Lucas Vazquez might be forgiven for considering that his time at Actual Madrid was coming to an finish. His contract ends on June 30, the day earlier than his thirty third birthday.

Within the first half of this season, regardless of being match sufficient to make the matchday squad for each sport, Vazquez barely featured. In Madrid’s first 15 La Liga matches he began simply as soon as — in a 3-1 defeat at Atletico Madrid. All three of Atleti’s objectives had been headers, and all three crosses got here from Vazquez’s right-back zone. He was substituted earlier than the hour mark. It stays his aspect’s solely league defeat this season.

However quick ahead six months and Vazquez was the excellent participant in El Clasico as Madrid beat Barcelona 3-2, all however confirming their title victory. It places them 11 factors away from Barca with six video games remaining, and sealing the league double over their closest challengers additionally acts as an additional half-point, ought to Barcelona one way or the other come again to complete degree. Realistically, the title is Madrid’s.

Through the first presidential reign of Florentino Perez, he famously declared that his coverage for squad composition was “Zidanes y Pavones”. This meant superstars like Zinedine Zidane and youth merchandise like Francisco Pavon — though contemplating the way in which Madrid performed all through that interval, it felt extra like he meant sensible attackers and sub-standard defenders. The crew was at all times top-heavy, and the ‘galacticos’ interval was one thing of a failure.

Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect feels nearer to what Perez meant. The distinction is that the superstars, typically, are attackers who had been signed at a comparatively younger age, and Madrid have moulded them into the gamers they need. The aspect’s common entrance three — Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo and Jude Bellingham — had been signed aged 20 or youthful. One thing related applies to midfielders Federico Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni.

Others, reminiscent of Luka Modric and Toni Kroos, had been older and extra established, however have now been round for a decade. Issues are a little bit totally different in defence, however David Alaba and Antonio Rudiger had been picked up on free transfers. Madrid have develop into extra astute within the switch market, and so they’ve additionally constructed a squad that embodies the membership. However the gamers who really feel most sometimes Actual Madrid are two thirtysomethings who got here by means of the academy and have caught round ever since. They’ve additionally been the excellent performers of their final two matches.

Nacho makes a key intervention at Metropolis on Wednesday (Paul Ellis/AFP through Getty Photographs)

Within the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final in opposition to Manchester Metropolis on Wednesday, which Madrid gained on penalties, left-sided centre-back Nacho was glorious, serving to to shackle Erling Haaland and successful every part within the air. Now 34, the membership captain has solely not often been a daily, and by no means one of many aspect’s most glamorous gamers. Nevertheless it’s footballers like these, who’re constant, dependable, versatile and embody the worth of the membership, that assist win trophies and get you over the road in tight video games on the enterprise finish of the season.

Final evening was Vazquez’s flip. By now, we consider him as a full-back — though for a lot of his profession, Vazquez was a right-winger able to doing a job in defence. Towards Barca, partly due to accidents, Ancelotti fielded a defence that boasted three midfielders by commerce: alongside centre-back Rudiger had been Camavinga, Tchouameni and Vazquez.

Vazquez isn’t the world’s most stable right-back, however together with his expertise, he largely makes good choices. An fascinating function of his efficiency final evening was that when Barcelona attacked down the other flank — and with Lamine Yamal on that aspect, that was their most important tactic — Vazquez didn’t give attention to defending the far put up however as a substitute narrowed his place and tried to close down opponents attempting to achieve a cutback.

It is a barely dangerous tactic: if Yamal had pushed the ball throughout to Robert Lewandowski on this state of affairs beneath, Vazquez may have been caught out…

It did repay later. When Yamal’s lofted cutback was about to seek out Lewandowski in his favorite place, lingering on the sting of the field, Vazquez intercepted.

However Vazquez’s show was actually about his attacking potential, as he was concerned in all three objectives.

For the opener, he referred to as for a swap of play from Bellingham, then outwitted Joao Cancelo, driving on the surface and displaying sheer perseverance to get the ball when Cancelo stepped throughout his path — however successfully stepped throughout too far.

