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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Paris St-Germain will make a move for Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho if his second spell at Stamford Bridge comes to a premature end. (Sunday Express)  Chelsea will make a £20m January bid for Southampton midfielder Victor Wanyama, 24, in an effort to beat Tottenham to the signature of…

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jimmy Nelson is nursing a sore noggin after one of his own throws got hit back straight at his skull! A bruised ego is one thing — a bruised head, definitely another! Star pitcher Jimmy Nelson, 26, was going about business as usual during a game against the St. Louis Cardinals on September 17, when he was struck in the head by a ball hit from home base by…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A road trip against playoff contenders has boosted the Los Angeles Angels’ postseason outlook. Albert Pujols had two hits and two RBIs, and Garrett Richards was one out away from his second complete game this season as the Angels beat the Minnesota Twins 5-2 to sweep Saturday’s day-night doubleheader. The Angels are on a seven-game road swing and head to Houston after Sunday’s series finale. Los Angeles…

Implored by drivers to act with greater castigation pertaining to the enforcement of its restart rules, NASCAR will commit a camera and official solely to monitoring the resumption of races effective immediately. The change comes with the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship beginning Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway. The procedural change is across all three NASCAR national divisions. A NASCAR spokesman said a designated camera, re-purposed from other…

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Professional football, rugby and cricket clubs across Britain have been urged by the government to improve facilities for disabled spectators after two surveys found most clubs and grounds “dispiriting” and “a stain on our major sports and leagues”. Tracey Crouch, the sports minister, and Justin Tomlinson, the minister for disabled people, have written to all 223 clubs surveyed for a government report, Inclusive and Accessible Stadia. Calling on clubs to…

Saturday’s American Ethanol e15 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway was humming along just past the halfway point on Saturday when a relatively tame affair took a wild and unexpected twist. You can thank Mason Mingus and the wet infield grass for injecting the drama. Heading to pit road for routine service under green, Mingus was going too fast and missed the pit entrance, hitting a cone and then…

As the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship playoff further increases the importance of track position, drivers are imploring NASCAR to act with greater castigation when enforcing its rules. In recent weeks restarts have become free-for-alls with procedures either misinterpreted or flatly ignored. The most recent incident occurred when leader Matt Kenseth appeared to get the jump on the field during last Saturday’s regular-season finale at…

Buy Photo Yonkers baseball prospect Mike Nolan, 23, was shot and critically wounded in the Burger King parking lot just after midnight Friday on Central Avenue.(Photo: Jane Lerner/The Journal News)Buy Photo Yonkers star baseball player Mike Nolan remains in critical condition Saturday morning, a day after he was shot in the head and torso by an unknown gunman in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant. Nolan underwent surgery early…

Entire World Cups are shaped by weekends like this. This was not just one of the most epic games in the history of this tournament but one to create ripples across the globe. Never has there been a bigger shock at this level. If there is a contest even half as extraordinary between now and the end of October the tournament will be truly blessed. The Brave Blossoms were more…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He’s voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois‘ football team makes a big play against Kent State. He is a Chinese student at the University of Illinois, and with partner Bruce Lu, part of a new and very experimental online Mandarin Chinese-language broadcast team for Illini football. They are, best as anyone on…

For the first seven fights of her career, from amateur until turning pro, Ronda Rousey was a wrecking machine at 145 pounds after winning an Olympic bronze medal at 154 just a few years earlier. Following two wins in Strikeforce, Rousey appeared ready to tackle championships at both featherweight, where Cris “Cyborg” Justino ruled, and bantamweight, where Miesha Tate was the champion at the time. Rousey ultimately opted to move…

Great Britain are one win away from the Davis Cup final after Andy and Jamie Murray beat Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth in the doubles. The dramatic 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4 victory gives Britain a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five tie in Glasgow. If Andy Murray wins the opening reverse singles match on Sunday,…

Thunderstorms forced the postponement of Sprint Cup qualifying Friday at Chicagoland Speedway, requiring NASCAR to use its rulebook to determine the starting lineup for Sunday’s opening playoff race. NASCAR determined which drivers made the 43-car field based off 2015 qualifying attempts, and then set the starting grid using speeds from Friday’s lone practice. Defending Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick, whose speed of 188.317 mph was fastest in the…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Assistant manager John Collins has admitted to some regret after recently saying Scottish players were not “clever enough” or quick enough thinkers” to hurt Celtic. (Herald)  But Collins has defended his controversial analysis and insists it has not caused any lingering feud with Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes. (Scotsman)  Collins says the only war with the Dons is on…

Buy Photo Michigan’s Delano Hill is punched by Ohio State’s Dontre Wilson during the second quarter on Nov. 30, 2013, at Michigan Stadium.(Photo: Kirthmon F. Dozier DFP)Buy Photo Jamie Samuelsen, co-host of the “Jamie and Wojo” show at 6 p.m. weekdays on WXYT-FM (97.1), blogs for freep.com. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers. You can reach him at jamsam22@gmail.com, follow him…

A former pro baseball player was arrested Friday in a double murder case in Corona. Brandon Martin was being sought after the bodies of two men were found inside a home in the 1000 block of Winthrop Drive Thursday night. Martin once had a bright future as a pro baseball player. Now, the 22-year-old is suspected of murdering his 64-year-old father Michael Martin and 62-year-old Barry Swanson, a sub-contractor for…

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The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup has officially begun, with defending champion Kevin Harvick drawing first blood at Chicagoland Speedway on Friday.   In the one hour, 25-minute practice round Harvick was the fastest of the 46 cars in the field, lapping the 1.5-mile Chicagoland track at 188.317 miles per hour in his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet.   It was a solid statement by Harvick, who through the…