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The keeper saved Tammy Abraham’s penalty with his legs to hand Liverpool their first taste of silverware this season. In case you didn’t know… Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties in what was a nail-biting finish to the all-English encounter. Alisson Becker missed the game due to a calf injury as former West Ham United goalkeeper Adrian Miguel started under the bars for the Reds. Chelsea opened the scoreline as Oliver Giroud’s left-footed shot went past Adrian....

LONDON (Reuters) - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has not enjoyed the smoothest of starts to his Liverpool career and will be hoping to kickstart it in Tuesday’s Champions League game at NK Maribor. The 24-year-old England international, who signed from Arsenal in August for 35 million pounds ($47 million), has yet to begin a Premier League game for his new team. Against Manchester United on Saturday he was granted a forgettable 12 minutes, following on from nine at Newcastle United and 12 against Burnley and Leicester City....

REVEALED: The destruction of La Masia The 22-year-old possesses the perfect mix of discipline, anticipation and offensive brilliance to execute Jurgen Klopp’s demands in the centre of the park. Hugely effective in Ralph Hasenhuttl’s intensive pressing system, which is proactive and direct, having already spent two seasons developing under the same tenets at Red Bull Salzburg, Keita is one of the most explosive prospects in Europe. The Guinea international, who progressed from Ligue 2 outfit FC Istres, can operate as a holding midfielder or as an attacking one with equal adeptness....

Liverpool have an outside chance of winning the Premier League on Sunday. Should they beat Newcastle United at Anfield and West Ham beat Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, the Reds will lift their first title in 24 years. It is a long shot but just having the chance to win the title on the final day of the Premier League season is a significant improvement on last season when the Reds finished in 7th and had pretty much nothing to play for in the remaining weeks....

She never did seem quite cut out for the role of America’s Sweetheart that every woman’s skating champion since Peggy Fleming has had to fill. Harding–who compares herself to basketball star Charles Barkley–was more in the mold of a bratty, tomboyish kid sister, the kind who might borrow the family car to go drag-racing. Racing was in fact one of her office pursuits, along with hunting, pool and, apparently, smoking....

Cheney, a Wyoming Republican first elected in 2016, has earned praise as a maverick unafraid of defying her party for her role on the House select committee investigating the events of January 6, when a mob of Trump supporters, motivated by unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud, rioted at the U.S. Capitol to pressure Congress against certifying the 2020 presidential results. But back home in Wyoming, Cheney’s role on the committee and vote to impeach former President Donald Trump has angered the conservative voters who dominate the deeply conservative state, where Trump secured nearly 70 percent of the vote in 2020....

The U.S. captain’s came during an appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show,” during which she was asked about U.S. Soccer’s decision to suspend Solo following comments critical of Sweden in the aftermath of the Americans’ Olympic quarterfinal loss. “I’m actually still in constant communication with her,” Lloyd said. “Hope is very competitive, and she’s one of the all-time best goalkeepers to have ever suited up. I don’t think there will be another Hope Solo ever again....

Simpson posted a 5-under 67 in the second round of the Wells Fargo Championship on Friday to tie with Robert Streb at the top of the leaderboard at 10 under for the tournament. MORE: Jimenez wins a lot of beer | Reed outshines McIlroy | Essay-winning teen in pro-am Simpson, a native of Charlotte, said he plays Quail Hollow once or twice a week when he’s home during the season, which he estimates to be about 25 weeks a year....

20 players who could transfer before the January window closes The 21-year-old has been limited to just three starts under his new manager but Conte wants to offer his England Under-21 international hope that he can continue to develop at Stamford Bridge without going away in search of more game time. The Italian indicated he may be able to offer the midfielder more opportunities having sold Oscar to Shanghai SIPG, who often deputised for several players in the squad....

