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Liverpool monitor USMNT, NY Red Bulls defender Long

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New York Red Bulls defender Aaron Long has caught the attention of English Premier League giants Liverpool with an eye towards taking the defender on loan, multiple sources have told ESPN.

Liverpool has been beset by injuries to their backline, with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all sidelined. Such has been the Reds need that midfielder Jordan Henderson has been forced to deputize in the center of Liverpool’s defense. Long would provide a short-term depth option to alleviate the Reds’ shortage of backline options.

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Manager Jurgen Klopp made it clear after Liverpool’s 3-1 victory at Tottenham Hotspur that he would be keen to add a new central defender in this month’s transfer window.

“If you have a center-half available at a reasonable price, and one with the quality we need, then send me a message,” he said on BT Sport.

“We thought [about making signings] and we think the whole time but it’s about doing the right thing. We need to find the right player. It’s incredible what’s happening in the defensive line.”

Liverpool did not officially confirm interest in the defender when approached by ESPN for comment.

The link with Long comes amid increasing European interest for the USMNT international defender. The Washington Post reported that English Championship side Reading want to bring Long in on loan, while MLSSoccer.com said there was “interest from clubs in England and France.”

A league source told ESPN on Thursday that the Red Bulls had yet to receive any formal offers for Long. The transfer window in Europe closes Monday night.

Long, 28, is something of a late bloomer. He was drafted by the Portland Timbers in 2014, but was released in midseason having had loan stints in the USL Championship with Sacramento Republic and the Orange County Blues.

He soon latched on with the Seattle Sounders and spent 2015 playing for their reserve team. In 2016 Long went on trial with the Red Bulls and was signed to their reserve team, New York Red Bulls II, and spent the entire 2016 season in the USL.

In 2017, Long made a breakthrough into the Red Bulls first team, and has been a mainstay ever since, making 120 league, cup and playoff appearances, scoring nine goals. He was named MLS Defender of the Year in 2018, a season in which the Red Bulls claimed the Supporters Shield, which goes to the team with the highest regular season points total.

Long’s form then caught the eye of U.S. men’s national team manager Gregg Berhalter, with Long making 18 appearances for the U.S. while scoring three goals. Long is in training camp with the U.S. side, and is expected to suit up in a friendly against Trinidad & Tobago this Sunday in Orlando.

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Ex-Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard retires after 11 seasons

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Through more than a decade with the Detroit Red Wings, Jimmy Howard was an NHL All-Star three times, the runner up for the Calder Memorial Trophy, and celebrated with the Stanley Cup.

It was the second season after the 2008 championship that Howard emerged as the team’s starting goaltender, going 37-15-10 with a .924 save percentage and 2.26 goals-against average in 2009-10. He made the All-Rookie team in 2010, and was named to the All-Star team in 2012, 2015 and 2019.

Howard announced on Instagram on Thursday morning that he was retiring, deciding to “to say farewell to playing professional hockey and move on to the next chapter.”

“It has been the honor of a lifetime to play and I’m forever thankful to the fans, everyone within the Red Wings organization, my teammates and my family for their ongoing support, loyalty and dedication,” Howard wrote.

Howard, 36, spent his entire career with the Wings, rising through the organization after being selected 64th in 2003.

“When I was an assistant here he was an All-Star, and then he was an All-Star again later in his career,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “It shows the competitiveness, and also the work ethic that showed in being great at his craft. Goaltending is one of those positions that you can continuously work on and make better, and he continually did that.

“When you look at his career in totality, it was a really, really wonderful career. He was a great competitor and a really great Red Wing.”

Howard ranks fourth in his draft class with 246 victories in 543 games, trailing Marc-Andre Fleury (467 in 848), Jaroslav Halak (272 in 521) and Corey Crawford (260 in 488).

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Howard enjoyed success early in his career. He finished second in voting for rookie of the year to defenseman Tyler Myers in 2010. That spring, Howard earned his first taste of the NHL playoffs, starting all 12 games before the Wings were eliminated in the second round.

He followed that up with again winning 37 of 63 games in 2010-11. The next season Howard posted 35 victories and a .920 save percentage in 57 games, and was named to the All-Star Game.

Howard was named to the All-Star Game again in 2015, but on the same day the announcement was made, Howard suffered a groin injury during a game at Washington and was not able to play. He returned to the All-Star Game in 2019.

“He was a great goalie for us for a long time,” veteran defenseman Danny DeKeyser said. “He gave us a chance to win more nights than not. He loved playing hockey, loved competing. One thing that I think made him a good goalie was his ability to block out things that happened in the past – if he had a bad game, he could rinse it and go out the next night and have a good game.

“Another quality of his was not things too seriously all the time and being able to go out there and have fun, joke about things, even if they weren’t going the right way. He liked to have fun.”

