Napoli coach 'shocked' over unfinished dressing rooms

NAPLES, Italy (AP) - Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti is "shocked" his club's dressing room at Stadio San Paolo remains an unfinished construction site days before their first home matches against Sampdoria and Liverpool.

Napoli posted a video of the changing room on its Twitter feed on Thursday showing unfinished walls ...
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UEFA fines Swiss league for Europa League entry error

NYON, Switzerland (AP) - Switzerland's soccer league has been fined by UEFA for wrongly letting Sion play in the 2017-18 Europa League.

UEFA says the Swiss Football League must pay 50,000 euros ($55,000) for the error in granting top-tier club Sion a license to enter European competitions.

Every team qualifying ...
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Nonprofit protests baptisms on Tennessee school's field

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) - A nonprofit that advocates for the separation of church and state has filed a formal complaint about baptisms on the football field of a Tennessee high school.

The Tennessean reports the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote to the district last week and said Springfield High coaches ...
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Clubs to get 1/4 of income from Champions League prize money

NYON, Switzerland (AP) - The 32 clubs kicking off the Champions League next week will rely on UEFA prize money for one quarter of their total revenue this season.

UEFA research published on Thursday forecasts the 1.95 billion euros ($2.15 billion) prize money shared by the 32 amounts to 26% ...
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Van Uytvanck beats Flipkens at Japan Women's Open

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - Third-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Women's Open with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Kirsten Flipkens on Thursday.

Van Uytvanck went up a break in the second set after easily winning the first, but Flipkens then won five of six ...
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Hungarian architect, dissident Laszlo Rajk dies at 70

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Laszlo Rajk, a Hungarian architect, dissident and film and theater production designer, has died. He was 70.

Rajk's death from an undisclosed illness was announced Thursday by architectural publication epiteszforum.hu.

Rajk, whose father, also called Laszlo, was executed in 1949 after an infamous show trial during ...
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Struggling France heads to World Cup with limited ambition

PARIS (AP) - The Rugby World Cup could be problematic for a France team struggling to emerge from a slump which has turned confident players into doubtful ones.

A reputation for flair has been eroded by miserable seasons of Six Nations mediocrity. France has become a lineup dogged by nerves, ...
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