Pau Cubarsi, Barcelona’s proficient younger centre-back, did what you count on of a 17-year-old: he went to floor too early.

Vazquez performed the state of affairs completely — Cubarsi’s problem was really fairly distant from him, and different gamers may need exaggerated the dive. However Vazquez left his proper foot in lengthy sufficient to legitimately win the penalty.

Vazquez scored Madrid’s second equaliser himself, changing easily from Vinicius Jr’s pushed cross.

It’s value highlighting the extent to which Vazquez is tasked with stretching the play within the build-up — few right-backs would then have the presence of thoughts to assault the far put up and apply such stable contact on a bouncing ball.

And for the winner, few would have the will to make this run in stoppage time — significantly contemplating that 2-2 would have represented outcome for Madrid.

However Vazquez pushed ahead to offer Brahim Diaz an possibility down the proper after which drove a easy however good ball throughout the six-yard line. It was most likely meant primarily for substitute striker Joselu, however he made no contact together with his tried backheel.

Bellingham, simply as he did within the reverse fixture, fired residence the stoppage-time winner.

“With 5 minutes left, we had been speaking to one another, saying we’re going to win,” Vazquez stated afterwards. “That’s what this membership and this badge signify: we at all times need to win and battle till the tip. We by no means hand over.”

It was virtually corporate-speak from certainly one of Madrid’s most dependable foot troopers. Bellingham was much less reserved. “Lucas Vazquez, you f***ing legend,” was his quick response on X.

Bellingham, on a distinct planet to everybody else within the first half of the season, hasn’t fairly been at his greatest this week. The identical is true of Rodrygo and Vinicius Jr, with the attackers most likely fatigued from a draining 120 minutes in Manchester.

However golf equipment like Madrid, relentless successful machines, at all times have a dependable supporting forged. Once in a while, certainly one of them steals the present. Vazquez has earned himself one other medal — and possibly a brand new contract too.

(Prime picture: Burak Akbulut/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)

Anne Hathaway stated in a brand new interview with V Journal forward of the discharge of her upcoming film “The Concept of You” that chemistry assessments have come a good distance since her auditioning days within the 2000s.

Whereas the Oscar winner didn’t cite any films by identify, she did reveal that she was as soon as required to kiss a handful of males to ensure that the crew behind the movie to search out her the proper co-star.

“Again within the 2000s — and this did occur to me — it was thought-about regular to ask an actor to make out with different actors to check for chemistry, which is definitely the worst strategy to do it,” Hathaway stated. “I used to be informed, ‘We’ve got 10 guys coming immediately and also you’re forged. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I believed, ‘Is there one thing flawed with me?’ as a result of I wasn’t excited. I believed it sounded gross.”

“I used to be so younger and terribly conscious how simple it was to lose all the pieces by being labeled ‘tough,’ so I simply pretended I used to be excited and bought on with it,” Hathaway continued. “It wasn’t an influence play, nobody was making an attempt to be terrible or harm me. It was only a very completely different time and now we all know higher.”

Hathaway not solely stars in “The Concept of You” however she can be a producer, which meant she had a direct say in how the crew behind the film went about discovering her a co-star. Based mostly on the novel by Robinne Lee, the movie stars Hathaway as a 40-year-old single mother who falls in love with the 24-year-old lead singer of the world’s hottest boy band.

“We requested every of the actors coming in to decide on a track that they felt their character would love, that they might placed on to get my character to bounce, after which we’d do a brief little improv,” Hathaway stated about “The Concept of You” chemistry reads. “I used to be sitting in a chair like we had are available from dinner or a stroll or one thing, we pressed play, and we simply began dancing collectively.”

Nicholas Galitzine gained the half after selecting a track by Alabama Shakes to bounce to with Hathaway, who remembered Galitzine being “so ridiculously good” for the position as quickly as he walked within the room.

“And it was simply simple,” Hathaway added. “I heard [lead singer] Brittany [Howard]’s voice and I simply began smiling. And he noticed me smile, so he relaxed, and we simply began dancing. No person was displaying off. No person was making an attempt to get the gig. We have been simply in an area dancing. I seemed over and Michael Showalter, our director, was beaming. Spark!”

