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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Purdue is back at No. 1 in the AP Top 25. Alabama is right behind the Boilermakers. Purdue returned to the top spot in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll on Monday, moving up two spots after Temple knocked off No. 1 Houston over the weekend. The Boilermakers

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi Arabian soccer league has hired the former chief executive of Manchester City to work on cashing in commercial opportunities created by the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo in the country. Garry Cook was a long-time Nike executive before joining Man City in 2008. He was with the Premier League

MADRID (AP) — Spanish club Girona has signed Peru defender Alexander Callens from New York City FC. Girona says the 30-year-old player signed a contract for the remainder of this season and two more. He will join former NYC teammates Taty Castellanos and Yangel Herrera. Girona and NYC are controlled by the parent company of

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Frank Lampard looks to have taken charge of his last match as Everton manager. British media are reporting that Lampard has been fired with the club in the relegation zone of the Premier League. Everton hasn’t confirmed Lampard’s departure. The club says an update will be provided shortly on Lampard’s position.

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Twila Kilgore knew her career path when she was just 12 years old, thanks to a youth soccer coach who used to drive her to practice. During those rides, she got to hear “all the behind-the-scene things that were happening” and was “exposed to what a coach actually

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Dani Alves has been transferred to a new detention center because of security reasons after being accused of sexual assault. Catalan officials say the new detention center has “smaller residential modules” where it is easier to guarantee the safety and coexistence of inmates. Authorities say the type of crime that Alves

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ronald Koeman has pledged to take the Netherlands back to playing attractive, attacking soccer as he begins his second stint in charge of the national team that lost in the World Cup quarterfinals to eventual winner Argentina. The 59-year-old Koeman said he wants a return

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka is back in the Switzerland team for the Davis Cup next week. He returns after a seven-year gap from a competition he won playing with Roger Federer in 2014. The Swiss tennis federation says the 37-year-old Wawrinka has been selected to face Germany in a

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — It took about a week for Novak Djokovic to go from worrying about whether he simply could play a match at all on his injured left hamstring to thinking he can win the Australian Open. And one pain-free, nearly perfect performance in the fourth round

LONDON (AP) — The governing body of English soccer has appealed against the sanction imposed by an independent panel on a lower-league manager banned for 15 months for using discriminatory language toward his players. The Football Association says it believes “a longer sanction is appropriate” for John Yems. He is the former manager of fourth-tier

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Former Barcelona star Gerard Piqué is bidding to disrupt Spanish soccer with a new amateur seven-a-side competition designed to tap into the millions of young people who now prefer to watch a live stream online instead of a 90-minute televised match. The Kings League is shown

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The next stop on Ben Shelton’s impressive debut run at the Australian Open will be the quarterfinals. The 20-year-old NCAA champion from the University of Florida pulled out a five-set victory over J.J. Wolf in an all-American matchup at Melbourne Park. Shelton is playing in

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Sacred Heart and UConn have new state-of-the art ice arenas that put a national spotlight on college hockey in Connecticut. The buildings cost more than $70 million a piece and opened the same week that Quinnipiac’s men’s team took the top spot in the national