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SOCCER

Galaxy, Ibrahimovic

mutually part ways

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the
LA Galaxy are officially parting
ways after two eventful seasons,
the 38-year-old Swedish
superstar and the club
announced Wednesday.
“I came, I saw, I conquered,”
Ibrahimovic wrote on Twitter.
“Thank you LA Galaxy for making
me feel alive again. To the Galaxy
fans — you wanted Zlatan, I gave
you Zlatan. You are welcome. The
story continues.... Now go back
to watch baseball.”
Ibrahimovic scored 56 goals in
52 MLS games after joining the
Galaxy in March 2018, injecting
his inimitable blend of talent and
swagger into a stagnating club.
This season, he scored a
franchise-record 30 goals — more
than the rest of the Galaxy roster
combined (28)....
Chile’s players declined to play
Peru in a soccer friendly Tuesday
in Lima. Chile has been rocked by
a weeks-long wave of
demonstrations....
On the first day of the final
stage of qualifying for the 2021
Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal

defeated Republic of Congo, 2-0, and Nigeria edged Benin, 2-1.... Atlanta United dealt Darlington Nagbe to the state where he grew up, trading the midfielder to the Columbus Crew for $1,425,000 in allocation money and a 2020 international roster spot.... FIFA hired former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in a full-time role leading its global work developing soccer.

TENNIS Bob and Mike Bryan said they will retire after the 2020 U.S. Open, closing a professional tennis partnership that includes a men’s doubles record of 16 Grand Slam championships. The 41-year-old American twins announced their plans at the season-ending ATP Finals, which they qualified for but decided not to enter. The Bryans have won 118 titles in all, including 39 at ATP Masters tournaments.... Rafael Nadal rallied to beat Daniil Medvedev, 6-7 (7-3), 6-3, 7- 6 (7-4), at the ATP Finals in London, keeping alive his chances of advancing from the group stage. In the late match, Stefanos

Tsitsipas beat defending champion Alexander Zverev, 6-3, 6-2, for his second straight win, a result that guarantees him a place in the semifinals.

BASEBALL Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza said he agreed to become the manager of Italy’s national baseball team. The 51-year-old Piazza, who

was born in Norristown, Pa., is of Italian ancestry. He tweeted he will manage Italy at a European tournament in 2020 and at the 2021 World Baseball Classic.... The major league minimum salary will rise to $563,500 next season, a hike of $8,500.

COLLEGES Greg Andrulis, a former MLS coach of the year who has

overseen the George Mason men’s soccer team for 15 seasons, will not return next year. Andrulis said that he resigned after a 4-12-2 season, his third losing campaign in four years. — Steven Goff

MISC. Matt Tifft parted ways with Front Row Motorsports to focus on his health after suffering a seizure at the track late last month.... Raymond Poulidor, the

“eternal runner-up” whose repeated failure to win the Tour de France helped him conquer French hearts and become the country’s all-time favorite cyclist, died in his hometown of Saint- Leonard-de-Noblat, France, according to town officials. He was 83. Over his 17-year career, Poulidor secured a record eight podium finishes at the Tour de France, but he never won. — From news services and staff reports

QUOTABLE

“It is going to be a lot of

emotion. Playing at the

Garden is always fun. It

is going to be weird at

the same time.” KRISTAPS PORZINGIS, Dallas Mavericks forward, on going back to Madison Square Garden for the first time to play his former team, the New York Knicks, on Thursday.

MEDIA

BY JACOB BOGAGE

When Kelly McBride joined ESPN as an ombudsman in 2011, the sports media giant was wres- tling with what to do about com- mercial sponsorships for some of its television personalities, she said. Of course some of the former athletes the network employed were going to get — and take — sponsorship offers. But some of ESPN’s reporters had significant followings. They wanted a piece of endorsement deals, too. That presented a problem that ESPN continues to wrestle with today, media analysts say. As media companies consolidate even fur- ther, disparate properties now may have at least one thing in common: corporate ownership. “This is what’s going to happen as media companies become larger and larger,” McBride, a senior vice president at the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism organiza- tion, said in a phone interview. “We’re in this era where you can’t just exist as a successful media company. You have to continue to grow and get bigger and bigger, and you see all media companies doing it.” The Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN, launched sub- scription streaming platform Dis- ney Plus on Tuesday. The service, which costs $6.99 per month, includes original content from Dis- ney, Marvel, National Geographic and Pixar, along with archival pro- gramming from each. “It will change lives,” ESPN Se- nior NFL Insider Adam Schefter tweeted, along with a promotional video that did not include any ESPN content. “Access to a huge cache of incredible content, new and old,” NFL reporter Ed Werder posted. That rankled some sports media analysts, who saw ESPN personalities marketing the service on Twit- ter. An ESPN spokesman said in an emailed statement that the network never told employees to share promotional material about Disney Plus but actively told them about the new streaming service, which is meant to play a funda- mental part in Disney’s future. To Bob Lipsyte, another former ESPN ombudsman and retired New York Times sportswriter, that makes sense. Reporters market their content all the time, he said, and consumers can bundle sub- scriptions to Disney Plus, sports streaming service ESPN Plus and Hulu. But ESPN, he said, for all the talented reporters at the network, doesn’t behave like a typical news- paper or news network. And he wondered about the stakes of the Disney plugs. The kind of personalities who marketed Disney Plus, though they might have large so- cial media followings, aren’t cov- ering Congress or climate change. “It’s hardly any kind of impor- tant news that we are so con- cerned about the high level of in- tegrity of the purveyor of this news,” he said. [email protected]

