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Goal will keep you updated on the individual goal tallies for the highest-scoring Champions League players this season. Champions League 2020-21 Top Scorers Wonderkid Erling Haaland leads the pack with 10 goals, while Neymar and Olivier Giroud are on six goals. Robert Lewandowski continues to chip in for Bayern Munich with five goals, a tally also reached by Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema. Meanwhile, Kylian Mbappe scored four goals across two games against Barcelona in the last 16 (including a hat-trick in the first leg), meaning he is on six strikes....

He has led fewer than half the laps of favorite Kevin Harvick — Harvick has led 2,083 to Logano’s 993 — but Logano has shown more than enough power that if he went out Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway and dominated the race, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise. MORE: Final four profiles | Breaking down final four | Newman could ruin Chase | Definition of champion has changed...

The Blades, who had fallen behind their Yorkshire rivals last weekend, battled to a 1-0 win at Preston North End, while Leeds fell to a shock loss at Birmingham City. Leaders Norwich City prevailed in the early kick-off, thrashing QPR, while Aston Villa’s fine form continued with a dramatic win at Sheffield Wednesday. Meanwhile, Bristol City, Derby County, Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest all dropped points in pursuit of a play-off spot....

The draw however, did not stop the Atlas Lions from finishing top of the Group with a better goal difference while Sudan also advanced to the quarters as the runners-up. Achraf Bencharki had his second-half penalty saved and, despite dominating, the hosts could not find a way past Akram El Hadi Salim in the Sudan goal. In another Group A match, Guinea salvaged some pride with a 1-0 over Mauritania....

The tournament has provided impetus to the careers of stalwarts like Michael Atherton, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Nasser Hussain, Brian Lara, Sanath Jayasuriya and Graeme Smith as well as current stars like Ahmed Shahzad, Alastair Cook, Quinton de Kock, Shikhar Dhawan, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Angelo Mathews, Shakib Al Hasan, Steven Smith and Ross Taylor, among others. It is one of the most important and keenly followed cricketing events where teenagers get a taste of international experience, pressure and exposure and also receive training and education on anti-doping and anti-corruption....

Hathurusingha has been the head coach of The Tigers since July 2014 and has been instrumental in the rise of the national team’s recent performances, especially in limited-overs cricket. During the meeting, it was also decided that the former Sri Lankan player will also be a part of the six-man selection committee. The six-man committee includes the likes of former Bangladesh player and current Bangladesh team manager, Khaled Mahmud and BCB’s cricket operations committee chairman, Akram Khan....

But because it is 2015 and everything plays out on Twitter, Mavericks’ forward Chandler Parsons, an aggressive free agent pitchman himself, let people know he too is headed to Houston to try and pursuade Jordan to stay with the team he has yet to sign with. MORE: Free agency winners and losers | Redick gives Clippers ‘F’ And because it is 2015, and everything plays out on Twitter, Clippers’ guard J....

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Rutgers’ Hayden Rettig is the one you might have forgot about. Rettig, a former 4-star quarterback out of Cathedral High School in Los Angeles. MORE: Preseason Top 25 | Top 25 QBs for 2015 | Seeing believing with Cardale Rettig opened eyes with a senior season in which he finished with 3,424 passing yards and 40 TDs, and he committed to LSU. After one year, however, Rettig transferred to Rutgers....

The new face of Chargers football predicted long ago that he’d be living in Los Angeles as an NFL player in a “time capsule” exercise posted by the Chargers on Wednesday. (Side note: A 9-year-old reading a Mike Lupica book? Impressive.) Among the things the former Duck QB predicted: He’d live in LA, he’d be an NFL player and that he would reach his large frame. He did undershoot his height a bit, as he stands at 6-6 now; he said he’d reach 6-3 in his letter....

