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Retired U.S. soccer champ Abby Wambach was arrested late Saturday night for driving under the influence in Portland, Oregon, authorities said. Wambach, 35, was charged with a misdemeanor and released on her own recognizance, jail records show. In a statement, Portland Police said that Wambach was pulled over shortly after 11 p.m. when a police officer saw her drive through a red light. After failing a sobriety test, she was…

Red Berenson(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News) Long-time Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson announced Sunday at the team banquet he will return for his 33rd season as the Wolverines’ head coach. “I’m here today to say I had a meeting with Warde Manuel and this will not be my last hockey banquet,” Berenson, 76, told the crowd. New Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel told reporters Friday he had met with Berenson…

7:12 PM ET print MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Joe Gibbs remembers flying to Wisconsin to a small track to watch Kyle Busch race a late model car. Busch was all excited about how the small track would have a packed crowd, even if its capacity was probably seven times smaller than the Martinsville Speedway where Busch raced at Sunday. The NFL Hall of Fame football coach knew at that time what…

Defending STP 500 champion Denny Hamlin went to the garage and saw his day end early after his No. 11 Toyota sustained significant damage when he lost control in Turn 1 and slammed into the outside wall.   Hamlin was running in fifth place at the time of the wreck, on Lap 220 of 500.   JGR’s official Twitter account would confirm that the No. 11 team is done for the day….

Pop-ups go up. Pop-ups go down. Pop-ups go up. Pop-ups go down. Tee hee hee hee hee. Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s spin caused the first caution of today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway, but it’s one of the shortest tracks on the schedule, so he still has a good chance to claw back onto the lead lap. Either way, you have to admit that the aerodynamic devices that help…

The British doctor at the centre of allegations about the doping of as many as 150 athletes, including past and present Premier League players, is an unregistered former GP already embroiled in a misconduct hearing with the medical watchdog. Mark Bonar, 38, was recorded and quoted by the Sunday Times as saying he had treated sportspeople, including footballers, boxers, cyclists and tennis players, with banned substances such as erythropoietin (EPO),…

Rugby might be losing popularity, but Richie McCaw is still the nation’s favourite sportsperson. Kiwis are ditching the rugby boots for running shoes as the nation moves away from traditional team sports. A Nielsen survey of New Zealand’s exercise habits has found we’re losing interest in rugby and instead walking, running and going to the gym are favourites. Nielsen’s Sports, Arts and Entertainment Report examined how Kiwis’ interest in various sports have…

Soccer star Abby Wambach was arrested early Sunday on a DUI charge in Portland, Oregon. Portland police said Wambach, 35, was pulled over at 11:05 p.m. local time Saturday night after failing to stop for a red light. She was arrested after failing a field sobriety test and was taken to Portland’s Central Precinct, where she also failed a breath test. Wambach Wambach was booked at 2:02 a.m. local time…

LONDON The British government has ordered an inquiry into the way the country’s anti-doping agency handled allegations that a British doctor prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to leading sports people. The Sunday Times reported that Dr Mark Bonar prescribed banned drugs to 150 sports figures including several Premier League footballers. The paper said Dr Bonar claimed his “clients” included an England cricketer, British Tour de France cyclists, a British boxing champion,…

Dr Mark Bonar in the Sunday Times footage (Picture: Sunday Times) The government minister responsible for sport has called for an urgent investigation after footage allegedly showing a doctor talking about doping sports stars was published. Dr Mark Bonar was secretly filmed talking about working with athletes who used performance-enhancing drugs, The Sunday Times reports. Mother thought she was pregnant with one baby – five popped out The newspaper said Dr…

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series STP 500 takes place Sunday in Martinsville, Va. Kevin Harvick enters Sunday leading the Spring Cup with 195 points through five starts, and he hasn’t missed a top-10 finish yet. Jimmie Johnson has two wins already in the No. 48 car, and he’ll be looking for his fourth STP 500 win. Johnson previously won in 2007, 2009 and 2013, so he’s got an impressive…

Three Premier League clubs have denied “false” doping allegations made by the Sunday Times. The paper claims London-based private doctor Mark Bonar prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to over 150 British athletes including footballers. Arsenal said they were “extremely disappointed” by the publication of the claims, “which are without foundation”. Chelsea said the claims are “false and entirely without foundation” while leaders Leicester also denied them. Read more: Footballers ‘doped by…

Maybe most representative of the new tenets of team-building, though, are a pair of players the Cubs added during the offseason with the goal of jumping from contenders to champions. Jason Heyward hit a modest 13 home runs last year, but he plays the best right field in baseball, gliding in every direction, making difficult catches seem ordinary by the precision of his routes. Ben Zobrist, last seen helping the…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Even casual baseball fans can spit numbers at you like major leaguers fire out sunflower seed shells: Babe Ruth’s 714, Pete Rose’s 4,256, Ted Williams’ .406. But the average fan’s perspective of the game is influenced by a slew of other numbers, from advanced modern statistics like Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) to more everyday — though still sometimes shocking — figures, like the cost of…

With the season about to start, here’s who we feel are the 50 most important players in baseball: 1. Mike Trout, OF, Angels — When you ask baseball people, “Trout or Harper?” you get mixed responses, but Trout comes out on top here. The positives you hear are quiet, effective, classy, graceful, best all around. Advertisement 2. Bryce Harper, OF, Nationals — Harper’s breakout season in 2015 was a release…

MONTREAL — It seems everyone, including commissioner Rob Manfred, wants to give Montreal a second chance for baseball, after the Expos moved to Washington in 2004 and became the Nationals. The Expos moved because the owners could no longer make money. They moved because of a monstrosity known as Olympic Stadium, the facility in which the Red Sox and Blue Jays played exhibition games on Friday night and Saturday. Advertisement…

Three Premier League clubs have denied “false” doping allegations made by the Sunday Times. The paper claims London-based private doctor Mark Bonar prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to over 150 British athletes including footballers. Arsenal said they were “extremely disappointed” by the publication of the claims, “which are without foundation”. Chelsea said the claims are “false and entirely without foundation” while leaders Leicester also denied them. Read more: Footballers ‘doped by…

A retired British doctor has allegedly said that he doped 150 sports stars. Mark Bonar, who works out of a private London clinic, is alleged to have said that he prescribed performance-enhancing drugs a number of top UK sports personalities over the last six years. His ‘clients’ allegedly include Premier League footballers, British cyclists, a boxing champion and an England cricket star. Dr Bonar allegedly charged thousands of pounds for…