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MILAN -- Title-winning teams often grind out results despite not playing well -- and that is precisely what Juventus is doing.Chievo Verona had won just one of its last six matches but Juventus struggled to break it down before eventually winning 2-1 on Sunday.Juventus remained four points clear of second-placed Roma and five above AC Milan.Miralem Pjanic had struggled to fit in since transferring from Roma in the offseason but he scored what was to prove the winner for Juventus in the 75th minute with a trademark free kick into the top right corner from just outside the area. Chievo goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino barely moved.I won the free kick and I put it in. Im happy, but whats important, above all, is the three points, Pjanic said. I always do my utmost to fit in as best as possible, its obvious that I want to do more, but its a new system, its a different kind of football to where I was before, but Im adapting.Im not worried, I know that there are always great expectations in a great club, that doesnt worry me, Im staying calm, I do my work as best as possible. So slowly but surely Ill get there, Im a new footballer here, but Im happy to be here.Mario Mandzukic broke the deadlock in the 53rd, controlling Juan Cuadrados through ball before driving across into the bottom left corner.Mandzukic almost scored a stunning goal in the first half, nodding on a long ball and flicking it over Nicolas Spolli before firing over the bar from six yards.Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was making his 600th Serie A appearance, becoming only the fourth player to reach that mark after Paolo Maldini (647), Javier Zanetti (615) -- who are both retired -- and Roma captain Francesco Totti (607).Buffon was decisive in the 64th to deny Lucas Castro from point-blank range, but could do nothing moments later as Sergio Pellissier converted a penalty after being tripped by Stephan Lichtsteiner.There was more bad news on the injury front for Juventus, which is already without Giorgio Chiellini. Fellow defender Andrea Barzagli was stretchered off in the fifth minute with a dislocated shoulder.---PALERMO, 1 AC MILAN 2It was the battle of the young goalkeepers in Sicily. Milan shotstopper Gianluigi Donnarumma is just 17, while Palermo counterpart Josip Posavec is 20.Their combined age is less than that of Buffon, who is 38.Posavec gifted Milan the lead in the 15th minute, colliding with his own defender as he came out to collect Mattia De Sciglios cross and losing the ball, allowing Suso to deposit the ball into an empty net.Posavec made up for his error in the second half with three stunning saves to deny Suso each time but was beaten in the 82nd, when substitute Gianluca Lapadula cheekily backheeled Susos long-range attempt into the bottom corner.It was the first Serie A goal for Lapadula, who had only been on the pitch three minutes.Palermo had leveled in the 71st when Ilija Nestorovski ran onto Alessandro Diamantis through ball and drilled it into the near corner for his third goal in as many matches.---INTER MILAN 3, CROTONE 0Problems continued for managerless Inter Milan on and off the pitch, with a win over Serie As bottom side in a hostile atmosphere at San Siro.The scoreline was more generous than Inter deserved, with three goals in the final six minutes. Mauro Icardi netted twice, the first a penalty, after Ivan Perisic had fired the Nerazzurri in front.It was only Inters fifth win this season and fans made their displeasure known with several insulting banners directed at the players as well as the club owners and directors.The club released a statement on Sunday, saying it would announce the new coach in 48 hours. Youth coach Stefano Vecchi replaced the fired Frank de Boer on Tuesday on a temporary basis.---ROMA 3, BOLOGNA 0After Icardi moved level with Edin Dzeko at the top of the scoring charts, all eyes were on the Roma forward to see if he would strike again.Instead of Dzeko, it was Mohamed Salah who stole the headlines with his first hat trick in club football.Roma went ahead in the 13th minute as Adam Masina attempted to clear Salahs effort but only succeeded in prodding it past his own goalkeeper.The league credited the goal to Salah and the former Chelsea midfielder went on to score a second-half brace, taking his tally to eight for the season -- one behind Ciro Immobile and two below Dzeko and Icardi.The only other time Salah has netted three in a match was in a World Cup qualifier for Egypt against Zimbabwe in 2013.---OTHER MATCHESEmpoli ended its goal drought in spectacular fashion, scoring double the number of goals it had netted all season, in a 4-0 win at fellow struggler Pescara.Massimo Maccarone netted twice for Empoli, which hadnt found the back of the net in the last eight rounds, and also provided the assist for Manuel Pucciarelli. Riccardo Saponara added a fourth in the final minute.Atalanta won 3-0 at Sassuolo to continue its impressive run of form and move level on points with fourth-placed Lazio after a sixth win in seven matches.Elsewhere, Fiorentina vs. Sampdoria and Genoa vs. Udinese both ended 1-1. Clearance Air Jordan Store .Y. -- Leading 3-0 with only 11:25 left, the Colorado Avalanche committed a seemingly meaningless penalty to give the New York Islanders a power play. Air Jordan Discount . The scientists believe the small earthquake during a Marshawn Lynch touchdown was likely greater than Lynchs famous "beast quake" touchdown run three years ago, which also came against New Orleans during a playoff game. https://www.jordanchina.us/ . