THE HOT CORNER

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PRO HOCKEY: The Arizona Coyotes are all caught up on their bills. No eviction necessary. The NHL team in the desert paid off its overdue bills Thursday, a day after receiving word the city of Glendale was going to lock it out of Gila River Arena if it didn’t get caught up. Glendale City Manager Kevin Phelps sent a letter Wednesday informing the Coyotes they owed $1.3 million, including $250,000 to the city.

PRO SOCCER: This weekend’s

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Premier League game between Brighton and Tottenham has been postponed because of an outbreak of COVID-19 among the London club’s players and staff. Tottenham’s Europa Conference League game against Rennes had already been pushed back this week, and the Premier League said Thursday that it approved a request from Spurs to postpone the Brighton match.

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Barcelona will not 3 play in the knockout rounds of the Champions League for the first time in 18 years after a 3-0 loss to Bayern Munich on Wednesday ensured the Catalan club was eliminated from European soccer’s premier competition. Barcelona drops into the Europa League playoffs after finishing third in Group E.

AUTO RACING: Two-time

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Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato will drive for Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware next season in a deal announced Thursday that keeps the popular Japanese driver in the Indycar Series at least another year. Sato has 12 years of Indycar experience with 198 starts and six victories, including Indy wins in 2017 and 2020.

PRO GOLF: Danish golfer

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Thorbjorn Olesen was cleared Wednesday of sexually assaulting a woman on a flight to Britain from a World Golf Championships event in Tennessee in 2019. The 31-year-old Olesen wept and hugged his partner after being acquitted at a London court.