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Van Dijk produced another solid defensive display as Liverpool made it two wins from two games with a 2-0 Premier League victory at Crystal Palace on Monday. Liverpool spent in the region of £75million to lure Van Dijk from Southampton in January and the Netherlands international has helped address the club’s weaknesses in defence, while leading the Reds to last season’s Champions League final. Former Reds defender Carragher lauded Van Dijk post-match and insisted the 27-year-old - who he feels is the Premier League’s best centre-back - can go down in Liverpool’s history....

Man City confident of signing Alexis The 35-year-old’s contract with United is due to expire come June and no decision has been made on his future at the club as of yet. He grew up a Newcastle fan, but he has conceded he will never ply his trade at St. James’ Park. “No, I think that has passed now,” Carrick told MOTD Magazine when asked about a potential transfer to Newcastle....

On Monday, the CMA Awards announced the trio would be responsible for ushering in the night, which would include a celebration of legendary women in country music throughout the ceremony. Underwood has been the host for the past few years and between herself, Parton and McEntire, they hold 124 CMA Awards nominations and 22 total wins. “It’s an incredible honor to welcome Carrie, Reba and Dolly to the CMA Awards stage this year,” Sarah Trahern, CMA Chief Executive Officer, said....

The reality show has had a more than successful run, and been the platform for many a celebrity to come into the limelight. However, it doesn’t necessarily have the most positive reputation in the gaming community. Ajey Nagar, better known to his audience as CarryMinati, is one of the most popular content creators in India, and started by making comedic commentary-style videos over gameplay footage. The streamers career skyrocketed after several of his videos went viral, and he became one of the first famous “commentary” style YouTubers in the country....

Wentz, the No. 2 overall selection in the 2016 draft, had originally been expected to sit and learn in his first season behind incumbent starter Sam Bradford and veteran backup Chase Daniel, who signed with the Eagles in free agency this offseason. MORE: Worst QB situations in the NFL But the Eagles traded Bradford to the Vikings for a couple of draft choices Saturday morning, and first-year Eagles head coach Doug Pederson is apparently ready to put the team in Wentz’s hands beginning with the season opener....

TikToker Urooj Siddiqui shared a video to her account, @chutneys.clowder, that captured the pair’s first encounter. The on-screen captions read: “Enjoying a quiet, peaceful life for 9 years. 3 month old kitten shows up in the house.” The footage was captioned: “The way he tilts his head.” The video shows the older cat, Drogo, peering at the kitten, Chutney, through a crack in the door, hissing as he paws at the younger pet, tilting his head to try to fit through the gap....

Thanks to one concerned pup taking a page from Lassie’s book, a cat that has been missing for 10 days was safely rescued from a local well and returned to her owners. One-year-old Flea disappeared from her Loddington home in the U.K. on April 24. For almost two weeks, her owners Freya and Keira Hill told The BBC that they had been frantically searching for their pet and posting about her disappearance online....

Shared on Reddit on Monday, the video by Alexandra from St. Louis, Missouri—who uses the Reddit handle unsolicited_peetpics—has gained over 11,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments. In the video, a pile of clothes is quickly pulled underneath the door and out of the room by the protesting kitty. Shared with the caption: “I wouldn’t let him in the bathroom, so this was his act of revenge,” the video on the popular r/cats forum has delighted Reddit users....

Hoseob is a TikTok star with over 550,000 followers. He’s gone viral countless times, including for his sounds, and the video showcasing his snore is a favorite worldwide with over 19.4 million views since it was shared on March 4. According to PetPlace.com, cats can actually make more than 100 vocal sounds. Dogs on the other hand can make around 10 sounds. There are a variety of cat breeds that are known for being quite vocal, including the Siamese as well as the Japanese Bobtail and Oriental, Purina reported....

Footage showcasing Puma the cat’s response to his owner, Mariasha Pinchuk, filming the clip with her friends has been watched more than 14 million times since being posted to social media. In a study published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science, researchers said that cats do not enjoy human music and can engage only with songs that fit specifically with how they communicate as a species. Study authors Megan Savage and Charles Snowdon said: “For music to be effective with other species, it must be in the frequency range and with similar tempos to those used in natural communication by each species....

