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Maguire swapped Leicester City for Premier League giants United in a world-record deal reportedly worth £80million following months of speculation. The England international, who signed a six-year contract with the option of a further season at Old Trafford, and his transfer to United is believed to have surpassed the £75m Liverpool paid Southampton for Van Dijk in January 2018. Van Dijk, who led Liverpool to Champions League glory in 2018-19, knows the pressure associated with huge price tags and he had advice for Maguire....

Defending champion Vani Kapoor will look to capitalise on her fine form as the 12th leg of the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour begins at the Prestige Golfshire here on Wednesday. The three-day Rs.6,00,000 event will see 16 professionals and Trisha Sunil, the lone amateur vying for the top spot. Hero Order of Merit leader Vani, with total earnings of Rs.11,80,200, has already posted four wins and four runner-up finishes this year, the latest being at Karnataka Golf Association (KGA)....

Kiki Bertens beat last year’s runner-up Williams 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 8-6 in a monumental battle on Number One Court. World number 20 Bertens had never made it into the second week at the All England Club, but battled her way past ninth seed Williams in two hours and 40 minutes. Veteran American Williams, a five-time singles champion at SW19, broke to stay in the match and level at 5-5 in the second set before going on to win the tie-break....

The passage of time can rob the athlete with its ticking hand, but it can never steal her heart. At her prime, the irresistible Venus Williams powered herself to four of six Grand Slam titles between Wimbledon in 2000 and the US Open the next year. And even Venus might agree that those are memories from a distant past. Injury and illness have ravaged her cells, making life uncertain for the legendary lady....

The Italian playmaker featured in both legs of PSG’s Round of 16 tie with the Spanish champions, which ended 6-5 on aggregate and saw Luis Enrique’s men progress after the most dramatic comeback in the competition’s history. Juventus beat Porto 3-0 on aggregate to set up a quarter-final clash with Barca, and Verratti reckons his country’s champions, who are unbeaten in their last 14 games in all competitions, can continue their quest for a league, cup and Champions League treble this season....

The Red Bull driver finished 0.123 seconds ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in Saturday’s session at Interlagos. Lewis Hamilton, who has already sealed the 2019 drivers’ title, came third, ending up 0.191s behind Verstappen in a Q3 session where the top drivers were closely matched. The Briton has vowed to be more aggressive now his sixth world championship is secured and has won this race in two of the last three years....

Suarez started for Barca in Sunday’s Supercopa de Espana triumph over Sevilla but looked some way off the pace. The Uruguayan missed a couple of chances he would normally be expected to bury, while his passing also left a lot to be desired. He featured from the bench as Barca cruised past Boca Juniors 3-0 in the Joan Gamper Trophy on Wednesday and claimed an assist for Rafinha’s goal, though some suggested he was still far from his best....

Swansong will be set in 21st-century Boston and revolves around three characters under the rule of a vampire Prince attempting to reinstate the Camarilla sect and their devotion to keeping vampires secret. The trailer shows a shootout that will begin the game, giving the players the mission to uncover the identity of the person (or vampire) behind the attack. Like Bloodlines 2, Swansong will deal with how different vampires deal with the eponymous “Masquerade” of vampires blending into the human world, and those who violate it....

Rocker closed that run with a 11-strikeout performance in a 4-1 victory against Michigan in Game 2 of the College World Series finals on Tuesday. The Commodores and Wolverines play Game 3 on Wednesday. Rocker, a 6-4, 255-pound freshman, has produced the most captivating tournament performance in this postseason run. MORE: Vandy shuts down Michigan to force Game 3 Here are five remarkable statistics Rocker is responsible for this postseason:...

The military’s own data confirms the extent of the crisis at hand. In the 2018 fiscal year alone, an estimated 20,500 service members were sexually assaulted or raped—an increase of almost 40 percent from 2016. To put it bluntly: There is a sexual abuse epidemic within the military, but accountability for offenders and support for survivors are an illusion. By the military’s own admission, “sexual harassment is a leading factor affecting unit climate on sexual assault....

