Month: February 2024

Associated Press Feb 23, 2024, 01:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Italian tennis player Andrea Rita has been suspended for 15 months as part of a corruption investigation, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday. The ITIA said Rita, 23, admitted to four breaches of anti-corruption rules “including wagering on tennis matches and
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Feb 23, 2024, 04:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Formula One’s preseason testing was halted for a second successive day on Friday by a loose drain cover at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit. The track action resumed after repairs at Turn 11 with the usual lunch break dropped and the session scheduled to run until 7 p.m.
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Feb 23, 2024, 08:26 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The growth of MMA in the past couple of decades has been astronomical. Fighters from every major continent have won championships across the UFC, PFL and Bellator, and the three promotions already have cards scheduled outside the United States in 2024, including Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,
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Open Extended Reactions BAHRAIN — Max Verstappen and his Red Bull team will leave Formula One’s preseason test feeling confident they can sweep all challengers again in 2024. At the end of running on Friday’s final day it was Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, not Verstappen, top of the order, but all the chatter this week has
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India’s debutant fast bowler Akash Deep had his hand on his head when the no-ball siren went off during the fourth over of the day in Ranchi. He had just sent Zak Crawley’s off stump cartwheeling with a nip-backer for what would have been his first Test wicket, but the replay showed he had overstepped.
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James Regan Feb 23, 2024, 04:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Malo Gusto has said youth is not an excuse for Chelsea‘s failures this season and targeted beating Liverpool in Sunday’s Carabao Cup final in order to galvanise the team and push them on from their midtable Premier League struggles. Having endured patches of poor
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Feb 23, 2024, 03:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois could return from his ACL injury at the end of April, sources have told ESPN. The Belgium international underwent surgery after rupturing his ACL in his left knee in training in August last year. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more
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Tom Chambers Feb 23, 2024, 06:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Mikel Arteta has said that his team need to learn how to be “tricky” and “streetwise” in certain situations following Arsenal’s Champions League first-leg defeat to Porto on Wednesday. Statistics showed that the ball was only in play for around 50 minutes
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