Busquets was replaced after just 10 minutes of the game when he sustained ankle ligament damage following a challenge from Gonzalo Escalante. Goals from his replacement Denis Suarez, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar ensured Barca claimed an emphatic victory at Ipurua. Messi makes light of Busquets blow And Luis Enrique admitted he has a wealth of options at his disposal with the Catalan giants due to take on Real Sociedad in the Copa del Rey quarter-final second leg on Thursday....

But there is a slight problem: University of Tennessee football coach Butch Jones already has a full staff. MORE: Ranking top college quarterbacks for 2016 | Peyton can’t stay away from football In a diplomatic style, Jones expressed his admiration for Manning, but didn’t elaborate on him possibly joining the team. “We talk all the time and I think anything Peyton Manning does, he’ll be successful,” Jones said Wednesday, via 247Sports....

Abu Dhabi, led by its crown prince, Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, believes they most certainly can. And what France stands to gain is not inconsequential: a geopolitical foothold in a strategically important region. D’Haussonville says his country liked the idea of helping “to deter fundamentalism through culture.” But that was nothing compared with the real deal sweetener: cash. Abu Dhabi, which sits on 10 percent of the world’s oil supply, has agreed to pay $520 million just to use the name “Louvre” for 30 years; it also plans to pony up $747 million more for art loans and advice....

Actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and Roscosmos astronaut Anton Shkaplerov arrived at the orbiting science laboratory at 8:22 a.m. EDT on Tuesday morning after Shkaplerov safely guided their Soyuz MS-19 capsule into a docking bay, according to an ISS tweet. They had launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan a few hours earlier. Peresild and Shipenko are due to join seven other astronauts who are already on board the ISS....

On Thursday against the Dallas Stars, the fourth-year center surpassed his previous career-high goal total, posting his 41st of the season off a sweet snipe past Ben Bishop on the blocker side. Matthews scored 40 in his rookie season and followed it up with 34 and a 37 goal campaign the next two years, but 2019-20 reminds us yet again that he is an elite goal-scorer whose name belongs atop the list with the Alex Ovechkin’s and David Pastrnak’s of the NHL....

The 26-year-old quarterback, who had seen three of his previous four seasons in Provo end prematurely due to injury, will miss out on what would have been his final game with the Cougars after yet another setback. MORE: Week 14 bowl projections Hill hyperextended his left elbow in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s win over Utah State, and coach Kalani Sitake expressed optimism afterward that the senior might be able to play in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec....

Junior Nick Emery didn’t suffer a serious ligament tear or fracture in the offseason or preseason practice. He’s out with a broken heart. Saturday, the university issued a release announcing the 6-2, 185-pounder has left school and will miss all of what would’ve been his junior season as he pieces his life back together, following a divorce. MORE: College basketball’s top returning player from each major conference team “I have decided to withdraw from BYU today,” Emery said in a statement....

While C-3PO was only a small part of The Last Jedi, Daniels describes a more expanded role for the droid in Star Wars: Episode IX, which he credits, in part, to screenwriter Chris Terrio (Argo, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice). In excerpts from I Am C-3PO reproduced by Star Wars News Net, Daniels writes Terrio “had clearly steeped himself in the lore of the Saga,” writing “a terrific script that seemed heading for a very satisfying conclusion....

You don’t earn a $100 million contract by your fourth year in the NBA without it, either. MORE: 8 players with most to prove next season Needless to say, Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum, who has done both of those things, is confident in his abilities on the basketball court, especially coming off a 2015-16 season during which he averaged a career-high 20.8 points per game. That’s why when a random fan asked McCollum if two-time reigning MVP Stephen Curry could guard him, McCollum answered the question rather succinctly....

Cadillac, a division of General Motors, said in a press release this week that it would debut the 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V on May 11th, making public pricing, availability and specs, Cadillac says the V-Series is “the ultimate expression of Cadillac design, performance and technology and the purest expression of the passion that exists at the core of the Cadillac brand.” That’s been exemplified by the use of the C5-generation Chevrolet Corvette Z06 engine in the first V, the CTS-V sedan....

