Christian Ronaldo scored his 12th goal of the season in the Champions League with an a amazing strike into the top corner, putting Real Madrid on the edge against AS Roma with a 2-0 win on Wednesday.

Roma frustrated Real Madrid in the first half but Ronaldo ended their resistance by boldly controlling a fine pass from Marcelo before releasing a powerful and curling shot that bounced off Alessandro Florenzi and twisted over the goal keeper into the net.

The much struggled finish ignited a joyous celebration from Ronaldo who ran across the field to embrace their coach Zinedine Zidane.

“Ronaldo played well and the rest of the team as well,” Zidane said.

“I am delighted about the celebration but most importantly that he scored,” Zidane added.

Coach Zinedine Zidane is a Frenchman who is a former player of Real and haswon the Champions league back in 2002 and today, is now developing his career as coach.

“Today has been a very special day, the team played well but it was also a difficult match because Roma also played well”

“This was one of our best performance this season against a top team,” Florenzi said.

“We are bitter because we played very well but the scores are not pleasing.” He added.

During the first half, Real did not have any single short on target, but they have to thank Raphael Varane who came to their rescue when the ball was superbly intercepted from Mohamed Salah to Diego Perotti, before a shot was blocked by El Shaarawy.

Coach Zidane remains unbeaten ever since he took over leadership from Rafa Benitez, who was sacked last month.

“We are very happy with Zinedine Zidane and I am pleased that we are moving on the same wavelength,” Ramos said.

Ivan Johnson, an ex NBA player has had his lifetime ban from the professional league in Philippines for a blasphemous outburst at an official reduced to one year. This came after he made a personal apology, according to the league officials.

The banish of Johnson, who is an ex Atlanta Hawk occurred on Saturday’s mid game after he used the “F-word” in argument with Chito Narvasa, the commissioner of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

The league spokesman Willie Marcial said that Narvasa reduced the lifetime ban to one season after having a meeting with a player from the Talk N’ Text Tropang texters team.

“He apologized for his actions, he explained that he is different on the court. His intentions was to show that he is a good man and he also loves his fans in Philippines.” Marcial said in a meeting that included Johnson and his family.

31- year old Johnson is married to one wife and is a father of two children.

After the incident, the PBA reduced Johnson’s fine from 250,000 to 150,000 pesos.

Johnson, who is 6 ft 8inch, has had tough season, having been suspended for one game earlier this month for fighting with a player of an opposing team.

In fact, he was banned for life in 2010 by Korean Basketball league for making an obscene gesture at the referee.

In addition to that, he was also fined for different altercations with fans and officials during 2011-2013 abbreviated NBA career.

Marcial said if Johnson misbehaves again, he will be banned for life in the Philippines.

In his post on twitter, Johnson said,“ This lifetime base is truly unfortunate and devastating for me because I feel at home and welcomed when I play here at Philippines.”

Players from foreign countries are highly valued in Philippines’ crazy Basketball as they can dominate a role in PBA, which is highly competitive.

The signing of Josh Shaw by Gloucestershire from Yorkshire has been finalized on a season-long loan.Shaw , who is 20 years of age is a right arm seamer and passed through the system of Headingley Academy, made his senior debut last summer by playing two matches in the NatWest T20 Blast Competition.

It is expected that Shaw will be playing in all the three formats for Gloucestershire and he is looking forward to having a place in Richard Dawson’s senior team as the head coach.

Shaw, who represented England under 19s in 2014 said, “ This is going to a great opportunity for me to develop my career into being a professional cricketer.”

“It is my hope that I may once again work with Richard Dawson who trained me at Yorkshire a few years ago before he was moved to Gloucestershire.” He added.

MartynMoxon, the Director of cricket at Yorkshire said, “ Shaw needs to play against quality opposition in the three formats. Gloucestershire is an advanced club and Richard Dawson is converting them into being a strong unit.”

“ They have proved their proficiency by winning the Royal London One Day cup final in the previous season. It is only fair that Shaw play his cricket at such a level.”

Dawson, the head coach of Gloucestershire added by saying, “ It is an honor to have Josh from Yorkshire for a season-long loan. He is a bowler with great potential and this will make our squad competitive at the same time giving him an opportunity to develop his game in the different formats.”

Will Brown, who is the chief executive of Gloucestershire said , “Having Josh on our team for the 2016 seasons represents another great signing for us and we are glad to have him in the club.”

Brent Hogan, the former head of Greyhound Racing NSW isproviding evidence at the special commission of Inquiry in the next two days concerning the high rates of Greyhound injuries and poor welfare standards in the industry. The Inquiry already heard that the Officials played down the injuries in order to avoid negative publicity and no deaths were reported.

Mr Hogan stepped down as Greyhound’s Racing NSW CEO last year due to the wake of Four Corners on live baiting.

An email was sent to Commissioner MicaherMcHugh from the chief steward of GRNSW which urged the officials to downplay the injuries of the dogs in post-race events to avoid negativity. The mail suggested that a broken leg can be referred to as an injured leg.

According to the suggested policy, if a dog was put down after a race, it is only the injury that will be reported and not the death itself. As such, this policy misled the public and therefore policy change was necessary.

Mr Hogan told the commission that the change of policy was intended only to make it easier for steward’s report and make the language consistent.

According to the commissioner, it appears to him that the policy was made deliberately to excite the interest of animal welfare groups.

“ Do you agree that this policy mislead the public?” the commissioner asked.

Mr Hogan replied, “Looking back to it, Yes.”

The commission has previously been told that up to 17,000 dogs were not allowed to race because they were not good enough. In fact, every month, over 600 greyhounds are reported to be injured in Australia, suffering from different and serious bone fractures as well as musculoskeletal injuries.

“Nonetheless, it is clear that the controlling bodies have failed to keep and also publish comprehensive injury reports,” Stephen Rushton, the assisting counsel to the inquiry said.

Most betting firms have tried to make them popular to many clients across the globe via a number of ways. Sponsoring major event or major teams are one of the many ideas that these firms have incorporated. The Unibet has initiated one strategic step in the process. The Netherlands National Cycling Association (KNWU) claimed that Unibet, a renowned European Online bookmaker will be their official cycling sponsors.

The KNWU and Unibet struck a deal that would see the latter being the main sponsor of the Netherlands cycling for four consecutive years as from 2017. This comes after the KNWU unveiled their team jersey that is orange in color with six green dots that symbolize the main logo of Unibet.

Nonetheless, the official confirmation as the only sponsor of Netherlands Cycling will have to wait as the bookmaker still awaits the decision of the Dutch online gambling market in whether or not the firm should be awarded with operational license.

The KNWU Chairman Marcel Wintels told the national media that he was eager to welcome with open hands the bookmaker into Dutch cycling claiming that this sponsorship was very important in the continuity of cycling sport in Holland.

He said that having to finance the sport is one of the complicated areas where the association has faced. The sport must try to undertake another dimension in coming days as they cannot just rely on their present associates.

The KNWU heads claimed that they were for the position that the bookmaker is in regards to the Dutch online betting market. The bookmaker which has is base in Stockholm; Sweden had earlier stipulated that if given a chance, it would enter the licensed Dutch market under the stipulated rules.

Nonetheless, this has gone astray in the nation as a number of parliamentarians have claimed that the firm must comply with the fixed 29% tax revenue to be forwarded to the government account at the end of every financial year. This seems to be an unfair ruling for Unibet.

There have been questions on whether the online betting agenda will be put in an election during the National Elections for the nation which is scheduled on the 15^th day of March 2017.