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“Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops — here in Minnesota, it’s the land of 10,000 locks,” says the narrator in the intro of the “Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair” awards video. “Hockey is king.” The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot. “At No. 1, I’m sure this…

When Khalida Popal arrived alone at an asylum camp in Denmark – having been forced out of her native Afghanistan by death threats – she turned to her greatest passion as a source of strength: soccer. “You feel so alone and so unhappy in an asylum camp,” Popal tells PEOPLE. “The women there didn’t have any opportunities, so I encouraged them to come fight their stress and depression by playing…

NEW YORK A Florida-based sports marketing consultant pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Tuesday as part of an investigation of corruption in soccer and FIFA, its world governing body, saying he had schemed to bribe some officials in the sport. Miguel Trujillo, 65, pleaded guilty during a hearing in federal court in New York to four counts, including conspiracy to commit money-laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. “I…

The boy who narrowly missed being hit in the face by a wayward baseball bat has explained why he was distracted at the game: He was sending a photo of the game to his mom and sister. And he says his first pro baseball game was “amazing.” Landon Cunningham and his father, Shaun, became celebrities at baseball’s spring training, after Shaun lunged in front of Landon to block the bat…

One father’s quick action likely saved his 8-year-old son from being seriously injured at a baseball game over the weekend. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Dad Shaun Cunningham told ABC News that he was watching the Pirates play the Braves as part…

A rendering of the ball park from Major League Baseball’s website. FORT BRAGG, N.C. (WNCN) — Major League Baseball will build a new ballpark on Fort Bragg where a game between two major-league teams will take place in July, officials said. The Atlanta Braves and the Miami Marlins will play “a first-of-its-kind regular season game in celebration of the nation’s Service members at Fort Bragg,” Major League Baseball officials said….

Talk about a close call. Some quick thinking from a dad blocked an errant baseball bat from hitting his son square in the face this weekend. The incident happened on Saturday at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex as the Atlanta Braves took on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Shaun Cunningham of Marion County planned to take his eight-year-old son Landon to his first major league game to watch their favorite baseball…

Freddie Freeman has an extremely chill cat, and now he’s going to have an extremely chill baby boy, as was announced by an exploding baseball: It’s a……!!!! (We have no idea until that ball exploded!!) Video credit: @forthehuynh pic.twitter.com/jZWa0PimXr — Chelsea Freeman (@chelseafree5) March 8, 2016 That’s a pretty cool way to find out/reveal the sex of your child, although I’m glad it was…

The moments that make sports great are the ones that take your breath away. You remember these moments not only because of the magic you saw unfold on the field or the court or the ice, but because you remember where you were as you watched. You remember who you were with and how you felt. These are the moments that transcend statistics and final box scores, that shaped sports…

Expect to hear a lot more about 3-(2,2,2-trimethylhydrazinium) propionate dihydrate in the coming days, weeks and months. Like a warped version of the Christmas standard, by Tuesday we were up to potentially nine Ethiopian distance runners, six Georgian wrestlers, two Ukrainian biathletes, two Russian speed skaters and a multimillionaire five-times grand slam tennis champion who had tested positive for the Latvian-manufactured heart drug more commonly known as meldonium. It was…

Performance Sports Group Ltd. slashed its earnings forecast on Tuesday, citing weakness in the baseball and softball equipment markets, the bankruptcy of a customer and extra bad debt reserves for U.S. hockey customers. Shares of Performance Sports–which makes gear for a variety of sports sold under brands such as Bauer, Mission and Easton–plunged 31% to $6 in premarket trading. The stock has plunged 55% over the past year, through…

Virginia has become the first state with a law regulating the fast-growing but embattled online fantasy sports industry and specifying that fantasy sports betting is not “illegal gambling.” Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a bill Monday that formally legalizes and regulates sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings, requiring them to pay a $50,000 initial registration fee and submit to regular outside audits. The law will take effect July 1. McAuliffe…

​I was the first female reporter to travel on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ team charter. It was the 2006/07 season. Some people didn’t care but some made my life hell because of my gender. If I was seen talking to a player, some reporters felt I was flirting. I was trying to get a story to tell; after all, I am a reporter! But because of my gender, I was flirting….

HAMILTON — Shortly after Jacob J. St. Phard declined an offer to play soccer at a particular college he’d visited, the teen’s club team coach Julian Richens received a phone call. It was from the college coach, but he wasn’t upset. “He called to say what a great kid he was,” Richens said of St. Phard, who was killed by a train Sunday night in Hamilton. Richens said he has several similar…

Khalida Popal captained the Afghan women’s team before having to retire due to a knee injury, and has become a role model for aspiring female players in the war-torn country. “The national team shirt symbolizes all of our culture, our tradition, our history,” says Popal. “To wear that shirt and to lead your country out onto the football pitch is something that stays with you forever. “It was a huge…

“Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops — here in Minnesota, it’s the land of 10,000 locks,” says the narrator in the intro of the “Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair” awards video. “Hockey is king.” The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot. “At No. 1, I’m sure this…

One father’s quick action likely saved his 8-year-old son from being seriously injured at a baseball game over the weekend. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Dad Shaun Cunningham told ABC News that he was watching the Pirates play the Braves as part…

BARANQUILLA, Colombia — Baseball, a sure sign of Spring, is around the corner. In the meantime, Major League Baseball’s offseason is “go time” for young players at MLB’s baseball academies in places like the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The academies are high-intensity training centers designed to nurture and develop the cream of Latin America’s emerging baseball player crop. However, the vast majority of young academy players don’t get…