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Brazil hires Diniz as national team coach for 1 year, waits for Ancelotti

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has appointed a new national team coach. Sort of.Fernando Diniz has been hired as head coach of Brazil’s national team on a 12-month contract that will be due to expire when Carlo Ancelotti’s deal with Real Madrid ends. Executives at the Brazilian soccer confederation have indicated the intention is to wait a season and then bring in Ancelotti, the 64-year-old Italian coach, to lead the team into the 2026 World Cup.The 49-year-old Fluminense coach Diniz will keep his job at the Rio de Janeiro club and join Brazil only for South American World Cup qualifiers. He takes over from Brazil U-20 team coach Ramon Menezes, who led the team into this year’s friendlies on an interim basis, losing two out of three matches. Brazil is yet to appoint a long-term coach to replace Tite, who left the job after a quarterfinal loss to Croatia in the 2022 World Cup at Qatar. Diniz, who in recent years has been praised by Brazil stars including Neymar and Thiago Silva, will be int...

Josef Martínez reaches 104 career goals, Inter Miami ties Crew 2-2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Josef Martínez scored his sixth goal of the season in the 90th minute to reach 104 for his career and Inter Miami tied the Columbus Crew 2-2 on Tuesday night.Miami (5-13-2) was coming off its first draw of the season to end a seven-match losing streak. Miami had gone 28 straight regular-season matches without a draw.Martínez, who also scored in Miami’s 1-1 draw with Austin on Saturday, is tied with Dwayne De Rosario for the ninth-most goals in MLS history.Miami tied it at 1-all in the 57th when Leonardo Campana headed in a corner for his fourth goal of the season. Three of his four goals have come against Columbus.Columbus (10-6-5) has two draws and five wins in its last seven matches. The Crew have won just two of their last 17 regular-season away matches.Darlington Nagbe opened the scoring for Columbus in the 23rd by volleying home a loose ball outside of the 18-yard box. Christian Ramírez gave Columbus a 2-1 lead in the 69th with a sliding finish of C...

World swelters to unofficial hottest day on record

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

The entire planet sweltered to the unofficial hottest day in human recordkeeping July 3, according to University of Maine scientists at the Climate Reanalyzer project. High temperature records were surpassed July 3 and 4 in Quebec and northwestern Canada and Peru. Cities across the U.S. from Medford, Oregon to Tampa, Florida have been hovering at all-time highs, said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Beijing reported 9 straight days last week when the temperature exceeded 35 C (95 F).This global record is preliminary, pending approval from gold-standard climate measurement entities like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. But it is an indication that climate change is reaching into uncharted territory. It legitimately captures global-scale heating and NOAA will take these figures into consideration when it does its official record calculations, said Deke Arndt, director of the National Center for Environmental Information, a division of NO...

Angels’ Ohtani leaves with blister after giving up 2 homers in 8-5 loss to Padres, Musgrove

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two-way All-Star Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels left Tuesday’s game with a blister on his right middle finger after allowing consecutive home runs to Xander Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth in the sixth inning of an 8-5 loss to Joe Musgrove and the San Diego Padres. Ohtani’s exit came a few hours after the Angels found out they’ll be without All-Star slugger Mike Trout for several weeks because of a broken left wrist. Ohtani (7-4) allowed a line-drive, two-run homer by Bogaerts to left field and then Cronenworth’s shot to right-center. A trainer came out with an interpreter to check on Ohtani and they were soon joined by manager Phil Nevin. Ohtani then exited. He allowed five runs and seven hits, struck out five and walked four.The right-hander’s start had been pushed back a day due to a cracked fingernail. He left his previous start as a pitcher but remained in the game as the designated hitter and homered, giving him 10 strikeouts and...