The injury kept Taylor from starting against the Chiefs and will prevent him from playing for the foreseeable future (though he is reportedly not an IR candidate at this point). It could prove career-altering for Taylor, whose setback opens the door for rookie Justin Herbert to take his job. But Lynn did not consider the matter in those significant terms. “I’m not angry at all,” Lynn told reporters. “It happens....

GIVING CHARITABLE CHECKUP LINDA STERN AND ANJALI ARORA Before you make that donation, don’t you want to know how much your favorite charity spends on good works, and how much goes to paying its top envelope stuffers? All of that information is buried in a federal tax return, Form 990, that nonprofits must file. It used to take weeks to get copies of those forms. Now two organizations are posting the forms online so donors can quickly check out their charities firsthand....

“This is one of those times for me, it’s like [West] went too far. Like the anti-Black, antisemitic rhetoric: Bro, you a Nazi. We don’t got time for that right now,” the host of Comedy Central’s Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God told Newsweek. “We already see fascism rising rapidly in this country, and you choose to be on the side of people spewing that kind of rhetoric, energizing that kind of hate?...

In Lake Tahoe for a celebrity golf tournament, Barkley appeared on SportsTalk Live. Off top, he was asked about his perceived hatred of the Warriors, the Hall-of-Famer quickly corrected the interviewer, pointing out that he’s never liked the chances of jump-shooting teams to win a title, not the Warriors specifically. He applauded coach Steve Kerr and his team for their recent triumph in the NBA Finals, but added he thought the series might’ve stood a chance at going the Cavaliers’ way had Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving been healthy....

MORE: Biggest NBA Draft regrets | Lakers want next coach to be ‘recruiter-in-chief’ “I want to apologize to the Houston Rockets,” Barkley said on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Inside the NBA,” via the Houston Chronicle. “I overacted to two tweets. I said something I shouldn’t say. So I want to apologize to Daryl Morey. And I want to apologize to Tad Brown, the CEO, for overreacting.” Morey tweeted Barkley after he criticized the team against the Suns last season....

On the Doug Gottlieb Show, NBA legend Charles Barkley stood behind Jones’ decision to continue his education. “I think it’s great,” Barkley said. “I think the more young black kids who go to school, I think it’s always great for them.” MORE: OSU tops SN’s early Top 10 for 2015 | Jones daring OSU to say no Jones cited how short his football career window is and how his education will serve him once that window closes....

According to a report by The Associated Press, Knicks owner James Dolan reversed course, revoking a ban of Oakley from the New York arena after a much-publicized arrest that occurred last Wednesday. MORE: Dwyane Wade: Knicks organization couldn’t handle Big Three in 2010 The incident stemmed from Madison Square Garden security trying to remove Oakley from his seat, which he responded to with shoves. The AP says the decision comes after Oakley met with NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Michael Jordan and Dolan, and both sides hashed things out....

Kirk, 28, a Newsweek contributor, is founder and president of the conservative group Turning Point USA, and chairs the group Students for Trump. He spoke of his experience during a speech Wednesday at an event in Chicago that was captured on video. Kirk, who grew up in Chicagoland, said he was asked to provide proof of vaccination during a recent visit to a restaurant in the Chicago suburbs. He told the crowd that he was repeatedly asked to show his “papers” to the restaurant staff....

In the bottom of the third inning of Tuesday’s game vs. the Astros, starter Charlie Morton was forced to exit his outing after getting a strikeout looking of Astros second baseman Jose Altuve. The Braves later announced that after X-rays, it was revealed he had a fractured right fibula that will keep him out of the rest of the World Series. MORE: Astros vs. Braves live score, updates, highlights...

A motion filed Friday in Oldham Family Court by Jonathan Blue calls the current Texas coach a “critical witness” in the trustee’s proceeding with his wife, Tracy, WDRB reports. MORE: Ranking top college football states | Best recruiters since 2010 Blue’s attorney asked a judge to order Strong to produce numerous records documenting communication with Tracy Blue, including text messages, phone bills and travel records dating to 2012. Strong was Louisville’s coach from 2010-13 before taking the Texas job....