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The Washington Capitals have re-signed forward Carl Hagelin to a four-year, $11 million deal.
The 30-year-old, who was set to become an unrestricted free agent, was acquired from the Los Angeles Kings in February.
"Carl is a versatile player who can play on any line and is an excellent penalty killer," Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said in a statement. "He is a proven winner and provides great leadership to our team."
Hagelin had 11 points in 20 regular-season games with Washington and added one assist in seven playoff games.
Hagelin began last season with the Penguins, with whom he won two Stanley Cups before being dealt to Los Angeles for Tanner Pearson in November. Washington sent third- and sixth-round draft picks to the Kings for the forward.
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The Anaheim Ducks have gone to their AHL affiliate to find their next head coach, with Dallas Eakins getting the job, according to multiple reports.
Eakins has led the San Diego Gulls since 2015. He does have NHL head-coaching experience, with the Edmonton Oilers from 2013-15.
The 52-year-old is a former NHL defenseman, playing with eight teams from 1992 to 2002. The most time he ever got in the NHL was 23 games with the Panthers in 1997-98.
After his playing days, he coached the Toronto Marlies of the AHL before getting the Oilers job. The team had 67 points in 2013-14 and missed the playoffs. Eakins was fired 31 games into the next campaign.
The Gulls finished third in the Pacific Division of the AHL last season but made it to the semifinals of the Calder Cup playoffs before bowing out.
The Ducks fired coach Randy Carlyle in February. General manager Bob Murray took over for the remainder of the season with an eye on evaluating the team.
Anaheim finished sixth in the Pacific Division and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2011-12.
The Ducks face difficult personnel decisions as they gear up for a retool. The "big three" of Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf and Ryan Kesler are all 34 and have each battled significant injuries the past two seasons. Perry and Getzlaf have salary-cap hits above $8 million and are under contract through 2020-21. Kesler, with a $6.875 million cap hit, is under contract through 2021-22. All three players have no-movement clauses.
Information from ESPN's Emily Kaplan was used in this report.
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Watch: Fans sing 'happy birthday' to Mickelson on first tee at Pebble Beach
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Sunday, 16 June 2019 06:12

As a golfer, things don't get much better than being able to play iconic Pebble Beach on your birthday. For Phil Mickelson, that was the case Sunday at the U.S. Open, and he was even treated to a warm welcome on the first tee from the fans.
Mickelson, 49, has long been one of the crowd favorites on Tour, and that only magnified this week at Pebble Beach. Lefty won there earlier this year, and was chasing the elusive U.S. Open title that has evaded him his entire career that would have completed the career Grand Slam.
Happy Birthday, Phil!
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Watch: Koepka's amazing par save leads to a string of birdies
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Sunday, 16 June 2019 10:45

Beginning the day four off the U.S. Open lead, Brooks Koepka birdied the first hole Sunday at Pebble Beach to quickly cut his deficit to three strokes.
But any momentum gained appeared lost at the par-4 second.
Koepka's tee shot went wide right and his second shot landed in a precarious spot just outside of a bunker and at the bottom of a steep slope. Koepka purposefully stabbed at his ball on his third shot and watched as it flew up and onto the front of the green, bounding 6 feet past the hole.
Koepka made that putt to remain three strokes back of leaders Gary Woodland and Justin Rose in his bid for a three-peat. He then birdied the third and fourth holes to keep pace with an equally hot Woodland.
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Father Time: Birthday-boy Mickelson's U.S. Open clock is running out
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Sunday, 16 June 2019 10:52

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Phil Mickelson will be 57 years old when the U.S. Open returns to Pebble Beach in 2027, which made Sunday’s final round bittersweet.
The moment was magnified by the constant reminder from the gallery that Sunday was also Lefty’s 49th birthday and he was serenaded with endless renditions of “Happy Birthday.”
“Heard it a decent amount. It's pretty cool. The people here have been so nice to me and I'm very thankful,” said Mickelson following a closing 72 that left him tied for 55th following his round.
Although he appreciated the sentiment, the ever-present well wishes only served to remind him that the clock is running out in his quest to complete the career Grand Slam. In 28 starts in the U.S. Open Mickelson has six runner-up finishes.
“Dealing with losing in this game is a huge thing because even the greatest winners win such a small percentage of the time,” Mickelson said. “I have had so many special moments here at Pebble Beach that I can't help but play here and not be thankful and appreciative and grateful for all the gifts that I've been given and to be able to play and compete in this event.”
Mickelson’s first start as a professional was at the ’92 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and he has won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am five times, including his victory earlier this year.
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Greyson Sigg shot 12-under 59 in Sunday's final round of the Mackenzie Tour's GolfBC Championship.
