Guus Hiddink reported good news ahead of our FA Cup sixth round tie at Everton, with John Terry set to travel to Merseyside and Eden Hazard available for selection.

Speaking to the media at Cobham, Hiddink outlined the determination within the group to bounce back from the disappointment of our midweek Champions League exit and secure a place in the semi-finals of a competition he helped us win in 2009 courtesy of a final victory against tomorrow’s opponents.

'We had a difficult loss,' he said. 'Of course there is always disappointment, we only had two days to recover physically and psychologically.

'It’s always a blow when you are knocked out, it’s a setback but the players have to respond. Physically we can do that but mentally we must also be resilient.'

Terry hasn’t played since limping out of our 5-1 win over Newcastle last month but the captain, whose next appearance for the club will be his 700th, has trained in the last few days and could be involved according to Hiddink.

‘He worked rather well in the past days and he will be included in the travelling list,’ said the Chelsea manager. ‘Of course, he has not practiced a lot in the last weeks and days. I will see today whether there is a reaction to yesterday’s training. I would like him to travel to Liverpool.’

Hazard, meanwhile, was forced out of the game against PSG 13 minutes from time and it later came to light the Belgian had started the match despite carrying an injury.

Hiddink acknowledged the winger isn’t 100 per cent fit right now, but he should play at least some part tomorrow.

‘He is not absent of injury,’ said the Blues boss. ‘You can have an injury where you cannot play but you can have one where you can play but you are not fully fit.

‘That also has an influence on the freshness and it’s true that’s a worry. He will be okay. He will be available. He’s desperate to participate in the team performance.’

Another player who went off injured on Wednesday was the in-form Diego Costa, whose first-half strike had drawn us level on the night.

‘He went off and had some problems,’ added Hiddink. ‘Yesterday he had rest and treatment, today the same, so I will see how he is. It’s in his hip.’

When we won, it was beautiful to go up the stairs and see the players and the captain grabbing the cup, and I happened to be the last one and to have it also, that was a thrilling moment. The FA Cup not just in England but worldwide is recognised as the cup to win. I was fined later because I smoked a celebration cigar in Wembley!’ he smiles.

But that was then and this is now, and no one doubts the 2016 version of Everton will pose a stiff test as the two teams vie for a place in the last-four. Some of their squad remain from the 2009 final, players such as Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, Leighton Baines, Leon Osman and Steven Pienaar.

‘Not all the players are there any more but that game is of course in the history of Everton as well,’ notes Hiddink, ‘and I think they are very keen also to do well in the FA Cup to make it a good season, so it will be very tough going up there.’ 

It is the quarter-final stage this weekend but our FA Cup tie against Everton cannot help but stir memories of our manager’s previous meeting with the Merseysiders in this competition.

The FA Cup final in 2009 was unusually late in May and the weather was befitting the start of summer. It was sunshine almost all the way for Chelsea that day as we recovered strongly from conceding a goal so early it even beat Roberto Di Matteo’s never-to-be-forgotten strike as the FA Cup final’s fastest.

By the end of the afternoon, Hiddink was celebrating with his players the capturing on a major piece of silverware to end his first spell in charge here. But what are his most-cherished memories of the day? How did it go for him on a personal level? These are questions asked by the official Chelsea website as his current team prepare to face Everton again.

‘What I liked very much and also in the semi-final against Arsenal at Wembley, was when we were on the bus on the way to the stadium, you saw all the fans integrated, walking on the street in their shirts which was for me amazing,’ Hiddink recalls.

‘I am from a country where the fans are separated by fences and here they were not and for me, this is real football. The teams are competing in old rivalries and the fans have their preferences of course but they are walking together. That is how it should be.’

Hiddink turns his thoughts to the game itself.  

