MILWAUKEE -- Brewer Hicklen is no longer a Brewer.

The outfielder was traded by the Brewers to the Detroit Tigers on Friday for cash. The move comes a day after he was designated for assignment.

The 29-year-old Hicklen scored a run but went hitless in four plate appearances for Milwaukee last season while appearing in six games. He also hit .246 with 22 homers, 72 RBI and 44 steals in 115 games with Triple-A Nashville.

When Milwaukee called him up last September, it marked the first time in franchise history that the Brewers' roster had a player named Brewer.

Hicklen also appeared in six games with the Kansas City Royals in 2022.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Rookie Kameron Misner led off the ninth inning with his first major league home run, giving Tampa Bay a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Friday as the Rays began their season of home games at Steinbrenner Field.

Miser, a 27-year-old who debuted last August, entered as a defensive replacement in the eighth. He drove a first-pitch fastball from Victor Vodnik (0-1) over the right-field wall for his second big league hit.

He became the first player in major league history to have his first home run be a walk-off home run on Opening Day.

"I'm actually still trying to feel it," he said on the field after the win. "It all happened so fast. Best-case scenario."

Pete Fairbanks (1-0) worked around two walks in the ninth for the win.

Tampa Bay is playing at the New York Yankees' spring training home after Hurricane Milton destroyed the Tropicana Field roof Oct. 9.

Kyle Freeland struck out seven in six scoreless innings for the Rockies, coming off their sixth straight losing season. Freeland threw 53 of 67 pitches for strikes, starting his first eight batters with strikes and 15 of 20 overall.

Tampa Bay tied the score in the seventh on Jonathan Aranda's sacrifice fly and José Caballero's RBI single against Tyler Kinley.

Tampa Bay last year ended a streak of five straight postseason appearances.

Colorado's Ezequiel Tovar hit an RBI double in the third and Kyle Farmer a sacrifice fly in the fourth against Ryan Pepiot, who gave up two runs -- one earned -- and six hits in six innings with eight strikeouts and a walk.

Mickey Moniak made his Rockies debut as a pinch runner in the ninth and was caught stealing.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Novak Djokovic eased past Grigor Dimitrov to reach his first Miami Open final since 2016 and move within one win of his 100th career ATP title.

Bulgaria's Dimitrov broke Djokovic in the opening game, but the Serb, watched on by his British coach Andy Murray, broke back.

World number five Djokovic, 37, reeled off five straight games to win the first set.

Dimitrov made a shaky start to the second set and the 24-time Grand Slam champion took advantage to progress 6-2 6-3.

"It feels great [to reach the final] without dropping a set," Djokovic told Sky Sports.

"I am feeling as good as I have since the Olympics last year."

Things started off well in windy conditions for 14th seed Dimitrov, 33, in the oldest ATP Masters 1,000 semi-final in history.

He won the first game on Djokovic's serve but was unable to capitalise and the classy Serb hit his stride and cruised to the first set.

After a fan was ejected after saying something to annoy Dimitrov, the Bulgarian made a slow start to the second set.

Dimitrov, last year's beaten finalist, won three of his service games, but Djokovic was just too good.

The six-time Miami Open champion only made five unforced errors to his opponent's 32.

"There were a couple of tight games in the last part of the match," said Djokovic.

"It was 4-2, 30-30 and he missed a couple of forehands and then I found some really good serves with new balls in the last game.

"These were tricky conditions. Very swirly. The wind was not consistent, changing a lot. It's not easy to find control of the ball.

"I tried to make him play in these conditions because he's a clean hitter. I knew he'd struggle if I made him play an extra shot. He struggled with the first serve more than I did."

The fourth seed, at 37 years and 10 months old, is the oldest ATP Masters 1,000 finalist ever, having also been the oldest semi-finalist.

He will face either unseeded Czech Jakub Mensik or American Taylor Fritz, in Sunday's final. They play their semi-final later on Friday.

Among the spectators was Argentina footballing great Lionel Messi, who plays for Inter Miami.

Edinburgh: Goosen, Graham, M Currie, Lang, Van der Merwe, Thompson, Vellacott, Schoeman, Harrison, Rae, Sykes, Gilchrist, Ritchie, Watson, Bradbury.

Replacements: Cherry, Venter, Sebastian, Young, Douglas, Price, C Scott, McCann.

Dragons: Anderson, Dyer, Westwood, Owen, Hewitt, Reed, R Williams, Martinez, Dee, Latu, Davies, Cummins, Lewis-Hughes, Keddie, Wainwright.

