David Beckham declines offer to play for team in Paris | Soccer
David Beckham declines offer to play for team in Paris | Soccer
Soccer
Beckham declines offer
to play for team in Paris
David Beckham might stay with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League.
He turned down a chance to join Paris Saint-Germain, officials for the French team said Tuesday.
After weeks of negotiations with PSG, the 36-year-old midfielder and former England captain decided he doesn’t want to move his family from the United States.
Beckham’s five-year contract with the Galaxy ended after he won his first MLS Cup in November. He was wooed by several teams across Europe.
Beckham reportedly might try to finalize a new, rolling one-year contract this week with the Galaxy, which was paying him a base salary of $6.5 million.
Stone will leave ESPN
to take job at Fox
Rob Stone is leaving ESPN to become the lead studio host on Fox, and ex-U.S. national-team player Eric Wynalda will shift from Fox’s studio host to its primary studio analyst.
Manchester City romps
Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 to take a three-point lead over Manchester United in the English Premier League. Manchester City (15-2-3) has 48 points.
Johnson fails fitness test
Officials of Mexican team Puebla reported U.S. forward Eddie Johnson, 27, failed a fitness test and will not be joining the first-division squad. Johnson has been without a team since leaving Fulham of the English Premier League in the summer.
Baseball
Report: Crisp to return to A’s
Free-agent center fielder Coco Crisp, 32, reportedly agreed to a two-year, $14 million contract to return to the Oakland Athletics.
Others who decided to stay with their teams include Miami Marlins infielder Greg Dobbs (two years, $3 million), a former Mariner, and Chicago Cubs outfielder Reed Johnson (one year, $1.15 million).
Pitcher Darvish visits Texas
Yu Darvish is visiting Texas for the first time during a 30-day window the AL champion Rangers have to negotiate a contract with the Japanese pitcher. The Rangers put in a record bid of about $51.7 million for the right to negotiate with Darvish, 25, a standout for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
NHL
League suspends Carcillo
Chicago Blackhawks forward Daniel Carcillo has been suspended indefinitely by the league after a hit on Edmonton’s Tom Gilbert on Monday night. League officials said Carcillo’s ban is pending a hearing with the department of player safety.
Carcillo got a major boarding penalty and a game misconduct for the hit.
Outdoor game gets 2.1 rating
Monday’s Winter Classic, an outdoor game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia between the Flyers and the New York Rangers, was the fifth-most watched regular-season game in 37 years.
New York’s 3-2 victory at the Philadelphia Phillies’ ballpark averaged 3.74 million viewers on NBC and got a 2.1 rating.
Jagr, Oilers rookie are ailing
Philadelphia forward Jaromir Jagr, 39, is expected to miss from seven to 10 days because of a groin strain.
Edmonton center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the league’s leading rookie scorer, is out indefinitely because of a left-shoulder injury. Nugent-Hopkins, 18, was the first player selected in the NHL draft in June and has 35 points (13 goals, 22 assists) in 38 games.
WNBA
Kloppenburg to coach Tulsa
The Tulsa Shock hired Indiana Fever assistant Gary Kloppenburg, 58, to be its coach.
Kloppenburg, a former Storm assistant, replaces Hall of Fame player Teresa Edwards, who took over on an interim basis after Nolan Richardson stepped down as coach last season. The Shock, which relocated from Detroit, is 9-59 in two seasons in Tulsa.
Elsewhere
• Johnny Weir, 27, a three-time U.S. figure-skating champion, married Atlanta lawyer Victor Voronov on Friday in New York. “Marrying Victor has been the greatest moment in my life and I will work very hard to make him proud and happy,” Weir said.
• A French motorcyclist was in critical condition after being found unconscious in remote sand dunes during the Dakar Rally. Sebastien Coue apparently crashed during the second stage in western Argentina and was exposed to temperatures above 104 degrees.
On Sunday, Argentine rider Jorge Martinez Boero died in a crash during the rally’s first stage.
• The IndyCar Series has selected Beaux Barfield as its new director for racing, according to a person familiar with the hiring. Barfield, who will be introduced during a news conference Wednesday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, replaces Brian Barnhart, who lost race-control responsibilities last month.
• Austrian skier Marlies Schild stretched her World Cup-slalom winning streak to five, cruising to the victory in Zagreb, Croatia, while overall leader Lindsey Vonn of Vail, Colo., finished ninth despite a stomach illness.
Schild became the first skier to win five straight World Cup races in one discipline since Vonn took the first five downhills of the 2009-10 season.
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