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SOCCER
Women’s player linked
to attack on teammate
A member of the Paris Saint-
Germain women’s soccer team
was arrested Wednesday and
accused of being involved in an
attack on one of her teammates.
Aminata Diallo was linked to
an attack on fellow midfielder
Kheira Hamraoui that occurred
after a team outing to a
restaurant Thursday. They and
other players were returning
home at roughly 10 p.m.,
according to L’Équipe, with
Diallo at the wheel, when two
masked men approached their
car. One pried open the door and
pulled out Hamraoui, hitting her
legs with an iron bar before
leaving the scene.
Hamraoui was taken to a
hospital and treated for cuts and
bruises to her hands and legs,
and her injuries sidelined her for
PSG’s victory over Real Madrid
in the Champions League on
Tuesday. Diallo started and
helped the team to a win.
“Paris Saint-Germain can
confirm that Aminata Diallo was
taken into custody this morning
by the Versailles Regional Police
Service as part of the
proceedings opened following an
attack on the Club’s players last
Thursday evening,” the club said
in a statement. It added that the
club “condemns in the strongest
possible terms the violence
committed.”
Diallo, 26, joined PSG in 2016;
she was loaned to the Utah
Royals of the National Women’s
Soccer League for the 2020
season. Hamraoui, 31, rejoined
the club last summer after
playing for Lyon and Barcelona.
— Cindy Boren
Former U.S. men’s national
team defender Matt Besler, who
spent 13 seasons in Major League
Soccer and was a five-time all-
star, announced his retirement.
Besler played 47 matches for
the national team from 2013 to
2017, including all four matches
of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Besler, 34, played 12 seasons
with Sporting Kansas City, then
signed with expansion Austin
and played 20 matches this year.
He was the MLS defender of the
year in 2012 and helped Kansas
City win the league title in 2013.
COLLEGES
The Colonial Athletic
Association’s Board of Directors
affirmed the conference’s
decision to deny a waiver from
James Madison that would have
allowed its teams to compete in
league championships this
school year despite its upcoming
move to the Sun Belt Conference.
JMU’s football team will not
be affected; CAA football has a
different set of bylaws, and
without a conference
championship game, the Dukes
can win the regular season title
and get the CAA’s automatic
playoff bid. But JMU’s other
teams won’t have that ability....
Georgia football player Adam
Anderson was arrested by
Athens-Clarke County police and
charged with rape.
According to his lawyer, the
senior surrendered to
authorities. Per online records,
he was booked into Athens-
Clarke County jail Wednesday
night.
Anderson, a star outside
linebacker for the top-ranked
Bulldogs, has been under
investigation by Athens police
since Oct. 29. That’s the day an
alleged victim went to a police
precinct to report she had been
raped the previous night.
Anderson flew to Jacksonville
with the team that day and
played for the Bulldogs in a 34-7
win over Florida. Georgia
officials said neither Coach
Kirby Smart nor anybody from
the athletic department was
aware of the investigation until
Nov. 1, when they were sent a
copy of the police report....
California football coach
Justin Wilcox s aid his team
followed all the proper protocols
before a coronavirus outbreak
led to dozens of positive tests
and the first postponement this
season.
The Golden Bears lost, 10-3,
last week at Arizona without
quarterback Chase Garbers and
six other starters because of
positive tests that knocked out
24 players and assistant coaches.
Additional positive tests Tuesday
made it impossible for Cal to
field a team this week and led to
Saturday’s game against
Southern California being
postponed until Dec. 4.
The Berkeley Public Health
Division released a statement
Tuesday saying there was an
“ongoing failure to abide by
public health measures” that led
to 44 confirmed positive tests....
Middle Te nnessee is staying in
Conference USA after receiving
overtures from the Mid-
American Conference. After
Middle Te nnessee’s
announcement, the MAC said it
would stand pat, which should
end this wave of realignment.TENNIS
Andy Murray defeated top-
seeded Jannik Sinner, 7-6 (7-4),
6-3, to reach the quarterfinals of
the Stockholm Open.
Murray broke the 20-year-old
Italian, who is ranked 10th, twice
in the second set. He next faces
Tommy Paul, who upset fifth-
seeded Taylor Fritz, 6-4, 6-4.
