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Federation Internationale de Football Association cancels U17 and U20 World Cups in 2021
The teams will be divided into three pools - two of three countries and one of four - with sides from the same confederation kept apart. Rather than a round-robin format, knockout ties will be used, and the seeded team will be just one win away from the World Cup in the three-team groups. [Full Article...]
Former England Batsman John Edrich Dies At 83
Coming from a family of cricketers, Edrich had a flourishing First Class career with Surrey, the club where he would serve as President later. He was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease in 2000 and was initially given seven years to live. [Full Article...]
Northwestern State vs. Washington State - Game Recap
Dominick Harris scored 10 points in 19 minutes off the bench for Gonzaga, which held a dominating 46-22 rebounding edge. "They really torched us from 3 and spread us out, " Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "We're not shooting the ball very well", McConathy said. "They had eight offensive boards versus 18 a night ago". He only had one rebound in the first half but grabbed three or four in the second ... [Full Article...]
Auburn hires Boise State's Bryan Harsin as next head football coach
Those high expectations might be one of the reasons that former Clemson offensive coordinator Billy Napier has turned down the Auburn job. The 2013 SEC Coach of the Year posted a 68-35 record over eight seasons with the Tigers. A victory in the 2014 Mountain West championship game marked Boise State's first outright league title since joining the conference in 2011, and its first overall since... [Full Article...]
Federer, Serena confirm for Australian Open
The first ten seeds will be Djokovic (1), Nadal (2), Austrian Dominic Thiem (3), Russian Daniil Medvedev (4), Federer (5), Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (6), German Alexander Zverev (7), Russian Andrey Rublev (8), Argentine Diego Schwartzman (9) and Italian Matteo Berrettini . [Full Article...]
Carolina Panthers-Washington Football Team Week 16 matchup moved to late window
I will learn and grow from this and do whats best for the team moving forward. Haskins said it was hard to address the situation publicly. Haskins started Sunday for the first time since early October and threw two interceptions and a touchdown in a 20-15 loss to Seattle. [Full Article...]
South Africa seek red ball revenge in first Test vs Sri Lanka
Both sides will be keen to avoid a second postponement of the series after the Tests were pulled last March as Covid-19 first took hold. Sri Lanka , who have played just two series till now, of two matches each, have won just one game while drawing one and losing two and have just 80 points. [Full Article...]
⚪️ Man City make formal contact with David Alaba
Alaba's Bayern contract expires in June 2021 and both Manchester clubs have made approaches for the 75-cap Austria worldwide. In recent seasons Inter have managed to land the likes of Stefan de Vrij and Diego Godin on free transfers and it cannot be excluded that they could even land Austrian national team representative Alaba on a free transfer as well. [Full Article...]