“The Concept of You” debuted to sturdy evaluations on the SXSW Movie Competition final month. The film streams on Amazon Prime Video beginning Could 2.

Anne Hathaway has revealed that within the 2000s, producers on a movie she was starring in required her to kiss a succession of potential co-stars.

Chatting with V Journal, the actor mentioned that within the 2000s, “it was thought of regular to ask an actor to make out with different actors to check for chemistry. Which is definitely the worst approach to do it.”

She continued: “I used to be informed, ‘We now have 10 guys coming right now and also you’re solid. Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’ And I assumed, ‘Is there one thing incorrect with me?’ As a result of I wasn’t excited. I assumed it sounded gross.”

Hathaway, who gained an Oscar for her function in Les Misérables and is shortly to be seen in romantic comedy The Thought of You, mentioned that she acceded to the request.

“And I used to be so younger and terribly conscious how simple it was to lose every thing by being labeled ‘troublesome’, so I simply pretended I used to be excited and obtained on with it. It wasn’t an influence play, nobody was attempting to be terrible or damage me. It was only a very totally different time and now we all know higher.”

Hathaway, who additionally acts as a producer on her new movie, concerning the relationship between a single mom and a boy band star performed by Nicholas Galitzine, mentioned she now engineered such exams in a different way.

“We requested every of the actors coming in to decide on a music that they felt their character would love,” she mentioned, “that they might placed on to get my character to bounce, after which we’d do a brief little improv.

“I used to be sitting in a chair like we had are available in from dinner or a stroll or one thing, we pressed play, and we simply began dancing collectively.”

Galitzine selected a music by rock band Alabama Shakes, fronted by Brittany Howard. “I heard Brittany’s voice and I simply began smiling,” mentioned Hathaway.

“And he noticed me smile, so he relaxed, and we simply began dancing. No one was exhibiting off. No one was attempting to get the gig. We have been simply in an area dancing. I regarded over and Michael Showalter, our director, was beaming. Spark!”

Galitzine has additionally spoken about his expertise of their joint audition, saying that though he discovered it “extremely intimidating … there was one thing nearly non secular that type of occurred there the place I felt this fast connection to Annie, and we had a simpatico and a shared sense of humour and it was simply very simple.”

Galitzine was additionally the topic of a chaste chemistry check for romcom Purple, White and Royal Blue, wherein he performs Prince Henry, a member of the British monarchy who begins a relationship with the son of the primary feminine President of the US.

Director Matthew Lopez described the Zoom chemistry learn to Radio Instances: “Inside 5 minutes … all of us knew that we had discovered our Henry and our Alex.

“It was instantaneous. It was actually simply … fairly literal chemistry. I feel you may really feel the atoms swirling between them. Regardless that one in all them was in New Orleans, and one in all them was in LA.”

Whereas establishing a real-life frisson between potential co-stars is a extensively recognised necessity when casting a movie, chemistry exams – wherein strangers are instructed to turn into intimate – can happen in semi-private settings, normally with out an intimacy coordinator current.

One instance is the primary encounter between Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, who have been instructed to start kissing on a mattress on the dwelling of director Catherine Hardwicke.

“Rob and Kristen auditioned on my mattress,” Hardwicke has recalled, “the kissing scene, Rob was so into it he fell up and about. I’m like, ‘Dude, relax.’ And I’m in there filming with my little video digicam.

“On the finish [after the audition], Kristen was like, ‘It must be Rob.’ I might inform that they had quite a lot of chemistry, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ I assumed, ‘Kristen was 17. I don’t wish to get in some unlawful issues.’ So I bear in mind I informed Rob, ‘By the best way, Kristen is 17. In our nation, it’s unlawful to have a sexual …’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, OK, no matter.’”

Stewart and Pattinson went on to have a relationship and Twilight turned a multimillion-dollar franchise.

Coachella has formally come to a detailed after two weekends stuffed with particular visitors, embarrassing flops and plenty of music.

