Новости за 24.03.2018

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee linebacker Darrin Kirkland Jr. will miss the next two to three weeks of spring practice as he continues his comeback from a knee injury that sidelined him for the entire 2017 season. Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt said Saturday that Kirkland’s knee had “a minor little cleanup.” Pruitt said Kirkland might return

WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials held prayers and ceremonies honoring Poles who gave shelter and aid to Jews during the Holocaust as the country for the first time marked a new national holiday in their memory. The main celebrations were held Saturday in the southern village of Markowa. That is where German forces in 1944

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Top-ranked Simona Halep lost her opening match Saturday at the Miami Open to Agnieszka Radwanska 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. The draw was an especially tough one for Halep, who fell to 19-3 this year. Radwanska won the tournament in 2012, is ranked 32nd and improved to 6-5 against Halep. In men’s play,

SAN FRANCISCO — Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner has undergone surgery to have three pins inserted into the broken pinkie on his pitching hand. Bumgarner had surgery Saturday, and is expected to miss four to six weeks. The 28-year-old ace was injured Friday when he was hit by a line drive off the bat of Kansas

Capsules of National League East teams, listed in order of finish last year: Washington Nationals 2017: 97-65, first place, lost to Cubs in NLDS. Manager: Dave Martinez (first season). He’s Here: 1B-OF Matt Adams, C Miguel Montero, RHP Jeremy Hellickson, RHP Joaquin Benoit, INF Matt Reynolds. He’s Outta Here: Manager Dusty Baker, LF Jayson Werth,

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Weather washed out qualifying for NASCAR’s first stop this season at a short track and Martin Truex Jr. will start Sunday from the pole at Martinsville Speedway. There was no qualifying session because of a wintry mix that moved through the Virginia area and halted the Truck Series race after just 23

BOSTON — The Boston Celtics say point guard Kyrie Irving will miss three to six weeks after surgery on his left knee. Irving had a “minimally invasive” procedure to remove a wire that had been placed in his knee during surgery to repair his broken kneecap from the 2015 NBA finals. The team said Saturday

ALBANY, N.Y. — Napheesa Collier had 16 points and 11 rebounds to help top-seed UConn beat Duke 72-59 on Saturday and advance to the Elite Eight for the 13th consecutive season. UConn (35-0) will face defending national champion South Carolina on Monday night in trying to reach an 11th straight Final Four. The Huskies scored

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Reigning Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki says she and her family were targets of verbal abuse and threats from the crowd during her opening match at the Miami Open, which she lost to Monica Puig. In a statement Saturday posted on Twitter, Wozniacki said the tournament did nothing to prevent the

LONDON — In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights — Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye. That scene was repeated over and over across the world on Saturday night: at Sydney’s Opera House; at New Delhi’s great arch; at Kuala Lumpur’s

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — NASCAR has postponed the Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway because rain stalled Saturday’s event after 23 laps. The race will resume Sunday evening after NASCAR completes the Cup Series event. Should weather not disrupt Sunday’s activities, the race would resume about 7 p.m. Ben Rhodes started from the pole and led

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After UCLA advanced to the second weekend of the women’s NCAA Tournament, Cori Close checked her phone for messages. One of them was from Nan Wooden, the daughter of the Bruins’ iconic men’s coach. “Daddy would have liked watching this team,” Nan said, “and daddy would have been proud of you.”

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Boston Red Sox have traded infielder Deven Marrero to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a player to be named or cash. The Red Sox announced the deal Saturday, five days before all major league teams play their opener. The 27-year-old Marrero hit .211 with four homers and 27 RBIs for Boston

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Boston Red Sox ace Chris Sale says he expects to be fine to start on opening day after being hit by a line drive in his final spring training tuneup. Sale was struck on the left hip Saturday by a liner off the bat of Houston’s J.D. Davis in the first

TEL AVIV, Israel — Thousands of African asylum seekers and their local supporters are protesting against an Israeli plan to deport them. The Israeli government says the migrants have to leave the country for an unnamed African destination in exchange for $3,500 and a plane ticket, or they will be incarcerated indefinitely. The Africans, nearly

AUSTIN, Texas — Justin Thomas is the top seed remaining in the Dell Technologies Match Play and performing like one. Thomas went only 13 holes for the second straight match in a 6-and-5 victory over Si Woo Kim, sending him to the quarterfinals Saturday afternoon and moving him one step closer to No. 1 in

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Yankees first baseman Greg Bird has been scratched from the starting lineup because of a sore right foot. Bird had been scheduled to start a split-squad road game Saturday against Atlanta. This is the second consecutive year that Bird had a late spring training injury. Bird fouled a ball off

Jimmie Johnson’s start to the NASCAR season is not worthy of a seven-time champion. How bad is it? He has just one top-10 finish in five races and goes to Martinsville Speedway mired in a career-worst 28-race losing streak. But Johnson can take heart in this: He has nine victories at Martinsville, most among active

TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury will start the regular season on the disabled list because of an oblique injury that sidelined him three weeks. Ellsbury, who resumed playing Thursday, will remain at the Yankees’ spring training complex when the team leaves Florida on Sunday for its final spring training game Monday at Atlanta.

TORREFARRERA, Spain — Maximilian Schachmann won the sixth stage of the Tour of Catalonia which was shortened due to heavy snow and bad weather in the Pyrenees Mountains on Saturday. Defending champion Alejandro Valverde maintained his overall lead of 16 seconds over Egan Bernal ahead of the final stage. Schachmann, a German rider for Quick-Step

OBERSTDORF, Germany — Sara Takanashi claimed her first ski jumping World Cup win of the season to finally overtake Gregor Schlierenzauer with her record 54th career win on Saturday. The four-time World Cup winner from Japan, who ceded her season title to Maren Lundby of Norway, soared 100.5 meters with her first jump and 96.5

LIMA, Peru — A Peruvian judge has barred recently resigned President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from leaving the South American nation for 18 months while he’s investigated for money laundering. The ruling Saturday by a judge in Lima comes a day after congress accepted Kuczynski’s resignation and swore in Vice President Martin Vizcarra as his successor.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Clemson exceeded all expectations with its run to the Sweet 16. The Tigers won’t have the luxury of surprise next year. Clemson was voted 13th in the 15-team Atlantic Coast Conference last October with many wondering if this would be the last of coach Brad Brownell. He was entering his eighth season

SCHONACH, Germany — Overall winner Akito Watabe claimed his seventh World Cup win of the season in nordic combined skiing on Saturday. The Japanese athlete was 11th in the ski jump and had to contend with a delay of 1 minute, 4 seconds for the cross-country race. But he completed the 10-kilometer course in 25

WASHINGTON — Student survivors of the Florida school massacre anchored a massive rally against gun violence Saturday in Washington, D.C., while throngs of young people took to the streets in sister marches across the U.S. Some students also took part in counter protests in places like Helena, Montana, and Salt Lake City. Here’s a look