1. Beginning with Football and the UEFA Europa League where Erik Lamela has scored a first-half hat-trick to help Tottenham Hotspur pick-up a 4-1 home-win against Monaco, which saw the Lily-whites top Group J in style.
2. The French Football Federation has suspended Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema from France's National Team over the recent blackmail scandals.
3. In the wake of corruption scandals engulfing FIFA and other sports organizations, the president of the International Olympic Committee has said that the world body will launch an independent auditing system to track money that it gives to sporting organizations.