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Szczesny should be Arsenal’s No.1 The 25-year-old, who has struck 10 goals and registered 10 assists in La Liga this season, is widely considered as a future Ballon d’Or contender. And while Paulinho believes Neymar is still some way behind Barcelona colleague Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, the former Tottenham midfielder insists he has the attributes to surpass the record-breaking duo. “Everybody knows that he is among the best in the world,” Paulinho told Brasil Global Tour....

PSG were again without leading scorer Edinson Cavani, who also missed Sunday’s French Cup rout of Rennes after returning late from his Christmas and New Year break in Uruguay. Amiens’ hopes of springing an upset were heavily undermined by the dismissal of goalkeeper Regis Gurtner on 34 minutes for a foul on Kylian Mbappe after charging out of his area. And Neymar eventually made the visitors’ numerical advantage count by winning and converting a spot-kick eight minutes into the second half at the Stade de la Licorne....

The fan, Jigar Desai, told The Associated Press he’s doing OK but might visit a doctor Tuesday. Oh, and here’s new video: ORIGINAL ARTICLE: We hope this Eagles fan will be ready for Super Bowl 52 in two weeks. We also hope he gets home by then. The fellow earned himself a bruise — and a delay — when he failed to account for a pillar that stopped him in his ....

Think about all the times that we have heard fans comment, “He has one job and its not that hard.” When watching an NFL game, focus on the kicker on the sidelines. They are constantly kicking the football into the net trying to stay warm. Think about sitting on the sidelines for majority of the game and having to come out and nail a 55-yard field goal. Now add the pressure of winning a regular season game....

Today I am going to go through the major talking points from the first week of NFL action. 1. The Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills were expected to be one of the worst teams this year, but no one imagined they would be as bad as they were on Sunday night against the Baltimore Ravens. Granted, the Ravens have a very strong defensive unit and have improved on the offensive side of the ball....

Expected to be among the worst teams in the league at the beginning of the season, the Jaguars have swiftly dismissed suggestions of tanking by upsetting the Indianapolis Colts in Week 1 and only losing to a late field goal against the Tennessee Titans in Week 2. The Dolphins, too, lost by three points on Sunday, falling 31-28 at home to the Buffalo Bills and slipping to 0-2 for the season....

The Jacksonville Jaguars fired Doug Marrone after the team ended the campaign with an NFL-worst 1-15 record, bringing Marrone’s spell in Florida to an end after four seasons. Meanwhile, a four-game winning streak to end the season wasn’t enough for Anthony Lynn to save his job, as he was fired by the Los Angeles Chargers following a 7-9 campaign. On Sunday, the New York Jets jumped the gun and parted ways with Adam Gase, who complied a 9-23 record in two seasons in New Jersey, including a 2-14 record this year....

MORE RANKINGS: QB | RB | WR | DEF Rob Gronkowski, Patriots vs. Colts ($7,800). This week, you’re either paying up for Gronk or playing the guessing game with cheaper options. Just pay the man his money. Coby Fleener, Colts at Patriots ($4,300). For some reason, Fleener is still more expensive than his teammate Dwayne Allen, despite the latter being the better bet for a TD (like last week) and the better TE overall....

It's cut week in the NFL and it's absolutely brutal. MORE: Ross Tucker’s Google+Hangout | Team-by-team preview | Rookie could start By now you've probably heard or seen the math. There are 2,880 elite athletes in NFL training camps. By the end of the day Tuesday, 480 of them will either get the dreaded telephone call asking them to bring their playbook to the facility, or else have the "turk" -- also known as the bearer of bad news -- grab them in the locker room or hallway to inform them that the head coach needs to speak to them....

Here we break down their five core draft questions and provide our best answers. NFL Draft 2017: Mock Draft | Big Board 1. What is the Eagles’ biggest need early? That’s easy: Cornerback. The hard part is whether the Eagles are desperate enough to use a first-round pick on the position. For now, second-year man Jalen Mills (a seventh-rounder) and former Saints and Colts starter Patrick Robinson are the slated starters....