‘We were 1-0 down, surprisingly we got caught very early but the team reacted with confidence because they were not panicking, not thinking it is a final and it is slipping away. They played as they were used to playing in other big games in the FA Cup and in the Champions League, so they were confident to restore this and we did. Didier Drogba scored with a header and then Frank Lampard with a left-foot shot. We also had a shot from Florent Malouda which might have been in but was not rewarded. 

vbeauty and their boyfriends

Samuel and Georgette Eto'o

Ivorian Georgette formally married Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o in 2014. One of the most successful African footballers in history, Eto’o and Georgette had a traditional wedding in 2007 and already have four children together. The childhood sweethearts look as happy as ever:

Joseph and Adaeze Yobo

beauty and their boyfriends.

Fenerbahçe SK player and Super Eagles captain Joseph Yobo met Adaeze in December 2009. Months later they wed in a small ceremony. Ada represented Nigeria in Miss World 2008. She has a charity foundation in Nigeria called the Adaeze Igwe Foundation, which raises awareness of serious illnesses like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. The pair have one beautiful son together.

The LeBron Code: James sends out another strange yet motivating tweet

At the start of the playoffs for the last several years, Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star LeBron James goes "dark" on all of his different social media platforms. For James, getting off social media allows him to focus on leading his team to the Finals and possibly winning another championship ring. So with only 41 days until the start of the playoffs, perhaps James is getting all of his social media-ing out now instead of later.

James recently tweeted out some rather cryptic messages which don't really have any clear meaning. He has done little to clarify his tweets and on Sunday, James sent another rather strange tweet which could be a motivational message for himself, his Cavs teammates or for something totally unrelated.

It's this simple. U can't accomplished the dream if everyone isn't dreaming the same thing everyday. Nightmares follow. #TheDC #SFG

— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 6, 2016

The hashtags James uses are also undecipherable but Cleveland.com's Chris Haynes believes that the Cavs star is simply creating intrigue just for fun and that the "dc" is in relation to the DaVinci Code, the popular best-selling book which involves cryptic clues to solve a mystery:

Spoke to LeBron James about cryptic tweets. Said more "da vinci code" tweets to come. Guessing #thedc stands for that. He's just having fun.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) March 6, 2016

Jared Dudley on the other hand, believes that the "dc" refers to "The Decoded," which kind of sounds like nonsense, especially since the Wizards forward doesn't play for the Cavs:

.@JaredDudley619 on @KingJames tweets: "We call it 'The Decoded'...we understand he wants to win and they'll be judged by a championship."

— Bleacher Report SXM (@br_radio) March 6, 2016

Either way, James is clearly sharing some thoughts and feelings. They could be jokes or they could be something much more serious. We won't know for sure unless James provides clarification. Yet with the playoffs just around the corner, it is very likely that the Cavs star will go "dark" on Twitter before we ever truly understand what he's tweeting 

Steph Curry says no one, including him, will break Kobe's 81-point game

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is a dangerous and versatile scorer that can score from virtually every possible spot on the court. Curry is averaging a league-best 30.7 points and has scored 50 or more points twice this season -- the only other player to do so besides Portland's Damian Lillard. Curry, arguably the best scorer in the league, is probably one of the few players that could ever get anywhere close to Kobe Bryant's 81-point performance in 2006.

But Curry doesn't believe he could ever reach that 81-point mark. He believes that Bryant's performance in that game was "special" and that he would never shoot as much as Kobe did against the Raptors in 2006.

From Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News:

Could Curry ever break Kobe Bryant's career-high 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors nearly a decade ago?

“Not a chance,” Curry told Los Angeles News Group. “There's a reason why people are still talking about that game to this day. It's so special.”

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“A lot of it has to do with our system and the way we play,” Curry said. “Kobe had a reason to get up as many shots as he did in the [Toronto] game. I don't think anybody will get up 40-plus attempts no matter how hot they are.”

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All of which left Curry intrigued on whether he could reach Bryant's milestone if he ignored team dynamics and played as if an NBA game took place on the playground.

“You would like to think if I were to try or if I were to get hot after a quarter or two, I would have 50 in 2 ½ quarters,” Curry said. “Maybe you could finish it off. But that's still pretty crazy to think to have 50. Those are career days for almost anybody.”

