Watch: Portugal ousts Poland on penalties to reach Euro 2016 semis

Poland lineup vs Portugal: UEFA EURO 2016

Portugal has returned to the European Championship semifinals after beating Poland on penalty kicks, 5-3, following a 1-1 draw.

Jakub Blaszczykowskihad his penalty kick saved by Rui Patricio, and Ricardo Quaresma stepped up to hit the clincher, as Portugal goes through and will face either Belgium or Wales in the semifinals. Portugal was ousted in penalties in 2012, losing to Spain in the semifinal round, but turned its PK fortune around by hitting on all five of its kicks. Cristiano Ronaldo, chastised for not kicking in that 2012 round (he was set to kick fifth), took Portugal"s first effort, and his quest for first major title with his country continues.

A Bayern Munich pair accounted for the scoring in regulation, as Robert Lewandowski and Renato Sanches scored in the first half.

Lewandowski opened the scoring with the second-earliest goal in European Championship history, firing home after Kamil Grosicki crossed from the left to the center of the box. It was Lewandowski"sfirst goal in 644 minutes of Euro play, dating back to the 2012 competition:

Lewandowski"ssoon-to-be Bayern Munich teammate leveled it up for Portugal in the 33rd minute with a screamer. The 18-year-old received a back-heel pass from Nani and rifled a left-footed blast from the edge of the box inside the near post to make it 1-1 with his first goal on the senior international level. In doing so, he became the third-youngest goal scorer in European Championship history. He also became the youngest to score in a Euro knockout match, taking that mark from Ronaldo, who was 19 when he scored in the semifinals in 2004:

The second half was a bit more cagey with teams less open to taking risks. Ronaldo had a half-chance set up by Nani, but his attempt from a tight left-sided angle went into the side netting:

Arkadiusz Milik came close to putting Poland back in front with about 20 minutes to go, but his redirect from close range was saved by Rui Patricio:

Ronaldo had a great chance to net the go-ahead goal in the 86th minute, receiving a pass over the top and having a clear look from about eight yards out. It would"ve been spectacular had it come off, but he completely whiffed when swinging his leg to meet the ball, flubbing the opportunity:

A pitch invader momentarily halted play in extra time, making a bee line for Ronaldo in the 110th minute, marking the second pitch invader incident in a Portugal match this competition. Ronaldo dodged it expertly, before security tackled the fan.

Poland had won on penalties in the round of 16, ousting Switzerland to reach Thursday"s match.

Source: http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016/06/30/poland-portugal-goals-video-euro-2016-cristiano-ronaldo-lewandowski

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Lena Dunham"s BF Jack Antonoff Defends Her Over New Attacks Claiming She "Molested" Her Sister -- See What He ...

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Jack Antonoff is standing by his lady Lena Dunham.

As you may recall, the Girls creator sparked controversy when one anecdote from her book, Not That Kind Of Girl, revealed she had once (as a child) examined her sister"s v****a out of curiosity. While the book has been out for sometime now, it seems the memoir is still causing drama as the 30-year-old"s boyfriend clapped back at one fan on Twitter who inquired about the story.

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The Bleachers singer posted:

@champagnemam_i sexualizing the acts of a child is the only crime here. when I was 6 my friends and I would also touch each other n***d jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) June 27, 2016

@champagnemam_i people love to ignore that fact that this story was about 2 very small children. repulsive that people see it in a sick way jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) June 27, 2016

We can only imagine Miz Dunham appreciates her beau"s unconditional support especially since this story"s been beaten to death at this point. We can"t be the only one who think this, right?

Nonetheless, we"re just happy to see Lena and Jack are still going strong in 2016. In case you forgot, the Golden Globe winner and the Fun guitarist have been dating since September 2012. Not to mention, Jack gifted Lena with a beautiful ring in celebration of their anniversary back in April. Awww!

With July 4 right around the corner, we have a feeling we"ll be seeing these two pop up at mutual bestie Taylor Swift"s summer BBQ. Keep on, keeping on you guys!

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Report: Knicks, Joakim Noah to finalize 4-year, $70M-plus deal Friday

Derrick Rose Wants Joakim Noah to Join the New York Knicks

The New York Knicks appear committed to signing free agent center Joakim Noah as soon as possible. Shortly after free agency began at midnight ET on Friday, The Vertical"s Shams Charania reported that the two sides were working on a four-year deal worth more than $70 million. The deal is not done, but it might not be far off, either:

The signing has seemed imminent for days now, and it would represent not just a homecoming for Noah, who grew up in h**l"s Kitchen, but an opportunity to continue playing with guard Derrick Rose. Noah and Rose have been teammates since the Bulls drafted Rose first overall eight years ago.

