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BARCELONA, Spain -- Coach Gerardo Martino said he was leaving Barcelona after a disappointing first season that ended with his team losing its Spanish league title on the seasons final day. The Argentine manager said he had reached "an agreement to cease being the coach" after Barcelona was held to 1-1 by new champion Atletico Madrid on Saturday. Martino was hired last summer and tasked with continuing Barcelonas winning era started by predecessor Pep Guardiola in 2008, but Barcelona finished the season without a major trophy for the first time since the 2007-08 season. Former Barcelona player Luis Enrique is expected to replace Martino, who left with one year left on his contract. "I am deeply sorry that I couldnt help my players reach the clubs goals that it has been reaching year after year," said Martino, who refused to take questions from the press after the match. "I am sure (my players) will have more successes (in the future). I dont have anything else to say except to thank them. We admired these players from afar, we admired them from up close, and I am sure I will continue admiring them because they will get back to winning again." Martino alluded for weeks to a possible exit, saying his future had already been decided regardless of how the league ended after Barcelonas exit from the Champions League to Atletico, and loss in the Copa del Rey final to Real Madrid. On Saturday, he said the decision was taken "independently of the game" that limited him to a Spanish Supercup as his only trophy in one season in charge of the Catalan club. "We thank Tata because he took over during a difficult season," Barcelona sports director Andoni Zubizarreta said. "Even so, we made the final of the Copa del Rey and were within five minutes of winning the league title." Speculation has grown that Enrique will be named to take Martinos place after he stepped down as Celta Vigo coach following a meeting with Barcelona last week. Barcelona needed to win the match at Camp Nou to win the league, but Diego Simeones Atletico emerged undefeated from its sixth meeting with Barcelona this season. Martinos goodbye came after goalkeeper Victor Valdes and captain Carles Puyol said their farewells this week. Other players will likely join them with the club set to overhaul its squad. Cheap Buffalo Bills Jerseys . The matchup will be made up in Minnesota at a later date. The arena was evacuated about 45 minutes before the scheduled 9:30 p.m. EST tipoff when a generator malfunction outside the arena sent smoke pouring into the building, according to NBA spokeswoman Sharon Lima. Cheap Bills Jerseys China . 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Down by 14 with 2:21 left, the Miners went on a frantic closing spurt that fell just short, and UTEP was beaten by No.A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly denied allegations that the sports ministry might be involved in covering up doping cases in the country. A documentary by Germanys ARD to be broadcast on Wednesday evening alleges it has evidence that Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has personally intervened to bury a leading football players positive test and video footage of banned coaches continuing to work with elite athletes.But Putins spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted Russia is committed to working with international bodies to battle doping and that it views the allegations against Mutko as libel.Peskov said: Until there is hard evidence to back up those claims, that libel, we will treat this as libel.Mutko himself said the allegations were an attempt to sway a ruling on Russias ban from international athletics ahead of the Rio Olympics.After being suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) last year, Russia is trying to convince sports authorities itt is serious about rooting out cheats in time for the Games in Brazil in August.ddddddddddddThe IAAF will decide whether Russia has done enough to have the ban repealed at a meeting in Vienna on June 17.The aim of this film is obvious: to influence the committee on the reinstatement of Russian athletics on the eve of its meeting, Mutko was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.The Sports Ministry did not directly address the allegations but it said Russia had agreed a reform programme with the World Anti-Doping Agency and it understood doping was a large-scale global problem.Solving it requires a consolidation of efforts aimed at a continuous improvement of the anti-doping system by all interested parties, the ministry said in a statement. 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