The 24-year-old former Georgia player made 12 birdies and no bogeys at Gallagher's Canyon Golf and Country Club in Kelowna, British Columbia. He needed just nine putts during a back-nine 28 and 23 putts total.
The 59 is only the second sub-60 score in Mackenzie Tour history. Jason Bohn shot 58 in 2001 before the Canadian Tour was an official world-ranked tour.
This was just Sigg's third Mackenzie Tour start of the year. He is ranked 1,334th in the Official World Golf Ranking.
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The United States beat Chile 3-0 on a record-setting night for Carli Lloyd in its second group-stage match at the Women's World Cup in Paris on Sunday to secure a spot in the round of 16.
Lloyd scored twice in the first half to move into third on the all-time scoring charts for the Americans with 10 behind Michelle Akers (12) and Abby Wambach (14), and also became the first player to score in six consecutive Women's World Cup games. Julie Ertz also found the back of the net.
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Jill Ellis made seven changes to the side that beat Thailand 13-0 on Tuesday -- including the addition of Lloyd -- and the U.S. wasted no time picking up right where they left off as Lloyd buried a volley from just outside the Chilean penalty area to open the scoring in the 11th minute.
After the match, Ellis weighed in on Lloyd's starting prospects going forward: "The fact that she's now scored three goals, I don't think she could be in a better spot [to start]. I also know she's ready to do whatever she needs to for the team."
The U.S. then doubled its lead soon after Lloyd's opener with a deft, glancing header by Ertz from a corner kick that beat Chile keeper Christiane Endler, before Lloyd added a second goal of her own from another corner to send her team to the dressing room with a 3-0 half-time lead.
Ellis handed Jessica McDonald her World Cup debut at the start of the second half, as Ertz made way for the 31-year-old member of the NWSL's North Carolina Courage.
The U.S. spent the first 20 minutes of the second half applying massive pressure to the Chilean defense, with Endler, who plays professionally for Paris-Saint Germain, producing a string of world-class saves to keep the Americans out.
"Endler was fantastic, spectacular," Ellis said after the match. "She is one of best shot stoppers we've ever seen. That goalkeeper will keep that team in the mix and it's a wonderful statement about the level of goalkeeping."
VAR handed the U.S. a chance to add to the scoreline with a penalty, but Lloyd failed to get her spot kick on frame as Endler and the Chilean defense held on to keep the Americans scoreless in the second half.
"It's a mix of feelings, but I'm satisfied to have played like this, especially here, at this stadium that's my home," Endler told reporters.
"The football world powers have years of advantage compared to us in the development and support of women's football.
"This must be the beginning of something bigger and more important so more girls can dedicate themselves to the game professionally."
The win returns the U.S. to the top of Group F, level on points but ahead on goal differential of Sweden, which it plays on Thursday needing just a draw to win the group.
Both Sweden, which beat Thailand 5-1 on Sunday, and the U.S. are already assured of a spot in the knockout round.
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Paris Saint-Germain chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi has said that the French champions will no longer tolerate superstar attitudes from their biggest players after a forgettable 2018-19 season.
PSG moved to replace sporting director Antero Henrique on Friday by welcoming back Leonardo after nearly six years away and the Brazilian will be tasked with disciplining a talented but unruly squad that saw no shortage of controversy last campaign.
"Players will have to be more responsible than before," Al-Khelaifi told France Football. "It must be completely different.
"They will have to do more and work harder. They are not there for their own amusement. If they do not agree, the doors are open -- Ciao!
"I do not want star behaviour anymore."
PSG's ultimately disappointing term saw Champions League humiliation at the hands of Manchester United, Kylian Mbappe's unexpected end of season declaration, further injury and a spate of suspensions for Neymar, as well as the internal suspension and freezing out of Adrien Rabiot.
Al-Khelaifi said that it reached a point where enough was enough, which prompted the move to reinstate Leonardo.
"I realised changes were essential," he said. "Otherwise, we were going nowhere."
In order to bring Leonardo back after his AC Milan exit, the Ligue 1 giants had to part company with Henrique after two unsuccessful years together.
"In two minutes, it was settled between us," Al-Khelaifi said. "Leonardo will have absolute sporting power.
"Leo is my guy -- incredible. He has my total confidence. His natural authority will be good for everybody -- especially the players."
Leonardo is currently working hard to land coveted Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt as the first part of a summer overhaul designed to rejuvenate PSG's once ambitious project.
The South American transfer guru's mission is similar to when he first laid Les Parisiens' foundations when Oryx Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) took over at Parc des Princes back in 2011.
