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Messi is out of contract in 2018 and the 29-year-old is yet to sign fresh terms, having reportedly turned down an offer between €30million and €35m annually from the La Liga champions. Messi lookalike causes stir in Iran Barca vice-president Jordi Mestre claims a bumper extension remains on course and Neymar has urged the club’s hierarchy to get the deal done. “I have been here with Leo for four years, and I am learning every day: how to strike the ball, how to be alert during matches… Messi is from another planet,” Neymar – who has already signed a new contract along with Luis Suarez – told beIN Sports....

PSG star Neymar has been linked with a return to LaLiga champions Barcelona, almost three years since his world-record €222million transfer. Mbappe, meanwhile, is reportedly wanted by Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid, where Zinedine Zidane has made no secret of his admiration. PSG team-mate Herrera, however, believes the pair are happy with the Ligue 1 holders in Paris. “Mbappe and Neymar are still at PSG and even more so with the situation that we are currently in,” Herrera told COPE....

DJ Bob Sinclair, Brazilian singer Wesley Safadao and world surf champion Gabriel Medina were among the 200 guests at the fashionable Pavillon Gabriel near the Champs-Elysees. The world’s most expensive footballer, nursing a right foot injury, greeted his guests leaning on distinctive red crutches in keeping with the colour theme for the ‘Nuit Rouge (Red Night)’. Among his club colleagues in attendance were captain Thiago Silva and goalkeeper Alphonse Areola....

The Paris Saint-Germain forward has been out of action since February after breaking a bone in his foot. Neymar’s World Cup participation was initially in doubt but, despite missing the end of the season as PSG claimed a domestic treble, the former Selecao skipper should be fit for Russia. At a news conference on Wednesday, Brazil fitness coach Fabio Mahseredjian suggested Neymar is ahead of schedule in his recovery....

Barcelona ask Neymar to block move to Real Madrid Barcelona are not ready to give up on Neymar even as Real Madrid inch closer towards securing his services. Real Madrid are confident of landing the Brazilian after having offered €120 million + Luka Modric to Paris Saint-Germain. However, Neymar has expressed his desire to return to Barcelona and it is not known how keen he is on joining Madrid. Neymar wants to play alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez with whom he has shared an incredible connection both on and off the pitch....

MORE: Test your knowledge with SN’s NFL championship week quiz The forecast calls for light precipitation beginning around 11 a.m. PT, with temperatures hovering just over 50 degrees — not too bad. Rain doesn’t appear to be a factor that will affect the contest. The wind is another story. The Weather Channel calls for 17 mph winds when Green Bay and Seattle kick off at 12:05 p.m. PT (3:05 p....

For those unfamiliar, being signed to an NFL team’s practice squad is like being put on the junior-varsity roster in high school, or being sent to the minor league affiliate of a Major League Baseball team. For pro wrestling fans, it’s like WWE signing a big-name free agent and putting them in NXT. It means Bryant is part of the Ravens’ organization, but he’s not on the official 53-man roster and he won’t suit up for Baltimore in a real NFL game until the coaches decide to promote him to the main roster....

“The NFL has made numerous changes to the game to enhance the health and safety of players at all levels of football. These include nearly 40 rule changes in the last decade, strict concussion protocols, and better training and sideline medical care,” a statement to CNN read in an interview with the film’s star, Will Smith. “We’re seeing measurable results, including a 34% decrease in concussions in NFL games since the 2012 season....

MORE RANKINGS: RB | WR | TE | DEF Tom Brady, Patriots vs. Colts ($8,500). Brady is the most expensive QB in DraftKings this weekend. While he could be worth every penny in what should be a high-scoring game against the Colts, keep in mind that New England has gone to a power-running attack to dispatch Indy in their most recent meetings; Brady threw just 30 times for 250 yards with two TDs and two INTs in Week 11 against Indy....

The NFL has announced Thursday it will hold a veteran combine March 22 at the Cardinals’ facility in Phoenix. The event will “serve to isolate and consolidate veteran free-agent talent for more focused evaluation on a comparative basis,” the league said in a memo to all 32 teams. About 100 veteran free agents will be selected through an application process. Those chosen will have a chance to work out in front of representatives from every NFL team....