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The upside for New York: In 2014, Noah won Defensive Player of the Year and finished fifth in MVP voting. If he comes close to that level of play with the Knicks, this is a bargain.

The risk: Noah"s last two seasons have been derailed by knee and shoulder injuries. He"s 31 years old, and there"s no guarantee that he"ll be able to produce the way he used to. This is a rather significant gamble, and it takes away some of New York"s financial flexibility. The team needs to add a wing player and depth in free agency, too.

Joakim Noah and Kristaps Porzingis is an interesting frontcourt combo. USATSI

Source: http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/report-knicks-joakim-noah-to-finalize-4-year-70m-plus-deal-friday/

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Hot 100 Chart Moves: Selena Gomez Scores Fourth Top 40 Hit From "Revival"

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As previously reported, Drake rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated July 9) for a seventh nonconsecutive week with "One Dance," featuring WizKid and Kyla. Plus, Calvin Harris" "This Is What You Came For," featuring Rihanna, reaches the top five, marking a key historic feat for Rihanna; and, Twenty One Pilots fly to the top 10 with "Ride" while entering the chart in the top 15 with their newest single, "Heathens."

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Who else rides up the Hot 100 this week?

Beyonce, "Sorry"The song -- which debuted at its No. 11 peak May 14when parent album Lemonade launched atop the Billboard 200 -- jumps 38-32 on the Hot 100 following the June 22 premiere of its official video. The song surges by 325 percent to 3.8 million U.S. streams in the week ending June 23, according to Nielsen Music (with 80 percent of its streams for its video on YouTube). "Sorry" should gain further in streaming on next week"s charts, following the first full week of clicks for its official clip.

Selena Gomez, "Kill Em With Kindness"Gomez notches her fourth top 40 Hot 100 hit from her former Billboard 200 No. 1 album Revival, as "Kill Em With Kindness" climbs 44-39. The set"s first three singles all reached the top 10: "Good for You" (featuring A$AP Rocky), "Same Old Love" (both No. 5) and "Hands to Myself" (No. 7). "Kindness" debuts at No. 40 on Streaming Songs (6.4 million, up 15 percent) and No. 48 on Digital Songs (20,000 downloads sold, up 12 percent).

Gomez also bounds 86-61, hitting a new high, on the Hot 100 as featured on Charlie Puth"s "We Don"t Talk Anymore."

Ariana Grande, "Into You"As the title cut to her album Dangerous Woman holds at No. 15 on the Hot 100, after peaking at No. 8, "Into You" rises 50-44. The uptempo track concurrently debuts at No. 40 on the Pop Songs airplay chart (where "Dangerous Woman" keeps at its No. 4 peak).

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Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Dark Necessities"As the group"s new album, The Getaway, soars in at No. 1 on Top Album Sales (108,000 first-week copies sold) and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (118,000 equivalent album units), its lead single debuts on the Hot 100 at No. 67. The song extends the Chili Peppers" span of Hot 100 hits to nearly 25 years, as "Give It Away," their first of 14 career entries, bowed on Dec. 21, 1991. The band has earned three Hot 100 top 10s: "Under the Bridge" (No. 2, 1992), "Scar Tissue" (No. 9, 1999) and "Dani California" (No. 6, 2006). (All of the act"s Hot 100 visits have been on Warner Bros. Records.)

"Dark Necessities" tops the Rock Airplay chart for a seventh week (15.5 million in rock radio audience, up 2 percent). It holds at its No. 3 high on Alternative Songs and previously led the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart for two weeks.

Fifth Harmony feat. Fetty Wap, "All in My Head (Flex)"The quintet"s follow-up to its first top five Hot 100 hit, the No. 4-peaking "Work From Home" (featuring Ty Dolla $ign), debuts at No. 78. On Pop Songs, "All in My Head (Flex)" jumps 32-26, up 51 percent in plays.

Source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7423882/selena-gomez-scores-fourth-top-40-hit-revival

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Johnny Manziel"s Lawyer Accidentally Texts The AP And Then Threatens To Sue Them If They Report On It

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It"s become common game by many in America and elsewhere to c**p on lawyers whenever the opportunity presents itself. This is done unfairly in many cases, with a lack of understanding of what the adversarial nature of our legal system requires of legal advocates. For instance, a lawyer that strongly advocates for a client accused of something terrible isn"t himself or herself terrible. That"s the duty of the job.

But for one of the lawyers on the staff of Johnny Manziel, the seemingly troubled and frequent guest of the court who was once primarily known as a football player, it appears both that proper lawyer-ing is a bit more difficult than for most and that he"s a bully to boot. As you may have heard, Bob Hinton, who had been tasked with representing Manziel in his domestic abuse court case, accidentally texted the Associated Press information about his attempts to settle the case in a rather unfavorable light with respect to his client.

