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Manchester United head into Sunday’s fixture against Marcelo Bielsa’s side on the back of an impressive 3-1 victory over Burnley last Sunday. The Red Devils have been one of the in-form teams in the Premier League in recent weeks, winning all of their last five games in the competition. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side have shown vast improvement in recent months after enduring a poor start to their 2020-21 Premier League campaign....

Quarterback Joe Flacco has been placed on injured reserve due to a herniated disc in his neck, ESPN first reported Friday. The move means Flacco’s season is over. Flacco, 34, recently sought a second opinion regarding his neck injury. ESPN had reported Thursday that he was expected to miss four to six weeks. Earlier this week, the team announced Flacco would miss Sunday’s game against the Browns, with backup Brandon Allen starting in his place....

For never winning a Daytona 500, Toyota could have easily swept the top-five in Sunday’s Great American Race if it weren’t for Matt Kenseth losing the lead on the final lap and hitting the wall. Toyota’s race cars were so good that only 0.01 seconds separated Denny Hamlin and his Joe Gibbs Racing pseudo teammate Martin Truex Jr. in the closest finish in Daytona 500 history. Kyle Busch, who won NASCAR’s final race of 2015 along with the Cup championship, finished Sunday’s race in third while Carl Edwards was fifth despite going a lap down earlier in the race and slamming into the wall in an accident with Brian Vickers and Trevor Bayne....

Just what those changes will be, team owner Joe Gibbs would not say. MORE: Chase grid: Standings, outlook for N.H. | Stewart case to grand jury | New Chase colors, slogan | N.H. schedule “We just finalized everything,” Gibbs said Tuesday. “There is a lot of people we have to talk to. … We’ll probably announce something there in a week or two. “We’ve already decided. We need to talk to the sponsors and go through quite a few discussions yet with people....

The 49ers’ legend also went from his first team, where he enjoyed the ultimate Super Bowl glory, to helping the Chiefs get to the other’s conference’s championship game. Seeing what Brady is doing with Tampa Bay channels how smooth Montana’s late-career move to Kansas City was. MORE: Tom Brady still haunted by two Super Bowl losses to Giants? “The biggest thing is that we work so much with the wide receivers, the little things make a big difference,” Montana said in an interview with Sporting News....

Fridman, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) researcher and computer scientist, has posted a video to his official YouTube channel wherein he has featured some behind-the-scenes footage leading up to the UFC 279 event. As seen in the video, prior to UFC 279, Rogan partook in a game of pool and shared his knowledge regarding the cue sport with Fridman. The UFC commentator and podcaster highlighted the significance of angles in the game....

The 76ers star is suffering from a sprained right ankle during Wednesday’s win over the Celtics, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Mike Scott is also listed as probable when Philadelphia tips off in Detroit at 7 p.m. ET. Embiid said he experienced discomfort in his ankle after the team’s season opener against Boston. The two-time All-Star did not participate in practice Friday and was active for a portion of Saturday morning’s shootaround in Detroit....

In the 76ers’ Game 4 loss to the Hawks on Monday, which evened the Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece, Embiid totaled 17 points, 21 rebounds and four assists, but he shot just 4 of 20 from the field, including 0 of 12 in the second half. Yes, the MVP runner-up missed every shot he took over the final two periods — not ideal if you’re a Sixers fan....

But he also hopes his pit crew will use the skewering as motivation. MORE: Mohr rips Logano’s pit crew | Dreams come true for Kevin Harvick | Photos from awards show Logano scored the most points in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup and ranked tied for second in the series in wins with five, but he finished fourth in the standings as his team dropped a lugnut and then had his car fall off the jack in the championship race at Homestead last month....

Graduate transfer Spike Albrecht is headed to Purdue for his fifth and final year, and Beilein is just hoping he doesn’t do what Max Bielfeldt did at Indiana this season. MORE: College hoops coaching carousel | 15 best tourney coaches You see, Bielfeldt was the Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year after helping the Hoosiers to a regular-season conference championship. He also improved his offensive stats, averaging career-highs in points, rebounds, minutes and shooting percentage,as a key player for Indiana....

