RB Leipzig’s Julian Nagelsmann will take over from Hansi Flick as Bayern Munich’s head coach next season after signing a five-year contract, the Bundesliga champion announced on Tuesday. The 33-year-old Nagelsmann will move to Bayern on July 1 and has agreed a deal running through until June 30, 2026. Flick is to leave Bayern at
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – You may recognize former New Mexico State defensive back Darien Johnson, but these days it might help if he’s not wearing a shirt! That’s because Johnson, who played cornerback at New Mexico State from 2010-2013, is now an internet sensation fitness trainer after posting his super-human workouts to social media.
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RUSTON, Louisiana – UTEP softball (9-23, 4-12 C-USA) was shutout, 2-0, in the opening contest of its double-header and lost, 3-2, in the nightcap despite a seventh-inning comeback versus Louisiana Tech (18-24, 7-5 C-USA) at Dr. Billy Bundrick Field Monday evening. UTEP pitchers redshirt sophomore Isabella Kelly, sophomore Zaylie Calderon and freshman Mackenzee Collins put on a
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TEXARKANA, Arkansas – UTEP closed out the first round of play at the 2021 Conference USA Men’s Golf Championship with the Miners finishing the day in ninth place on Monday at Texarkana Country Club in Texarkana, Arkansas. The Miners opened the event on Monday with a team total of 295 to finish the first round at 7-over par. UTEP
Continue Reading Despite a devastating Covid-19 second wave killing thousands of people every day in India, the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament is playing on. The lucrative IPL, which runs until May 30, is a two month festival of cricket, attracting huge contracts for the world’s best players. International competition all but stops during the glitzy
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She laced up her boots and sped on to the skating rink. A seemingly innocuous act, except in 1952 during a time of racial segregation in the US, this young Black woman departed the rink with a broken arm, her actions having infuriated White men intent on her exclusion. Over a half a century before
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP softball needed a four-game sweep of Louisiana Tech in order to jump the Lady Techsters for four 4th place, and qualification for the conference Tournament, in the Conference USA. The Miners arguably outplayed the Lady Techsters in both games Sunday, but were only able to come away with one victory.
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New @UTEP_MBB head coach Joe Golding to Maynard of H&H Car Wash on getting to the NCAA Tournament: “we’re gonna get it done.” Watch my full one-on-one tonight on ABC-7 Xtra after ABC-7 at 10. #PicksUp @UTEPAthletics @UTEP pic.twitter.com/KE9wpbsCUY— Erik Elken KVIA ABC-7 (@ErikElkenKVIA) April 26, 2021 Catch @ErikElkenKVIA’s interview w/ @CoachJoeGolding on ABC-7 Xtra
Continue Reading Manchester City clinched a fourth consecutive League Cup title on Sunday after beating Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 at Wembley. A late second-half header from Aymeric Laporte topped off a brilliant performance from City, which has dominated this trophy in recent years. It has now matched Liverpool’s record of eight League Cup titles. It’s the first of
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(Editor’s note: The 2021 NFL Draft begins Thursday with the first round (8 p.m. ET), followed by Rounds 2-3 on Friday, April 30 (7 p.m. ET) and finishing with Rounds 4-7 on Saturday, May 1 (noon ET). Tune in to ABC for live coverage on each day.) About the only certainty in the confounding 2021 NFL
Continue Reading The world of English football is set to unite behind a social media boycott in a bid to combat the sustained racist abuse received by players online. Clubs in the Premier League, English Football League, Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship, along with the game’s governing bodies and organizations such as Kick It Out, will
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EL PASO, Texas – Ivan Escobar won the biggest match for the biggest weight class in the biggest state. In high school wrestling, it doesn’t get bigger than that. The Montwood senior came is bringing home the top prize in the Texas 6A Wrestling 285-pound division after defeating Emmett Bivens of Allen by a 5-2
Continue Reading Fully vaccinated baseball fans won’t have to maintain social distancing this weekend at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers, reigning World Series champs, designated two sections of its 56,000-seat stadium for fully vaccinated attendees starting Saturday. Guests from different households will be seated next to each other and masks are still required. To gain entry
Continue Reading “Greed,” money and power. These were the three defining words of a week that shook European football’s very foundations. On April 18, 12 of Europe’s biggest, most successful and financially powerful clubs — subsequently dubbed the “Dirty Dozen” — announced their intention to breakaway from the current UEFA competition format and create their very own
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Nine firearms were found by officers at the home of Phillip Adams, the man police say shot and killed six people at the home of a doctor in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on April 7. Search warrants released Friday by the York County Sheriff’s Office also say “numerous notebooks were located with cryptic writing with
