FIU will play football at Penn State in 2025 season
For just the second time in program history, the FIU football team in 2025 will play the Penn State Nittany Lions.
The teams will play Saturday Sept. 6, 2025, at Beaver Stadium in University Park. Pa.
With 106,572 seats, it’s the second-largest stadium in college football. Host Penn State beat FIU 59-0 in 2007.
SOCCER
A boost for U.S. women’s team: Just in time for Olympic roster consideration, long-absent Mallory Swanson and
Catarina Macario are returning to the U.S. women’s national team.
They were among 23 players named Tuesday to the roster for the SheBelieves Cup, the last tournament before preparations intensify for the Paris Olympics this summer.
The Americans, who have slipped to a programlow No. 4 in the FIFA rankings, will play Japan on April 6 in Atlanta and Canada or Brazil on April 9 in Columbus, Ohio.
The ninth annual SheBelieves Cup falls one year since Swanson’s last national team appearance — an April 8, 2023, friendly against Ireland. A dynamic winger in the best form of her career, Swanson tore a patella tendon and was ruled out of the World Cup last summer.
Her return to the national team this spring was expected after she was invited to training camp as a nonroster player before the recently completed Concacaf W Gold Cup. Swanson, 25, has started each of the Chicago Red Stars’ first two NWSL matches.
Macario’s last appearance for the national team came in April 2022. She was a rising star for both the United States and French club Olympique Lyonnais, but in June 2022, she tore an ACL. Complications in her rehab and issues with her other knee stalled her comeback.
Now with English club
Chelsea, Macario’s last appearance for the national team came in April 2022. She was a rising star for both the United States and French club Olympique Lyonnais, but in June 2022, she tore an ACL. Complications in her rehab and issues with her other knee stalled her comeback.
Now with English club Chelsea — which is led by incoming U.S. coach Emma Hayes — Macario returned to action March 3, scoring six minutes into her appearance against Leicester City. She scored again a week later in the FA Cup against Everton and, since her return, has totaled 103 minutes in five matches.
BASKETBALL
Hawks mount epic comeback: Atlanta’s
Dejounte Murray scored 19 points, dished out 15 assists and made the goahead basket with one minute left to help the Hawks overcome a 30point deficit and stun the visiting Boston Celtics 120-118 on Monday.
De’Andre Hunter followed with a 3-pointer to up Atlanta’s lead to four points with 10.1 seconds remaining.
Jayson Tatum scored on a tip-in with 1.2 seconds left for Boston, but Atlanta was able to inbound the ball after a timeout to run out the clock.
No team had successfully come back from a 30point deficit against the team with the best record in the NBA since the Los Angeles Lakers did so against the Dallas Mavericks on Dec. 6, 2002.
The Celtics led 68-38 in the second quarter, but Atlanta went on an 18-6 run to cut the lead to 7456 at halftime.
Hunter led the Hawks with 24 points, and Bogdan Bogdanovic contributed 22. Boston got 37 points and eight rebounds from Tatum and 24 points from Jaylen Brown.
Gators assistant to Hampton: The Hampton University women’s team named University of Florida associate head coach Tamisha Augustin as the next head coach of the Lady Pirates.