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JEDDAH: Cash Pinas-Sky Freight was not to be denied on its second chance and along with BCT-Al Kabeer Food and Ramiz Ayoub qualified for the championship round in the FTBJ 53rd Open Conference bowling tournament at the Bowling City. Cash Pinas, bumped off by Seiko Watch for the third outright berth to the finals, topped the knockout game of three handicap series on 3,198 pinfalls with Al Kabeer on 3,162 and Ramiz Ayoub 3,100. Cash Pinas, Al Kabeer and Ramiz completed the six-team stepladder as team Nos. 4, 5 and 6 in that order. The top three waiting teams are Bank AlJazira Fawri, D Barkads and Seiko Watch. The first match in the stepladder final will be a two-game handicap knockout featuring team Nos. 4, 5 and 6 with the winner to advance to the second match against third qualifier Seiko. The winner of the second match then advances opposite No. 2 D Barkads in another knockout game for the right to challenge No. 1 Fawri in the championship match where Fawri holds a twice-to-beat edge. Veteran bowler Goying Salazar shot a solid 739 on rounds of 278, 236 and 225 as he teamed with James Galvan 650 and Rene Punzalan 608 in hammering home the message Cash Pinas is not done yet. Tossing in two games each were Faisal Relativo 212-174, Mao Orolfo 215-186 and Wilson Triguero 186-196. Al Kabeer had four players in the rotation with full games in Mohammad Al-Amari 677, skipper Igna Salgado 673, Ed Sardia 651 and Gerry Mandanas 574. Sharing the rest of the team games were Rommel Agbayani 177-167 and Rey Beltran 225. For Ramiz Ayoub, the trio of Haitam Tashkandi, Richard Antonio and Archie Santos carried the load on 623, 605 and 598. Supporting them were George Mangaliman 205, 232, team owner Ramiz Ayoub 214, 204 and Amro Al-Amri 210-179. The championship round takes place on Saturday evening. Fawri is the form team of the tournament and needs only to win once against the challenger to clinch the championship crown.

JEDDAH: Cash Pinas-Sky Freight was not to be denied on its second chance and along with BCT-Al Kabeer Food and Ramiz Ayoub qualified for the championship round in the FTBJ 53rd Open Conference bowling tournament at the Bowling City. Cash Pinas, bumped off by Seiko Watch for the third outright berth to the finals, topped the knockout game of three handicap series on 3,198 pinfalls with Al Kabeer on 3,162 and Ramiz Ayoub 3,100. Cash Pinas, Al Kabeer and Ramiz completed the six-team stepladder as team Nos. 4, 5 and 6 in that order. The top three waiting teams are Bank AlJazira Fawri, D Barkads and Seiko Watch. The first match in the stepladder final will be a two-game handicap knockout featuring team Nos. 4, 5 and 6 with the winner to advance to the second match against third qualifier Seiko. The winner of the second match then advances opposite No. 2 D Barkads in another knockout game for the right to challenge No. 1 Fawri in the championship match where Fawri holds a twice-to-beat edge. Veteran bowler Goying Salazar shot a solid 739 on rounds of 278, 236 and 225 as he teamed with James Galvan 650 and Rene Punzalan 608 in hammering home the message Cash Pinas is not done yet. Tossing in two games each were Faisal Relativo 212-174, Mao Orolfo 215-186 and Wilson Triguero 186-196. Al Kabeer had four players in the rotation with full games in Mohammad Al-Amari 677, skipper Igna Salgado 673, Ed Sardia 651 and Gerry Mandanas 574. Sharing the rest of the team games were Rommel Agbayani 177-167 and Rey Beltran 225. For Ramiz Ayoub, the trio of Haitam Tashkandi, Richard Antonio and Archie Santos carried the load on 623, 605 and 598. Supporting them were George Mangaliman 205, 232, team owner Ramiz Ayoub 214, 204 and Amro Al-Amri 210-179. The championship round takes place on Saturday evening. Fawri is the form team of the tournament and needs only to win once against the challenger to clinch the championship crown.

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The Barca captain is worried another Champions League comeback this time against Juventus could be beyond the Catalans

Andres Iniesta admits it will be "impossible" for Barcelona to overturn their Champions League deficit to Juventus unless they show substantial improvement in the second leg.

Battered Barca need another miracle

The Spanish champions were beaten 3-0 in Turin by Massimiliano Allegri's side, with Paulo Dybala scoring twice before Giorgio Chiellini's second-half header.

Barca enjoyed more of the possession but struggled to place Gianluigi Buffon's goal under any real threat as they slumped to a second significant away defeat in a row in the competition.

Although they made history by overturning a 4-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the last round with a 6-1 second-leg victory, Iniesta says any similar comeback will be beyond them if they do not sharpen up at Camp Nou.

"We did some bad things, mainly in the first half," he told TV3. "The Champions League punishes you with these two goals.

"In the second half we saw something different. We deserved to score one goal but that doesn't help now.

"Juve are a good team but when you don't do things well, you are penalised a lot.

"The feeling is not as pessimistic as it was in Paris but once again we have a real uphill task in a knockout game.

"If we do things as we have to, we'll be back in the tie. If not, it will be impossible."

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Andres Iniesta admits it will be "impossible" for Barcelona to overturn their Champions League deficit to Juventus unless they show genuine improvement in the second leg.

The Spanish champions were beaten 3-0 in Turin by Massimiliano Allegri's side, with Paulo Dybala scoring twice before Giorgio Chiellini's second-half header.

Barca enjoyed more of the possession but struggled to place Gianluigi Buffon's goal under any real threat as they slumped to a second significant away defeat in a row in the competition.

