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As far as legends go, Perpetua Nkwocha is as big as they come in female soccer in Africa. Now 40, Nkwocha enjoyed a stellar career, winning multiple titles and individual awards as she represented Nigeria’s women’s team, the Super Falcons. Now in the twilight of her career with Clemensnas IF, a club in Skelleftea, Sweden, Nkwocha is set to retire soon but with the regular club season not starting till…

ENLARGE Ironman, the biggest player in endurance athletics, is invading the market for bike races. Ironman on Thursday will announce the acquisition of a European-based operator of about 20 endurance-athletics events, including six cycling races. The triathlon operator has never before run strictly cycling races. The purchase of Hamburg-based Lagardère Sports from Paris-based Lagardère Sports and Entertainment will represent the largest acquisition ever for Ironman, based in Tampa, Fla. Ironman…

National Women’s Hockey League player Ashley Johnston of the New York Riveters celebrates her goal with her teammates in a game against the Connecticut Whale in October. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Featuring teams in Boston, Buffalo, Connecticut and New York City, the National Women’s Hockey League has become home to some of the best players in the world. Meghan Duggan, for example, who was…

Orlando City Soccer Club has agreed to pay the city about $18 million for the land on which the team’s $155 million stadium will be built, enough to match or surpass what taxpayers have spent to ready the site. But the contracts released by the city Wednesday only ensure that Major League Soccer matches would be played in the new venue for 10 years, less than half of the Orlando…

Six years ago this week, then-NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton boldly ushered in the “Boys, have at it” era in which NASCAR promised to allow drivers more room to self-police and show their true personalities without risk of penalty. But when the sanctioning body hit 2003 Sprint Cup champion Matt Kenseth with a two-race suspension late last year for deliberately wrecking Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway, some observers…

Facebook has introduced a new place for all our sports conversations. Called the Sports Stadium, it’s a virtual area where you, your friends, and 650 million sports fans on the social network can talk about games, teams, stats, and more. It’ll also feature live play-by-play action — just like you’d see on ESPN, but with more of a community around it. This new sports-only area is rolling out today for…

Before we get to Jeff Samardzija, let’s talk about Antwaan Randle El. As part of a feature on Steelers‘ Super Bowl legends at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reporter J. Bradley McCullough talked to former receiver Antwaan Randle El about his life after football. As it turns out, Randle El isn’t doing so well, especially by the standards of 36-year-olds. Our associates over at Eye On Football have the football angle on…

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As anyone trying to read their timeline during the recent NFL playoffs knows, Twitter has become the de facto place for people to liveblog their thoughts on sporting events. But now Facebook is making a play for the sports market. The social network tonight launched Facebook Sports Stadium, a dedicated section of Facebook that aims to serve as a central hub for all your second-screen activity. Users of Facebook…

11:31 AM ET print Editor’s note: In the days leading up to Jan. 25, Rob Manfred’s one-year anniversary as MLB commissioner, we asked our writers to offer one change or innovation they would make to improve baseball if the sport started over today. The change: Limit teams to two visits to the pitching mound per nine innings. How it would work: Szymborski: Add robot umpires behind home plateStark: Ban the…

With worries about terrorism heightened following attacks in France and California, baseball owners began their two-day meeting Wednesday by discussing threat protection with the U.S. Homeland Security secretary. Presenting more than 2,400 games a year in venues that attract large crowds, Major League Baseball has tightened checks in recent years. Starting last year, fans were required to go through metal detectors at all 30 ballparks. “There’s got to be more…

Mark Cuban, photographed in 2015, told members of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, “You need to mobilize your fans.”(Photo: AP) DALLAS – Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has reached a verdict on certain politicians in New York, Illinois and Texas. They’re wrong about daily fantasy sports, he said. “Absolutely wrong.” Since October, the attorneys general in each of those states have declared that paid daily fantasy sports games are illegal…

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ANALYSIS/OPINION: I was talking to my 16-year-old daughter about the match-fixing scandal that rocked tennis this week on the eve of the Australian Open. “You mean some of games were rigged?” she asked. “Doesn’t that happen in all sports?” SEE ALSO: Match-fixing allegations have players past and present wondering who’s involved Well … uh … I don’t know. Movie fans enter theatres fully aware that the next two hours could…

It’s been a miserable start to 2016 for rock ’n’ roll, first with the loss of David Bowie and now the Eagles’ Glenn Frey. Frey, who died Monday at age 67, was a huge sports fan who adopted Los Angeles as his home. He could often be seen at Lakers games, and like many, he let his mind run to what it would have been like to have a career…

By Richard Conway BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent The chief of UK Anti-Doping would “value the opportunity” to talk to Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger about his comments on doping in football. Wenger spoke out on the topic last year, saying he believed football was not immune to doping issues….

On Tuesday night, the hockey world once again saw the ugly side of fighting. Career enforcer Brian McGrattan, playing for the AHL’s San Diego Gulls, was knocked unconscious in a vicious bout with defenceman Daniel Maggio of the San Antonio Rampage. If the sight of McGrattan’s figure lying spread-eagle and face down on the ice wasn’t enough to turn a viewer’s stomach, the crowd was happy to help….