Napoli returns to Champions League set for historic season

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer

NAPOLI returns to Champions League action this week well on track to have the standout season in European soccer and in the club’s entire history.

The quarterfinals of Europe’s marquee club competition finally beckon for Napoli, which has a 2-0 lead from the first leg before hosting Eintracht Frankfurt in the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Wednesday.

Only three of the 12 teams left in the competition top their domestic leagues — Napoli, Bayern Munich and Benfica — and the 18-point lead in Serie A is by far the most dominant.

Real Madrid hosting Liverpool with a 5-2 lead is the glamour game of the

FINAL CARIFTA TRIALS, JUNIOR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD MARCH 25-27

“We never want you to tire in doing good deeds,” Deveaux said. “This is just to encourage you, corporate Bahamas, and Bahamians in general that we are all in this together. With that mindset, we can see how far the country can go in general.”

Sands said when he got the call from Williams about inclusion into the games, he conferred with his collegiates, and they agreed to accept the invitation.

“We are all about inclusion and we are having decisions with the NACAC executives and the membership to be more inclusive of all persons to participate,” Sands said. As a pilot programme for the games, Sands said Special Olympics will be

SEE PAGE 16 four second legs remaining in the round of 16, though only Madrid of that storied pair has so much as a chance of a domestic league title.

Napoli is a lock to be Italian champion for just the third time in its history, the first since 1990, and the first time without having Maradona in the team.

Still, even with the Argentina icon, Napoli twice failed to get past the second round of the old European Cup after those 1987 and 1990 titles in Serie A.

Napoli also never advanced past the round of 16 stage in the Champions League era that began in 1992. That looks set to change Wednesday. It is also a big step for Napoli’s

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

IN an unprecedented move, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture and Ministry of Education, Science and Technology will hold a Junior National High School Track and Field Championships and Final CARIFTA Trials. At a press conference yesterday in the foyer of the two ministries in the Ivy Dumont Building, Mario Bowleg, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture revealed that the two events will be combined for the weekend of March 25-27 at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium. Under the theme “Unity Through Sports, a Golden Jubilee,” the event, SEE PAGE 16

Scheffler on another big run, this one getting attention

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

PONTE VEDRA

BEACH, Florida (AP)

— Scottie Scheffler finally won, and then he kept winning, and the question a year ago was when this incredible hot streak would finally cool.

Now comes another question:

Did it ever?

Even with a green jacket that ended last year’s remarkable run — four victories in six starts, capped by a Masters so dominant he four-putted the last hole and still won by three shots — he reached the top so quickly that it was tougher to appreciate it than a slow, steady rise like Dustin

Johnson or Rory McIlroy or Jon Rahm.

The Players Championship brings a different view of the No. 1 player in the world.

Scheffler is on another big run, this one getting far more attention.

He won the WM Phoenix Open for the second straight year on a Sunday that featured Rahm, Justin Thomas and Nick Taylor. He was one foot away from a close birdie chance on the 18th to tie for the lead at Bay Hill.

And then against the strongest field so far this year at the TPC Sawgrass, Scheffler seized control with a 65 on Saturday and really showed his