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Enschede mayor bans Besiktas fans ahead of Twente clash – Turkish club wants to play elsewhereReports from the Netherlands this morning suggested that Besiktas did not want to play their Europa League match against FC Twente at the Grolsch Jacket.The news came after Enschede Mayor Roelof Bleker recently informed the 16-time Süper Lig winners that their supporters would not be welcome at the match on January 30 due to fears of crowd unrest.Bleker based his decision on “previous public order disturbances” involving Besiktas fans. He informed the Black Eagles that their supporters would therefore not be allowed to travel to…
Tiger Woods and his son Charlie played at the PNC Championship for the first time in 2020 (Getty Images)Tiger Woods’ teenage son Charlie scored his first hole-in-one in the final round of the PNC Championship – but they were beaten to the title in a play-off by Bernhard and Jason Langer.Charlie Woods, 15, holed out at the par-three fourth to propel the father-son team into the lead in the tournament, which features 20 major champions playing with a family member.But it was Team Langer that celebrated a second consecutive trophy – and fourth overall – in Orlando, Florida, when Germany’s…
INDIANAPOLIS − Head coach Stephanie White continues to complete his team.THE Indiana fever announced Wednesday that it has hired Keith Porter as player development coach. He held the same position on White’s Connecticut staff from 2023-2024, working specifically with first-team All-WNBA and 2023 MVP finalist Alyssa Thomas and 2024 Most Improved Player DiJonai Carrington.During the WNBA offseason, Porter is the head coach of the Kosovo Heritage Basketball Academy in Europe, helping to develop more than 400 players. He played professionally in Puerto Rico and Spain, and was a college basketball player at Division III Connecticut-Avery Point.MORE: Celebrate the rookie season…
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December 22 — Dartmouth knocked on Isaac Ahn’s door.Colombia too.In fact, almost every Ivy League university was interested in student Ahn (a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist, hoping to become a finalist); Ahn the person (he is the co-captain of the Mayo chess team, among other interests) and Ahn the athlete (two-time qualifier for the Minnesota Class 3A high school state competition).Ahn said he is impressed by what Dartmouth, Columbia and others offer athletically, academically and socially. But the more he thought about it, the more the Rochester Mayo High School senior came to one conclusion.”Harvard was my first choice. I…
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Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City work through the the opposite of their long winning runs as he lamented the parallel lives of football.The city was beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa Saturday to suffer their ninth defeat in 12 matches while they have triumphed only once.And it left manager Guardiola reflecting on the fact that he has reversed his usual form.“Always when we win a lot of games and titles, I say we are going to lose games,” he said. “When we win 13 or 14 games or 10 games and we lose one or draw one and we wonder ‘what…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods’ son hit the shot of his life for his first hole-in-one. Bernhard Langer made the shot that counted on Sunday, an 18-foot eagle putt in a playoff to beat Woods and his son Charlie in a terrific duel at the PNC Championship.Langer and his son Jason won for the second year in a row, and the 67-year-old German has now won back-to-back PNC championships with two sons as partners.They put on quite a show at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, especially when 15-year-old Charlie hit the 7-iron on the par-3 fourth hole for…
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and basketball analyst Isis “Ice” Young discuss TIME Magazine’s reporting of the Indiana Fever guard – who won the Athlete of the year – and what emerges from his comments. Listen to the full conversation at “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.