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FILE – Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann during the international friendly soccer match between Austria and Germany at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has extended his contract beyond this summer’s European Championship by two years through the 2026 World Cup.
FILE – Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann during the international friendly soccer match between Austria and Germany at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has extended his contract beyond this summer’s European Championship by two years through the 2026 World Cup.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has extended his contract by two years, taking him beyond the upcoming European Championship and through the 2026 World Cup.
It also ends the possibility of Nagelsmann returning to Bayern Munich, which is looking for a new coach for next season after deciding to part ways with Thomas Tuchel at the end of this season. Nagelsmann was the reported favorite following Xabi Alonso’s decision to stay with Bayer Leverkusen, but now Bayern will need to look elsewhere after two high-profile rejections.
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The Cavaliers have waited a year to redeem themselves in the NBA playoffs. Their chance starts Saturday against the Orlando Magic. Cleveland wilted on the postseason stage a year ago, losing in five games to the New York Knicks, who were simply too tough for the Cavs. After surviving a litany of injuries this season, the Cavs are fairly healthy heading into the first-round series. All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell was able to rest a bruise left knee that has bothered him for months. Orlando is led by second-year forward Paolo Banchero, who at just 21 led the Magic in scoring, rebounding and assists. Game 2 is Monday at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
Two-time world champion cyclist Remco Evenepoel is targeting a June return to racing after a bad crash this month. Evenepoel says he expects to return at the week-long Critérium du Dauphiné ahead of the Tour de France and Paris Olympics. The Belgian needed surgery after breaking a collar bone and shoulder blade in a crash while descending two weeks ago in the Tour of Basque Country. He won the worlds time trial last year and the road race in 2022. He should target both Olympic events on the Paris streets.
Erling Haaland has suffered a muscle injury and will be assessed ahead of Manchester City’s FA Cup semifinal against Chelsea. City manager Pep Guardiola says the Norway striker felt discomfort during Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal against Real Madrid and asked to be substituted. City went on to lose the match on penalties. Haaland will be monitored ahead of the game against Chelsea at Wembley Stadium. Kevin De Bruyne was also taken off against Madrid but is expected to be play against Chelsea.
Casper Ruud has beaten Matteo Arnaldi in straight sets to advance to the semifinals of the Barcelona Open and notch his season-leading 27th win. The sixth-ranked Norwegian won 6-4, 6-3 on the outdoor clay to give him two more wins than Jannik Sinner. Ruud is trying to reach his fourth final this year. Ruud will face Tomas Martin Etcheverry next after the Argentine defeated Cameron Norrie 7-6, 7-6.
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New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba might be the most interesting man in the NHL. Trouba asked for a trade to an American team to make sure his fiancée could pursue her medical career. He was the first and only player to agree to have his photo taken getting the COVID-19 vaccine. He paints on the side and met with Fortune 500 CEOs about leadership before he became team captain. The big-hitting defenseman’s latest venture is a commercial alongside his mother for AstraZeneca and Hockey Fights Cancer about early detection.
UConn freshman Stephon Castle has entered his name into the NBA draft, becoming the fifth Husky starter to at least explore moving on after Connecticut’s latest title run. UConn and coach Dan Hurley confirmed the move Friday on social media after it was first reported by ESPN. The 6-foot-6 guard averaged 11.1 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists in his only season as a Husky, while often drawing the defensive assignment to shut down the opposition’s top perimeter player. He was even more impressive during the Final Four, scoring 21 points in UConn’s semifinal win over Alabama and putting up 15 points in the win over Purdue in the national championship game.
Alejandro Garnacho has apologized for liking social media posts criticizing Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag. Garnacho ‘liked’ comments on X that called into question Ten Hag’s handling of the Argentine forward. He later ‘unliked’ them but not before his actions were screen grabbed and shared on the platform. Ten Hag says Garnacho apologized. The posts were made after Garnacho was substituted at halftime of United’s 2-2 draw against Bournemouth last week. One described Ten Hag’s treatment of him as a “joke.” Earlier this season Jadon Sancho went on social media to claim he was made a scapegoat after being omitted from the squad for a game against Arsenal. He was loaned to Borussia Dortmund.
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Italy is the first nation to benefit from UEFA’s move to award an extra Champions League qualifying spot based on countries’ overall records in European competitions. Roma and Atalanta qualified for the Europa League semifinals and Fiorentina advanced to the last four in the Europa Conference League. The results mean the top five finishers in this season’s Serie A will qualify for next season’s expanded 36-team Champions League. And the Italian league could have a sixth team in the Champions League if Roma or Atalanta win the Europa League. Italy leads UEFA’s European performance standings ahead of Germany and England with the top two finishers earning an extra Champions League spot. UEFA confirms Italy can now finish no lower than second.
Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette has recovered from a face injury and could play against Paris Saint-Germain in the French league on Sunday. Lyon coach Pierre Sage says Lacazette has resumed light training and is on track to feature against league leader PSG at Parc des Princes. Sage says “He should be able to play the match, or at least a part” of it. Lacazette was accidentally struck by goalkeeper Marco Bizot near the end of last Sunday’s game against Brest and taken off on a stretcher. Lyon won 4-3 with a penalty deep into stoppage time following Bizot’s foul on Lacazette.