The 2019-20 season wasn’t much fun for the Wings, or Howard. His declined was dramatic:  He won only twice in 27 starts, his last victory dating to Oct. 29, 2019. Howard was pulled from his last two starts, his last appearance coming Feb. 27. Three weeks later, the NHL shut down the season because of the pandemic.

“As I enter this new chapter in my life, I look forward to spending more time with my family, coaching my son’s hockey team and new opportunities the future will hold,” Howard wrote.

Contact Helene St. James at hstjames@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames. Read more on the Detroit Red Wings and sign up for our Red Wings newsletter. Her book, The Big 50: The Detroit Red Wings is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Triumph Books. Personalized copies available via her e-mail. 



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Yankees trade Adam Ottavino to Red Sox in cash-saving move

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Adam Ottavino’s disappointing tenure with the Yankees is over — and he’s heading to the Red Sox.

The right-hander was dealt to Boston on Monday, a source confirmed, with the Red Sox picking up most of the $9 million owed to Ottavino, who is entering the final year of his three-year, $27 million deal.

The Yankees had been looking to move Ottavino, 35, to free up payroll as they look to stay under the $210 million luxury tax threshold this season.

The loss of Ottavino leaves the Yankees with Aroldis Chapman, Zack Britton and Chad Green at the backend of the bullpen. It also leaves them with another open spot on the 40-man roster after adding Jameson Taillon, Corey Kluber and DJ LeMahieu in the last week. 

Ottavino was effective in his first season with the Yankees, when he finished with a 1.90 ERA. But he struggled in September of that season and was dreadful against the Astros in the ALCS.

And Ottavino had a rough 2020 season, when he had a 5.89 ERA in 24 appearances and was a non-factor in the playoffs, pitching just once and allowing a run in ⅔ of an inning in the Yankees’ Game 2 loss to the Rays in the ALDS.

Adam Ottavino on Sept. 18, 2019
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“I want to stay on the team. I want to prove my worth. I want to pitch well,” Ottavino told The Post’s Ken Davidoff in December.

“I want to finish what we tried to start these last few years and win that title and all that. It’s not up to me. So I don’t pay attention to any of that, really.”

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Salma Hayek, 54, stuns in red swimsuit

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Salma Hayek is once again dazzling fans with a stunning swimsuit shot. (Photo: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Salma Hayek certainly knows how to take advantage of a Sunday.

The 54-year-old actress shared a new swimsuit photo this weekend, posing in a plunging red one-piece and sunglasses while stretched over crystal0blue waters in an over-water hammock. “#SundayVibes,” she captioned the post.

“The most gorgeous 54-year-old on Earth,” one commenter wrote on the post. “You do not age,” added another.

The Frida actress has been sharing a slew of swimsuit photos over the past few weeks while she appears to be on an extended beach vacation. “Never been more grateful for being healthy and in contact with nature,” she wrote on her first post from the exotic locale in the final days of 2020.

In a post shared last week from the same dreamy location, Hayek showed herself meditating in a black bikini. “We need to keep our cool,” she captioned it.

Hayek, who is mom to 13-year-old Valentina Pinault and married to billionaire businessman François-Henri Pinault, has managed to sneak in a few beach vacations during the pandemic. Including an extended vacation in Greece for the Mexican producer and actress’s 54th birthday.

On her birthday itself, she posted another eye-catching photo in a curve-hugging outfit. “I am very grateful and proud for every single one of my 54 years,” she wrote on the big day.

Hayek is certainly embracing getting older. “My mother always demonstrated the importance of aging gracefully,” Hayek told InStyle in an interview last year. “I never saw her or my grandmother being afraid of getting old. And so I don’t have that fear.”

In the same interview Hayek passed on some beauty tips from her cosmetologist grandmother. “She used to say 50 percent is the product, 50 percent is the way you apply it,” Hayek said with respect to skincare. “So massage, massage, massage.”

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Red Dead Online Leak Potentially Reveals Big Upcoming Update

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A new Red Dead Online leak is making the rounds that possibly reveals what is coming to the popular video game later this year. Since it released Red Dead Online in Beta a month after Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games has been relatively slow to support it, especially compared to GTA Online, which clearly has priority due to its larger number of players. However, it looks like Rockstar may be cooking up some big things for the online western such as bank robberies and more

Over on YouTube, Silentc0re relays word of some new files added to the game with the recent update. Of course, this by itself isn’t notable nor exciting, but the content of these files have players talking. For one, brand new files for various driveable boats have been found in the files. Meanwhile, there are files that range from new to newly updated that point to bank robberies coming to the game, including files with assets for money bonds, jewelry bags, safes, strong boxes. Of course, bank robberies are something players have been begging for since launch, and it’s something you’d assume Rockstar Games will eventually add, especially considering how popular heists are in GTA Online.

