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In the nominations for the 2021 Academy Awards, the Black Panther actor is one of five actors nominated for Best Actor. This makes him the eighth actor to be nominated posthumously for Hollywood’s biggest prize. The actor is nominated for his final performance, as Levee Green in Netflix’s film adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. This comes a few weeks after the actor won a Golden Globe for his performance, as well as being nominated for a BAFTA....

That day will be on opening weekend, or opening night, or the first preseason game, or whenever the NFL’s restructured replay system officially goes into effect. Whatever the day is, it’s coming. For the record, Blandino’s reaction to this is … welp. But the NFL made it clear Wednesday that, for all the raw sewage dumped on Blandino non-stop for four years as senior vice president of officiating, he had shouldered an enormous weight on behalf of the league and its ever-growing tangle of rule changes and enforcement....

As with most of European soccer, though, Champions League will return to complete its tournament. Five months and nine days will have passed between the first legs of Manchester City-Real Madrid and Juventus-Lyon and the Aug. 7 resumption of those series. It’s doubtful there’s ever been anything like this, but at least it’s happening. MORE: Watch Champions League matches live on fuboTV (7-day free trial) Champions League bracket 2020 When the pandemic hiatus began, four teams — Atletico Madrid, RB Leipzig, Paris Saint-Germain and Atalanta — had established themselves as quarterfinalists....

After all, it would be a hard label to justify following the all-Spanish Champions League final and the all-German final for Europe’s top prize in 2013. Instead, people choose to talk to English football’s competitiveness and entertainment factor rather than its quality because the days of the Premier League’s dominance in Europe are long gone. Between 2005 and 2009, England produced finalists every year in the Champions League. Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United all reached the final hurdle and twice Premier League sides conquered Europe....

The match is expected to be a good one, and American-born Christian Pulisic will look to become the second American to ever win the tournament (Jovan Kirovski was the first) and hopes to be the first to start for the winning side. It’s going to be a big-time battle for Pulisic and the Blues, and soccer fans in the United States will surely want to watch Pulisic in action, among others....

Some of the best players in the world and the best teams in the world have graced its stage from the earlier European Cup phase into the modern Champions League era. But who has been the most successful club? Which player has the most goals? What country has enjoyed most success? Fear not, for Goal brings you the answer to these questions and more below. Note: Records encompass ‘European Cup’ & ‘Champions League’ from 1955 - present Last updated: March 29, 2018...

Most of Phoenix’s games have been decided long before the start of the fourth quarter. The thing is, most of the ones that haven’t been decided heading into the final frame have ended in a similar fashion. According to NBA.com, the Suns have played 38 clutch games this season, meaning the game was within five points heading into the final five minutes. Phoenix’s record in those contests? 32-6, marking the fewest losses a team has suffered in those situations since the 2015-16 Warriors, who broke the Bulls’ single-season wins record that was long thought to be unbreakable....

Promotion to the Premier League not only brings the prestige of playing in one of the biggest competitions in world football, it also provides an insanely lucrative boost to the tune of hundreds of millions. In recent seasons, the influx of television money to England’s top division has increased its allure and, as a result of that, the Championship play-off final has been popularly dubbed as the £170 million game in recent years due to the minimum monetary uplift that is estimated to await the victor....

The coming year, by contrast, could be full of thrills. Last week, on the anniversary of his knockdown in Norway, the man who might just have been the best-liked (and most highly regarded) news exec in TVdom limped away from the job he loved. Stringer’s resignation ended an eventful 30-year career, crowned by six years as president of the CBS Broadcast Group. His destination: a New Age media venture set up by a trio of telephone giants–Nynex, Pacific Telesis and Bell Atlantic....

Carrick absence makes Man Utd weaker The Italian deployed a back three in the 3-0 defeat to Premier League leaders Chelsea last weekend and reverted to a four-man defence for Sunday’s trip to Southampton. However, Ranieri used a midfield diamond and saw his side slip to another 3-0 loss, and he held his hands up to take the blame. “I think the last two matches I changed the shape to try to help my players to play better to find the right solution....

