Month: January 2021

3:47 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hall of Fame golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, along with the late Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias, have been presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday. The award is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. President Donald Trump has generally held public
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9:31 AM ET United States men’s national team and Philadelphia Union defender Mark McKenzie has signed with Belgian side Genk, the Union announced on Thursday. While the exact terms of the deal were not disclosed, the transfer fee is reportedly $6 million which, when combined with performance based incentives, could make the transfer the highest
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4:11 PM ET Premier League teams should be vaccinated against COVID-19 so the money saved from twice-weekly testing can be invested in the country’s National Health Service (NHS) instead, Burnley manager Sean Dyche said on Thursday. Top-flight clubs’ players and staff are being tested twice a week after a highly infectious variant of the virus
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11:19 AM ET Arsenal have borrowed £120 million from the Bank of England to help the club’s cashflow through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The loan is repayable by the end of May and is principally designed to help offset the ongoing absence of matchday revenue for the season. – Why have Arsenal sent Saliba on
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10:13 AM ET Associated Press Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema will face trial for his alleged involvement in blackmailing former France teammate Matthieu Valbuena in a “sex tape” scandal, the Versailles prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Benzema is suspected of having pressured his former national team teammate to pay blackmailers who threatened to reveal an intimate
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9:25 AM ET Manchester United forward Edinson Cavani was banned for three games and fined £100,000 by the English Football Association, despite a three-man Regulatory Commission finding “no intent on the part of the player to be discriminatory or offensive in any way” while posting a message to a friend on social media. Uruguay international
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