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DURHAM, N.H. – It’s been three years since Minnesota took home the 2013 national championship, securing the first unbeaten NCAA title in Division I women’s hockey. Gophers coach Brad Frost remembers saying then that he’d tip his hat to any other team that could pull off the same accomplishment. He couldn’t have known then that he’d be standing in the way of the next team attempting to do…

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and wounded a man who hit him with a baseball bat late Saturday in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side, authorities said. About 10:30 p.m., the off-duty officer was walking on Schubert Avenue east of Monitor Avenue when he saw an “aggressive male holding his waistband area,” according to a news release from the Chicago Police Department. The officer, who was assigned…

Lauren Haeger, the Most Valuable Player at the College Softball World Series and a member of the University of Florida’s title-winning team, talks with participants at a baseball and softball clinic at the Carlson Center on Saturday, March 19, 2016.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. You’ve probably seen a hundred interviews during which a ballplayer chats about his faith and family and sport, and talks about them in that order. Maybe you thought it was a cliche; maybe you thought that is how it should be. But when Adam LaRoche, whose father, Dave, was the Las Vegas 51s pitching coach for a couple of seasons, was told by Chicago White Sox…

High School Baseball Network’s March Madness Shootout Gold Bracket 3. SLAM 10, 14. Belen 0: Cristobal Arenas 5 IP, H, 4 BB, 4 K’s. Jeter Downs 2-4, 2 RBI, 2 R. Brian Frias 2-4, 2 1B, 2R. Jose Garcia 2-4, 4 RBI, 1B, 2B. Andres Santana 2-2, R, HR, 3 RBI. Conrad Rivera 2-3. Luis Padron 2-2, 2B, 2R. Brian Vargas 1-2, R. SA 12-3. 2. Douglas 3, 15. Port…

Rosberg took his fourth race victory in a row Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg won a dramatic Australian Grand Prix, after a huge crash for McLaren’s Fernando Alonso. A bad start dropped Lewis Hamilton from pole to sixth but he fought to second. Rosberg took advantage when the race was stopped following Alonso’s high-speed barrel-roll to switch strategy and overhaul early leader Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. Vettel’s strategy gamble on super-soft tyres mid-race…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs continued their dominance at home, even against the NBA’s most dominant team. LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 13 rebounds, and the Spurs beat the Golden State Warriors 87-79 on Saturday night to remain perfect at the AT&T Center this season and extend their home winning streak over the defending champions to 33 straight regular-season games. The Spurs held the Warriors to…

Caption Close SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Look how cute, the 5-year-old boy wearing a Walter Payton shirt with a plastic helmet and pads, stiff-arming his little playmates the way Sweetness did. His only dream was to be a football player. Growing up in Indiana, he wanted to wear the green of Notre Dame, then become a Chicago Bear. Jeff Samardzija lived half the dream, becoming an All-America receiver, catching passes and…

The new qualifying format was heavily criticised after an anti-climatic and confusing session on Saturday Formula 1 bosses have agreed to ditch the controversial new elimination qualifying system for the next race. The previous system will be re-introduced for the Bahrain Grand Prix on 1-3 April after criticism of the new knock-out format at the season’s first race in Australia on Saturday. The teams made a unanimous decision at a…

RELATED: Full race results | Series standings FONTANA, Calif. — Kyle Busch thought NASCAR should have thrown the caution flag.  Austin Dillon called it a “great decision.”   And NASCAR officials said they saw no reason to throw the yellow on the final lap of Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series TreatMyClot.com 300 by Janssen at Auto Club Speedway.   Busch, winner of three consecutive races in the XFINITY Series entering Saturday, had led 133 of 150…

Earlier this year Jimmie Johnson was asked how he would feel if his career ended without his winning a record-tying seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup title. Johnson, tongue in cheek, replied with a smile: “My life sucks. That would be terrible.” A seventh championship is about the only thing Johnson hasn’t accomplished in NASCAR, which returns to Fontana on Sunday for the Auto Club 400, the fifth race of the Cup…

DURHAM, N.H. – It’s been three years since Minnesota took home the 2013 national championship, securing the first unbeaten NCAA title in Division I women’s hockey. Gophers coach Brad Frost remembers saying then that he’d tip his hat to any other team that could pull off the same accomplishment. He couldn’t have known then that he’d be standing in the way of the next team attempting to do…

RELATED: Full race results | Series standings FONTANA, Calif. — Kyle Busch thought NASCAR should have thrown the caution flag.  Austin Dillon called it a “great decision.”   And NASCAR officials said they saw no reason to throw the yellow on the final lap of Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series TreatMyClot.com 300 by Janssen at Auto Club Speedway.   Busch, winner of three consecutive races in the XFINITY Series entering Saturday, had led 133 of 150…

FONTANA, Calif. — Adam Stevens, crew chief for Kyle Busch, said his team hasn’t resolved a left rear tire wear issue that surfaced during Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice sessions at Auto Club Speedway. “I don’t know what it was,” Stevens said. “We tried multiple things to remedy it and it’s getting better, but it’s not like it’s gone. We still have some concerns after final practice.” Goodyear officials said the problem was…

NASCAR CEO Brian France said Friday afternoon there was “some interest” from automakers not currently involved with NASCAR about joining the sport. Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota are currently the three factory-backed manufacturers in NASCAR. Some lower-funded teams in the Xfinity and Truck Series run Dodges, but the Daimler-Chrysler brand hasn’t been in NASCAR since 2012. France mentioned the thought of a new car maker on SIrius XM. Here’s what he…

This is for all the marbles. Twitter: @HockeyOnBTN | @umichhockey |@GopherHockey | @B1GHockey | All accounts No. 2-seeded Michigan is taking on No. 1 Minnesota in the Big Ten Hockey Tournament championship game at Xcel Energy Center. You can watch the game live on BTN TV or use this BTN2Go link. Track the game and highlights below. MICHIGAN VS. MINNESOTA Tyler Motte’s scores his 30th goal of the year for @umichhockey…

Two unlikely baseball controversies have disrupted the rapture of spring, and I find myself toggling back and forth between grumpiness and enlightenment. In other words, “Get off my lawn!” — but first, put down some biodegradable fertilizer so I can grow my organic quinoa. The first issue on the table is Adam LaRoche and his omnipresent 14-year-old son, Drake, who apparently was being all but home-schooled in the Chicago White…

They write books about sports curses in other cities, Chicago with the billy goat and Boston with the Bambino. Cincinnati doesn’t have literature to assuage its pain. It does have this tweet, however, from sports talk show host Mo Egger: How many more kicks to the balls do we have to take? — Mo Egger (@MoEgger1530) March 19, 2016 MORE: Top photos from NCAA’s first round | Interactive bracket That…

POWAY — When asked about his outside midfielder Zach Hodge, Poway High boys lacrosse coach Zach Burke recalled a game last year. Showing no fear near the opposing net, Hodge managed to overcome whatever the defense threw at him, especially this one play. “He draws a long stick (defender) all the time,” Burke said. “On this one play he got slashed on the back of the neck, and while falling…

A Florida jury awarded Hulk Hogan a staggering $115 million in his invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media, founder Nick Denton and former Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio. Many sports personalities who have been exposed by Deadspin, Gawker’s sports media arm, over the last decade are probably popping champagne in spirit with Hogan. It’s no coincidence most are connected to ESPN — one of the take-no-prisoners sports blog’s chief targets over the past…