LONDON (AP)—Portsmouth players have been asked to defer their salaries after the financier tasked with saving the 2008 FA Cup winner from bankruptcy warned the club’s cash could run out in two months. The second-tier English club entered bankruptcy protection last week for the second time in two years

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ATLANTA (AP)—Atlanta Hawks guard Joe Johnson will miss the All-Star game because of tendinitis in his left knee. The team says an MRI confirmed the initial diagnosis

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Standing in the middle of the street is never a good idea — especially when you’re a reporter holding a microphone in the path of footballers trying to flee the training ground. One reporter outside of Milan’s Milanello complex apparently thought that not only standing in the middle of the street, but sticking her microphone out to moving cars would be a great way to get an interview.

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EVERETT — Zoran Rajcic was bracing for the possible arrival of the NHL in the region long before last week’s press conference. The Everett Silvertips’ assistant general manager, who is in charge of the team’s business operations, has heard the rumblings for months. Last week’s announcement by the City of Seattle and San Francisco-based hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen, detailing a proposal for a $500 million-dollar arena that would house NHL and NBA teams, appears to bring the possibility of professional hockey to the region one step closer.

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LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Britain needs to act swiftly to crush any return of racism in soccer, after several high-profile cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday.

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LONDON (AP)—England’s Football Association has fined West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison 7,000 pounds ($11,000) for using a gay slur on Twitter. The FA says Morrison was “warned as to his future conduct after he admitted a charge of using abusive and/or insulting words including a reference to a person’s sexual orientation.” The 19-year-old Morrison posted the tweet shortly after joining West Ham from Manchester United last month.

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Goal.com Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz has dismissed claims that the club already has La Liga wrapped up. Los Blancos are in devastating form domestically and currently possess a 10-point lead over Barcelona at the top of the table, prompting some pundits to claim that the title race has already been run

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Goal.com The Houston Dynamo have signed goalkeeper Erich Marscheider, the club announced on Wednesday. Marscheider cleared the waiver process after Major League Soccer signed the promising goalkeeper to a contract

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