Replacements: Coghlan, Kelleher-Griffiths, N Evans, Langton-Cryer, Basham, Blacker, J Thomas, J Rosser.

LONDON -- In just the third match of the 2024-25 season, Antonee Robinson knew Premier League opposition teams were paying extra attention to him. The U.S. international was in his usual left-back spot for Fulham , looking to attack down Ipswich Town's right wing. For most of last season, if he'd managed to get the ball near the halfway line, the right winger would have left him to attack one-on-one with their right back. Not anymore.

"It's happening a lot," he tells ESPN.

At Portman Road, Ipswich effectively deployed two players to nullify Robinson's attacking threat, with Axel Tuanzebe and Chiedozie Ogbene tracking Robinson's every move over 90 minutes. "That usually happens against the lower teams in the league," he says. "But then it happened against Chelsea" on Boxing Day at Stamford Bridge, where Malo Gusto and Pedro Neto teamed up on him.

"It can be frustrating to play when it feels like you're jammed on one side," Robinson says. "But if they're paying me that much respect to block me, then the space is going to be somewhere else for us." He helped tee up the Cottagers' first goal, then Rodrigo Muniz scored a 95th-minute winner off good work down the right.

Despite facing more obstacles on the pitch these days, Robinson is having the best season of his career. He has 10 assists in the Premier League, second only to Mohamed Salah. This form has seen him linked with UEFA Champions League teams such as Liverpool, but he remains focused on Fulham, who face Crystal Palace in the FA Cup quarterfinals on Saturday (7:45 a.m. ET, stream live on ESPN+). On the international stage, he's a mainstay in the United States men's national team and will be an indispensable part of the team unashamedly aiming to win the tournament on home soil next year.

All of that raises a question: why, at the age of 27, is he experiencing the best season of his career and being bracketed with the best left backs in the world?

"I don't really think about it like that," Robinson says. "I feel like I'm playing decently at a high level, but one of the best in my position? It's a strange thing to get my head around."

Robinson was never viewed as a footballing prodigy, certainly not like his friend Christian Pulisic who was tipped for greatness as he progressed through the age groups.

"I didn't come through as a star kid," he says. "I was one of the lads who didn't really get looked at as if he was going to do anything. I ended up being one of the best out of my academy, so I've always had this mindset of being humble, and not getting ahead of myself."

Robinson grew up obsessing over videos of elite attackers like Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho, but once he'd settled at left back, he watched Ashley Cole and Marcelo on YouTube instead. As he came through the Everton academy, having joined them at 11 years old, he watched Leighton Baines' every movement.

Robinson was named Everton's Under-18s players of the season, but struggled to break into their first team, so he had loan spells with Bolton and Wigan and signed a permanent deal with the latter in July 2019. He impressed there and in January 2020, he had a medical with AC Milan, only for the deal to break down when they found a heart abnormality. Fulham signed him that summer for a fee in the region of 2 million.

It wasn't an easy ride. He suffered a serious knee injury with the Everton U18s, followed by heart issues in January 2020. As it transpired, he didn't require surgery, instead controlling the symptoms by eliminating caffeine. Those early setbacks helped build resilience. Alongside that, he has an intricate knowledge of how hard he can push his body, so much so that he's missed just three Premier League matches across the past three seasons.

"There are going to be games where I'm not feeling physically at my best, but I will do a job for the team," he says. "I also have a decent pain tolerance. The odd times I am feeling something, I'll put myself forward and know I'll be able to get through it."

Since Marco Silva took charge at Fulham in July 2021, Robinson has been a mainstay in the first team at left back. This season, the man whose nickname is "Jedi" has been exceptional. His performance that drew the most acclaim this term was their 2-2 draw at Anfield on Dec. 14 in which he marshaled Salah. In the Egypt international's 12 one-on-ones with Robinson, Salah lost the ball four times, played two incomplete passes and was forced into a pass backwards on four occasions.

"I had this sense that it was my job to stop him," Robinson says. "I remember the gaffer saying to me, 'Show him on his right.' There were a couple of times where I did that and he went straight past me. You adjust in-game, and react to situations."

Although he's played well against Salah and Bukayo Saka this term, he finds attacking midfielders like Bernardo Silva and Kevin De Bruyne harder to handle.

"They drift in and out and go into positions that make it uncomfortable as you're trying to decide whether you jump out to them," he says. "If you do, you're leaving yourself exposed behind for someone else to run in, but if you don't go, they'll have too much space. Someone like those two and Cole Palmer get into clever positions and are harder players to play against."

