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RICHMOND, Va. – Alex Bowman will lead the field to the green flag on Sunday afternoon in Richmond, Virginia. The No. 48 Ally Racing Chevrolet will line up as the first of three Hendrick Motorsports entries inside the top 10.  William Byron will start from the third position while Kyle Larson will roll off the grid in the ninth spot. Josh Berry will make his fourth start with Hendrick Motorsports from the 30th position on track. Saturday’s NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying session at Richmond Raceway was cancelled due to rain. As a result, the lineup has been set by the metric…

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MIAMI — World No.12 Petra Kvitova captured her 30th career title after ending Indian Wells champion Elena Rybakina’s 13-match win streak in the Miami Open final. Behind a stellar serving performance, Kvitova held off Rybakina to win 7-6(14), 6-2 in Saturday’s final.  At 33 years old, Kvitova became the oldest Miami champion since Serena Williams in 2015. On Monday she will return to the Top 10 for the first time since September of 2021. In her 13th main draw appearance in Miami and 99th at a WTA 1000 tournament, Kvitova captured her ninth WTA 1000 title and extended her impressive…

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Bayern Munich overran a hapless Borussia Dortmund to win 4-2 in Der Klassiker on Saturday, as three goals in the opening 23 minutes helped them reclaim top spot in the Bundesliga and hand new coach Thomas Tuchel a winning start.The Bavarians, who face Manchester City in the Champions League quarterfinals on April 11, were in ominous form as they went back into top spot on 55 points, leaving Dortmund two behind in second place with eight matches remaining.- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)With Tuchel, who also coached Dortmund from 2015-2107, having replaced Julian Nagelsmann on the Bayern bench,…

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PARIS: Former triple jump world champion Teddy Tamgho on Friday said he would return to athletics to compete at his home Olympics next year in Paris. The 33-year-old, who won the world title in 2013 in Moscow, has been retired for four years. “I think it’s time, high time to put the spikes back on,” France’s Tamgho wrote on Instagram. “High time to prepare for Paris 2024. I’ve trained… and by testing myself for some time, I realised that the legs were still ready, ready to jump far, ready to win THE medal (the only one I’m looking for).” Tamgho…

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Mar 31, 2023 WINDSOR, CO. – The Colorado Eagles, proud AHL affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche, have announced that the team has signed forward Matthew Stienburg to an Amateur Tryout Agreement. In a separate transaction, forward Ben Meyers has been recalled by the team’s NHL affiliate.   A third-round selection of the Avalanche in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, Stienburg recently concluded his senior season at Cornell University, serving as an alternate captain for the Big Red. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound center generated 20 goals and 26 assists in 73 career NCAA contests, including a career-high 13 goals and 16 assists…

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Angels infielder Anthony Rendon declined to comment Saturday morning on his confrontation with a fan at the Coliseum after Thursday night’s game against the Oakland Athletics.“It’s an ongoing investigation, so unfortunately I can’t comment right now,” Rendon said. MLB said Friday it is looking into the incident, which was captured on video and circulated on social media. The Oakland Police Department said it is investigating a battery that occurred at the Coliseum following Thursday’s game; a spokesperson did not confirm if it involved Rendon and the fan. Angels manager Phil Nevin also declined to comment Saturday morning: “There’s an investigation…

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3:51 PM ETAlexa PhilippouESPN CloseCovers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati EnquirerSouth Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball icon and 2021-22 national player of the year Aliyah Boston officially declared for the 2023 WNBA draft Saturday.Boston, long presumed to go first in the 2023 draft class, chose not to use her fifth year of collegiate eligibility thanks to the “freebie” year granted to college athletes in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The No.…

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The NFL could be inching closer to a future with an international division, according to a Front Office Sports report. An anonymous owner told the outlet that it’s unknown whether the division could happen in two years, five years or another undetermined amount of time, “but there’s going to be an international division.” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell previously mentioned the possibility of a four-team European division in October 2022, saying in a video posted to the NFL U.K. Twitter account that “we’re trying to sort of see, could you have multiple locations in Europe where you could have an NFL…

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Scott McLaughlin has a score to settle with Texas Motor Speedway, and he made a powerful start toward reaching that goal Saturday morning. McLaughlin led the opening practice for the PPG 375 on the 1.5-mile oval, turning a top lap of 223.747 mph in the No. 3 XPEL Team Penske Chevrolet in the one-hour session. Speeds were high once the track was rubbered in, as all 28 drivers turned laps under sunshine and cool air temperatures in the mid-50s. Simon Pagenaud led the first practice last year at Texas at 223.087, as McLaughlin was nearly seven-tenths of a mph faster…

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