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Rio reveals Man Utd’s ’teacher’s pet' The left-back has been a casualty of Luis Enrique’s switch to a three-man defence and was left out of Sunday’s 4-2 win over Valencia at Camp Nou, as well as the historic 6-1 Champions League victory over Paris Saint-Germain. There have been claims in the Spanish media that part of the decision to change the system has been a concern over Alba’s form, and the former Valencia man has found himself linked with a move away from the Spanish champions in recent weeks....

Machado (21-0, 17 KOs) burst onto the scene in July when he destroyed Jezreel Corrales by ninth-round knockout to capture the WBA belt. Since then, Machado has beaten Rafael Mensah, and he wrecked Yuandale Evans by first-round KO in October. Out of Machado’s last 16 fights, he has won 14 by (T)KO, with 12 of those inside of two rounds. Cancio (19-4-2, 14 KOs) earned the title opportunity by winning four of his last five fights, with three of those coming via stoppage....

DETAILS: Box score/stats | Play-by-play | Images from ALDS The Rays needed a solid start from Price after absorbing a 12-2 shellacking in Friday's opener of the teams' American League Division Series. They didn't get it. Even when the Rays struck for two runs in the fifth, cutting the lead to 5-3, he yielded an RBI double to Dustin Pedroia. Boston tied to sweep its home games in the best-of-5 series, which would put the Rays in a deep hole against Major League Baseball's best regular-season team....

Following a roughly 30-minute argument, Morgan called Jones “utterly contemptible” before ending their discussion in an interview released on Thursday. Jones accused Morgan of attempting to “put things into [his] mouth” during the exchange, urging viewers to visit his website for “the truth” before protesting that he was not allowed to discuss topics such as “the new world order” and “the global government.” “Don’t let Piers mind-control you,” Jones said as Morgan admonished him for promoting falsehoods that harmed the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims....

Volkanovski, a former rugby player, made his pro debut in 2012. After losing the fourth fight of his career, Volkanovski has gone on a 21-fight win streak. He’s 11-0 in the UFC since joining the organization in ‘16. In ‘19 at UFC 245, Volkanovski beat Max Holloway for the UFC featherweight title. He would beat Holloway in a controversial rematch at UFC 251 in ‘20. Since the Holloway series, Volkanovski has defended the title against Brian Ortega and Chan Sung Jung....

Ocasio-Cortez, alongside Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and 10 other Democratic House colleagues, made the appeal to the president in a letter on Monday. The group congratulated the Biden administration on “evacuating nearly 125,000 people from Afghanistan despite facing immense challenges,” before noting that the Afghan UN employees remain particularly “at risk” of being targeted by the Taliban because they have “worked for years to promote peace, democracy, and human rights....

Speaking on the independent TV channel Dozhd, Olga Mikhailova said that doctors have found Navalny to be suffering from both ailments amid an ongoing hunger strike that he staged to protest poor medical treatment in prison, the Associated Press reported. The 44-year-old anti-corruption activist and Vladimir Putin critic was sentenced to jail for two and a half years in February for allegedly violating parole on a previous conviction. Russian authorities said Navalny violated probation by failing to report to the authorities on an agreed date....

A Biden-Putin meeting has been touted for June but would be set against a backdrop of relations soured by tit-for-tat sanctions and the case of Kremlin scourge Nalvalny, who is serving a 2.5-year jail term in a penal colony, where he has ended a hunger strike. This week, Navalny’s chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, dissolved the politician’s regional network to pre-empt an “extremist” tag that a Moscow court was about to label it....

But what would it mean for President Vladimir Putin if his biggest critic were to die? The fears for Navalny’s life are real. Three weeks into a hunger strike and already weakened by a Novichok nerve agent attack that the Kremlin denies ordering, Navalny is languishing in a notorious prison in the Vladimir region. He says he is denied proper medical treatment and Maria Pevchikh, who runs the investigative unit of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, wrote this week that the world was witnessing a “corrupt regime slowly but steadily murder a prisoner....

Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford didn’t travel for Manchester United’s International Champions Cup contests. Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard didn’t, either. It left a skeleton crew of experienced players trying to pull along some of United’s promising but green academy talents. “The players with more experience are trying to help the young boys,” Mourinho said before United’s 2-1 victory against Real Madrid on Tuesday. “I know they’re pretty tired because they’re playing almost every minute of every match and we play one match every three days, but there’s the pride, the professionalism and they’re going to try to help the young boys and the young boys have to enjoy the occasion with big crowds....

