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The World Cup of Hockey, revived after a 12-year absence and reformatted to include six national teams and two hybrid teams, has been an artistic and competitive success. But it hasn’t gained the high level of regard that players and coaches have for the Olympics and playing for their respective national teams, a sentiment that the NHL’s marketing folks might not be happy to hear. “The World Cup is great….

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5:08 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment So here we are, in September baseball nirvana. It’s a beautiful thing. Seven teams are scrambling for the finish line in the last week of the regular season, within two games of a playoff spot. Twelve teams are still mathematically in contention. Nine games on the schedule Tuesday night involve those teams. And here we are, trying to watch or follow…

This past weekend, Pakistan competed against teams representing Brazil, Great Britain, and Israel in World Baseball Classic qualifiers at MCU Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn. They were swept in the double-elimination tournament, losing to Brazil on Thursday afternoon and Great Britain Friday night, but the box scores don’t do much to describe what they brought to the competition. Advertisement This was Team Pakistan’s first time playing on a proper, manicured…

11:41 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment The stories about Jose Fernandez continue to be told, about his personality and his passion and presence, and you almost have to remind yourself that he was 24 years old because he somehow managed to touch so many others in such a short time. It seems like he shared time with just about everyone in the game, moments that have become…

BASEBALL MIAMI (AP) Investigators are trying to determine whether Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was at the wheel of his sportfishing boat when it slammed into a jetty in the early-morning darkness, killing him and two others on board. The three men died when the 32-foot SeaVee slammed into rocks jutting off the southern tip of South Beach at about 3:15 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s…

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Allardyce pictured departing from Wembley on Tuesday Sam Allardyce has left his post as England manager by mutual agreement with the Football Association after one match and 67 days in charge. It follows a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to “get around” rules on player transfers. Allardyce, 61, is also alleged to have used his role to negotiate a deal worth £400,000 to represent a Far East…

A rainbow flag unfurled during the national anthem at a D.C. United soccer match in August was a signal to Robert York that the team was throwing out the welcome mat to people like him. “It was a powerful symbol,” says York, a lifelong soccer fan who’s gay. “It’s about the fact that love wins overall, more so after what happened in Orlando,” he says of the June 12 shooting…

For Kelvin Garcia, growing up in a Dominican family from New York City meant two sports took priority. “As a Latino kid in the Bronx, all I ever played was basketball and baseball,” says Garcia, who now lives in Texas. As a boy, soccer was barely on Garcia’s radar. He remembers working at a sports camp with European counselors during the 2010 World Cup and wondering what the excitement was…

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I have taken the liberty of abridging the debate in case you were one of the six or so Americans who did not watch.  LESTER HOLT: Welcome to the debate! I have somewhere else to be for the next half hour, so do not look for me to say anything or fact-check anyone. I will not. First, who will be better for business? Secretary? HILLARY CLINTON: Look at me. Now look…

Concussion symptoms relenting, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is ready to return to the racetrack. Earnhardt Jr., who has not raced since July 9 because of challenging post-concussion symptoms, will not race again in 2016 but he plans to be at XFINITY Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup events at Dover International Speedway this weekend. “My eyes are really, really good,” Earnhardt said on his “The Dale Jr. Download” podcast that is produced…

When the US women’s soccer team rose to fame in the late 1990s, they projected an image that was a well-polished composite of fun, friendship and teamwork in the pursuit of excellence. Two new memoirs, Carli Lloyd’s When Nobody Was Watching and Abby Wambach’s Forward, shatter that perception. But they do so in a way that should open a more realistic discussion on what we expect from athletes, especially but…

The season began back in early March, with a cover story in ESPN The Magazine in which Bryce Harper, the 23-year-old reigning MVP of the Washington Nationals, declared that baseball is “a tired sport.” Why hasn’t Dez Bryant had an MRI yet? Will Hardy get another chance to play in NFL? Louisville-Clemson big swing game of Heisman season Mattingly proud of team in aftermath of tragedy It will end with…

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TOKYO (AP) A Japanese court has convicted the brother of Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish of gambling on baseball games, handing him a suspended prison sentence. The Osaka District Court on Tuesday found Sho Darvish guilty of taking hundreds of bets on Major League Baseball and professional baseball games in Japan last year. The court said the 27-year-old younger brother of Yu Darvish was sentenced to two years and four…

An old baseball glove your child wore during Little League practice. A home run ball that you caught during a game. Photos of your grandfather, who used to play in the minor leagues. Do you have any of these items stashed away? Because a new initiative from the Smithsonian is looking for them. The National Museum of American History from the Smithsonian is working to present “Latinos and Baseball: In…