Terry: Man City offer gave me power Napoli club president Aurelio De Laurentiis was instrumental in keeping Koulibaly at the Stadio San Paolo this season, despite repeated moves from Chelsea last summer, but the defender could use a lack of Champions League football to push through the transfer he wanted last year. The Senegal international renewed his contract in September until 2021 after an initial dispute with Napoli, however, his new deal doesn’t include a release clause, with Chelsea having bid close to £50 million in August....

Ronaldo returns to Madrid squad for Napoli Zinedine Zidane’s side established a 3-1 aggregate lead at the Santiago Bernabeu and will only need to avoid disaster to book their place in the next round. They will have to keep out a high-powered Napoli attack, however, that has scored more goals (62) than any other team in Serie A this season. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the UK, the match will be available to watch live on television on BT Sport 3 and by stream via the BT Sport app, with coverage beginning at 7pm GMT....

For Mike Fincke, this is a reality. Fincke, 54, is a NASA astronaut who has spent over a year in space—at one time holding the national record. Since reaching space for the first time in 2004, Fincke has travelled aboard Russian Soyuz capsules and NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour orbiter. He is also due to fly on the first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule at the end of this year or the start of 2022....

Kenseth won the pole for Saturday night’s Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, which will be just his second race since returning to the NASCAR Cup Series with Roush Fenway Racing. Kenseth will be joined on the front row by fellow Roush Fenway Racing driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ALL-STAR RACE: Live updates, results and highlights from Charlotte The qualifying format called for the 17 drivers to run three laps, including a pit stop, with no pit road speed limit....

The 2015 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, set for May 16, will expand its field of drivers and lengthen the race itself, NASCAR announced Wednesday. MORE: Post-Easter power rankings: Still chasing Harvick | Duck Commander 500 weekend preview The field will include race winners from the 2014 and 2015 seasons, all former NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race winners and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions who are full-time competitors. This is a change from the previous standards, where only former NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race winners and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions from the previous 10 seasons were eligible....

He needed a win to advance to the Round of 8. He got just that. It wasn’t easy. The race was fairly clean, staying green for more than 50 laps — a course record at Charlotte. That made things difficult for Bell, who trailed Chase Elliott, AJ Allmendinger and Tyler Reddick at different points. But a late caution flag gave Bell new life. A gutsy pit stop gave him new tires and an impressive restart took him to second place, a second behind Kevin Harvick....

Larson could use a win, as he’s ninth in the standings and still seeking his first playoff points of the year. Here’s a look at this weekend’s schedule, driver standings and qualifying drivers at MIS. NASCAR at Michigan 2018: TV channel and streaming info Note: All times are ETFriday, June 8 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, FS2 4:10 p.m.: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pole Qualifying, FS1...

He has been one of the best short-track racers over the last two years as he leads all drivers in laps led at Phoenix and Richmond with 904. RICHMOND ODDS: Fantasy advice, prediction, sleepers “I feel pretty good,” Truex told Fox Sports 1 after qualifying. “I thought we had a good practice today, it’s hard to put too much stock into with it being a daytime practice, nighttime race, but we’ve got some good history to go off here the last couple of years, we’ve been really strong, (and) if we’re ever going to get that short-track win, I feel like this is the place to do it....

Byrnes, who died of cancer in April at age 56, worked for 30 years as a NASCAR broadcaster, most recently for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on FOX Sports 1. He also was co-host of the network’s NASCAR Race Hub show. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 | Storms at Daytona? | Confederate flags flying Before that, Byrnes filled numerous other roles as a NASCAR broadcaster, including a 14-year stint as pit reporter for FOX Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage....

NASCAR is considering changing its qualifying procedure in 2014 to have multiple cars on the track at the same time, sanctioning body spokesman Kerry Tharp said Thursday. Already used on road courses, the proposed qualifying format would have cars in groups (it has been five or six) with each car released from pit road in intervals of a few seconds. The group would then have a certain amount of time to complete qualifying laps, with the best lap speed used to determine the starting order for the race....