Also, 2019 Stockholm
champion Denis Shapovalov
beat qualifier Andrea Vavassori,
7-6 (7-1), 6-1. Shapovalov will play
Arthur Rinderknech after the
Frenchman’s 6-4, 6-1 win over
Jozef Kovalik.
Fourth-seeded Dan Evans and
eighth-seeded Frances Tiafoe
advanced in straight sets and
will meet in the quarterfinals.
Second-seeded Felix Auger-
Aliassime also won in straight
sets and will face Botic van de
Zandschulp in the other
quarterfinal. Van de Zandschulp
beat seventh-seeded Marton
Fucsovics, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 7-5....
Anett Kontaveit defeated
second-seeded Barbora
Krejcikova, 6-3, 6-4, in the
opening match of the WTA
Finals in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The eighth-seeded Kontaveit
beat the French Open champion
in just 75 minutes for her
11th consecutive victory....
In Linz, Austria, Alison Riske
defeated Chinese qualifier Wang
Xinyu, 6-3, 7-5, to set up an all-
American semifinal against
Danielle Collins at the Upper
Austria Ladies Linz.
The third-seeded Collins beat
Alison Van Uytvanck of
Belgium, 7-5, 6-3. Simona Halep
also advanced to the semifinals
by rallying to beat Italy’s
Jasmine Paolini, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0.
Halep will meet fellow
Romanian Jaqueline Cristian,
who scored a 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) win
over fourth-seeded Veronika
Kudermetova of Russia.
— From news services
a nd staff reportsDIGESTBY SAMANTHA PELLThe Washington Capitals
made a flurry of roster moves
Wednesday, placing center Nic
Dowd on injured reserve, send-
ing 19-year-old Hendrix Lapierre
back to his junior team and
calling up goaltender Zach Fu-
cale and center Aliaksei Protas
from their American Hockey
League affiliate.
Dowd was hurt Monday in the
second period of Washington’s
win over Buffalo. He left the
game with a lower-body injury
and did not return. Dowd recent-
ly had missed three games as he
battled a lower-body injury.
Capitals Coach Peter Lavio-
lette said Wednesday that
Dowd’s current injury is not
related to his previous one.
“He is going to be [out for] a
little bit,” Laviolette said. “I don’t
think it is anything major. Hop-
ing to see him back after IR.”
Dowd, who is eligible to come
off injured reserve for Washing-
ton’s game Tuesday at Anaheim,
is among a number of ailing
Capitals. Center Nicklas Back-
strom remains on long-term in-
jured reserve with a hip injury
and has yet to practice with the
team. Anthony Mantha is out
indefinitely after having shoul-
der surgery last week, and fellow
winger T. J. Oshie remains in a
walking boot after blocking a
shot with his right foot in late
October.
There also are minor injury
questions in net. Laviolette said
Washington brought up Fucale,
26, for precautionary reasons;
Vitek Vanecek was involved in a
collision in the final moments
Monday night but finished the
game. Vanecek was a full partici-
pant at Wednesday’s practice,
and Laviolette said Washington
is assessing his situation.
Fucale was 3 -0- 2 with a
.933 save percentage and a
1.73 goals against average for the
AHL’s Hershey Bears. He has yet
to make his NHL debut.
“I feel like the last few years
have been trending in the right
direction and I got a good thing
going and I’m just sticking to mybeen playing more and more
minutes as injuries take a toll.
Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny
K uznetsov lead the forwards in
average ice time at 21:46 and
21:33.
“The three back-to-backs in
two weeks is tough, so we’ll just
wake up every day and just
manage that day to do our best to
be successful,” Laviolette said. “It
is what it is.”
Lapierre was sent back to
Acadie-Bathurst of the Quebec
Major Junior Hockey League. He
played in six games and had one
point: a goal in the season open-
er, which was his NHL debut. He
averaged 9:35 of ice time.
“We’re really, really happy
with him and what he did and
what he was able to do, and we
think it’s good that he goes back
now and he plays and gets a ton
of confidence and a ton of ice
time and continues to develop,”Laviolette said.
Because the Capitals returned
Lapierre to his junior team be-
fore he played 10 NHL games,
Washington will not burn the
first year of his entry-level con-
tract. Lapierre is still eligible to
play for the Capitals this season
if they need an emergency call-
up, and he is allowed to suit up
for Washington or Hershey in the
postseason.
