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Last SlideNext Slide Angela Ruggiero is the fourth woman to make the Hall of Fame, following Cammi Granato, Angela James and Geraldine Heaney.(Photo: Bruce Bennett Getty Images) She was in the middle of preparing for it when her cell phone rang. The speech. It was shortly after 6 p.m. on a recent Thursday, and Angela Ruggiero was about to pursue an enormous challenge, somehow condensing a lifetime of gratitude into…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he was “a bit angry” when he discovered the club had let Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 22, leave as an 11-year-old. (Independent)  Liverpool and Arsenal face competition from Serie A club Napoli for the signature of Real Madrid forward Jese, 22. (AS…

Sam Keller is one of several former athletes who spearheaded a lawsuit against the NCAA, EA Sports and a college licensing company.(Photo: Matthew Stockman, Getty Images) A legal agreement reached late Friday night means current and former college athletes who are entitled to shares of the $60 million in settlements related to use of their names, images and likenesses in video games could begin seeing checks within about 60 days,…

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ENLARGE Moscow In the late 1970s, in the American state of Connecticut, a hockey official got fired, took out a $9,000 cash advance on his credit card and convinced an oil company to help him launch a sports network called ESPN. By contrast, Russia’s new 24-hour sports network had a quintessentially Russian origin: Kremlin Decree Number 365. President Vladimir Putin signed that decree in mid-July, laying the groundwork for a…

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Lottery is considering developing a daily fantasy sports game as the online competitions have exploded in popularity — and faced increased scrutiny about their legality. Michael Sweeney, the lottery’s executive director, said exploring options amid such games’ legal ambiguity is necessary if state lotteries are to remain viable in a changing gambling landscape. “Until such time as it becomes absolutely clear that this is illegal, we…

David L Ryan/Globe Staff Brendan Greally (left) and Brendan Pedersen with son Jack Pedersen at the City Sports in Dedham on Friday. DEDHAM — The liquidation of the City Sports chain drew a line of exactly two shoppers Friday morning outside the store at the Legacy Place mall — which may explain why the retailer is closing in the first place. “I’m kind of shocked there aren’t more people here,…

ENLARGE Moscow In the late 1970s, in the American state of Connecticut, a hockey official got fired, took out a $9,000 cash advance on his credit card and convinced an oil company to help him launch a sports network called ESPN. By contrast, Russia’s new 24-hour sports network had a quintessentially Russian origin: Kremlin Decree Number 365. President Vladimir Putin signed that decree in mid-July, laying the groundwork for a…

As far back as he can remember, soccer has been part of Shafaq Ayobi’s life. As a 7-year-old shepherd in eastern Afghanistan’s Laghman province, he kicked around a ball that he and his friends formed from scraps of cloth. Each day, as he made the seven-mile journey from home to the grazing area for his family’s livestock, he carried the ersatz ball. “While the animals would graze and drink water,”…

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ENLARGE Moscow In the late 1970s, in the American state of Connecticut, a hockey official got fired, took out a $9,000 cash advance on his credit card and convinced an oil company to help him launch a sports network called ESPN. By contrast, Russia’s new 24-hour sports network had a quintessentially Russian origin: Kremlin Decree Number 365. President Vladimir Putin signed that decree in mid-July, laying the groundwork for a…

NEWARK, N.J. — Patrick Kane said “there’s probably a date and time to address” his off-ice behavior and his future with the Blackhawks, but for now, he’s simply focused on playing hockey — the one thing that has given him a sense of normalcy over a tumultuous three months. “When I’m on the ice, I’m not thinking about it too much,” Kane said Friday morning, a day after Erie County district attorney…

0 Shares print FORT WORTH, Texas — While Matt Kenseth pleaded his case to NASCAR’s final appeals officer in one last-ditch effort Thursday for NASCAR to permit him to race this weekend, Erik Jones talked about possibly driving Kenseth’s car. Jones, at just age 19, knew the drill. He couldn’t say he for sure would drive the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 car at Texas Motor Speedway. All he would…

Now in her third full season in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series, Danica Patrick is in a period of transition. About to part ways with the primary sponsor of her car, and nearing the end of a bumpy season with her team, Stewart-Haas Racing, she is still driven to equal or surpass the kind of achievements that made her the most successful female driver in the history of American open-wheel racing: the first to…

Brenda Perez is a professional Spanish soccer player who happens to be female. Crazy, we know. She is a female and also does a sports thing! For a segment on Spanish TV program “El Hormiguero,” Perez went undercover as a male footballer named Dani Perez. They throw a wig and fake facial hair on her, and she indeed looks like a dude. A pretty, petite dude, but a dude. She…

A pair of first-half goals and a stout defensive effort allowed the Rutgers women’s soccer team to advance to its first Big Ten Tournament championship game berth. Colby Ciarrocca and Jennifer Andresen scored 31 minutes apart in the first half and goalkeeper Casey Murphy notched her conference-leading 15th shutout of the season as the third-seeded Scarlet Knights blanked seventh-seeded Ohio State, 2-0, on Friday afternoon in University Park, Pa. ONTO THE…

ENLARGE Moscow In the late 1970s, in the American state of Connecticut, a hockey official got fired, took out a $9,000 cash advance on his credit card and convinced an oil company to help him launch a sports network called ESPN. By contrast, Russia’s new 24-hour sports network had a quintessentially Russian origin: Kremlin Decree Number 365. President Vladimir Putin signed that decree in mid-July, laying the groundwork for a…

“The Code” is what Joey Logano apparently broke and what Matt Kenseth was enforcing when he purposefully crashed Logano Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. Like baseball’s unwritten rules, the manner of how drivers police themselves is vague, open to interruption, based who is the offending party and who is aggrieved. But unlike baseball, NASCAR drivers sometimes outright dismiss these rules as nothing more than an archaic justification to commit acts…

On Friday, NASCAR finally announced the drivers and teams handed warnings this week for issues related to technical inspection last weekend at Martinsville Speedway. The teams of Denny Hamlin and Matt DiBenedetto were each given a written warning for failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform twice during pre-qualifying inspection. The No. 34 team of driver Brett Moffitt flunked NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform twice, as well — during pre-race inspection. Of the three…