basketball
On Tuesday, Maine Celtics guard JD Davison was named the NBA G League Player of the Week.
Davison averaged 27.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, 9.7 assists and 2.3 steals per game as Maine went 2-1. Davison had 31 points, seven assists and six rebounds in a 112-109 loss to Delaware State on Dec. 6 against Maine State. He scored 27 points and added 10 assists the next day in a 135-109 win over Delaware State. He finished the week with 23 points and 12 assists in Sunday’s 130-112 win over the Raptors.
Davison is averaging 23.8 points and 8.8 assists in 12 games.
soccer
Champions League: Jeers rang out as Manchester United lost 1-0 at home to Bayern Munich.
Kingsley Coman scored in the 70th minute to end Manchester United’s slim chances of progressing into the knockout stages.
MLS: Charlotte FC has hired Dean Smith as its new coach. Smith is a British national with over 10 years of managerial experience in the English football system.
turkey: Turkish authorities have arrested the president of a top-flight soccer club for punching a referee in the face at the end of a match, prompting the Turkish Football Federation to suspend all league games.
Israel: German sportswear giant Puma said the decision to end its cooperation with the Israeli national soccer team next year was taken in 2022, before the start of the Israel-Hamas war, and was “based solely on business reasons.” said a company spokesperson.
university
Leggett honors: Jack Leggett, a former University of Maine baseball player and Clemson University coach for 21 years, has been inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame along with nine others.
Leggett was the Tigers’ baseball coach from 1994 to 2015, winning 955 games and appearing in the College World Series six times.
football: Quarterback Riley Leonard, who led Duke to a 7-5 season including a stunning 28-7 win over Clemson in the season opener, announced on social media that he is transferring to Notre Dame. .
Leonard appeared in 27 games at Duke over the past three seasons, throwing for 4,450 yards, 24 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He appeared in only seven games this season after being injured late in a 21-14 loss to Notre Dame on September 30th.
tennis
Halep’s hearing: The Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced that two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep will challenge her four-year ban for doping and will hold an appeal hearing in February.
Halep, 32, was suspended in September following an investigation into her positive test at the 2022 US Open, which was later found to contain fraud on her biological passport.
car racing
Indy car: Chip Ganassi Racing announced that DHL Express will become the primary sponsor of two-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou in a multi-year partnership that concludes DHL’s long-standing partnership with Andretti Global.
Global shipping and logistics giant DHL has been Andretti’s main sponsor for 13 years and was in Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car, which won both the 2014 Indianapolis 500 and the 2012 IndyCar Championship. . DHL has been the main sponsor for the past two seasons for Romain Grosjean, who left Andretti at the end of the season.
skiing
Holder injury: Switzerland’s Wendy Hoerner undergoes surgery on an ankle injury and Mikaela Shiffrin will be without one of her main competitors in slalom and could miss the rest of the season.
Holder broke his left ankle after colliding with a safety net while training in Italy, the Swiss Ski Federation said. She will be taking a break from skiing for about two months.
game
Sports betting: Republican Gov. Phil Scott announced that Vermont residents will be able to bet online starting Jan. 11, when mobile sports betting begins in the state early next year.
– Staff and news agency reports
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