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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — David Beckham played soccer with Nepalese children on Friday and visited a school in Bhaktapur that was damaged in April’s devastating earthquake.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) His appeals rejected, Matt Kenseth defiantly vowed Thursday to race as he always has and accused NASCAR of ”unfairly” making an example out of him with a two-race suspension for intentionally wrecking Joey Logano over the weekend at Martinsville. Kenseth will miss the next two races, at Texas and Phoenix, and is eligible to return for the Nov. 22 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The national motorsports…

Ralph Krueger is unique to hockey. How many people go from behind an NHL bench to chairman of soccer club Southampton FC of the Barclays Premier League? Before the 56-year-old native of Steinbach, Manitoba was asked to run the elite soccer team, currently seventh in the 20-team premiership, he won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics as an assistant coach with Canada. Previous to that he…

The galvanizing force of Yoenis Cespedes that powered the New York Mets to the World Series — and then fizzled during it — has many marketable traits, and during batting practice this past weekend at Citi Field it didn’t take former manager Jim Leyland long to list them. “A special athlete who can do anything,” Leyland said. “He looks like one of those guys that, to me, could be a…

Exercise helps kids feel well-rested, less stressed and more confident, improves learning in school and helps them maintain healthy weight, bones, muscles and joints. There’s one caveat: They can get hurt. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than 2.6 million children ages 19 and younger are treated in the emergency department each year for sports-related injuries. “Sprains and strains are easy to treat because…

In the last few weeks, he has played tennis with Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova in Las Vegas, led the cheers for F1 champion Lewis Hamilton in Texas and been on the phone to congratulate Watford striker Troy Deeney on his first Premier League goal. It would be fair to say that Sir Elton John is a bit of a sports fan. “I love all sports and would…

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When NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton declared, “Boys, have at it,” prior to the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season, some drivers took it as a license to police themselves under virtually all circumstances without risk of a penalty. But in light of Tuesday’s two-race suspension on Matt Kenseth for deliberately wrecking Joey Logano last weekend at Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France wants to provide some…

TOKYO (AP) Baseball will be looking to move a step closer to an Olympic return with the start of the new Premier12 tournament this week. Featuring the top 12 nations in the WBSC rankings, the inaugural tournament will be played in Japan and Taiwan from Nov. 8-21. The quadrennial tournament is being organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation with Olympic qualification going to the winner, beginning in 2019, should…

Exercise helps kids feel well-rested, less stressed and more confident, improves learning in school and helps them maintain healthy weight, bones, muscles and joints. There’s one caveat: They can get hurt. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than 2.6 million children ages 19 and younger are treated in the emergency department each year for sports-related injuries. “Sprains and strains are easy to treat because…

A “Salute to Service” at an Atlanta Falcons game in 2013. Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/ZUMA If you’ve been to a pro sports game recently, you’ve almost certainly seen tributes to the military, from unraveling giant American flags showing to photos and videos of servicemen and women on the Jumbotron. A new senate report by Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, released yesterday, finds that many of these seemingly voluntary displays were…

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So the sports moguls are getting paid for patriotic events at ballparks like the singing of “God Bless America,” surprise homecomings and “Hometown Heroes” ceremonies? This tells us more about American fakery than we want to know, and the pre-eminent place of professional sports in this era of boundless greed and the death of shame. Good for Senators McCain and Flake for pursuing the truth. It’s helpful when legitimate criticisms…

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Fans who came out to Lexington to raise money for flood relief efforts and watch Game 4 of the Garnet & Black World Series were treated to an exciting finish Thursday night. Sophomore Madison Stokes drilled an opposite-field, walk-off home run over the right field wall in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Black a 1-0 win over Garnet at Lexington County Baseball Stadium. Black holds a 3-0-1…

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