Major League Soccer will lock out referees after its union rejected a tentative contract, putting Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami on track to open the season next week with replacement officials.

Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian’s contract extension will push his guaranteed salary to $10.3 million this year under details released by the school’s Board of Regents.

Purdue claimed the top overall seed over reigning national champion Connecticut in the first look at the potential top 16 seeds for the NCAA Tournament.

The Hall of Fame basketball coach Lefty Driesell has died.

There’s a scene in the film Life of Brian where the firebrand at a clandestine meeting of revolutionaries attempts to foment anti-Roman hatred.

France striker Kylian Mbappé has told Paris Saint-Germain he plans to leave the club at the end of the season when his contract expires, according to a number of reports. 

There were several consequential calls by coaches in the NFL’s Week 17, including benching Russell Wilson in Denver.

The country’s biggest sporting icon is fighting for the ruling party in the January 7 vote, boycotted by the opposition.

For footballers, ‘Black Tax’ has become endemic but the matter has usually been discussed in hushed tones or privately.