Yamal could be ready for Spain's World Cup opener

Yamal, the 18-year-old Barcelona star, will miss Thursday's friendly against Iraq as he recovers from a hamstring injury sustained on April 22. However, de la Fuente expressed optimism about his recovery, stating: "Om intet endres, kan han være klar for spill mot Kapp Verde."

The young winger recently expressed fear of missing the tournament, but the coach indicated Yamal might at least be available for some minutes or training to build match fitness for subsequent games.

Former Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban and other college sports figures testified Wednesday in support of a bipartisan bill aimed at overhauling a system where players can increasingly earn millions of dollars while moving freely between schools. The leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee held the hearing as they push legislation unveiled last week that supporters hope can break the congressional gridlock over how to regulate college athletics. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would regulate payments to athletes, limit them to one "free" transfer during their careers and create a "Lane Kiffin Rule" restricting coaches from leaving programs during the season. Cruz touted the proposal as "the last, best hope we have to save college sports." "If you had the biggest, baddest Ferrari that you could ever have, and it was going 150 miles an hour toward the Grand Canyon, somebody needs to tap the brakes. And I think that’s what we all need to do here," Saban said in his opening remarks. Notably absent from the witness list, which included Notre Dame’s athletic director and the commissioner of the PAC-12 conference, was any representative from the Southeastern Conference, where Saban won seven national championships between Alabama and Louisiana State University. The SEC and the Big Ten, the two most powerful conferences in college sports, oppose the bill, arguing it "leaves critical issues unresolved." Cantwell said the legislation is intended to restore competition to college athletics by ensuring success is determined by how universities "build a team, and not because they have a billionaire in their back pocket." She also addressed the conferences’ opposition directly, suggesting they fear "that somebody’s going to come in and rearrange the deck chairs of those conferences, steal the eyeball schools, and then basically leave everybody with everything else." Reporting by The Associated Press. ipl-cricket.in

El cuarto mejor equipo en casa y el noveno a domicilio. De los 58 puntos con los que el Castilla acabó la Liga, 38 los logró en casa y sólo 20 fuera, donde su balance es de 9 derrotas, cinco empates y cinco victorias. A los blancos les acecha un peligro de cara al partido de vuelta de la eliminatoria del 'playoff' de ascenso en Sabadell: sus irregulares actuaciones lejos del Di Stéfano. El filial blanco viajará con una buena renta tras el triunfo por 2-0 en la ida, pero deberá permanecer en alerta porque hay precedentes inquietantes a domicilio a lo largo de la temporada. Esto es, resultados que lo eliminarían pese a los dos goles de ventaja logrados en el primer enfrentamiento.