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Jrgen Klopp gets his game face on for a match Liverpool dare not lose | Andy Hunter

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Jrgen Klopp was in no mood for joking as he landed in Salzburg with Liverpools Champions League campaign hanging in the balance The Austrian media who were expecting a bit of light-hearted banter with Jrgen Klopp at the Red Bull Arena were to be disappointed. It was not the time or place. There was confusion over where to sit alongside Jordan Henderson at the pre-match press conference, a TV light on full beam was shone directly into the face of the Liverpool manager, who then had to correct the interpreter…

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Cricketer admits bribery conspiracy

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Latest news updates in the West Midlands Prosecutor Andrew Thomas QC said that as part of a National Crime Agency investigation, an undercover police officer infiltrated the network by posing as a member of a corrupt betting syndicate. That led to the uncovering of an attempted fix in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in 2016 and an actual fix in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in 2017, with opening batsmen agreeing to not score runs from the first two balls. Jamshed was targeted for the BPL and then encouraged others…

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Behind every successful woman is a tribe. A tribe of women who could choose to compete, but take the higher road of collaboration instead.

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ShareTweetPin “Behind every successful woman is a past. Most likely a difficult past she had to walk through and trudge through and claw through inch by inch and ugly day by ugly day. A past that knocked her down but didn’t keep her down. A past that broke her down, but also allowed her to break through. A past that caused her tears but didn’t tear her apart. Behind every successful woman is a list of failures. Probably a fairly long list of moments she fell flat on her face…

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LSU vs. Georgia: The governors are wagering seafood and a gift basket of … something

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(CNN)Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is feeling good. He just won re-election, and now he’s making a splashy bet on Saturday’s LSU-Georgia game for the SEC Championship. Edwards challenged Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to the bet on Friday. He’ll give Kemp some grub from Baton Rouge’s Tony’s Seafood if LSU loses. Not that he thinks he’ll need to pay up. “I’m not worried about having to cover this bet because I firmly believe Joe Burrow and the LSU Tigers, coached by Louisiana’s own Ed Orgeron, are going to be hoisting…

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Gas Giants’ Composition Doesn’t Match That Of Their Stars And Scientists Are Puzzled

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If you collected data about a group of parents, and considered the same measurements for their offspring, you’d expect them to look at least somewhat alike. Yet when the “parent” is a star, and the “child” a giant gas planet, they turn out to have much weaker relationships than anyone anticipated. The astronomers who discovered it don’t yet have an explanation, but it certainly suggests holes in our understanding of planetary formation. Planets and stars are formed out of the same cloud of gas and dust. The nature of the…

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Anthony Joshua goes the distance to win world titles back from Andy Ruiz Jr

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The British fighter won unanimously on points after a much-improved performance to regain his WBO, IBF, IBO and WBA heavyweight titles On a night when a storm raged across the Saudi Arabian desert, Anthony Joshua becalmed the Mexican tempest in front of him to make history and a whole lot of money by regaining his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles. But after his wide points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr, Joshua risked more controversy after being criticised by human rights groups last week by using the word decapitate…

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