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Usain Bolt scored a goal in a UNICEF Soccer Aid charity match as his World XI side beat England on penalties after a 2-2 draw on Sunday.
The world's fastest man had been trying to become a professional soccer player since retiring from athletics in 2017, but after announcing that his "sports life is over" in January 2019, he showed people that he's still got a bit of life left on the pitch.
The 14th edition of Soccer Aid, played on Sunday at Stamford Bridge, pitted a selection of England players and personalities against a World XI captained by Bolt, and was notable for being the first to feature female players. Yet it was Bolt who stole the show with a well-taken goal before half-time.
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— Gary Neville (@GNev2) June 16, 2019
After former England and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher hesitated when trying to defend an awkwardly bouncing ball, his mis-timed header allowed Bolt to steal in on goal with the loose ball, before finishing with a powerful, left-footed drive beyond former England goalkeeper David Seaman.
Bolt's goal for the World XI, which saw the Jamaican line up alongside Chelsea legend Didier Drogba, looked to be in vain as England were on course to win for a sixth time as they held a 2-1 lead late in the match thanks to a pair of goals from Jeremy Lynch. But up popped TV personality Kem Cetinay right before full-time to level matters and Bolt's team went on to win the match from the penalty spot.
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— Soccer Aid ⚽️ (@socceraid) June 16, 2019
Bolt first expressed a desire to play professional football in 2016, mentioning how he'd love to play for the club he supported, Manchester United.
Since then, the decorated Olympian has had trials and training sessions at several teams in a bid to realize his dream, including training with Norwegian side Stromsgodset in early 2018, a summer training spell with Borussia Dortmund, and a trial with Australian A-League outfit Central Coast Mariners for whom he made his debut on Aug. 31.
Despite accepting a pro contract on Oct. 21, 2018, and having previously turned down a two-year offer from Valletta in Malta earlier that week, he made just a handful of appearances, scoring twice in an Oct. 12 friendly against amateur side Macarthur South West United before leaving the club in early November.
And while Bolt's professional career never quite got on track, he and the rest of the stars of the match can take heart in knowing they helped raise over £6 million for the charity in Sunday's game.
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PARIS -- The United States can't officially clinch a place as the best team in its World Cup group until later this week, but it used Sunday's game against Chile to show that even its second team is among the best in the world.
Despite wholesale changes to the starting lineup that routed Thailand, the U.S. beat Chile 3-0 to remain on top of Group F and advance to the knockout round. Both the U.S. and Sweden enter the final round of group play with six points from two wins, but the Americans possess a vastly superior goal differential.
On a day when the American presence in Paris made the red, white and blue of Parc des Princes, normally home to Paris Saint-Germain, an appropriate home away from home with a crowd of 45,594, the U.S. looked at ease from the outset.
In her first start this World Cup, Carli Lloyd needed just over 10 minutes to set a record by scoring in her sixth consecutive World Cup game. She then set another record when, at age 36, she became the oldest player to score two goals in a World Cup game.
Only a missed penalty, awarded after VAR intervention, slowed Lloyd.
Julie Ertz scored the other American goal in the opening half, the first World Cup goal for a player who starred as a defender in the 2015 tournament.
And if the U.S. didn't pile on the goals in the second half this time, it was more because of Christiane Endler's heroics in goal than because the U.S. took its foot off the gas, but the performance was hardly less comprehensive.
The U.S. and Sweden, which beat Thailand earlier in the day, will renew their very frequent rivalry in Le Havre on Thursday. Takeaways from Sunday's match:
Carli Lloyd can't stop scoring goals
In again defending her team's celebrations in its opening win against Thailand, Jill Ellis talked the day before the game against Chile about considering the individual context behind each goal. She used Lloyd as an example, saying she knew exactly how much work Lloyd had put in to be on the field as a goal-scoring threat at 36. That effort warranted celebration.
Well, despite the U.S. breaking out a golf-clap celebration on Lloyd's opening goal against Chile, poking fun at the controversy over their celebrations in the opening game, the captain again earned the right to celebrate Sunday. Lloyd has insisted that she wants to start, believes she can start and is still fully capable of influencing games for 90 minutes. That just isn't her role on a regular basis at the moment.
"Every day she comes to train, and she's one of the most competitive day in and day out," Becky Sauerbrunn said. "She's very vigilant when it comes to what she needs to do every single day to make sure she's the best. She wants to be on the field, and she trains like she wants to be on the field. I think whenever anyone asks her 'Are you OK coming off the bench?' -- no, she's not OK with it because she's a true competitor.
"She wants to score goals. She wants to be out there."
This wasn't a World Cup final against Japan, and she didn't quite complete the hat trick. But Sunday made her point decisively. She's not done.
