6 November 4, 2018 Beat Persepolis Curry, Durant Lead Way in Warriors’ 7th 2-0 in 1st Leg of ACL Final Straight Win but saw his shot blocked by the face of a lunging Jung Seung- hyun. Kashima goalkeeper Kwoun Sun-tae also had to be on his toes to tip over Ahmad Nourollahi’s curling free kick in the sixth minute. But they were the brightest moments of an otherwise cagey first half, and the crowd had to wait until 12 minutes after the break before the deadlock was broken. Silva caught the Persepolis defense napping as he played a one-two on the edge of the box with Shoma Doi and then swept Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors handles the ball against a low, left-footed shot into the the Minnesota Timberwolves on November 2, 2018 at ORACLE Arena bottom corner. in Oakland, California. On 69 minutes, Kento Misao picked out Serginho and the OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) career-high 50 points in a victory Brazilian beat past Alireza - Draymond Green is playing the against Utah. Beiranvand in the Persepolis goal best coach Steve Kerr has ever Andrew Wiggins led the with the outside of his left boot. seen, doing all the little things on Timberwolves with 22 points. Kashima reached their first both ends to spark his team. Minnesota was outrebounded 61- KASHIMA, Japan (Dispatches) in . goal in five Champions League Champions League final after - Persepolis of have suffered a Persepolis suffered a further games. a rollercoaster semi with South Stephen Curry’s shot is on 39. 2-0 loss against Kashima Antlers in blow in injury time when Siamak It gave Go Oiwa’s team the Korea’s Suwon Bluewings, when from everywhere, while Kevin Jimmy Butler scored 21 the first leg of the AFC Champions Nemati received a second yellow advantage they had targeted they came from behind in both Durant is his usual efficient, for Minnesota after sitting League in Japan on Saturday. card for dissent, ruling him out of before their trip to face the record legs to win 6-5 on aggregate. dominant self. out Wednesday to rest. Tyus Brazilian duo Leo Silva and the second leg. 11-time Iranian champions on Persepolis also made it to the The two-time defending NBA Jones also returned and had eight Serginho scored in the second Serginho’s goal was the highlight home soil. final for the first time when they champions know they can be points on 3-for-11 shooting after half to give Japan’s Kashima an as the 23-year-old new signing The game started promisingly in edged Qatar’s Al Sadd, the new even better. missing the win over the Jazz important cushion ahead of next struck with a delicate half-volley Kashima when Ali Alipour looked club of Barcelona great , 2-1 Durant had 33 points and 13 because of a sore right foot. week’s return game at the imposing from a difficult angle -- his fifth certain to score from close range, over the two legs. rebounds, Curry contributed 28 Durant made his first six shots, points, nine rebounds and seven and eight of the initial 11 he took, assists, and the Golden State on the way to 20 points in the first Vinales Beats Marquez in 3rd Practice Warriors beat the Minnesota half. Green had seven of his 11 Timberwolves 116-99 on Friday assists by the 4:40 mark of the night for their seventh straight opening quarter and has 61 assists KUALA LUMPUR (Dispatchesat) Malaysian MotoGPhimself a Q2 berth by ending win. over the past six games. He also - Vinales and Marquez traded times fourth in both the session and the Klay Thompson scored 22 had nine points and nine boards. with 20 minutes to go after the combined the standings, his time points and hit consecutive Alfonzo McKinnie added eight Honda rider successfully managed of 1m59.599s ending up 0.224s 3-pointers 50 seconds apart points and eight rebounds off to upsurge Vinales’ previous chart- behind Vinales’s quickest lap. early in the fourth to put Golden the bench in the Warriors’ fifth topping benchmark of 2m.00.640s. Tech3’s Johann Zarco finished State ahead 91-89 with 10:17 straight home victory against the However, Vinales immediately fifth ahead of Pramac rider Danilo to play. Green then got back- T-Wolves. shot back, setting a time of Petrucci and the second factory to-back baskets, one helped by Minnesota was outscored 33-12 2m00.284s to reclaim the top Yamaha of Valentino Rossi, while goaltending. in the fourth. spot. Andrea Iannone was classified Derrick Rose played five Both