European club competition draws
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — European club competition draws.
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — European club competition draws.
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ROME (AP) — The Italian government’s new sports minister Andrea Abodi has signed a letter to UEFA supporting Italy’s bid to host the 2032 European Championship. Abodi’s letter will be attached to a preliminary bid dossier due at UEFA next week, which is required to include a statement of support from the government. Final bid
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Real Madrid will play Liverpool in the Champions League the round of 16 after the draw was made Monday. It’s a rematch of the 2018 and 2022 finals both won by the Spanish giant. Paris Saint-Germain will play Bayern Munich in another rematch of a
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Draw made Monday for the Champions League round of 16:
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By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Southampton has fired manager Ralph Hasenhüttl with the team in the relegation zone in the Premier League. The decision came a day after Southampton lost 4-1 to Newcastle. That left the team in third-to-last place. Hasenhüttl had been in charge for nearly four years. He said after the game
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Eight different women have dunked in women’s college basketball and more are on the way as players are getting bigger and stronger. Fran Belibi of Stanford became the third to do it in an NCAA Tournament game last spring and feels her dunk might inspire others to try. South
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By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Tanner Mordecai’s eye-popping numbers in SMU’s record-setting win over Houston were amassed in an incredibly efficient manner. The Mustangs’ 77-63 win set the NCAA record for most combined points in a regulation game and Mordecai was responsible for 60. Mordecai’s nine touchdown passes were the most since Washington
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SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Southampton has fired manager Ralph Hasenhüttl with the team in the relegation zone in the Premier League. The decision came a day after Southampton lost 4-1 to Newcastle. That left the team in third-to-last place. Hasenhüttl had been in charge for nearly four years.
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By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City has reported record revenues and profits for the club in its latest financial statement and said “beautiful football” was the main reason for its success. Revenues of 613 million pounds ($693 million) for the year 2021-22 surpassed the figure of almost 570 million
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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jordan Clarkson scored 23 points, reserve Collin Sexton added 22 and the Utah Jazz beat the Los Angeles Clippers 110-102. The Jazz rallied after blowing a 10-point lead in the first half and trailing by six in the third quarter. Paul George scored 34 points,
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Derrick Henry was rumbling his way through the Kansas City Chiefs defense, and through the Titans history books, during a first half that went exactly the way Tennessee coach Mike Vrabel dreamed it would Sunday night. The second half was more like a nightmare.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Former world No. 1 Ash Barty has emphatically ruled out ever making a comeback to tennis, or switching to another sport. Launching her autobiography at Melbourne Park — scene of her Australian Open triumph in January just two months before her shock retirement announcement — the 26-year-old Barty said she had
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes was probably having flashbacks Sunday night to his days at Texas Tech, when he would scramble around like a kid playing sandlot football while routinely throwing the ball 60-plus times in a game. The Chiefs needed all of it — every run,
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Sam Reinhart had two goals in the third period, Carter Verhaeghe scored for the third straight game and the Florida Panthers beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-3. Brandon Montour had a goal and three assists and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers, who finished 2-2
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka has stunned top-ranked Iga Swiatek to reach the championship of the WTA Finals. Sabalenka is a 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 winner in the semifinals. She will face Caroline Garcia. The Frenchwoman rolled to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Maria Sakkari in the other
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami women’s basketball coach Katie Meier has been suspended for the first three games of the season while the school cooperates with an NCAA probe. The NCAA has not announced any sanctions against Miami. That means this is a self-imposed penalty by the university.
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Jimmer Fredette now knows what it’s like to win a 3×3 gold medal with USA Basketball. He’s hoping it’s the first of many. Fredette’s 2-pointer — that’s what beyond-the-arc shots are worth in the 3-on-3 game — with 1:07 remaining was the clinching basket in a
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NEW YORK (AP) — Montreal forward Josh Anderson was suspended for two games by the NHL on Sunday for boarding Vegas’ Alex Pietrangelo the previous night. The play occurred midway through the third period of the Golden Knights’ 6-5 win over the Canadiens when Anderson hit Pietrangelo into the side boards from behind after the
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins have decided to rescind their contract offer to defenseman Mitchell Miller, who had his draft rights relinquished by Arizona for bullying a Black classmate with developmental disabilities in middle school. The team signed Miller to an entry-level contract Friday. Bruins players from captain Patrice Bergeron down criticized the decision,
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By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady put together another last-minute drive to hand the Los Angeles Rams a crushing defeat. But Rams coach Sean McVay and quarterback Matthew Stafford put the blame for Sunday’s 16-13 loss on the Rams’ offense, which hardly resembles the unit that led LA to a
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