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She’s played AYSO soccer for six years, and her beads have never been an issue before. CREDIT: Amy Zvovushe-Ramos’s Instagram Nine-year-old Aubrey Zvovushe-Ramos has played in the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) for the past six years, and in most of her games she has worn the same hairstyle: small braids over to one side with beads at the end. Until last weekend, that has never been a problem. But on…

Look: You know I am not in the habit of discouraging the responsible consumption of alcohol. Especially during this presidential election cycle. But baseball’s champagne celebrations have gotten absurd—and need to be chilled. It’s not the idea of a champagne celebration, which I happily endorse, though I suggest taking it easy, because champagne hangovers are the pits. It’s the frequency. Baseball totally overdoes it on the…

Jessica Ennis-Hill’s coach has said the 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion has chosen the right time to retire after a glittering career that also saw her crowned world champion twice. The 30-year-old from Sheffield, one of Britain’s most celebrated athletes who returned to the sport following the birth of her son, Reggie, in 2014, confirmed her decision to retire in a statement on Instagram on Thursday morning. “Amazing memories…from my first…

Media playback is not supported on this device Watch the moment Ennis secures a memorable heptathlon gold Jessica Ennis-Hill, who won heptathlon gold for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, has retired from athletics. The 30-year-old had hinted at retirement after winning a silver medal at the Rio Olympics in August. In a post on social media, Ennis-Hill – also a double world champion – said it was “one…

“We wanted to make sure that NASCAR was treated in a positive light, was the big, world-class, glossy event that it is,” said Zane Stoddard, NASCAR Vice President of Entertainment, Marking and Content Development. “The thing that we worked closely with Mark and the production on was getting drivers into driver cameo roles. We thought that would fun for the fans, sort of Easter eggs throughout the film with these…

Look: You know I am not in the habit of discouraging the responsible consumption of alcohol. Especially during this presidential election cycle. But baseball’s champagne celebrations have gotten absurd—and need to be chilled. It’s not the idea of a champagne celebration, which I happily endorse, though I suggest taking it easy, because champagne hangovers are the pits. It’s the frequency. Baseball totally overdoes it on the…

Bigger than baseball. After playing his first game for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday, October 11, Tim Tebow helped a fan who collapsed in the crowd. PHOTOS: Celebrities Dating Athletes As Tebow, 29, signed autographs at University of Phoenix stadium, he saw a man, Brandon Berry, who was having a seizure. According to local news station KNXV, the former NFL star ran to Berry’s side…

DERRICK ROSE LAWSUIT LOS ANGELES (AP) Lawyers for a woman who filed a lawsuit accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two of his friends of rape failed to disclose text messages to the defense, but the lapse was not significant enough to derail the civil trial, a judge ruled. Lawyers for Rose had argued that the plaintiff’s lawyers purposely withheld three texts until the woman finished testifying so the defense…

Playing team sports, especially soccer, at the elite level may lead to a higher risk for osteoarthritis, but the existing research is of such low quality it’s hard to say for sure, according to a recent review. In an analysis of past studies filled with conflicting results, researchers found that long-distance running was the only elite-level sport that didn’t seem to raise arthritis risk, though even that question requires…

“We wanted to make sure that NASCAR was treated in a positive light, was the big, world-class, glossy event that it is,” said Zane Stoddard, NASCAR Vice President of Entertainment, Marking and Content Development. “The thing that we worked closely with Mark and the production on was getting drivers into driver cameo roles. We thought that would fun for the fans, sort of Easter eggs throughout the film with these…

On Wednesday afternoon, NASCAR handed down written warning to 18 Sprint Cup Series teams following Sunday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The following Chase teams received written warnings: No. 20 of Matt Kenseth, No. 41 of Kurt Busch, No. 78 of Martin Truex Jr., No. 24 of Chase Elliott and the No. 4 of Kevin Harvick. This is the fourth pre-race written warning for Busch. As a…

Look: You know I am not in the habit of discouraging the responsible consumption of alcohol. Especially during this presidential election cycle. But baseball’s champagne celebrations have gotten absurd—and need to be chilled. It’s not the idea of a champagne celebration, which I happily endorse, though I suggest taking it easy, because champagne hangovers are the pits. It’s the frequency. Baseball totally overdoes it on the…

Bigger than baseball. After playing his first game for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday, October 11, Tim Tebow helped a fan who collapsed in the crowd. PHOTOS: Celebrities Dating Athletes As Tebow, 29, signed autographs at University of Phoenix stadium, he saw a man, Brandon Berry, who was having a seizure. According to local news station KNXV, the former NFL star ran to Berry’s side…

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday will propose a penny-an-ounce tax on sweetened beverages including pop, lemonade and sports drinks to help close a 2017 budget shortfall, a move that comes just 15 months after she pushed through a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase, commissioners said. On the eve of her budget speech, Preckwinkle spent much of the afternoon briefing commissioners on her plans for bridging a $174 million…

NASCAR’s traveling road show collects and throws out Chase postseason contestants weekly and indiscriminately. Tag, Kevin Harvick. You’re it. The 2014 Cup champion is in a precarious pickle — along with another Cup stalwart, Joey Logano — after technical difficulties at Charlotte on Sunday in the weather-delayed Bank of America 500. Harvick lost power in his No. 4 Chevy and finished just 155 of the 334 laps. Logano bumped the wall…

“We wanted to make sure that NASCAR was treated in a positive light, was the big, world-class, glossy event that it is,” said Zane Stoddard, NASCAR Vice President of Entertainment, Marking and Content Development. “The thing that we worked closely with Mark and the production on was getting drivers into driver cameo roles. We thought that would fun for the fans, sort of Easter eggs throughout the film with these…