Only six people survived after the plane, flying to Medellin, crashed in Cerro Gordo, La Union, on Monday. In a video on Facebook, accompanied by the words ‘Eternal champions’, Chapecoense paid tribute to their lost players. The club were flying to Colombia to play the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional. “Today, we woke up with a new challenge. “As life has taught us a different lesson....

A jet carrying Brazilian club Chapecoense to the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional came down with 72 passengers and nine crew on board, leaving only five survivors. As the football community united behind Chapecoense, it emerged that the Albiceleste had been travelling on the same aircraft before and after their 3-0 World Cup qualfiying defeat to Brazil on November 10. The Lamia BAE-146 transported Lionel Messi & Co....

MORE: Best Week 16 Photos | Clay Matthews was a real jerk to Carson Palmer During his Twitter outburst, Weddle’s agent claims the team fined him last week “for seeing his daughter perform at halftime.” He claims they didn’t make the information public because they are “classy,” but is willing to say it now because he’s upset about how the team handled Weddle’s injury situation. The San Diego Union Tribune confirmed Weddle was fined, and reported the amount was for $10,000....

“I’m disappointed it has lasted this long. I pride myself in having solutions to problems, and I haven’t solved this one yet,” Telesco said (via ESPN). “We know what he means to our team, and even bigger than that what he means to our organization. “But the other side is we have a big game coming up this week with the Colts, and I’m confident in the players that we have on the field right now will play well....

Los Angeles has added an extra kicker exclusively to handle kickoffs. PATRIOTS VS. CHARGERS: SN staff picks, odds for divisional-round game The Chargers finally found a reliable kicker for field goals this season in Michael Badgley. He’s 15 of 16 on field-goal kicks through 10 games and has made 27 of 28 extra-point kicks. But Badgley has struggled on kickoffs, creating touchbacks just nine of 54 times. That equates to 16....

During a news conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that his office has filed federal charges against Louisville Metro Police Department’s former Detective Joshua Jaynes and Sergeant Kyle Meany, as well as against Detective Kelly Goodlett and former Officer Brett Hankison. The Louisville Courier Journal reported Thursday that the police department has begun termination proceedings for Meany and Goodlett. “Among other things, the federal charges announced today allege that members of LMPD’s Place-Based Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms....

Barkley, who was born in Leeds, Alabama, spoke to AL.com’s Outbreak Alabama: Stories from a Pandemic podcast on Tuesday about COVID vaccinations and vaccine hesitancy. Trump was booed by some of his supporters at an event in Cullman, Alabama on Saturday when he suggested they should get vaccinated against the virus. He also told the crowd he believed “totally in your freedoms.” Barkley will headline a pro-vaccine rally at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama this Saturday, August 28....

Woodson doubled up his total for the season by picking off Manning once in each half with acrobatic plays. It’s the reason his Raiders were trailing Manning’s Broncos only 9-7 after three quarters. MORE: Scoreboard | Worst of Week 5’s performances | Top 10 cornerbacks in the NFL Their 18-year NFL careers, both stone-cold leadpipe locks for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, were to bound to intersect like this at this some point after how their college careers ended....

“I mean, you definitely shouldn’t do what our characters did,” Slate told Newsweek when looking back on the actions of Peter (Day) and Emma (Slate) in I Want You Back. Peter is dumped by Anne (Gina Rodriguez) at a birthday party while Noah (Scott Eastwood) breaks up with Emma over breakfast. Typically, the broken-hearted don’t take the news well, which leads the pair to form an unlikely alliance and hatch an ill-fated plan....

Join DAZN and watch Charlie Edwards vs. Angel Moreno on March 23 “To be able to go and win this (WBC title) and go and present it to her, that’s why I got so emotional,” Edwards (14-1, 6 KOs) told Sporting News, while preparing for his upcoming bout against Spain’s Angel Moreno (19-2-2, 6 KOs) on Saturday, live and exclusively on DAZN. “I broke down in that ring. I can say now, no matter what life throws at me, because I’m sure we’re going to go through a whole load of things in the future, at least now, I’ve fulfilled that promise to my mum....