But the annual visit with NASCAR’s top drivers and teams wasn’t all business. MORE: Media Tour photos | Earnhardt’s Super Bowl commercial | Everything you need to know about Chase There also were quite a few laughs, from Tony Stewart’s typical jabs at the media to Matt Kenseth having some fun with his press corps friends. Richard Childress took a ribbing for being late and Martin Truex Jr. chimed in via Skype while vacationing in the Caribbean....

Once the Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway went past 7 p.m., Fox had the option of moving the remainder of the event to Fox Sports 1, according to NASCAR. Fox elected to use that option instead of keeping the telecast on network television and pre-empting its Sunday night lineup. MORE: Woman charged with stabbing husband over race | Bristol mistakes | Power Rankings The race started about 90 minutes late because of rain and then had a delay of 3 hours, 18 minutes because of more rain that pushed the final 376 laps to after 7 p....

The proposed change was reported Friday night by The Charlotte Observer. NASCAR is expected to announce changes to its points structure and qualifying on Jan. 30. Its annual meetings with industry personnel and teams are scheduled for the days leading up to that date. Potential Chase formats are still being discussed and no final decisions have been made. “NASCAR has begun the process of briefing key industry stakeholders on potential concepts to evolve its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship format,” Brett Jewkes, NASCAR's chief communications officer, said in a statement Friday night....

Kevin Harvick held off Denny Hamlin down the final stretch, with multiple points of contact, to win the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, his first win of the season. The win came in large part due to a bold pit strategy from the No. 4, as he opted to bypass the final cycle of pit stops in order to gain track position Harvick was the defending champion of this race, but at this point last year, it was his sixth victory of the season....

The NASCAR Cup Series began its 74th season on Feb. 20 with the Daytona 500. Many of the venues and race names will be familiar to NASCAR fans. However, one thing that they will notice about this year’s schedule is that races will start a bit later than fans have become accustomed to in recent years. This is part of NASCAR’s broader goal of maximizing audience, as explained by NASCAR Senior Vice President of Media and Productions Brian Herbst....

Wait a minute. Let’s revise that. The theory and reasoning behind NASCAR’s penalties is sound following the melee primarily between the crews for Jeff Gordon and Brad Keselowski. Three Hendrick Motorsports crewmen (Jeremy Fuller, Dwayne Doucette and Jason Ingle) were suspended for six weeks because they decked Keselowski. One Hendrick crewman (Dean Mozingo) was suspended for decking another crew member. MORE: Hendrick loses four to suspensions | Would Hendrick ever hire Keselowski?...

There will be a 25 driver field with all the big names participating and perhaps the best thing about this race is that most of the also-rans have to sit it out, which keeps them out of the contenders’ way. To be eligible for the race, a driver must have won a pole last season, been a past Sprint Unlimited winner, won a past Daytona 500 pole, participated in last seasons Chase, or have the most driver points until 25 drivers have filled the lineup....

MORE: Carl Edwards won’t drive in 2017; Suarez now in 19 “I always enjoy addressing this crowd, which gets bigger every year in attendance,” said NASCAR vice chairman Mike Helton in prefacing a series of awards given to track services, security and medical personnel representing speedways on the NASCAR schedule. “And that’s a good thing, because it means our sport is continuing to grow, and we’ve got people coming on board who make sure that we do things right....

Speaking on CBS News’ Face the Nation Sunday morning, Cooper said the perpetrator or perpetrators behind the “deliberate bombing” very likely targeted the massive telecommunications facility on Second Avenue. Federal and local authorities say the recreational vehicle, which exploded outside of the downtown Nashville AT&T building disrupted 911 call centers, phone lines and cell phone service across the region. The Democratic mayor and Nashville native offered the “local insight” that the bombing was at least in part intended to decimate service in parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky....

Providing their insights on the Knicks-Jazz game from Salt Lake City, the duo welcomed their former teammate with the Knicks Nate Robinson as a guest. The 11-year NBA veteran, who was teammates with Richardson and Crawford between 2005 and 2008, last played in the league in 2016. One of Robinson’s biggest accomplishments in the NBA was his three wins at the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest. NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial)...