THE HOT CORNER

1 RUNNING: Kenyan Olympic runner and two-time world championship bronze medalist Agnes Tirop was found dead at her home Wednesday with stab wounds, police said, and her husband was missing and wanted for questioning. Tirop, 25, finished fourth in the 5,000 meters in the Tokyo Olympics. Her body was found at her home in Iten, a town renowned as a training base for distance runners. Kenyan media reported she had stab wounds in her abdomen and neck.

2 COLLEGE FOOTBALL: LSU starting cornerback Eli Ricks has decided to have season-ending surgery to repair an injury that has nagged him for much of the season, coach Ed Orgeron said Wednesday. The injury leaves LSU without its top two cornerbacks, with former All-american Derrick Stingley also sidelined indefinitely with a foot injury.

3 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL:

The Philadelphia Phillies hired Kevin Long as their hitting coach, reuniting him with manager Joe Girardi and slugger Bryce Harper. Long spent the past four seasons as the hitting coach for the Washington Nationals and was part of the staff in 2019 when they won the World Series.

4 SOCCER: The French football league’s board adopted a motion to oppose plans to play the men’s World Cup every two years, arguing that the tournament is a world heritage that should not be “trivialized”and that such a move would disrupt calendars.

5 SOCCER: FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against the Hungarian, English, Albanian and Polish football federations after condemning disorder involving Hungary and Albania fans in separate World Cup qualifiers. Hungary is facing a fresh FIFA punishment after its supporters fought with police in the stands at Wembley Stadium just after kickoff against England on Tuesday.