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Rash dive can’t help Man Utd break top four Since the Premier League began, the North London derby has been the top-scoring fixture in the English top flight. Tottenham’s two goals on Sunday pushed the mark to 141 scored between the two sides. Additionally, Harry Kane put himself in the history books in Sunday’s match. The England striker buried a 58th-minute penalty to hand his side a 2-0 lead, giving him the most Premier League goals scrored by a Spurs player against the Gunners....

Tottenham would eventually equalize through Christian Eriksen in the 55th minute before Serge Aurier would restore Norwich’s lead with an own goal six minutes later. It looked set for an unlikely Norwich win before Harry Kane would win himself a penalty and then convert it, seven minutes from the end. Despite impressing the rest of the league with their attacking style of play, the Canaries are winless in their last 15 Premier League games, drawing 4 and losing 10....

It would be presumptuous to suggest that Norwich weren’t tipped to finish highly in many pundits and football experts pre-season table predictions. Before a ball had been kicked, many (including me) had Norwich finishing in mid-table obscurity and had written off any chances of a play-off challenge. But, such are the surprises that get thrown up in the Championship, that the Canaries are now flying this season under a manager treating the league to a blend of attractive football and defensive stability....

Even Indian football aficionados may struggle to get the context readily, but the fact remains that Nagen Tamang, an out-of-favour Indian striker who had played for a couple of I-League sides in the recent past is taking the Bhutan National League by storm. The Darjeeling boy scored the winner for his team Transport United last weekend as the team remained tied on the top of the table in terms of points with the league reaching its halfway mark....

However, what made this such a strange, sad sight was that the Juventus goalkeeper, one of the game’s true gentlemen, didn’t even acknowledge the applause of the Real Madrid fans as he left the field. He was fuming, not over his straight red card for dissent, but what had gone before. In the dying seconds of injury time, referee Michael Oliver penalised Medhi Benatia for his clumsy challenge on Lucas Vazquez, presenting Real with a chance to win an absorbing Champions League quarter-final tie 4-3 on aggregate....

However, Shankar is keeping his feet firmly on the ground and is not looking too far ahead. He is quite content with his position in the side and is not getting too worked up over the perceived competition with Hardik Pandya, who is India’s number one all-rounder. “Pandya has done well so far and his rise has been amazing. I am not thinking about any sort of competition. It’s not about competing with anyone but improving on a personal front and trying to cement a place in the starting XI,” Vijay told IANS in a telephonic interview....

We found two problems: The jobs didn’t move offshore. They were actually sent to Ohio. Eliminating the “tax breaks” in question probably wouldn’t do much to keep jobs in the U.S. Analysis The ad began running in Iowa last week. It is sponsored by Working 4 Working Americans, which is a PAC registered to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, a union that has endorsed former Sen. John Edwards for president....

MORE: Ranking college football’s coaches Check out the big reveal of the uniforms the Fighting Irish will wear in their game against Army: The Shamrock Series began in 2009 with a game against Washington State in San Antonio. This year’s game will return to San Antonio’s Alamodome.

The Notre Dame defensive back’s girlfriend and his teammate’s fiancée say Butler was a victim of police brutality, according to the South Bend Tribune. MORE: Bold predictions for college football’s Week 1 Police reported that Butler assaulted an officer, claiming he punched and slammed the officer to the crowd. His girlfriend, Haleigh Bailey, told the Tribune the report was not accurate. “I was there that entire night,” Bailey wrote to the paper....

Coming into this week’s game at Stanford, they have lost another key player, running back CJ Prosise, their leading ball carrier. Line: Stanford -3.5, Total: 56 (check The Linemakers’ odds page for updated point spreads and totals from Las Vegas) Prosise has been very good, gaining over 1,000 yards in replacing the original starter, Tarean Folston. So now the Irish are down to their third running back, Josh Adams, who isn’t bad....

Whilst admitting that such a response would be a last resort, he accepted that extreme circumstances may force the organizers into such a decision. In case you didn’t know… Over the last few months, the west coast of Australia has been ravaged by terrible bushfires. The devastation has been immense, with over 20 people and millions of animals perishing due to the fires. The heart of the matter Djokovic, who serves as the head of the ATP Player Council, explained that the tournament organizers are likely to do everything in their power to ensure the tournament is not affected....

