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Associated media - Linked media Jessica Bouzas (Villagarcía de Arosa, Pontevedra, 2002) es una de esas promesas del tenis que llegan para revolucionar el deporte. Ya lo demostró en el Mutua Madrid Open, donde en su primera participación venció a la española Paula Badosa. Ahora, Bouzas ha dejado su huella en Wimbledon, eliminando en la primera ronda a la campeona vigente, un hecho que no ocurría desde hace 30 años en el Grand Slam londinense. Una española ha vuelto a hacer historia. El logro de derrotar a la actual número 6 del mundo es impresionante, pero aún más significativo es que este es su primer triunfo en un Grand Slam. «Creo que estoy en uno de los momentos más importantes de mi vida y mi carrera», expresó emocionada la gallega de 21 años tras su victoria en Wimbledon....

Associated media - Connected media Los abogados del expresidente Donald Trump (2017-2021) presentaron una solicitud ante un tribunal de Nueva York para anular su reciente condena penal y la sentencia programada, citando un fallo reciente de la Corte Suprema que limita la capacidad de juzgar a expresidentes, según informó el New York Times este lunes. De acuerdo con el diario, los abogados de Trump solicitaron al juez Juan M. Merchán que pronuncie la sentencia, prevista para el 11 de julio, mientras se evalúa si la decisión del Tribunal Supremo de este lunes afecta el caso en cuestión. El 30 de mayo, Trump fue declarado culpable de 34 cargos de falsificación de documentos relacionados con la ocultación de una relación extramatrimonial, un esfuerzo para proteger su campaña presi...

Related media - Associated media The box went to an anonymous buyer in Canada, Mr. Simonds said, breaking the record for the most money spent on unopened sports cards and the most anyone has spent on a hockey collectible. Baseball Card Exchange, an authenticator that specializes in unopened vintage sports cards, confirmed that 16 wax boxes were inside the case. Each box contains 48 packs of cards, with 14 cards per pack, for a total of more than 10,000 cards. The set contains 396 different player cards, which means that if the assortment were perfectly random, it would contain 27 Gretzky cards, according to the auction house’s listing. If the case does contains a couple dozen of the prized Gretzky cards, they might not be in good condition, Mr. Simonds warned. The cards could be slight...

Linked media - Associated media Ken Holtzman, a left-hander who pitched two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs and won three World Series with the Oakland A’s in a 15-season career, died on Monday in St. Louis. He was 78. He had been hospitalized for the last three weeks with heart and respiratory illnesses, his brother, Bob, said in confirming the death. Holtzman won 174 games, the most for a Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball — nine more than the Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, who is considered one of the best pitchers ever and who had a shorter career. In addition to his win total, Holtzman, who at 6 feet 2 inches and 175 pounds cut a lanky figure, had a career earned run average of 3.49 and was chosen for the 1972 and 1973 All-Star teams. Holtzman, at 23, threw his first no-hi...

Related media - Linked media ST. PAUL, Minn. — For years, Luke Kunin watched as his girlfriend, then fiancée, then wife, Sophia, supported his career. She was a shoulder to lean on when things got tough in Minnesota. Moved to Nashville when he was traded there. Was a constant during the toughest season of his pro career — last year with the San Jose Sharks, when he tore his ACL. So Kunin can’t wait to walk into Xcel Energy Center — the arena where he began his NHL career as a Minnesota Wild rookie seven years ago — on Saturday with the shoe on the other foot. The 1 p.m. CDT game will be his first time watching Sophia play at the highest level in person, as she’ll take the ice with Minnesota’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team to face Boston in its regular-season home finale ahead...

Linked media - Connected media PHOENIX — Fresh off, arguably, the most important performance of his young career, Anthony Edwards sat in front of the world with a white tank top and an all-black Atlanta Braves fitted cap that sat loose, hovering just above his crisp hairline — making him look more like an extra in Outkast’s “Player’s Ball” video than the future face of the NBA. Edwards is who he is. Silly. Lovable. Intelligent. Country. He wears it all, loudly and proudly. He’s also a competitor. A trash-talker. He wears all of those things just as loud, just as proud. You add all of that up and you have a star. You add all of those things up plus a 40-point performance in a playoff-sweeping 122-116 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday night, and you start to enter superstardom. Yet...

Linked media - Connected media The allegation of a sexual assault was reported to the police in 2018, when the players were members of Canada’s national junior team, and it has created an enormous firestorm over the years, even in a sport with a long history of similar accusations. It led to a clean sweep of the board and leadership of Hockey Canada, the sport’s national governing body, provoked an exodus of sponsors, cut off government funding for the sport, spurred a parliamentary inquiry and prompted scathing rebukes from the public and from political figures, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As members of the national junior team, the accused players won the 2018 world junior championships. Their high profile intensified the public reaction to the assault allegations. The j...

Linked media - Connected media As a boy, Whitey sometimes cut school to visit Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis and watch the Yankees play the St. Louis Browns (the team later became the Baltimore Orioles). Herzog was signed by the Yankees out of high school, but they gave up on him after a long apprenticeship in the minors and traded him to the Washington Senators in 1956. He also played for the Kansas City Athletics, the Orioles and the Detroit Tigers. He appeared in 634 major league games with a career batting average of .257. After two seasons with the Athletics, as a scout and then a coach, Herzog joined the Mets as their third-base coach in 1966, scouted for them in 1967, then spent five years overseeing their farm system. Herzog was named manager of the Texas Rangers in 1973, taking...

Linked media - Related media Geraldine Tkachuk, the players’ grandmother, was spotted in the stands looking less than impressed. As remarkable as the 10-man ejection may have been, it barely seemed to faze the participants. “I mean, I don’t think it’s bad to play with emotion,” Brady Tkachuk told The Associated Press. “I think when this group plays with emotion, we’re a tough team to beat, and I think we rely on our emotion and it shows that we care, shows that we care about what we’re doing here and about the guy next to us.” Two more players got misconduct penalties later in the third period, bringing the total penalty minutes in the game to 167. Still, this being hockey, that wasn’t close to a record. In 2004, a series of brawls late in a game between the Senators and the Philadelph...

Associated media - Associated media La clasificación para la próxima Champions de equipos como el Girona, Brest o el Bolonia, que vivirán su primera experiencia en Europa, abre el baúl de los recuerdos para muchos aficionados que disfrutaron con participaciones de equipos poco habituales en la competición reina, pero que fueron sencillamente históricos. A continuación, repasamos algunos casos concretos de este siglo. Empecemos por la edición 2003/04. Junto a Real Madrid y Real Sociedad, el Deportivo de la Coruña participaba en una Champions por tercera vez en su historia, y se quedaron muy cerca de besar la gloria. DEPORTIVO DE LA CORUÑA (2003-04) Hace muy poco se cumplieron 20 años del día en que el Depor se despertó del sueño de jugar una final de Champions. Se lo arrebató el O...