Lastly, there are files that seem to indicate that Rockstar Games has been doing work involving Guarma, the island from the game’s campaign. Right now, the speculation is that a legendary bounty could take players back to the island, much like the Cayo Perico update takes players to an island that is locked to just the mission.

That said, right now, there’s some contention over the leak, with some suggesting these files have been in the game since before launch, which in turn suggests they are nothing more than cut content. However, this wouldn’t explain why Rockstar Games is updating them.

For now, take everything here with a grain of salt. While datamining leaks are typically quite reliable, they can routinely spawn false conclusions and misconceptions.

At the moment of publishing, Rockstar Games has not commented on this leak in any capacity nor has it revealed what it has in store for the game for this year. If either of these things change, we will be sure to update the story. In the meantime, for more coverage on all things Red Dead Redemption 2, click here.

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Free Agency Notes: Mets, Richards, Red Sox, Profar, Bench Bat

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The Mets made a play for Garrett Richards before the veteran righty signed with the Red Sox, notes MLB Insider Jon Heyman (via Twitter). The Mets have made their rotation a project this offseason. They are seemingly in a good place even without Richards, however. Jacob deGrom, Carlos Carrasco, and Marcus Stroman make for a very strong top three, and hopes remain high that David Peterson will maintain a spot behind them. Noah Syndergaard plans to join that group at some point, and even if Seth Lugo returns to the bullpen, the Mets have no shortage of depth options – foremost of which might be the recently-acquired Joey Lucchesi. Beyond the ex-Padre, Steven Matz, Robert Gsellman, Franklyn Kilome, Corey Oswalt, and Jerad Eickhoff surely have eyes for the rotation. In other news…

  • The Red Sox themselves were runners-up in an attempt to sign Jurickson Profar, per the San Diego Union-Tribune. Boston, of course, ended up with Kiké Hernández on a similar, but shorter contract. It’s not clear if the Red Sox preferred Profar to Hernandez, though Hernández signing merely hours after Profar re-upped with San Diego is notable. Still, one does not necessarily follow the other. All we can say for certain is that Profar’s returning to San Diego thinned Boston’s market for versatile utility types. That the Red Sox engaged in parallel negotiations with similar players doesn’t actually speak to their priorities where those players are concerned.
  • After all, they may very well have been interested in signing both players, as Boston remains on the hunt for a lefty bench bat. In a perfect world, the Red Sox would find someone who could complement Bobby Dalbec at first, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com (via Twitter). Cotillo floats Marwin Gonzalez, Brad Miller, and Mitch Moreland as some players that might fit the bill. Boston’s bench leans heavily to the right at present, with Jonathan Arauz as one of very few organizational options as a lefty bat off the bench unless Jarren Duran makes the team out of spring training.

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Detroit Red Wings may have to postpone games due to COVID-19

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Jeff Blashill interview,Jan. 22, 2021.

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For the third time this season, the Detroit Red Wings are faced with salvaging a series.

They lost their first game at Chicago, falling 4-1 on Friday. The teams play again Sunday afternoon. The Wings had to make do without several key players because of the pandemic, leaving them wondering if they will face a temporary shutdown.

“Well we’re five guys down,” coach Jeff Blashill said Friday night. “The other team with five guys down is Carolina, and they postponed their games. So, that is where we are at. Certainly, it does not help chemistry, but again  … we are just trying to control what we can control.”

The performance was a letdown after a four-game homes stand that left the Wings feeling good about themselves as they came back to win against the Carolina Hurricanes and Columbus Blue Jackets. But the Blackhawks built a 3-0 lead before Dylan Larkin scored a goal set up by Marc Staal and Frans Nielsen, and now the Wings are left to hope they can split the series come Sunday’s matinee.

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“You never know when you wake up what the roster is going to be like, “ Larkin said. “This is the reality of our situation right how.”

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The Wings made do with 11 forwards and seven defensemen. Among those who made their season debuts were Darren Helm, Alex Biega and Christian Djoos.

Goaltender Thomas Greiss made 24 saves on 27 shots.

Two of the Blackhawks’ goals came during power plays. The Wings had been doing well killing penalties until Friday and most damningly went 0-for-5 on man advantages after finally scoring on a power play during their fourth game of the season.

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The Wings were without second-line center Robby Fabbri, who entered COVID protocol Jan. 11. Top-six winger Filip Zadina also missed the game because of being in pandemic protocol.

Contact Helene St. James at hstjames@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames. Read more on the Detroit Red Wings and sign up for our Red Wings newsletter. Her book, The Big 50: The Detroit Red Wings is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Triumph Books. Personalized copies available via her e-mail. 



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