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After 110-plus minutes of play, a few dozen shots and seemingly countless rounds of penalty kicks, everything in Stanford men’s soccer’s NCAA semifinal game came down to one moment. Leading 8-7 in PKs despite an early deficit, Stanford had the opportunity to advance to the national title game with one more miss from its opponent, Akron. Nate Shultz stepped up for the Zips, the 10th player to face…

One of baseball’s class acts, Michael Cuddyer penned an emotional farewell to professional baseball posted Saturday in The Players’ Tribune.  The 36-year-old retired after 15 big-league seasons with the Twins, Rockies and Mets as he battled a broken shoulder, strained oblique, torn-up knee and bulging disc in his neck over the last four seasons in the majors. MORE: Winter meetings winners and losers | Where could CarGo go? “Mentally, I was able to overcome…

Northern Irish tourist board and Belfast City Council paid BBC six-figure sum, after corporation’s governing body relaxed seven-year sponsorship ban By Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 12 Dec 2015 The BBC has been accused of taking a “taxpayer-funded bung”, after it emerged that Northern Irish authorities had paid the corporation nearly £250,000 to move this year’s Sports Personality…

Sport Other sport Updated: Saturday, 12 Dec 2015 20:48 | Comments <!– Article –> Comments Conor McGregor is among 14 nominees for the Sports Person of the Year Award The nominations for the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Award, Team of the Year Award and the Manager of the Year Award were announced this afternoon.  The winners will be revealed and presented with their awards at The RTÉ Sports Awards…

After 110-plus minutes of play, a few dozen shots and seemingly countless rounds of penalty kicks, everything in Stanford men’s soccer’s NCAA semifinal game came down to one moment. Leading 8-7 in PKs despite an early deficit, Stanford had the opportunity to advance to the national title game with one more miss from its opponent, Akron. Nate Shultz stepped up for the Zips, the 10th player to face…

Molly Engstrom (9) became the first player in NWHL history to get suspended. (NWHL) There has been a series of firsts this week for the fledgling National Women’s Hockey League, the first paid women’s professional league, this week. They nabbed their first major corporate sponsor, which was a huge moment in the league’s young history, and now they’ve doled out their first suspension for a doozy of an infraction. The…

With all of the names flying about at the Winter Meetings and throughout the Hot Stove League, one name that hasn’t gotten much run is Yasiel Puig. And this despite the facts that (1) the Dodgers seem as willing as ever to deal for a pitcher, and (2) Puig’s name came up so often in trade discussions at last year’s deadline. And many of those rumors stemmed from reports of…

Fourth-grader Kayla Waterstraat converses with Manager Dusty Baker at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) When the din died down Thursday afternoon — and it did so only after Dusty Baker bellowed in a baritone, “Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,” quieting with his hands – the two dozen third-graders gathered at his feet fired off questions. One of the children asked Baker who his heroes…

With all of the names flying about at the Winter Meetings and throughout the Hot Stove League, one name that hasn’t gotten much run is Yasiel Puig. And this despite the facts that (1) the Dodgers seem as willing as ever to deal for a pitcher, and (2) Puig’s name came up so often in trade discussions at last year’s deadline. And many of those rumors stemmed from reports of…

Westfield High School graduate Mike Murray Jr. (right), shown during his tenure at Wake Forest, gave up his dream of playing professional baseball after a few seasons with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League.(Photo: ~file photo) Mike Murray Jr., a former San Francisco Giants farmhand and All-State catcher from Westfield, will be officially introduced on Monday as St. Joseph High School’s new head baseball coach. A 2010 graduate of…

The Chicago Cubs already boasted one of the best young cores in baseball — and that was before they added one of the top outfielders. Free agent Jason Heyward agreed to a $184 million, eight-year contract with the Cubs, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The person spoke Friday on the condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced. The agreement with the three-time Gold Glove…

A mother says her son, Ethan Hughes who is a sophomore at Fountain-Fort Carson High School, was discriminated against. Ethan Hughes grew up with a love for sports. “He’s played baseball since he was five,” said Heather Hughes. Ethan was involved in a serious accident at an early age. “He’s very lucky to be here. About a quarter of his brain was damaged and removed and because of that, he’s…

Buy Photo Collin Baber(Photo: George Robinson/The Leaf-Chronicle)Buy Photo CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — In sports, speed kills. Rossview’s Collin Baber was a killer on the basepaths. His gift was distinctive in that although speed can be improved upon, one must already have it to improve it. Baber had enough that it could drive opposing teams crazy. Baber will get a chance to drive college coaches nuts after the Hawks senior signed a scholarship…

RELATED: Learn which drivers, crew chiefs are on the move for 2016 MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Brian Scott entered last month’s NASCAR season finale without a clear sense of where he’d be driving in 2016. Richard Petty Motorsports faced likewise uncertainty surrounding the seat of its No. 9 Ford, with Sam Hornish Jr. designated for departure after one year with the team.   The two sides found each other this week, announcing a deal Friday for…

Turk Emekli at the Virginia-D.C. Soccer Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Richmond in early 2014. (By Tony Quinn) Hicabi “Turk” Emekli, a Turkish immigrant and Catholic University graduate who played, coached and officiated soccer in the Washington area for more than a half-century, died Friday. He was 90. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, John Emekli, who cared for his father in Silver Spring, Md….