Seven theories on why the Eagles signed Tim Tebow – a practical guide

America’s most divisive quarterback is back in the NFL, but why? Here’s a helpful guide to help you sort through the hot takes on Tebow’s triumphant return

Tim Tebow is back in the NFL. And with it, the offseason of Chip Kelly motors along.

What are we to think of Kelly bringing in Tebow to a team that has already become the darling of the NFL media? There are several current viewpoints making the rounds. Feel free to choose one of them and make it your official Chip Kelly/Tim Tebow take.

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TRICKY VILLA

Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Aston Villa was always going to be an intriguing battle between teams managed by a pair of youthful up-and-coming managers regularly tipped for great things by themselves. In the red corner: Brendan Rodgers, whose team has taken four points from the 21 available to them against sides above them in the table so far this season. The same Brendan Rodgers whose undeniable qualities as a coach are rarely questioned, but whose abilities as a manager are under scrutiny on the back of some poor transfer activity, rumours he has “lost” the dressing room, a group stage Big Cup exit and his team’s worrying reputation for choking on the big occasion. In the claret and blue corner: Tim Sherwood, a gilet-wearing comparative whelp of the management game, who invented Harry Kane, did reasonably well at Spurs, was until yesterday doing reasonably well at Aston Villa and whose propensity for talking like an actual human being provides a welcome press conference antidote to the often baffling management babble peddled by his opposite number. Who would prevail?

‘IT’S A SORT OF IMMORTALITY’

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Hein Verbruggen: report into Lance Armstrong affair ‘scandalously biased’

• Former head of international cycling says report is ‘revenge campaign’
• Verbruggen refuses to resign honorary presidency
• Armstrong and UCI ‘colluded to bypass doping accusations’
• Read the Cycling Independent Reform Commission’s full report

Hein Verbruggen, the controversial former head of international cycling, says he will fight any attempt to remove him as the honorary president of the UCI after being criticised by the inquiry into the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

The Independent Commission for Reform in Cycling’s (CIRC) report concluded that, under Verbruggen’s leadership, the UCI had colluded with Armstrong to cover up allegations the seven-times Tour de France winner had doped.

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Chelsea facing striker shortage as Didier Drogba suffers ankle injury

• Drogba pulls out of charity match with ankle injury
• Chelsea will hope Diego Costa or Loïc Rémy can return to fitness
• Patrick Bamford aims high after landing Football League award

Chelsea hope either Diego Costa or Loïc Rémy will be fit for Sunday’s match at Arsenal after Didier Drogba suffered an ankle injury. The 37-year-old Ivory Coast striker has led the Premier League leaders’ attack in recent wins over QPR and Manchester United due to Costa’s hamstring injury and Rémy’s calf problem.

Drogba, a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, withdrew from a game billed as a Match Against Poverty in St-Étienne on Monday. He wrote on Twitter: “Disappointed not to be able to play the MAP2015 because of an ankle injury but still supporting EbolaResponse.”

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Barcelona wobble on their way up the Tourmalet but emerge unscathed at top

The Camp Nou trembled with fear as Valencia dominated but Barça found the grit to secure a vital win that suggests the title may be edging towards Catalonia
• Match report: Barcelona 2-0 Valencia

Luis Enrique said he wanted the Camp Nou to tremble and tremble it did, just not the way he hoped. Saturday started with Luis Suárez scoring at the south end in the 55th second and ended with Leo Messi scoring at the north end in the last second. In the 92 minutes and four seconds between those goals, they suffered. Eventually El Mundo Deportivo cheered “a happy ending” and, surveying the final scene, there was something a bit cinema about it: an explosion, the hero lying on the ground motionless, slowly opening his eyes, looking around, and realising that somehow, with implausible inevitability, he’s still here. He’s survived; they’ve actually done it. Now here come his friends, running towards him, relieved and elated, hauling his exhausted body off the floor and embracing him.

Or something like that.

To win you have to know how to suffer

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Sport picture of the day: fanning the Flames

Calgary Flames players during the warm-up period in game three of the first round of the 2015 Stanley Cup play-offs against the Vancouver Canucks at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

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Newcastle’s struggling side attract fan fury but no Mike Ashley alternative

The Magpies’ owner is witnessing fan protests and a thin squad on a six-game losing streak but potential buyers for his club remain elusive
• Newcastle fans carry out boycott threat for defeat by Tottenham

The aircraft touches down at lunchtime every day. Dwarfing the charter planes and inter-city shuttles dotted across the tarmac, the 777 looks somehow out of proportion, its giant wingspan making everything around it resemble scaled-down toys.

