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PRAGUE, Czech Republic (Reuters) — Two-times Wimbledon champion and world number 11 Petra Kvitova was attacked in her home on Tuesday (December 20) and is receiving medical attention, Czech news agency CTK reported, citing her spokesman. “It was a random criminal act,” the agency cited spokesman Karel Tejkal as saying. “She was assaulted in her apartment and is in the care of doctors, but her injuries are not life threatening.” The spokesman gave no […]
(REUTERS) – A minute’s silence was held before a Bundesliga match in Dortmund on Tuesday (December 20) for the victims of an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. Both sets of players from Borussia Dortmund and Augsburg stood in silence around the centre circle at the Westfalenstadion. Christmas markets in Berlin stayed shut on Tuesday as the city mourned the victims of the previous evening’s truck rampage, while security measures were stepped up at […]
SACRAMENTO, United States (AFP) — DeMarcus Cousins escaped a suspension but the Sacramento Kings slapped the club’s center with a $50,000 fine for bullying a reporter in the team’s locker room, the US media reported Tuesday. Cousins took issue on December 12 with a column written by Sacramento Bee writer Andy Furillo. The story mentioned Cousins’ brother Jaleel and cited an alleged confrontation involving Cousins at a Tampa-area bar last spring. The incident led to […]
(REUTERS) – World Champion John John Florence wrapped up his first ever title on the Championship Tour with a 5th place finish at the Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons on Monday (December 19). The 24-year-old North Shore native claimed the top honors of the World Surf League with victory at the tenth stop of the tour at the MEO Rip Curl Pro in Portugal in October before returning to his stomping ground […]
Britain Football Soccer – Everton v Liverpool – Premier League – Goodison Park – 19/12/16 Liverpool’s Sadio Mane celebrates scoring their first goal with teammates.
ARE, Sweden (Reuters) — Olympic ski cross bronze medallist Anna Holmlund of Sweden was put in a medically-induced coma after sustaining a head injury in a training accident in Italy, Scandinavian media reported on Monday (December 19). According to the Expressen newspaper, the 29-year-old crashed while training in Bolzano ahead of Tuesday’s FIS World Cup competition in Innichen in northern Italy. “It has been established she has some small bleeding on the brain and she […]
LONDON, England (Reuters) — The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Monday (December 19) that he believed problems with doping in professional sports goes beyond athletics. Speaking in front of the UK’s Culture, Media and Sport select committee, Craig Reedie said, “When I found out what had happened on the retesting done by the IOC I was pretty furious. I still think the Games were great Games but it’s a huge blow that […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Los Angeles Clippers player Blake Griffin will undergo surgery on his right knee this week and is expected to be sidelined until at least January. The Clippers announced Monday that the arthroscopic procedure would remove loose material from his knee and added the 27-year-old Griffin is expected to miss three to six weeks. Griffin has struggled recently with left calf and knee soreness. He played 38 minutes in the […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The San Antonio Spurs’ 113-100 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans was just the curtain-raiser Sunday to the team’s heart-tugging ceremony honoring retired superstar Tim Duncan. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 22 points in 26 minutes on the floor, and Manu Ginobili added a season-high 17 points for the Spurs, who notched their fourth win on the trot. But the big number of the night was 21 — Duncan’s jersey number […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Rookie center Joel Embiid scored a career-high 33 points to lead Philadelphia to a 108-107 NBA victory over the Brooklyn Nets that snapped the 76ers’ eight-game home losing streak on Sunday. Embiid connected on 12-of-17 from the floor, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 2:43 remaining. He also pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked three shots. There was a slight scare for the 76ers faithful, however, as Embiid was seen rubbing […]
Australian three-time surfing world champion Mick Fanning rides waves under the Northern Lights off Norway’s remote Lofoten archipelago. https://youtu.be/fd8JWAcqCkY
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Unbeaten super lightweight world champion Terence Crawford, five days removed from his latest title defense, was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday over a disturbance at a Nebraska car repair shop. Judge Marcena Hendrix, telling Crawford that he was not above the law, also ordered the 29-year-old champion to serve two years’ probation and 120 hours of community service. He must undergo random drug and alcohol tests […]
