The fallout for Ronaldo, Real Madrid if report of hamstring tear is true

Cristiano Ronaldo may have suffered a huge setback in his race to be fit for the Champions League semifinals. The Real Madrid star did not feature for the club in Tuesday's 0-0 draw at Manchester City in the semifinal first leg, and it looks like he might not feature in the second leg.
According to Goal.com, Ronaldo suffered a tear in his hamstring which "will likely sideline him for the semifinal second leg and several weeks there after."
Goal.com cites 'sources,' but it is unclear if those sources are within the Real Madrid or Ronaldo camp. No other reports have come out of Spain reporting the same. In fact, Marca reported that Ronaldo was optimistic of returning for the second leg.
Ronaldo has scored 47 goals this season as Real Madrid is still alive in Champions League and in La Liga, and if he is out, Real is in trouble. He was the hero in the last round in that comeback against Wolfsburg, and Real Madrid is dealing with an injury issue concerning striker Karim Benzema, who also may be out for a bit.
Colombian attacking midfielder James Rodriguez hasn't played as much as he would like nor what we expected. If Ronaldo misses time, City would be my favorite to advance. Without Ronaldo and Benzema, it's hard to see Real having enough in attack to really challenge City at the Bernabeu for the return leg. If Ronaldo is out and Benzema plays, we will likely see a Bale-Benzema-Lucas Vazquez or Jese trio up top. If Ronaldo and Benzema both miss the match, well, manager Zinedine Zidane has a lot of planning to do and may have to change the formation.
It's the worst time of the year to have injuries. And Real Madrid is facing what could be two that could throw their title aspirations out the door.
It could also impact Ronaldo's chances at trophies like the Ballon d'Or, being La Liga's top scorer and winning the golden boot. If he obviously misses most of the rest of the season, his chances will likely be gone, but by continuing to play and produce, he would probably be the front-runner for each.
A lot is riding on Ronaldo's hamstring, from his team's chances at glory to his own personal glory.

Cristiano Ronaldo, a no-go? (Getty Images)

 

50 Cent Can’t Stop Bragging About the Third Son He Didn’t Know He Had – But Is He Really His Child?

Hallie Stephens

It’s a boy! Over the weekend, 50 Cent revealed that he has a third son whom he just met for the very first time. 

The 40-year-old rapper took to Instagram on Saturday to share a photo of himself with a young boy from a recent meet and greet in New York for his liquor brand, Effen Vodka.

“My life is full of surprises,” the Grammy winner captioned the shot. “This little guys is my son DAVIAN. He started crying, I was thinking why you crying I gotta pay for this shit.LMAO.” 

On Sunday, 50 Cent shared more details about Davian, even bragging about his smarts by posting a screengrab of a letter that he received from a teacher that praised his efforts in school. “This kid is smarter then a motherf**ker!!!” he wrote alongside the pic. “I’m a get Big Floyd to give him some hands,” he continued, referencing boxer Floyd Mayweather. 

50 Cent — who has two children from previous relationships, Marquise, 19, and Sire, 3 — also shared a pic of the young boy in what looks like a modeling shot. “This is Davian doing his, I’m cooler then my dad look,” the rapper wrote. “Talking about meet me at Red Stix. LMAO." 

While everyone seemed to buy his story, a rep for 50 Cent told The Insider With Yahoo that the kid isn’t really is. 

“Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson does not have a third son,” said the rep in a statement. “However, he was immediately drawn to this young boy’s story much like his own, the 10-year-old is growing up under rough circumstances. He has decided to help mentor him and get him the education he deserves.”

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Beyoncé has certainly taken the world by storm with her recently released Lemonade album, but there’s at least one person who doesn’t buy all the rumors sparked by the album’s release.
Rihanna.
Riri is a long-time friend of Jay-Z, and as such, believes she knows him fairly well. And according to an unnamed source for Hollywood Life, Rihanna doesn’t believe that Jay-Z has ever cheated on his wife.

“Rihanna loves Beyoncé and respects her as a woman, friend and an artist. The same goes for Jay. He’s been nothing but loyal to Rihanna over the years and a true gentleman and she thinks the fans are giving him a raw deal over Lemonade.”

Admittedly, Rihanna and Beyoncé haven’t always been the best of friends, and in 2014, there were several rumors indicating that Jay may have cheated on Beyoncé with Rihanna herself. In fact, there was even speculation that Rihanna may have been the cause of the infamous elevator fight between Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s sister, Solange Knowles.
In Lemonade, which Beyoncé released via HBO on Saturday, Queen Bey sings about a woman dealing with the infidelity of her husband. The theme is carried throughout the entire visual album, with Beyonce bringing up the topic on eight songs.

