NEW YORK — The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals will star in an HBO series centered around their showdown in the Winter Classic. The network and the NHL announced that four hour-long episodes of HBO's "24/7" franchise will air before and after the Jan. 1 game at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.

Discussions between the league and network began in the spring, when HBO invited several NHL officials to watch a screening of its "Broad Street Bullies" documentary about the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers.

The league picked Sidney Crosby's Penguins and Alex Ovechkin's Capitals to face each other in the fourth installment of the Winter Classics.

LOS ANGELES — David Beckham will file suit in Germany against the U.S. magazine that published claims the soccer star had sex with prostitutes, a spokesman said.Publicist Jeff Raymond said the former captain of England's national team will sue In Touch magazine in several jurisdictions beginning today but declined to provide more details.