In the Premier League, Robinson is in joint seventh for the most players tackled (77), fourth on crosses from open play (144) and is tied for the most interceptions (50, with Ryan Gravenberch).

"Marco used to get angry with me for guessing where the ball was going to go," Robinson says. "I might guess right five, six times in a row, and then guess one, where I go out to intercept it and it gets played in behind me and they get a chance from it. Regardless of how well I do in the rest of the game, that'll be the one that annoys him.

"He told me because I'm a fast player, I don't have to guess; I can start inside, let it go there, and then get to it. It's about anticipation and being in a good position, and waiting to see where the passer of the ball's looking and when I see the pass, it's pretty easy as you know your body and you can know if you can get there or not, and figure out the next problem."

Post-match, it's the running stats he checks first. "I like to see if I'm hitting my averages and compare that to how I felt in the game."

But it still raises the question: what clicked this season?

"The more you play at any level, the more confidence you get," Robinson says. "In that first season under Marco we finished 10th, we played well, I felt myself improving and I feel I've gotten better and better. This season I've had even more confidence in knowing the league, knowing what I can do and I think the manager's put faith in me. We've shifted how we play, so I'm higher up the pitch, and we're evolving the attack so it's a combination of things, really."

And this form comes just a year out from next men's World Cup, where the United States host the tournament alongside Mexico and Canada.

Since making his debut in 2019, Robinson has earned 50 caps for the U.S. men's national team. That first game against Bolívia had him in a defense featuring Erik Palmer-Brown, Walker Zimmerman and Eric Lichaj with Alex Bono winning his sole cap in goal. Personnel come and go -- the others have since faded from national team contention -- but Robinson has remained. He was omnipresent in the Qatar World Cup and played every minute as they reached the round of 16 -- but this current team has bigger aspirations heading into next year's tournament.

Ever since Mauricio Pochettino replaced Gregg Berhalter in September, he's been telling this group that they have the capability of winning the World Cup next year. Such a bold goal has seen Robinson turn to a young Tiger Woods for inspiration.

Back in 1996 ahead of his pro debut, Woods was interviewed by Curtis Strange. Strange, the two-time U.S. Open champion, asked Woods what his goal was. "Woods says, 'Oh, I'm gonna try and win the tournament.' And the interviewer is like, that seems a bit naive to say you're gonna win against some of these guys when you are young and you're new or whatever. And he's just like, 'Why go to a tournament if you're not trying to win?' And that's how we feel."

To achieve that ambitious goal, Pochettino is testing the players in as many different positions as possible. Against Panama on Oct. 12, Robinson was used as a left winger, while also slotting into central midfield. In their double-header with Jamaica, he was back at left back. Robinson missed this month's international window through an undisclosed ailment.

"We can perform well against anyone on our day," Robinson says. "[Pochettino's] obviously gonna use every window that he's got to test players in different positions as his short-term goal is winning, but slightly longer into next year, he's gonna be trying to win the World Cup.

"He's got a brief window to try and figure out, 'What can I do with different players if I'm playing this team, can he play there? Can he play there?' It's nice to see him doing that with me and different players."

Robinson feels the USMNT need to find more of an edge. He's seen them bullied before, but no more.

"Poch is very like win driven, and he said there are gonna be games where the football is not going to be pretty to watch. Poch used this great example, he said, 'Watch Argentina; they have very good players, but they're all ready to fight and hit people and do the dirty work, which is something we need to improve on because there's games where we haven't done it.'

"It's difficult as a lot of us play in like European leagues where it's very structured and you can't get away with much, whereas you go to Concacaf and people can like step on my foot in a huddle and walk away and nothing happens."

When the summer transfer window opens, Robinson knows his name will be mentioned. He's seen the reports linking him with Liverpool, courtesy of his family and friends who live in that part of the world, but he's taking it all with a large pinch of salt. He's aware of the fickle nature of the sport. He's been burnt before.

"I've been in the game long enough now, you know you've gotta block out the outside noise. I've been on the end of it when I've not been playing well; I saw the criticism when I was younger, people like doubting me and things. I know that there's two sides to the coin.

"You just have to take everything with a grain of salt. You have to believe in yourself, and when things are going bad, focus on yourself, and when things are going good, focus on keeping going. Transfer rumors and stuff like that, I try not to look at. The Liverpool one, all my friends and family are from Liverpool, so it's more them messaging me rather than me seeing newspaper stuff. And I say to them, 'It's just a story in the paper.'

