The Bundesliga holders host the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final at Allianz Arena on Wednesday. Conte: I don’t smell the title yet Bayern head into the clash in fine form, having crushed Borussia Dortmund 4-1 in Saturday’s league clash. With that in mind, Ancelotti said his side needed to concentrate on themselves, not La Liga giants Madrid. “We have to be focused on our play, on our intensity, on our strategy and not think a lot about Real Madrid,” the Italian said....

Robert Lewandowski scored twice in the space of three minutes as Werder’s dogged resistance was belatedly broken by the Bundesliga champions. Muller came on after the 72nd-minute opener and laid on Lewandowski’s second but was unhappy with the role he played. Ancelotti, however, explained his desire to control central midfield while retaining the attacking threat of wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery was behind his decision. “We tried to plan the game using the wide areas more and to have more possession in the middle,” he told a post-match news conference....

All at sea and lacking balance in the early months of the season, as Ancelotti admitted frequently, Madrid lost 1-0 to Atletico in a derby clash at the Santiago Bernabeu in late September. Then Madrid went down to its fiercest foe, Barcelona, in a 2-1 defeat at Camp Nou a little less than a month later. Since then, however, Madrid's record is unblemished: 21 wins, four draws and no defeats....

That’s also the kind of crafty it takes to get a technical foul in one of the weirdest ways possible. MORE: Is Damian Lillard a good defender? | MLK Day video | Larry Sanders suspended On Saturday night against the Rockets, the Golden State wing noticed that the shoe of Corey Brewer had fallen off during the play before. As Iguodala rushed to the ball, he feigned as though he was stepping normally, his toe just happening to punch the sneaker across the court....

After all that, they might remember Andre Iguodala for the role he played on a team that is now one victory away from back-to-back championships. MORE: Must-see photos from the NBA Finals rematch Friday, with the pivotal Game 4 hanging in the balance in the fourth quarter and the Cavaliers just one push from evening this series at two, the Warriors shut down Cleveland’s offense, found their own rhythm on defense, and used a 12-1 run to turn a two-point deficit into a nine-point lead, on their way to a 108-97 victory....

The 61-year-old “Time to Say Goodbye” performer launched a scathing tirade against the Italian government during a conference about the COVID-19 outbreak with politicians and experts at Rome’s Giovanni Spadolini library Monday. “I could not leave the house even though I had committed no crime,” Bocelli said, speaking in Italian. Italy was one of the worst affected countries in Europe earlier this year, and Bocelli had become something of a symbol of hope when he sang in an empty cathedral in Milan during a live-streamed performance called Music for Hope on Easter Sunday....

Johnsson suffered the injury late in the second period when he blocked a shot from Avalanche defenseman Ryan Graves. The team announced he would not return to the game at the start of the third and final frame, and on Friday, it was revealed he underwent a CT scan for the injury. MORE: Oilers GM Ken Holland says he was unaware of Mike Babcock mistreating players while coaching Detroit...

Add in a shooting guard, who is smaller, flopping underneath that big man as he hits the ground, and it’s a recipe for disaster. MORE: Must-see photos from the NBA Finals Bogut, the Warriors’ starting center, went down hard early in the third quarter of Game 5 of the NBA Finals vs. the Cavaliers. J.R. Smith fell below him after Bogut made a block attempt, and Bogut’s knee bent backward....

Debra Katz, Bennett’s attorney, said to investigators Cuomo handed the ex-aide a copy of the lyrics to the Irish ballad “Danny Boy” and told her to memorize them. Bennett was then ordered to sing the song to the administration’s senior staff members, including DeRosa. “It’s a bizarre request, but he says, ‘I want you to memorize these lyrics,’” Katz said to investigators leading a probe into sexual harassment allegations against the governor....

Nearly 60 percent of New York’s population are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and more than 70 percent have had at least one shot. While Cuomo championed the state’s ability to get people vaccinated, he said the Delta variant’s increased transmissibility means the state could see millions of new cases and a return to the beginning of last year. “Worst case scenario, a large number of unvaccinated get sick and even worse than that, the Delta variant mutates to a vaccine resistant virus and now we’re right back to where we started,” Cuomo said on Monday....

