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The U.S. women’s soccer team faced off against South Africa in the team’s penultimate friendly before the 2016 Olympics.  In a matchup of two teams heading to this summer’s Olympics, the U.S. beat South Africa 1-0 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill.  The U.S. almost scored within the first minute of the match. Christen Press took a pass from Meghan Klingenberg and had a one-one-one with South African goalkeeper Roxanne…

Justin Gatlin and LaShawn Merritt are going to be busy in Rio. Both sprinters will run two individual races at the 2016 Olympics after taking the top two spots in the 200m final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on Saturday.  Gatlin, who will also run the 100m in Rio, won the 200m final in 19.75 seconds from lane eight. “I was running blind the whole time,” Gatlin…

Maggie Pierce and Emily Turgeon have more in common than it seems – and it all starts on the soccer field. Pierce is a 14-year-old Raleigh soccer player in the early stages of her athletic career. Turgeon, 34, has already had her chance at playing and coaching high school and college soccer. Both play for the Raleigh-based Oak City FC, a Women’s Premier Soccer League team. The inaugural season will…

In 2006, Jeff Walker had a baseball team of 10-year-olds, including his son Nolan and Colton Abendroth, sign a baseball for Colton’s dad Curtis Abendroth, who was in Iraq with the Nebraska National Guard. Today, Nolan Walker is in Iraq with the U.S. Marines.

To most baseball fans, the Jackie Robinson story is about a beginning. To Bob Kendrick, it also represents an ending. “Breaking the color barrier brought the eventual demise of the Negro Leagues,” said Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He opened the door for those who followed. The Negro Leagues continued another 13 years…

“We looked at softball and baseball as two of the traditional sports that have always been here at Stillman College, and two of the traditional sports that we’ve had a lot of success with,” Jackson said. “So in our efforts to boost enrollment, it was a good to retain softball and baseball.” In December, Stillman announced the move from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in NCAA division II to…

BOSTON — Parts II and III of Dave Dombrowski’s three-stage trade plan are done. Now all the new Boston Red Sox president has to do is find a starting pitcher. MORE INSIDE n Rick Porcello’s solid start and a homer by Xander Bogaerts spark the Sox. C5 n MLB Roundup. C4 “It’s not an easy starting pitching market out there,” Dombrowski said Saturday. “There’s a lot of clubs looking for…

Caption Close COLLEGE STATION – The state 7-on-7 tournament progresses without a hitch. The world around it feels unhitched. A most turbulent week hit Mesquite Poteet football coach Kody Groves and his players closer to home than most with the Dallas ambush police shootings Thursday. Mesquite is just east of downtown Dallas. But Groves considers himself lucky. He’s standing right in the middle of the solution. “I think locker rooms…

  A father videotaped his young son crying and passed it along to Kevin Durant via social media with a message: Thanks for ruining my son’s day. Grown men burned Durant jerseys in fits of anger, a reaction that looks even sillier given the somber events taking place in our country at present. Websites compared Durant to Benedict Arnold. Why? Because he changed NBA jobs. He exercised his contractual right…

UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) has begun an investigation and expressed “grave concern” over claims by two Kenyan doctors they gave banned performance-enhancing drugs to British athletes. The medics were secretly filmed by the Sunday Times, which has investigated allegations of doping in the African country in collaboration with German broadcaster ARD/WRD. Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has also reportedly made arrests in connection with the claims. Ukad has also sent…

We got out of school early and when I got home, I found out we were going to Grandma’s house in Skiatook, Oklahoma. Those were the kinds of things that mattered to a third-grader when President Kennedy was assassinated on the streets of Dallas. So 53 years later — including 31 at the News — I was less curious about my place in this city but equally useless, not that…

Twitter has been dabbling with sports streaming as of late, and the company wants to do more. According to a report from Recode, Twitter is currently talking to a number of major sports leagues and cable networks—including the NBA, Major League Soccer, and Turner Broadcasting—to acquire the rights to broadcast more sporting events on its platform. Turner Broadcasting seems like the odd one out in that list, but not…

View photo . James Harden (AP) Houston Rockets All-Star guard James Harden has agreed to a four-year, $118 million renegotiation that could keep him under contract through 2020, league sources told The Vertical. The deal assures the Rockets of one additional year of Harden under contract in 2018-19 because of a player option that could return him to free agency in 2019, sources said. Rockets owner Leslie Alexander made the…

The day after the baseball’s all-star game is traditionally the slowest in sports, though that’s changing.

<!– For a list of all the completed deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United have agreed to pay Paul Pogba £11m a year and are ready to make a £100m offer to Juventus for the France midfielder, 23. (AS) United manager Jose Mourinho will sell up to eight players to finance the deal for Pogba, with Marcos Rojo, Morgan Schneiderlin and Bastian Schweinsteiger among those at risk at…

UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) has begun an investigation and expressed “grave concern” over claims by two Kenyan doctors they gave banned performance-enhancing drugs to British athletes. The medics were secretly filmed by the Sunday Times, which has investigated allegations of doping in the African country in collaboration with German broadcaster ARD/WRD. Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has also reportedly made arrests in connection with the claims. Ukad has also sent…

In a week filled with tragic and horrific news, Brad Keselowski understands that in the grand scheme a mid-summer NASCAR race is trivial. But the former Sprint Cup champion also recognizes that Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway offers an opportunity to provide a distraction from recent events — even if it’s just for a short period of time. Keselowski views himself as an entertainer in some…

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If you are 80 years old, as I am, and still play baseball, as I do (San Diego Adult Baseball League), and have written a baseball blog five days a week, 24 weeks a year for four years, resulting in more than 384,000 words about baseball, a logical person might conclude, Mitrovich must be serious about baseball. Yes, I am. My adoration of America’s Game began on a May night…

In fact, there are few drinking traditions in America as time honored as sipping a cold one while cheering (or jeering) on the home team. At the stadium, without leaving our seats, we buy oversized cups of frothy beer from old-timey hawkers and have even built into the game a pause, the seventh inning stretch, to refuel at the snack stand.