But seeing and doing are two completely different animals since Khegai had fought his first 11 fights in Moscow. Putting his nerves and anxiety in the back of his mind, Khegai registered the most impressive performance of his career with a unanimous decision victory over Lopez. Khegai (13-0-1, 9 KOs) though wasn’t too impressed by what he did and vows to put on a better showing, as returns Friday to the city of “Brotherly Love” as he battles Jorge Diaz (19-5-1, 10 KOs) in an eight-round super bantamweight contest on Showtime (9:35 p....

Mertens has played a key role in Maurizio Sarri’s men establishing a one-point lead over six-time defending champions Juventus in the race for the Scudetto and, having rebuffed interest from China last year and been linked with Premier League heavyweights Arsenal and Manchester United, the Belgium forward is loving life in Campagnia. He told Il Mattino: “I’m playing and having fun on the pitch and I’m very happy. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been before....

The Spaniard - who left Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season despite winning a domestic treble - has signed a two-year deal at the Emirates Stadium. He becomes just the Gunners’ second manager since 1996 after Arsene Wenger’s 22-year reign was brought to an end in the wake of Arsenal’s sixth-placed finish in the Premier League. “Unai has an outstanding track record of success throughout his career, has developed some of the best young talent in Europe and plays an exciting, progressive style of football that fits Arsenal perfectly," said Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis following the appointment....

The Gunners finished fifth in the Premier League last term and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in Wenger’s reign, meaning they will play in the Europa League instead. Arsenal to win the Premier League - 11/1 Wenger’s men begin their campaign with the traditional Community Shield curtain-raiser against Chelsea at Wembley on Sunday. And the Frenchman feels investment from all of last year’s top six, aside from local rivals Tottenham, means it is tough to predict who will be lifting the Premier League trophy at the end of the season....

There was never any doubt. People may have debated about the supposed demise of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang this season, but no-one at Arsenal believed for a second that their captain’s best days had been and gone. On Sunday, he gave a timely reminder to all of his doubters outside of north London that if he is given the chances in front of goal, he will take them. Aubameyang was at his lethal best against Leeds, scoring his first ever Premier League hat-trick as Arsenal bounced back from two successive defeats in the Premier League with a 4-2 victory....

Conte: My heart is in Italy The England international has excelled since moving to White Hart Lane from MK Dons in February 2015 and has twice won the PFA Young Player of the Year award for his performances in the Premier League. Former Liverpool CEO Ian Ayre claimed this week the Reds had been interested in Alli only to be put off by what he described as excessive demands from the player....

Aubameyang was left out Dortmund’s squad for the stalemate against Wolfsburg on January 14 after missing a team meeting, while he did not travel with his team-mates for last Friday’s draw with Hertha Berlin. Dortmund claimed a bid for the 28-year-old had been received from Arsenal at the weekend, though Goal understands the Bundesliga club are interested in Olivier Giroud as a makeweight in the deal. It is a familiar situation for Dortmund, who saw Ousmane Dembele go on strike before sealing a switch to Barcelona in August, but one Kovac cannot abide....

Arsenal team: Cech, Koscielny, Mustafi, Chambers, Bellerin, Wilshere, Xhaka, Kolasinac, Ozil, Sanchez, Lacazette.Subs: Ospina, Walcott, Holding, Iwobi, Welbeck, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin.Crystal Palace team: Speroni, Kelly, Tomkins, Dann, Schlupp, Milivojevic, Cabaye, Loftus-Cheek, Townsend, Zaha, Benteke Subs: Hennessey, Van Aanholt, Fosu-Mensah, McArthur, Puncheon, Riedewald, Sako.

Arsenal injuries Laurent Koscielny will miss the World Cup with a suspected ruptured Achilles sustained in the first half of Arsenal’s Europa League semi-final defeat to Atletico Madrid. Egypt midfielder Mohamed Elneny is out with ankle ligament damage while a back problem has ruled out Mesut Ozil for the final game. Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla remains a long-term absentee with an Achilles injury, although he is running again and will hope to be involved in pre-season if his contract gets renewed....

