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The summer signing from AS Roma has scored 43 goals across all competitions in his debut campaign with Jurgen Klopp’s side. Salah steered the Merseyside outift to a 5-2 win over Roma in the first leg of their semi-final fixture to put them a foot in their first Champions League final since 2007. Lawrenson, a member of Liverpool squad that defeated the Giallorossi to clinch the European Cup title in 1984, is in awe of the Egyptian’s exploits, and believes ‘it will be very difficult not to give him the Ballon d’Or’ if he delivers the much-coveted trophy for the Reds....

The 2021 Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City will also dish out the largest prize to the winner than at any stage of the competition. MORE: Will Christian Pulisic start for Chelsea in Champions League final? 2021 Champions League final prize money The Champions League finalists will each get $18.3 million, but the winner will net an additional $4.88 million for automatically qualifying for the UEFA Super Cup, a one-off match against the UEFA Europa League winners, Villarreal CF....

Appointed in January 2016 following the departure of Rafael Benitez, the Frenchman has won back-to-back titles in Europe and also led the club to LaLiga glory last season. He once again has Madrid on course for Champions League glory this term - they hold a 2-1 aggregate lead over Bayern Munich heading into the second leg of their semi-final at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday. Los Blancos have struggled domestically this term, a lack of consistency ruining their title defence and leading to questions over the coach’s future....

Winning the play-offs can change a club’s fortunes for the better for years to come, whereas losing a play-off final can set a club back years. Fulham, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough and Derby County all have Premier League pedigree. But who has what it takes to secure a return to the top flight? Last season, Huddersfield were promoted with a negative goal difference, while in 2007 Derby went up via the play-offs, despite winning just six of their closing 15 regular season games....

Jupiter says the numbers should be viewed as a cautionary sign-particularly by Washington regulators. The message: don’t believe the hype from proponents of media deregulation. “Regulators should think twice about granting carte blanche to top-tier media corporations in their efforts to expand beyond their existing markets,” the report warns. As a rationale for loosening the rules that restrict the scope and reach of ownership of radio, television and newspaper properties, advocates have argued that the Internet prevents the dangerous concentration of information in too few hands....

Four Democrats are seeking their party’s nomination to run against DeSantis in November: Congressman Charlie Crist, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried, consultant Cadance Daniel, and teacher and minister Robert Lee Willis. Crist, who served as Florida’s governor from 2007 to 2011, and Fried are seen as the frontrunners in the race. When he was elected as governor, Crist identified as a Republican until 2010 and then as an independent until 2012 when he became a Democrat....

Larranaga’s dad, Jim, coached the Patriots to a Final Four appearance in 2006. A source told the Globe that if George Mason contacts Jay, he’ll consider interviewing for the position, but only out of respect for his father. MORE: Latest Mock Draft | Boeheim to retire in three years | Oden comeback possible “The reality is that I’d be surprised if Jay wants that job,” the source said. “He’s going to have chances at head NBA jobs....

In a story published in late December in The Wall Street Journal, titled “Xi’s China Crafts Campaign to Boost Youth Patriotism,” reporter Liza Lin described how President Xi Jinping (who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party) and his apparatchiks are using slick videos on social media to drive patriotism in their country. “It’s more sophisticated than anything Beijing has attempted in the past,” the author noted. And more than anything Mao Zedong, chairman of the People’s Republic of China, ever tried....

Mustafi out for three weeks Centre-back Helio Hermito Zampier Neto is one of just three players, along with defender Alan Luciano Ruschel and reserve goalkeeper Jackson Ragnar Follmann, to have survived the crash which tragically killed 71 people including 19 players. As Neto recovers in a Colombian hospital, doctors have decided against informing the crash survivor about the tragedy and he has reportedly been asking about the result of the game they were travelling to play against Atletico Nacional in the first leg of the final of the Copa Sudamericana....

Nineteen Chapecoense players and coach Caio Junior were among the 71 who lost their lives last November when the plane carrying them to Medellin for the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional crashed. Chapecoense to play Barca in August Mancini was appointed the following month and oversaw the formation of a new squad, but finds himself out of the job less than seven months later....

