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Hurricane Ian struck Florida on Wednesday, leaving behind a trail of devastation in areas such as Fort Myers, where it first made landfall. The massive storm brought high winds and flooding that killed at least 44 people. However, local authorities expect the number of casualties to continue rising as Floridians realize the full impact of the storm. Relief efforts are already underway, with Florida officials pushing for more federal aid to help rebuild their communities....

United had been expected to reveal a sharp decrease in money earned from TV as a result of missing out on Champions League football last season after David Moyes’ disastrous run in charge of the club. MORE: Former Man U manager Alex Ferguson, in photos | Losing Luke Shaw However, while the club confirmed a drop of more than 20 percent in broadcast money to roughly $167.2 million and a 16....

Manchester United should sign defender Former Liverpool star Danny Murphy thinks that Manchester United should look to sign Toby Alderweireld from Tottenham. The Belgian had previously been linked with the Old Trafford outfit but couldn’t agree upon a fee with Spurs. However, the former Southampton star is going to be available for £25 million in the upcoming transfer window and Murphy thinks that United should trigger it because they need an experienced center-back like Virgil Van Dijk is for Liverpool and Vincent Kompany for Manchester City....

Last year, United bought out their £10 million (a year) training-kit deal with the express delivery and freight firm DHL. The £10 million (a year) shirt sponsorship deal is set to be replaced by a £53 million annual package with General Motors’ Chevrolet in 2014. There were also speculations about United close to signing a £100m (a year) deal with a leading airline. However, United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has confirmed that they will never be selling the naming rights to Old Trafford....

Without further ado, let’s have a look at the top stories concerning the Red Devils today. Tottenham joins Man United in race to sign Joachim Anderson It looks like Manchester United are ready to wait till the end of the season before they sign defender Joachim Anderson from Serie A side Sampdoria in spite of some competition from their Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur. According to the reports in Calciomercato, Tottenham are one of several teams tracking Andersen....

While Manchester United have dominated the Premier League for quite some time and are an established powerhouse, City’s recent emergence as a force to be reckoned with has propelled this rivalry into the spotlight. Being 2 of the most prominent sides from Manchester, development of a rivalry was only natural. Though the interest in the fixture was confined to the city of Manchester, it was often a bad-tempered affair in the 1970s....

At one point during the night Manchester United dropped last in the group, but it finished the night at the top. The winning goal was authored by that man again: Cristiano Ronaldo scored the decisive third goal nine minutes from time on an imperious header in the box that was the exclamation mark to an incredible comeback. Atalanta scored two goals inside the opening half hour and Manchester United looked out of sorts....

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the top transfer news, rumours and updates that made headlines on 28 July 2019. Manchester United will finalize Harry Maguire deal if they sell Lukaku It doesn’t sound a lot like Manchester United are working with a huge transfer budget in this summer transfer window. Currently, Harry Maguire’s proposed move to Manchester United will go over the line only if Manchester United are able to offload Romelu Lukaku....

Around the world, around 80 different species of mangrove trees have been identified, all of which grow in warm, shallow, coastal waters located in tropical and subtropical regions of the planet, such as the U.S. Gulf Coast and the Indian subcontinent. Mangrove forests are rooted in salty sediments that are often submerged by water. However, the upper trunk, branches and leaves of mangrove trees usually lie above the waterline. Most of these forests get flooded at least twice a day as the coastal tides rise and fall....

Manika was outstanding at the Commonwealth Games. She won 4 medals (2 golds,1 silver, and 1 bronze). She made a huge upset in the team competition as well as in the women’s singles semi-final by defeating the Olympic medallist and World No.4 Feng. She thrashed her 12-10, 5-11, 11-8, 5-11, 5-11, 11-9, 13-11 in the semi-finals to earn the crucial victory for India. The Indian cricket team’s World Cup win in 1983, wrestler Sushil Kumar’s bronze in 2008 Olympics and Saina Nehwal’s gold medal in CWG 2010 gave necessary strength to the respective sport in the country, which saw these rise to unprecedented heights....

