Ahead of a crucial match against arch-rivals Chennaiyin FC, the Spanish manager is confident that his team will bounce back. “The opposition is not creating many chances against us. But we have to improve on some aspects. The problem is we are not winning many duels in the attacking third. We are lacking the last pass. We are showing consistency. We showed how we want to play. But we are not making it count....

The 26-year-old goalkeeper saw his side concede three goals as their South Indian neighbours reigned supreme, thanks to a 3-2 result. He went on the say that the team never expected to be beaten in the final by the Marina Machans. “I think it was an unexpected result for us,” said Gurpreet after the game. Bengaluru FC finished top of the table after the league phase, with 40 points from 18 games, and were eight points clear of the eventual winners Chennaiyin FC....

They are usually known to handpick players after a lot of screening and on most occasions, it wouldn’t be unfair to state that they have got it right. However, if one had to pinpoint an area in which they haven’t been successful with regards to recruitment, it has been the foreign strikers they have roped in. None of their overseas forwards have been the top scorer for the club ever as that gong has been reserved for a certain Sunil Chhetri....

What came next was disputed by the Red Wings and set in motion a furious Islanders comeback and eventual 7-6 win. TRADE TRACKER: Rumors, reported deals before the 2018 deadline Bertuzzi was assessed a five-minute penalty for slashing, leaving the game in a fit. The Islanders rattled off four goals during the stretch to take their first lead of the game, the go-ahead marker courtesy of Josh Bailey with 1:49 to go....

Wang, whose rocky 14 years of ownership eventually led to the franchise’s relocation to Brooklyn, has agreed to sell to ex-Capitals minority owner Jonathan Ledecky and investor Scott Malkin. The news was first reported by Newsday’s Arthur Staple. Under the agreement, Wang will continue as majority stockholder for two years, the team said in a statement. At that point, ownership will transfer to the Ledecky-Malkin group. Wang deserves some measure of credit for managing to keep the franchise on Long Island after co-purchasing it in 2000, but he’s going to be remembered more for A) how terrible the on-ice product has been for most of the 21st century and B) the cratering of the Lighthouse Project, which would’ve resulted in the replacement of Nassau Coliseum and prevented the pending move to Barclays Center....

The Isles had a chance to clinch a playoff berth with a point against the Flyers, and got a pair of empty net goals inside two minutes to tie the game. The last, by Anders Lee off a beautiful faceoff win and dish by John Tavares, came with 28 seconds to play. All New York needed to do was ride out the final moments to cap a brilliant comeback....

IN THE THICK OF IT Joshua Hammer arrived at Azur Junction just two hours after Khalil Abu Ulbah had plowed his bus into a crowd of Israelis. “But there was nothing there but angry demonstrators–and a pack of reporters,” says Hammer. So he set off for Gaza, and reported his riveting portrait of Abu Ulbah (page 42). Hammer has been in the Mideast just one month, after a year in Berlin....

On Monday, the NBA and its players association (NBPA) announced that of the 346 players tested in the last week, zero have tested positive for COVID-19. “Of the 346 players tested for COVID-19 on the NBA campus since test results were last announced on July 13, zero have returned confirmed positive tests,” the league and NBPA said in a joint statement. “In the event that a player on the NBA campus returns a confirmed positive test in the future, he will be isolated until he is cleared for leaving isolation under the rules established by the NBA and the Players Association....

The nation made this announcement on February 17 in a new letter accusing the U.N. of exhibiting bias, the Associated Press reported. The body created a new committee to investigate these accusations in May, which were recently rejuvenated by an Amnesty International report. “It is obvious to my country, as it should be to any fair-minded observer, that there is simply no reason to believe that Israel will receive reasonable, equitable and non-discriminatory treatment from the Council, or from this Commission of Inquiry,” wrote U....

“At the end of the day, of course there can be a good deal,” Bennett said to Israeli Army Radio. “Is that, at the moment, under the current dynamic, expected to happen? No, because a much harder stance is needed.” The eighth round of talks to restore the 2015 nuclear deal resumed in Vienna on Monday, 10 days after they were paused because the Iranian negotiator returned home to consult with the government....

