TV CHANNELS & LIVE STREAM The Star Sports Network have the exclusive broadcasting rights of the ISL. The games will be telecast with the option of English and/or Hindi commentary over their bouquet of television as well as digital platforms. Commentary will also be available in vernacular languages across India. TEAM NEWS FC Pune City: Injured - Ashique Kuruniyan Doubtful - None Suspended - None Key Players - Marcelinho, Emiliano Alfaro...

The Bengaluru FC goalkeeper is hoping for a structured football season in the coming years, with the All Indian Football Federation (AIFF) still mulling over the roadmap of Indian football. “I don’t know what is happening regarding the Super Cup. If we have to play the cup, we play the cup. Usually, it is in between the season like everywhere else. “But I don’t see what the motive of the Super Cup is....

TV CHANNELS & LIVE STREAM The Star Sports Network have the exclusive broadcasting rights of the ISL in India. Commentary will also be available in vernacular languages across India. TEAM NEWS Chennaiyin FC Possible XI: Injured - None Doubtful - None Suspended - None Key Players - Anirudh Thapa, Isma Bengaluru FC Possible XI: Injured - None Doubtful - None Suspended - None Key Players - Sunil Chhetri, Cleiton Silva 

The Blues had finished top of the table after the league phase of the ISL, eight points clear of second-placed Chennaiyin FC. But the ISL format involves a semifinal playoff between the top-four teams, following which a final determines the champions. Albert Roca stated that it was not for him to judge whether the structure of the tournament needs to be changed to reward the teams which finish top of the league....

Doctors discovered the retina in Okposo’s left eye was detached, requiring surgery in January. Six weeks and 22 games later, Okposo began recovering his edge in action with the Isles. By the playoffs, he was a capable winger again. MORE: Preliminary draft order | What you need to know | All-time No. 1 picks By all accounts, Okposo’s eye is fine. So if indeed Islanders GM Garth snow is testing the trade waters with Okposo, a team could find a 20-goal scorer available....

This nasty turn on social media brought responses from appropriate sources, including the FBI. Islanders security officials are working with law enforcement officials to negate the threat, which reached new lows this week. MORE: Playoff berths on the line | Get standings updates | Follow games, check scores According to posts from Gino Reda, an on-air personality for Canadian media outlet TSN, a woman posted threats against Leddy on Twitter....

Many Israelis believe their best hope lies in strengthening secular Palestinian leaders like President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. If life improves for Palestinians in the West Bank, the thinking goes, the territory can be used as a model for the Gazans who remain isolated under Hamas rule. The Israeli government freed 255 Palestinian prisoners as a good-will gesture last week, and Abbas said he will soon hold new elections to put the strategy to the test....

Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz, who previously served as the military’s chief rabbi and was appointed last month to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, said that “assimilation is like the Holocaust” during a July 1 cabinet, a spokesperson Tuesday confirmed to the Associated Press. Citing three unnamed people in the room for last week’s meeting, Axios quoted Peretz as saying Jews in the United States marrying outside their religion was “like a second Holocaust....

Bennett argued that Tehran has already made advancements in its uranium enrichment, and relieving sanctions would only give Iran more resources to support Israel’s enemies in the region. “These very days illustrate what the world would look like if a radical Islamic regime acquired a nuclear weapon,” Bennett said. “That marriage would be a nuclear nightmare for the entire world.” Biden has said he wants to find a way to re-enter the pact negotiated by the Obama administration, but indirect talks between the U....

It’s a big moment for Israel. Netanyahu has managed to hold onto Israel’s premiership for 12 interminable years, despite recently standing trial in three cases corruption. And they have been consequential ones: Throughout his years in office, Netanyahu weakened Israel’s judiciary and stigmatized its left-wing and human rights advocates while empowering the far right and even legitimizing supremacist groups like Otzma Yehudit in a desperate bid to cling to power....

In an article published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies late last month, Nigel Gould-Davies wrote about Russia’s allegation that Ukraine was planning to use a dirty bomb on its own territory in order to blame Russia. Ukraine has strongly denied this allegation, and Western leaders have warned Russia against using the claim as a “pretext for escalation.” Gould-Davies said that Russia’s allegation came in the context of some major setbacks for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces....

Business is booming. For decades the rich and famous have been stroked and soaked at places like the Golden Door in Escondido, Calif. ($5,250 for a week). But pampering is going mainstream. The number of U.S. day spas that offer a full menu of rubs, pedicures and wraps jumped to 3,000 last year from fewer than 100 a decade ago, according to Dayspa magazine. JCPenney has opened day spas at 19 of its stores and expects to add five to 10 new ones each year....

Saturday’s game is about much more than just pride and bragging rights, as second-placed United sit two points clear of their opponents in the Premier League table. Their last meeting failed to catch fire at Anfield, with United boss Jose Mourinho criticised for his defensive tactics during the forgettable 0-0 draw last October. Klopp expects the hosts to be more aggressive in the reverse fixture, even if they do have a “specific way of playing football” under their Portuguese coach....

So far, no one is talking seriously about committing U.S. ground troops; the idea is that we can deal with Serbia from the air. The plan, if it comes to that, would be to replay the gulf war with all its laser and stealth wonder toys: totally antiseptic, almost bloodless and oh, by the way, a boon for the depressed U.S. defense industry, which is a heavy-duty political contributor. U....

It takes only a few pages for Mosley to capture the anger and violence of the ’60s, and he does it from the point of view of an African-American man who wants no part of radicalism and even less to do with the white power structure that throws the police at the slightest sign of unrest. The remarkable thing about this scene, though, is that it takes place not in some ambitious social novel about racial violence but in a detective story....

In fact, “Spectacular Happiness” turns out to be both a serious novel of ideas and a pretty good one. Careful readers of Kramer’s nonfiction know he’s got as deep an interest in human murk as any novelist. He hedges his advocacy of Prozac with disturbing reflections on how the personality changes it causes alter our conception of the self; and anyone looking for a yes-no answer in “Should You Leave?...

The game, which will serve as one of the national semifinals this season in the first year of the College Football Playoff, will be known as the Rose Bowl presented by Northwestern Mutual. SportsBusiness Journal's Michael Smith first reported the partnership last month. Previously, the bowl was presented by Vizio. MORE: Top 25 players | Coach rankings | Best Week 1 games The contract runs through 2020. “This is groundbreaking stuff,” Northwestern Mutual chairman and CEO John Schlifske told USA Today of the playoff....

And just like that, as quickly as going into his dab, it was gone on Sunday night. The Panthers’ quarterback didn’t have much to celebrate in a 24-10 loss dominated by Denver’s defense. Carolina’s No. 1 offense was shut down, and Newton had his ugliest game of the season. He was only 18-of-41 passing for 265 yards, and committed three turnovers under the pressure of a seven-sack attack fueled by game MVP Von Miller....

Booing is OK. It really is. If you pay for a ticket to a professional sporting event and you see something you don’t like, it’s OK to express that emotion. If some guy on the other team has done something you don’t like or something that hurts your favorite team, either in that moment or in the past, it’s OK to vocalize that displeasure. MORE: How worried should these MLB stars be about their slow starts?...