Quick strikes help Liga MX roll in MLS All-Star game Juan Brunetta and Maximiliano Meza scored a minute apart in the second half and Mexico's Liga MX AllStars beat the Major League Soccer AllStars 4-1 in the MLS All-Star Game on Wednesday night in Columbus, Ohio. Brunetta (Tigres) scored in transition in the 68th minute to make it 3-1 and set up Meza (Monterrey) soon after in front of a record crowd of 20,931 at Lower.com Field.
It was the first MLS All-Star Game victory for Liga MX in three tries. While there were plenty of big names on the field, the absence of the brightest and biggest one took some luster out of the event. The league said earlier in the week that Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi was unable to play because of ligament damage in his right ankle suffered while playing for Argentina in its victory over Colombia in the Copa America final on July 14.
Germán Berterame (Monterrey) and Oussama Idrissi (Pachuca) also scored for the Mexican side. Columbus' Cucho Hernandez tallied the lone goal for the MLS All-Stars. French sprinter to wear cap after hijab flap French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla will be allowed to participate in the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics wearing a cap to cover her hair, an agreement reached with the French Olympic Committee after Sylla said she was barred because of her hijab.
During Friday's opening ceremony, which includes a parade by athletes on the Seine River, the French delegation will wear tailor-made uniforms by the French luxury brand Berluti. "In consultation with the French Athletics Federation, the French Ministry of Sports, Paris 2024, and Berluti, discussions were held with Sounkamba Sylla," the French Olympic Committee said Thursday in a statement. "She was offered the possibility of wearing a cap during the parade, which she accepted.
" France enforces a strict principle of " laïcité," loosely translated as "secularism." On Wednesday, the president of the French Olympic Committee had said that French Olympians are bound by the secular principles that apply to public-sector workers in France separating state and church, which includes a ban on hijabs. British Open runner-up withdraws with illness Billy Horschel, who tied for second at last week's British Open after holding the 54-hole lead, withdrew from the 3M Open on Thursday morning due to illness.
"I wasn't feeling great late last night and took some medicine," he told the tour's communications staff about an hour before his tee time. "Had decent sleep but woke up and just have a fever, body is just not wanting to respond, every muscle feels like it's locked up. Tried to do a little warmup in the gym, just didn't respond.
Tried to go out to the golf course and hit some balls, body's just not wanting to cooperate." Horschel shot 3-under 68 in last Sunday's final round at Royal Troon and finished tied for second with Justin Rose, two strokes behind Xander Schauffle. He arrived in Minnesota on Monday.
Horschel finished 13th in last year's event at the TPC Twin Cities. Entering the week 28th in the FedEx Cup standings, Horschel has five top-10 finishes this season, including a win at the Corales Puntacana Championship in April. Adam Long replaced Horschel in the 156-player field.
F1's Ocon to join Haas team next season France's Esteban Ocon will drive for Haas from next season as a replacement for Kevin Magnussen, the American Formula 1 team said on Thursday. Details of the deal were not announced, with Haas only saying that the Ocon, 27, committed to a "multiyear contract starting with the 2025 FIA Formula 1 World Championship." Ocon, the only driver to win a race for Alpine since it rebranded from Renault at the end of 2020, has picked up just three points this season and had already announced he was leaving the Frenchowned team.
His Alpine contract is expiring at the end of the season. Ocon made his F1 debut in 2016 with Manor and joined the then-Renault team for 2020. His sole career win came at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2021 for Alpine after a crash in wet conditions took out much of the field.
Haas announced last week that Magnussen would leave the team at the end of the season when his contract expires. Wisconsin AD gets 5-year extension, raise Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh has signed a five-year contract extension that includes a pay raise. McIntosh's contract will run through June 30, 2029.
He has served as athletic director since Barry Alvarez retired in 2021. In the release announcing McIntosh's extension, Wisconsin said he will make $1.45 million in base salary this year with an annual $50,000 escalator clause that would increase his pay to $1.
5 million the following year. Under that escalator clause, McIntosh would make $1.65 million the final year of his contract.
McIntosh, 47, has worked in Wisconsin's athletic department since 2014. He was an All-American offensive tackle for Wisconsin before the Seattle Seahawks selected him 22nd overall in the 2000 draft. His most notable moves as athletic director have included coaching changes in football and men's hockey.
He fired Paul Chryst as football coach in October 2022 and hired Luke Fickell away from Cincinnati later that year. He also dismissed Tony Granato as men's hockey coach at the end of the 2022-23 season and replaced him with Minnesota State's Mike Hastings. Fickell went 7-6 in his debut season at Wisconsin.
Hastings went 26-12-2 and led Wisconsin to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2021. From News wire reports. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!.