FedEx has pledged $25 million over the next five years to be used in sponsorship deals with University of Memphis athletes. The program is a huge boost for the school’s name, image and likeness compensation efforts. The Memphis-based shipping giant says the program will initially focus on football, men’s and women’s basketball and other women’s sports. The deal was facilitated by Altius Sports Partners, a company that works with dozens of schools on NIL activities. The deal is for $5 million per year. The Tigers compete in the American Athletic Conference.
In 1990 Mark Robins scored a goal that has long been credited for saving former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson his job and provided the platform for more than two decades of success. Now Robins could push current United manager Erik ten Hag closer to the brink Sunday if he leads his second-tier Coventry team to a shock win in the FA Cup semifinals. Ten Hag is desperately trying to mount a convincing argument that he is the man to return United to the summit of English soccer after more than a decade of decline since Ferguson retired.
There’s a 64-win team in Boston that ran away with the league’s best record. The defending champions in Denver, a group that won 57 games. A fearless young bunch in Oklahoma City, whose No. 1 seed was no fluke. A trio of Villanova alums in New York, who turned the Knicks into a real contender. And, once again, there’s LeBron James, too. The NBA playoffs are about to begin with the Celtics and Nuggets the heavy favorites to collide in the Finals, and no shortage of teams have realistic belief that they can win the whole thing as well.
The NBA playoffs start on Saturday. The first-round matchups in the Eastern Conference have Boston against either Chicago or Miami, New York against Philadelphia, Milwaukee against Indiana and Cleveland against Orlando. In the Western Conference, the matchups are Oklahoma City against either New Orleans or Sacramento, Denver against the Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota against Phoenix and the Los Angeles Clippers against Dallas.
This Date in Baseball, April 20 – Julio Franco became the oldest player in major league history to hit a HR
Today in Sports, April 20 – Roger Federer wins his 500th career match
Ireland’s soccer association has pushed back its deadline to hire a men’s national team coach to September and apologized to fans for the delay. Ireland had hoped to have a new coach in place by this month after Stephen Kenny’s contract wasn’t renewed last November. The team did not qualify for the upcoming European Championship. They hope to have a coach in place for Ireland’s match against England on Sept. 7 in the UEFA Nations League. John O’Shea, the former Ireland and Manchester United defender, will likely continue in an interim role. O’Shea oversaw the team as interim coach for two international friendlies in March.
French athletes at the Paris Olympics will be offered better protection for their mental health with priority given to curbing online harassment and cyberbullying. France’s Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Marina Ferrari are discussing ways to ensure mental health is looked after at the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Games and Aug 28-Sept. 8 Paralympics. Oudéa-Castéra pointed out the continued threat of cyberbullying to mental health in society in general. It is a risk magnified when high-profile athletes are continually in the spotlight. She says “athletes as well as many of our citizens are exposed to these risks.” Three psychologists will be onsite at the Olympic Village during the Games.
Olympic organizers have unveiled their plans to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology. The International Olympic Committee outlined its agenda for taking advantage of AI. Officials said it could be used to help identify promising athletes, personalize training methods and make the games fairer by improving judging. IOC President Thomas Bach said the committee is “determined to exploit the vast potential of AI in a responsible way.” The IOC revealed its AI strategy as it gears up to hold the Paris Olympics, which are set to kick off in just under 100 days.
The collective group of Summer Games sports has criticized World Athletics for promising to pay $50,000 for each track and field gold medal won at the Paris Olympics. The move by the track body and its president Sebastian Coe last week broke with tradition because the International Olympic Committee doesn’t pay prize money. Many state governments and national Olympic bodies do pay Olympic medalists. The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations says that for many the track pledge “undermines the values of Olympism and the uniqueness of the games.” Coe is a member of ASOIF’s ruling council.
Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has returned to the practice court after confirming that he’s not going to have surgery on his injured ankle. The 36-year-old Murray tore ligaments in his left ankle during a match at the Miami Open last month. Murray’s team said this week he’s “out of the walking boot” and wouldn’t be having surgery. A short video on Murray’s Instagram account on Friday showed the former world No. 1 hitting forehands on an indoor court. There was no timeline for his return announced.
The Women’s Champions League semifinals kicking off Saturday have a bit of everything. Two teams are trying to assert their continental dominance and the other two are fighting to be crowned European champion for the first time. Defending champion Barcelona hosts Chelsea in their first-leg match before eight-time champion Lyon takes on French rival Paris Saint-Germain. The second legs are the following weekend. Barcelona is going for its third title in four years, while Lyon is seeking its record-extending ninth. Chelsea and PSG have never won the Champions League or its predecessor the UEFA Women’s Cup.
