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Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal. He’d entertained and teased his suitors all season. The price tag had been set: €40 million would see him edge Michael Essien as Ligue 1’s most expensive export. In the summer of June 2012, the time had arrived. It was no longer a matter of when, but only to whom. Everyone was waiting. “I haven’t made my choice yet,” he shrugged sheepishly in May, ahead of Lille’s final game of the season....

Christophe Dugarry, Marcel Dessailly, Pep Guardiola, Enzo Scifo, Lilian Thuram, Rai and Thierry Henry read it, too. Some of the all-time Ligue 1 greats had all come out to play, to stand alongside ‘Sonnygoal’ one last time, to remember a friend, and to celebrate his achievements. Around 27,000 spectators joined them, too, there to enjoy a testimonial to a man who had led them to the promised land. Those in the north stand held aloft the most apt banner of the evening: “Lyon dreamed it, Sonny did it… Thank you....

It’s been less than a year since the Timbers were celebrating their title on the pitch at Mapfre Stadium after defeating the Columbus Crew in the MLS Cup. Porter had proven himself as a top American coach just three years removed from failing to guide the U.S. Under-23 team to the London Olympics in embarrassing fashion. Timber Joey and Co. couldn’t have been happier and all was good in Portland, the hotbed for soccer in the United States....

Lillard was back home in Oakland, visiting his old high school team and coach Orlando Watkins. The team was going through a drill called, "100 touches," in which players had to run to different spots on the court, tapping the ball up as Watkins directed them. Do it 100 times without the ball hitting the floor, the drill is over. But once the ball drops, the touch-count resets back to zero and the team starts over....

Damage to the frontal lobe can cause a range of symptoms. These can include behavioral problems, depression, and a loss of strength in the muscles. A variety of conditions can damage the frontal lobe, including stroke, head trauma, and dementia. This article discusses the frontal lobe of the brain, its functions, and the various conditions that can cause frontal lobe damage. It also discusses how frontal lobe damage is diagnosed and treated....

Symptoms Early stages of frostbite look just like a burn. There’s swelling, blistering, and redness. As frostbite progresses, the skin turns white or yellow. Eventually, it turns black. The best way to learn how to recognize frostbite is to see pictures of it. Frostbite is literally caused by frozen tissues and fluids in the skin. As the tissues get colder, the damage leads to inflammation and swelling, just as is the case with a burn....

Mysteriously, the tweet disappeared a few minutes later without explanation, according to Yahoo! Sports. MORE: Signing Day schedule | Top 25 recruits | QB carousel An assistant at Francios’ high school, IMG Acadamy, furthered the confusion when he told Jacksonville.com that Francios did decommit from FSU. When that site reached out to Francois’ high school coach Chris Weinke, Francios’ mysterious tweet disappeared. Three hours after Francios’ initial tweet appeared and was deleted, he cleared the air about his commitment status with Florida State....

During a break in the conference, Talic was quietly arrested by Austrian police. That’s when he heard, for the first time, that the United Nations war-crimes tribunal at The Hague had secretly indicted him last March, a step that requires any U.N. member state to arrest him when it has the chance. He was accused of presiding over acts of ethnic cleansing, mass murder and other abuses when he served as commander of Serb forces in northwestern Bosnia in 1992....

Former President Donald Trump also did not attend this year, despite attending the summit when he was president. It is common practice for presidents to skip Davos. Barack Obama, George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush all skipped Davos during their presidencies. Here is a full list of Democrats and Republicans attending the WEF in Davos: Democrats Marty Walsh Labor Secretary Marty Walsh spoke at a Yahoo Finance Live panel on Tuesday where he discussed inflation, the economy, and other challenges in the coming year....