teams shot 50 percent or That lap would remain unbeaten eighth. minutes in the first quarter for better in the first quarter. until the final few minutes of the Iannone held on to the final Q2 session, when times began to spot from Alvaro Bautista (Angel Minnesota and scored three ‘’Over the course of 48 quickly tumble. Neito), who finished ninth in the points, then didn’t return because (minutes) if we stay locked in Vinales himself managed to session and 11th overall. of left ankle soreness - two nights and focused, there’s going to be a break the two-minute barrier, but The top 10 was completed by after the 2011 MVP scored a breaking point,’’ Curry said. was immediately bettered by Jack Franco Morbidelli (Marc VDS). Miller (Pramac), who took over Jorge Lorenzo’s replacement the top of the timesheets with a Vinales managed to beat him with second, while Miller’s previous Michele Pirro ended up 16th Djokovic, Federer Win to Set 1m59.375s flyer. a 1m59.231s to end the session benchmark put him third in the fastest in the session after Marquez threw in a spanner fastest of all. timesheets. suffering a slide at the final with his own late attempt, but Marquez ended 0.026s behind in Dani Pedrosa (Honda) earned corner. Up Clash in Semis PARIS (Dispatches) -Second seed Novak Djokovic will face third seed Roger Federer in the semi-finals of Infantino Interfered in Changes to FIFA Ethics Code - Report the Paris Masters. into corruption and bribery. to the FIFA chief which he had Djokovic fought back from a set A FIFA spokesperson on Friday been working on with chief ethics down to beat Croat Marin Cilic said there was nothing untoward investigator Colombian Maria 4-6 6-2 6-3 in two hours and 12 in Infantino’s correspondence with Claudia Rojas, Spiegel said. minutes. the soccer body’s chief ethics judge Spiegel said Infantino The Serb lost the opening set and U.S. Open and Wimbledon over the redrafting of the code. responded with a series of went 2-1 down in the third before champion Novak Djokovic is The Spiegel report cites a amendments after describing the immediately breaking back and unbeaten in 21 matches December 2017 email to Infantino new code as “really excellent”. then moving ahead at 5-3. from Vassilios Skouris, who took Among the complaints Australian Open champion immediately moving ahead in the over as FIFA’s chief ethics judge Infantino made in his reply, Federer beat Japanese 10th seed second. following Infantino’s election as according to Spiegel, was that too Kei Nishikori 6-4 6-4 in one hour Last week, Federer sealed the president. many preliminary investigations and 21 minutes. Swiss Indoors title for the ninth In the email Skouris sent draft had been launched against soccer The Swiss held off a break time and is now one short from changes to FIFA’s ethics rules officials. point late in the first set before 100 tournament wins.

BERLIN (Reuters) - FIFA chief president Sepp Blatter following Gianni Infantino broke the world a 2015 corruption scandal, is Top European Clubs Again Planning Super League soccer body’s rules by interfering supposed to operate independently in the rewriting of its ethics code, from soccer’s global governing Breakaway - Report German magazine Der Spiegel body. BERLIN (Reuters) - Plans for Collaborations, a network of stage before a compromise deal Spanish company Key Capital and European Investigative But Spiegel said leaked emails a breakaway European Super international media reported in 2016 with the continent’s Partners for Real Madrid which Collaborations, a network of showed Swiss-Italian Infantino, League, involving top clubs such citing leaked documents. governing soccer body UEFA foresees 11 top European clubs international media have reported. who replaced Blatter, was behind as Real Madrid and Manchester The magazine reported that over its elite Champions League creating a Super League in 2021 FIFA’s Ethics Committee, which changes to the ethics code which United, are back on the agenda, talks between some of Europe’s competition. when the agreement on the banned and suspended dozens of included a limitation period of 10 German magazine Der Spiegel leading clubs on a breakaway But Spiegel said a fresh plan Champions League format and officials including former FIFA years on historical investigations and European Investigative league were at an advanced had recently been drafted by revenue sharing ends.