Lucky Don Rickles: The Friars Club holds a night in his honor and everyone plays nice.

Almost everyone.

Real Madrid confirmed Carlo Ancelotti as its new coach on Tuesday after weeks of speculation.

Given a three-year contract, he will be presented on Wednesday.

World football's governing body has defended Tahiti's right to play at the Confederations Cup despite the Pacific Islanders scoring just once and conceding 24 goals in three losses.

The 138th-ranked Tahiti is one of the eight teams at the FIFA tournament in Brazil after winning the Oceania Nations Cup final.

So good for so long on the French Open's clay, where he's won 59 of 60 career matches, Rafael Nadal is suddenly mediocre on Wimbledon's grass, where he's surprisingly been beaten twice in a row.

What a 15-day swing for Nadal: from a record eighth championship at Roland Garros to a quick-as-can-be exit at the All England Club, the only first-round Grand Slam loss of his career.

Naples prosecutors say they have ordered the search of dozens of football club offices as part of a tax fraud investigation relating to player contracts.

Financial police were executing search warrants on Tuesday on the offices of about 20 Serie A clubs, including AC Milan, Juventus and Lazio, in addition to clubs in lower leagues.

Brian Shaw, the former guard for the Los Angeles Lakers and Phil Jackson pupil, has agreed to succeed George Karl as coach of the Denver Nuggets, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Monday because the deal hadn't been officially announced.

New York officials on Monday urged people who may have been affected by the 9/11 attacks to apply for economic benefits before an October deadline.

U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler joined community leaders, labor officials and emergency workers for the start of a campaign to publicize the available compensation.

Doctors are reporting a major step toward an "artificial pancreas," a device that would constantly monitor blood sugar in people with diabetes and automatically supply insulin as needed.

A key component of such a system — an insulin pump programmed to shut down if blood-sugar dips too low while people are sleeping — worked as intended in a three-month study of 247 patients.

Two space station astronauts took care of a little outside maintenance Monday.

Russian flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin replaced a main valve on the International Space Station and prepared for the arrival of a new lab later this year.

AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani announced that Italy midfielder Riccardo Montolivo will become the squad's new captain after just one season with the club.

The move comes after Milan decided earlier this month in a surprise move not to renew the contract of previous captain Massimo Ambrosini, who took over the armband when Paolo Maldini retired in 2009.