Month: March 2022

12:34 PM ET Ruud van Nistelrooy coaches the PSV U23 team against FC Emmen at the Jan Louwers stadion on March 7, 2022. Getty Images Former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy will take over as PSV Eindhoven manager from next season, the Dutch club announced Wednesday. Van Nistelrooy, who played for PSV
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11:55 AM ET A teenager has been jailed for racially abusing Marcus Rashford. Getty Images A British teenager has been sentenced to six weeks in prison after racially abusing England‘s Marcus Rashford on Twitter after last year’s European Championship final, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Wednesday. Justin Lee Price, 19, from Worcester, previously admitted
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2:29 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona set a new world record attendance for a women’s match with 91,553 supporters attending Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal against Real Madrid at Camp Nou. The previous record crowd for a women’s game has stood since 1999, when 90,185 fans watched the World Cup final between the United
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3:25 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama Crimson Tide offensive lineman Evan Neal, a projected top-five pick in the upcoming NFL draft, said he’s willing to play just about any position as a pro. Neal began his career at Alabama at guard but later transitioned to left tackle. “You can pretty much plug me in
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1:20 PM ET Associated Press Dominic Thiem, the 2020 U.S. Open champion, said Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID-19 after his first match in more than nine months. Thiem lost 6-3, 6-4 to Pedro Cachin at the Andalucía Open on the lower-level Challenger Tour on Tuesday. The 28-year-old Austrian player had been sidelined by
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11:54 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Naoye Inoue and Nonito Donaire are set to meet again in a rematch of ESPN’s 2019 Fight of the Year. Inoue, ESPN’s No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer, announced on social media that he’s set to fight Donaire on June 7 (a Tuesday) at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Inoue will
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12:44 PM ET Associated Press SECAUCUS, N.J. — Retired pitcher Jake Peavy and outfielder Hunter Pence have joined the MLB Network as analysts. Peavy, 40, last played in 2016. A three-time All-Star, he won the 2007 NL Cy Young Award. Pence, who turns 39 on April 13, was a four-time All-Star who last played in
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11:41 AM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Alex Goligoski to a two-year, $4 million contract extension on Wednesday. The 36-year-old Goligoski is in his first season with the Wild, his home-state club. He has two goals, 26 assists and a team-leading plus-34 rating in 58 games. His new
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