No subtlety

in ESPN

promoting

Disney Plus

BY MATT BONESTEEL

The NFL used its flex-schedul-
ing powers for the first time this
season Tuesday, moving the Week
12 game between the Packers (8-2)
and 49ers (8-1) into the prime-
time NBC slot Nov. 24. The Sea-
hawks-Eagles game, which tenta-
tively had been scheduled for
“Sunday Night Football,” instead
will air at 1 p.m. on Fox.
It’s probably not the last time
the NFL will alter its prime-time
schedule this season. Here are
other games that could be flexed
in the next four weeks:

Week 13 (Sunday, Dec. 1)

Scheduled Sunday night game:
Patriots at Texans.
Flex possibilities (if not protect-
ed by their networks): 49ers at
Ravens (Fox), Raiders at Chiefs
(CBS).
Chances it gets flexed out: Slim,
especially if Houston beats Balti-
more on Sunday.

Seahawks at Rams.
ed): 49ers at Saints (Fox), Chiefs at
Patriots (CBS).
Chances it gets flexed out: The
Rams have been disappointing,
but they’re still in the NFC playoff
conversation, and the Seahawks
have MVP candidate Russell Wil-
son.

Vikings at Chargers.
ed): Seahawks-Panthers (Fox),
Texans-Titans (CBS), Bills-Steel-
ers (CBS), Rams-Cowboys (Fox).
Chances it gets flexed out: Is
anyone truly excited about watch-
ing the 4-6 Chargers in prime
time?

Chiefs at Bears.
ed): Cowboys-Eagles (Fox), Saints-
Titans (Fox), Panthers-Colts (Fox).
Chances it gets flexed out: It’s
hard to see the NFL wanting to
keep the stumbling Bears in prime
time for the penultimate week of
the regular season.
[email protected]

PRO FOOTBALL

NFL’s flex

in e≠ect for

prime-time

schedule

D.C. SPORTS BOG

DAN DUFFY Dan Duffy depicted Ryan Zimmerman using the dates, opponents and scores of all 179 Nationals games this year.

BY SCOTT ALLEN

The morning after the Washington Nationals clinched their first World Series title in franchise history, Philadelphia artist Dan Duffy began work on a piece to commemorate the occasion. Twelve days later, Duffy shared the result of his roughly 100 hours of meticulous labor. From a distance, the print looks like a standard ink and pencil drawing of Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman, arms raised in celebration — and perhaps some disbelief — after Washington closer Daniel Hudson recorded the final out in Game 7. A closer look reveals the piece, which is called a calligram, features the dates, opponents and scores of all 179 Nationals games from this championship season, including the playoffs. The Nationals’ 12-10 win over the Marlins on May 24, which marked the turning point after the team’s 19-31 start, makes up part of Zimmerman’s black glove. Washington’s 5-4 win over the Astros in Game 1 of the World Series, during which Zimmerman, the team’s original draft pick in 2005, hit the franchise’s first Fall Classic home run, flanks the white script of his navy blue jersey. “I’m really happy with how this turned out,” Duffy said in a phone interview. “It’s not easy to paint a very handsome gentleman who doesn’t have too many distinguishing features, like a beard or something. He’s kind of got a

little baby face, but luckily he had a little scruff going on. This is the moment he won, before he was able to jump into anybody else’s arms and join his teammates. I love to do that moment.” Duffy’s first calligram depicted Brad Lidge in a similarly joyous pose, after the reliever closed out the Phillies’ second World Series title in 2008. Duffy, a Philadelphia sports fan, said he made the piece to impress his then- girlfriend, who encouraged him to sell copies of the print in the Citizens Bank Park parking lot the following year. A decade later, Duffy, who would marry his girlfriend, creates word art for a living. Zimmerman represents the 15th piece in Duffy’s “Road to the World Series” collection, all of which are available for $49.99 on ArtOfWords.com. Duffy has created artwork for most of the World Series champions since 2008, but he couldn’t bring himself to commemorate the Cardinals’ title in 2011. St. Louis defeated Philadelphia in the National League Division Series that year, with Chris Carpenter outdueling Roy Halladay in an epic 1-0 win in Game 5, and Duffy never quite got over it.

“That was too painful for me,” he said. “I’ll have to get back to that one.” Despite the Nationals’ status as a division rival of the Phillies, Duffy didn’t have the same hang-up about creating his Zimmerman piece. He even praised Washington’s decision to not re-sign Bryce Harper last offseason and suggested Philadelphia will come to regret the contract it gave the former MVP sooner rather than later. “I’ve always been a fan of the underdog, and the Nats totally were an underdog this year,” Duffy said. “It was a race to even get into the playoffs. Also, to be perfectly honest with you, I just did a piece for Houston [after the 2017 World Series], so I didn’t want to draw [José] Altuve again. There’s just a couple teams that I couldn’t stomach to ever do, and that would be the [Dallas] Cowboys and the [Pittsburgh] Penguins. That’s it.” Duffy doesn’t only draw baseball- themed prints. He has done cityscapes and created an Alex Ovechkin piece to commemorate the Capitals’ Stanley Cup triumph in 2018. On Tuesday, he was busy finishing an illustration of New York Giants wide receiver David Tyree’s incredible helmet catch in Super Bowl XLII to have available at the Union Square Holiday Market in New York later this month. “I look forward — well, not really — to possibly doing a Redskins piece once you guys get a real owner,” Duffy, 39, said with a laugh. “Hopefully I can live a long time and do one in my 80s.” [email protected]

Philadelphia artist honors Nats

A Phillies fan commemorates Zimmerman’s joy at end of World Series with calligram

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