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Lindsay Gottlieb acknowledged it herself, that she’s not usually so “agitated,” but she couldn’t hide those feelings Sunday as her USC women’s basketball team learned its NCAA tournament draw.
The Trojans (28-3) received a No. 1 seed for the second consecutive season and will host the opening weekend at Galen Center, starting with a matchup against No. 16-seed UNC Greensboro (25-6) on Saturday at 12 p.m. PT.
The catch is that the Trojans received the fourth and final No.

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Lamine Yamal is included in the Spain squad that will take on the Netherlands in the Nations League quarter-finals (JOSE JORDAN)
International football gets underway in Europe for the first time in 2025 as the Nations League moves into the quarter-finals stage and the continent’s 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign gets underway.
Nations League promotion/relegation play-offs are also on the cards in a week where all the European big guns are in action.

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The seven candidates to succeed International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach are nearing the end of the campaign to become the most powerful person in sport governance (MARCO BERTORELLO)
The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee is nearing the finish with Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry widely seen to be clear of the remaining quartet.
Any of those three would be an historic winner in the election in Greece on Thursday.

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The Liberty and Phoenix Mercury agreed to a trade Sunday that dealt veteran Natasha Cloud for the 2025 WNBA Draft’s No. 7 overall pick and New York’s 2026 first-round selection.
“We could not be more excited to welcome Natasha Cloud to the New York Liberty family,” said Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb. “Tash is someone who we identified years ago as a prime fit for our team and embodies everything we look for in a player.

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TOKYO (AP) — The Major League Baseball season kicks off Tuesday night at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers face the Chicago Cubs.
It’s the first of a two-game series and features five Japanese players. Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and rookie Roki Sasaki pitch for the Dodgers while the Cubs have outfielder Seiya Suzuki and left-handed pitcher Shota Imanaga.
The two MLB teams have been in Tokyo for several days, playing exhibition games against two Japanese teams — the Hanshin Tigers and Yomiuri Giants.

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