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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was fastest in final practice for the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday, with the session cut short after Renault’s Kevin Magnussen crashed into the wall. Vettel lapped in a best time of one minute 13.919 seconds as cold weather and spots of rain returned to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve to make conditions tricky again after Friday’s sunshine. Magnussen lost control at turn seven and skidded along the wall before stopping with the car’s left-side badly damaged....

Three-time defending world champion Sebastian Vettel recorded the quickest time here on Friday morning on the fourth and final day of testing ahead of the 2013 Formula One season. Vettel, in the new Red Bull RB9 car, was just ahead of Mexico’s Esteban Gutierrez in a Sauber. Gutierrez will make his Formula One debut at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 17. Lewis Hamilton was third-quickest in his Mercedes, while Spain’s Pedro De La Rosa made an inauspicious first appearance in a Ferrari....

Fresh off Justin Verlander’s encouraging season debut, the club announced designated hitter Victor Martinez will begin a rehab assignment with the Triple-A Mud Hens on Sunday. Martinez has been out since May 19 with inflammation in his left knee, and is expected to play four games before returning to the big leagues. “We need a healthy Victor Martinez back, not an ailing Victor Martinez,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said Saturday, via MLive....

The 27-year-old joined the Blues from Wigan Athletic on August 24, 2012, and went on loans to Liverpool, Stoke City, West Ham United in an effort to gain experience and playing time. However, under Antonio Conte, the winger was converted to a wing-back and flourished immensely featuring in all but four league games in the 2016-17 season as the Stamford Bridge outfit secure their sixth Premier League title. Besides winning a league trophy, the versatile player have won the FA Cup and Uefa Europa League....

Angela and Zamboanga exchanged dialogs through the media on several occasions, after the two were initially scheduled to square off. However, the Singaporean-American superstar became pregnant with her first child in 2020. Recently, Zamboanga was surprisingly nothing but respectful towards Victoria, as the Filipina showered praise onto the 17-year-old. In an interview with ONE Championship, the younger Lee responded. The banter has certainly been entertaining between Zamboanga and the Lee siblings....

The Victrola Stream Carbon is a record turntable that connects to your Sonos home audio streaming system. You’ll still have to get up to flip your records to side B, but other than that, it’s the Sonos you already love, only with added hipster appeal. But doesn’t this kind of miss one of the points of vinyl, which is the whole all-analog, hands-on aspect of the format? “Instead of forcing people that already stream to have to purchase traditional (wired) speakers, Victrola can instead offer a very nice record player that doesn’t require new users to also have to retool their music room equipment....

The Chile international has featured in 13 of Barca’s 18 matches this season, though just four of those appearances have been starts. Vidal arrived at Camp Nou from Bayern Munich in 2018 and has another 18 months to run on his contract, but the 32-year-old will consider an early exit if he is not given more minutes. “I would like to be here forever, but I have to be objective and live day to day,” he told Televisio de Catalunya....

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They had originally tried to reproduce the Razor Crest, the spaceship flown by the Mandalorian from the hit TV series of the same name, but their prototype was destroyed by bad weather back in April 2021. Ayaal Federov, 29, said in an interview to discuss the new X-Wing starfighter that “construction of the ship took three months” after they started building it in July. He joked that he would happily go to space to return Russian actress Yulia Peresild, to Earth if she needed a lift....

Players often try to influence the referee by outnumbering him. One referee who was known to be a no-nonsense official and the man who players were afraid of and respected at the same time was Pierluigi Collina. However, with the Italian’s retirement, we are yet to see another commanding referee on the pitch. In the video below, we see glimpses of Collina in another referee. With the agitated players surrounding him, complaining all they could, the referee maintained his cool and just did something that scared away the players....

The Brazilian teenager signed for the Eredivisie side from Sao Paulo during the January transfer window for €12 million, and has now officially moved to Amsterdam. ‘Shut up, dickhead’ - Allegri rants at Bonucci Neres helped Sao Paulo’s youth side win the 2016 Under-20 Copa Libertadores before being promoted to their senior squad, scoring three goals in his first eight appearances. The forward’s arrival at Ajax was delayed due to his participation in the South American Youth Football Championship, where Brazil finished in fifth place after a scoreless draw with Colombia meant they missed out on qualification for the 2017 FIFA Under-20 World Cup....

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In what was an interesting sequence of events, the Swede tried to score from a corner, as he attempted an audacious double bicycle kick. The first attempt saw his miscued shot hit his own teammate while he fluffed his shot the second time around and sent it wide. Although Sweden defeated Iran 3-1, this takes off the sheen a little from his brilliant week for his country. He had earlier scored a header direct from the opposition goalkeeper’s goal-kick against Moldova....

Chelsea fans seem to agree that Patrick Bamford is a striker to make note of, one of those for the future who has performed well consistently out on loan in the English Championship for the last two seasons. He is set to spend the next season on loan at Crystal Palace in the Premier League for the first time in the 21-year-old’s career. His pre-season with the club started off with a couple of appearances that lasted close to 45 minutes, some slightly over but he didn’t score for the Eagles till they came up against Bromley....

The Senegal striker, who now plays in the Chinese Super League since leaving St. James’ Park this summer, managed to chip the goalkeeper with his standing foot! Genius improvisation or extremely fortuitous? Decide for yourself… Ultimately, the goal was merely a consolation as Shanghai SIPG thrashed Cisse’s Shandong Luneng 4-1 - but what a consolation goal it was!

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The footage, obtained and published for the first time by The Dallas News and local television station NBC5 on Tuesday, sheds new light for the public about the 32-year-old’s death back in August 2016. Timpa died within 20 minutes after police arrived to respond to the man’s own distress call to 911. Timpa had called 911 asking for help, explaining that he suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was off his medication....

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