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Lassana Diarra of France (L) vies for the ball during the soccer match between France and Germany at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis, near Paris, France, on November 13,  2015. (Ian Langsdon/EPA) Lassana Diarra had waited more than five years for this moment. For the chance to don the French tricolour again. For the chance to play in the Stade de France, his country’s cathedral of soccer. For the chance to play…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Security is to be stepped up at future Scotland matches in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris, where the Stade de France was targeted. Herald (subscription required)   Partick Thistle forward Mathias Pogba was at the Stade de France on Friday watching his brother Paul play, with the Firhill club saying they will do all they can to rally…

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Jeff Gordon, left, and Kyle Busch, will compete for the 2015 Sprint Cup Series championship along with Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. (not pictured).(Photo: Sean Gardner, Getty Images) AVONDALE, Ariz. — One of the strangest seasons in NASCAR history got another bizarre twist in setting the field for its championship race Sunday night at Phoenix International Raceway. The four drivers themselves, though, will give NASCAR a great chance to have…

LONDON (AP) — Russia’s track and field athletes will be eligible for the Olympics only if the country falls into line with all global anti-doping rules and the reforms are verifiable, IOC President Thomas Bach said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press. “The important goal is not bringing them back,” Bach said. “The goal has to be Russia being compliant again with all the international anti-doping regulations. That…

NASCAR’S final four set Ricky Craven breaks down the attributes of Jeff Gordon, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick as they prepare for the Sprint Cup championship.

Tears in the octagon. So many were shed, so many others held in by a state of shock. Holly Holm cried her face red as she ran circles inside the cage late Saturday night, looking for someone to share the moment with, a moment that just couldn’t be real, could it? The UFC 193 main event had just ended suddenly and stunningly, and Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, was rocking…

Mike Reddy for the Huffington Post How College Students Are Bankrolling The Athletics Arms Race By Brad Wolverton, Ben Hallman, Shane Shifflett and Sandhya Kambhampati SUNDAY, NOV. 15, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT Deep within the stadium, the team gathered for a college football ritual. The marching band gave its cue, and the players bounded through a long tunnel, a blue and white blur, pumping fists and high-fiving students who had…

Buy Photo Little Chute’s Lindsey Grams runs toward the finish line during the Division 2 girls race at the 2015 State Cross Country Championships at the Ridges Country Club in Wisconsin Rapids, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.(Photo: Megan McCormick/Gannett Wisconsin Media)Buy Photo When you talk, write and read about sports for a living, it doesn’t take long to get a little jaded and cynical. It happens to almost everyone. There’s just…

CHICAGO – It was quite a weekend for sports fans in Chicago. On Saturday Duncan Keith returned early from in a Blackhawks win in St. Louis. On Sunday the Bears not only beat the Rams but crushed them in the home building by 24 points. Tim Baffoe of CBSChicago.com along with The Cauldron came on Sunday’s Sports Feed to talk about all of those subjects in Chicago sports. To watch…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A court ruling that Cleveland’s so-called “jock tax” violates players’ due process rights could end up costing the city millions in tax refunds. The Ohio Supreme Court last week upheld a ruling that rejected the city’s appeal over its formula for taxing visiting professional athletes. Former NFL players Hunter Hillenmeyer and Jeff Saturday sued to have Cleveland tax visiting players based on the number of days they…

USA Today Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the Quicken Loans Race For Heroes 500. USA TODAY Sports

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Russia’s athletics federation has met in Moscow to begin what the sports minister said would be a purge of its staff after the country was suspended from international competition over doping. Russia will undertake reforms and appeal to the International Association of Athletics Federations within three months to return to competition, the sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, said. At stake is the country’s participation at the world indoor championships in March…

Tears in the octagon. So many were shed, so many others held in by a state of shock. Holly Holm cried her face red as she ran circles inside the cage late Saturday night, looking for someone to share the moment with, a moment that just couldn’t be real, could it? The UFC 193 main event had just ended suddenly and stunningly, and Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, was rocking…

The penultimate race of the 2015 NASCAR season is the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 from Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday afternoon, an elimination race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The eight drivers still alive in The Chase will be pared down to just four after Sunday in Phoenix. Kevin Harvick, who finished third last week at Texas, enters Sunday third in points. He’s just three…

For the second week in a row, three of the four Joe Gibbs Racing cars have had issues clearing NASCAR technical inspection. Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway, the cars of Chase driver Kyle Busch and his teammates Denny Hamlin and Erik Jones went through the tech inspection multiple times without being cleared by the NASCAR officials.  According to FOXSports.com’s Tom Jensen, the issue with Busch’s car was with the rear…

Martin Truex Jr. and the rest of the NASCAR community raced with heavy hearts on Sunday after the death this week of 10-year-old Elijah Aschbrenner, who had a rare form of cancer. Elijah, whose mother, Becky Hughes, works in the NASCAR industry, was diagnosed with epithelioid sarcoma in May 2014. He had become a big part of the NASCAR community as numerous drivers and teams helped and supported him throughout…

Juergen Klinsmann’s face was a combination of shock and horror. His U.S. national soccer team, which rode a historic winless streak into Friday’s first qualifier of the 2018 World Cup cycle, had just fallen behind St. Vincent and the Grenadines — the 129th-best team in the world — after five minutes. A team that could seemingly go no lower had just reached a new depth: no American squad had never…