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LONDON (AP) — A top-flight women’s match in England has been abandoned after just six minutes because the field was frozen and it has sparked complaints from managers and players that the league isn’t being taken seriously enough. The referee took Chelsea and Liverpool players off the field shortly after the match began at Chelsea’s

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Gio Reyna scored the winning goal in his first game since the World Cup as Borussia Dortmund beat Augsburg 4-3 in the Bundesliga. Augsburg left Reyna in space to the right of the penalty area and he controlled the ball before flicking it up and

LEEDS, England (AP) — Leeds’ winless run in the Premier League moved to six matches after being held to a 0-0 draw by Brentford at Elland Road. The point lifted Leeds above West Ham into 15th place but Jesse Marsch’s team sits just one point above the relegation zone. Brentford extended its club-record unbeaten league

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chad Henne has spent most of the season holding clipboards behind Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes. But when the All-Pro quarterback hurt his right ankle in Saturday night’s playoff game against Jacksonville, the 37-year-old journeyman entered the game and proceeded to lead Kansas City on

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jessica Pegula is headed to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the fifth time. It is her third consecutive trip to that stage of the Australian Open. The 28-year-old American has yet to make it to a semifinal. She will face 2012-13 Australian

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State says guard Terquavion Smith is day-to-day after a scary fall in Saturday’s loss to North Carolina. Smith was wheeled off the court on a stretcher in Saturday’s loss at North Carolina. The school says Smith reported neck and elbow pain, as well as numbness in his right arm

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Erling Haaland scored his fourth Premier League hat trick of the season to lead Manchester City to a 3-0 win over Wolverhampton as Pep Guardiola’s midweek message got through to the champions. The Norway striker’s three-goal burst in a 14-minute spell either side of halftime lifted him to 25 for the

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Union Berlin has signed Croatia right back Josip Juranović from Scottish champion Celtic for the modest Bundesliga club’s biggest transfer to date. Union has announced the 27-year-old Juranović’s transfer without giving details of the length of his contract or transfer fee. Media reports suggested Union had

MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) — Frenchman Sebastien Ogier has won the season-opening Monte Carlo rally for a record ninth time to break the tie with countryman Sebastien Loeb. The eight-time world champion Ogier powered his Toyota to victory over defending world champion Kalle Rovanperä of Finland (Toyota) and Belgian Thierry Neuville (Hyundai). The 39-year-old Ogier

KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) — Swiss skier Daniel Yule has won a men’s World Cup slalom after first-run leader Manuel Feller straddled a gate and failed to finish his home race. Yule was seventh after the opening run. He posted the third-fastest time in the second and then saw the top six fail to beat his

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Victor Perez won the Abu Dhabi Championship for the third and biggest European tour title of his career. The Frenchman’s 6-under 66 in the final round was capped by holing a bunker shot at No. 17. Perez led by one when he sent his tee shot short and

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Victor Perez won the Abu Dhabi Championship for the third and biggest European tour title of his career. The Frenchman’s 6-under 66 in the final round was capped by holing a bunker shot at No. 17. Perez led by one when he sent his tee shot short and

KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) — Manuel Feller has posted the fastest opening-run time in a men’s World Cup slalom and positioned himself to become the first Austrian skier in six years to win the classic race. Feller avoided mistakes on the icy Ganslern course to build a lead of 0.31 seconds over Norway’s Lucas Braathen. Linus

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record 83rd World Cup win will move on to the next stop on the circuit. Shiffrin finished seventh in a super-G, 0.62 seconds behind race winner Ragnhild Mowinckel on the course that will host the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. It was the third straight

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Sebastian Korda has reached the first Grand Slam quarterfinal of his career by beating 10th-seeded Hubert Hurkacz in a fifth-set tiebreaker at the Australian Open. Korda is a 22-year-old American whose father, Petr, won the 1998 championship at the tournament. Korda’s 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 1-6,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic faces another test of his fitness as he plays Alex de Minaur for a place in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. The nine-time champion has been dealing with a sore left hamstring throughout the tournament. Djokovic is trying to win the title for a record-extending 10th time. He

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina has eliminated No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko has defeated Coco Gauff in the Australian Open’s fourth round. The 22nd-seeded Rybakina used her big serving to unsettle Swiatek and got the better of their baseline exchanges