LONDON (AP) — Premier League club Chelsea has signed France defender Benoît Badiashile on a seven-and-a-half-year contract from French side Monaco. No financial details were given but French media estimated the transfer fee to be around 34 million pounds ($40 million). The 21-year-old central defender made his Monaco debut in the 2018-19 season and played
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The Masters is extending an invitation to NCAA champion Gordon Sargent. Sargent is now a sophomore at Vanderbilt. He won the NCAA title last year in a four-man playoff and is regarded as one of the elite college golfers. He’s No. 3 in the amateur ranking. Augusta National has
Continue Reading KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Josh Heupel says Joey Halzle has been promoted from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator for the sixth-ranked Volunteers. Halzle will continue coaching quarterbacks. He repalces Alex Golesh, who was hired in early December as the new coach at South Florida. Heupel says Halzle has been instrumental in the Vols’
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The horror that swept across the NFL when Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed and went into cardiac arrest during a game this week in Cincinnati was all too familiar to members of the hockey community. Five players in the NHL over the past 25 years who collapsed
Continue Reading STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma will sit out the Huskies’ game at Xavier Thursday, the fourth game he has missed this season due to illness. The Hall of Fame coach also sat out Tuesday’s win at Butler and UConn (12-2). The school didn’t release a timetable for his return. Auriemma
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours,” the team announced Thursday, three days after the player went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field. “While still critically
Continue Reading By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer General Motors will attempt to enter Formula One by partnering with Andretti Global under its Cadillac banner as it supports Michael Andretti’s bid to launch a two-car American team. Andretti has been lobbying the FIA to expand the 20-car grid and join the series after a failed 2021
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Paul has signed a deal with the Professional Fighters League. The YouTube star signed with PFL to compete in a new Super Fight division that is scheduled to include fights on pay-per-view. The 25-year-old Paul is 6-0 as a professional boxer. He has wins against former UFC champions Tyron Woodley
Continue Reading By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo’s new club, Al Nassr, has postponed its scheduled Saudi Pro League home match on Thursday due to heavy rain. Ronaldo was not due to play as he’s suspended. He was handed a two-match suspension by the English Football Association in November for
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer For Damar Hamlin’s teammates, peers and everyone in the NFL community, going back to work is not business as usual. Players returned to practice with heavy hearts on Wednesday, two days after Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated on the field during Buffalo’s game
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By Jacob Lev and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Just seconds after Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field from cardiac arrest on Monday, medical personnel swarmed onto the field in an immediate response that has been widely credited for the player’s steps toward recovery. But one Bills team member in particular — assistant athletic
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) soccer player Gio Reyna’s mother, Danielle, said Wednesday she was the one who reported the 1991 incident between US Soccer men’s head coach Gregg Berhalter and his wife Rosalind. Reyna says she told United States Soccer Federation (USSF) sporting director Earnie Stewart about the incident
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Just seconds after Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field from cardiac arrest on Monday, medical personnel swarmed onto the field in an immediate response that has been widely credited for the player’s steps toward recovery. But one Bills team member in particular — assistant athletic
Continue Reading AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Emma Raducanu blamed slippery indoor courts for an ankle injury which forced her to withdraw from the ASB Bank Tennis Classic on Thursday, less than two weeks before the start of the Australian Open. The 2021 U.S. Open champion was in tears after retiring in the third set of her
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier hopes World Cup winner Lionel Messi is ready to play in a French league game at home to Angers next Wednesday. Messi took an extended break back home after leading Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar. He returned to training
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The first tennis grand slam of the year is fast approaching and a host of the sport’s leading players are Down Under fine tuning their preparations for the Australian Open. Whether two-time Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka will be at the tournament is the subject of growing speculation. Despite being on
Continue Reading By Zayn Nabbi and Matt Foster, CNN Amnesty International said Wednesday that soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo should highlight human rights issues in Saudi Arabia during his time playing at Al Nassr. A press release from the human rights watchdog quotes Dana Ahmed, its Middle East researcher, saying, “Al-Nassr’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo fits into a
Continue Reading By Matt Foster, CNN FIFA president Gianni Infantino expressed his support for two Lecce players who were racially abused in an Italian Serie A match on Wednesday, calling upon fans to “shut up all the racists.” During the match between Lecce and Lazio in Italy’s top division, French defender Samuel Umtiti and Zambian forward Lameck
Continue Reading By Ben Church and Jill Martin, CNN Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow says he “probably wants to play” his team’s next game but also understands that others don’t in the aftermath of Damar Hamlin’s collapse on Monday. Buffalo Bills safety Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest when playing against the Bengals, an incident which left players
Continue Reading By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo’s new team Al Nassr is nicknamed Al Alami which means “The Global Club.” However, the Saudi Arabian club was hardly prepared to handle the sudden attention of the world that came its way following one of the most sensational signings in soccer
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