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Hummels missed the world champions’ opening 2-0 victory over Ukraine on Sunday and has not played since picking up a thigh muscle injury in the German Cup final in May. The 27-year-old had not trained with the team until this week, while Shkodran Mustafi replaced him at the heart of the Germany defence in their group opener. “I will not take any risk if there are any problems or he does not feel 100 percent fit,” Loew told reporters on Wednesday....

Manchester City star Sane has enjoyed a superb season under Pep Guardiola, winning the EFL Cup in February and looking almost certain to become a Premier League champion. The 22-year-old, who joined City from Schalke in 2016 for a reported £37million, is expected to play a key role for Germany when they defend the World Cup in Russia this year. Tah, a team-mate of Sane’s at youth level and with the senior international side, says Germany are lucky to have him....

Hansi Flick’s side will be hoping to avoid a repeat of 2018 where they crashed out in the group stages after winning the title in 2014. Japan, meanwhile, will be hoping to do what South Korea did four years ago, and claim a famous win against the European giants on the biggest stage. Germany have been in mixed form this year and as a result have gone under the radar heading into Qatar....

Well, at least eat like him. Search no further; the Patriots quarterback has released a cookbook on his TB12 website that show some of his favorite recipes from his plant-based diet. The catch? The cookbook sells for a whopping $200. While it isn’t nearly as much as wife Gisele Bündchen’s $700 Taschen coffee-table book, it’s still quite a price tag for a book of recipes that not a lot of people will want to eat....

That question was on the lips of employees at the Los Angeles Times when Fuller spoke to them in March. Tribune had just revealed that it would swallow Times Mirror, the L.A. newspaper’s parent company. Anxious staffers peppered Fuller with questions. Will you change the paper’s name? Will there be layoffs to improve profits? Some of the fear was justified. Last year the Times was humiliated after the paper published a magazine section about L....

The Catalans were without the services of Lionel Messi and Ousmane Dembele who were both ruled out due to thigh injuries, but the defending champions coped in their absence, with goals in each half from Luis Suarez and Junior Firpo enough to hand Ernesto Valverde’s men all three points. The win sees them move onto 13 points and helps ease some pressure off Valverde heading into their crunch Champions League clash with the in-form Inter Milan....

Hardys and Impact Wrestling battle Not only were the Hardys upset about the way their negotiations with Impact Wrestling went down, which led to them parting ways with the company, there is still an ongoing fight between the two sides. Impact Wrestling claims that it has the right to the “Broken Universe” and the characters, including “Broken” Matt Hardy, Brother Nero and even Senor Benjamin. Just hours before the Hardys appeared on the Ring of Honor 15th anniversary pay-per-year, Impact management sent a cease and desist letter to ROH along with cable and PPV providers warning them that it owned the rights to the gimmick....

The anger is particularly intense because many civil-rights leaders see Bush (who lost the popular vote and won only 9 percent of the black vote) as something of a pretender to the throne. They sincerely believe the election was stolen, that their huge investments in voter registration and mobilization were undermined by an unfair result. And they resent Bush acting as if he has a mandate to toss aside their concerns, especially when it comes to the nation’s chief law-enforcement official, whose portfolio encompasses everything from voting rights to hate crimes to police brutality to criminal-justice policy....

Sexual escapades have become a Tory epidemic. Last fall, trying to reinvigorate his beleaguered government, Prime Minister John Major grasped at a trite phrase: “back to basics.” It wasn’t clear what, if anything, be actually meant by the term; most Britons assumed it had something to do with “family values.” But even cliches seem to backfire on Major these days. Milligan’s death was the latest in a series of scandals that have made Major’s preaching sound like “two-faced nonsense,” as the Daily Mirror put it....

Golovkin (39-1-1) will attempt to become a two-time world champion in New York on Saturday against Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko (13-1). Join DAZN to watch GGG vs. Derevyanchenko & 100+ fight nights a year The 37-year-old Kazakhstani’s old IBF belt is on the line having been vacated by Alvarez after the Mexican prevailed via a majority decision in their second fight last year. As with an initial split-decision draw in 2017, many observers felt Golovkin did enough to get the verdict, meaning plenty of appetite remains for a trilogy....