We exist to pinpoint sleepers and high-value DFS picks each week by compiling a list of sleepers and/or dark-horse picks to help you win some cold, hard cash. The more value players you add, the more money you’ll have left for proven weekly studs at other roster spots. MORE WEEK 13 DFS: Lineup Builder If you read this column last week, you would have benefited from our advice to plug a plethora of low-cost, high-value players into your Week 12 DFS lineups....

If you regularly play DFS or you just like to find an edge or angle with all your football-related bets, this column will be up your alley all season. Each week, we compile a list of sleepers and/or dark horse picks to help you win some cold, hard cash on the two most popular daily fantasy sites. The more value players you add, the more money you’ll have left for proven weekly studs at other roster spots....

I talked in my values article this week about how I wanted to target players from teams with playoff implications on the line, and a quick look at the DraftKings perfect lineup shows why. While backups, and value plays from bad teams are a necessary evil, Week 17 continues to prove to be one of the most unique slates you’ll see all year. The fantasy explosions we saw yesterday only strengthen the idea that you want to go after teams with something to play for, and I can already say that will again be my strategy on how to approach Week 17 of next year....

In 2017, Baker Mayfield played behind an Oklahoma O-Line that featured Orlando Brown — a third-round selection by the Baltimore Ravens in 2018 — Dru Samia, Ben Powers and Bobby Evans en route to winning the Heisman and becoming the top pick for the Browns in the 2018 NFL Draft. Samia, Powers and Evans all returned last year when the Sooners allowed just 19 sacks, providing the foundation for Kyler Murray to win college football’s highest individual honor and become the favorite for the first overall pick....

Many rookie passers struggle off the bat, but if they have season-defining moments that suggest they can have long-term success, then there is reason for optimism. And, in a dismal season in which the Cardinals finished 3-13, Rosen enjoyed such moments. He led the Cardinals on a fourth-quarter comeback against the 49ers and also helped them to a surprise victory over the Packers at Lambeau Field. Playing behind a dreadful offensive line, the fact Rosen was able win three games was a minor miracle....

The Cardinals are reportedly expected to pick the former Oklahoma star at No. 1. Some have said it’s a near lock Murray will end up in Arizona, but general manager Steve Keim told reporters earlier this week the team has not made a decision about who it will draft. “The fact that I don’t know what we’re doing but everyone else does, that’s concerning," Keim said. “We are not done with this process....

But in ‘21, the NFL Draft will be hosted in Cleveland. There will be some events with limited capacity to ensure safety amid the ongoing pandemic, and some prospects will be invited to attend. Not all will go, including presumptive No. 1 overall pick Trevor Lawrence, but again, this represents a bit of a return to normalcy for the league after a trying year. MORE NFL DRAFT: Complete 7-round mock | Top 100 big board...

Ruddy was being interviewed on Peacock’s The Mehdi Hasan Show about how he can justify the misinformation and conspiracy theories that have been aired on the network, which has seen a surge of viewership and praise from Donald Trump. Hasan described Newsmax’s post-election coverage as like “watching a parallel universe” as it continues to push disputed claims of widespread voter fraud, the debunked theory that a Dominion Voting Systems glitch massively favored Joe Biden and the suggestion that Trump could still be president in January....

The conservative news network has retracted its allegations that Dominion’s security director, Eric Coomer, had been behind the manipulation of tallies to the detriment of former President Donald Trump. After Newsmax issued a statement on its website, which will be read out on air, Coomer dropped a defamation lawsuit against the station, which amplified unsubstantiated claims pushed by Trump and his allies of election rigging and widespread voter fraud following last November’s election victory for Joe Biden....

But don’t bet on it. His GOP colleagues may love him, but the public doesn’t. Polls show only a third of the people like him –a much weaker showing than Bill Clinton’s–and even that number is dropping. Meanwhile, support for the Republican agenda itself is slipping, and Democratic strategists Believe that Gingrich’s personal unpopularity, is one of the reasons. “The leader of the revolution,” one Gingrich adviser says plaintively, “has the daunting task of trying to change the American political culture when 70 percent of the public isn’t behind him....