The music competition, which takes place in Indio, California, noticed a hunch in ticket gross sales this yr, however followers had been nonetheless excited to observe their favourite artists take over the desert. 

From an Odd Future reunion to Child Cudi’s damaged foot, right here had been the highs and lows of the ultimate weekend of this yr’s competition. 

Child Cudi broke his foot after leaping off the stage

Followers had been pleasantly shocked when multihyphenate artist Child Cudi was added to the Coachella lineup proper earlier than the beginning of weekend two. Sadly, Cudi’s act was minimize quick after he broke his foot whereas leaping from the stage Sunday.

“Hey guys, so I broke my foot right now on the present,” Cudi posted on X. “simply leavin the hospital. By no means damaged a bone earlier than so that is all a bit loopy.  I wanna thank u all for ur issues and nicely needs!!  I really like yall man.  I heard yall nonetheless ragin after I was offstage.  Made me smile large.”

Tyler, the Creator introduced out longtime collaborator Earl Sweatshirt

Tyler, the Creator’s current albums “Name Me if You Get Misplaced” and “Igor” have catapulted him to a brand new stage of acclaim. However many longtime Tyler followers discovered him throughout his days within the rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All — higher identified by the shorthand Odd Future.

Tyler, the Creator introduced out his fellow Odd Future member Earl Sweatshirt to carry out a pair songs from their early days, one from Tyler’s 2009 mixtape “Bastard” and one other from his 2013 album “Wolf.”

“Tyler, the f—ing Creator, man,” Earl Sweatshirt stated onstage. “Take a look at the most important present on Earth.” 

Some followers had hoped for an additional Odd Future cameo: Frank Ocean, who headlined Coachella in 2023. 

However Tyler, the Creator stated he didn’t know the place the artist was. Whereas introducing his track “She,” which options Ocean, the rapper informed the viewers to sing Ocean’s half as a result of he was “not popping out.” 

“We don’t know the place [Ocean] is, so it’s on y’all,” he stated. 

Doja Cat made historical past as the primary feminine rapper to headline

“Dojchella” trended on X after the rapper concluded her ultimate headlining Coachella set. Doja Cat delighted followers together with her signature eccentric efficiency type, avant-garde outfit adjustments and sharp choreography. Some even praised her improvisation expertise following a lacking microphone mishap. 

Doja Cat was the primary feminine rapper and second Black lady to headline the music competition, following Beyoncé’s efficiency in 2018.

Grimes redeemed herself after a disastrous first weekend

Grimes’ second weekend DJ set appeared to go off with out a hitch after going through main technical difficulties throughout her first run.

The electropop artist poked enjoyable at her weekend one meltdown, opening her set with a collection of pretend information clips “investigating” the reason for the malfunctions. She performed clips of herself screaming in frustration alongside quips that “she will’t DJ.” The remainder of her set went easily, and followers even praised her remix of a Blackpink track.

In the event you’re the Philadelphia 76ers, Monday night time’s Sport 2 collapse yielded devastating information, but in addition one fairly good motive to really feel cautiously optimistic about the remainder of the first-round collection in opposition to the New York Knicks. Let’s begin with the dangerous first.

Up 5 with 27 seconds to go, Philly gave up a nook 3 to Jalen Brunson after which, as a substitute of calling timeout to advance the ball, turned it over in chaotic vogue as Madison Sq. Backyard bodily shook.

“The very first thing is clearly they rating, we check out getting it in fast,” Sixers head coach Nick Nurse stated after the sport. “We don’t get it in fast. I name timeout. Referee regarded proper at me. Ignored me.” Earlier than talking with the media, Nurse watched a replay of the possession and reiterated that an official “may see me clearly calling timeout twice.”

Alas, no timeout was granted. 5 seconds later, the sky fell. Donte DiVincenzo missed a wide-open 3. Isaiah Hartenstein flew in for the offensive rebound after which shoveled it over to OG Anunoby, who discovered DiVincenzo once more, this time for a go-ahead, finally game-winning jumper that triggered pandemonium among the many delirious crowd, which instantly discovered itself dwelling by means of a basketball fantasy.

