Новости за 07.12.2017

LONDON — Washing away the pain of last year’s botched Champions League campaign, Tottenham completed this group stage as Europe’s leading team. A 3-0 victory over an ineffective APOEL on Wednesday took the team to 16 points, the highest total of any team this season, and first place in Group H ahead of holder Real

LONDON — Fernando Llorente’s wait for a Tottenham goal ended in his 17th game on Wednesday, netting the opener in a 3-0 victory over APOEL for the Champions League Group H winners. On his fourth start since joining from Swansea, Llorente scored on the turn after meeting Serge Aurier’s cross in the 20th minute before

NEW YORK — The U.S. television audience plummeted for the World Cup draw without the presence of the Americans in the 32-nation field. English-language coverage Friday on Fox’s FS1 averaged 65,000 viewers from 10-11:05 a.m. EST, down 87 percent from a record average of 489,000 for the 2014 draw televised by ESPN2 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30

NEW YORK — The U.S. English-language television audience plummeted for the World Cup draw without the presence of the Americans in the 32-nation field. Draw coverage Friday on FS1 averaged 65,000 viewers from 10-11:05 a.m. EST, down 87 percent from a record average of 489,000 for the 2014 draw televised by ESPN2 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30

MARIBOR, Slovenia — Sevilla qualified for the knockout phase of the Champions League with a 1-1 draw at Maribor on Wednesday. In freezing temperatures, the Spanish side started poorly but recovered after the interval and equalized through Ganso to clinch the runner-up spot in Group E. Liverpool thrashed Spartak 7-0 in the group’s other match

U.S. stock indexes took another small step backward on Wednesday after a plunge in the price of oil dragged down shares of energy producers. The losses overshadowed gains for technology companies and other areas of the market. On Wednesday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 0.30 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 2,629.27.

LIVERPOOL, England — Philippe Coutinho scored a hat trick as Liverpool thrashed Spartak Moscow 7-0 on Wednesday to clinch first place in its Champions League group and become the fifth English team to qualify for the last 16. Handed the captain’s armband four months after asking to leave the club, Coutinho led Liverpool’s dismantling of

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s Supreme Court has authorized handing over six sets of skeletal remains from the 1981 El Mozote massacre to a group representing victims’ relatives after forensic experts said they were too decomposed to be individually identified by DNA testing. The nonprofit group Tutela Legal says the fact that most

SAN FRANCISCO — Giants general manager Bobby Evans confirmed on San Francisco’s flagship radio station KNBR that the club has reached the parameters of a potential trade for Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton. Evans spoke Wednesday of the Giants’ pursuit of the Marlins star, saying San Francisco executives gathered with the NL MVP and his representatives

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The body of murder mastermind Charles Manson was barely cold when competing bids began for his remains and belongings among relatives and longtime associates. Their plans have not been divulged, but some fear they might create a shrine for those who are still fascinated by the man behind the bizarre celebrity slayings

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday: DaVita Inc., up $8.27 to $69.20 The dialysis services company agreed to sell a physician practice business to health insurer UnitedHealth for $4.9 billion. Fred’s Inc., down 95 cents to $4.14 The discount retailer suspended its dividend and said it will consider selling some

OGDEN, Utah — Weber State has signed football coach Jay Hill to an extension that keeps him in charge of the program through the 2023 season. The deal adds two years to a five-year extension signed in January. The Wildcats won a school-record 11 games this season and two FCS playoff games for the first

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — For the second year in a row, the Baltimore Ravens will be without standout cornerback Jimmy Smith in a late-season game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. This time, the Ravens are far better prepared to meet the challenge. With the AFC North title up from grabs last Christmas, an ankle injury to

NEW YORK — Roger Goodell has signed a five-year contract extension to remain commissioner of the NFL through 2024. A memo from the NFL’s compensation committee to team owners and obtained by The Associated Press confirms that Goodell and committee chairman Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, have signed the extension. That extension has

NEW YORK — Oscar winner Sally Field is writing a memoir. The actress has an agreement with Grand Central Publishing for “In Pieces,” scheduled for next fall. The publisher announced Wednesday that the book will cover her private and professional lives, notably her rise from the teen star of “Gidget” to her acclaimed performances in

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is holding out the prospect of 6 percent growth in the U.S. economy. Put that down to puffery. By most signs, economists say the country will be lucky to achieve consistent annual growth much over 2 percent. A look at the president’s remarks at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday: TRUMP: —”So

DETROIT — The Latest on the sentencing of Volkswagen senior manager Oliver Schmidt in the company’s diesel emissions scandal (all times local): 4 p.m. A Volkswagen senior manager has been sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison for concealing software that was used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles. Lawyers spent

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The IOC has left weightlifting at risk of being cut from the 2024 Olympics, and ordered retesting of more stored doping samples from the 2012 London Olympics. Asked to update the IOC executive board Wednesday about handling the sport’s doping problem, the International Weightlifting Federation must now report again by June. International

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Lionel Messi says that striker Gonzalo Higuain should be picked for Argentina’s World Cup squad. Higuain lost his place to Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi and Boca Juniors’ Dario Benedetto for Argentina’s final matches in the South American World Cup qualifiers under coach Jorge Sampaoli. In an interview with local channel TyC

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Rob Patrick has resigned as the Tennessee women’s volleyball coach after earning a school-record 409 career victories in 21 seasons. The school announced Patrick’s exit Wednesday. His resignation is effective immediately. Patrick said in a statement that “this is the proper time for me to move on to other opportunities, which will