On Tuesday, 19 GOP lawmakers voted against McCarthy on the first ballot for the next speaker of the House—an outcome the floor has not seen in a century. With a slim House majority, McCarthy needed the support of almost his entire caucus, unable to lose more than four GOP votes to clinch the speakership. The vote on the first day of the 118th Congress is a rocky start for Republican lawmakers, who won just enough seats in the midterms to take back control of the House in the wake of the party’s disappointing midterm elections....

Brendon Hrepic, 31, received his second shot of the Pfizer vaccine on April 19. Hrepic started to get COVID symptoms on May 12, including a persistent cough and the loss of his sense of taste and smell. He has since been hospitalized with the virus. In footage of Hrepic broadcast by News 5 Cleveland, he was in a hospital bed with a nasal cannula. These are used to give patients oxygen....

It occurs when you inhale microscopic fungi that thrive in warm and damp environments. These include outdoors (on plants and in the soil), indoors (in the air and on surfaces), and within the human body (on skin or internally). Of the 1.5 million to 5 million fungal species, only a few hundred cause infections in humans. While only a handful of fungal species cause illness, such as fungal sinusitis, in healthy adults, it can be serious and potentially fatal to some....

On Wednesday, user u/helpme__2 shared his dilemma with Reddit’s popular r/AmITheA****** forum where it has received over 6,000 upvotes and more than 1.6k comments. “I fell in love with my sister’s partner,” said the Redditor. In the post, he explained: “This began around a year ago when my sister had to travel for work and her partner got into a pretty bad car accident just a week after she left… he needed someone [to stay] with him and help him get around for a while....

Shared on Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole forum on Sunday, 14-year-old user u/FuzzyLow3395 the post has since received more than 6,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments. The Redditor explained: “My mom remarried John. He has two daughters, Kayla and Janice. They remarried about four years ago and John’s parents kind of hate us. They don’t like the fact that John remarried and hate me especially. But I think of John as my own dad and Kayla and Janice like my sisters....

All that lore of yesteryear, however, seems quaint and dated, analog relics in a digital cosmos. The last fighter to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion was Lennox Lewis, who unified what were then the three major titles in 1999. Despite boxing’s arcane politics leading him to be stripped of some of these belts, he finished his career in 2003 still atop the heavyweight division. After he retired, the belts were never to be re-unified again, as a rather dreadful era dominated by the Brothers Klitschko and an orchestra of sidemen dragged the prestige of the now-splintered heavyweight titles down....

Researchers at the UK’s Oxfordshire Joint European Torus (JET) performed a record-breaking experiment they say has brought them closer than ever to harnessing energy from nuclear fusion. They reported generating a record “59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy” over five seconds, which shatters—and more than doubles—the 1997 record, also set by the JET, of 21.7 megajoules. The experiment was conducted in December. The JET is part of a larger research mega-project that includes the U....

“RINO” is an initialism that stands for “Republican in Name Only.” It’s used as an insult for Republicans who allegedly don’t represent the political party’s values. Torba made his comments on the far-right network TruNews.com, a site that has promoted promoting racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and antisemitic views. Torba’s comments were highlighted by Right Wing Watch. In his comments, Torba mentioned his rejection of a business proposal allegedly put forth by Trump in January....

Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal tweeted “people is the industry have told me in the last 24 hours that they will be surprised if anyone but Gabe Kapler is the Dodgers’ next manager.” MORE: Kapler on SN’s list of possible Mattingly replacements Kapler, who played 13 seasons with six teams, is the Dodgers current Director of Player Development. He was also a colleague of Rosenthal’s at Fox in 2013. Don Mattingly and the Dodgers decided to part ways this week after their elimination in the NLDS against the Mets....

Here are the details: a 4.8-ounce palm-size slab dominated by a bright “multitouch” screen you control with your fingers. It runs on the Macintosh operating system, so it has sophisticated e-mail and Web browsing, along with stuff like Google Maps. It lets you handle voice mail like e-mail, choosing which message you want to hear. It’s got a revamped iPod interface that makes the most of the iTunes ability to let you watch movies and TV....