It was the kind of ending—outlined by avoidable errors and gut-turning controversy—that may successfully finish a group’s season. Perhaps it’s going to. The Sixers are actually down 0-2 in opposition to a tough-as-nails 2-seed that has but to profit from Brunson trying just like the MVP candidate he’s been all 12 months.

Philadelphia isn’t a typical no. 7 seed, although, which brings us to that fairly good motive for it to really feel cautiously optimistic about the remainder of this collection. His title is Joel Embiid. And in Sport 2, regardless of not trying or transferring like he does when 100% wholesome, Embiid was nonetheless the life jacket Philly will want if it needs to tug by means of this collection.

Embiid can’t routinely bully Hartenstein and Mitchell Robinson on the block, demand double-teams, then choose rotating defenses aside like he does when he has full belief in each knees. After lacking almost the ultimate two months of the common season, his burst and stamina nonetheless aren’t near the place they’re at his peak. However the model of Embiid that was on show in Sport 2 was nonetheless just about a best-case situation. Two days after he crashed to Madison Sq. Backyard’s ground with troubled eyes that communicated basketball tragedy, Embiid did this:

He completed with 34 factors, 10 rebounds, six assists, and a monstrous 40.4 p.c utilization price that included solely two turnovers. “I believed he was wonderful,” Nurse stated in regards to the 2022-23 MVP after the sport. “Actually, actually excellent.”

Watching Embiid on Monday night time, I used to be reminded of one thing Minnesota Timberwolves coloration commentator Jim Petersen stated on air throughout a random regular-season recreation earlier this 12 months. To paraphrase: Embiid can rating 30 with out actually attempting. On this context, what it means is that even with none athleticism or power, this 7-footer nonetheless has sufficient talent and flexibility to utterly dominate a recreation. It’s a praise to his expertise and agility, the way in which he units a display screen after which moseys right down to the nail, retrieves a pocket go, and calmly drills an unblockable jumper. He shot 7-for-10 from the midrange in Sport 2 and mixed with Tyrese Maxey (who had a game-high 35 factors and 10 assists) to execute a pick-and-roll that New York had no reply for. The Knicks tried nearly every part, together with aggressive, preemptive assist from the weak aspect that led to a special sort of ache:

In 39 minutes, Embiid wasn’t significantly environment friendly—a 49.6 true taking pictures proportion isn’t any bueno—however he was unstoppable for vital stretches. Philadelphia outscored New York by three factors with him on the courtroom. Within the collection, the Sixers’ offensive ranking when Embiid sits is (one way or the other) 61.5.

On protection, he was a steely bouncer, clipboard in hand. Solely 25 p.c of all of the Knicks’ photographs got here on the rim, and simply 52.6 p.c went in. That’s all Embiid, who spent all the recreation both lounging in a deep drop or anchoring Philadelphia’s zone.

That protection generally is a double-edged sword, in fact. And when Embiid is cell sufficient to hassle shooters on the perimeter and dance in several schemes, Philadelphia’s protection is clearly much less susceptible in opposition to actual pull-up threats:

However a lot of the Knicks’ jumpers had been contained in the arc, seems the Sixers are OK with, understanding Nicolas Batum or Kelly Oubre Jr. is speeding in with a rear contest. Total, Embiid’s presence was a transparent optimistic on that finish, instrumental to Philadelphia’s success.

The Sixers did greater than have Embiid set screens and roll towards the free throw line, too. They discovered some success having Kyle Lowry set a flex display screen for him out within the nook, an motion that finally arrange this gem:

“He did an important job tonight of simply being aggressive, being bodily on the market, being dominant like he’s,” Tobias Harris stated of Embiid. “We stay up for that for the subsequent recreation.”