Laviolette praised the rookie
for his efforts but acknowledged
that the jump to the NHL isn’t
easy.
“It is a lot for a young player to
handle,” Laviolette said. “... We
sent him back to juniors where
he can p lay against h is p eers, a nd
who knows what happens from
here?”
After Wednesday’s moves, the
Capitals do not have any extra
forwards on the roster.
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JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
The Capitals put center Nic Dowd, who has another lower-body injury, on injured reserve Wednesday.game,” Fucale said. “Things are
working well right now.”
Laviolette said all three of his
goalies — Vanecek, Fucale and
Ilya Samsonov — will travel to
Detroit and Columbus. Those
back-to-back contests Thursday
and Friday start a stretch of
seven games in 11 days.
The Capitals’ veterans haveCAPITALS’ NEXT THREEat Detroit Red WingsToday7:30 NBCSWat Columbus Blue JacketsTomorrow 7NBCSWvs. Pittsburgh PenguinsSunday7NBCSWRadio: WJFK (106.7 FM),
WFED (1500 AM)to players and we follow what
players tell us to do because we
work for them. Other than that, I
just know that Juan has men-
tioned to me that he wants to
make sure he’s working for a club
that’s going to compete annual-
ly.”
Boras’s comments came after
he criticized the low number of
truly competitive teams in the
majors. His clients are better off
when more clubs are trying to
win, the Nationals included. So it
is hard to separate his thoughts
on Soto from his vision for MLB
at large.
But perhaps Boras under-
scored the need for Rizzo and the
Lerner family to outline their
goals and timeline for Soto, step
by step. Adding in free agency or
via t he trade market i s one way to
entice him to stick in Washing-
ton for the long haul. Having a
concerted, well-reasoned process
is another.
“I would do that with open
arms,” Rizzo said. “Give him our
plan... I’d do that with any
representative or player who
we’d want to have long term. I
have no issues there.”
[email protected]ues in history, if not the highest.
In March 2019, Mike Trout
signed a 12-year, $426.5 million
contract. That averages to an
annual salary of about $35.5 mil-
lion.
Yet Boras indicated Washing-
ton w ill h ave to prove i ts intent to
win to its cornerstone before
even having legitimate discus-
sions. It felt like a challenge to
Rizzo and ownership. Mean-
while, Soto is entering his second
winter of arbitration eligibility.
He will command a significant
raise on the $8.5 million he made
this past season, though that
could be affected by the new
CBA.
Regardless of the Nationals’
best intentions, Boras is known
for shepherding most of his cli-
ents to free agency, viewing it as
an opportunity to drum up a
bidding war. Think Bryce Harper
and Anthony Rendon, to name
two. Yet he contended Wednes-
day that is not a foregone conclu-
sion for Soto.
“I do have a record,” Boras
said. “You name me my guys
we’ve taken to free agency, and
I’ll name you a guy that we
haven’t. What we do is we listenIn early August, Soto was visi-
bly unhappy with the sharp
change in direction. This month,
he will finish in the top three of
voting for the National League’s
MVP award despite playing for a
last-place team. On one hand, a
way for the Nationals to show
Soto they are serious about com-
peting would be to offer him a
very large deal, perhaps one that
would set all kinds of records.
“It’s something that we think
about a lot,” Rizzo said. “A t the
right time, we’ll certainly get
more serious about it and ad-
dress it. The new [collective bar-
gaining agreement] is going to
have something to do with tim-
ing, just to see what the rules are.
But we’re not in the mind-set
where we got him under control
for three more years and have
three years to wait. T hat’s not our
view.”
Spending of any scale has to be
approved by Mark Lerner, the
team’s managing principal own-
er, and other members of his
family and inner circle. A realis-
tic expectation is that Soto and
Boras will angle for a deal of
double-digit years with one of
the highest average annual val-generalities and that type of
thing, and he knows our thought
process on it. It will be some-
thing we want to talk to him
about — being here for a long,
long time.”
And how about B oras’s sugges-
tion that Soto has to see the
organization contending again,
especially after it dealt eight
veterans at the trade deadline in
July?
“For 10 years, we’ve contended
for championships. We won one
of them. We won four divisions
and a wild card,” Rizzo answered.
“We’ve competed for titles and
won more games than just about
everybody in this league except
for [three] teams.”