“The senators are not doctors, Ma’am, with the exception of Bill Frist…And I think one of them is a veterinarian…I’m sorry you feel that way, Ma’am…The Pope has met him on several occasions and he considers him Catholic.’’ Yes, the aide sighed as he hung up, he gets those calls all the time. Catholics have also been dialing the Washington archdiocese to weigh in on whether another pro-choice Catholic, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, could, should or would take communion on Easter....

In a viral post shared on Reddit’s infamous AmITheA**hole forum, which can be read here, user purpldingo explained they had been vegan for 10 years and that eating meat could cause digestive issues for them. According to Statista, about 2 percent of Americans follow a vegan diet—although it noted that surveys have trouble identifying the exact number. The leading reasons why people become vegan are concerns about animal welfare, climate change and the desire to eat more healthily, it said....

CONMEBOL has a history of inviting nations from outside the continent to compete in the tournament, with Japan and Asian champions Qatar being selected this time around to make it a 12-team format. Japan, who also took part in the 1999 edition, are using the competition as preparation for the Tokyo Olympics next year and have sent a team made up of under-23 players. And Dudamel has joined Paraguay boss Eduardo Berizzo in questioning the Samurai Blue’s participation in Brazil....

Unfortunately, a fan did not get the memo. While Venezuelan striker Aquiles Ocanto was giving a postgame interview, a man in a yellow shirt ran up behind the player and delivered a monstrous kick right in Ocanto’s back. MORE: Reporter confronts hecklers | Visiting players sprayed with tear gas Luckily, Ocanto’s club Carabobo FC said he is fine. Meanwhile, the fan is being recruited for the next Jean Claude Van Damme movie....

By late Tuesday evening, the high-water mark had reached a peak of 187 centimeters (74 inches) in what was the highest tide to affect the popular tourist destination for more than 50 years, Associated Press reported. This is second only to the high tide seen during the infamous flood of 1966, which caused water levels to rise to a record 194 centimeters (76 inches.) The city’s right-wing Mayor Luigi Brugnaro blamed the floods on climate change....

Back in 2018 when Sony’s first Venom came out packing 112 minutes of symbiote entertainment, its runtime was already slightly below what was the norm for most MCU films, which usually clock in at just over two hours. Venom received mostly mixed to negative reviews, despite Tom Hardy being praised for his individual performance as Eddie Brock, so new director Andy Serkis will certainly be looking to iron out any potential issues for his sequel....

Lenin did not even begin to build socialism in Russia, argues Pipes. He “smashed” the czarist order (Marx’s word) and left behind a single-party dictatorship that kept on smashing. Lenin bequeathed his personal style to the Soviet state: disciplined and conspiratorial, comfortable with violence. While exhorting other people to take up a “gun, revolver, bomb, knife, brass knuckles, rag soaked in kerosene to start fires,” Lenin himself had a cowardly side....

Giorgio Chiellini’s first-half goal was cancelled out by Aleksandar Trajkovski with 13 minutes remaining to ensure a miserable end to an insipid performance from Italy. They travel to Albania on Monday for their final fixture on the brink of securing a play-off berth and Ventura is eager to inject some new faces into his listless side. “We lost some players and lost a certain thread that we had in the first half, in my view,” he told Rai Sport....

LONDON (Reuters) - Venus Williams will feel at home when she plays Jelena Ostapenko on Centre Court in the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Tuesday. The American appeared at her first Wimbledon in 1997, the year the Latvian was born, and won it for the first time when Ostapenko was three. For 20-year-old Ostapenko, the newly crowned French Open champion, it will be a first outing on the most famous grass court in the world....

Sixth seed Verdasco will take on Facundo Bagnis in the last 16 in Bastad after overcoming a scare to defeat Swedish wildcard Ymer 4-6 6-3 6-4. David Ferrer is another Spaniard into round two of a clay-court event he has won twice, the eighth seed accounting for Federico Delbonis 6-3 6-4. Ferrer’s next test will be against showman Dustin Brown, who was a 6-4 6-3 winner against Thomaz Bellucci....