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The United States Women’s National Team is scheduled to play a friendly in the Alamodome on Thursday. Right now, the game is slated to be played on a new turf surface that is about a year old. The last time the USWNT played at the Alamodome, Australian forward Kyah Simon tore her ACL. She lasted 27 seconds before suffering the injury. When the USMNT played a friendly in San Antonio…

In her third full-time season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Danica Patrick showed only minimal improvement in terms of her finishes on the track. She finished 24th in the final points standings, up four spots from where she finished in 2014 and three spots better than she placed in her rookie season in 2013. She posted two top-10 finishes and led a total of seven laps, with an average start…

David Price flashed his smile for the cameras, modeled his new Boston Red Sox jersey, then joked about his postseason record. The highest-paid pitcher in baseball history has started eight postseason games. He has won none of them. “I guess I was just saving my postseason wins for the Red Sox,” Price said at his introductory news conference Friday in Boston. And then Price could take his $217 million and…

The DeWitt family will be honored with the second annual “Red” medal, at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ dinner on Jan. 17 at the Marriott Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The “Red” award is given for longtime service to baseball in honor of Cardinals Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst. At that point, the DeWitt family will have been involved in professional baseball for 100 years. Bill DeWitt Jr.,…

Several major improvements are planned for the home of Indianapolis’ minor league baseball team, beginning in 2017. The Indianapolis Indians’ 20-year lease extension at Victory Field was announced in October. The extension includes a list of stadium projects and the order in which they would be done. The projects include adding a new scoreboard and sound system, renovating suites and replacing stadium seating. The lease extension calls for the city’s…

David Price flashed his smile for the cameras, modeled his new Boston Red Sox jersey, then joked about his postseason record. The highest-paid pitcher in baseball history has started eight postseason games. He has won none of them. “I guess I was just saving my postseason wins for the Red Sox,” Price said at his introductory news conference Friday in Boston. And then Price could take his $217 million and…

The DeWitt family will be honored with the second annual “Red” medal, at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ dinner on Jan. 17 at the Marriott Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The “Red” award is given for longtime service to baseball in honor of Cardinals Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst. At that point, the DeWitt family will have been involved in professional baseball for 100 years. Bill DeWitt Jr.,…

David Price flashed his smile for the cameras, modeled his new Boston Red Sox jersey, then joked about his postseason record. The highest-paid pitcher in baseball history has started eight postseason games. He has won none of them. “I guess I was just saving my postseason wins for the Red Sox,” Price said at his introductory news conference Friday in Boston. And then Price could take his $217 million and…

The DeWitt family will be honored with the second annual “Red” medal, at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ dinner on Jan. 17 at the Marriott Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The “Red” award is given for longtime service to baseball in honor of Cardinals Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst. At that point, the DeWitt family will have been involved in professional baseball for 100 years. Bill DeWitt Jr.,…

OTHER AREA LEAGUES The Caroline County government offers coed softball for teenagers 16 years olds and up. There is also the non-profit Caroline County Little League. King George doesn’t offer a county-run league. The non-profit King George Little League Association hosts players ages 4 to 18. Fredericksburg operates its own league for children ages 6–15 that is open to more than just city residents. There is a private Challenger league…

Your favorite sports team is massively overvalued right now. It’s not that you ought to be losing sleep over Jerry Jones’ or Mark Cuban’s finances—they were rich before and will be rich after. But the popping and cracking noises emanating from the key support beam in our Temple of Athletics—the TV sports business—foreshadow wild disruptions ahead for the world of sports. Like the barking dogs that sense an earth tremor…

THE STORY SO FAR It was inevitable that a 30-man field would become strung out playing over three rounds and so it has proved with just four players within five shots of the lead heading into Sunday’s final round at the Gary Player Country Club near Sun City in South Africa. Australian Marc Leishman, who lost to Zach Johnson in a playoff for the Open at…

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Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. World Cup champion soccer team tore a knee ligament that will require surgery, jeopardizing her chances of playing in next summer’s Rio Olympics. The U.S. Soccer Federation said Saturday the Seattle Reign midfielder tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee during training Friday in Honolulu. It was a noncontact injury. She has twice torn the ACL in her left knee as a college…

A 7-year-old Michigan girl with “a bright future ahead” is dead and her mother is in serious condition after police allege that a family friend shot them both and then himself after soccer practice Thursday night. Emma Watson Nowling was shot in the head in the parking lot of the Taylor Sportsplex and died later the same night, Taylor police said in a statement to PEOPLE. Her mother, 37-year-old Sharon…

When Jeff Gordon claimed his first top series NASCAR win in the 1994 Coca-Cola 600, the then 22-year-old driver cried tears of joy in Victory Lane at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Ninety-two additional victories, four championships and more than 21 years later, Gordon nearly cried again — this time while delivering what amounted to a farewell address at Friday night’s season-ending awards ceremony in Las Vegas. After receiving a standing ovation…

David Price flashed his smile for the cameras, modeled his new Boston Red Sox jersey, then joked about his postseason record. The highest-paid pitcher in baseball history has started eight postseason games. He has won none of them. “I guess I was just saving my postseason wins for the Red Sox,” Price said at his introductory news conference Friday in Boston. And then Price could take his $217 million and…

It happens more than two-and-a-half-million times a year; that’s how often children are rushed to emergency rooms with sports injuries. Yes, youth football is getting more attention, but are all sports getting safer? Taj Taylor wants to go pro, but a concussion almost sidelined his dream. “It was just a really scary feeling, definitely very scary,” he said. No ambulance was there. “I was out for at least 10 minutes…

When Jeff Gordon claimed his first top series NASCAR win in the 1994 Coca-Cola 600, the then 22-year-old driver cried tears of joy in Victory Lane at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Ninety-two additional victories, four championships and more than 21 years later, Gordon nearly cried again — this time while delivering what amounted to a farewell address at Friday night’s season-ending awards ceremony in Las Vegas. After receiving a standing ovation…

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