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Inter Miami owner David Beckham and ex-Real Madrid teammate Zinedine Zidane linked up pregame Wednesday as Inter Miami prepare to play without Messi! Zidane attends U.S. Open Cup final Welcomed by Herons owner David Beckham Messi misses match to injury WHAT HAPPENED? After missing out on the match due to …

The Cricket World Cup will be staged in India from Oct. 5 to Nov. 19. The Associated Press takes a look at five players to watch during the 6 1/2-week tournament: Babar Azam, Pakistan Is the No. 1-ranked batter in the ODI format and a crucial anchor in Pakistan’s top …

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Cricket World Cup returns to India after 12 years with the hosts desperately seeking to end its trophy drought at a major ICC event. India last won the 50-overs World Cup when it co-hosted the event in 2011 with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. M.S. Dhoni …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi couldn’t play, and the Houston Dynamo took full advantage to win a trophy on his home field. Griffin Dorsey and Amine Bassi scored first-half goals and Houston — with NBA star James Harden, part of the team’s ownership group, looking on from the …

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Manchester City seems to win every competition it enters these days except the English League Cup. Newcastle beat Man City 1-0 on Wednesday in the third round of the League Cup which also eluded Pep Guardiola’s team during its storied treble last season. Guardiola’s agitation at …

WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) — Two-time defending champion Leipzig withstood a stirring fightback to squeeze into the second round of the German Cup with a 3-2 win at second-division Wehen Wiesbaden on Wednesday. The visitors raced into a 2-0 lead with goals from Emil Forsberg and Benjamin Šeško and went on …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch has sold his Truck Series team, manufacturing business and all the Kyle Busch Motorsports assets to Spire Motorsports in a deal announced Wednesday. KBM is one of the most successful truck organizations in NASCAR history and holds the series record for most career wins …

TOULON, France (AP) — South Africa will assess the Rugby World Cup readiness of flyhalf Handre Pollard after selecting him on Wednesday to start in the final pool game against Tonga for his first test in more than a year. Pollard was added to the squad as an injury replacement …

LYON, France (AP) — Uruguay capitalized on three yellow cards to Namibia by overcoming a terrible start and winning their absorbing Rugby World Cup pool match 36-26 on Wednesday. Los Teros recorded only a fourth ever win at a Rugby World Cup while extending Namibia’s tournament-record losing run to 26 …

GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 player in the world and played the best golf of anyone this year, at least until he got onto the green. His putting was becoming a liability, and Scheffler wasted no time after the PGA Tour postseason getting it …

GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Rory McIlroy was willing to read his words about the Ryder Cup before happily eating them. He qualified for his first team in 2010, when he was a 21-year-old known as “Boy Wonder” with curly locks that spilled out from under his cap and already …

GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Ever the prankster, Novak Djokovic walked out onto the first tee for the Ryder Cup All-Star match with a tennis racket in his hand and pretended to take a swing at his golf ball. “It actually would be better for me,” the 24-time Grand Slam …

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — Tamim Iqbal opted out of next month’s 50-over World Cup after a dispute with a member of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, the opening batsman said on Wednesday while describing the situation as “a dirty game.” “Someone called me from the top level of the board who …

PARIS (AP) — World Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin defended the bunker review system at the Rugby World Cup after a red card was not issued for Tonga winger Afusipa Taumoepeau’s hit on Scotland captain Jamie Ritchie last weekend. Taumoepeau was given a yellow card for the first half incident last …

TOULOUSE, France (AP) — The situation for Japan and Samoa at the Rugby World Cup could hardly be tighter going into their pool match on Thursday. They are tied on five points in Pool D after two games each. They have the same number of tries — six — and …

As Lindsay Davenport gets set to take over as the U.S. captain for Billie Jean King Cup, she thinks back to what she called “the most amazing” of her three championships as a player in the team competition. It was in 1999, back when the event was still known as …