FORMULA ONE
Netflix to document season
Netflix is to make a documentary series chronicling this Formula One season, which is to be screened next year, the sport’s rights holders announced on Saturday. Formula One said the makers of the 10-part series would have unparalleled and exclusive access over the course of the year to the drivers, team bosses and owners, as well as the sport’s management team. “Formula One is a global sport that we are actively repositioning from a motorsport company to a media and entertainment brand,” F1’s managing director of commercial operations Sean Bratches said in a statement. “The agreement with Netflix serves to chronicle the fascinating story of what transpires behind the scenes during a Grand Prix season... This series will unleash a compelling vantage point to the sport that will delight fans and serve as a catalyst to entice new fans.”
BASKETBALL
Curry out for three weeks
Stephen Curry is to miss at least three weeks with a sprained left knee, meaning the Golden State Warriors are to be without their second-leading scorer for the rest of the regular season. Curry could be back at the start of the playoffs next month if all goes well in rehabbing his latest injury. The team said Curry would be re-evaluated in three weeks — that would be April 14 and a possible Game 1 of the playoffs for Golden State. Curry had on Friday returned from a six-game absence after his latest right ankle injury, only to injure his left knee. The defending champions were already without their three other All-Stars: Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson. Green was likely to be back from a bruised pelvis for yesterday’s home game against Utah. Durant is still recovering from a broken rib and Thompson has a fractured right thumb.
SOCCER
Owner on trafficking charges
The owner of reigning Greek champions Olympiakos and English Championship club Nottingham Forest has been charged with drug trafficking. Evangelos Marinakis is being prosecuted for “possession and trafficking of drugs” and for “associating with criminals,” a judiciary source said on Friday. Prosecutors in Piraeus have also banned Marinakis from leaving Greece because of a probe into the financing of a company that chartered the Noor1, a petrol tanker that was seized off the Greek coast in June 2014 with 2 tonnes of heroin on board. Marinakis has furiously denied the charges.
MARATHON
Ethiopan sets half record
Ethiopa’s Netsanet Gudeta on Saturday broke Kenya’s dominance in the World Half Marathon Championships by smashing the women’s only race world record in Valencia, Spain. Kenyan women had swept the medals at the previous two championships, but Gudeta pushed on alone from 15km to win in a time of 1 hour, 6 minutes and 11 seconds. The 27-year-old finished a comfortable 43 seconds ahead of Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei, who holds the overall world record of 1 hour, 4 minutes and 51 seconds. The previous record for a single-sex race was set by Lornah Kiplagat in Udine, Italy, in 2007. Earlier, Geoffrey Kamworor won his third successive title in the men’s event in 1 hour and 2 seconds. The Kenyan, who won silver in the 10,000m at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, was followed over the line by Abraham Cheroben of Bahrain and Aron Kifle of Eritrea.
Bologna on Thursday advanced past Empoli to reach their first Coppa Italia final in more than half a century. Thijs Dallinga’s 87th-minute header earned Bologna a 2-1 win and his side advanced 5-1 on aggregate. Giovanni Fabbian opened the scoring for Bologna with a header seven minutes in. Then Viktor Kovalenko equalized for Empoli in the 30th minute by turning in a rebound to finish off a counterattack. Bologna won the first leg 3-0. In the May 14 final in Rome, Bologna are to face AC Milan, who eliminated city rivals Inter 4-1 on aggregate following a 3-0 win on Wednesday. Bologna last reached the
If the Wild finally break through and win their first playoff series in a decade, Minnesota’s top line likely will be the reason. They were all over the Golden Knights through the first two games of their NHL Western Conference quarter-finals series, which was 1-1 going back to Minnesota for Game 3 today. The Wild tied the series with a 5-2 win on Tuesday. Matt Boldy had three goals and an assist in the first two games, while Kirill Kaprizov produced two goals and three assists. Joel Eriksson Ek, who centers the line, has yet to get on the scoresheet. “I think the biggest
From a commemorative jersey to a stadium in his name, Argentine soccer organizers are planning a slew of tributes to their late “Captain” Pope Francis, eulogized as the ultimate team player. Tributes to the Argentine pontiff, a lifelong lover of the game, who died on Monday at the age of 88, have been peppered with soccer metaphors in his homeland. “Francisco. What a player,” the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) said, describing the first pope from Latin America and the southern hemisphere as a generational talent who “never hogged the ball” and who showed the world “the importance of having an Argentine captain,
Noelvi Marte on Sunday had seven RBIs and hit his first career grand slam with a drive off infielder Jorge Mateo, while Austin Wynn had a career-high six RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds scored their most runs in 26 years in a 24-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles. Marte finished with five hits, including his eighth-inning homer off Mateo. Wynn hit a three-run homer in the ninth off catcher Gary Sanchez. Cincinnati scored its most runs since a 24-12 win against the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999, and finished with 25 hits. Baltimore allowed its most runs since a 30-3 loss to
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