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Ronaldo limped off after half an hour of Portugal’s 1-1 draw against Serbia in qualifying for the 2020 European Championship on Monday. Juventus said Tuesday that tests in Portugal revealed “an apparently minor injury to his right thigh flexors.” The club added that Ronaldo will undergo more tests when he returns to Turin to “determine when he can resume competitive activity.” Ronaldo himself told Portuguese media after the match that he “should be back in one or two weeks....

Napoli’s Sarri open to move abroad The Bianconeri have offered €10m to land Costa on an initial loan deal with an obligation to buy him permanently for €30m at the end of the 2017/18 campaign. And the Serie A giants are now hopeful of wrapping up the deal next week as they finalise the details of the financial package with Bundesliga champions Bayern. The two clubs are ironing out the last details with Juventus having already agreed terms with Costa....

Turin, Aug 7 (IANS) Italian football champions Juventus’ midfielder Paul Pogba is currently undergoing medical tests in England in preparation for a move to English Premier League side Manchester United on Monday. Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport on Sunday reported that the French player, who just finished his vacation following participation in Euro 2016, arrived on Saturday in the city of Manchester to undergo medical examinations, reports Efe....

The Portugal striker has yet to score in Serie A since his move from Porto, but he has been in scintillating form for the Rossoneri in this season’s Europa League. The 22-year-old took his tally in the competition to eight goals with a brace in Thursday’s 5-1 win over Austria Wien – a result that eased the pressure on under-fire manager Vincenzo Montella. Kaka, who watched the game from the stands, believes Silva has what it takes to carve out a hugely successful career at the San Siro....

Harris said that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is President Joe Biden’s designated appointee for migration issues at the border, and that her purview is the sources of migration from Central America. Since Biden took office in January, increases that began in President Donald Trump’s final year have skyrocketed. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded nearly 170,000 encounters with migrants on the southern border in March, its highest count in 20 years, according to CBP....

Harris, who ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination before suspending her campaign in December, is now considered to be a top running mate candidate for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Harris has been a strong supporter of birth control as a preventative health care method and introduced legislation last year that aimed to make over-the-counter birth control more affordable for Americans without health insurance. In a tweet posted shortly after the Supreme Court announced its ruling, Harris said it was “a shameful decision by the Supreme Court that will deny up to 126,000 employees birth control coverage....

The 17-year-old Davies was foiled by the posts multiple times, including on a breakaway in the 30th minute where he bounced a shot off the iron, then shook his head in disbelief. Davies will play in the MLS All-Star game against Italian champion Juventus on Aug. 1 in Atlanta. A battle in front of Chicago’s net in the 28th minute saw Fire goalkeeper Richard Sanchez stop a shot from Vancouver midfielder Yordy Reyna....

This is probably because Dana White has emphasized wanting to book Conor McGregor in a rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov, and Jorge Masvidal in a title fight against Kamaru Usman. The Nigerian Nightmare tweeted out slamming Jorge Masvidal for avoiding a fight with him to prevent losing. The tweet said: Conor McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh told Ariel Helwani on his MMA Show that we can’t rule out the possibility of McGregor vs Masvidal next....

Support from Vince McMahon While he was still under contract with WWE in 2017, Kane announced that he would run for the mayoral race in Knox County, Tennessee. As a result, The Big Red Machine took a hiatus to gear up for his political career. WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon, also played a pivotal role in Kane transitioning to politics. According to the former WWE Champion, McMahon was one of the very few people that got to know about his career transformation in the first place....

Joe Burrow has led the Bengals to a Super Bowl. Justin Herbert is setting records through his first three years with the Chargers. Tua Tagovailoa is powering an explosive Dolphins offense. Jalen Hurts is in the MVP discussion while leading the 11-1 Eagles. MORE: The Tua Tagovailoa vs. Justin Herbert 2020 NFL Draft debate, revisited On Sunday, two of those QBs will face off in a “Sunday Night Football” clash of AFC wild-card hopefuls as Herbert and the Chargers host Tagovailoa and the Dolphins....

North Carolina freshman Justin Jackson has decided he will return to school for his sophomore season. He made the announcement Wednesday with a simple post on his Instagram account. MORE: Ranking Final Four starters | Trimble will also return | Auriemma calls men’s game ‘a joke’ Jackson was widely projected to be a late first-round or early second-round pick in this year’s NBA draft. Now he will have another year to rise up team’s draft boards....

His son who is a promising young talent flourishing at Ajax wants to replicate what his father did and join FC Barcelona someday. Justin Kluivert very recently at the tender age of 17 made his debut for Ajax Speaking in an interview with Goal.com he said, “My dream club is Barcelona, but English football is very good too. I like the Premier League a lot as a competition, I would like to play there....

Withers penned many classic songs through the 1970’s and 80’s including “Lean on Me”, “Just the Two of Us”, and “Ain’t No Sunshine.” He is survived by his wife and two children. Meanwhile, tributes continue to pour in for Withers as of Saturday, including from notable celebrities. Singer Justin Timberlake called Withers his “biggest idol” in an Instagram post. “You taught me so much about how to keep it simple and real....

Justin Upton did not like sitting on the bench. After Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus “rested” the struggling, high-priced outfielder for three games last week, Upton made up for the lost time by blasting two three-run home runs Sunday in a 10-5 win over the Boston Red Sox. With two hits Sunday following two more Saturday, Upton exceeded his trips to first base in the 10 games leading up to the weekend....

The Juventus midfielder withdrew from Wednesday’s clash against the Three Lions in Dortmund as a precaution, and watched on as Lukas Podolski scored the only goal of the game to mark his final international appearance. Germany face Azerbaijan in Baku on Sunday in Group C of World Cup qualifying hoping to maintain their 100 per cent record with a fifth successive win. Coach Joachim Low confirmed the 29-year-old will captain the side and Khedira - who suffered cruciate ligament problems earlier in his career - is raring to go, insisting he feels in great condition....

The 30-year-old on Thursday admitted that he has found it tough to miss out on the club’s end-of-season celebrations and the European Championship, but can at least console himself by the welcome news that his recovery regime is proceeding well. “My recovery is coming along nicely. I feel in good nick, my rehabilitation is going according to plan and I can’t wait to get back running with my team-mates,” Marchisio was quoted as saying by club’s official website on Thursday....

Jyothi Raj, the self-taught rock-climber from Chitradurga, performed another astonishing feat on Saturday, climbing the 830-foot Jog Falls unassisted. The Jog Falls is Karnataka’s prime tourist attraction, featuring four columns of water that barrel down a cliff on to the rocks 830 feet below. No other climber has attempted the feat. Although he has climbed up the Falls a few times earlier along different routes (he was called thrice to retrieve dead bodies lodged on the rocks), he had never attempted an ascent under the water....

As reported by The Korea Herald, Innisfree’s eco-friendly “paper bottle” actually contains a poorly concealed plastic bottle within its paper exterior. An unhappy customer pointed out this discovery in a Facebook group and lodged a formal complaint with the company. The product in question is Innisfree’s Green Tea Seed Serum. On its bottle, the label reads “Hello, I’m Paper Bottle” in large print. The customer reportedly posted in the Facebook group that they felt “betrayed when finding out that the paper bottle product was actually a plastic bottle....

Reuters reported that the attack was suspected to have been carried out by suicide bombers and that at least 13 people were killed in the blasts. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Western officials had warned that ISIS-K militants could be planning attacks. The Islamic State militant group, or ISIS, is opposed to both the U.S. and the Taliban. During an August 17 press conference and in recent interviews, Taliban officials vowed that the new government would not allow such attacks to take place moving forward....