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Battling back minor injuries, a tough opponent, and an intense environment; the 29-year-old unseeded Spaniard took down Elina Svitolina in three sets 2-6, 7-6(3), 6-4 on Arantxa Sanchez Court on the grounds of La Caja Magica. The maintaining of her first serve got her across the finish line to advance to the third round. It was the third time she managed to defeat a top ten player in the tournament with more chances on the horizon....

Kermit Lansner, 78, who was managing editor and then Editor of NEWSWEEK from 1965 to 1972, died of complications of lung cancer. Lansner brought an unusual background to the job: he had been a philosophy professor and an editor at ArtNews before joining NEWSWEEK as a book critic. In the ’60s, when the drumbeat of political and international news was so insistent, a top editor so steeped in culture was rare....

Carlsen, 22, becomes the first World Champion from Norway defeating the five-time champion Anand, 43, on his home turf. The final tally stood at 6.5-3.5 in favour of Carlsen in the title match sponsored by the Tamil Nadu government. The winner takes home $1.53 million while Anand will settle for $1.02 million. Giving full credit to Carlsen for his title victory Anand said his mistakes did not happen on their own....

England international Maguire has long been linked with some of the biggest clubs in the Premier League, with United and Manchester City emerging as the front-runners following the conclusion of last season. But after weeks of speculation, Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers confirmed on Friday the Foxes and United had reached an agreement over a fee for the centre-back. United are reported to be paying £80million, which will see Maguire usurp Liverpool star Van Dijk as the world’s most expensive defender, having arrived at the Reds for an estimated £75m in January 2018....

Q: I keep thinking Alabama will hit the point that every team at the top hits, and eventually fall. Like USC, Miami and Florida over the years. When do you see this happening? — Henry George, Franklin, Tenn. Look at the three programs you mentioned, and see the common denominator: they couldn’t sustain greatness because they couldn’t control entitled players, and couldn’t find elite quarterbacks. Now look at Alabama....

Residents in the city of Bangor demonstrated at Pierce Memorial Park, News Center Maine reported at the weekend, noting that the “retirement party” event had been organized by the local Indivisible chapter and Mainers for Accountable Leadership. Attendees at the small demonstration against Sen. Collins manned a voter registration table and were required to wear face masks. A video of the demonstration showed one man holding up a sign that read, “Bye Bye Susan, Gideon 2020” while another banner simply said, “Happy Retirement!...

Feds say that Dushko Vulchev, of Houlton, set fire to and effectively destroyed the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield on December 28, 2020. In the weeks prior, he allegedly set a number of other fires at the church and slashed the tires of vehicles parked at or near the church, according to a news release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). “My investigation has established probable cause to believe that Vulchev set the fire that destroyed the MLK Church on December 28, 2020, and also that he committed the vandalism and arsons that preceded it,” FBI Special Agent Casey Anderson said in an affidavit that was filed in support of the criminal complaint on Thursday....

The lipid profile (a measure of the level of various fats in the blood) is crucial for everyone. Keeping LDL cholesterol in check lowers heart-disease risk in both sexes, but maintaining a healthy triglyceride and HDL level is especially important for women. Likewise, diabetes is a bigger risk factor for women than for men, and it can set in without ever causing symptoms. So every woman should ask her doctor about whether to have her blood sugar tested....

It was a typical college football game Thursday night except that four of the seven people wearing the black-and-white stripes were women. The Southern Intercollege Athletic Conference billed the Miles-Lane game as the first majority-female officiating crew for an NCAA game. The event — Miles won 38-26 — was significant enough that the NFL's director of officiating David Coleman, director of recruiting Ron Baynes and regional scout Bob Shoulders attended the game....

A goal. A save. A drive. A dribble. For football aficionados, these actions are synonymous with moments that provide the most joy to someone watching the beautiful game. Waking up in the morning to a room filled with posters of your favourite players and teams is one of those refreshing feelings that cannot really be replicated. But guess what’s better than watching football? Playing it. Make A Difference (MAD), an organization that provides family-like care to children living in orphanages and street shelters, brings to you the MAD Super Cup, one of the largest of its kind amateur football leagues in India, to be held across seven cities....

