Dybala went down clutching his thigh after 28 minutes of the game at Stadio Luigi Ferraris and was replaced by Marko Pjaca, but Allegri indicated the issue will not keep the 23-year-old from joining up with Argentina for their World Cup qualifying matches against Chile and Bolivia. Sampaoli: Sevilla out of title race Juan Cuadrado’s goal after seven minutes ensured Juventus claimed all three points from the game and moved 10 points clear at the top of Serie A, with their title charge to resume on April 2 away to Napoli following the international break....

The Alliance of American Football, a new professional football league, kicks off its inaugural season in 2019, with all eight teams debuting after months of assembling rosters filled with blast-from-the-past players and coaches. Purposefully scheduled during the NFL’s offseason, the league hopes to attract football fans eager to turn their obsession into a year-round activity. Sporting News has assembled all the information you need to follow the Alliance of American Football in its first season, including a full weekly TV schedule, team-by-team rosters and a guide to explain the main rules difference from the NFL....

The exercise, which will take place in Russia’s eastern military district near the Chinese and North Korean borders, is expected to last from August 30 to September 5. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, troops from other countries—including India, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan—will also take part. In May, Russian and Chinese strategic bombers conducted joint exercises near Japan while U.S. President Joe Biden was visiting Tokyo. Two Chinese H-6 bombers and two Russian TU-95 bombers flew across the Sea of Japan, with Japan and South Korea both scrambling fighter aircraft in response....

But there is a way to slash emission of greenhouse gases that’s politically practical. There’s a way to both tell those Mideast countries to go drown in their damn oil—and to begin to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. There’s even a way to go green and go to the mall and buy a little something with your extra cash, as long as you take the bus or drive a hybrid there instead of a Hummer....

Oh, what a difference a week makes. April 28 was only last week, but it feels like six months ago. That was the day Obama got hit by a one-two punch. First, his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, dominated the airwaves with his offensive rant. The same day brought news that Hillary had decided to join McCain in calling for a summer gas tax holiday, sure to be popular with voters angry about high costs at the pump....

Anyone who doubts that claim should tune in as Stewart, 37, and his crew hit the campaign trail over the next few weeks with Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2000” coverage. The big networks may be cutting back, but this news parody will send 94 staffers to Philadelphia for the GOP convention, ready to compete with “traditional” journalists. Then they’ll aim for Los Angeles and the Democrats. And they’ll have high-powered help: Bob Dole and former Labor secretary Robert Reich have both signed up to appear....

The site looks promising, but so do several others on pristine Whidbey Island. Agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) hack through the thorny brush with a machete, leading LaBarca to a mound here, a depression there. LaBarca can barely contain himself at a spot where the forest meets marshy tidal lands. “We’re, um, getting data we’ve seen before,” he says, looking up from his screen. Don Johnston, the NCIS’s lead agent in the Hunter case, punctures the earth with a five-foot metal probe....

Former Manchester United reserve team coach Warren Joyce has been appointed at the helm and has the task of transforming a talented squad into a consistent performing team. The injury absence of star striker Bruno Fornaroli until December further complicates matters. 2016-17 finishing position: 4th Coach: Warren Joyce INS AND OUTS Ins: Eugene Galekovic, Scott Jamieson, Iacopo La Rocca, Stefan Mauk, Bart Schenkeveld, Marcelo Carrusca, Marcin Budzinski, Ross McCormack....

Redford plays Warren Justice, a brilliant former network star who’s now the news director at a Miami station. He says he’s dropped out of the big time because “it wasn’t fun anymore.” What that really means is that he had too many principles: according to the movie’s mythology, he’s too pure a soul to thrive in the craven new world of TV journalism. But he senses in Tally–this hungry girl who grew up in a Reno trailer park–the makings of a natural star....

Friday began completely normally. Breakfast with my family and helping my youngest with her online schooling. With that done, I wandered up the hill in the late-morning sunshine to catch up with Warney, Neo, Gaz and Fred who had arrived at the resort the night before. Anybody that knew Shane knew his warmth, his caring, his incredible sense of humour, his laugh, the twinkle in his eye and that glare from those glowing, unnaturally white teeth....

A classic that, on rereading, was disappointing: “Ulysses” by James Joyce. I adore early Joyce, but this book still feels ponderously overwritten—the literary equivalent of a fashion show in super slo-mo. The book you care most about having your children read: “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. My wife’s and my favorite book. If my boys can manage this, they can read anything.

Looking back on those bizarre days, a conversation between Diana and the queen has particular resonance. The queen explained to her daughter-in-law that the instability in the Waleses’ marriage was an overriding consideration in any musings she might have about abdicating the throne in favor of Charles. With Diana’s death, such reasons are no longer relevant. At the same time, the question of succession is now more sharply debated than ever....

Uh, no, not that hot dog. Here, we’re considering the other Great American HotDog, known on the slopes as the aerial skier. These are the brave, friendly guys and gals who flip, twist, spin and somersault themselves backward into the sky and somehow land on a horrifyingly steep precipice without rearranging their rib cages or breaking their faces. Next week, for the first time in Olympic history, an official will drape medals around these red-hots, putting the sports establishment’s imprimatur on an event that was once the exclusive province of renegades....

Consider three recent movies that are giving psychiatrists fits. In “The Prince of Tides, " Barbra Streisand not only treats her suicidal patient’s twin brother, Nick Nolte, but falls in love with him. Sex seems to be part of the cure-hers as well as his. Though professionals cried foul, moviegoers didn’t bat an eye. Even more bizarre is the homicidal, bisexual psychologist (Jeanne Tripplehorn) in “Basic Instinct, " whose affair with her patient Michael Douglas seems to be winked at by her colleagues....

This week Perna, 38, and another high-ranking mobster, Michael Cetta, 41, were charged with racketeering, conspiracy to distribute heroin and a host of other charges stemming, in large part, from surprisingly candid wiretapped phone conversations they had with the Bloods leader. New Jersey authorities say it is unclear how Spears, 33, forged his relationship with the Lucchese family members. What is clear is that Spears and Perna talked at great length....

We laughed about it in the locker room afterward. But Larry was highly competitive, and he meant it. A few nights later he got on a roll, and sure enough, he didn’t stop. He went for 60 points. If you’ve never seen anybody score like that, you’re not sure it can be done. But he did it. I broke a 15-year-old record and it lasted maybe seven nights. Maybe Birdie was right....

What rubbish. The United States is now bogged down, Israel is under threat, Lebanon is collapsing, Iraq is on the verge of civil war and Iran is fanning the flames across the region while pursuing its nuclear policy and calling for Israel to be wiped off the map. And in those unfortunate places where elections have indeed been held, Islamists swept the ballots, surfing on popular resentment against America, Israel and the West....

Most theories of dinosaur evolution say that carnivorous dinosaurs, the ancestors of today’s birds, got smaller as they became more bird-like. But the remains of a new species and genus of dinosaur, discovered in Inner Mongolia and announced at a press conference in Beijing this morning, throw a wrench into that idea. Gigantoraptor, as he has been named, is surprisingly bird-like in his skeleton, and probably had feathers. He lived in the Late Cretaceous about 70 million years ago, and an analysis of his skeleton puts him in the same family as the beaked, bird-like Oviraptor, say Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who led the discovery, and colleagues....