The Argentine is into his fourth season at the helm in north London, having traded Southampton for their Premier League rivals in the summer of 2014. Spurs 8/1 to keep clean sheet in Madrid In that time, Pochettino has forced Spurs into title contention and made them a staple part of the battle for top-four finishes and Champions League football. He committed to a new contract in 2016, taking him through to 2021, with it now up to him to deliver tangible reward and build a dynasty similar to that overseen by an iconic figure at Manchester United....

Man Utd can have Griezmann, Atleti don’t need him Pogba’s indifferent performances have been heavily scrutinised since he returned to Old Trafford for a world-record £89.3million fee from Juventus in August. The critics were out in force again on Monday as Pogba underwhelmed in United’s 1-0 FA Cup defeat at Chelsea, with his international team-mate N’Golo Kante shining for Antonio Conte’s men. But Mourinho defended Pogba in the aftermath of that game and continued to back the midfielder ahead of Thursday’s Europa League second-round tie against Rostov....

You need a code to get the Pokemon on offer, and there’s one per person available. The codes are released each week as the Pokemon anime airs in Japan, but that doesn’t mean only Japanese fans can redeem them. You can also snag them, and all you need is the code that airs during the anime broadcast to get one. This week’s code is for the Fighting/Steel Pokemon Lucario, who comes with an array of punishing moves that will no doubt render your opponents unable to battle in a few short moves: the Bullet Punch is especially difficult to come back from....

Victor Moses’ 61st-minute penalty capped off a resilient performance for the Super Eagles over their enterprising hosts, with the advances of Robert Lewandowski and his teammates curtailed for the entire duration of the game. Gernot Rohr’s choice between the sticks against the Europeans generated the most attention prior to the encounter and the German tactician settled it by handing youngster Francis Uzoho his full debut. Joel Obi, in the absence of John Obi Mikel partnered Wilfried Ndidi at the heart of midfield while Brian Idowu got the nod ahead of Elderson Echiejile at left-back....

The wife of the jogger hacked to death at random earlier this month committed suicide Sunday, authorities said Monday. The suspect in the killing is former Texas A&M receiver Thomas Johnson, who was arrested Oct. 13 after police said he admitted to the crime. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 Patti Stevens, 54, a physical therapist, was found dead of suspected suicide at her home in the 200 block of Brazos Lane in Sunnyvale, Raul Reyna, a spokesman for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, told the Dallas Morning News....

Locke’s death is the latest in a series of officer-involved shootings that have plagued the City of Lakes in the past few years. The body camera footage was released on Thursday evening, following the urging of 10 Democratic lawmakers in the Minnesota House. It shows MPD SWAT officers executing a ’no-knock’ search warrant the previous day at a seventh-floor apartment building. The warrant was related to a homicide investigation that was being conducted in Minneapolis’ sister city, St....

According to sources with CBS Sports, analyst Curtis Conway and the television crew were approached by security personnel, who asked the crew to move away from an angle that allowed them to see the practice field. MORE: Top flight: Best Oregon Ducks, ever | Pac-12 packing heat with these games Conway and the group were merely ascending the stairs to a production truck, the sources with CBS Sports said. A tense standoff occured, during which someone called the police....

Euro 2016 hosts France will take on Iceland at the national stadium in the tournament’s fourth quarter-final tie on Sunday evening. Fans approaching the stadium during the afternoon were temporarily stopped as the vehicle was investigated before the explosion at around 5.30pm local time. According to the Daily Mirror, French police used a small charge to open the door of the car and insist there is “nothing to worry about”....

Brandon del Pozo, formerly the police chief of Burlington, Vermont, offered his resignation just after noon Monday after acknowledging he created an anonymous Twitter account to harass Charles Winkleman, a local liberal activist known to criticize del Pozo and the police department. Monday evening, it also came to light that Burlington’s Deputy Police Chief Jan Wright, also had a “secret” social media account. As CBS-affiliate WCAX reported, Wright admitted that she sometimes used a fake Facebook account called “Lori Spicer” to discuss issues pertaining to the police with citizens online....