Organizers have revoked He Jie’s first place in the Beijing Half Marathon last weekend after an investigation confirmed that three other runners had slowed down to let him win the race. All four runners were disqualified and had to return their medals and award money. Chinese online users had shared the video from the final moments of Sunday’s race out of suspicion that it had been rigged. The footage showed three African runners letting He, China’s top long-distance runner, move ahead of them shortly before they were about to reach the finish line. The three runners deliberately reduced their pace, according to a statement from a committee set up to investigate the race.
The chase for the Stanley Cup is back underway, with the NHL’s top 16 teams left to duke it out through four grueling rounds. It’s also arguably the most wide open the playoffs has been in years, if not decades. Nearly everyone who qualified has a chance to win it all, with no prohibitive favorite. Carolina has a slight edge on BetMGM Sportsbook followed by Florida, Dallas, Colorado, Edmonton and the New York Rangers. Toronto’s Auston Matthews, Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov and Oilers captain Connor McDavid are going into the playoffs coming off absurd statistical regular seasons.
Kyrie Irving is healthy and publicly free of drama heading into his first playoff game with co-star Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks. The eight-time All-Star and 2016 NBA champion brought up on his own that he hasn’t had a 50-win season in six years. A late-season surge pushed the Mavs to the 50-win mark. They open the playoffs at the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday. The 2023 trade to Dallas ended a drama-filled stint in Brooklyn for Irving. Now he’s looking to participate in a deep playoff run for the first time since 2017. That was the year after Irving and LeBron James won a title together in Cleveland.
J.J. McCarthy is expected to be the first of many Michigan men drafted from its national championship team. The Wolverines had a record 18 players at the draft combine, giving them a chance to be the first school with at least 16 prospects picked in one NFL draft. Georgia’s 2022 national championship team set the standard since the draft went to seven rounds with 15 players picked, including a record-tying five first-round selections in the 2023 draft. McCarthy may be Michigan’s only player taken among the top 32 next Thursday night in Detroit.
Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has extended his contract by two years. That will take the 36-year-old coach beyond the upcoming European Championship and through the 2026 World Cup. It also ends the possibility of Nagelsmann returning to Bayern Munich, which is looking for a new coach for next season after deciding to part ways with Thomas Tuchel at the end of this season. Nagelsmann was the reported favorite following Xabi Alonso’s decision to stay with Bayer Leverkusen. Now Bayern will need to look elsewhere after two high-profile rejections. The German soccer federation announced Friday that its supervisory board and shareholders decided unanimously to keep Nagelsmann in charge of the national team after Euro 2024, which Germany is hosting.
FORT WORTH, Texas — When the Saudis started to pour money into tennis, golf, wrestling and other “events,” it was done specifically to move away from oil, which people in the car business watch carefully, and nervously.
MINNEAPOLIS — The countdown clock started around 5 p.m. Sunday and expires Saturday afternoon, a protracted gap between games that must feel like an eternity in the NBA’s rhythm of life.
PHILADELPHIA — Bill Belichick reportedly was voted off Falcons Island. Apparently, he never even made onto Eagles Island.
LOS ANGELES — As soon as he heard the crack of the bat, lifelong Dodgers fan Renan Zuniga knew exactly what to do.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Over the past 10 days, the coaching conflict that has defined Kentucky college hoops in the 21st century has flipped 180 degrees.
Editor’s note: The Union-Tribune’s Eddie Brown is breaking down prospects, position by position, leading up to the NFL draft (April 25-27). Here are his top 10 tight ends, plus “bonus” players he believes will be drafted or signed as a priority free agent:
We’re a week away from the NFL draft (April 25-27) kicking off in prime time in the Motor City.
The Chinese Grand Prix could deliver some much-needed drama to Formula 1. This means Red Bull’s Max Verstappen can’t be penciled in as the almost-certain winner on Sunday. The three-time world champion has won 22 of the last 26 GPs and three of the first four this season. Only a brake failure in Australia kept him from possibly sweeping the first four races. The last Chinese GP was five years ago. The track is unfamiliar and has also been resurfaced. On top of this, the China weekend features the season’s first sprint race. That adds more unpredictability. Lando Norris of McLaren won the pole for Saturday’s sprint race.
Sherrone Moore will have a lot of big decisions to make in his first season as Michigan’s coach, leading the defending national champions after Jim Harbaugh bolted to coach the Los Angeles Chargers. Who he chooses to start at quarterback will be a closely watched issue this season. Moore has a lot of options, including the speedy Alex Orji and experienced Jack Tuttle. Like a savvy coach, and not one in his first year, he dodged a question about whether the job could be shared. Fans will get a look at Moore’s choices in the spring game Saturday at Michigan Stadium.
Michigan State is breaking in a new football coach and quarterback this year. The Spartans may benefit from how familiar the pivotal people in the program are with each other because they both were at Oregon State last season. Former Beavers coach Jonathan Smith was hired in late November and quarterback Aidan Chiles joined him less than a month later. Smith also was able to bring with him AP All-Pac 12 offensive lineman Tanner Miller and record-breaking tight end Jack Velling. The new-look Spartans will wrap up spring ball on Saturday at Spartan Stadium.
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