Liverpool take upper hand over FC Porto with Keita, Firmino goals
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Goals from Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino earned Liverpool a 2-0 win over Porto on Tuesday as Jurgen Klopp’s side took the upper hand in their Champions League quarterfinal tie despite not killing off their Portuguese opponents.

There remains plenty of work to do for the Premier League leaders, who will be disappointed they were unable to gain a bigger advantage for next week’s second leg.

On a bitterly cold night at Anfield,

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Lori Loughlin and 15 Others Face New Charges in College Admissions Scandal
  • By michael@cvcteam.com
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As federal prosecutors on Tuesday brought new money laundering charges against 16 parents enmeshed in the college admissions scandal, a question hung over the sprawling case: Would anybody implicated in the scam actually serve time behind bars?

The Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, the designer Mossimo Giannulli, were among those indicted on a count of conspiracy to commit fraud and another of money laundering conspiracy, raising the legal stakes for parents who have not said whether they would plead guilty in the case.

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The Orlando Magic have proven their doubters wrong after winning Southeastern division title
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The Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics and clinched their first playoff berth since 2012, officially erasing the six-year-old stain Dwight Howard left on the organization.
It has to be nice when you can win a game when a player off the bench can be your leading scorer. But no one thinks that is a consistent winning formula. Certainly not for a playoff team.

It was this poor depth of scoring and reliance on supposed bit players that had almost every predictor doubt the Orlando Magic would make the Playoffs this year.

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Fantasy Champions League — Build around the favorites
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We’ve reached the business end of the European soccer season, folks. The Champions League quarterfinals begin this week, and half of the remaining eight teams hail from England’s Premier League: Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United.

Barcelona and Juventus, the league leaders in Spain’s La Liga and Italy’s Serie A, have also advanced to this stage. The final two teams left are Ajax, currently top of the table in the Dutch Eredivisie,

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Kyle Busch prevails over older brother Kurt in the Cup Series battle at Bristol Motor Speedway
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How the Food City 500, the eighth race in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, played out Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway:

WINNER: In a battle of the Busch brothers in the closing laps, Kyle Busch got the measure of his older brother Kurt to score his third win of the season. Kyle Busch overcame contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the second lap of the race to win for the eighth time at Bristol,

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WrestleMania 35: By The Numbers
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WrestleMania 35 is set to make history Sunday night as the first WrestleMania card headlined by women. Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch will all be featured in the main event for both the Raw and SmackDown women’s titles in the winner-take-all match.

The WWE’s annual Super Bowl-like event takes place Sunday night from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Like the Super Bowl, WrestleMania is a weeklong series of events with community-based activities,

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Liverpool demonstrate title credentials at Saints, winning by any means necessary
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SOUTHAMPTON, England — Jurgen Klopp told us not to worry about Mohamed Salah.

A full 55 days after his 49th league goal for Liverpool, Salah scored his 50th to turn what had looked like a nervous, near-title-challenge-ending draw with Southampton into a 3-1 victory Friday that will put them on top of the Premier League for at least another nine days.

Salah had looked jittery all night. Nothing he seemed to try was quite right: passes a little off,

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Lil Nas X Added Billy Ray Cyrus to ‘Old Town Road.’ Is It Country Enough for Billboard Now?
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Booming beats. A twanging banjo. Is this country music?

When Lil Nas X, a young black hip-hop artist from Atlanta, created the surprise hit “Old Town Road,” he did not imagine that it would end up at the center of a debate on race, the Nashville establishment and musical genres.

The track marries a beat familiar to hip-hop fans with acoustic sounds and lyrics filled with cowboy imagery. Lil Nas X had no record deal when he made it,

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Review: ‘Shazam!’ gives the overworked superhero genre a fun, irreverent lift
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The Seven Deadly Sins play a prominent role in “Shazam!,” the latest and loosest entertainment from that highly erratic, fitfully enjoyable pop-cultural entity known as the DC Extended Universe. Taking vaporous form as giant CGI gargoyles, the Sins are the evil minions — and masters — of Dr. Sivana (Mark Strong), a glowering villain forged in the crucible of a grievously love-starved childhood. But Sivana meets his match and then some in the bulked-up form of Shazam (Zachary Levi),

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MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos finalize divorce; she keeps 25% of Amazon stake worth $35 billion
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The Bezos divorce is now final.

Both Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and author MacKenzie Bezos announced their parting in separate posts on Twitter Thursday.

The couple, whose marriage was splashed all over the tabloids in the wake of Bezos’ private emails to another woman being leaked, praised each other in their dueling tweets that also revealed that the Amazon founder will hold on to much of the couple’s assets.

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