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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium coach Domenico Tedesco dropped veteran midfielder Axel Witsel when he named his first squad since being appointed last month. Tedesco opted not to select Witsel for upcoming matches against Sweden and Germany but insisted it wasn’t because the 34-year-old Atletico Madrid player is getting too

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer The New York Jets have signed former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Allen Lazard to a four-year contract. Lazard reunites with Jets offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, who worked with the receiver in the same role in Green Bay from 2019-21. Lazard could also rejoin quarterback Aaron Rodgers,

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany coach Hansi Flick picked five uncapped players for upcoming friendlies in an experimental first squad since being eliminated in the group stage at the World Cup. Germany is hosting the European Championship next year and will try to start building momentum in games at home against Peru on March 25

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer From No. 13 seed Furman beating fourth-seeded Virginia to No. 15 Princeton defeating second-seeded Arizona, most NCAA Tournament brackets were busted Thursday before the sun went down. The NCAA March Madness Twitter account posted after Thursday’s late games concluded that only 787 brackets of unspecified millions remained perfect. Numbers

SOLDEU, Andorra (AP) — Norway has won the mixed team parallel event at the World Cup Finals after Timon Haugan beat his Swiss opponent Semyel Bissig in the decisive run. Livio Simonet and Andrea Ellenberger gave Switzerland a 2-1 lead in the final. But Haugan’s triumph handed Norway the victory as its faster run times

LEEDS, England (AP) — Leeds midfielder Tyler Adams will miss an undetermined amount of time with a hamstring injury and manager Javi Gracia says the American won’t be easy to replace. The 24-year-old Adams was ruled out of Leeds’ match at Wolverhampton on Saturday after sustaining the injury this week in training. The United States

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Jim Ratcliffe is touring Manchester United as part of his bid to buy the English soccer club. The billionaire owner of INEOS jetted in for talks with club executives at Old Trafford with some of his closest advisors. Ratcliffe was greeted by United chief executive

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — New Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has recalled Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga along with several veteran players for his first squad since replacing Luis Enrique ahead of European championship qualifiers. De la Fuente only stuck with 11 players that Luis Enrique took to last year’s

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Real Madrid’s path to another Champions League title will have to go through Chelsea in the quarterfinals for the second straight year. The draw takes Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti back to his former club. The first leg between the past two Champions League winners will

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — European competition draw lists.

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Stephen Curry has a simple answer for the drama between his four-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the upstart Memphis Grizzlies over the past two seasons. For Curry, it’s not a feud or a bitter rivalry. For Golden State, Curry says it’s just a matchup with a

By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer From the First Four to the Final Four, the women’s NCAA Tournament captivates sports fans for more than three weeks every year. How well do you think you know it? Do you know the teams that finished unbeaten? Who’s the leading scorer in a championship game? Which player

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark has looked over the women’s NCAA Tournament bracket, eyed the potential matchups facing her second-seeded Hawkeyes and the rest of their Big Ten brethern, and come to a rather optimistic conclusion. “The Big Ten can certainly place two in the Final Four,” she said. “I

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Losses by second-seeded Arizona and fourth-seeded Virginia in the first round of the NCAA Tournament won’t help their March reputations. The Wildcats lost for the fifth straight time to a team seeded worse than them. The latest was a meltdown against No. 15 seed Princeton. The Cavaliers lost in