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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — More than 60 years after he started playing and more than 30 years after he started coaching, the hockey rink is still where Doug Woog feels most comfortable. Even at 72 years old, he can’t help but stay involved. “Thirty-some years, you just don’t want to drop off the map either,” said Woog. Woog’s latest pet project is called Crown Hockey — an offseason program for kids…

A TV sports anchor in Nashville paid homage to the passing of Prince by infusing the music icon’s lyrics into a recent broadcast. 25 greatest Prince songs ever As iconic for his overt sexuality and gender-bending wardrobe as his infectious hooks, Prince leaves behind some of the greatest songs to ever gr… Unfortunately, the on-air tribute apparently cost him his job. The Tennessean reports that WZTV Fox-17 sports anchor Dan…

‘Dega! It’s legendary for a reason, and much of that reason is the insanity of restrictor plate racing. Everyone’s as aggressive as possible to finish well at one of NASCAR’s most famous tracks, which often leads to chaos. Bonus: after a last-lap review, today’s winner wasn’t who everyone thought it would be. Today’s Xfinity Series race ended with two restarts. The first of the final two restarts happened with five…

The English Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world. But in the U.S., it isn’t even the most-viewed soccer league. Mexico’s Liga MX is averaging more than 1.1 million viewers on the Univision-owned UniMas Spanish-language network, an audience 19% larger than NBC averages for its weekly EPL telecasts. And that’s a success built largely on time and loyalty, two advantages Univision’s Mexican soccer coverage has over NBC…

New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony doesn’t know if he wants to play in the Olympic Games this summer. He has represented the United States at the last two Olympics, and USA Basketball included him on its list of 30 finalists in January. In an interview with The Vertical’s Michael Lee, Anthony said that he’ll wait and see how he’s feeling in the summer: USA Basketball has provided Anthony his…

4:59 PM ET print TALLADEGA, Ala. — Members of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Drivers Council said they appreciated NASCAR chairman Brian France coming for part of their meeting Friday night at Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR’s chief executive had not gone to any meetings since the group’s inception last year, theorizing that the drivers might be more open without him there. McGee: Drivers and NASCAR working together … finally Drivers organized at…

Three years ago, Miguel Yrigoyen sat in a classroom at Southeastern Community College in West Burlington, Iowa. He was on his own in a different country, without knowledge of local customs and did not speak or know English. “My first class was a health class, and my teacher started talking and I was like, ‘Woah boy, this is going to be tough,’” said Yrigoyen, who was 2,550 miles from his…

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The twin failures of Sports Authority and Sport Chalet is not about weak consumer spending or traditional merchants’ growing competition from online shopping. This is a tale about the slow, agonizing death of the concept of a supermarket selling anything but groceries. Sports Authority and Sport Chalet – with in a combined 59 stores in the region – will both be shut and liquidated through their respective owners’…

‘Dega! It’s legendary for a reason, and much of that reason is the insanity of restrictor plate racing. Everyone’s as aggressive as possible to finish well at one of NASCAR’s most famous tracks, which often leads to chaos. Bonus: after a last-lap review, today’s winner wasn’t who everyone thought it would be. Today’s Xfinity Series race ended with two restarts. The first of the final two restarts happened with five…

Roger Faulkner in 1994.(Photo: Kris Gillette) Roger Faulkner, who founded the most prominent soccer team to play in Michigan to date, said he was impressed by the $1-billion plan unveiled Wednesday in downtown Detroit by Dan Gilbert — in partnership with Pistons owner Tom Gores — to bring a Major League Soccer expansion team to Detroit. Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans and majority owner of the NBA’s Cleveland…

The English Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world. But in the U.S., it isn’t even the most-viewed soccer league. Mexico’s Liga MX is averaging more than 1.1 million viewers on the Univision-owned UniMas Spanish-language network, an audience 19% larger than NBC averages for its weekly EPL telecasts. And that’s a success built largely on time and loyalty, two advantages Univision’s Mexican soccer coverage has over NBC…

Despite a spell of unprecedented success, should we compromise on no-compromise? That question has been preoccupying those at the sharp end of the sporting system this week as the wheels threatened to come off at British Cycling with less than 100 days to go until the Rio Olympics. The man in charge of the elite track team, Shane Sutton, resigned as the dam burst on a stream of allegations of…

LONDON — Britain looks set to witness the final chapter this weekend of an underdog story that arguably outshines even the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.” Leicester City — a pro soccer team built on a shoestring budget, and hailing from an unfashionable city in central England — can clinch the British Premier League on Sunday with a win over 13-time champions Manchester United. Before the season began, they were 5,000-to-1…

Tyler Olander came home from Spain last winter with a fractured right foot, doubts about his future — and one whopper of an idea. “I broke my other foot in college,” said Olander, who played on two NCAA championship basketball teams at UConn. “And I knew it took a long time for me to really be 100 percent. I don’t know, maybe some people heal differently than others….

Bishop Moore senior Joe Skinner passed away in the arms of his parents and older sister at a hospital in Dallas early Saturday. Skinner was scheduled to take part in an experimental treatment aimed at fighting off cancerous cells in his bone marrow. He was never afforded the opportunity, though, as he succumbed to a non-cancer related infection. Skinner was diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a rare form…

Buy Photo Brandon coach Stacy Hester explains the ground rules before the game against Gulfport in Brandon.(Photo: Bob Smith/For The Clarion-Ledger)Buy Photo East Webster beat O’Bannon in a Class 2A baseball playoff game on Thursday, 45-0. It’s OK if you feel like you need to read that again, but, no, that’s not a typo. Yes, the final score was 45-0. Yes, this was a high school baseball game. This is…

BOSTON — On the 30th anniversary of Roger Clemens‘ 20-strikeout game, on a Marlins team where Barry Bonds is the hitting coach, a decidedly non-power major leaguer reinforced a powerful message on Friday. Performance-enhancing drugs aren’t only for the pitcher who used a 98 mph fastball to win a record seven Cy Young awards and strike out 4,672 batters. PEDs aren’t only for the slugger who crushed a single-season record…

Saturday’s women’s race, which was won by Kirsten Wild  (Hitec-Products) ahead of Briton Lucy Garner (Wiggle-High5), claimed  £15000, the most lucrative prize pot in women’s cycling history. And  the race was billed as a landmark in terms of equal opportunity with  the women racing the same course as the men from Otley to Doncaster.  Live television coverage, a rarity in women’s cycling, was a big part  of the equation, and…

LONDON — Britain looks set to witness the final chapter this weekend of an underdog story that arguably outshines even the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.” Leicester City — a pro soccer team built on a shoestring budget, and hailing from an unfashionable city in central England — can clinch the British Premier League on Sunday with a win over 13-time champions Manchester United. Before the season began, they were 5,000-to-1…