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Bastian Schweinsteiger has said he expects to play in the Chicago Fire's July 22 match against New York City FC after a right hip injury kept him out of Wednesday's  2-2 draw  against the Portland Timbers. "I'm 100 percent ready for the next match," Schweinsteiger  told The Chicago Tribune  in a phone interview from Europe. "If we would have played in Portland on Saturday, I would have been able to play." Schweinsteiger sat out for four days on the advice of team doctors and coach Veljko Paunovic due to pain in his right hip, which flared up during the first half of the Fire's 4-0 home win on Saturday against the Vancouver Whitecaps. Paunovic had told reporters that he had initially thought Schweinsteiger would be ready before the Timbers match, but then admitted that the player required further evaluation. Schweinsteiger did not travel with the team to Portland for the team's third match in eight days. The midfielder told the Chicago ne...

NEW YORK (AP) —  Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway is buying the Texas power transmitter Oncor for $9 billion, one of his biggest acquisitions. Last year, Berkshire completed its biggest acquisition in its history, a $32.36 billion deal for aviation parts maker Precision Castparts. Oncor serves about 10 million people and is the biggest regulated utility in Texas. Its parent company, Energy Future Holdings Corp., entered bankruptcy in 2014 facing more than $40 billion in debt after energy prices plunged. Berkshire Hathaway will acquire a reorganized Energy Future, ultimately leading to the buyout of Oncor, based in Dallas. It's the third time that that an acquisition attempt has been made for Oncor. In April Texas regulators rejected a proposed $18 billion sale of Oncor to  NextEra  Energy Inc. That price tag included debt, which may also double the enterprise value of the deal that Buffett is attempting to cobble together. The regulators failed to accep...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is trying for a utility takeover in Texas where energy giant  NextEra Energy Inc.  and the Hunt family have failed. Berkshire Hathaway ’s energy unit agreed to buy a reorganized Energy Future Holdings Corp., the parent company of  Oncor Electric Delivery Co. , Texas’s largest electricity-transmission operator, according to a statement issued Friday. The all-cash offer for Energy Future is $9 billion, implying an equity value of about $11.25 billion for 100 percent of Oncor, according to the  statement . Berkshire will be the third company to come before Texas regulators to ask for permission to buy a utility that they have so far highly guarded. Just a week ago, the state rejected NextEra’s $18 billion bid to buy Oncor for a third time, deciding the merger wasn’t in the public interest. Last year, it quashed an offer from  Hunt Consolidated Inc. Meanwhile, a takeover is key to ending the bankruptcy of  En...

A huge blaze erupted before dawn Friday north of downtown Oakland, engulfing a six-story, mixed-use building that was under construction and prompting concern about a crane that was in danger of collapsing. The fire, which broke out near Valdez and 23rd streets sometime between 4:30 and 5 a.m., northwest of Lake Merritt, sent flames high into the air, and a plume of smoke was visible for miles. There was no immediate word of any injuries. She said drove away, thinking the fire wasn’t bad. She called her husband who was still at home to warn him of the fire. “I called my husband and I said, ‘I saw the fire start. ‘You have to be careful and get ready to get out.’ He called me and said, ‘Oh honey, the fire started getting worse and he asked where my passport and papers are. Our apartment won't be safe anymore. I was crying a lot, I worried.” She said she turned around and drove back to her neighborhood to find flames shooting from the burning building. “I saw a lot of sm...

Victoria Azarenka  called for more facilities for mums on the WTA Tour. The former World No. 1, who became mother last year in December, is playing Wimbledon where there is also her son Leo.  'I have been already talking about this point to some of the people in the WTA ', Azarenka said after beating  Elena Vesnina  in straight sets . 'From my own power, I'll do anything to make that happen, because I think it's really important. The guys do have that luxury of having the nurseries and stuff at every event, and I think it's time for women to have the same benefit. For women, it's much more important and harder.'  Azarenka also explained you can be a mum and at the same time be a high level professional player:  'I just think that it's not as scary as people think sometimes. It's a lot of conscious decision that you have to make to give yourself that break and be able to work hard and start really, physically, a little bit from zero. Bu...

Victoria Azarenka has called for expanded childcare facilities for players as she makes her tennis return at Wimbledon after giving birth six months ago. The double Australian Open champion is now travelling with son Leo and is discovering the complexities with keeping an infant safe and entertained around the tennis environment. "I have been already talking about this point to some of the people in the WTA," the former number one said. "From my own power, I'll do anything to make that happen, because I think it's really important, the guys do have that luxury of having the nurseries and stuff at every event, and I think it's time for women to have the same benefit. With elite tennis players already living in the lap of luxury at events - with free hotels, food, transport - Azarenka is seeking even more on a regular and predictable basis. Creches are not mandatory on the WTA Tour, but they do exist at all four grand slams. The WTA was quick to claim...