Turkey wants to arrest ‘Stache Brother’ Kanter

Government prosecutors in Turkey are seeking an arrest warrant for New York Knicks centre Enes Kanter, a Turkish national and political opponent of the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish progovernment newspaper Sabah reported yesterday that officials in Instanbul were seeking a ‘‘red notice’’ through Interpol, asking the international police agency to detain Kanter, 26, and remand him to Turkish authorities. Kanter, who formed one half of the ‘Stache Brothers’ with Kiwi Steven Adams when he played for the Thunder, is aligned with Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric and former Erdogan ally living in exile in rural Pennsylvania. Erdogan’s government accuses Gulen, widely seen as a moderate, of orchestrating a failed 2016 coup attempt and has jailed thousands of his followers and removed thousands of others from civil society positions. The first female to coach a men’s team in Germany’s football leagues has brilliantly shut down a bizarre question from a journalist.

took over as the coach of

Imke Wubbenhorst

fifth-tier team BV Cloppenburg on December 21, making her the first woman to coach at that level of football in the country. But that has led to disappointingly inevitable questions about her credentials and how a woman would fare in a men’s team environment, including one particularly bizarre question. Weld reported that Wubbenhorst was asked in an interview if she had to wear a siren on her head that went off to alert her players she was entering changing rooms so they could put their pants on. ‘‘Of course not,’’ she responded. ‘‘I am a professional. I pick [my team] on penis length.’’