The Blaugrana are coming off a 5-1 demolition of Viktoria Plzen in Champions League group stage play, a match that saw Robert Lewandowski score a hat-trick in his first European appearance for his new club. After an opening day scoreless draw against Rayo Vallecano, Barcelona have trounced La Liga competition, topping Real Sociedad, Real Valladolid, and Sevilla by a combined 11-1. Those results have them on 10 points through the first four matches, sitting behind only a perfect Real Madrid in the domestic league table....

“He’s been one of our more consistent, better performers so far this year,” Kansas coach Bill Self told the Journal World of Mason. “I think he deserves the opportunity.” Kansas lost its first game of the season in the Battle 4 Atlantis semifinals to Villanova, then struggled to put away UTEP in a 67-63 victory in the third-place game. Self was quite high on Mason earlier in the week during his weekly teleconference: “Frank doesn’t talk, but he’s been great....

Man, if he’s reaching that hard for subject matter on his fifth show, he’s got a problem. MORE: Ranking Team USA’s biggest threats in Rio The Deflategate mine is already exhausted, apparently. Simmons did us the favor of giving us J.J. Redick’s reason and some humor from “New Girl” star Lamorne Morris in the discussion built around this pointless U-25 idea, but it still was a segment about an idea to weaken the United States in international competition....

The former NBA great waxes poetic about existentialism, makes various Doobie Brothers references and provides a rather ... unique perspective on college basketball. Although he knows so much about the great truths of our universe, Walton fails to understand some of life's more simple facts — like, say, who Richard Sherman is. Sherman was on hand along with his college teammate Andrew Luck to watch their Alma mater Stanford take on Colorado....

The Bills running back is coming off a career-worst statistical season after rushing for just 514 yards and three touchdowns on 161 carries last season, but is confident he’ll bounce back this year. “It’s hard to replace a guy like me,” McCoy told reporters Saturday, via PennLive. “I’m a good player and I feel like now, this year, they put a lot of guys around me. The front office got me some big hogs up front....

Diggs caught a touchdown pass 1:45 before halftime to put Buffalo up 17-7 over the Patriots, and after running out the back of the end zone, he went over to the stands where some New England fans were pointing at him. Audio of the play from CBS’s broadcast captured Diggs appearing to say, “You, you, you” at each of the fans. One fan appeared to call him a “f—ing coward,” to which Diggs responded, “Shut the f— up....

The Bills have added IK Enemkpali to their active roster, coach Rex Ryan announced Monday. MORE: NFL Week 5 photos | Enemkpali: ‘I should have walked away’ Enemkpali joined the Bills in the offseason following his release from the Jets after he broke Smith’s jaw during a locker room dispute in August. He was suspended the first four weeks of the season, and was on a roster exemption last week....

The capper was a fourth-quarter fight Sunday with the Bills that resulted in the ejections of wide receiver Jarvis Landry — after Landry had scored a touchdown — and running back Kenyan Drake, who flung a Bills player’s helmet. MORE: Week 17 results, scores, highlights Officials were running out of things to throw after exhausting their supplies of flags and hats. Referee Jeff Triplette couldn’t keep all the uniform numbers straight....

Before he left for Oklahoma City, he decided to thank Florida fans with a full-page ad in The Gainesville Sun. MORE: Three reasons Donovan will succeed | Donovan’s buyout helps pay former assistants | Skiles frontrunner for Magic job “We leave with hearts full of love and cherished memories of euphoria and heartbreak — on and off the court — shared at every step with our Gator family,” Donovan wrote....

Redditors agreed on Friday that because 2020 has been such an unpredictable year, the hit song “We Didn’t Start The Fire” should get an updated verse about the past nine months. The catchy hit from 1989, which squeezes 40 years of U.S. history into roughly five minutes of music, could use a new spark or two. Someone shared an image of the Piano Man with text, reading, “That face you make when there’s enough s**t in 2020 to make a whole new verse for ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire....