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renaldo celebrating his 15th league-leading goal for a single season. the 29-year-old then later reached his 16th goal in real madrid's 4-0 win over bayern munich. >>> houston university football coach played a little prank. he sits his kicker down. he acts like he has bad news. but instead, he's giving him a scholarship. >> i see you're going on scholarship very, very soon. really when i say very, very soon, i mean right now. congratulations. >> really? >> yeah, really. >>> the 25th annual bed races are real, too. they kicked off kentucky derby festivities. 40 teams wins this one. their driver, a 17-year-old nascar driver. the 140th kentucky derby airs here on nbc on saturday. >>> and you lose the game, your opponent who has the game-winning run hurts her knee rounding first base, but no sore losers here. watch this. two florida southern players then carry their opponent, the winning hitter, around the bases. how about that for being very sportsmanlike. >>> just ahead, familiar faces in the next "star wars" film. >>> plus a new judge hits the spinning

other athletes, serena williams, richard sherman, lydia coe and christiano renaldo. >> hey, buddy.rs. >> jordan tutu shows that hockey players don't always have to be tough guys. >>> big honor for seth meyers and family guy skewers chris christie. and the other woman is hoping to top the weekend box office. you're watching "early today." [ male announcer ] at the corner of "where you need us most" and "where you least expect us," walgreens is more than just a drugstore. some pharmacy staff deliver medications right to your hospital bedside. and whenever, wherever you have questions, walgreens experts are there for you 24/7 with online pharmacy chat. we even bring immunizations to seniors right where they need us. because life doesn't stand still, and neither do we. at the corner of happy and healthy. still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain, you turned up the fun. tylenol® provides strong

he says he won't risk renaldo in the first leg if he still >> announcer: we now rejoin this program,n progress. >> the montreal canadiens are in to the ex-second round of the playoffs. they completed a 4-0 series sweep. the canadiens are now through to the semifinals. over in detroit, the boston bruins beat the red wings 2-0. bruins keeper made 23 saves in the shutout. detroit hosts game 4 on thursday. >>> floyd mayweather, jr. says it up coming flight will be a classic. the american is undefeated in 45 fights. >> he is a guy that never backs down, you know? he is a guy that comes straight ahead, or actually -- he is an action packed fighter. he is champion for a reason, and of course, i have been here for a long long time. he is a hungry lion, and i'm a veteran in the sport, so when the two come together you get a classic fight. >> that's it for the news hour from doha, but do stay with us, more news and programming coming up.

. >> renaldo is of course the world's best footballer, but he and his teammates do not top the list forst paid. manchester city is signing the biggest paychecks in the world. the players are earning nearly $9 million a year, $172,000 a week according to a new global sports salaries survey. they are one of five that top the list. players from all of these teams are more than $5.7 million yearly on average. what has been a game changer for some top english clubs has been the introduction of billionaire owners. but it isn't the highest playing league as a whole. it's actually the nba. 441 players earn an average of $5 million a year. wow. well, one of the nba's highest paid stars is chris paul. he and his l.a. clippers team beat the denver nuggets on tuesday. l.a.'s big guns [ inaudible ] racked up a franchise record 57th one of the season, chris paul getting 10 assists and 21 points. the clippers 117 to 105-point win. the miami marlins ended an up game losing streak when they thrashed the washington nationals. a career high 5 rbis including a 2-run homer. it's the first win over the capit

. >>> and there is much more sport on our website, including news that renaldo has been ruled out for. for all of the latest check out aljazeera.com/sport. now david back to you. >> farah. thank you very much indeed. that's it for me, david foster, and the news hour team. good to have had you come. see you next time. ♪ >> now inroducing, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. a global perspective wherever you are. the major headlines in context. mashable says... you'll never miss the latest news >> they will continue looking for suvivors... >> the potential for energy production is huge... >> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now remacist >>> remacist raise concerns about hate groups in the u.s. and violence. a pulitzer prize goes to coverage of the edward snowden's revelations. that's a backlash from congress. why would is a school turn a boy being bullied over to place because he was trying to gather proof? if you

real madrid will be hoping for their world footballer of the year renaldo has missed real's last twoand the club has confirmed he has suffered an injury to his left hamstring. he scored 45 goals this season, including a record-equalling 14 in the champions league. from football let's turn our at -- attention to golf. the leaders in augustia will tee off in the next few hours. >> reporter: bad weather may have affected the buildup to the 78th masters, but as play got underway, conditions were perfect. only 19 of the 97 field finished under par. three-time champion, phil mickelson had a bad day at the office with this birdie helping to repair the damage of a triple bogey on the 7th. he would finish 4 over par. rory mcelroi got often to a good start. >> it was solid. i need what i didded to do, i felt. the conditions were tough. the golf course was set up that it didn't really get you get a lot under par. it was a little disappointed to bogey the last, but anything under par i felt was a good score. >> reporter: adam scott was in contention after the first round. the aussie closed with

and a major set back, as renaldo gets injured all the details coming up in sports. sri lanka has reduced the number of people killed by rabies by more than 90%, a dedicated anti-rabies campaign have helped fight the disease. fernandez reports. >> reaching out to the community, more units travel throughout sri lanka to vaccinate domestic and stray dogs against the virus. dogs are the main carriers of the disease. and the main target of a successful anti-rabies campaign, which has seen fatalities from the virus, for some 377 a year, to just 28 in the past 40 years. >> they have thes and and pass it to our people. so what the program can do, it is tremendous. >> they have authorities vaccinated almost 1 1/2 million dogs and stabilized the further 200,000 animals. the dog owners prevention is the best option. >> dogs are animals. they don't understand. if a person is bitten and is the dog has rabies the person can die. that's why i thought i should vaccinate my dogs. the animals themselves aren't always cooperative. >> vaccinations like this one are a key part of the go

. >> the biggest sports stars on the list are renaldo a big soccer star and serena williams from tennis. the others are obscure, and certainly none of the big american sports stars, the lebron jameses and peyton mannings and tom bradies didn't make the list. why? >> lebron james had a good year as did both the manning brothers. it was an international list, 45 of the 100 come from outside the united states. we did have to take note of kristian rinaldo. that was a little difficult. i'm a barcelona fan and it's not easy. i had to recommend christian rinaldo because journalistically it's hard to argue he didn't have a great year. >> do you root against him? >> every chance i get. >> it's great to have you with us. thanks very much. >> anytime. >>> the show may be over but the conversation continues on our website aljazeera.com/considerthis. you can find us on twitter. see you next time. >> welcome to aljazeera america, i'm del walters, and these are the stories we're falling for you. smoke raises over a ukrainian air base and in seoul, the president says that he stands shoulder to shoulder

renaldo scored his 15th and 16 goals in this season's champion.>> it would mean that they pull away. the guy wanted talk about is [indiscernible] carlo was a little bit quieter. terrific job around madrid. it's all this money on players. close to one billion euros. they have not been able to deliver. they have finally put together the system. meant to be quite negative. we collect parking the bus would make it difficult for the opposition. it is a big issue. there are some comments that are really funny. >> a fascinating final. >> in chelsea parks the bus and it is boring -- so quick. fantastic to watch. and the whole style of playing -- >> it will put it into question. people who say it is over and dead. >> amazing results. chelsea and madrid tonight. lucy is going tonight. >> stay tuned. plenty of earnings from big oil business, shall be at we will see what they have to say about how the business is performing and that operations in russia. we'll be back. ♪ >> general electric bids 12.4 euros. the board has positively received the offer. but ban