Struggling Bundesliga side Hanover 96 sacked Andreas Bergmann as coach on Tuesday and promptly replaced him with former Schalke boss Mirko Slomka. The 42-year-old Slomka, who coached Hanover's youth team from 1989-1999 and was assistant first team coach between 2001 and 2004, has signed an 18-month deal. "I am very happy to accept this challenge in the area where ...

Hanover 96 coach Andreas Bergmann on Tuesday became the sixth Bundesliga coach to be sacked this season after his side dropped into the German league's bottom three last weekend. It has been a disastrous season for the north German club after their captain and Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke committed suicide on November 10 and now the team has slipped ...

A 9-year-old Pennsylvania boy has died two days after a tree fell on him at a nature camp in Maryland. Carroll County spokeswoman Vivian Laxton says Noah Asid of Hanover, Pa., died Thursday morning at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. Noah ...