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Vinicius Junior delivered when it mattered most, scoring twice to give Real Madrid a two-nil win at Espanyol — a result that keeps the title race very much alive. Any dropped points and Barcelona would have been crowned champions on the night, but Los Blancos held firm and bought themselves more time at the top.
Shifting to the NBA playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder welcome the Los Angeles Lakers to open their Western Conference second round matchup Tuesday night. Oklahoma City finished the regular season with sixty-four wins against just eighteen losses, and they enter as sixteen-point favorites — a number that tells you everything about how dominant this Thunder squad has been all year.
And in a story that goes well beyond the scoreboard, North Korean side Naegohyang will cross into South Korea later this month to face Suwon in the Asian Women's Champions League semi-final. The club qualified from the group stage by beating both Suwon and ISPE, and their border crossing on May twentieth marks one of the rarest diplomatic moments in football history.
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