My message to Gordon and other NFL players: Don’t buy a word of that ill-informed opinion. The reality is Bell lost $14.5 million in salary that he would have received had he played under his franchise tender. He lost a full season of earnings in a career that, for a running back, usually ends around age 30. Unless Bell suffered an unlikely career-ending injury, or his level of play declined significantly last year, he still would have gotten the deal in New York, not to mention the 2018 cash from Pittsburgh....

We have discussed this game in detail, and created DraftKings and FanDuel lineups for it as well. But this column is all about the props we have hand-selected as the most intriguing and the most potentially-lucrative on Sports Interaction and BetMGM. Our prop betting has been very successful this season. Just two weeks ago, our BetMGM One Game Parlay for the Thursday Night Football game between the Eagles and the Texans hit and made readers $550 on $50 wagers....

Speaking from the heart, not from a script, the charismatic Callaway detailed why he sees himself being a successful big-league manager. MORE: Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger wins Sporting News NL ROY “We’re going to care more about the players than anyone ever has before,” the 42-year-old Callaway said, wearing his new No. 36 Mets jersey. “We’re going to know that they are human beings and individuals; and this is going to be a group that feels that every day they come into the clubhouse....

A $100,000 contribution from the owner of the New England Patriots was turned down earlier this month by Patrick Moynihan, the president of an organization that provides free schooling to upward of 350 impoverished children in Haiti. “The last thing I wanted was a donation from Robert Kraft,” Moynihan told the Boston Globe. “I could not be silent. I had to stand up.” MORE: Grading the best, worst 2019 draft classes 1-32...

Ah, yes. What a time that was. MORE: Recapping an emotional four days for LeBron James Unfortunately for several prisoners of the moment, the Lakers captured victories in the next four games to advance to the Western Conference semifinals. Los Angeles won each of those games by at least eight points behind consistent greatness from LeBron James (27.4 points, 10.2 rebounds, 10.2 assists per game) and Anthony Davis (29.8 points, 9....

Barkley gave a thoughtful, entertaining eulogy Saturday in Houston at the funeral of the three-time NBA MVP who took him under his wing in Philadelphia. MORE: Remembering Moses, in images | JOSEPH: Nobody did it like Malone “I haven’t called him Moses since 1985,” Barkley told the crowd. “Everytime I saw him, I called him Dad.” The fifth overall pick out of Auburn in 1984, Barkley came into a locker room filled with stars such as Julius Erving, Andrew Toney and Maurice Cheeks....

MORE: Must-see conference finals photos “People think us old guys hate when we talk about it. It has nothing to do with the Warriors’ greatness, LeBron’s greatness. But I’ve never seen the NBA as bad as it is, and I’ve been saying it the last three or four years,” Barkley told Phoenix radio station KMVP-FM. “We’ve got too many young players coming out of college that don’t know how to play....

Speaking at CBS and Turner Sports’ NCAA Tournament Media Day, the Chuckster went by the old adage that a free education is enough. MORE: 10 best tourney players | 10 worst losses for bubble teams | SN’s All-Americans “First of all, there’s not that many good college players. Less than one percent are going to pay in the NBA. What about the other 99 percent that are getting a free education?...

UFC 274 was originally planned to take place in Brazil but has been moved. The new location has not been announced. Gaethje told BT Sport he would have loved fighting in “enemy territory.” “I want to go down to Brazil,” Gaethje said, via MMA Fighting. “I want to fight in the chaos. If you go back and listen to my earlier interviews, I said I wanted to go to the enemy territory, like Brazil, and fight in that chaos....

But he wasn’t the only one. Na’s caddie, Kenny Harms, had another reason for celebrating Na’s third PGA Tour victory. The winner of the event, held at the Colonial Golf Course in Fort Worth, Texas, was promised a 1973 Dodge Challenger. It didn’t take Na long to gift it over to Harms, who helped Na finish with a four-stroke advantage over the rest of the field. As soon as Na’s final putt fell in the hole, he pointed at the car and yelled, “That’s your car!...