The tough test Lomachenko craved, the one he said would force him to finally unleash all his skills, had finally arrived. Moments later, he ended it. Lomachenko stopped Jorge Linares in the 10th round of their lightweight championship fight Saturday night, winning a title in his third weight class in just his 12th pro bout. Lomachenko landed a hard left to the body during a flurry of precision punches that sent Linares to a knee....

That’s the story of Red Sox first baseman Mike Napoli: We pause to mark the beginning of the end of an era. Will all the other hirsute major leaguers follow Napoli’s lead? One can hope. Of course, if Napoli hits a bunch of homers and the Sox are good next year, then there’s a good chance he’ll put down the razor again. (Source: MLB.com)

MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 | Those we lost in 2015 Marchibroda coached the Colts before and after their move to Indianapolis, then later returned to Baltimore to coach the new Ravens for three years, beginning with their inaugural season in 1996. Although he went 16-31-1 with the Ravens, he presided over their 1996 draft, in which Baltimore landed future hall-of-fame players Ray Lewis and Jonathan Ogden, two key facets of the Ravens team that won Super Bowl XXXV....

For the first time in 12 years both political branches are fully controlled by the same party. And comity reigns and the president rules, right? Not quite. The year culminated with a kind of crescendo, part Wagner and part Gilbert and Sullivan, with the NAFTA vote auction, when Republicans rescued the president from the defeat, at the hands of Democrats, of the key item on his international agenda. This was a fitting finale to a year that began With the president the commander in chief, mind–trying to impose a new policy concerning homosexuals in the military, only to find that a Georgia Democrat, Sam Nunn, had other ideas and the power to prevail....

In a recent tweet by the developer’s lead artist, it seems that Phasmophobia will be having what are described as tarot cards added in a future update. The tweet by user cjdxn doesn’t go into details about the “mysterious cards,” but does suggest that some are missing and ponders what they could possibly do. One commenter suggests they could be modifiers, perhaps not too dissimilar to the card system in Back 4 Blood, which can affect the gameplay either negatively or positively....

This slow shift towards a more varied Loot Crate experience hasn’t been met without some resistance, however. Maintaining an appealing, broader product while also offering niche-specific variants can take its toll over time, and fans of the service have worried it might lead to less cohesive products. Part of the draw towards the Loot Crate experience is in the way the company teases subscribers with a keyword for each month’s release, which then sparks weeks of speculation before fans finally unwrap what’s inside that month’s Crate....

Lopez would replace Eugenio Corini who was widely reported by Italian media to have resigned on Monday after two months at the helm, though Palermo have yet to confirm his departure. “I think it’s a unique opportunity for me,” Lopez told reporters waiting for him at Palermo airport. “We know it’s a complicated situation but I believe we can save ourselves. We need to work a lot and speak little....

The fate of a team often rests on the person guiding them through their perils. In The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, the person who guides each respective adventuring group is very different — and not always for the best. There are a number of reasons why Thorin, leader of the dwarves isn’t as good a leader as the Fellowship’s leader, Aragorn. RELATED: Why Are Stars So Important In Middle Earth?...

Developers of Lord of the Rings: Gollum revealed that Gollum will be a more nuanced and complex character than the one portrayed in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films, and it may portray closer insight into Gollum’s mental health issues and his transition into the insanity which he suffers from. RELATED: The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Reveals First Screenshots Lord of the Rings: Gollum and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Given Gollum’s state of mentality and overall mental health, similarly to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, there is potential here for Lord of the Rings: Gollum to build strong and complex narrative approaches to addressing real world mental health issues and present the characteristics and issues in a way that delves deeper into the character of Gollum beyond his good and evil dual-personality framework....

Although similar in appearance to man, hobbits are actually about half the size of an average person, which is why they are referred to as halflings. Where man would be more concerned with power and creation, hobbits are simple folk who tend to their lands all while barefoot, perhaps as a way to show how connected to nature this fictional breed of humanity is. Even their homes are one with nature, as they are usually built into the side of hills as to not disturb the land, which is known as a hobbit hole....