After a three-day hiatus, Maxwell’s lawyers began making their case at the 59-year-old’s trial. Called to the stand was an expert on “false memories,” former employees of Maxwell, government officials, and travel agents. But none appeared to be able to provide anything substantial that could overwhelmingly aid Maxwell’s defense. Maxwell is accused of recruiting and grooming underage girls for the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein between 1994 and 2004, and faces six counts of sex trafficking....

In the past month, two of the state’s rural hospitals have been forced to shutter due to a financial crunch. “There are probably a dozen others that are in that type of condition where they are going from week-to-week to make payroll,” President Monty Veazey told Newsweek on Friday. “The COVID-19 pandemic has added a lot of added stress and no income.” GACH oversees about 95 nonprofit medical centers across Georgia....

The hosts come into the game on the back of a 2-1 away victory over Kosovo last month. Tornike Okriashvilli and Zuriko Davitashvilli scored in either half to help the Crusaders secure maximum points. Sweden cruised to a routine 2-0 victory over Greece on home turf. Emil Forsberg and Alexander Isak scored second-half goals to inspire the win. That victory helped the Scandinavians move to top spot in Group B, having garnered 15 points from six matches....

Green posted an Instagram video Monday asking people to help him secure a boat so he could help people who are in danger because of massive flooding in the city and surrounding areas. “Anybody in Houston right now, anybody in Houston got a boat. I don’t care what it is, man, get at me,” Green said in the video. “I’m trying to help out people in Houston, dog . ....

New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Germany produced a combination of sublime skills and brute power as they laid bare Colombia’s defensive frailties with a clinical 4-0 victory in their pre- quarterfinal match in the FIFA U-17 World Cup here today. Captain and star striker Jann-Fiete Arp (7th and 65th) struck twice while Yann Bisseck (39th) and John Yeboah (49th) scored a goal each to help Germany reach the quarterfinals....

By Michael Sequeira Margao, Oct 9 (PTI) Germany and Iran will look to book a berth in the knock-out stage when they clash in a Group C league match of the FIFA U-17 World Cup at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda here tomorrow. Both the teams have won their respective opening matches with Germany getting past Costa Rica 2-1 and Iran beating Guinea 3-1 last Saturday. During their opening match, Germany had a shaky start before taking a lead midway in the first half through their star striker Jann-Fiete Arp....

The Germans were the most dangerous team outside the first pot of seeds for the competition, relegated due to poor recent results which included losing to the Dutch in the Nations League. Joachim Loew’s side will also face Northern Ireland, who they met at the Euro 2016 finals, as well as Estonia and Belarus in Group C. The top two teams in each of the 10 groups will qualify for Euro 2020, which for the first time will be staged in 12 different venues across the continent....

Joachim Low’s side stunned world football when they beat tournament hosts Brazil at the Mineirao to secure a spot in the final five years ago, eventually going on to lift the trophy. Things have not always been plain sailing since, as they disappointed as defending champions at last year’s World Cup, but they look to be getting back to their best, with Tuesday’s game evidence of that. Marco Reus got Die Mannschaft off to a fine start with an easy finish in the 10th minute, and that was soon followed by a similarly straightforward goal courtesy of Serge Gnabry....

Podolski became the biggest name to arrive in the J.League since Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan joined Cerezo Osaka in 2014 when the 32-year-old signed an estimated $5.3 million deal to make the switch from Galatasaray. “I don’t feel any pressure because I have had pressure since I started playing football,” Podolski, a member of Germany’s 2014 World Cup winning team, told a news conference in Kobe. “It is not a problem, it is a big challenge for me....

The Scottish Premiership club dismissed Graeme Murty on Tuesday after a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of Celtic saw their rivals crowned champions for the seventh year in a row. Murty had also overseen a 4-0 thumping to Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-finals. Gerrard is reportedly a frontrunner for what would be his first senior managerial role and the former England captain says negotiations over his potential appointment are ongoing....