"Eventually I want to perform at the highest level that I can. Whether that's playing Champions League, playing European competitions with Fulham, however I get there, I want to make sure I get there."

So in the meantime, his unwavering focus is on Fulham and his family. He's a fiancée to Darcy and father of his children, Ocean and Atlas.

"It's like working two shifts," he says. "But you want to make them proud. Football's a selfish sport, so it's always a balancing act. But being a dad lets you take a bit of pressure off your game as you can come home from a really bad game and switch off. They don't care if I've had a bad game, they just want to play with me. It allows you to refocus easily enough."

He's settled at the club, contracted through to 2028. It's all come together for Fulham this term. Robinson's built a wonderful partnership with Alex Iwobi on the left, and they're in the hunt for European spots while enjoying an FA Cup run.

Robinson has his own personal goal, too.

"I'm working on shooting," he says. "I haven't scored a goal in the Premier League yet so that'd be nice to tick off the checklist."

He has his celebration mapped out, if all goes to plan: "I'm hoping we'd be winning so I can, and there wouldn't be an offside to get checked off, but there'd be a back flip and then something. I'm not sure what the something is yet."

But that's just the next thing to tick off as he enjoys this wonderful run of form. It's come as no surprise to him, nor is there any magic answer to why he's played so well this season. It's just down to old fashioned graft.

"I'm nowhere near the finished article," Robinson says. "I never feel like I am, and I'm always trying to reach the highest level I know I can reach. There's always room to grow."

Brazil has dismissed head coach Dorival Júnior following Tuesday's deflating loss to rivals Argentina, Brazil's football confederation (CBF) announced Friday.

Argentina won 4-1 in Buenos Aires, despite the absence of its talismanic captain Lionel Messi, to inflict Brazil's heaviest ever loss in World Cup qualifying.

"The Brazilian Football Confederation announces that coach Dorival Júnior will no longer be in charge of the Brazilian National Team," the CBF said in a statement. "The board thanks the professional and wishes him success in his continued career. From now on, the CBF will work to find a replacement."

Dorival, who took full responsibility for his team's poor showing, remained confident that he could turn things around.

However, following Friday's meeting between CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues and Dorival, a decision was taken to part ways.

Dorival, 62, leaves the national team with a record of 7 wins, 7 draws and 2 defeats from his 16 games in charge, with Brazil not yet guaranteed a place in next year's tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Throughout his spell, Dorival has not been able to count on the services of Brazil's all-time leading scorer Neymar because of the player's injury issues.

The former São Paulo manager had been appointed to bring stability after a turbulent period since Brazil's 2022 World Cup quarterfinal exit due to a penalty shootout loss to Croatia, which led to the sacking of former coach Tite.

Dorival was handed the job after his success with Flamengo in 2022 where he won the Copa Libertadores and Brazilian Cup, a trophy he lifted again the next year with São Paulo. However, he was not the CBF's first choice, with Rodrigues having initially set his sights on Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti.

Despite promising signs with a 1-0 friendly win over England and a 3-3 draw in Spain in Dorival's first games in charge, Brazil never took off.

The coach came under fire last July after Brazil's Copa América quarterfinal exit at the hands of Uruguay, Brazil failed to impress and won just one of their group games before losing 4-2 in a penalty shootout against 10-man Uruguay after a goalless draw.

That tournament was won by 2022 World Cup winner Argentina.

But it was Tuesday's embarrassing loss, Brazil's fifth defeat in qualifying and its first since a 1-0 setback at Paraguay in September, that sealed Dorival's fate.

Despite boasting an attack that includes Real Madrid duo Vinícius Júnior and Rodrygo, Barcelona's Raphinha and Wolverhampton Wanderers' Matheus Cunha, Brazil had just one shot on target.

The CBF has not yet named a replacement for Dorival.

Sources have told ESPN Brasil that Al Hilal's Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus is the leading candidate to replace Dorival. Jesus previously enjoyed a successful spell in charge of Rio de Janeiro giants Flamengo, leading the team to the Copa Libertadores title in 2019.

Ancelotti, who has once again been linked with the role following the defeat to Argentina, again pledged his loyalty to Real Madrid on Friday.

"My contract [until June 2026] speaks for itself," Ancelotti said at a news conference. "I don't have anything to add. I have a lot of affection for the Brazil team, its players and fans. But I have a contract at Real Madrid."