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No. Jordan China . That gave fans outside Joe Louis Arena another chance to ask for autographs from the 19-year-old whose stardom in the NHL has arrived earlier than most expected. Cheap Jordan From China . The Vikings announced Thursday that Priefer will be one of seven holdovers from the previous staff, along with offensive line coach Jeff Davidson, wide receivers coach George Stewart and others. Norv Turner will mark his 30th year of coaching in the NFL as the offensive co-ordinator, as widely reported for weeks, and George Edwards will be the defensive co-ordinator. GENEVA -- Two days after Russia finished fourth in the Olympic medal table, its Paralympic team was barred from the next big games in Rio de Janeiro as punishment for a state-backed doping program.Sports highest court on Tuesday upheld a decision by the International Paralympic Committee to exclude the sports superpower. It was a step the IOC declined to take when it had the chance last month.The 267 entries which Russian Paralympic athletes earned in 18 sports for the Sept. 7-18 games in Rio will now be allocated to other nations not judged responsible for orchestrated cheating.Russia won 36 gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics, second most in London, and was a runaway table-topping leader at its home 2014 Winter Paralympics.Still, the Sochi Winter Games and Winter Paralympics are now notorious for results corrupted by state-funded agencies plotting to swap tainted doping samples from Russian athletes for clean ones at official testing laboratories.In the fallout from those recent revelations -- by the Russian lab director who has fled to the United States, and a World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry set up to investigate his claims -- the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced its urgent verdict Tuesday.CAS dismissed the Russian Paralympic Committees appeal against exclusion from competing in Rio after a hearing was held in Brazil on Monday.The court said its judges agreed the world Paralympic body did not violate any procedural rule in banning the Russian team two weeks ago.Then, in Rio, the IPC President Philip Craven had said of Russia that: Their medals over morals mentality disgusts me.(The) decision to ban the (Russian team) was made in accordance with the IPC Rules and was proportionate in the circumstances, the sports court said Tuesday in a statement.Russias Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev blamed the doping ban on politics.The investigation about the Russian doping is a thick and disgusting mix containing 80 percent of politics and 20 percent of the actual doping, the politics targeting against sports, Russian athletes and Russia as a country, Medvedev wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday.Medvedev described the ban as a doubly cynical decision since were talking about people who have to overcome themselves every day. Its a blow for all disabled people, not just the Russian ones.A further appeal to Switzerlands federal court is possible, though unlikely before the games open, an attorney representingg the Russian athletes, Alexei Karpenko, said in televised remarks.ddddddddddddThe Swiss supreme court could intervene if the legal process was abused by Lausanne-based CAS, though it would not re-judge the evidence. The CAS panel was satisfied that organized Russia doping was proven.The Russian appeal to CAS did not file any evidence contradicting the facts on which the IPC decision was based, the courts judging panel said.The world Paralympic governing body used evidence from an ongoing WADA-appointed investigation into a Russian state program of doping and cover-ups which ran from 2011 to 2015 in almost 30 summer and winter sports.The IPC said two weeks ago it had evidence of manipulated doping tests relating to 44 Russian athletes, including 27 from competitors in eight sports on the Paralympic program.On Tuesday, Craven said the ruling was a sad day for the Paralympic Movement, but we hope also a new beginning.Todays decision underlines our strong belief that doping has absolutely no place in Paralympic sport, and further improves our ability to ensure fair competition and a level playing field for all Para athletes around the world, Craven said in a statement.Still, it was not a day for celebration and we have enormous sympathy for the Russian athletes who will now miss out on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, the British official said.Craven is also a member of the International Olympic Committee, whose executive board declined to use similar evidence from WADA investigator Richard McLarens report to exclude Russia for the Rio Olympics which ended Sunday.Instead, the IOC asked individual sports governing bodies to decide if Russian teams and athletes could compete. Russias weightlifting team was banned and only one track and field athlete, who trained in the U.S. out of the Russian testing system, was ruled eligible.Russia won 56 Olympic medals, including 19 gold, in Rio to trail only the U.S., Britain and China.Medvedev suggested Russias strength as a competitor was a factor in the blanket ban.One certainly sees in this decision a striving of some leaders of the international Paralympic movement to eliminate strong rivals since our team always won top spots, the former state president wrote.---Associated Press writer Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report ' ' '