Fortunately, trainers learned yesterday that news on the games were scheduled to hit very soon, but no one thought that scans from Japanese gaming magazine CoroCoro, containing new details on Pokemon X and Y, would emerge in such a short time span. The latest CoroCoro is packed with new details about the forthcoming Pokemon games, and it shows off four never before seen monsters that’ll be making their debut in X and Y....

Archbishop John Wester said in the letter that it’s time for the world to work together to use the resources spent on the weapons on projects that would better the world. “We can no longer deny or ignore the extremely dangerous predicament of our human family and that we are in a new nuclear arms race far more dangerous than the first,” he said. “We need nuclear arms control, not an escalating nuclear arms race....

Named in honor of Dr. James Naismith, the creator of the game of basketball, the first Naismith trophy was awarded in 1969 to UCLA’s Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. MORE: SN’s Player of the Year | Latest Bubble Watch | Top 25 player rankings The four finalists for the award will be announced March 22, with the winner announced April 5 during the Final Four weekend in Indianapolis....

In 1961 there were no MasterCards or Visas. A new house cost less than $18,000, and you couldn’t buy a mortgage-backed bond like a Ginnie Mae or a Freddie Mac if you wanted to. There weren’t any. Today’s more complex economy runs on credit, and the Federal Reserve’s rate-cutting last week has broad ramifications for both borrowers and savers. It will help many, but hurt others. Alan Greenspan may be a hero on Wall Street, but he’s probably not so popular on the sidewalks of the nation’s retirement communities....

The left-handed opener, who played six Tests and seven limited-overs internationals, underwent surgery after discovering that he had a cancerous tumour last July. Carberry has been in the runs ahead of the new county season and expressed his gratitude for the support he has received, but said he is still some way from being given a clean bill of health. “I would like to thank my family, the club, the supporters and my team-mates worldwide for all the kind messages of support and love through another very tough time in my career and life,” said the 36-year-old....

Murray was flagged for two false starts against Oakland and says he was told his claps were “too abrupt” and “not smooth enough.” Kingsbury believes progress is being made toward a resolution though. “I feel we are in a good place with it,” Kingsbury told reporters earlier this week. “It’s just something new and there is some subjectivity to it, but I think we have come to an understanding.… Just an abrupt motion without the actual clap is what we have to avoid....

It was a professional yet classy counterpunch, a friendly mic drop on a frigid December morning in Major League Baseball’s hotbed that didn’t overshadow a citywide and franchise celebration of the arrival of the Cardinals’ newest center fielder, Dexter Fowler. MORE: The worst MLB free-agent signings of all time At 10:08 a.m. CT in St. Louis, Mozeliak began the festivities with these remarks, which we will break up and supplement with commentary....

It’s been 49 years since a team started 9-1, as the Cardinals did, and didn’t qualify for the postseason. As for teams that started 9-2, since the league expanded the field to 12 teams in 1990, the 1993 Miami Dolphins were the only one to miss the playoffs. But after beginning 9-3, the 2008 Tampa Bay Buccaneers went into a December freefall out of the playoffs. According to the ace number crunchers at FiveThirtyEight, Arizona still had a 94 percent chance to make the playoffs going into Sunday’s game at Atlanta....

On Friday, the Cardinals posted home runs from four different players, as Dexter Fowler, Paul Goldschmidt, Kolten Wong and Paul DeJong all went yard once. St Louis finished with 18 hits to Cincinnati’s seven on the night. On the bright side for Cincinnati, Aristides Aquino became MLB’s fastest player to 10 home runs ever. The 25-year-old recorded his team’s only homer in the contest. It was his 10th in 16 career games....

A source told Sporting News that Kirby Wilson is considered a strong candidate to fill the position on the staff of new head coach Steve Wilks after having interviewed for the position. Wilson, 56, served as Arizona’s running backs coach from 2004-06. He has held the same position with New England (1997-99), Washington (2000), Tampa Bay (2003-04), Pittsburgh (2007-13), Minnesota (2014-15) and Cleveland (2016-17). MORE: Ranking NFL coaching hires...