Police in Boulder, Colorado, have been working with state investigators on “future DNA advancements,” the police department said Monday in a statement, days before the anniversary of JonBenét’s death. “As the Department continues to use new technology to enhance the investigation, it is actively reviewing genetic DNA testing processes to see if those can be applied to this case moving forward,” it said. On Dec. 26, 1996, JonBenét, 6, was discovered dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder home, bludgeoned and strangled....

Rathdrum Police Chief Tomi McLean said police officers stopped by the home several times to educate the couple about nonessential gatherings that violate the stay-at-home order, which the governor issued to limit the state’s coronavirus outbreak. Police officers first went to the home of Christa and Peter Thompson on April 9 after neighbors complained about yard sale items that were on the home’s front yard and stretched into the backyard....

Solomon Nhiwatiwa, 34, was indicted by a Grand Jury this week for attempted kidnapping and multiple sexual offenses linked to an incident that allegedly occurred around 7 a.m. last Friday in the city of Euclid. He is accused of targeting a child who was waiting for a school bus. According to prosecutors, Nhiwatiwa, who was off duty at the time, drove past the victim with his car window down and asked her if she wanted a ride to school, which she refused....

The incident took place on Tuesday in Miranda de Ebro, a city in the north of Spain. The video, recorded by a witness at the scene, showed the officer kneeling on the boy’s neck as he repeatedly screams in pain. In the clip, the officer can also be seen using a hand to press down on the boy’s face while pinning him down. The controversial restraint was used by a Minneapolis police officer on George Floyd, whose killing in May sparked protests across the U....

The new contract goes before the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday, September 17. The contract proposes pay raises for officers to help counteract an increase in the payments police make into the pension fund. However, it also includes a provision some say will undermine Senate Bill 1421, a police transparency law that went into effect January 1. SB 1421, passed in September 2018, makes files about police shootings, use of force, sexual misconduct and dishonesty available, by request, to the public....

Anti-vaccine protesters, many of whom were not wearing masks, were photographed by local reporters holding signs in the area where the press conference later took place. One photo taken by a reporter with the Providence-based news station WJAR showed Woonsocket’s police chief engaged in discussion with some of the protesters. The protesters then followed the chief’s instructions and left the building, the reporter said. After leaving the room, the protesters could briefly be seen through the windows as they stood outside, though they reportedly left before the press conference began....

Belgian Malinois/Shepherd mix Loki was originally purchased by the Olathe Police Department from a kennel in Pennsylvania, with the intent of serving as their newest police force dog. After a medical scan however, it was discovered two-year-old Loki had an underdeveloped kidney in need of removal in the near future. The kennel offered a replacement dog to Olathe Police free of charge, but informed the police department that Loki would be euthanized on his return....

Rational empiricism and a skepticism of the status quo inhere in the very process; they are baked into the entire enterprise. The purpose of the scientific method is to constantly contest and, when necessary, disprove flawed hypotheses and mistaken conclusions previously deduced about the workings of the natural world. A basic thought experiment is instructive: Imagine what sort of world we might have today had Copernicus, Galileo and all subsequent astronomers blindly accepted the erroneous, then-dominant belief in a geocentric universe....

That was until last Tuesday morning, when his cell phone rang. Recovering from the flu, Weaver ignored the phone, thinking it was his alarm. Later he picked up the call to hear his old friend Mark Salter, McCain’s chief of staff and the coauthor of the senator’s best-selling autobiographies. Salter told Weaver they had lost control of the campaign: McCain had sided with their internal rival, Rick Davis. “John wants you to stay,” Salter said....

By the end of last week, Rachael Worby, first lady of West Virginia, was finally keeping quiet. But everybody else in the state, especially the local press, was buzzing about Walsh’s Divided Lives (284 pages. Simon & Schuster. $23), particularly the chapter called “Rachael’s Story.” “She had not masturbated or had an orgasm until she was in her 30s,” Walsh reports. “She had slept with her [first] husband, David, only a handful of times....