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x Embed x Share Foothills Academy players voted they would only play their soccer game against Faith Christian with their two female teammates. (Obert/azcentral sports) Sisters Alyssa and Colette Hocking sit and watch so that their teammates could take the field and play Our Lady of Sorrows in a CAA boys soccer game. Our Lady of Sorrows had refused to take the field if the girls played.(Photo: Courtesy of Noelle…

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

Despite lacking resources and any history of success, the Pakistani national baseball team has managed to rise in the world rankings. The key is cricket players. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE KILSHEIMER / MLB PHOTOS VIA GETTY When the Pakistani national baseball team arrived in Brooklyn, this week, to play in a qualifying round of the World Baseball Classic, it was the first time in a year that its players had…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Adrian Beltre hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning and the Texas Rangers secured their second straight AL West title, becoming the first American League team to clinch a playoff spot with a 3-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. Beltre’s homer came during a three-run seventh after Oakland starter Kendall Graveman (10-11) pitched six perfect innings. Texas got its first baserunner when Carlos…

NEW YORK — Liam Carroll probably couldn’t have picked a better location for the biggest games of his coaching career. As manager of the team representing Great Britain at this week’s World Baseball Classic qualifier, Carroll and his 28-man roster have their sights set on earning the final berth in next year’s 16-team WBC field. It would easily qualify as the biggest moment in the history of the British baseball…

But citing basketball as the reason for a decline is just scratching the surface. Youth sports participation is down among almost all games and all races, according to a Wall Street Journal article . From 2000-2013, baseball took the biggest hit, falling from 8.8 million players aged 7 to 17 to 5.3 million, a decrease of almost 40 percent. Economics also play a significant role when examining African-American youth participation…

Photo: Annie Wermiel The world’s most expensive baseball card has hit the auction block, and sports fans in Manhattan scored a peek at it Friday. The extremely rare 1909 Honus Wagner — which experts have called the “Holy Grail” of sports memorabilia — is expected to fetch up to $5 million in an online auction ending Oct 1, said Ken Goldin, founder of Goldin Auctions. “In the world of sports,…

OLYMPICS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) The U.S. Olympic Committee and leaders of the effort to bring the 2024 Games to Los Angeles reached terms on a marketing agreement, clearing a major hurdle nearly a year before those Olympics are awarded. The Joint Marketing Program Agreement would shift a majority of the USOC’s marketing revenue over to the host city for a period surrounding the Olympics. The International Olympic…

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

LONDON The hacking of confidential medical exemptions risks tarnishing innocent athletes and turning people off elite sport, former world champion runner Steve Cram has warned. The 55-year-old Briton, the 1983 world champion at 1,500 meters and 1984 Olympic silver medalist, spoke before a fifth batch of documents were published by cyber hackers on the fancybear.net website on Friday. The data related to Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), which allow athletes to…

Race fans, vote now on the hottest issue in NASCAR after the decision was made earlier in the week to change the way the sanctioning body will assess penalties for the remainder of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. We pose the question in the wake of NASCAR’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked laser inspection following the first Chase race at…

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

12:16 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment NEW YORK — Barry Larkin doesn’t have any delusions of baseball supplanting soccer as the king of sports in Brazil. But the Hall of Fame shortstop, who serves as manager for Brazil in baseball’s version of the World Cup, is deeply ambitious about the potential to cultivate the game in Latin America’s most populous nation — and he knows the best…