The unparalleled master of short track racing in NASCAR’s premier series, Richard Petty accumulated the most wins (15), most top fives (30) and most top 10s (37) at the 0.526-mile speedway. MORE: Fire damages Petty’s Garage | Sunday’s starting lineup | Denny Hamlin clocks in But in Petty’s day, success at Martinsville — site of Sunday’s STP 500 — was as much about running at the end as it was about racing at the end of the event....

Netflix’s History of Swear Words looks to change that. The new series—a joint production from the folks at Funny or Die and B17 Entertainment—explores the meaning and evolution of several dirty words. Pretty much every episode of the profanity-packed show opens with host Nicolas Cage—yes, you read that correctly—stirring in a whimsical study, surrounded by books while he paints, reads and pontificates about how we use explicit language. The Oscar winner’s segments frame the episodes, each of which is dedicated to a different swear word....

It’s become so clear that even Arsene Wenger has admitted publicly that he is in the tranfser market for a striker that it is after having been left with only Olivier Giroud as a senior frontman, especially once Theo Walcott succumbed to the usual injury troubles that plague the Gunners. Yaya Sanogo has been promoted into the first team picture in recent months, but it has become painfully clear that he is still far from the finished article, while Nicklas Bendtner has reverted to his customary frustrating type, courting indiscipline off the field in addition to failing to gain the trust of his manager on it....

The October Surprise theory has been kicking around for the past 11 years, and it has become a mother lode for conspiracy junkies of all political persuasions. It got its biggest boost early this year when Gary Sick, a former member of Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council staff, wrote an article on the op-ed page of The New York Times asserting his belief that it could have happened. Sick, who has already written a much-praised book (“All Fall Down”) about the Iran hostage crisis, is about to publish a second book laying out his case for the October Surprise....

Now though publisher EA Sports has gone beyond just those top picks by placing even more incoming rookies into Ultimate Team. Available through either card packs or purchases directly through the Auction House, 33 more have entered the pool of players. Most come from the second round but several are from the third and the last few from the fourth. MORE: Madden NFL 17 game winners, losers As was the case with the first rounders, there are two versions of cards for each rookie....

Madden NFL 21 regained some popularity after launching on EA Play, giving Xbox Game Pass Ultimate owners a chance to hop onto the gridiron. As players have taken the opportunity to play the title, many have noticed there are still some bugs scattered throughout the game, although not nearly as harmful as bugs when the game first released. RELATED: Madden Player Loses Easy Victory By Showboating Although the latest Franchise Mode update was intended to tweak AI trade logic and add league historical context, it seems some bugs have come along with the changes....

A guy who’s as identifiable in the Bay Area as a trolley shouldn’t be moved. Simply put, trading Mad Bum seems Mad Dumb. But that’s the challenge for new Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi — how do you move a San Francisco legend? There’s no denying that when Bumgarner is on, he’s on, and he’s one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball. MORE: MLB free agent tracker — See who goes where this winter...

The executives — which includes a senior executive in ticket sales and corporate hospitality — were reselling coveted Knicks and Rangers tickets for profit. MORE: Biggest betting scandals in American sports history | NFC divisional playoff round in photos “It was uncovered through an internal investigation that a small handful of employees were breaking company policies and, as a result, they were relieved of their responsibilities,” an MSG spokesman said via The Post....

Speaking over the weekend, Pogba stated it was time for a “new challenge”, having been linked with a big-money move away from Old Trafford for several months. The 26-year-old was the most expensive player in football history when he re-joined United from Juventus for £89.3million in 2016. Despite scoring 31 goals in all competitions over the course of three seasons, Pogba’s failure to consistently hit top form for a sustained period has invited regular criticism, while the collapse of his relationship with Jose Mourinho was an unseemly factor towards the end of the Portuguese’s ill-fated reign as manager....