The Spaniard has announced on Instagram that his wife Alice Campello is expecting their first child. Morata posted a picture of himself kissing Campello’s stomach with the message: “The first time I saw you I knew you were going to be the mother of my children and I am sure that you will be the most beautiful and sweet and good mom. I can not love you any more!”...
Success wil give Conte more transfer power Antonio Conte’s men have been in a race with Tottenham all season and they finally confirmed their triumph with a 1-0 win against West Bromwich Albion last Friday. David Moyes’ Sunderland are already relegated and all eyes will be on Chelsea as they will have one last job to do before celebrating winning the league in front of their fans. John Terry is also set for his last league game at Stamford Bridge....
Tottenham are five points clear of Chelsea with four games left to play in the Premier League, while Liverpool are eight points clear but have played a game more and have a trip to Stamford Bridge to come. Meanwhile, Swansea are just outside the relegation zone in 17th place and a defeat will mean that they could offer hope to the likes of Southampton, who sit just four points behind them....
It struck the underside of the crossbar and nestled wonderfully into the back of the net, giving the Blues the lead in the game. Until Hayley Raso’s equaliser in the final minute of the 90, it looked like it would secure the Blues their fourth Women’s FA Cup trophy, too. It would be Emma Hayes’ side that came out on top after extra time still, with Sam Kerr’s second goal of the afternoon firing Chelsea to their second title in seven days, after the Women’s Super League triumph last Sunday....
He's not exactly a GOOD dresser, but he's, well, snappy. The jackets and ties he wears have a lot of pizzazz, chutzpah, you know, snap. Well, the NBA on TNT crew was in Chicago on Thursday night, and Benny the Bull, the Bulls' mascot, did his best Craig Sager impression. Then Sager decided to do his best Benny the Bull impression. Unfortunately, Benny wasn't having any of it. The NBA All-Star break really can't come soon enough....
Yet, when you look at club and country, 13 matches is exactly what the scoreless streak sits for Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez. The issues were exacerbated when he stepped up and failed to convert a kick from the penalty spot last time out in Bayer Leverkusen’s 1-1 draw with Freiburg. That penalty miss especially set the experts off howling. How could this once-deadly forward miss from 18 yards away? How could this man of goal streaks suddenly go so cold?...
What do all the teams in the top 10 have in common? It's easy, they all have five or more wins, and the rest of the league doesn't. The Denver Broncos and New Orleans Saints looked like the best early, but at the halfway point, if anyone in the finest nine finished by winning it all, it wouldn't be a surprise. 1. Kansas City Chiefs (8-0) Last week: 1 Why they’re here: The Chiefs survived another nailbiter at home against another backup quarterback making his first start of 2013, as Jason Campbell kept the Browns in the game late....
But they generally don’t happen the way they have this offseason. Not when they’ve happened. Not for the reasons they’ve happened. Not to teams that are coming off division titles, or winning seasons. Not to teams with combinations of the above. Yet here it was, late Thursday, a week after minicamps concluded; in late June, a month before training camp opens, and the Chiefs were agreeing to “part ways” with John Dorsey....
The Chiefs will be docked a third-round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and a sixth-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. On top of that, Reid has been fined $75,000, general manager John Dorsey was fined $25,000 and the team as a whole was fined $250,000. MORE: Live NFL free agency tracker | Texans overpaid for Osweiler Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt released a statement saying the team will appeal....
When team officials brought Mahomes to his feet, the quarterback was wobbly, and needed a little assistance to get to the sideline. He was later ruled out of the game because of a concussion, the CBS announcers reported. Moments after leaving the field, Mahomes was seen catching his breath on the bench while under team doctor supervision. Mahomes was then seen trotting to the innards of Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City....
Why is that significant? That’s the last time a Kansas City wideout caught a touchdown pass in a regular season game (Bowe and Donnie Avery each had one in the wild-card game last year), meaning Monday signals a bizarre milestone for the Chiefs’ passing attack. MORE: Must-see Week 14 images | Playoff picture | Week 15 odds, betting lines For more perspective, that’s 1,006 minutes and 11 seconds of game play — or 999 offensive snaps — since a Chiefs wide receiver last crossed the goal line....
