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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. West Brom striker Saido Berahino, 22, is a £20m transfer target for Chelsea. (Daily Telegraph)   Aston Villa midfielder Joe Cole, 34, is set to extend his loan spell with Coventry City until January, after which there could be further discussions to stay on at the Ricoh Arena….

BERLIN—Fears of a terrorist bombing led Germany to cancel a highly anticipated national-team soccer game on Tuesday less than two hours before it was to start, underscoring the sense of siege across Europe following the Paris attacks. About 20 minutes after fans started filing into a stadium with a capacity of 49,000 people in the city of Hannover on Tuesday night, the authorities canceled the German team’s game against the…

By STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Uniting in a symbol of defiance and respect, players and fans of the French and English soccer teams delivered a moving display of solidarity at Wembley Stadium at a friendly staged four days after the deadly attacks in Paris. A touching pre-game ceremony saw England and France supporters sing the French national anthem as one, before the squads came together around…

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A German soccer stadium and concert arena were evacuated less than two hours before a friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands Tuesday after police uncovered a “concrete” bomb threat. It happened just four days after the Paris attacks that targeted a stadium and several restaurants, killing more than 120 people Friday. “We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium,” Hannover police…

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Matt Kenseth’s meeting on Monday with NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France must have been a productive one. At least this much is certain: The 2003 Sprint Cup champion seems excited about returning to his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota for this weekend’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Kenseth, suspended for races at Texas and Phoenix the past two weekends for deliberately wrecking Joey Logano on Nov. 1 at…

France and England, historic soccer rivals, joined forces to sing the French national anthem Tuesday at a soccer match between the two countries. As a show of solidarity following Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the lyrics to the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” were broadcast at Wembley Stadium in London during the friendly between the two national teams, the Guardian reports. Some 70,000 fans sang along and the French national—colors,…

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(Photo: The Associated Press) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In this topsy-turvy second season of NASCAR’s new championship format, it was only fitting that the race to set the final four ended in an empty, unsatisfying way. A rain delay of nearly seven hours Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway turned the final elimination race of the playoffs into a water-logged nightmare. There was no frantic jockeying for the final three slots…

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Andong Song, a New York Islanders pick from the 2015 draft, is a post-graduate student at Phillips Academy.(Photo: Greg M. Cooper, USA TODAY Sports) ANDOVER, Mass. — It’s a glorious autumn day in this prep-school town, and the most improbable groundbreaker in hockey is heading to the rink, ready to put in a couple of more hours at the blue line with a physique not much wider than the shaft of…

RELATED: Chase Grid | Full Chase rules The final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway is all about order of finish. No bonus points are awarded for laps led, most laps led or for winning the race. So the best finisher from the Championship 4 group of Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. will be crowned the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion. The Championship 4: 1. Kevin Harvick, 5,000 points 2. Jeff Gordon, 5,000 points 3….

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France met with Matt Kenseth on Monday, before the Joe Gibbs Racing driver returns from a two-race suspension this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  According to NASCAR senior vice president and chief communications officer Brett Jewkes, France was “pleased with the dialoge” of the conversation with Kenseth.  NASCAR’s Brian France met with Matt Kenseth today in CLT. Brian was pleased with the dialogue. Now all focus…

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During a playoff where contentious misdeeds have been the topics du jour, it almost seemed appropriate NASCAR’s four-driver championship field was principally determined by a controversial penalty and when an inevitable rain shower would begin to fall. The inclement weather every team had been anticipating finally intervened with little more than a 100 laps remaining in Sunday’s race at Phoenix International Raceway, the penultimate event of the season leading…

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Jeff Gordon, left, and Kyle Busch, will compete for the 2015 Sprint Cup Series championship along with Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. (not pictured).(Photo: Sean Gardner, Getty Images) AVONDALE, Ariz. — One of the strangest seasons in NASCAR history got another bizarre twist in setting the field for its championship race Sunday night at Phoenix International Raceway. The four drivers themselves, though, will give NASCAR a great chance to have…