlooked for this months’ games against Germany and Lithuania in favour of the likes of uncapped duo Nathan Redmond and Michail Antonio. Walcott made the point to Southgate he is one of the leading goalscorers in England and, with 17 in 29 appearances he is on target to overhaul his best ever return of 21 from the 2012-13 season....

Arsenal went into the clash at the Emirates Stadium having won just three of their last 10 matches in all competitions, but second-half goals from Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud got them back on track. The Gunners moved up to fifth as a result, with the gap to the Champions League places now just four points following Manchester City’s 2-1 loss at Chelsea. Wenger was pleased to see his side’s fortunes change but acknowledged they cannot afford many more slip-ups with just nine games remaining....

Werner, 24, has been heavily linked with a move to the Premier League leaders after scoring 27 goals in 36 games for RB Leipzig this season. Rangnick, the former Leipzig coach and now the head of sport and development at Red Bull, wants Werner to stay, but feels Liverpool would suit the forward. “The league is less important, but the club, from a purely hypothetical point of view, I would better see him in good hands with a club that is not necessarily defined by ball possession football,” he told BILD....

Anthony Parker, an 18-year-old freshman offensive lineman for UWA, was arrested and originally charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle on Tuesday night after a stray bullet — from a gun he had shot — struck Quentavious Reese. Reese, also 18, was airlifted to UAB Medical Center, where he died on Wednesday. MORE: Disgraced athletes: Where they went wrong Reese, who attended the same high school as Parker — Benjamin Russell — was traveling by car with three friends Tuesday when they passed the house where Parker happened to be shooting the gun....

The match embarked on a fast pace as both outfits tried to unsettle their fellow opponents in the first minutes of the match. Attacks by the West Bengal attackers, especially Basant Singh and Ronald Singh kept the Goan defenders on their toes throughout. Meanwhile, Goa tweaked their strategy and started banking upon their counter-attacking moves to hurl the visitors. Nicolau Colaco and Liston Colaco, who had a terrific game in the semi-final, kept the West Bengal wing-backs busy until the end of the end of the first half....

After hitting a series of shots within 25 seconds — a layup, free throw, 3-pointer and half-court shot — Lavery (and everyone at the West Chester University basketball game Saturday) thought the freshman won $10,000. But the rules stated that only one shot could be taken from half court (he took two) and that the participant could not have played high school basketball (which he did). But on Tuesday, Pizza Hut stepped in and offered Lavery $10,000 and free pizza for a year — and Lavery accepted....

He had made fun of the English striker on more than one occasion, however, the two has since then patched up, with Carroll even suggesting that Poyet will be making a cup of tea for the former for the next one month. Poyet regrets tweeting about Carroll when he was 16 But, an apology is not enough for Carroll, now is it? Diego Poyet is the son of Sunderland manager Gus Poyet, and was already in the news for calling his new club ‘scum’ on Twitter when he was 16....