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Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling is expected to tell the club he wants a move away from Anfield this summer. The England forward, 20 has rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling told Brendan Rodgers he wants to go before the Chelsea game on 10 May and will now meet the Reds manager and…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester City midfielder James Milner, 29, will turn down a new four-year contract worth up to £165,000 a week in order to join Arsenal. Liverpool also want the England international. (Daily Star)  Liverpool are also interested in City’s 29-year-old Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko. (Daily Mail)  …

gallery_thumbnails_photo|photo-8000316|article-gallery-6271703|1 gallery_thumbnails_photo|photo-8005173|article-gallery-6271703|2 gallery_thumbnails_photo|photo-5045926|article-gallery-6271703|3 gallery_thumbnails_photo|photo-8005186|article-gallery-6271703|4 gallery_thumbnails_photo|photo-8005178|article-gallery-6271703|5 gallery_thumbnails_photo|photo-8005372|article-gallery-6271703|6 Caption Close Famed rock climber Dean Potter makes his way up Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Utah in 2006. Photo: Anonymous / ASSOCIATED PRESS Dean Potter was considered the best, most innovative and careful wingsuit BASE jumper there ever was. Photo: Hao Tongqian / McClatchy-Tribune News Service YOSEMITE, CA— World renown climber Dean Potter climbs up one of the first fourpitches on…

Russia’s Alexander Ovechkin (2nd R) reacts after the gold medal match Canada vs Russia at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships on May 17, 2015 at the O2 Arena in Prague.(Photo: AFP PHOTO/MICHAL CIZEK) Russia is at the center of another embarrassing international incident and this time it has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin running around shirtless and wrestling with a panda. Actually, I don’t know if the…

The Selig Rule is a sham, a mandatory decree to promote minority hiring that conveniently ignores the mandate part, and the active disregard of it by Major League Baseball teams reached its nadir Monday when the Miami Marlins followed the path of their brethren and hired another white guy with zero managerial experience without bothering to interview another candidate. That the Marlins were involved in a farce of one variety…

Raheem Sterling is expected to tell Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave Anfield this summer. The England forward has already turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling will meet Reds chief executive Ian Ayre and Rodgers on Friday, when he is set to tell them he wants to go….

With the conclusion of the SEC’s regular season in baseball on Sunday, the 2015 edition of the SEC All-Sports Trophy has been awarded — and like the last eight, and 22 of the previous 23 awarded, it belongs to Florida. In one of the closest races in the history of the award, the conference title won by the Florida men’s outdoor track and field team Saturday night pushed…

Skechers USA Inc., the casual footwear brand that was tripped up by its line of “toning shoes,” is now outpacing traditional athletic-shoe companies at their own race. Skechers accounted for 5% of the sports-footwear market for the quarter ended in March, according to retail tracker NPD Group, moving past Adidas AG’s 4.6% as well as the 4% shares notched by Asics and New Balance. Nike Inc. and its proprietary Jordan…

UND MEN’S HOCKEY COACHING HISTORY (NCAA Division I era):   1946-47: John Jamieson – 7-6-0 (.538) 1947-49: Don Norman – 20-17-1 (.539) 1949-56: Cliff “Fido” Purpur – 94-75-8 (.554) 1956-57: Al Renfrew – 18-11-0 (.621) 1957-59: Bob May – 44-17-2 (.714) 1959-64: Barry Thorndycraft – 71-65-8 (.521) 1964-66: R.H. “Bob” Peters – 26-12-0 (.684) 1966-68: Bill Selman – 39-20-3 (.653) 1968-78: Rube Bjorkman – 149-186-11 (.447)…

Winning a fifth term in office will be a cakewalk for FIFA’s oft-criticized president Sepp Blatter, when measured against the challenges posed to him by the looming Israeli-Palestinian showdown in world soccer’s governing body. Blatter is expected to travel to the Middle East ahead of FIFA’s May 29 congress, hoping to forge a compromise between the two rival soccer associations to head off the Palestine Football Association’s (PFA) bid to have Israel suspended…

Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) stadium renderings The Los Angeles Football Club may not know exactly what the team will be called when they begin play in Major League Soccer in 2018, but they know where they’ll be playing. On Monday, LAFC’s ownership group announced its intent to build a new 22,000-seat stadium in South Los Angeles, at the site of the Los Angeles Sports Arena, located next to the…

Team Russia and Team Canada shake hands after the gold medal match at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships . (AFP/Getty Images) Team Canada destroyed Team Russia 6-1 at the IIHF World Hockey Championship final in Prague on Sunday afternoon. After the game, where the lone Russian goal was tapped in by Evgeni Malkin with 10 minutes left in the third, the Russian team was so eager to get…

ON BOSTON’S BID TO HOST THE 2024 OLYMPICS. NEWSCENTER 5’S TODD KAZAKIEWICH IS LIVE FROM CITY HALL. THE FOCUS IS ON THE IOC’S INITIATIVE TO HOST ECONOMICAL AND SUSTAINABLE OLYMPIC GAMES AND HOW THAT IMPACTS BOSTON’S BID. BOSTON HAD A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND I REALLY HOPE THAT BOSTON CAN SEE THAT. JIM: THIS MORNING, THE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND USOC AND BOSTON 2024 MADE THE PITCH TO…

Raheem Sterling is expected to tell Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave Anfield this summer. The England forward has already turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling will meet Reds chief executive Ian Ayre and Rodgers on Friday, when he is set to tell them he wants to go….

The president of this fine nation started his own Twitter account Monday — @POTUS, which is different from the staff-run @BarackObama account. Given his first tweet, we’re expecting to see more of his personality shine through, as opposed to just campaign/bureaucratic stuff: Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account. — President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015 And given Obama’s follow list, we’re…

Sky Sports will televise three live games simultaneously on Sunday as the battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League takes top billing. Hull City, Newcastle United and Sunderland all go into the weekend with the possibility of demotion to the Championship and, with the race for the title and Champions League places sewn up, the focus is on the bottom of the table. Sky will broadcast live from the…

(CNN) — Extreme sports legend Dean Potter is one of two BASE jumpers found dead in Yosemite National Park after attempting an aerial descent from Taft Point, authorities said. The two men’s bodies were located during a helicopter search around noon Sunday, said Scott Gediman, a spokesman for the park. Potter, 43, and Graham Hunt, 29, were reported missing late Saturday by friends, Gediman said. The two had jumped from…

  On Sunday night, when I first learned that Dan Jennings could be the Marlins’ next manager, I started calling some of his friends in the industry. Jennings, a friendly, gregarious sort, has many such friends. And the first reaction of many was, “He wouldn’t do that.” Oh, yes he would. The choice of Jennings, confirmed Monday morning by Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, was announced several hours later. The…

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