Wenger claims Arsenal scouted Alli Chile forward Sanchez attracted criticism and derision for going to ground and holding his face after blocking Fuchs’ throw-in at close quarters, despite replays showing the ball struck him on the shoulder. Sanchez was booked for encroachment and posted a picture on Twitter afterwards, showing him icing a swollen lip – although Wenger reported this came from a separate incident involving Leicester centre-back Robert Huth....

This year, Marcus Smart became the first guard to win Defensive Player of the Year since Gary Payton won the award in 1996. Payton was at the Celtics’ practice facility to deliver the award to Smart. The only guard other than Smart and Payton to have won the award? Michael Jordan. Not bad company there. There were other top defensive performers this season, though. The Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, who has won three of the last five Defensive Player of the Year awards, was also a finalist again this year....

The featured match will pit AEW World Champion, Chris Jericho against Jungle Boy in non-title action. There’s just a 10-minute time limit for the match, so if Jungle Boy wants to prove “Le Champion” wrong he’ll have to pin or submit the champ within that time. The AEW Tag Team Championships are also on the line tonight, as the champs SCU take on The Young Bucks. Matt and Nick Jackson became number-one contenders when they defeated Santana and Ortiz last week in a Texas Street Fight, so now they’ll take on their old rivals Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian....

Newsweek has the full list of movies coming to cinemas in February so you don’t miss a thing. All of The Movies Coming To Cinemas in February 2022 Jackass Forever — Friday, February 4 The Jackass crew are back with more outrageous pranks, hospital stints, dangerous stunts and more in the fourth Jackass movie. It comes over 10 years after Jackass 3D and will see the return of Jackass legends Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren and Preston Lacy....

Meet the new generation of Gossip Girl’s victims: Queen Bee Julien (Jordan Alexander) and her boyfriend Obie (Eli Brown), Chuck Bass reincarnated Max Wolfe (Thomas Doherty), Blair Waldorf 2.0 Audrey Hope (Emily Alyn Lind), and her skater boyfriend Aki (Evan Mock), and of course Julien’s minions Luna (Zión Moreno) and Monet (Savannah Smith). Zoya (Whitney Peak) is the new girl at Constance Billard and the half-sister of Julien. Showrunner Joshua Safran, who was a writer and executive producer on the original series, has sprinkled references to the earlier show throughout the new episodes, ranging from name drops to costumes and locations....

NASCAR’s most-popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., finished the race third after the top 11 cars were sent to pit road for more pit stops before the final segment. The number of cars required to pit was determined by a random draw conducted by Carolina Panthers star Greg Olsen. MORE: All-Star race photos | Complete Coca-Cola 600 week schedule “This race reminds me of the first time that I tried to drive a remote-controlled helicopter for the first time,” Earnhardt explained....

The show is a unique dating game that hides the identity of the singletons behind high-quality movie-style prosthetics in an aim to put the emphasis on personality alone. Each of the six episodes features four unique character designs created by Kristyan Mallett. Mallett is a professional costume designer whose company KM Effects created the prosthetics seen in Sexy Beasts. They’ve also previously created designs for the Harry Potter and Mission: Impossible movies....

In the beginning of 2021, Rodrigo announced her debut single “driver’s license,” which quickly reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Her follow up singles “deja vu” (No. 1) and “good 4 u” (No. 1) also reached the top 10. In May 2021, Rodrigo released her album Sour, which also did well on the charts, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart. Currently, “driver’s license” and “good 4 u” have reached over 1 billion streams on Spotify, and all the songs on Sour have over 100 million....

Alongside a host of original content this December such as Hawkeye and Disney Holiday Magic Quest, Disney+ is packed full of festive films and series you will not want to miss. Newsweek has the full list below. Die Hard For those who argue Die Hard is a Christmas film, your prayers have been answered. From Friday, December 3 all five films in the Die Hard franchise will be available to stream via Disney+....

Wes Anderson’s 10th movie is a love letter to France and journalists, featuring a staff of American writers who publish a magazine in France. There are four sections within The French Dispatch with each segment stylized as written articles for an edition of the fictional magazine. Inspired by The New Yorker, each of the articles have dedicated eye-catching artwork to portray a magazine cover. They appear on screen at the end during the credits, summarizing the events from each story the viewers have just seen....