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Fabregas has been linked with an exit from Stamford Bridge in recent months, with Nemanja Matic and N’Golo Kante Antonio Conte’s favoured midfield pair in a 3-4-3 formation. The Spain international was picked ahead of Matic at the Stadium of Light and made his mark with a sweet finish after 40 minutes, securing Chelsea’s 10th successive Premier League win that sent them six points clear at the summit. Cesc sees Chelsea past Sunderland...

Nash scored a season-high 19 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-98 Friday night. PHOTOS: Steve Nash through the years Wesley Johnson and Chris Kaman each scored 17 and six Lakers finished with double-digit points. Nash, the oldest player in the NBA, played like the guy who was a two-time NBA MVP a decade ago. He had five assists, four rebounds and shot 8 for 15 in just his eighth game of the season....

A customer named Kelly Wagner told local news station WPLG that she had spotted the masks at a Shell station located at 6201 Powerline Road. A reporter for the station traveled to the gas station and purchased one of the masks, noting that it was the only one there. Wagner said that she had asked the woman behind the counter at the gas station if Shell was “actually selling swastika face masks....

If you deactivated the option to allow guests to invite friends when you created the event, you can re-enable. Just edit the event and toggle the “Guests Can Invite Friends” switch to the On position. Although it’s possible for you (and other guests) to share your private event on your news feed or in a group, people who haven’t been invited will not be able to click or tap the link to find information about the event....

Bolsonaro said during the live video that people in the U.K. who had received two COVID-19 vaccination doses were developing AIDS faster than unvaccinated individuals. The video was removed on Sunday night, three days after it was posted. “Our policies don’t allow claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill or seriously harm people,” Facebook’s press office said in an emailed statement to the Associated Press. Facebook did not respond to questions from AP regarding why it took three days to remove Bolsonaro’s content....

At a glance, it may seem like Facebook and Oculus VR are far too disparate companies for such an acquisition to be successful, but FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t see it that way. Rather, he believes that VR headsets are the “platform of tomorrow.” Thus far, the Oculus Team and their Oculus Rift headset have only been associated with gaming experiences, but that may soon change if Facebook has its way....

Lewis Hamilton’s win in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix looked to have wrapped up the driver’s championship for another year. Bottas, Hamilton’s teammate, kept Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc behind him in 3rd place to make it another 1-2 for the Silver Arrows this season. Hamilton is currently on the verge of winning a 6th world championship and a 3rd consecutive world title. The Briton currently leads Bottas by 81 points with only five races remaining on the calendar....

SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) - Formula One needs two races in China and one should be on a street circuit to help make the sport more popular, McLaren executive director Zak Brown said on Thursday. The American also suggested the calendar should feature an updated ‘Asian Tour’ grouping the key races in the region – Japan, Singapore, China and other venues to be determined such as Thailand. “The grand prix in Shanghai is already well established, but we should explore the possibility of a race in another major city, such as Beijing, or a street race in a city like Wuxi, a place that’s growing ambitiously and enormously,” Brown wrote on a Linkedin Pulse blog....

In an interview with motorsport.com, the Frenchman shed light on Alpine’s tough engine development choices. Rossi said: The feeling is mutual with veteran driver Fernando Alonso as well, who made his expectations for Alpine’s 2022 challenger clear during a post-season interview with gpfans.com. The Spaniard said: Alpine to benefit from Renault’s split-turbo package in 2022, according to Laurent Rossi Rossi also believes Renault’s decision to opt for a split-turbo package will provide substantial on-track gains for Alpine in 2022....

Porpoising has been front and center of discussions in F1 after the 2022 Azerbaijan GP, where drivers raised health concerns as a result of the phenomenon. Earlier, Lewis Hamilton admitted he was praying for the race to end amid excruciating back pain. Pierre Gasly also highlighted the possibility of drivers having to use canes by the time they reach the age of 30 if porpoising continues. Carlos Sainz also highlighted these issues in an interview after the latest race weekend in Baku, saying:...