It’s removed from controversial to consider that Philadelphia can come again and win this collection if Embiid is who he was in Sport 2. That participant saved possessions that had been going nowhere, delivering repeatedly because the hub of an offense that left some meat on the bone. Usually talking, 0-2 deficits are daunting however hardly insurmountable in at the moment’s league for a wide range of causes, together with 3-point variance and the narrowing expertise hole between larger and decrease seeds. Groups down 0-2 have come again six occasions prior to now three postseasons. If the Sixers are eradicated in 4 or 5 video games, it’d be a tremendously disappointing finish for a group that employs top-of-the-line gamers alive, in the midst of his prime. Given the circumstances, it additionally shouldn’t essentially be time to panic.

“We must be 2 and 0,” Embiid stated at his locker. “So, we’re good. We’re gonna win this collection. We’re gonna win this. We all know what we’ve acquired to repair. We did a greater job at the moment. So, we’re gonna repair it. However we’re the higher group. And we’re gonna preserve combating.”

Philadelphia has just a few gamers beneath contract for subsequent season and sufficient monetary flexibility to retool round Embiid and Maxey with (hopefully) a superior supporting forged. That’s one other story for an additional day, although. Within the right here and now, regardless of Sport 2’s disappointing loss, the Sixers are nonetheless a menace as a result of their finest participant nonetheless seems like somebody who can put a group on his again and carry it to the end line.

By Michael McCabe

At its Parc des Princes residence French super-club Paris Saint-Germain generated over €1,000 extra per seat by matchday income than every other stadium among the many high revenue-generating European soccer golf equipment, based on TheStadiumBusiness Index 2024.

TheStadiumBusiness Index divides the full matchday revenues of every of the highest 20 golf equipment – as ranked within the newest Soccer Cash League, which is revealed yearly by skilled providers agency Deloitte – by their stadium capacities to calculate an annual income per seat.

PSG generated €3,192 per seat within the 2022-23 season at its 47,929-capacity residence, based mostly on whole matchday income of €153m, with second-placed Chelsea incomes a mean of €2,181 per seat.

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PSG’s president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, just lately said that the French Ligue 1 soccer membership will search to maneuver from the Parc des Princes following the Metropolis of Paris’ declaration that the stadium shouldn’t be on the market.

Arsenal generated €1,944 per seat, with whole matchday revenues representing 22.2% of the membership’s revenue – the next proportion than every other English membership

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Chelsea led 5 English Premier League golf equipment within the Index rankings, forward of Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool, with the opening of the membership’s Westview premium facility in 2021 having helped to drive Stamford Bridge revenues.

In third place within the Index, Tottenham Hotspur posted whole matchday revenues of €135m – €2,148 per seat – within the latest stadium within the high 20, the state-of-the-art 62,850-seat Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Curiously, Manchester United, whose shareholder Sir Jim Ratcliffe has overtly mentioned a full-scale redevelopment of the membership’s ageing Outdated Trafford Stadium, confirmed that it could nonetheless generate vital revenue per seat on the greatest membership facility in England regardless of a number of years of underperformance on the pitch. With common revenues of €2,032 per seat, United ranked fourth within the Index.

In the meantime, Arsenal generated €1,944 per seat based mostly on whole matchday revenues of €118m, which represented 22.2% of the membership’s revenue – the next proportion than every other English membership.

FC Barcelona’s matchday revenue of €166m was probably the most within the high 20, with the Spanish LaLiga membership having launched into an entire rebuild of the Camp Nou final summer time.

Of all of the golf equipment within the Index, Ligue 1 membership Olympique de Marseille’s matchday revenue of €64.00 represented the best proportion of revenue – 24.8%.

How would your stadium/venue evaluate with these figures?

Calculate your annual income per seat and tell us!

UPDATE, April 24, 2024, 7:15 a.m. ET:

Taking a look at extra angles from Sport 1 broadcasts as they change into out there, an occasion has been discovered of Philadelphia 76ers’ middle Joel Embiid being seemingly unable to blink his left eye BEFORE being hit by Kelly Oubre Jr. at 7:07.

That being stated, previous to that time, it didn’t appear to be bothering Embiid as a lot — he started rubbing it extra persistently and noticeably after the hit, in addition to starting to put on the sun shades indoors after Sport 1, not earlier than.

May we be taking a look at two separate points, or one present problem that was exacerbated by the contact from Oubre?