In November, Curry speculated that the most he could ever score is 75 points, which is still six points shy of Bryant's 81. But he even considered that to be a long-shot.

Medina also talked with Warriors assistant coach Luke Walton and he thought it was possible for Curry to get close to 81 points but also added that with how Golden State plays, it is basically impossible to happen since they will rest the reigning MVP if they are up big. This is also what Curry said, which is quite accurate.

With Golden State dominating teams, Curry averages just shy of 34 minutes a game and routinely rests for large stretches in blowouts. Golden State also has a number of other options besides Curry, so it plays a team game and shares the ball, which allows players like Klay Thompson or Harrison Barnes to have big games. This is unlike the 2006 Lakers, who heavily relied on Bryant. He had to score 81 points because without that type of historic performance, the Lakers had no chance of winning.

The Warriors would have to drastically change up their system for Curry to score 81. It's perhaps entirely possible for Curry to actually do it, but in reality that will likely never happen. And for Curry, it sounds like that is perfectly fine by him as he is more focused on helping the Warriors win back-to-back championships.

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Usain Bolt is the fastest man on Earth but scientists have now proven that if the 27-year-old sprinter went for a run on Titan he would literally be flying.

In a paper published in the Journal of Physics Special Topicsstudents from the University of Leicester calculated that the nitrogen-rich atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon would provide exactly the right conditions for Bolt to achieve take-off - if he was wearing a wingsuit.

On Titan the surface pressure is nearly 50 per cent stronger than Earth’s, meaning that the imbalance of pressure above and below the wings of Bolt’s (hypothetical) wingsuit would achieve lift relatively easily.

The team found that given the average wingsuit area (1.4 metres squared) any individual running above 11 metres per second would be able to take flight – and as Bolt has been clocked at top speeds of 12.27 metres per second, he would be in the air before he hit the finish line in a 100 metre sprint.

And by adjusting the size of the wingsuit, even relatively sluggish runners would be able to take off. With a wing area three times the normal size, a runner going just 6 metres per second would be able to take off.

The Cell C Sharks made it a happy homecoming as they edged out the Jaguares from Argentina 19-15 in what amounted to a Vodacom Super Rugby arm-wrestle at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday night.

It was the Sharks’ first home match at any level this season and they will be pleased to have made it two out of two in the competition so far by overcoming the experienced Argentinian team.

However, they made heavy weather of the task and the final whistle was met with a muted response from Kings Park patrons who possibly ventured to the stadium expecting more.

An arm-wrestle was what Sharks director of rugby Gary Gold said earlier in the week that he didn’t want, but that was what it became.

Ironically, Gold should probably have been pleased that it did go that way, for his pack had the better of their opponents and it was the big men who paved the way for victory while the Jaguares always posed potential danger from broken play and on the counter-attack.

Replacement flyhalf Hayden Parker slotted a late penalty goal to secure the Otago Highlanders a nerve-jangling 17-16 win over the Wellington Hurricanes in Dunedin on Saturday in a re-match of last year's Super Rugby title-decider.

The 25-year-old's angled kick from just outside the 22-metre line at Forsyth Barr Stadium gave the champion Highlanders their first win of the season, while leaving last year's runners up 0-2 and under pressure after two rounds.

"It was a good game, wasn't it? Just lucky we managed to pull through at the end there," Highlanders captain Ben Smith said pitchside.

"It was pretty hot in here tonight."

The Hurricanes turned the ball over in the final minute and had one last chance to mount a raid from deep in defence but replacement back Jason Woodward inexplicably booted the ball to touch to guarantee defeat.

The visitors trailed 11-6 at half-time and were eight points adrift after a Lima Sopoaga penalty in the 49th minute, but Hurricanes captain TJ Perenara pulled them back into the game, lunging over the line from the back of a ruck for their only try in the 56th minute.

Flyhalf Beauden Barrett duly converted and booted a p