Although they made history by overturning a 4-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the last round with a 6-1 second-leg victory, Iniesta says any similar comeback will be beyond them if they do not sharpen up at Camp Nou.

"We did some bad things, mainly in the first half," he told TV3. "The Champions League punishes you with these two goals.

"In the second half we saw something different. We deserved to score one goal but that doesn't help now.

"Juve are a good team but when you don't do things well, you are penalised a lot.

"The feeling is not as pessimistic as it was in Paris but once again we have a real uphill task in a knockout game.

"If we do things as we have to, we'll be back in the tie. If not, it will be impossible."

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By NBA.com Staff Apr 10, 2017

It was a thrilling day around the league with epic performances almost everywhere one looked. Massiveteam efforts for gigantic comebacks, knockout game-winners and monstrousstatlines, Monday had it all. So without further ado, lets catch up on all the drool-worthy highs of the day.

Russell Westbrook went nuclear against the Denver Nuggets. He had his third 50-point triple-double of the season while finishing off any chances the Denver Nuggets had for a playoff berth. Sit back and enjoy his historic 42nd TD.

WATCH:Russ takes down Nuggets in epic 50-point TD

There are clutch shots and then there are buzzer-beating, game-winners. Westbrook chose to end his historic night with the latter. Having missed the opportunity to dodge his defender and receive the inbound pass, Westbrook got the ball from Steven Adams a little further from the basket than planned. He still made the game-winner. Cold-blooded assassin.

WATCH:Unbelievable! Westbrook sinks deep game-winning splash

Down in Los Angeles, something similar happened. With the clock ticking down on DAngelo Russell, he was barely fazed. He took the open three to help the Lakers record a win despite two Minnesota Timberwolves players going off for 40 plus points. The shot looks eve better with the ball bouncing on the rim before sinking through. DAngelohas ice in his veins.

WATCH:DAngelo Russell sinks the Timberwolves with a buzzer-beating splash

DAngelo embraced his family after the game-winner, anemotional moment consideringhe lost his grandmother earlierin the day.

Meanwhile, the Atlanta Hawks pulled off a comeback of epic proportions. You can revisit their heroic fourth quarter-effort here.

WATCH:Best of Atlantas fourth quarter comeback against Cavs

Ending on a lighter note, the Sacramento Kings held a race to rival the race for the playoff seedings. One that involved crawling and was probably the winner in the cuteness stakes. 10 babies, one winner. Actually, everyone wins when something so adorableoccurs. Ideal Monday morning boost.

WATCH: 10 babies. 1 champion and 1 epic post-race interview. #BabyRace!

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Enough is enough. Massimiliano Allegri has hit his limit with the constant negativity around Juventus, from fans, media, the whole lot. If Juve win, it wasnt pretty enough. If Juve draw then its a sign of impending doom. And God forbid if Juve lose then its surely the end of the universe as we know it.

During his pre-match press conference as the Bianconeri head back to Naples to take on Napoli tomorrow in the second leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final protecting a 3-1 lead, Allegri was less than his usual reserved self.

First of all were in a good period, because with a month-and-a-half to go were playing for the final of the Coppa Italia, for the chance to go to the Champions League Semi-Finals and were currently still first in the Scudetto race.

So right now theres nothing more we could do. Then theres this negativity, this negative aura, its the one thing I hate. I think if we could see things positively it would be better.

I think this team has played a few finals over the past few years, weve won a couple of Coppa Italia, weve won two Scudetti, then one draw and its like none of that happened.

At the end of the day, the important thing is to achieve your objectives. Its also true that you have opponents, and winning is difficult.

You say winning is the norm but no, winning is extraordinary because only one team can win. Besides, this is a team which in the past three years has been to a Champions League final, were playing for another Coppa Italia final, and were in the fight for the Scudetto.

Right now we couldnt do more, thats a fact, like it or not.

In the course of a season, just as in individual games, there are moments where you play well and moments where youre less good, the important thing is having a clear objective.

Its not easy to achieve, the lads are doing incredible things, because there are opponents, because to always win is impossible.

The team is growing in Italy, but above all on a European level and I think thats important. I think thats the best result, regardless of the Scudetti won.

Right now Juventus are a respected team, thats the most important thing.

Then I hear you say - and Ill finish with this - that Juventus have lost five finals, seven finals - how many have they lost? - seven.

If you turn that around, and say Juventus played nine finals, its different. Because others didnt play them. Then at the end of the games you win or you lose.

You can reverse things and see the positives, but here you only see the negative goddamnit. Thats not good. Buona giornata.

Luckily, Allegri had spoken in an earlier part of the press conference when he was less incensed, at which time he had talked about Mario Mandzukic being out and other team news.

Its difficult for Mandzukic to make it for the game. Well assess him today, but hes unlikely to be there. Paulo Dybala and Juan Cuadrado are available.

As for the rest I dont know what to tell you, because well train today and after that Ill work out who will play tomorrow.

Will he take a conservative approach to tomorrows game with Juve holding a lead?

First of all theyre two different games. Sunday was a League game and this is a knockout game.

We have this important objective, to reach the Coppa Italia final for the third year in a row, then go to Rome and try to win it.

It wont be easy, because tomorrows game will be very open. Napoli are a team who played well on Sunday from a technical point of view, they caused us problems but we have everything it takes to reach the final.

We need to be very different in technical terms to what we showed on Sunday, technically we got a lot wrong and that meant we couldnt develop the play and thats why we were more defensive.

We gave away two or three shots after wed cheaply given the ball away, so we definitely need to play a different game from that point of view.

If youre technically better youll have more of the ball, which means you have to defend less.

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