An attorney handling Johnny Manziel"s domestic violence case expressed doubts about the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback"s ability to stay clean and said he was given a receipt that shows Manziel may have spent more than $1,000 at a drug paraphernalia store just 15 hours after he was involved in a hit-and-run crash, according to a lengthy text message accidentally sent to The Associated Press. Defense attorney Bob Hinton"s text indicated Manziel"s legal team was seeking a plea deal with prosecutors, but suggested that could be tricky.

"Heaven help us if one of the conditions is to pee in a bottle," the attorney wrote.

This oops-text happened after the AP had apparently sent Hinton a text message requesting comment about a hit-and-run accident that Manziel was reportedly involved in (Manziel claims to be the victim of the accident). Hinton had meant to text what he sent to the AP to co-counsel. The communication also included information about a smoke-shop receipt that may have indicated that Manziel had been purchasing synthetic marijuana, a fact not useful for the defense team of a high-profile individual with well-covered run-ins involving substance abuse. To accidentally text that information to the Associated Press has to be one of the best examples of what not to do as an attorney for such an individual.

But the really face-palm-inducing move by Hinton was to then threaten to sue the AP if it did any reporting around that text message.

When asked about the text, Hinton said he had meant to send it to co-counsel Jim Darnell and was unaware the AP had received it instead. He insisted the contents were protected by attorney-client privilege and threatened to sue if certain details were published.

I guess we"ll get to take the measure of that threat, as the AP most certainly did report on not only the text, but the subsequent threat as well. Such threats are unlikely to ingratiate a lawyer to the press and, while I won"t say the AP reported because of the threat, it seems like the added threat has given the story some extra flavor, propelling it Streisand-style into wider coverage.

And, not surprisingly, others are now reporting that Hinton has been booted from Manziel"s legal staff as a result. Not a good day for the counselor, I think. The mistake was bad enough, but the attempted cover-up, as always, ends up doing more harm.

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QPlay: Sourav Ganguly Targets Shastri; Portugal vs Poland Today

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Poland have an impressive defensive record at Euro 2016 but standing in their way to a semi-final spot is arguably one of sports greatest-ever athletes, Cristiano Ronaldo.

The monstrous Polish centre back pairing of Michal Pazdan and Kamil Glik face their toughest challenge yet when they come up against Portugal in the last-eight clash in Marseille on Thursday, though their previous matches have not provided much by way of preparation for facing the Real Madrid star.

Describing 29-year-old Ronaldo as the perfect athlete, US lifestyle magazine Mens Health says he hits speeds of more than 32 kph, jumps nearly a metre in the air off one leg, runs an average of 16 km per match and hits more winners in the last 20 minutes than anyone else. Match starts 12:30 tonight!

Source: http://www.thequint.com/sports/2016/06/30/qplay-sourav-ganguly-targets-shastri-portugal-vs-poland-today

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Google"s My Activity reveals just how much it knows about you

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Google has rolled out new tools to let users see what its ad-tracking service has learned about them, and to let users opt in or out of a new personalised ads service.

The addition to Googles account settings, called My Activity, allows users to review everything that Google has tracked about their behaviour across search, YouTube, Chrome, Android and everything else and edit or delete it at each step.

If you use Google for everything you do, you might be surprised by just how much it catalogues about your comings and goings on the internet.

Googles My Activity page allows users to see what Google records of their internet activity Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian

The My Activity tools comes with new ad preferences. Google currently uses the information it has learned about you to tailor ads across its own services, of which you can opt out.

But now Google is offering to use its behavioural information to tailor ads shown across the wider non-Google internet and Googles search pages, which until now was purely done through the use of cookies.

The big difference to most other moves by similar companies offering ads on its own services and third-party sites, including Facebook, is that Google is making this interest-based advertising extension opt-in, not opt-out. If a user does not actively select to enable the new ad targeting they will not automatically be enrolled.

Google signed-out ad control settings Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian

Now there are two separate behavioural advert settings for users to switch on or off as they see fit. One is so-called signed in ads, those on Google services, and signed out ads, those served by Google on third-party sites of which there are over 2m across the internet.

For the privacy conscious, youre unlikely to want to opt in for greater profiling and should you wish to turn off both signed in and signed out ads, Google also has a Chrome extension to permanently opt out of Googles DoubleClick tracking cookie. But to encourage users and make dealing with ads a more palatable proposition Googles making tools available to users to sweeten the deal. These include the ability to mute certain ads, including those that irritatingly seem to follow you around the internet after the odd search or product viewing, and find out why youre seeing particular ads.

The new tools and controls are rolling out to users at the moment, but not everyone has immediate access. Users should get a notification about privacy and security changes in the near future, which will guide them to the new ads settings.

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