National Sports

BARCELONA, Spain — Philippe Coutinho is joining Barcelona after Liverpool agreed Saturday to sell the Brazilian in a deal that makes him one of the most expensive players in soccer history.

DMITROV, Russia — Canada dropped a 3-2 decision to host Russia on Saturday in its opening game at the under-18 women's world hockey championship.

ALTENBERG, Germany — Bobsledders Kaillie Humphries and Justin Kripps guided Canada to a golden sweep in record fashion Saturday at the Altenberg World Cup.

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy — Canadian cross-country skier Alex Harvey reached the podium for the first time this season Saturday with a third-place finish at the Tour de Ski.

COLOGNE, Germany — Former Germany, Arsenal and Bayern Munich star Lukas Podolski has unveiled a new project: a kebab restaurant in his longtime home city of Cologne.

ADELBODEN, Switzerland — Weaving wildly down the steep final slope, Marcel Hirscher somehow found a way to outduel Henrik Kristoffersen yet again on Saturday.

NEW YORK — Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis have been dismissed from ESPN following an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct while employed at NFL Network. ESPN says in a statement Saturday "they are no longer working for us.

HARTFORD, Conn. — What to do with a new $71 million minor league baseball stadium during the winter? If you're the Hartford Yard Goats, the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, you turn to real goats. Time for goat yoga class.

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — Two months before turning 23, Mikaela Shiffrin has already won half as many World Cup races as the winningest female ski racer of all time, American teammate Lindsey Vonn.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lias Andersson was so frustrated with Sweden's second-place finish at the world junior hockey championship that he threw his silver medal into the crowd.