NFL teams will use the results of the weigh-ins to help them determine which quarterbacks meet their ideal thresholds, which receivers have big enough hands, which players have the coveted rare body-type traits, and so on. MOCK DRAFT: Look beyond the QBs at the top Below are the weigh-in results for the 2018 East-West Shrine Game, which will be played Saturday, Jan. 20, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla....

The Bengals’ loss dropped them to 1-13 and kept them on track to earn the No. 1 overall pick in next year’s draft, an important development since they play the 3-11 Dolphins in Week 16. MORE: SN’s latest 2020 NFL Mock Draft Speaking of Miami, its loss to the Giants in New York on Sunday was good news for Cincinnati. The Giants previously were the biggest threat to the Bengals in the race for the No....

Georgia set a record with 15 players selected in the 2022 NFL Draft, including five defensive players in the first round. Jacksonville selected Travon Walker with the No. 1 pick in the draft. The Bulldogs won the national championship this season, the program’s first since 1980. Cincinnati had nine players selected in the draft after a remarkable season in which they became the first Group of 5 school to reach the College Football Playoff....

On that day, they believe, the first hard evidence will emerge of an idea they hope Americans (or at least Democratic primary voters) will accept: Hillary’s victory is inevitable. It’s hard to know whether the Clinton Machine—and it is an impressive machine—is merely methodical or also a little desperate. Probably both. She is organizing assiduously here, as everywhere, hoping to impress Democrats with the disciplined nature of her bid—as if that, in and of itself, is proof of her suitability to be president....

That’s because the national media networks have a disciplined, intentionally myopic focus on the completely partisan effort in the House of Representatives to attack, smear, and impeach the President of the United States. According to the mainstream networks, the impeachment inquiry hearings are the only newsworthy events happening in Washington DC. Yet, on Tuesday, the US Senate unanimously passed legislation to help secure and protect the rights and freedoms for the people of Hong Kong – who are right now battling against the oppression of the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party....

China’s guilt at having allowed a local epidemic to turn into a worldwide pandemic is even more infuriating when the Chinese Foreign Ministry publicly alleges that the coronavirus came from America. Both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have correctly pushed back hard against the Communist dictatorship’s lies. The simple fact is that Communist-ruled China has a long record as a source of potential epidemics and pandemics....

Leaks often live and die by their source, with the most-known leakers having a solid background of being accurate. This latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate leaker is known as Monsun, and just last month, he accurately leaked the existence of Half-Life: Alyx, as well as a variety of details about it. At the same time as Monsun leaked this, he also revealed that Half Life’s Gordon Freeman would be coming to Super Smash Bros....

While the trailer showed quite a bit, including some of Steve’s moves, the Minecraft stage, and his Final Smash, it was still rather brief and didn’t go into the intricacies of the character. There wasn’t even a release date. Fortunately, fans won’t have to wait much longer for new info. RELATED: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fans Really Want Crash and Sora in the Game In only two days time on October 3rd, director Masahiro Sakurai will be hosting another one of his character presentations....

Covering the dawn of the microcasting era last December, most of the print press missed what it all means. Stories dutifully reported that Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), the nation’s largest cable company, had announced that a new technology called digital compression will enable it to deliver 500 channels by as early as 1994. But that left a very large question unaddressed. What sort of programming will fill all those channels? As it turns out, programming entrepreneurs-anticipating the channel grab the way homesteaders sensed Oklahoma was the smart place to be in 1889-were quietly staking out turf months before....

Barcelona have been linked with a return for Neymar, who became the world’s most expensive footballer when he joined PSG in a deal worth €222million in 2017. Real Madrid are also reported to be keen on buying Neymar to freshen up a forward line that has struggled to step up following the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus. The 27-year-old’s father, however, said Neymar - who is sidelined by a foot injury - is not looking to leave Paris....