Julian Nagelsmann has made a career out of moving fast.
He was a top-division coach at 28 and the youngest ever coach in the Champions League semifinals at 33. Now he's widely considered to be a candidate for two of the top jobs in English soccer — Chelsea and Tottenham — less than two weeks after being fired by Bayern Munich.

Premier League managers are losing their jobs at a quicker rate than ever and it's making Jurgen Klopp feel uncomfortable.
"The elephant in the room," the Liverpool manager said Monday, "is why I'm still sitting here in this crazy world. I'm the last man standing."

French league leader Paris Saint-Germain gave its rivals in the title race a glimmer of hope after losing 1-0 to Lyon on Sunday for a second straight home defeat.
PSG's fifth loss of the league campaign leaves its six points ahead of second-place Lens and Marseille with nine rounds of matches remaining.

It was a quick hat trick for Karim Benzema, and a big win for Real Madrid ahead of the last "clasico" of the season.
Benzema scored his three goals in a seven-minute span as Madrid crushed Valladolid 6-0 in the Spanish league on Sunday, boosting the team's morale before it faces Barcelona in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown combined for 70 points as the Boston Celtics crushed the Milwaukee Bucks 140-99 in a one-sided clash of the NBA's best two teams on Thursday.
Tatum produced a scintillating performance that included eight three-pointers in a 40-point haul, while Brown shot 13-of-20 to finish with 30 points as Milwaukee were sent spinning to their heaviest loss of the season.

Ukrainian athletes' human rights have "not been addressed" by IOC president Thomas Bach and a U.N. expert in weighing Russia and Belarus's readmission into global sports events, a leading authority on human rights says.
Patricia Wiater said "unfortunately" neither the International Olympic Committee (IOC) nor UN special rapporteur in cultural rights Alexandra Xanthaki had addressed protecting the rights of Ukraine's athletes.

The hopes of American men's tennis rest largely on the talented rackets of Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul.
But a Spanish roadblock named Carlos Alcaraz is in the way – never more illustrated by the last few days at the Miami Open.

Argentina is capable of hosting the Under-20 World Cup in place of Indonesia, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Thursday though no decision has been announced yet.
Indonesia was stripped of hosting rights only eight weeks before the start of the tournament amid political turmoil over Israel's participation.

Two games into qualifying and both France and England appear to be shoo-ins to reach neat year's European Championship.
For Norway and Erling Haaland, however, it's already looking like a bumpy road to Euro 2024 in Germany.

Over the next three weeks, AC Milan coach Stefano Pioli will have three chances to do something he's only done once before: beat Napoli counterpart Luciano Spalletti.
Milan visits runaway leader Napoli on Sunday in Serie A before taking on the southern team over two legs in the Champions League quarterfinals. The three matches will be played in 17 days.