The Germany international was criticised in the wake of Thursday’s defeat to Atletico Madrid, which saw the Gunners crash out of the Europa League and is not even on the bench against Sean Dyche’s men. Instead, Alex Iwobi lines up in attacking midfield while Henrikh Mkhitaryan is back in the first-team. Wenger has opted for Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to lead the attack together from the start for the second time in the Premier League since the latter joined in January....

Arsenal starting XI: Cech; Koscielny, Mustafi, Monreal; Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Kolasinac; Ozil, Lacazette, Alexis Tottenham starting XI: Lloris; Trippier, Dier, Sanchez, Vertonghen; Davies, Dembele; Sissoko, Eriksen, Dele; Kane

A Gabriel Martinelli corner found Thomas Partey who had from the far post, and the midfielder lost his man to find himself in space on the edge of the six yard area. It was a simple finish as he nodded the ball into the goal. Leicester have the worst record at defending corners in the league, and it was easy to see why. After the goal, it looked like Arsenal might run away with the game as they got into dangerous positions repeatedly, and Leicester were knocked back....

Peter Seaton painted the image on a building in Melbourne, Australia, in August, but over the last week, he faced objections from the country’s Ukrainian community about the message it portrayed about Russia’s invasion. The artwork titled Peace Before Pieces was released digitally as an NFT, or non-fungible token, and made available on his Instagram page as an animation in which a mushroom cloud appears over the soldiers. “The artwork is saying if we don’t find peace, whether it’s this war or another war, we’re going to eventually blow each other up,” he told Newsweek from Melbourne....

Chris Carter’s days as a freewheeling hipster traveling the globe as an editor for Surfing magazine came to an end after he met his current wife, a screenwriter, who encouraged him to give storytelling a try. It didn’t take long for the former itinerant board bum to rise to the crest of his new profession, despite the fact that most toil for years in the sitcom ghetto before making it big....

But can we help it if his exhibition at the James Cohan Gallery in Manhattan (through June 16) is such a killer that only, say, a member of a grumpy mayor’s decency commission wouldn’t want to find out all there is to know about the artist, the best thing to happen to figurative sculpture in a couple of artistic generations? Actually, Mueck may be one of the best things to happen to realism-as a whole-in a long time....

Like most teenagers are prone to do, Williams changed up her hair style. MORE: Best sports movies of all time The actress, whom most know as Arya Stark, showed up to Wimbledon on Saturday sporting blue hair. Also at Wimbledon was actress Sophie Turner, who plays Arya Stark’s older sister, Sansa. Winter may be coming to Westeros, but the Stark sisters are clearly taking advantage of summer. 

“The House is a setup. The House is a bunch of Trump haters,” the president explained on Tuesday. Fauci is, however, set to appear before the Republican-led Senate next week. COVID-19 is a disease, not a political party, and how to handle it is a scientific question, not a political one. Both Republicans and Democrats need to demand that Fauci and any other coronavirus task force members be allowed to testify before both houses of Congress....

Who are their versions of Tommie Smith and John Carlos? Their versions of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor? PHOTOS: Athletes taking social stands These are nearly 50 years’ worth of examples, but the stands they took are still fresh in our minds — especially those last month at the ESPYs by the very best players in the NBA. With no disrespect intended to Colin Kaepernick at all, he is not at the very pinnacle of his league, one of the faces of his sport, and thus can’t carry the message as far as they did or have the platform they did....

A police officer was among ten people who were killed when a gunman opened fire at the King Soopers grocery market in Boulder, about 28 miles northwest of Denver, on Monday, in the second mass shooting in the U.S. in a week. Boebert, who represents the state’s third congressional district, tweeted: “As we continue to hear the news coming out of Boulder, I’m praying for the police, first responders, and those affected by this tragedy....