The teams in front of the
Nationals in that statistic: the
Los Angeles Dodgers, New York
Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals.
But Boras’s point has steam be-
cause of how the Nationals fin-
ished 2021. Their record, 65-97,
was the fifth worst among the
30 teams. At the deadline, they
shipped out Max Scherzer, Trea
Turner and six others to net
12 prospects.SOTO FROM D1Contract dance begins for Nationals, young star Soto
ASSOCIATED PRESSWilliam Nylander scored twice,
Jack Campbell stopped 36 shots
for his second shutout of the sea-
son, and the visiting To ronto Ma-
ple Leafs beat the Philadelphia
Flyers, 3-0, on Wednesday night.
Ondrej Kase also scored and
Auston Matthews had a pair of
assists for the Maple Leafs, who
were without injured captain
John Tavares and w on for t he s ixth
time in s even games. Campbell got
his sixth career shutout.
“Right from the get-go, you
could tell we had a serious pur-
pose out there and just executed
the whole night,” Campbell said.
Carter Hart finished with
30 saves for the Flyers.
Nylander made it 1-0 with
8:49 left in the second period on a
fluke goal. The puck deflected off
his right foot and under Hart’s
right arm after Jake Muzzin’s pass
went off defenseman Travis San-heim’s stick and high into the air
near the crease. It originally was
ruled no goal by the officials be-
cause o f a kicking motion, but t hat
call was overturned after video
review.
Nylander fired a wrist s hot f rom
the slot on the power play that
beat Hart on the blocker side and
made it 2-0 at 5:09 of the third.
Matthews did the work down low
and got the puck to Nick Ritchie,
who passed to a wide-open Ny-
lander in the middle of the ice.
Nylander tied Tavares for t he team
lead with his seventh goal of the
season.
Kase made it 3-0 with 6:27 to
play. Alexander Kerfoot out-hus-
tled Flyers defenseman Justin
Braun, went behind the net and
beautifully set up Kase in the slot
for a finishing wrist shot.
Both teams were sloppy in the
first period, and Hart kept the
game scoreless with several strong
saves early in the second.
l PREDATORS 4, STARS 2:
Ta nner Jeannot had a goal and an
assist, Juuse Saros stopped
25 shots, and Nashville won in
Dallas.Ryan Johansen, Matt Duchene
and Colton Sissons also scored for
the Predators, who are 6-1-1 in
their past eight games. Sissons
scored an empty-net goal with
43 seconds left after Dallas cut a
3-0 deficit to 3-2.
Roope Hintz and Miro Heis-
kanen s cored f or Dallas, which has
lost six of its past seven games
(1-4-2). Braden Holtby made
18 saves.Ducks GM Murray resigns
Anaheim Ducks general man-
ager Bob Murray resigned a day
after h e was p laced on administra-
tive leave amid an investigation
into his workplace conduct.
Murray plans to enter a treat-
ment program for alcohol abuse,
the team and Murray said in a
statement.
The 66-year-old had been with
the organization since 2005 and
had run its hockey operations
since November 2008, which was
the third-longest active tenure for
a GM in the NHL.
A person w ith k nowledge of the
Ducks’ front office t old the Associ-
ated Press that the initial com-plaints against Murray p rompting
the investigation involved verbal
abuse of team employees. T he p er-
son s poke on t he condition o f ano-
nymity because the team isn’t dis-
closing details of its internal i nves-
tigation.
l PENGUINS: Pittsburgh may
be nearing the end of a coronavi-
rus outbreak that sent eight play-
ers and Coach Mike Sullivan into
the NHL’s protocol in recent
weeks.
Defensemen Chad Ruhwedel
and Marcus Pettersson practiced
Wednesday, and assistant coach
To dd Reirden — who is filling in
while Sullivan is in the protocol —
said both will be game-time deci-
sions Thursday when Pittsburgh
welcomes Florida.
The Penguins remain without
captain Sidney Crosby, defense-
man Brian Dumoulin and Sulli-
van.
Crosby and Dumoulin went
into the protocol Nov. 3, and Sulli-
van joined them a day later.
The Penguins started 3-0-2 but
have gone 1-4-2 in their past seven
games to fall into last place in the
Metropolitan Division.NHL ROUNDUPToronto prevails for sixth time in past seven games
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