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Deportivo Alaves enhanced their reputation as La Liga’s proverbial giant-killers with a shock 2-1 victory against reigning champions Real Madrid last weekend. The Basque outfit is currently in 13th place in the league standings and has managed to recover from a slow start to the season. Real Sociedad, on the other hand, are at the top of the La Liga table and have been in excellent form. The league leaders slumped to a 2-2 draw against Rijeka in the Europa League during the week and will want to bounce back in this game....

Derbyshire are currently seventh in the North Group points table, having won just two and lost five of their seven T20 Blast fixtures so far. Be it with the bat or ball, Derbyshire haven’t been consistent at all, with their two wins coming against the bottom two sides - Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The Billy Godleman-led side will head into today’s T20 Blast contest on the back of a 39-run loss to Yorkshire....

Worcestershire are one of the weakest teams in Group B in this year’s English One Day Cup, losing their four games. Derbyshire, meanwhile, have won only one of their last four games and are in seventh place in the points table. Derbyshire will look to win here, but Worcestershire are the better team and playing at home, so the latter should prevail. DER vs WOR Probable Playing XIs DER Luis Reece, Billy Godleman (c), George Scrimshaw, Tom Wood, Brooke Guest (wk), Anuj Dal, Mark Watt, Mattie McKiernan, Ben Aitchison, Samuel Conners, Wayne Madsen...

The report states the Nets and Williams have opened buyout talks on the remaining two years and $43.3 million of his contract. ‎The team attempted to trade Williams, but ESPN reports those efforts have gone nowhere. MORE: NBA Free Agency’s winners and losers | The all-time Mavs team Williams nearly signed with Dallas in 2012, but decided to go with Brooklyn instead. After a few years, his value has diminished, but the Mavs are reportedly still interested in him....

In a game filled with All-Stars like Aldridge, DeMar DeRozan and LeBron James, the Spurs relied on a gritty effort from Poeltl, Bertans and their bench to salvage a victory. DeRozan finished with 36 points and nine assists and the Spurs had eight players score in double figures in a 133-120 come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. James finished with 35 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds for Los Angeles, but was held to four points and no rebounds in the fourth quarter....

DeMar DeRozan had a season-high 36 points and San Antonio overcame a big game by Damian Lillard to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 131-118 on Sunday night. The Spurs held a rare practice Saturday morning following consecutive losses of 39 points and 31 points. The team responded with its highest scoring output in regulation this season. “Our communication was better,” DeRozan said. “I just told the guys, go out there and play, relax, don’t think too much....

Defenseman Deryk Engelland was ejected from Saturday's game against the Detroit Red Wings for hitting Justin Abdelkader in the head. He's going to be suspended for it. Here's video: Also working against Engelland: a three-game suspension in 2011 for leaving his feet to hit Chicago's Marcus Kruger in the head, and the fact that Abdelkader was injured on the play. Earlier in the day, Boston Bruins winger Shawn Thornton was suspended 15 games for dragging down Brooks Orpik and punching him in the face....

Back in 1995, Disney fielded criticisms related to the company’s support for LGBTQ employees after it extended health benefits to the same-sex partners of its employees. In response, conservatives throughout the South attacked Disney for expanding insurances and boycotted the company for promoting what they believed to be a particular agenda. At the time, the Florida Family Association released a statement accusing Disney of showing “outright disrespect and arrogance in their attitude toward the American family....

The 48-year-old, who has at the helm since 2012, has now overseen 42 wins, overtaking Michel Hidalgo and Raymond Domenech who both oversaw 41 triumphs. 13/5 for Albania and Italy to draw Deschamps led France to the quarter-finals at the 2014 World Cup, while they were runners-up at Euro 2016 on home soil. Les Bleus were a long way from their fluent best in Sofia, but a third-minute goal from Blaise Matuidi propelled them back to the summit of Group A in Russia 2018 qualifying....

It is still not known exactly what causes Reye’s syndrome (RS) to develop, but research has shown an association between the development of the syndrome and the use of aspirin (salicylates) to treat upper respiratory illness (e.g. flu, cold) and chicken pox. RS is not contagious. The number of cases of RS reported has dropped to less than 2 cases per year, due to vaccines and educational campaigns that resulted in a decreased use of aspirin products to treat children’s illnesses....

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Jackson on Sunday accepted an invitation to visit the site of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, where almost 1 million Jews were killed in a German campaign to annihilate their religion. His pledge to travel to the site came in a video conversation with Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg. “I grew up in Los Angeles, and never really spent time with anyone from the Jewish community and didn’t know much about their history,” Jackson said on the call....

Trade? That would be necessary unless, and here's the surprising part, the Philadelphia Eagles decide to cut ties with Jackson. Letting him go scot-free isn't out of the question. The obvious Jackson landing spot: Michael Vick is on record as saying he'd love to have Jackson play for his new team, the New York Jets. That assumes it will be Vick, and not Geno Smith, as the Jets' primary quarterback....

Ratings and viewership for NASCAR’s Daytona Speedweeks look quite impressive if one is comparing to last year. The Daytona 500 had a 7.7 rating and 13.4 million viewers, up 38 in ratings and 44 percent in viewership from last year’s 5.6 and 9.3 million — the largest year-over-year increases since live start-to-finish coverage of the race began in 1979. The Sprint Unlimited had a 3.2 and 5.6 million, up an even larger 60 and 59 percent, respectively, from last year’s 1....

Adams acknowledged that enforcement of the newly emphasized rules against contacting ballhandlers was superior in November and December to what it has been in January and February, but declared the game “is still in a better place” than a year ago. There are statistics to support this position. In 2012-13, college basketball teams scored fewer points per game than at any point in six decades. Even in the past week, according to statistics compiled by Kevin Pauga of Michigan State’s basketball office, we were up roughly a basket per team from a year ago....

One man is always “boss” for the former Arsenal and Croatia striker. “Davor,” inquired Arsene Wenger, his coach at Arsenal. “You want to take revenge against us?” It has been 20 years since Wenger’s homeland of France stopped a Croatia side featuring Suker in the semifinals of the World Cup. Now Croatia, with Suker as head of the country’s soccer federation, has gone a stage further at the FIFA showpiece....

This move makes sense, as Microsoft likes to make a splash with their summer lineup of downloadables. Especially since the kids are out of school and looking for ways to spend their allowance. Yet with a game lineup somewhat less impressive than that of last year’s, Microsoft is trying to spruce the ferns any way it can to make this year’s Summer of Arcade more appealing. But wait, the real meat of this story is in Major Nelson’s second update:...

Unfortunately, Peter Dinklage’s performance in Destiny has turned out to be one of the many criticisms lobbed at the game, alongside its heavy grinding and weak storytelling. Now, nearly a year removed from the launch of the game, Bungie has announced plans to completely replace Peter Dinklage with Nolan North as the voice of Ghost. The decision to replace Peter Dinklage, while understandable, came as quite a shock to fans....

However, attempting a Lighthouse run and actually making it to The Lighthouse in Destiny are not one in the same. Players will need to be well equipped if they are to get those 9 wins. To that point, one Destiny fan has put together a list of the top 5 guns used in Trials of Osiris. But these aren’t the top 5 guns (in each category) used across the board; these are the top 5 guns used by the top 100 Trials of Osiris players....