Rihanna ‘Believes’ Jay Z Is ‘Committed’ To Beyoncé Despite Cheating Rumors: Report – International Business Times https://t.co/qaKHqmYdOD
— Rihanna View (@RihannaView) April 27, 2016

The lyric that has caused the most controversy is about a woman named Becky. In “Sorry,” Beyoncé sings the lyrics “He only want me when I’m not there / He better call Becky with the good hair.” It’s been the most discussed line from her album, with media outlets and fans speculating about just who Becky could be. Fashion designer Rachel Roy and singer Rita Ora have been mentioned as possibilities. Rihanna’s name has been included among those who could be Becky, as well.
But according to the source for Hollywood Life, Rihanna is not Becky with the good hair, and in fact, the “Disturbia” singer doesn’t believe Becky even exists.
“Ri loves that man to pieces and doesn’t believe he has it in him to cheat. He’s a family man, who loves his wife and that beautiful girl of his,” the Hollywood Life source said. “Like everybody else, Rihanna’s an outsider looking in. And from her vantage point, she’d love a man like Jay Z in her life. He’s the boss of all bosses; mature, educated and very suave. She places him on a pedestal and believes he’s committed to Bey.”
That could be the case, but if what the source said is true, it seems as if Rihanna could be the last person to believe Lemonade wasn’t about Jay-Z cheating. In fact, Page Six indicated on Tuesday that Becky with the good hair isn’t just one woman, but a compilation of women who Jay-Z cheated on Beyoncé with throughout the years.

” ‘Becky’ is a composite of women Jay Z was rumored to have had liaisons with earlier in their relationship — but he’s since changed his ways.”

A Page Six source added that “I don’t think Beyoncé is calling out one girl. It is many girls. The rumors have been around for years.”
The news website went on to report that Jay-Z cleaned up his act once his daughter, Blue Ivy, was born.

“Jay is now a great husband, and this is in the past. They went through a rocky patch but things are good again. The video is about finally coming to terms with her strength and their love.”

The ending of Beyoncé’s Lemonade lends credibility to this theory, as the end of the visual album shows the man kissing the woman’s feet as they make up.
If that rumor is true, Rihanna’s belief in Jay-Z faithfulness could be way off base.
What do you think? Do you think Rihanna is right to believe that the Jay-Z cheating rumors generated from Beyoncé’s Lemonade album are incorrect? Do you think Beyoncé was simply using a form a creative artistry when she made her Lemonade masterpiece? Why or why not?

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Jehovah's Witness Church Release Statement Over Prince's Death, Says He 'Found Fulfillment Sharing His Faith With Others'

 

The Jehovah’s Witness Church has released a statement following the untimely death of Prince, who officially converted to the religion in 2003.

“We are saddened to hear about the death of Prince Rogers Nelson, who was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2003,” the church said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.

The church said that Prince “found fulfillment as a Witness and in sharing his faith with others." 

The statement added: "We do not have any details regarding his medical condition or the cause of his death. Our thoughts are with his family and friends, particularly his fellow worshippers in the Saint Louis Park congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Minnesota. We hope that all find comfort in the Bible’s promise of a future time when death, pain, and tears will be no more.—Revelation 21:3, 4."

Behind Prince’s Paisley Park home on Audubon Road, the Jehovah’s Witness Church was seen with the lights off in the days after his death. Orange cones had been set up to prevent people from entering the building driveway.

Prince's conversion to the Jehovah’s Witness religion actually started, in a roundabout way, with Graham Central Station, the funk group started by Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham after his tenure in that band.

News of Prince’s conversion circulated in 2001 (the Associated Press was the first large outlet to report it, apparently based off an interview Prince gave to Gotham magazine), but people seemed to have a hard time believing the man who wrote songs like "Jack U Off” and “Sexy MF” was now a devout Jehovah’s Witness until October of 2003.

On Oct. 5, 2003, a couple in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, opened their door at 2 p.m. to find Prince standing on their doorstep, Bible in hand. Needless to say, they were shocked. Compounding their surprise: They were Jewish, it was Yom Kippur and the Vikings were playing.

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“My first thought is, ‘Cool, cool, cool. He wants to use my house for a set,’” the woman, identified only as Rochelle, recalled to the paper. “Then they [Prince was accompanied by Graham on this particular outing] start in on this Jehovah’s Witnesses stuff.”