The German went into the barriers at Turn 3 at the Circuit de Catalunya but emerged unhurt. Ferrari immediately began checking the car in Barcelona, having acknowledged that it had been the cause of the crash, and later stated that it would not be back on the track “for a few hours”. And Vettel revealed that the team were having some difficulty due to the damage sustained by the car in an incident where he no longer had control....

Under Dr. Helmut Marko’s tutelage, Verstappen’s meteoric rise in motorsport saw him become the youngest F1 driver to participate in a race in 2014. He was contracted with Scuderia Toro Rosso. The Dutchman managed to convert it to a full-time drive with the Italian outfit that is presently known as Alpha Tauri. After an impressive P4 finish at the 2015 United States Grand Prix, speculation about Verstappen’s future was rife....

According to a report by Spanish outlet SoyMotor, FOM is planning to do away with a two-week-long testing program after 2022. Due to financial constraints brought on by the pandemic, F1 first ran a shortened three-day testing for the 2021 season, the shortest pre-season testing period in the sport’s history. Meanwhile, pre-season testing for the upcoming season will follow a more traditional schedule, albeit with a major change. Testing will be split into two parts and will be held at different venues across two weeks....

That is 9 straight years of just 2 teams winning the constructor’s trophy. There is another, longer instance of a sustained duopoly - that of Williams and McLaren, both based in Britain, in Grove, Oxfordshire and the other in Woking, Surrey respectively. The McLaren-Williams duopoly began in 1984. Supplied by Porsche engines that were branded as TAG, the McLaren teammates Niki Lauda and Alain Prost fought for the world championship with Lauda eventually prevailing by half a point....

MISSION IMP-OSSIBLE Non-league Lincoln stunned Ipswich Town with a last-gasp winner in their FA Cup third-round replay at Sincil Bank. The National League promotion hopefuls, known as the Imps, were held 2-2 at Portman Road in the first game, but got the job done on home soil courtesy of Nathan Arnold’s cool-headed finish in the last minute. Danny Cowley’s men will now take on Brighton and Hove Albion, having reached the fourth round for the first time since Taylor was at the helm....

United secured their place in the last four when they beat Brighton and Hove Albion at Old Trafford on Saturday thanks to goals from Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic. Although the Red Devils were drawn as the home side in the April 21 tie, the game will be played at Wembley, the stadium that Tottenham, who got the better of fellow Premier League side Swansea City in their quarter-final, have called home this season....

Cellino, son of the second-tier club’s owner Massimo Cellino, was fined 5,000 pounds ($7,196.50) for using abusive and/or insulting and/or improper language as it included a reference to disability, which is a breach of FA rules. Also Read: Top 10 record transfers for British players The charge, which Cellino denied, was found proven following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing, the FA said on its website (www.thefa.com). Cellino was also warned over his future conduct and must complete an education course within four months....

Any player in England who falls unconscious, or even appears to, will no longer be permitted to continue in a match. Any player suffering a head injury will undergo an assessment on the pitch and those who suffer two such head blows will be sent for psychometric testing. The decision of whether or not a player returns to action, crucially, will belong to club medics and not members of the coaching team nor the player himself....

None of the passengers have been identified. The passengers in question are allowed to contest the fines. However, the airline crews were forced to divert the planes for some of the passengers’ behavior. Over this past year, over $1.45 million in fines have been issued, according to CNN. The largest announcement of fees was over $500,000 against 34 alleged unruly passengers, the FAA reported. It was also reported that more than 5,000 incidents of rowdy passengers have been reported to the FAA....

However, in a classic case of David beating Goliath, Fognini got the better of the Spaniard, whose clay court season has got off to its worst start ever. Nadal, who came into the Barcelona Open brimming with new found confidence following a semi-final run at the Monte Carlo Masters, was taken out by Fognini in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6 (6). Nadal had beaten Nicolas Almagro, who had handed the former a quarter-final loss at the same event last year, in straight sets....