In the eight years since Emirates began a direct Newcastle-Dubai service offering numerous onward connections to Asia, Africa and Australasia hundreds of millions of pounds worth of cargo have been exported from north-east England and passenger demand has grown to the point where they are talking about a second daily flight.

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Horse racing tips: Tuesday 21 April

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Sepp Blatter: nothing can stop Russia from hosting best ever World Cup in 2018

• Fifa president thanks Vladimir Putin on visit to Sochi
• Blatter: we are involved in football we will not allow politics to get in the way

Nothing will stop Russia from hosting the best World Cup in the tournament’s history in 2018, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on a visit to one of the host venues Sochi on Monday.

“I am a happy and proud president. I am proud that Russia is getting ready to host the World Cup,” Blatter told the TASS news agency from the southern Russian city.

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Football Weekly: tricky Villa set up FA Cup final with Arsenal

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Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders: IPL 2015 – live!

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F1: five things we learned from the Bahrain Grand Prix

Nico Rosberg needs to up his game with Kimi Raikkonen showing – like Sebastian Vettel – that he’s in no mood to settle for third places this season, while Bernie Ecclestone needs to retain Monza on the F1 calendar
• Hamilton cruises to victory to extend drivers’ championship lead
• Ferrari deny plays to sign Hamilton in place of Raikkonen

Nico Rosberg badly needs to take the fight to team-mate Lewis Hamilton. But he needs to do it on track to reach a position of strength in their psychological battle having been left behind in that regard after his accusations of selfishness in the wake of the Chinese Grand Prix. Most importantly he needs to start this process with qualifying. He has been outqualified by Hamilton at every race this season and, more significantly, twice by Sebastian Vettel. He admitted he made a misjudgment in Bahrain, not doing a hot sighting lap as Hamilton did in Q2 and then could not push on used tyres in his first run in Q3. Having his nose ahead on the grid must be the first step in forcing Hamilton to come at him rather than vice versa.

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Doncaster publish highlights video of goalless draw … featuring no highlights

• Video practically devoid of any match action lasts 27 seconds
• League One roundup: Bristol City move closer to promotion

Safe from relegation but unable to reach the League One play-offs, Doncaster Rovers may have nothing left to play for this season – and judging by the highlights reel of Saturday’s goalless draw with Fleetwood Town, it showed.

Manfully sticking to the task of producing highlights from the Keepmoat Stadium the club have published a full 27 seconds of best bits from the weekend.

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The young boxers on the rise in 2015

Tim Starks and his fellow Queensberry Rules writers have assembled a list of boxers aged 30 and under who are expected to conquer and grow this year

• The 30 young boxers on the rise in 2014

With Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao right around the corner, there’s already been speculation about who, if anyone, is “next” in boxing, after the eventual departure of the two superstars who have ruled the sport’s box office and pound-for-pound throne since the late aughts.

It’s a fickle guessing game. We assemble a list like this one annually, when we look at the boxers aged 30 and under who could be on the rise. We started drawing up the list two weeks ago; since then, two men who might have featured more prominently – Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Danny Garcia – have lost or were seen to have lost, respectively.

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Milan and Internazionale fail to rock San Siro but still draw crowd to dour gig

To see the city rivals face off these days is akin to watching a concert headlined by superstars of music who no longer know how to hit the high notes
• Match report: 214th Derby della Madonnina
• Serie A table

Expectations were not high for the 214th Derby della Madonnina. Milan and Internazionale occupied ninth and 10th place respectively in the Serie A table. The editors at Corriere della Sera could think of no more optimistic angle for a preview than to list five occasions when the derby was even more dismal.

Among the fixtures recalled was a 0-0 draw from 27 March 1977, a season in which Milan flirted with relegation. So devoid of incident was that particular match that the state broadcaster, Rai, preferred to show archive footage of a decade-old encounter during their evening magazine show, Domenica Sportiva.

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Usain Bolt takes first place in Mano a Mano sprint – video

Jamaican world record holder Usain Bolt cruises to victory in the Mano a Mano 100-metre sprint challenge in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Bolt pulled away from Ryan Bailey, of the United States, over the last 30 metres to finish in 10.12 seconds, 0.12 seconds clear of the American Olympian. Bolt is next scheduled to race in the World Relays in the Bahamas on 2 and 3 May Continue reading...









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