The former WWE Champion recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his upcoming movie, Dolittle when the topic of him not being the in the WWE came up. Cena spoke about how he is still a part of the WWE family and also teased a match at WrestleMania 36. He then spoke about how Vince McMahon tells him what to do and how he adds his own spin to it when Jimmy Kimmel asked him if he still sees the WWE chairman as his boss....

Created as a spinoff series and a sequel to James Gunn’s 2021 feature film The Suicide Squad, the new HBO Max show Peacemaker focuses on the life of an unexpected character. John Cena’s witty line about BLACKPINK in Peacemaker John Cena features on the new HBO Max original television show wherein he stars as the avaricious Christopher Smith aka Peacemaker. Cena’s latest BLACKPINK reference was incorporated into one of his lines....

Before Artem, Nikki was engaged to fellow WWE Superstar, John Cena. The former WWE Champion proposed at WrestleMania, but things did not go according to plan since. They broke up in July 2018 – weeks after the engagement was called off by Nikki. Now, with the former Divas champion engaged, Hollywood Life approached a source close to Cena to gauge his reaction. They were told that the former WWE Champion was very happy for his ex-girlfriend and her new fiancee....

The debate will take place in Harrisburg, hosted by Nexstar Television and broadcast across at least 67 counties. The Oz campaign told Newsweek that he will participate, though it’s contingent on three factors. One, the debate moderator must explain to the audience that Fetterman is using a closed captioning system during the debate, “to explain any delay between him being asked a question and responding.” In addition to also demanding the debate be pushed from 60 to 90 minutes due to Fetterman being on delay, they also asked that questions posed by any Nexstar employee during Fetterman’s “practice” sessions must “bear zero resemblance to the actual questions asked during the debate....

On Thursday night, the Republican presidential debate was in Houston, and after the chaos ended — yes, the debate was once again absolute chaos — the great @PFTCommenter tracked down candidate John Kasich to get his thoughts about Johnny Manziel. MORE: Presidential odds | Candidates as athletes Seriously. Now that’s the type of measured, well-constructed thought we expect from our candidates. If only he weighed in on whether Joe Flacco is elite....

Bullet Train comes at a time when most of Hollywood’s action films happen to be based on previous franchises, comic book material, or the tropes surrounding past films involving a particular action star such as Liam Neeson or Jason Statham. The decision on Sony’s part to release the film in theaters is a huge sign of confidence, which is undoubtedly founded in the action film expertise of Leitch, who also produced the recent theatrical release Nobody with Bob Odenkirk and Hardcore Henry director Ilya Naishuller....

“He’s trying to be a sense of calm in this really great storm that we have,” Harrison told BBC’s Hardtalk program. Harrison said that he can make “Nostradamus” predictions that he will win the election in South Carolina, and that Biden will win the presidential race both in his state and in the nation as a whole. “What the U.S. people are looking for is real, true and tested leadership, someone who is not going to demonize the American people but is going to be there to protect them, to fight for them, to push for them, their families, their communities,” Harrison said....

The Carter Center shared the photo on Twitter and said: “We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.! Thank you President and Mrs. Biden!” The Bidens visited the Carters on Thursday to mark Biden’s 100th day as president. The meeting was also the first time the two couples had met since Biden became president, as the former president and his wife did not attend the inauguration in January because of COVID-19....

U.S. Customs and Border Protection data reveals that the number of unaccompanied child migrants encountered at the Southwestern border rose by 61 percent from 5,858 minors in January this year to 9,457 in February. Under the Trump administration, the number of unaccompanied migrant children spotted at the border rose by 31 percent between January and February 2019—a lower surge than the one witnessed today. Speaking at his first press conference on Thursday night, President Biden said: “The truth of the matter is nothing has changed....

You still have to make the plays, and the Buckeyes did that. That’s good news for an offense that features new offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson. The Buckeyes’ offense flashed an impressive passing game in a shootout. The Scarlet team defeated the Gray team 38-31. Ohio State’s offense looked good, and that should keep Urban Meyer happy. We’ll have to figure out the tackling later. Joe Burrow and Dwayne Haskins J....