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Polish tennis star Iga Swiątek has accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced on Thursday.Five-time Grand Slam winner Świątek tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine.The ITIA said it found that “Świątek’s level of fault was considered to be at the lower end of the range for “no significant fault or negligence”.”The ITIA recognized that the positive test was due to contamination of a regulated non-prescription medicine (melatonin), manufactured and sold in Poland, which the player was taking for jet lag and sleep problems, and that the violation was…

Snell details ‘easy’ decision to join Dodgers after brief stint with Giants originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay AreaBlake Snell wasted no time deciding which team he wanted to join in MLB free agency this offseason.The former Giants ace, who signed a two-year, $62 million contract with San Francisco late last offseason, withdrew from the final year of his contract on November 1 and agreed to a $182 million contract over five years with the Los Angeles Dodgers shortly thereafter on November 26.During Snell’s introductory news conference Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, reporters asked whether his decision to sign with Los…

Patriots Mailbag: Potential personnel changes, ideal 2025 draft and beyond originally appeared on NBC Sports BostonThe 3-10 New England Patriots have reached their bye week. Fortunately. But even though there’s no game on the schedule this Sunday, there’s still plenty to discuss, especially regarding the state of this franchise moving forward.For this week’s mailbag, we I returned to Reddit for another AMA (Ask Me Anything) on ​​the r/Patriots subreddit. Once again, we received a slew of questions on all sorts of general topics, from coaching job security to 2025 NFL Draft prospects to Drake Maye upside and everything in between.…

The Ducks will face a team playing its second consecutive game (SEGABABA) for the second game in a row while the Vegas Golden Knights come to town for the third meeting of the season between these two teams.The Golden Knights won the first two games of the series by scores of 3-1 and 3-2. Mistakes in their own zone plagued the Ducks in those two losses. Cleaning up these mistakes will help minimize easy chances to score.Related: Golden Knights vs. Ducks Pre-Game Stats Pack, Scouting Report“When you play a team like that, you have to limit the mistakes,” Ducks forward…

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ZEPHYRHILLS — Less than half a decade after the Sarah Vande Berg Tennis and Wellness Center opened on the western outskirts of Zephyrhills, the facility is poised to become one of the sport’s training epicenters .Patrick Mouratoglou, coach of four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka and former coach of women’s tennis legend Serena Williams, will launch his latest academy at the Zephyrhills facility.Mouratoglou Academy Zephyrhills joins other similar academies in France, Atlanta and Malaysia, although it will be the first to offer a full tennis and boarding program on American soil. The name of Vande Berg will remain attached to…

Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman speaks while seated next to pitcher Blake Snell and agent Scott Boras during a news conference at Dodger Stadium Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)Like the Dodgers officially welcomed its latest gazillionaire pitcher to a renovated Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, the churning of bulldozers in the infield was momentarily drowned out by laments around the baseball world.Boo-hoo! The Dodgers buy another championship!Damage ! The Dodgers have an unfair advantage!This is not good! The Dodgers are ruining baseball!The tears flowed again and again, from Pittsburgh to Minnesota, from Northern California to South Florida, and many…

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