A day after masterminding the most unlikely title success in English football history, Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri was asked about his target for the next Premier League season.Would it be a top-four finish? Maybe even retaining the trophy?Not even close.We know very well, Ranieri said, we have to fight for 10th position.Never have titleholders ambitions appeared to be so low. These, though, are no normal champions.Leicester wrote a sporting underdog story for the ages by toppling the traditional heavyweights of England and winning the Premier League at pre-season odds of 5,000-1. A team widely tipped for relegation finished 10 points clear of second place.Now for the encore.But it wont be with the same cast.Ranieri has lost his midfield dynamo, NGolo Kante, to Chelsea for $40 million. Another significant departure came off the field, with Steve Walsh, the head of recruitment with a record of unearthing unheralded players and making them stars, joining Everton.Speculation has been swirling in the offseason around the future of two more of last seasons key players, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez. Vardy eventually signed a new deal but doubts remain about whether Mahrez will be at Leicester by the end of the transfer window on Aug. 31, with the winger heavily linked with Arsenal.For this season, Leicesters title odds with British bookmakers range between 20-1 and 33-1. Pre-season games have been against Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona rather than Lincoln and Burton, which was the case in 2015. And part of the warm-up for the new campaign was a trip to Wembley Stadium for the Community Shield against Manchester United, which Leicester lost 2-1 on Sunday.Everythings different now, Ranieri said. You imagine the big teams who didnt win, who didnt make the Champions League. They are going crazy now, they want to kill now.Proving that Leicester is operating at a completely new level, the team will be competing in the Champions League for the first time. Ranieri could rely on a core group of players last season -- with no European involvement along with early exits from the domestic cup competitions -- and was able to shed his Tinkerman tag.That may return, given he must juggle domestic and European competition, and Ranieri has been busy strengthening the depth of his squad in the offseason. Nampalys Mendy is tasked with filling the void left by Kante in central midfield, Nigeria forward Ahmed Musa joined from CSKA Moscow and has a similar profile to Vardy, while center back Luis Hernandez (from Sporting Gijon) and goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler (from Hannover) appear able back-ups.With their mostly unheralded players and reliance on the counter-attack, the Foxes brought an element of surprise to last season and opponents underestimated them until it was too late. Even when opposition teams altered tactics and sat back more, Leicester still found a way to get results and finished the season with only three losses.Why shouldnt they challenge for the title again? Taking into account the end of the 2014-15 season, when the team mounted a stunning escape from relegation under Nigel Pearson, Leicester has won 30 of its last 47 Premier League games and lost only four. The team spirit is strong, the King Power stadium is a tough place to visit, and Leicester has the perfect tactics for winning away games.Externally, there will be no pressure on Leicester to repeat its amazing exploits from the 2015-16 season and few are expecting it to. But this is a team that just loves defying the odds. It opens with a trip to Hull on Saturday.The close-knit brotherhood is unbelievable, Vardy says, and, for me, theres a lot of unfinished business here.Carlos Hyde Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. Nick Chubb Jersey .Y. - Nelson Mandela will be honoured by the New York Yankees with a plaque in Monument Park. http://www.cheapbrownsjerseysauthentic.com/?tag=authentic-jc-tretter-jersey . 1, meaning problems for the doping controls at both major international sports events next year. The World Anti-Doping Agency provisionally suspended the Moscow Antidoping Center on Sunday, saying its operations must improve or a six-month ban on the facilitys accreditation will be imposed. 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The Wizards host the New York Knicks on Thursday.Bradley Beal, the Wizards other starting guard, has missed the last two games with tightness in his right hamstring. He practiced Monday, however, and told the Washington Post he hopes to play versus Philadelphia.Its not great, said Beal, the Wizards second-leading scorer (15.4). Its not 1,000 percent, but its pretty close.Without Wall and Beal, the Wizards dropped a 106-95 decision to Chicago on Saturday night. After the game, starting center Marcin Gortat told reporters that Washington has one of the worst benches in the league right now.The Washington Post reported that Gortat apologized to his teammates Monday, and that coach Scott Brooks was quick to extinguish the brushfire.I look at things from a whole, Brooks told the newspaper. When I played, I was a backup, and I didnt like to be divided. We dont have two teams here, we have one basketball team, and right now were not happy and content on being 2-7.Brooks, in his first year with the Wizards after seven as the Oklahoma City Thunders head ccoach, spent 10 seasons in the NBA as a reserve point guard, the first two of those with Philadelphia.ddddddddddddThe Sixers beat Indiana in overtime last Friday for their lone victory of the season, snapping a 44-game losing streak in October/November games. They fell 117-96 the next night in Atlanta, and were beaten 115-88 Monday night in Houston, running their road losing streak to 20 contests. That equals the second-longest skid in franchise history.Tonight, we just didnt really fight, veteran guard Gerald Henderson told the Philadelphia Inquirer after the loss to the Rockets. As a defense, you need to be locked in ... on their individual players, their tendencies, and all that stuff.We got physically (and) just effort-wise, dominated.Rookie center Joel Embiid continues to excel, averaging team highs of 18 points and 7.3 rebounds despite being limited to 24 minutes a game as a precaution. Embiid, the third overall pick in the 2014 draft, missed two seasons while recovering from a pair of foot surgeries.Philadelphia will be without forward Ben Simmons, the top overall pick in the 2016 draft, until at least January following foot surgery. Center/forward Nerlens Noel (knee surgery) and guard Jerryd Bayless (wrist) have also yet to play this season, though the latter was assigned on Monday to the Sixers NBA Development League team, the Delaware 87ers. He hopes to return by the end of the month.The Wizards have been without backup center Ian Mahinmi (torn medial meniscus, left knee) through their first nine games. ' ' '