Luka Doncic fell just shy of a triple-double and the Dallas Mavericks turned up the defence in a chippy 101-90 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers for a 2-1 lead in their first-round NBA series. Doncic finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists and Kyrie Irving scored 19 of his 21 points in the final 13-plus minutes, including eight in the final 78 seconds of the third quarter. The Mavericks continued their strong defence from the Game 2 road win and won at home three years after losing all three first-round home games in a seven-game loss to the Clippers.

BY Photo Webdesk 27 April 2024

Salernitana have been relegated from Serie A after losing 0-3 to Frosinone. The Salerno club has only two wins in 35 Italian league games and is at the bottom of the table. Frosinone went ahead in the 10th minute, Matias Soule converting from the penalty spot for the home side. Marco Brescianini doubled their lead 15 minutes later, and Nadir Zortea completed the scoring five minutes from time with a low shot from 25 yards out. The win comes as a vital boost for Frosinone, one of at least seven teams fighting not to be one of the two other clubs that joins Salernitana in the second tier next season. Frosinone are three points above third-to-last Udinese and five ahead of second-to-last Sassuolo. Both teams have a game in hand.

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Kevin Stoger netted a brace as Bochum won for the first time in nine Bundesliga games by a narrow 3-2 margin over a profligate Hoffenheim. The latter have not kept a clean sheet for 26 games, a record run for the Bundesliga club, Associated Press reports. Hoffenheim remain in ninth place after missing a chance to leapfrog Augsburg and Freiburg and move into seventh. Hoffenheim had a penalty award rescinded after a video review midway through the first half and then fell behind to a superb Stoger free kick after 34 minutes. Bochum made it 2-0 in first-half stoppage time when a defensive howler gave Felix Passlack a free shot on goal from six yards out. Stoger added a third with a simple tap in after Oliver Baumann parried Moritz Broschinski's effort.

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Arda Guler scored in the first half to earn a depleted Real Madrid side a 1-0 win at Real Sociedad, moving the La Liga leaders a step closer to a record-extending 36th Spanish league title. The 19-year-old Turkish midfielder Guler, making his first start for Madrid after signing from Fenerbahce, turned home Dani Carvajal's cross in the 29th minute. Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti rested several key players ahead of their UEFA Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich, but his side did just enough to secure the three points. With five games remaining, Madrid climbed to 84 points and extended their lead to 14 points over the second-placed FC Barcelona, who have a game in hand and host Valencia early next week.

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The Paris Olympics flame was formally handed to French organisers on Friday in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896. Greek water polo player Ioannis Fountoulis, the last in a long line of torchbearers, used the flame to light a cauldron at the Panathenaic Stadium. From there, it was delivered to Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet. A few moments of suspense followed as assistants struggled to light the lantern that would carry the flame to France. Safely in the lantern, the flame will depart for France on Saturday on a 19th-century sailing ship across the Mediterranean Sea, to make landfall 12 days later in the southern port city of Marseille. The flame was kindled on April 16 at Olympia in southern Greece, where the ancient games were held for more than 1,000 years from about 776 B.C. to A.D. 393.

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Punjab Kings (PBKS) set a new world record as they chased down the 262-run target set by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to win the match by eight wickets at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. Sent Into bat, KKR made their second 250-plus score in IPL history thanks to the 138-run partnership between the opener batters Phil Salt (75 off 37 balls) and Sunil Narine (71 off 32 balls) for the first wicket. Other batters also helped to put 261 runs on the board. In response, Prabhsimran Singh gave a blazing start and made 54 runs in just 20 balls. Then Jonny Bairstow (108 not out off 48 balls) took the responsibility and kept the scorecard moving. In-form Shashank Singh smashed eight sixes and two fours in his unbeaten 68-run knock to help Punjab Kings achieve the target with eight wickets and as many balls to spare.

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Voting for Phase 2 of Lok Sabha elections 2024 started at 7 am on Friday, April 26, with many bigwigs in the fray from 88 constituencies across 13 states and Union Territories. Among the key candidates whose fates are being sealed in Phase 2, some are Rahul Gandhi, Tejasvi Surya, Shashi Tharoor, Hema Malini, Arun Govil etc.

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Phil Foden netted a brace as Manchester City overtook Liverpool and kept the English Premier League title race in their own hands by thumping Brighton 4-0. Foden moved onto 16 league goals for the season with two goals in the first half at the Amex Stadium, seeing a free-kick deflect past a wrongfooted Jason Steele before stroking home after some reckless play from the Seagulls. De Bruyne had earlier given City the lead with what was his 68th Premier League goal but the first with his head, as Pep Guardiola's men made light of Erling Haaland's injury-enforced absence. Julian Alvarez added a fourth as City pulled two points clear of Liverpool and within one of Arsenal with a game in hand, knowing five further wins will guarantee they retain their crown.

BY Photo Webdesk 26 April 2024