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14 April 2001. A crowd of 34,148 sees the first professional women’s soccer league game in the United States. Tennis legend Billie Jean King does the coin toss. A skydiver brings the game ball into Washington’s RFK Stadium. Singer/actress Joy Enriquez sings the national anthem, punctuated by another appearance from the skies – a bald eagle, who swoops down to the field with a piercing cry. 16 April 2016. No…

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Sport Chalet started in 1959 when German immigrants Norbert and Irene Olberz bought a tiny La Cañada Flintridge ski shop, which they built into a publicly traded retailer with more than 50 locations. On Saturday, the struggling sporting goods chain began going-out-of-business sales at its 47 stores and closed its online sales operation. “We’re closing. Thank you for 57 great years,” Sport Chalet told customers in an email message. The…

Inside a renovated industrial complex in Thousand Oaks is the makings of a Southern California sports experiment. The Sports Academy, scheduled to open this month, aims to be the sports version of Wal-Mart and Costco — a one-stop, one-shop place for athletes of all ages and sizes to train, practice, compete, study, rehabilitate, hang out, eat and find anything and everything they need without having to drive around traffic-congested Southern…

RELATED: Full race results | Updated series standings | SHOP: Edwards gear BRISTOL, Tenn. – The record will show that polesitter Carl Edwards won Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in dominating fashion, leading 276 of 500 laps and beating runner-up Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the finish line by .766 seconds.   But while Edwards cruised to victory with the fastest car in the eighth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season, drivers behind him…

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After taking their first four SEC series of the year, Mississippi State got swept by #6 Texas A&M this weekend. Sure, it’s frustrating. Sure, you should be disappointed; I don’t blame you if you have those feelings. But, if you think our season is over or Scott Stricklin should be looking for our next head baseball coach, you should stop. Our getting swept this weekend isn’t as bad as you…

The number five was fortuitous for LSU Sunday. The first five Bayou Bengal batters reached base safely, helping them score five runs in the top of the first inning vs. Missouri in the finale of a three-game Southeastern Conference baseball series. LSU added five in the seventh to put an exclamation point on its 15-2 victory, completing a sweep for the visitors. The Bayou Bengals (25-11 overall, 9-6 SEC) swept their first…

Get all of Michael Beller’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. The Cubs have plenty of ways to cover Kyle Schwarber’s injury, and they just got another back over the weekend when Javier Baez returned from the DL. There’s no doubt, however, that the best-case scenario for the Cubs includes Jorge…

Teamwork! Joint article by Gorbachev and Jessica! How painfull can the sweep by the Twins be? Answer: very.  Bullpen issues and weak bats are already rearing their ugly head and these issues were the chief concern for the Angels coming out if the post season. Did  they do enough? Probably not. The game began well enough with a Yunel Escobar walk followed, two outs later, by a mammoth…

A baseball stadium that was a linchpin to the redevelopment of the Camden waterfront will sit mostly empty this season after the minor league team that played in it for 15 years folded, leaving the public on the hook for millions more of the cost to build it. The independent Camden Riversharks stopped play when they couldn’t reach a deal to stay at Campbell’s Field after Camden County purchased it…

Total revenue for the 50 public schools in the Power Five conferences rose by $304 million in 2015, but spending rose by $332 million from the year before, according to a USA TODAY Sports analysis.(Photo: Jupiterimages) Bubble, in a sports context, typically refers to college basketball teams with middling résumés, or perhaps the sort of gum that comes with trading cards. Economist Andrew Zimbalist suggests college sports may be facing…

Defending race-winner Matt Kenseth didn’t repeat after going behind the wall to fix damage incurred on Lap 327 of Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.   The Joe Gibbs Racing driver had rebounded from an early race brush with the wall after a right front tire went down to get back into the top three, but a similar issue cropped up with a little less than 200 laps to go to send the No. 20…

This was expected to be a big year for HScott Motorsports, with the addition of veteran Clint Bowyer to its driver lineup and a closer working relationship with Stewart-Haas Racing helping to stabilize a team that is only in its third full season of full-time competition.   While Bowyer’s stay at HSM will be brief — he leaves to take over the No. 14 entry at Stewart-Haas Racing next year — he had expressed…

A baseball stadium that was a linchpin to the redevelopment of the Camden waterfront will sit mostly empty this season after the minor league team that played in it for 15 years folded, leaving the public on the hook for millions more of the cost to build it. The independent Camden Riversharks stopped play when they couldn’t reach a deal to stay at Campbell’s Field after Camden County purchased it…

Get all of Michael Beller’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. The Cubs have plenty of ways to cover Kyle Schwarber’s injury, and they just got another back over the weekend when Javier Baez returned from the DL. There’s no doubt, however, that the best-case scenario for the Cubs includes Jorge…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! 5 Things to Watch: 1. First things first, here are the three highest over/unders for Sunday, provided by OddsShark… 2. Keep an eye on BAL@TEX for rain, but as of Saturday night, everything looks clear for Sunday baseball.  3. The Cardinals are on…

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Close calls don’t count in sports retailing, and that helps explain why it will soon be lights out for the Sports Authority store in Cherry Hill. Slideshow The…