Brazil is in the midst of its worst World Cup qualifying campaign. The team is fourth in the South American standings with 21 points, a point above sixth-place Colombia, which currently occupies the final direct qualifying berth.

Never has Brazil lost so many games, conceded so many goals or set so many negative records in the qualifying competition. It has lost five of its 14 games and conceded 16 goals.

Brazil is back in action in June when it visits Ecuador and hosts Paraguay in its next World Cup qualifiers.

Information from Reuters was used in this report.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Oluchi Okananwa recorded her third double-double of the season to lead ACC tournament champion Duke past North Carolina 47-38 Friday and into the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA tournament.

The Blue Devils will make their 12th Elite Eight appearance in program history and will play either No. 1 seed and defending champion South Carolina or fourth-seeded Maryland, who were scheduled to play later Friday in Birmingham.

Okananwa scored 10 of her 12 points in the first half along with 10 rebounds off the bench for Duke, which got 26 points from its bench compared to North Carolina's six. Ashlon Jackson finished with 10 points, and Toby Fournier, Duke's leading scorer this season who missed the second round with an illness, was held to three points.

Fifth-year senior Alyssa Ustby had nine points on 3-of-10 shooting for the Tar Heels, who fell short in their attempt to advance to their first Elite Eight since 2014.

Neither team shot the ball well. Duke shot 31% after missing its first nine field goals. North Carolina went 28% from the field.

Part of it could have been because of familiarity. The teams played each other for the second time this season less than a month ago. North Carolina coach Courtney Banghart said this week that there's an added level of comfort going against a team they just played.

But this was also two of the top defenses in the country going at it, forcing turnovers, errant shots and desperate heaves late in the shot clock at the start of the game.

It was the first NCAA tournament meeting between the two teams, who have played each other 111 times. North Carolina holds a slight edge (56-55).

Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball will miss the rest of the season as he undergoes two minor procedures to address right ankle and wrist issues, the team said Friday.

Ball will undergo arthroscopic surgery on a right ankle impingement and will have a procedure on his right wrist, according to the Hornets.

Ball had played through pain in recent weeks before he and the team consulted doctors on the best course of action, sources told ESPN. Team doctors and outside specialists concluded that the procedures will allow Ball to heal and have a full, productive offseason.

Ball, 23, has dealt with ankle injuries over recent years, missing at least 25 games in each of the past three seasons after playing a career-high 75 games in 2021-22.

He underwent surgery on his right ankle in 2023, and this is the second straight year the Hornets have shut down Ball on March 28. He was held out for the rest of the 2023-24 season to rehab his right ankle after recurring issues following a November 2023 sprain.

The decision for the 2024-25 season ends Ball's career year in scoring at 25.2 points per game. He also averaged 7.4 assists and 4.9 rebounds over 32 minutes in 47 games this season.

Ball is the first Hornets player to average 25 points and seven assists in a season, and he had a franchise-record six games with 25 points and 10 assists, according to ESPN Research. Ball had the second-highest usage rate in the NBA.

The Hornets (18-54) have the third-worst record in the NBA but have accumulated significant draft capital, acquiring six picks since October. Charlotte owns all of its first-round picks in future years and has a total of 11 first-round and 13 second-round picks moving forward.

Charlotte saw success with lineups featuring Ball, Brandon Miller, Miles Bridges and Mark Williams, but their possessions were limited due to injuries.

Miller missed time with injuries, including a sprained ankle, before undergoing season-ending right wrist surgery in January. Bridges was out nearly a month with a bone bruise in his right knee, and Williams began the season injured before a potential trade to the Los Angeles Lakers was nixed over a failed physical.

Meg Jones was born in Cardiff and speaks Welsh. But on Saturday she hopes to line up for England against Wales in the Principality Stadium.

Sarra Elgan went to meet Jones as part of her Women's Six Nations preview, which you can watch in full on BBC iPlayer.

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"London Irish was never about one person. Our mission is, and will always be, to build something lasting - something rooted in Irish identity, global ambition and community," Kyle said in a statement, external on LinkedIn.

"While Dad was a huge inspiration behind this journey, our plans were always built to move with him in the background."

Jordan's Formula 1 team won four grands prix in its 15 years and gave seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher his debut in 1991.

Tributes came in from across the motor racing world in the wake of the Irishman's death and his son described his "huge" loss.

"He was my mentor, my hero, and the person who helped shape how I see the world - through competition, culture and relentless belief," Kyle added.

"His passing leaves a huge void in my life and in the spirit of the sporting world we both loved."