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Buy Photo Gazelle Sports CEO Chris Lampen-Crowell is photographed at the Gazelle Sports store in Northville in August 2015.(Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo While studying biomedical science at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Chris Lampen-Crowell worked in a running store. Most of his life, starting in elementary school, Lampen-Crowell was a runner. In middle school, he ran cross country. In high school, he was captain of the track team. He set a speed…

Carl Edwards fully expected Brad Keselowski to run out of fuel in the closing stages of Saturday night’s NASCAR race at Kentucky Speedway, and Keselowski thought his tank had hit empty with two laps remaining. But Keselowski had enough fuel in reserve and managed to cross the finish line on fumes to take the Quaker State 400, his series-best fourth victory of 2016 and second consecutive win. Keselowski need…

LAS VEGAS — The final disappointment in the letdown that was UFC 200 took 196 seconds. The so-called main event between Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes, thanks to Jon Jones getting the boot days earlier, was as underwhelming as the card it led. Saturday night simply didn’t live up to the hype of being the greatest UFC card of all time. That’s what we’d been sold — and I’d believed…

Media playback is not supported on this device Thierry Henry praises French unity The France team have brought the nation together during Euro 2016 and restored a bond lost after the 2010 World Cup, says former striker Thierry Henry. France finished bottom of their group in 2010 amidst a player revolt, but on Sunday they face Portugal in the final of their home European Championship. “We have a team again,”…

  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…

Klishina won European bronze in 2014 and was 10th in last year’s World Championships in Beijing Russian long jumper Darya Klishina has been cleared to compete as a “neutral” athlete at the Rio Olympics. In total, 136 Russians applied to an IAAF doping review board for “exceptional eligibility”, as the country’s athletics federation is banned from international competition. But the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has told the state-run TASS news…

Bernard Lagat crosses the line first in the 5000 meters on Saturday, ahead of Hassan Mead. The 41-year-old Lagat will compete in his fifth Olympics.(Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) Bernard Lagat showed that his 41-year-old legs still have some spring. And speed. The veteran came from behind with a 52.8-second final lap to win the 5,000 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials on Saturday in Eugene, Ore., and he will…

Six-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson spun and hit the wall in Turn 4 on Lap 31 of 267 in the Quaker State 400 Presented by Advance Auto Parts on Saturday at Kentucky Speedway, one of multiple wrecks in the race. For Johnson it was the second time during the race weekend that the No. 48 Chevrolet SS found the wall at the 1.5-mile track. Johnson wrecked during…

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…