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HOCKEY The New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning hockey teams will open the NHL next season in Prague, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed Jan. 26. Both games, to be played Oct. 4 and Oct. 5, will take place at Sazka Arena. Simultaneously, the Ottawa Senators and Pittsburgh Penguins will play in Stockholm.

BAROŠ Controversial soccer striker Milan Baroš has transferred from France’s Olympique Lyon to Portsmouth in England’s Premiership. Baroš is set to return to the Premiership after spending just one year in France. In the past, he played with Aston Villa and Liverpool.
CYCLOCROSS Cyclist Zdeněk Štybar became the first Czech in seven years to win a medal in the prestigious Elite category of the World Cyclocross Championship. Štybar finished second, only five seconds behind Belgium’s Lars Boom, in Treviso, Italy, Jan. 27.
CLEARED A civil court in Tunisia has cleared Slavia Praha soccer midfielder Tijani Belaid of suspicions that he caused a car crash Jan. 1 near the Tunisian town of Sousse. Three people died in the accident. Tunisia had kept Belaid in custody, preventing him from joining Slavia’s winter training camp.
TENNIS Australian Open semifinalist Daniela Hantuchová has raised the possibility that she will not appear in the Czech Republic’s upcoming Fed Cup match against Slovakia in Brno, south Moravia, Feb. 1–3. Hantuchová said she was physically and mentally exhausted after her Australian Open campaign.
DAD FC Chelsea soccer goalkeeper Petr Čech became a father when his wife Martina gave birth Jan. 20 to a baby girl, Adéla. The goalie was not present at the birth as he played in Chelsea’s League Cup semifinal against Everton, which Chelsea won 1–0.
GONE Sparta Praha soccer captain Zdeněk Pospěch has agreed to move to FC Copenhagen, Denmark’s reigning champion. The 26-year-old defender signed a three-year contract worth about 50 million Kč ($2.8 million). Pospěch became Sparta’s captain this fall after the Czech Football Association’s disciplinary committee ordered former captain Tomáš Řepka to turn in his captaincy for unsportsmanlike behavior.
INJURED Pole vaulter Kateřina Baďurová has suffered a serious knee injury, putting her appearance at the Beijing Olympics in jeopardy. Baďurová tore the cross ligament in her knee while practicing in mid-January and is now recovering after surgery. She won the silver medal at the World Championship in Osaka, Japan, last summer and is considered a medal hopeful for Beijing.


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