Conte is widely expected to leave Stamford Bridge at the end of the season after presiding over a tumultuous campaign, both on and off the field. Despite being champions last term, Chelsea have not challenged for the title this year and look set to miss out on Champions League football as well. Conte’s willingness to criticise Chelsea’s transfer policy has not helped his situation and he seems destined to leave when the season ends....
The champions head into Saturday’s game with Stoke City 16 points behind league leaders Manchester City, who have left the rest of the division trailing in their wake with their sensational form this term. Chelsea are still involved in the Carabao Cup and FA Cup and have a Champions League last-16 tie with Barcelona to come, leaving them a good chance of finishing 2017-18 with silverware. But Conte believes their league campaign will be a success as long as they finish in one of the three spots directly behind City....
Costa’s shot deflected in off Bournemouth defender Adam Smith to give his side the lead, but the strike was credited as an own goal, with Eden Hazard and Marcos Alonso also on target as Chelsea restored their seven-point cushion from second-placed Tottenham. The Spain international has never before gone four Premier League games without a goal, but Conte highlighted the overall contribution of the striker, who has 17 league goals to his name this season....
The Spanish and Brazilian playmakers have been peripheral figures at Chelsea this season, with Conte masterminding a steep upturn in form by reverting to a 3-4-3 formation in which both players do not appear to have an obvious role. Fabregas has been grappling with a thigh injury since making a solitary Premier League start this season in the 3-0 defeat at Arsenal. Conte’s switch to the system that served him so well with Juventus and Italy came after that match, with five wins from five Premier League matches and no goals conceded as a result....
Wenger signed a new two-year deal at the Emirates Stadium in May, but has not won the league title since the 2003-04 season, while the Gunners are on a five-game winless run in all competitions and in danger of missing out on Champions League qualification for the second year running. Conte - reportedly frustrated with Chelsea’s transfer policy - also penned fresh terms at the end of last season, although they did not extend his tenure and he has consistently been linked with a range of other managerial positions, including the Italian national team and Serie A underachievers AC Milan....
Except those points were scored and those games were won at UCLA. Those two schools are furious rivals in the Pac-12. So how did Leaf end up a Bruin in 2016 after committing to the Wildcats nearly two years earlier? Well, in June 2015 Leaf tried out to become a member of the USA Basketball team competing in that summer’s FIBA U-19 World Cup. The team was coached by Arizona’s Sean Miller....
Remember When? Choose a memory from long ago to talk about, such as the vacations your family used to take together, or the day when the car broke down in the middle of the blizzard. Don’t quiz the person; rather, start out by saying that you had been thinking about that particular event and then share some of the details related to it, such as the fish you caught on that vacation or the type of car the family drove back in the day....
Molson Coors recently became aware of the quality issue on certain 12oz can packages of Coors Light and Keystone Light produced solely at the Trenton Brewery, in Ohio, according to a Breaking 911 report. One video from TikTok user mandeeepaint, showed footage of a person pouring a Keystone Light can. The syrup-like substance can be seen slowly pouring out of the can as people off camera remark how disgusted they are....
She’s not the only one. The NIH trial reported critical long-term data: the slight increased risks (heart attack, stroke and breast cancer) of taking combination therapy outweighed the benefits (bone protection and lower colon-cancer rates). But what the study did not address were the short-term benefits of hormone-replacement therapy, such as suppression of hot flashes and improved sleep, which Carroll had been enjoying for years. Nor could investigators predict what would happen to the thousands of other women who also stopped taking their medication abruptly....
In the middle of Wednesday night’s slate of games, the NBA announced it would be suspending play indefinitely after a Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus. The shocking news coincided with reports indicating All-Star center Rudy Gobert was the NBA’s patient zero. MORE: NBA players react to league suspending season The league’s board of governors had reached a general agreement earlier Wednesday to continue playing games without fans in attendance, but that plan became unrealistic following Gobert’s diagnosis....
But it’s not just governments that are reacting and preparing for COVID-19. Businesses are doing the same. Many are asking employees to work from home, which will help limit the social interactions that could spread the disease. The actions and flexibility these businesses are taking is commendable, but some employees have never actually had a work-from-home program. Many are probably ill-prepared for a work-from-home environment and will need to gather the tools that can keep them productive through this health emergency....
Scientists assessed four babies born to women with COVID-19 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus was first identified late last year. The infants were immediately isolated from their mothers after birth, and none developed COVID-19 symptoms such as a fever, cough, or diarrhea. Radiology and blood tests were also clear. Of the four mothers, three consented to their babies being tested for the virus that causes COVID-19, and none of the tests came back positive....
In a report published Monday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), researchers projected Brazil’s death total would reach 125,833 by August 4. The report marks a significant rise in the institute’s estimates for Brazil, which earlier this month suggested the country’s COVID-19 death count would remain below 100,000 in August. In a news release announcing the IHME’s projections, Director Dr. Christopher Murray encouraged Brazil to take action to prevent the death toll from climbing even higher than the institute’s current estimates....
Scientists looked at the genetic make-up of the new member of the large coronavirus family of germs called SARS-CoV-2 (not to be confused with the SARS bug) that causes disease COVID-19. To map its evolution and where it came from, they compared its genetic data with that of other coronaviruses. The team concluded SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged because of natural selection, where organisms adapt to their environment to survive. Since it first came to the attention of the authorities in December last year after people linked to a wholesale food market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan fell ill, the new virus has caused more than 201,000 cases of COVID-19 and killed 8,006 people, according to Johns Hopkins University....
Shoppers have been posting images of empty shelves on social media at various retail chains, including Costco, Walmart, Target and Home Depot. Consumers have reported shortages in California, Washington, Minnesota, Hawaii, and New York. The deadly virus, which was first identified in Wuhan city in the Hubei province of China, has infected more than 89,000 people globally, around 80,000 of which are in China, while 86 have been confirmed in the U....
On Tuesday, the University of Washington Medicine confirmed to Newsweek that a male patient at Haborview Medical Center in Seattle, who died on February 26, was a presumptive positive case for COVID-19. The patient was transferred from the Life Care Center of Kirkland, where multiple people have tested positive, and admitted to the hospital on February 24. “We have determined that some staff may have been exposed while working in an intensive care unit where the patient had been treated,” UW Medicine told Newsweek....
The Venice Carnival was canceled from Sunday and all major sporting events, including marquee top-flight soccer matches, have been suspended since the outbreak. Events around Milan Fashion Week are also affected. According to the latest report on February 23 by the World Health Organization, the deadly virus has infected more than 78,800 people globally, with 77,042 cases confirmed in China, where the virus was first identified in Wuhan city of the Hubei province....
Experts say it’s unlikely, but not impossible, that America could replicate the tech-driven approach taken by China, which has taken full advantage of its vast surveillance apparatus and the murky integration of “big data” to monitor, diagnose and limit the movement of its citizens. It’s not that America doesn’t have its own surveillance tools to play with, but more to do with basic differences between the two countries, experts said....