¿Qué hizo Roger Federer después? El 20 veces campeón del Grand Slam reflexiona sobre su retiro

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

(CNN) —  La oportunidad de que Roger Federer te entrene sería sin duda un sueño hecho realidad para cualquier joven tenista, sin contar a los hijos del gran tenista suizo.Las dos hijas gemelas y los dos hijos gemelos de Federer juegan al tenis hasta cuatro veces por semana y, aunque el 20 veces campeón de Grand Slam se encuentra a menudo en la cancha con ellos, le asegura a Christina Macfarlane, de CNN, que él en la mayoría de los casos intenta no meterse.“No soy el entrenador, soy el padre, y los consejos del padre, como sabemos, solo llegan hasta cierto punto”, dice entre risas Federer, de 41 años. “No importa si ganaste en Wimbledon o no, sigues siendo el padre y a veces no quieren oír lo que tienes que decir”.“Intento ser divertido, pero al mismo tiempo también intento ser directo a veces y simplemente enseñarles. Supongo que soy más un entrenador técnico, así que intento enseñarles todas las raquetas de tenis”.Roger Federer enloquece a ...

Araújo and Thórhallsson each score first MLS goal, Orlando routs Toronto FC 4-0

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — César Araújo and Dagur Thórhallsson each scored their first MLS goal and Orlando routed Toronto FC 4-0 on Tuesday night.Orlando (9-5-7) is unbeaten in its last seven regular-season matches against Toronto, including winning both meetings last season. It’s the first time the Lions have gone unbeaten in seven straight against a single opponent.Araújo opened the scoring in the 16th minute with a diving header of Rafael Santos’ cross. Rookie Duncan McGuire made it 2-0 in the 22nd by poking in a deflected cross for his seventh goal of the season.Thórhallsson scored in the 77th by beating Toronto goalkeeper Greg Ranjitsingh to a through ball and sending it into an empty net. Ercan Kara added another goal in the 84th minute off a back-heel pass from Martín Ojeda.Toronto (3-9-10) is winless in 14 straight away matches.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Rose Zhang is making everyone look in the US Women’s Open at Pebble Beach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Rose Zhang set the women’s course record at Pebble Beach and hardly anyone noticed outside of her local caddie, Stanford teammates and college golf enthusiasts.Ten months later, Zhang walked toward the 17th green at Pebble Beach with three amateurs in the U.S. Women’s Open and heads turned to look. And not just any heads. To her left were some three dozen U.S. Women’s Open champions who had posed for a group photo, several of them in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Had it been anyone else, laughs and chatter might have continued. Zhang made them at least glance her way.That’s what the 20-year-old Zhang brings to this historic Women’s Open, and perhaps to the LPGA Tour. She is two tournaments into her professional career, now facing the strongest test in women’s golf, and she already is talked about as much as anyone at Pebble Beach.Michelle Wie West was in that group. She has become close to Zhang to the point someone sugg...

Veteran's truck, military patches, stolen from Denver airport parking lot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A sharp rise in vehicle thefts at Denver International Airport has travelers on high alert.Jake Mattern said he returned to the airport on July 2 only to find his truck stolen out of the Economy West parking lot at DIA. Veteran who wrote over 100 military books named FOX31 Hero of the Month “I walked around for probably two hours almost, just walking around thinking I was crazy,” Mattern said. His gray 2015 Ford F-150 is now gone, but he said what was inside stung the most. "I had all of my patches from all of my deployments and teams I had worked with,” Mattern said. “It doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re embedded with teams overseas and you do a good job and get to know them, you trade team patches and it’s a memento, a reminder of what you did.”Mattern served in the U.S. Air Force as a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller.“As you get further from being off duty, those little things are the only last memories you have,” Mattern said...

Rapids fans celebrate July 4th, despite rain delay

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (KDVR) — Storm threats and cloudy skies didn’t stop thousands from celebrating July Fourth at the Colorado Rapids game.At Dick's Sporting Goods Park, waving reeds and blowing trees didn't interrupt the tailgate celebrations and barbecues beneath them. Drivers rescued from flooded Denver roads “Absolutely not, We were committed to be here to enjoy the game, enjoy the weather, and just enjoy each other,” season ticketholder Carli Seeba said. “We actually made our vacation plans around this so we could be here this year.”Skyler, who served overseas on past Independence Day holidays, enjoyed making new friends ahead of the game.“I got to meet some new people. These guys are all strangers but now they're family to me,” Skyler said, adding, “I think anybody will agree: If it rains, oh well. That’s not going to ruin anybody’s spirits.”Following the Rapids game, the public was invited to watch what’s advertised as the largest public fireworks display in the state. 

A ‘skills-first’ strategy for a resilient European labor market

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:51:20 GMT