From 2010-13, the 6-10 Ukrainian-born Israeli citizen played in the Friendship Games in Eilat, Israel, for the team representing what has been his home country since 2001. As the 12th annual Friendship Games play out this week, Osadchyy is assuming a different role for a third consecutive year: He’s playing for the Palestinian team. QUORA: What is it like to play professionally in Israel? This gesture is no betrayal. In fact, it epitomizes the purpose of the Friendship Games, a weeklong international tournament that aims to make progress toward peace through basketball among teams representing Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East....

The deficit is Perot’s main target and, according to him, the reason “we are now in deep [economic] voodoo.” Perot has a standard rap on reducing the deficit that includes eliminating wasteful government spending ($180 billion a year), ending social security and Medicare subsidies to affluent retirees ($20 billion a year), getting Germany and Japan to pay the costs of stationing U.S. troops overseas ($100 billion a year) and improving tax collections by the Internal Revenue Service ($100 billion a year)....

Jeff worked as a nurse at a Florida hospital throughout the pandemic and on Friday, another nurse working the same shift expressed concern about how he looked, according to a GoFundMe. Decades earlier, he had open-heart surgery while serving in Korea and hours after he tested positive for COVID-19, he went into heart failure, leaving behind a wife and four children. “We were all talking to him that morning, and it just all went downhill extremely fast,” Jeff’s son, Austin, told KUTV, noting that his dad tested positive at six in the morning and died at six that night....

The Ivory Coast international made his return from a knee injury as his side picked up their first win of the season in the English Premier League clash against Chelsea. And after Zaha’s virtuoso performance against Antonio Conte’s men, he has been touted to lift the Eagles out of the relegation zone but the former England manager believes it is cruel to pin their survival hopes on the winger insisting the whole team will have to fight to ‘get out of the mess they are in’....

Like most feuds, this one’s about money and power. Anheuser, maker of Budweiser and Michelob and other brews, controls 46 percent of the U.S. beer market. That’s an amazing 30 billion cans annually (more than is consumed at an entire National Hockey League game). But Anheuser presides over a stagnant market. One way to boost profits is to assert more control over its 700 distributorships, especially the lucrative ones in beer-guzzling states like Florida (which ranks behind California and Texas in consumption)....

FEVER PITCH With her lawyer fielding more than 200 media calls a day, Tripp becomes a household name—and a national punch line. A male performer, John Goodman, portrays her as a snitch on “Saturday Night Live,” and “Linda Tripp” Halloween costumes sell out all over Washington. PRESENT DAY Retired from government work, Tripp and her German husband live on a farm in Middleburg, Va., where they run the Christmas Sleigh, a year-round holiday shop and German clothing store....

That’s where No. 14 Miami stands after a 35-21 victory at Georgia Tech on Saturday. Richt is now 14-2 against the Yellow Jackets between stops at Georgia and Miami (4-0), which is a warning shot if there ever was one. MORE: Top 25 tracker It took all of a month for Richt to elevated Miami into what it’s wanted to be since 2004 — the favorite in the ACC Coastal Division....

At the same time, it’s also not surprising that many people get nervous at the prospects of that scientific milestone. It will no doubt be a revolution, but there are some scary “Brave New World” overtones that raise fundamental questions about how we will think about ourselves. Will it mean that our behaviors, thoughts and emotions are merely the sum of our genes, and scientists can use a genetic roadmap to calculate just what that sum is?...

Barry Diller didn’t fare much better. After losing the battle for Paramount last winter, he was uncharacteristically terse. “They won. We lost. Next,” he wrote in a prepared statement for the press. Later, the QVC chairman took aim at CBS, but that deal was also scuttled. Now, Comcast and TCI are buying QVC, and Diller is expected to pack up his cubic zirconia and go home. Another victim of the take-over wars: Richard Snyder, canned as head of Simon & Schuster by his new bosses at Viacom....