Senior national champions Manu and Sumeeth, seeded top, defeated Vaibhav and Prakash Raj 21-12 21-12 in the finals to lay claim to the title for the second time. In a tournament dominated by Indians, women doubles and mixed doubles finals also turned out to be a fight among compatriots. While Kuhoo Garg and Ria Mukherjee combined to see off Krishma Wadekar and V Harika 21-10 21-18 in women’s doubles, Manu and Manisha paired up to secure the mixed doubles gold by defeating Kuhoo and Rohan Kapoor 21-17 22-20 in another summit clash....

On an August night in 2020, he had a bigger smile after he scored his first career NHL goal. Playing on Thursday against the Blue Jackets, Robertson skated down the left wing in the second period and stepped into a pass from Kasperi Kapanen, sending a one-timer squeaking past netminder Joonas Korpisalo. He is the first 18-year-old to score a playoff goal for Toronto since Ted Kennedy in 1944....

Coach Bill Self waited until the final buzzer before demonstrating what it all meant to him. He turned toward his bench along the sideline at CenturyLink Center and thrust his arms in the air: once, twice, three times. No kidding. Once for 2016 (the Elite Eight loss to Villanova), once for 2017 (the Elite Eight loss to Oregon) and once for an 85-81 overtime victory over a coach and a program that almost never loses when it reaches this stage of the NCAA Tournament, Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke Blue Devils....

Everyone looks for that little edge in picking their NCAA Tournament bracket. Here’s a new angle, which yields some intriguing insights. A common thought process in basketball analytics identifies four key elements that correlate most closely with winning games. Former Sacramento Kings director of analytics Dean Oliver coined these the Four Factors of Basketball Success — shooting, turnovers, rebounding and free throw proficiency. Each of these factors hold varying weights, and we can apply them to determine a team’s likelihood of success, in this case within the NCAA Tournament....

“I always take all the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds to win in the first round. If I miss, then I have a story to tell.” About that … SN’s MARCH MADNESS HQPrintable bracket | Predictor tool | Best bracket names | Tickets Last year was the first time I filled out an “expert bracket” for Sporting News, and I learned the most valuable lesson of all: Get the national champion right....

Stanford got drubbed by USC. Michigan State was wrecked by Michigan. Boise State took a loss against sub-.500 Fresno State. Xavier fell twice on the Big East road. So we mercifully will bring the regular-season bubble conversation to an end today. And we will pick up the conference tournament bubble conversation in the days to come, hoping it will be less ghastly for the teams involved. MORE: March Madness bracket tracker — Updated list of automatic bids...

Tantalizing possibilities await all four regions of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. In the East, Duke could get an entertaining showdown with Michigan State in the Elite Eight. In the West, Gonzaga figures to be pushed hard by Florida State. In the South, a murderer’s row of talented teams that includes Virginia, Purdue and Tennessee, should produce memorable games. In the Midwest, bluebloods North Carolina and Kentucky are seemingly on a collision course....

Not us. We produced “the answer key” on our first try, and when you’re staring at perfection, why tinker with it? Just click “submit” and go about your day. Do you think Michelangelo had any second thoughts after he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? No, he knocked that bad boy out and quickly moved on to other cool stuff, like designing a library or whatever. Sure, the other Sporting News college basketball experts might have more “experience” (overrated), “logic” (yawn), and “knowledge” (helpful if you’re a nerd), but we have something more important than all three put together: Heart....

Will Arizona — under first-year coach Tommy Lloyd, who was an assistant at Gonzaga for 22 years — claim the crown? Will Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski win his sixth national championship with the Blue Devils in the final NCAA Tournament of his illustrious career, or are the cracks that showed recently in losses to North Carolina and Virginia Tech a sign of things to come in the biggest of big dances?...