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Manchester City have been boosted by the return of Vincent Kompany and Raheem Sterling for Tuesdays trip to Newcastle, live on Sky Sports 1 HD.After a poor run of form in February in the Premier League, City have reignited their hopes of a top-four spot with three successive victories, including a 3-0 demolition of reigning champions Chelsea on Saturday. They next head to Rafa Benitezs Newcastle and a win would put them three points ahead of fourth-placed Arsenal with four games remaining. And it will be a big relief for manager Manuel Pellegrini to have captain Kompany and winger Sterling back in the squad.Kompany has missed six matches with a calf injury, while Sterling has been out for five games with a groin injury.However, speaking to the media on Monday, Pellegrini did confirm that David Silva (ankle), Samir Nasri (thigh), Gael Clichy (back) and Bacary Sagna (back) would all be unavailable.Kompanys return provides the Chilean boss with a welcome selection headache, with Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi in top form at the back.Pellegrini said: Ive said that in a season where we are fighting for important things, its because we have a good squad.Kompany has been injured so the other defenders have done well, but he will be an important help for the defence.On the prospect of Sterling starting at St James Park, Pellegrini added: Well see, hes coming back from an important injury, well see if he can play some minutes. Pep news hurt us Hiring Pep Guardiola hit Man City title bid, says Pellegrini Pellegrini also played down concerns over Nasri, who has impressed in recent weeks following his return from a six-month lay-off.On the Frenchmans injury picked up against Chelsea, Pellegrini said: He played 90 minutes at the weekend and then another 75, maybe it was too much. He was feeling well, its a small muscle injury, its not too important, well see how many days.City will be desperate to continue their fine run but will be facing a team fighting to stay in the top-flight and in buoyant mood after beating fellow-strugglers Swansea 3-0 at the weekend. Manuel Pellegrini was pleased with Saturdays victory at Chelsea The Chilean added: The team are just focused on what we need to do. We need a Champions League spot for next season, and to focus on Real in the semi final.Newcastle are very dangerous, they have good players, St James is difficult place to play. They need the points in their survival battle. I hope we continue as we did on Saturday, being aggressive and trying to win from the beginning.He added: Its not depending on what Newcastle can do. We must continue the way we played on Saturday, solid, keeping a clean sheet and scoring goals. If we continue like that it doesnt matter who we play.Also See:Aguero treble sends City thirdWill Aguero finish top scorer?Newcastles woeful run vs CityRace for the top fourWholesale Air Max Plus . As he recorded his 23rd and 24th points of the evening, a segment of the sellout Air Canada Centre crowd expressed their appreciation for the Raptors point guard with a smattering of MVP chants. 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Ahead of a crucial fortnight that will see them play against Napoli in the Champions League, Manchester City and Chelsea, Arsenal leads by five points ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea.CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Atlantic Coast Conference finally is getting its own TV channel.Commissioner John Swofford said Thursday the ACC Network will launch in August 2019 as part of an extended media deal with ESPN that now runs through the 2035-36 season.Speaking at his annual forum during the ACC Kickoff media days, Swofford said there will also be the creation of a digital channel that will be online next month. The league will move to a 20-game league schedule in mens basketball by 2019, part of an effort to boost the available content toward the goal of airing more than 1,300 events annually through those outlets.It was also very important to both ESPN and our league that we try to create a model in which each of the ACCs 27 sponsored sports would be televised in some manner, Swofford said. I dont know if well get them all as some are extremely difficult to produce for television, but by 2019, were going to be very close.The other major TV news was about the media rights schools would leave behind if they left the ACC.Swofford said league schools unanimously extended a grant-of-rights provision that gives the ACC control of media rights -- and more importantly, the money that comes with them -- for any school that choses to leave the conference for the duration of the ESPN deal.Its a move designed to ensure the stability of the league since schools that go elsewhere wouldnt bring along their own media rights to enhance the TV package for a new conference home, said Dean Jordan, a global media managing executive with the Wasserman media group who represented the ACC in negotiations with ESPN.The league typically receives and then distributes the media-rights revenues to member schools. In a hypothetical case, Jordan said, the ACC would keep the revenue for a teams home football game as the rights holder even if that team was playing in another league, then divide the departed schools amount among the remaining ACC schools.The ACC first announced a grant-of-rights arrangement with its schools in 2013 after Maryland announced it would leave for the Big Ten. That deal with ESPN originally ran through the 2026--27 season.ddddddddddddSwofford wouldnt comment afterward on the payouts to league schools with the creation of the ACC Network other than to say the rights fees obviously go up with the deal.The ACC will become the fourth major conference with its own network, joining the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference. The SEC also has ESPN as its partner and launched in August 2014.As an example of the work ahead of the ACC Networks launch, North Carolina State athletic director Debbie Yow said the school has committed to spending roughly $6 million for a broadcast studio at the football stadium as well as for a control room at newly renovated Reynolds Coliseum on campus to eventually help produce content.We have to make sure we continue to keep up with (the other power conferences) and be in a strong position there to compete nationally, Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich said Thursday.The digital channel will be available to authenticated subscribers via ESPNs online apps, which means viewers will have to first provide the usernames and passwords they use to log into the online accounts for their cable or satellite television providers.The creation of an ACC-specific channel has been a frequent off-field topic of discussion for the league since realignment slowed throughout college sports. The league has spent years researching the possibility, with Swofford frequently deflecting questions about it with answers that offered little other than it was something the league was looking into.On Thursday morning, however, Swofford was ready to talk in detail about the subject with ESPN President John Skipper joining him on stage with ACC coaches and administrators for an announcement that took over his annual state-of-the-league forum.Some of you may be disappointed that Im not going to be able to do the dance that Ive done the last couple of years, Swofford quipped, dancing around some questions about television.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap ' ' '