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP softball (8-20, 3-9 C-USA) battles Louisiana Tech (15-23, 4-4 C-USA), the team one spot above the Miners in the Conference USA standings at fourth place, in a pair of double-headers in Ruston, La.. The four games will play a pivotal role in determining the West Division’s final seed of the
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EL PASO, Texas — A new television game show called “The Cube” is coming to the TBS cable network and will feature a Borderland couple, Samantha and TJ Stukes. competing for up to $250,000 in prize money. The premise of the show: A couple will be placed in glass box and then tasked with answering
Continue Reading Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, who is the manager of the Welsh national football team, has been charged with assaulting two women and “coercive and controlling behaviour,” police said on Friday. Giggs has been charged with “causing actual bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and common assault of a woman in her
Continue Reading Zlatan Ibrahimović has signed a one-year contract extension at AC Milan that will enable him to play beyond his 40th birthday. “AC Milan is the Club for which Zlatan has played the most in Italy,” said Milan statement. “After scoring 84 goals in 130 appearances with the Rossoneri, the Swedish striker will continue to be
Continue Reading Basketball player Terrence Clarke, who last month declared for the 2021 NBA draft after playing his freshman season for the University of Kentucky, died Thursday after sustaining fatal injuries in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to the Kentucky athletics department. He was 19 years old. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon as Clarke’s vehicle
Continue Reading Eight witnesses and a confession from the real perpetrator couldn’t save Valentino Dixon from being handed a prison sentence of nearly 40 years for a crime he didn’t commit. But a drawing of the famous 12th hole at Augusta National Golf Course did. The New York native was sentenced in 1992 for the fatal shooting
Continue Reading Ten of the 12 founding members might have officially pulled out of the European Super League, but Barcelona has reiterated its commitment to the idea. On Tuesday, the new project collapsed spectacularly — less than 48 hours after it was announced — following the withdrawal of the six Premier League teams from the competition. Italian
Continue Reading Basketball player Terrence Clarke, who last month declared for the 2021 NBA draft after playing his freshman season for the University of Kentucky, died Thursday after sustaining fatal injuries in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to the Kentucky athletics department. He was 19 years old. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon as Clarke’s vehicle
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BOULDER CITY, Nevada – The NMSU women’s golf team continues to make history, and now they have their sights on the NCAA Tournament. Wednesday in Boulder City, Nevada, NMSU captured its 10th WAC Championship in program history. ABC-7 caught up with the team as they returned to the Borderland Thursday at the El Paso International
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DENTON, Texas – The UTEP tennis team (6-7) was bested, 4-0, by undefeated FIU (10-0) in the opening round of the 2021 Conference USA Championships in Denton, Texas, Thursday. “We really fought today with everything we had, but they were just a little stronger than us,” UTEP head coach Ivan Fernandez said. “It shows why they are still
Continue Reading LeBron James tweeted, then deleted, a post about the killing of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant at the hands of Columbus police. The Ohio teen was killed Tuesday, about 30 minutes before the verdict was delivered in the killing of George Floyd. On Wednesday, James, an Ohio native, tweeted a photo of a Columbus police officer who
Continue Reading It isn’t the end. It’s just the beginning. This isn’t about Derek Chauvin. It’s about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Jacob Blake, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Tony Robinson, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and so many others — too many more Black people being killed on a regular basis by police officers for whom those
Continue Reading Seán McCabe is concerned. Not about Bohemian FC’s next opponents, nor those who lie in wait in the weeks and months ahead. It’s of a greater, invisible opponent — one that is discernibly shaping the present and threatens to leave an indelible mark on the future. The opponent: the climate emergency. “It’s already occurring […]
Continue Reading Despite a ferocious backlash and widespread condemnation, Real Madrid President Florentino Perez says the so-called Super League isn’t canceled, only on “standby.” Speaking to Spanish radio station El Larguero on Wednesday night, the 74-year-old insisted the other clubs “haven’t left” the project and they would continue working to make the breakaway competition viable. The Super
Continue Reading As crowds gathered outside Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium, there was a moment — almost like the flick of a switch — when angry jeers turned to whooping cheers. Fans, currently unable to watch Premier League games amid Covid-19 restrictions, had come together on Tuesday to protest Chelsea’s participation in the European Super League ahead of
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