“They stayed for about 25 minutes," Rochelle continued. "Left us a pamphlet.”

Inside 'Game of Thrones' Season 6: Readying the Characters for Battle---------- Benji Wilson

Inside 'Game of Thrones' Season 6: Readying the Characters for Battle

Benji Wilson

Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Cersei (Lena Headey) Lannister in ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6

Towards the end of the first season of Game of Thrones, back in 2011, a note came through to the costume department from HBO execs.

“I was in trouble,” says costume designer Caroline Hill, “because the costumes were too clean. Studio complained.”

Not many shows get down and dirty like Game of Thrones. Much of the series takes place outdoors, on horseback, soaked in blood and rain, next to sooty hearths or in dank dungeons. Life in medieval Westeros would have been a soiled, stinky mess.

And so these days, at Game of Thrones’ HQ in Belfast, Northern Ireland, there is a department called “Breakdown.” Between the armory where they make the real plate and chainmail, not far from the sewing room where all of the regalia is crafted by hand, but just before the marquee where every one of the 6,000 extras is fitted, there is a department dedicated to making things look worse.

“Everything goes for breakdown. Even the beautiful dresses for the nobles,” says Hill, as we walk past Lena Headey’s delicate penance robe from last year, encrusted with tiny stars and just enough mud. “They didn’t have dry cleaners then.”

n the breakdown room, seven people are charged with making everything look impeccably blemished. When Yahoo TV visits, they are gathered 'round a table, dry brushing in texture and artfully slashing pants. On the walls are shelves of light reactive dyes and “antiquing fluid.” One breakdown artist is adding a frosting of spray-on snow to a battered shirt. She herself wears a T-shirt with, “You Know Shite All Jon Snow” on the back, upgrading one of the series’ best-known catchphrases with a dash of the local Irish vernacular

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The problem with breakdown, as Hill concedes as we walk through to the tent containing the racks and racks of extras’ costumes, is that you can’t come in at the end of a good days’ battling and throw your blood-and-mud spattered cloak in the wash.

“We have to preserve the breakdown. We have to preserve the dirt,” she says. Which means that, yes… “We don’t wash the costumes, per se.”

Given that this year Thrones has shot everywhere from the dry heat of Girona, Spain, to the boglands of Northern Ireland, those costumes have taken a battering. As a result, the extras tent, complete with piles of helmets, tabards, and pelts, has the distinctive odor of wet dog.

“The Game of Thrones extras are the best extras I’ve ever worked with,” says Hill, who when we meet is preparing costumes for a scene the next day which will use 300 supporting artists. “They come back year in, year out and they are extremely loyal: if they are a Lannister, they stay a Lannister. They won’t be a Stark!” she says. “The conditions we have to put them through: Rain, snow, cold… they put plastic bags on their feet to stay dry. They all have their own T-shirts and leggings underneath — that gets washed. If it’s been raining all day, we have a ‘dry’ team who come in every night, spray the costumes with alcohol and dry them out. Ninety percent of the time, it’s dry the next day.”

Which means 10% of the time, the extras are wearing wet clothes. It can’t be pleasant to work wearing what is essentially a musty, sodden wrap. But Owen Teale, who plays Ser Alliser Thorne, says that the costumes set the right mood.

Ser Alliser Thorne (Owen Teale) in Season 4

“That set in Northern Ireland, Castle Black, it’s in a quarry. And it f–king rains and rains. Once you’re in the quarry, you can’t get to your comforts as an actor — to the caravans, to the food wagon… they just keep you in there,” he says. “When it rains, it takes two people to put the cloak on me. It’s an enormous thing, strapped on, and once it gets wet, it probably weighs my own weight again, which is about 15 stone. So it’s a bleak, horrible situation, often standing up to my ankles in water. But it helps me go to the right place for Ser Alliser. This is what the world of the show is like: I [look at] everyone on set and think, ‘Lucky you… you bastards.’”

Teale, of course, was the man who killed Jon Snow — and thus set in motion one of the most pendulous cliffhangers in TV history. On our visit to Belfast late last year, there was, not surprisingly, a general omerta among the crew about Snow’s demise or otherwise. Still, I couldn’t help but scour for clues.