The second-best team in France?
The U.S. made seven changes to the starting lineup from its opening game, a nod both to its own depth and the reality that Chile is a weaker side than any the U.S. is likely to face from here on out in the tournament. There wasn't much to criticize in the opening game against Thailand, so it's safe to assume the changes that took the entire front line, Crystal Dunn, Rose Lavelle, Sam Mewis and Kelley O'Hara, out of the lineup weren't punitive for poor performance.
"I feel like this team has incredible depth," Alex Morgan said. "And when [Ellis] chooses who goes on during a game and who starts, there's no explanation needed. We trust in her. It was pretty incredible that we were able to get all 20 field players on the pitch the first two games."
This was about managing the roster with an eye toward playing seven games. In fact, if the U.S. makes it to the final, it will play six games in 22 days, beginning Sunday. That's a hefty workload for the oldest team in the tournament. Resting players over 30 like Tobin Heath, O'Hara and Megan Rapinoe makes sense, as does seizing the opportunity to get minutes for players like Morgan Brian, a World Cup veteran but a surprise inclusion on this roster.
Ellis did the same thing in the second game of World Cup qualifying last fall, then reverted back to her original starting 11 for the remainder of that tournament.
But if the purpose of the changes was boringly tactical, the message was again loud and clear. The U.S. has more depth than any team in this tournament. That's most obvious in the front line, where Lloyd, Christen Press and Mallory Pugh would start for most teams in the world. As Heath, Morgan and Rapinoe did in the first game, the front line in this game set the tone by pressing Chile from the outset to break up that team's bunker mentality.
"For morale purposes and cohesion and the team and all that, it's fantastic," Ellis said. "You see the players celebrating each other again tonight. So in that purpose, it's a happy camp. From regards to load, it's a lot of games in this tournament if you want to go far in it. So in terms of the ability to take a game off of some legs, I think is hopefully a good thing."
A star in defeat
While American fans dominated the stands in Paris, Chilean fans made themselves heard with a rousing rendition of their national anthem, continuing to sing even after the recording in the stadium cut off. Once the game began, Christiane Endler gave them something to cheer, too.
"Endler was fantastic," Ellis said. "We knew that in terms of scouting her and have played her before and know her reputation in the club game -- playing in her home ground, really. ... Endler is always going to keep that team in the mix. Just a wonderful statement about the level of goalkeeping."
Chile's goalkeeper, who plays professionally for PSG, did all she could to keep the score from ballooning into something like the U.S. win against Thailand.
"She saved probably four or five goals that were heading in," Lloyd said. "She did a phenomenal job."
A much better organized and competitive team than Thailand, Chile is still years away from contending for world titles in women's soccer -- even if it gets the necessary support from the domestic football infrastructure long dominated by the men's game. But the generation to come already has a truly world-class player of its own to look up to during that journey.
"She got player of the match in a game they lost 3-0," Ellis said. "And I'm good with that."
Tierna Davidson impressive in debut
For a stretch of time last year, Tierna Davidson looked like she had the inside track on a starting role next to Becky Sauerbrunn in the middle of the U.S. back line. Davidson's own injury woes, which came early in her junior season at Stanford, and Abby Dahlhemper's continued quality changed that. But in becoming the youngest U.S. World Cup starter since Tiffany Roberts in 1995, Davidson both showed off her versatility as an outside back against Chile and took a starring role in U.S. set piece success. It was Davidson, whose delivery perfectly teed up Ertz for the near-post header on one corner kick and gave Lloyd the delivery to run onto for the other corner kick goal.
"Those balls she played in -- she's got one of the sweetest left feet I've ever seen," Ellis said.
The only thing she did wrong was take a free kick from the end line too early. And she can be forgiven a little overzealousness. It was, after all, her first World Cup game.
"This is something I've been looking forward to for a long time," Davidson said. "But only recently it kind of came into a concrete idea, as opposed to a dream."
Lindsey Horan in card jeopardy
Just about the first bit of bad news incurred by the U.S. in the tournament came when Lindsey Horan picked up a yellow card midway through the first half. The midfielder again looked the part of one of the tournament's potential breakout stars in what was mostly a composed, aggressive performance -- save for the card. Now Ellis, who substituted Allie Long for Horan early in the second half will face a choice as to whether to risk her picking up a second yellow in the group finale against Sweden and being suspended for the first elimination round game.
The U.S. had trouble with that in the last World Cup, losing Lauren Holiday and Rapinoe for the quarterfinal because of accumulated yellows. Then again, with both Sam Mewis and Lavelle kept on the bench at the start of Sunday's game, Ellis has rested options.
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