Author: Michael

This dispiriting season for Arsenal essentially ends as it should: all of the campaign’s issues inevitably combining for one last disappointment. There was no final step to Munich and that will fairly be cast as a backward step overall.
Paris Saint-Germain have instead made a huge stride in becoming the club that Qatar so desperately want them to be. They beat their own ghosts here as much as they beat Arsenal 2-1 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates fan who fell over PNC Park’s 21-foot wall is awake enough to give his first interview, nearly a week after his accident. 
Speaking with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Kavan Markwood said he hasn’t watched any video of the fall that left him motionless on the warning track. He reportedly described his injuries as “broken everything,” but said he is expected to be released from Allegheny General Hospital in about a week.
From the Tribune-Review:

“I’m all right,” he said. “I can’t really sleep. I have a lot of back pain.

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The NASCAR Cup Series goes to a new venue for a fifth consecutive season. The championship race changes tracks next year. How the series crowns its champion also could be different in 2026.

In a sport whose competitors can travel nearly 200 mph, what is happening off track can be dizzying to some — or seemingly slow to others.

Either way, it’s not stagnant.

“I think it’s always changing and always evolving,” former Cup champion Chase Elliott said of the sport. “I don’t think that’s ever going to stop. There has been a lot of it … over the last three or four years.

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Wisconsin football signed Hawaii transfer wide receiver Dekel Crowdus on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
The Badgers extended an offer to the late transfer portal entry on April 26. The program was on a transfer offer sheet that also included Charlotte, Texas State, Coastal Carolina, Washington State, West Virginia, Utah and Arkansas.
Crowdus joins Wisconsin after one season at Hawaii. He began his career at Kentucky, where he originally signed as a four-star recruit, ranked as the No. 307 player in the class of 2021 and the No. 49 wideout.

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