April 23, 2024:

In case you watched Sport 2 and even simply components of Sport 1 of the Japanese Convention first spherical sequence between the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks, you could have a lingering query about Sixers’ star middle Joel Embiid.

What’s going on along with his eyes?

Even in the course of the shock of Embiid hitting the bottom grabbing his knee throughout his harm scare in Sport 1, this was all many may discover. Together with his again on the ground and digicam caught on his face, the NBA’s reigning MVP gave the impression to be solely blinking along with his proper eye.

So, what’s going on? We would have simply found out a bit of the puzzle right here at Liberty Ballers.

The video beneath is from the primary interval of Sport 1. Prior to those moments, I used to be unable to search out any occasion of Embiid having any points along with his eye.

With 7:11 left within the first, New York’s Donte DiVincenzo takes a shot from past the arc. Embiid is boxing out Josh Hart below the rim ready for the rebound. Kelly Oubre Jr. flies straight in direction of the bucket and, whereas leaping along with his proper arm prolonged out making an attempt to seize the ball, seems to make contact with Embiid’s face along with his left hand on the 7:07 mark. Embiid instantly grabs at his face.

Embiid is out of digicam shot for just a little after that because the Sixers’ referred to as a timeout and the published went to industrial. Throughout a following Knicks’ drive round 6:33, Embiid is seen making an attempt to battle Isaiah Hartenstein for a rebound. After Hartenstein grabs it and goes up for a dunk, Embiid is seen grabbing his face and overlaying his left eye once more as he slowly heads up the ground. It doesn’t seem that any additional contact was made to his face on this play, however its clear one thing is flawed at this level.

Lastly, on the finish of the primary interval, he went straight again into the tunnel holding his face. He returned to the ground within the second, however the eye questionability, let’s say, has been seen ever since.

The extra time Embiid is on digicam, the extra persons are noticing. Many have taken to X (previously Twitter) to put up moments of Embiid showing to be unable to blink or correctly transfer the left eye in sync along with his proper eye all through Sport 1 and Sport 2.

His conduct between video games hasn’t carried out a lot to assuage suspicions and questions over whether or not his eye is injured. The large man was sporting sun shades inside Madison Sq. Backyard at shootaround previous to Sport 2 on Monday.

After the Sixers’ Sport 2 loss, he gave the impression to be hiding his eyes by holding his head down for everything of his postgame media availability.

And simply to be clear, he was not sporting the sun shades when arriving at MSG previous to Sport 1.

Does this affirm that Sport 1 is when he might have damage his eye? No, nevertheless it definitely factors to it because the inception of the issue.

At this level, the Sixers haven’t talked about the problem or listed it on any harm report. As at all times, we are going to carry you extra concrete info when — and if — it turns into out there.

Embiid and the Sixers are off Tuesday and Wednesday earlier than returning to South Philadelphia to host Sport 3 on Thursday night.

Luke Bryan is disregarding his current onstage accident.

The nation famous person, 47, slipped on a telephone that was on the stage whereas performing over the weekend, sending him crashing to the ground.

“Did anyone get that?” he requested the gang after getting again to his ft, as seen in fan-captured footage of the incident. “It is OK, hey, my lawyer will probably be calling.”

Bryan, regardless of the autumn, seemed to be in a joking temper, making enjoyable of the tumble and even replaying the second on a fan’s telephone.

“There it’s!” he stated. “Hey! I want some viral, that is viral.”

Bryan’s “American Idol” household even checked in with him throughout Sunday evening’s reside present.

“Are you broken in any means?” host Ryan Seacrest requested him.

“What are you speaking about, Ryan?” Bryan quipped again.

The second was then replayed for “American Idol” followers.

One fan who was on the live performance, Emily Nicole, advised “Good Morning America” different concertgoers have been throwing telephones, cowboy boots, cowboy hats, water bottles and extra onto the stage.

“Folks have been making an attempt to get their stuff signed,” Nicole recalled. “In order that they thought one of the simplest ways to get that to occur was by throwing issues on stage, which was not secure in any respect and simply tremendous disrespectful.”