Djokovic made light work of his campaign opener at the 2023 Australian Open on Tuesday, beating Spain’s Roberto Carballes Baena 6-3, 6-4, 6-0. The Serb wore heavy strapping around his left hamstring throughout the match, but showed no signs of discomfort or the need to receive treatment for the injury. The Serbian great admitted post-match that while the hamstring injury is not yet alarming, it is ’not ideal’ either, as things stand....

The 2013 Fed Cup World Group gets under way Saturday with the tournament missing marquee names Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova and with a late format tweak aimed at boosting the event’s appeal. Both Williams and Sharapova featured in the 2012 Fed Cup, partly to meet Olympic Games qualifying criteria, but will not be involved when the United States tackle Italy and Russia welcome Japan this weekend. Williams, who has played just six ties since 1999, has a back injury while Sharapova, whose Fed Cup record stretches to a meagre three appearances since her 2008 debut, was left out of the Russian squad....

Crusaders prop Tim Perry, who played two non-test matches on New Zealand’s tour to the northern hemisphere last year, and Chiefs scrumhalf Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi are the only uncapped members of the squad announced Monday. Captain Kieran Read, hooker Dane Coles and lock Brodie Retallick all return after missing the All Blacks’ June test series against France because of injuries. Coles hasn’t played since November, missing all of the Super Rugby season because of knee and calf injuries and is unlikely to take any major part in the Championship....

Across the aisle, Social Security has kept a similarly low profile. Democratic candidates deliver policy speeches on everything from agriculture to John Ashcroft but most stay mum about Social Security on the stump. Of course, frontrunner John Kerry pays lip service to protecting senior’s benefits. But one could travel for days on his campaign bus before learning that the system needed any fixing at all. This is surprising since experts in both parties are convinced that Social Security needs a dramatic overhaul, soon....

A win against PSV on Wednesday will guarantee Barca top spot in in Group B and a last-16 clash against a runner-up from one of the other groups. Vidal highlighted the prospect of winning the Champions League as one of the main motivations behind his move from Bayern Munich to Camp Nou ahead of the 2018-19 season. But put to him that he might put his mohawk on the line and shave it off if Barca go all the way in Europe, Vidal was not prepared to entertain the idea....

It’s only natural, then, that the return of Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock — an interaction of the character that first appeared in 2004’s Spider-Man 2 — was the big reveal used to build hype around Spider-Man: No Way Home when its first trailer released. Fans were overjoyed to see Otto Octavius back on the big screen, and the film’s marketing definitely played him up as a major selling point of the film....

No. 5 Oklahoma suffered its first loss of the season after a 48-41 defeat on the road to Kansas State. After a Wildcat touchdown at the start of the fourth quarter, the Sooners found themselves trailing 48-23 with 12:54 to go. Oklahoma then mounted a furious comeback which saw it roar back to within seven points with 1:45 left. The Sooners then tried for an onside kick to keep their hopes of an undefeated season alive, and it seemed to have work....

The defensive backs intercepted passes on back-to-back drives in the fourth quarter, the second by Floyd to set up Teddy Bridgewater's 6-yard touchdown pass that clinched the Cardinals' 24-10 victory over Rutgers on Thursday night. – Box score | Play by play | Top 10 rivalries | Week 7 picks | PHOTOS: Week 7 Defense was the story for the eighth-ranked Cardinals (6-0, 2-0 American Athletic Conference), who had four interceptions, sacked Gary Nova eight times and held Rutgers to 12 yards rushing....

The coronavirus has seen economies across the world grind to a halt, with governments facing head-on the short- and long-term problems lockdowns and widespread unemployment bring. From supporting businesses, to individuals, action has been required at the top level, whether it is with bailing out the airline industry, saving jobs, central bank intervention or providing unemployment checks. The economic disruption of the coronavirus is comparable to the havoc wrought by the global financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, and will be at the forefront of voters’ minds when they go to the polls in November....