Benfica forward Vangelis Pavlidis has scored the third-fastest hat trick at the start of a Champions League game on Tuesday, against Barcelona. The Greece international scored two minutes into the match and then in the 22nd and 30th minutes as Benfica led Barcelona 3-1 at halftime.

Benfica striker Vangelis Pavlidis had a night to remember personally, despite his team's late collapse, scoring a first-half hat trick to put his side 3-1 up.

In the 64th minute, Benfica goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin tried to clear the ball from what should have been a regulation goal kick.

Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski struck two penalties on Matchday 7 to stay clear as the top scorer in this season's Champions League.

A New York roller derby league has lost its bid to temporarily block a local ban on transgender female athletes. A Nassau County Supreme Court judge on Tuesday has denied

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