This may be nothing as OTAs at this point are a voluntary activity, but with Jones in the final year of his contract, it certainly is something to note. Jones’ four-year, $6.23 million rookie deal is up after this season as he is set to make $1.19 million this year. He tallied a career-high 15 1/2 sacks in 2018 and the 2016 second-round pick has 24 sacks in three seasons with the team....
These teams played last November at Ralph Wilson Stadium, with Kansas City winning 23-13 as 4.5-point road favorites. Buffalo had dominated (5-1 SU and 6-0 ATS) the previous meetings going back to 2005. The Line: Kansas City -2, Total: 41 Line movement: The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook opened the Chiefs as 1.5-point favorites and moved to -2. The spread ranged from -1.5 to -2.5 in Vegas during the week. The total opened at 42 and has moved down to 41-41....
The Line: Steelers -3, Total: 46.5 Line movement: For the most part, the Steelers opened at -3 and stayed at -3 through early wagering. The Westgate went up to -3.5 and back down to -3, while Coasts went up to -3.5 midweek. The total can be had at 46.5 or 47. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page . Trends that matter: The Chiefs are 11-5 ATS in their last 16 road games…....
Tuesday saw the South American pair draw 1-1 in their final qualifier in Lima, a result that put Colombia into Russia 2018 automatically while sealing Peru a spot in the inter-continental play-off against New Zealand. Argentina 17/2 to win World Cup Chile, meanwhile, were sent crashing out of contention as a 3-0 defeat to CONMEBOL group winners Brazil sealed their fate, prompting coach Juan Antonio Pizzi to resign shortly afterwards....
China’s boom—and Wen’s own political fortune—hangs in the balance. Food prices are a critical indicator of whether China’s economy can maintain its five-year bull run without overheating. Historically, inflation is also the harbinger of political unrest (the most recent example was the Tianan-men Square protests, which came to a head 18 years ago this week). Ever since, those who believe China can sustain double-digit growth have pointed to the relative absence of inflation....
“The Chinese ships are armed,” Hitoshi Nakama, an Okinawan councilor-turned-fisherman, told JAPAN Forward. “The patrol vessels have cannons mounted on the decks.” Located in the East China Sea, the abundant waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands are home to vastly diverse plants and animals, presenting rich and desirable fishing grounds. The Senkaku Islands were formally incorporated into Japanese territory in 1895, an ownership that was reaffirmed both after World War II in the San Francisco Peace Treaty and in 1972 by the Okinawa Reversion Agreement....
During the celebration of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force’s 72nd anniversary last Thursday, state-run news channel China Central Television (CCTV) reportedly aired footage of H-6K bombers flying near the Himalayas. While typically based closer to Beijing, the jets were moved to Xinjiang province sometime last year, close to a region contested by China and India, the South China Morning Post reported. These particular bombers are usually outfitted with CJ-20 long-range missiles for land and sea encounters....
The People’s Daily opinion piece—written in the days after Ma stepped down as chairman of Alibaba Group on September 10, 2019—dismissed the 56-year-old’s idol status, which turned him into something of a rock star among the country’s budding entrepreneurs. Resurfacing on China’s Twitter-like social media service Weibo, the article is titled “There is no so-called Jack Ma era, only an era in which there is Jack Ma.” “There is no doubt that Alibaba is a successful enterprise, nor is there any doubt about Jack Ma’s effect on Alibaba, but to credit an enterprise’s success solely with its leader is totally unrealistic,” the text read....
Flynn was widely criticized for saying a Myanmar-style coup “should happen” in the United States, although he claims his words were taken out of context. Global Times, a state-run newspaper, called the pushback an American “double standard” and pointed to the amount of applause Flynn’s comment received as evidence of the idea’s support. “This shows that the dark side of American society is spreading, and more Americans are becoming dissatisfied with their current situation,” Mu Lu, a reporter and commentator with Global Times, wrote....