That is hardly the primary occasion of artists coping with followers throwing objects onstage at concert events.

Simply final yr, Bebe Rexha was hit within the face when a fan threw their telephone at her throughout a present in New York Metropolis. Harry Types was additionally hit within the face by a flying object whereas he was onstage in Vienna final July.

“Artists have had sufficient,” Kelley L. Carter, ABC Information leisure contributor and senior leisure reporter at Andscape, advised “GMA.”

“A lot stays to be seen about how incidents like this would possibly change the live performance expertise,” Carter continued. “I feel that there is positively going to be a zero tolerance coverage that is finally going to be put into place.”

L’argent des contribuables ne servira pas à nourrir ni à abreuver les joueurs des Kings qui viendront jouer à Québec en octobre prochain. 

C’est l’assurance que le chef de l’opposition officielle a pu obtenir, mardi, lors d’un exercice de reddition de comptes annuel en fee parlementaire.

Rappelons que le gouvernement Legault a suscité la controverse l’automne dernier en annonçant l’octroi d’une subvention pouvant atteindre entre 5 et 7 M$ au groupe Québecor Sport et Divertissement pour que le Centre Vidéotron reçoive, du 2 au 8 octobre prochains, le camp d’entraînement des Kings de Los Angeles et deux matchs hors concours avec les Bruins de Boston et les Panthers de la Floride.

«Allez-vous vous assurer que les Québécoises et Québécois ne vont pas payer pour rembourser de l’alcool, notamment des bouteilles de vin? Allez-vous vous en assurer, ou c’est doable qu’on paye ça?», a demandé le chef libéral par intérim Marc Tanguay au ministre responsable de la Capitale-Nationale, lors du volet Capitale-Nationale de l’étude des crédits budgétaires.

«Tel qu’écrit dans le contrat, c’est toute dépense de quelque nature que ce soit», s’est inquiété M. Tanguay.

«Il faudrait voir», a d’abord répondu Jonatan Julien.

Un secret révélé

La précision est finalement venue de son sous-ministre associé chez Secrétariat à la Capitale-Nationale, Youri Rousseau.

«L’entente prévoit que Québecor va prendre les frais liés à la présentation d’événements et que les Kings de Los Angeles seront responsables de leur côté à eux des dépenses engagées pour les équipes, les frais de repas, dépenses personnelles, and so forth. Donc ça, c’est des dépenses qui ne seront pas couvertes dans notre aide», a expliqué M. Rousseau, aux côtés du ministre Julien.

Sans le savoir, M. Rousseau a révélé le contenu d’une partie du contrat entre le gouvernement et Québecor que les responsables de l’accès à l’info de l’appareil gouvernemental avaient jusque-là gardée confidentielle.

«Je remercie Monsieur le sous-ministre d’avoir divulgué une info qui préalablement avait été caviardée», a souligné M. Tanguay.

Des travaux dès l’an prochain dans le littoral est?

Questionné aussi à propos de la section IV de la promenade Samuel-De Champlain, le ministre Julien a laissé entendre que de premiers travaux entre le secteur d’Estimauville et la Baie de Beauport pourraient débuter «aussi vite que l’année prochaine».

Lors de l’annonce des lauréats du concours d’idéation lancé par la Fee de la capitale nationale du Québec, au début avril, M. Julien n’avait pas voulu se prononcer sur un échéancier.

Une somme de 5 M$ est déjà réservée au Plan québécois des infrastructures (PQI) du gouvernement pour «conceptualiser» le projet.

Talonné par M. Tanguay, M. Julien a refusé de s’engager à ce que la «pépine» entre en scène d’ici les prochaines élections.

«J’aimerais vraiment beaucoup que ce soit dès l’an prochain», a dit M. Julien en rappelant que différents partenaires sont impliqués, dont le CN, en raison de la présence d’une voie ferrée près de la Baie de Beauport.

«Je ne peux pas présumer des conclusions de cette collaboration, mais elle est très bonne actuellement», a souligné le ministre responsable de la Capitale-Nationale.