Huawei P9 Lite forgets it hasn't been announced, goes on sale

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The P9 Lite is currently Huawei's worst kept secret. For whatever reason, the Chinese company decided not to unveil it alongside the P9 and P9 Plus, yet it's been spotted in many places recently. We've seen it offered by a Romanian retailer, and then we got some info about its pricing in Belgium.
Now the Huawei P9 Lite has been listed by a German online retailer, in three color versions. You can pick one up sans contract for €299, or you can grab a plan from a carrier alongside it and pay as little as €4.95 upfront.
The listing also mentions some of the phone's specs. The P9 Lite has a 1080p touchscreen, 16GB of expandable storage, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, and it runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Huawei's EMUI 4.1 on top. Its dimensions are 146.8 x 72.6 x 7.5 mm, and it weighs 147g.
According to past leaks and rumors, the P9 Lite's screen should be 5.2" in size, and the handset will be powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 650 chipset, aided by 2GB of RAM. A 5 MP selfie camera and a 3,000 mAh battery should also be present.

Sony rumored to launch Xperia M Ultra with 6-inch display, 23MP/16MP camera combo

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According to a new rumor out of China, Sony will launch a new smartphone dubbed Xperia M Ultra. Specs-wise, the device is said to be powered by Snapdragon 652 chipset, and sport a 6-inch full HD display.
The device will have 3GB RAM and 32GB internal memory, and pack in a large 4,280mAh battery. The camera department will be handled by a 23MP rear unit and a 16MP selfie shooter. It is also said to feature a USB Type-C port and a fingerprint sensor.
Aside from the the Xperia M Ultra, the Japanese company is also rumored to launch the successor to last year's Xperia C5 Ultra - allegedly dubbed Xperia C6 Ultra. Needless to say, none of this has been officially confirmed, so take it with a pinch of salt.

Report: Barcelona submit giant offer to sign PSG midfielder

Report: Barcelona submit giant offer to sign PSG midfielder

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Barcelona is looking for new players to bring in to Catalonia this summer, and apparently they have just made a huge bid for one.

According to a report from Italian outlet La Reppublica, the Catalan giants have made a giant €60 million formal offer to Paris Saint-Germain for the permanent signing of Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti, which would be one of the most expensive transfers in Barcelona history.

The Italian international has been constantly linked with a move away from the French millionaires, and his name has been linked with the Blaugrana in many occasions. Verratti is a fantastic central midfielder with world-class abilities to defend and attack, and his passing and vision stand out for a player in his position. Many Barça fans believe the player is the perfect replacement for Barça legend Xavi Hernández, and would be a key addition to Luis Enrique's side.

Also according to La Reppublica's report, president Josep Maria Bartomeu is in charge of the negotiations himself, and he is willing to raise the offer if PSG increase their asking price. Even though the Catalan giants have good depth in midfield, they could lose Arda Turan to China and would replace him with the Italian star.

What do you think, Blaugranes? Would you be on board with Verratti joining Barça?

Legendary Artist Prince Found Dead at 57 Seth Abramovitch

Legendary Artist Prince Found Dead at 57

Seth Abramovitch

The Hollywood Reporter

April 21, 2016

Prince, a dizzylingly prolific multi-instrumentalist and virtuosic performer, was found dead at his home and recording studio in Minnesota early on Thursday, his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 57. 

Deputies are on scene at Paisley Park in Chanhassen conducting a death investigation currently, authorities said. No further details were immediately available and the cause of death is not being released at this time.

The performer was born Prince Rogers Nelson June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minn.

He released his debut album, For You, in 1978, followed by Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980) and Controversy (1981). All of them traded in his trademark sound - deep synth funk grooves with provocatively sexual lyrics and heart-piercing ballads sung in pure falsetto.

His mainstream breakthrough came with back-to-back albums with his backing band the Revolution: In 1982, 1999 launched several pop and dance floor hits onto the charts, including “Little Red Corvette” and the title song, a post-apocalyptic party anthem.

Two years later he released the album - a soundtrack, actually, to his movie-starring debut - that would launch him into the same superstar stratosphere of other 1980s pop titans like Michael Jackson and Madonna.

The soundtrack was 1984’s Purple Rain, a searing musical backdrop to a semi-autobiographical tale of “The Kid,” a Minneapolis rocker from an abusive family. The album launched five singles, two of which - “When Doves Cry” and Let’s Go Crazy" - went to Number 1 on the Billboard chart. The title ballad reached Number 2 and has gone on to become one of the most recognizable rock anthems in history. The soundtrack itself is frequently cited on music critics’ polls as being one of the best of all time, and Prince won an Oscar for original score in 1985.