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TORONTO — The line began at the gates of Mattamy Athletic Centre and stretched a full city block. Women’s hockey fans, after decades of waiting for a best-on-best league, were happy to wait a little longer for the doors to open for the first-ever Professional Women’s Hockey League game.The line was dotted with reminders of the past. There was a Natalie Spooner Toronto Furies jersey from her time in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. Several Toronto Six jerseys representing the Premier Hockey Federation and some from the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association exhibition stops. The people wearing those jerseys from…

El martes por la noche se produjo una explosión que acabó con la vida de Saleh al Aruri, número dos de Hamás, en un barrio de las afueras de Beirut. La organización islámica acusa a Israel del ataque a la capital libanesa, pero el Gobierno de Benjamín Netanyahu no ha sido reconocido hasta ahora por su autoridad. Para confirmarlo, se suponía que el alcalde israelí moriría tras el inicio de la guerra de Gaza el 7 de octubre, para eliminar al militante de más alto rango de la organización islamista. Fue también el primer ataque israelí contra la capital libanesa…

The cheers rang long and loud around Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium as fans celebrated Hugo Guillamon’s late equaliser against Barcelona in their final home match before La Liga’s Christmas break.Four kilometres away, on the other side of Valencia’s old city centre, all was quiet around the site of the Nou Mestalla — where the club’s half-built new home has sat untouched for the past 15 years.Through all that time, one of La Liga’s most storied clubs has found itself stuck in this bizarre situation — unable to raise the money to finish a modern new ground, unable to sell its historic…

Un terremoto de magnitud 7,6 sacudió esta luna en el centro y este de Japón, hasta el punto de que se tuvo que activar una alerta de tsunami para gran parte de la costa occidental del país, según la cadencia nacional NHK. Desde el principio, la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón decretó el nivel de alerta de tsunami del alcalde desde el desastre de 2011 que desencadenó el accidente nuclear de Fukushima. Anoche a las 20.30 horas (12.30 hora peninsular española) las autoridades han notificado las alarmas como “alerta importante de tsunami” y “alerta de tsunami”. El clima de esta luna…

Tennis is doing what it does every 10-15 years or so — having a reckoning with its endless schedule, its nonsensical governing structure, and a competitive format that even devout fans struggle to understand.The sport is played across the world, with countries on every continent except Antarctica producing top players. No major sport integrates men and women more successfully, or has come as close to pay equality, though there is work to be done on those fronts. Nearly every day of the year, an enticing professional match unfolds somewhere on the planet.And yet, the nearly unanimous opinion of everyone involved…