The Columbus Crew’s Guillermo Barros Schelotto, a midfield wizard who was a longtime star in his native Argentina, won MLS’ Most Valuable Player award Thursday. The 35-year-old Schelotto had 19 assists and seven goals for Columbus as the Crew bounced back from a 9-11-10 record the previous year to finish with an MLS-best 17-7-6 mark.

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Coach Bill Laimbeer has been re-signed to a two-year contract by the WNBA champion Detroit Shock. The team is not releasing terms of the deal announced Thursday. The two-time NBA champion as a member of the Detroit Pistons guided the Shock this summer to their third title during his seven years as coach.

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CONCORD, North Carolina (Ticker) - Roush Fenway Racing on Thursday signed Matt Kenseth to a multi-year contract.

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Juventus unveiled final
plans for their new stadium on Thursday, which this time will be
all about the Serie A club’s fans.

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South Africa set aside an extra $140 million to cover World Cup stadium cost overruns. The mounting costs for the 2010 tournament had come up during a Cabinet weekly meeting, the government said Thursday. Officials were “looking into this matter to ensure that cost management measures are put in place by the host cities to [...]

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Bayern Munich is hoping to sign United States forward Landon Donovan on a loan deal similar to the one David Beckham has reached with AC Milan, and possibly longer. Donovan has spent 10 days practicing with Bayern and will return home Friday. Both Donovan and Beckham play for the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League [...]

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Mexican media called on Sven
Goran-Eriksson to quit as national coach on Thursday, a day
after his side lost to Honduras and avoided an early World Cup
exit by the skin of their teeth.

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Almost as remarkable as the New York Red Bulls’ improbable ride to the MLS Cup championship game has been the lineup the team has utilized in their late-season run. As the Red Bulls prepare to face the Columbus Crew on Sunday in Carson, Calif., for the Major League Soccer title, the team is starting four [...]

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Ashley Walker received intravenous fluids before each Pac-10 tournament game for California last March, exhausted from anemia and dehydrated from the lack of iron. But Walker still went hard every possession on both ends of the floor. Thanks to daily iron pills and better nutrition — she is learning to eat leafy greens like spinach [...]

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Ohio State tight end Rory Nicol didn’t think there was anything special about rivalries — until the opening kickoff of his first game against Michigan. “I was a freshman and Ernest Shazor knocked me into, probably, the third week of my junior year,” he said, wincing at the thought. Nicol’s story may provide some insight [...]

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