Bayern to try to contain PSG in last 16 of Champions League

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Bayern

Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann wants his team to “get at” Paris SaintGermain in the Champions League. Kylian Mbappé wants to add more goals to his PSG scoring record.

They will get their chance today when Bayern tries to defend its 1-0 lead in the second leg of the round of 16.

Bayern won the first leg in Paris with a goal from former PSG player Kingsley Coman, but the team’s approach in the return match will be closely watched.

Under Nagelsmann, Bayern tends to defend one-goal leads by trying to score two or three more.

Keeping up the attacking pressure worked in the group stage against Inter Milan and Barcelona, neither of which could score against Bayern, but it could allow PSG opportunities to get back into the game.

“Both we and PSG have enormous pace in attack. We want to get at them when they take possession and be physically present from the first minute,” Nagelsmann said Monday. “What we need in the second leg is to prevent them from using their pace. If you give their attackers too much space and they can unleash their footballing qualities, it’s incredibly difficult to defend.”

Either way, one of the two teams will face its earliest Champions League exit since both were eliminated by English opponents in the round of 16 in 201819. Bayern and PSG both expect to be in the quarterfinals at the very least, so a loss could affect the future the last GSSSA track and field championships for the junior division and also captured the GSSSA basketball championships for the junior girls. The Raptors will look to crush the competition in the threeday meet.

Attendees can expect to see this competitive action on display in day one’s track event finals. The under 13 girls and boys will put up a fight in the 1,200m run bantam finals. Also, the juniors are

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By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

NOT too many players leave the comfort of home and make the transition to playing at the high school level in the United States and go on to achieve any level of success.

Veronaye ‘Tweedy’ Charlton is one of the exceptions to the norm.

Charlton, who got the nickname ‘Tweedy’ from her former coach Terrance ‘Red-Eye’ McSweeney when she played for the Jordan Prince Williams Falcons junior girls’ team before they left the Bahamas, has led the Norcross High School Lady Blue Devils to the Georgia Class 7A Championships on Saturday against Brookwell, who stand at 30-1.

The 17-year-old senior left Jordan Prince Williams in the ninth grade to attend Tallulah High, where she was coached by Lowell Hamilton, before she transferred to Norcross for her senior year this season where she’s had a sensational spurt in helping the

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Ja Morant sidelined as NBA investigates gun, strip club video

By TERESA M WALKER AP Sports Writer

JA Morant’s skyrocketing basketball career is on hold following a series of off-court decisions by the young NBA star involving a gun in a strip club, actions which have temporarily derailed his meteoric rise.

Morant is the target of a second NBA investigation in weeks with no timetable for his return to the Memphis Grizzlies. The two-time All-Star missed his second game last night when Memphis visited the Los Angeles Lakers. His benching after showing an apparent gun while at a strip club hours after a loss to Denver comes amid a sealed lawsuit alleging he punched a teenager during a pickup game at his home last summer along with drinking and partying.

Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins says the 23-yearold Morant is a young man that has to “grow and get better.”

Morant is the face of a young team with no player 30 or older, in a city that has been the centre of the country’s gun issues.

In November 2021, a rapper who had performed at a Grizzlies’ halftime show was shot dead while buying