For months people have claimed to have known that previous web-slingers, Maguire and Garfield, would be coming back to team up with current Spider-Man, Tom Holland - but Marvel has yet to confirm anything of the sort. Although previous Spider-Man villain Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) appeared in the recent internet-breaking trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, both former Spider-Man actors were conspicuously missing. Speaking to Newsweek while promoting his upcoming movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Garfield warns that anyone expecting him to return as Peter Parker might be left “disappointed....

Just kidding. But the Pirates star did cut off all of his hair and joked with his fans in a video he posted documenting the moment. McCutchen said there wasn’t a specific reason why he cut his dreads now, he was just ready for a change. MORE: Brewers make nachos on a stick | Yankees recreate ‘The Sandlot’ | Must-see spring training photos The whole thing is for a good cause; McCutchen is going to auction off his hair to benefit one of the Pirates’ charities....

You're just sitting there, a captive audience, waiting for the talking to end, and then a handful of cartoon mascots bust in and steal all your food. That's how it usually goes when Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen is behind the infiltration of the meeting. Locks are important. So are security keys.

Wiggins will be named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year on Thursday, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. MORE: Wiggins deserves it | Carter-Williams proving Bucks right | Don’t bench Dirk The 20-year-old led NBA rookies in scoring (16.9), minutes (36.2), field goals (497) and free throws (354) while playing in all 82 games for the Timberwolves. His head coach, Flip Saunders, had nothing but praises for the budding star at season’s end....

Yang, whose hundreds of thousands of supporters trended the #YangMediaBlackout hashtag in August, chastised MSNBC while speaking to another news network he has also criticized for a lack of coverage, CNN. Yang said MSNBC has repeatedly left him out of fundraising charts and polling graphs while also throwing inane questions at him during last week’s Democratic debate. The New York entrepreneur has stressed the devastating impacts of automation on humans in the workforce while touting reforms of an increasingly technological economy so it benefits average workers, families and young people moving forward....

Yang, an entrepreneur who has managed to outlast several career politicians on the campaign trail, entered the crowded Democratic primary back in February 2018 on a single proposal: universal basic income, or the “Freedom Dividend.” The proposal would give $1,000 in basic income each month to every American adult who chooses to participate, no strings attached. The measure, Yang says, is to help combat increasing job losses due to automation....

Yang attended St. Ann’s Church and The Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights on Saturday night as he continues his campaign to be New York mayor with primaries set to begin next month. Speaking to a few dozen prospective voters inside the church, Yang said: “I moved here as a 21-year-old law student at Columbia. I didn’t know s***.” He later continued: “I have the kind of life and career that I could never have even imagined as a 21-year-old, and every single good thing that has happened to me personally and professionally was made possible by New York City....

The lawsuit, filed on Monday, argues that Yang should be kept on the ballot as he has met all the requirements and did not ask to be removed. Yang and seven other New Yorkers who filed to serve the former candidate as delegates to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) are the plaintiffs of the suit, as well as Jonathan Herzog, a longshot contender running against Democratic New York Congressman Jerry Nadler....

MacPhail, 63, has plenty of baseball experience. He won two World Series titles as general manager of the Twins in 1987 and ‘91. He also was the president/CEO of the Cubs from 1994-2006 as well as president of baseball operations for the Orioles from 2007-11. MORE: Baseball’s worst everyday players CSN Philly’s report doesn’t say exactly what role or title MacPhail would have with the franchise, but team president is a likely assumption,....

Now, as the 22-year-old readies to return to action for the first time since retaining her atomweight title last May, she is trying to join Amanda Nunes as the second active female fighter to stand as a two-weight world champion. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year This weekend, ONE Championship brings a stacked card that includes the promotional debuts of Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez to Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, where Lee will also move up in weight to challenge Jing Nan Xiong for the company’s strawweight title in the penultimate fight of the night....