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Buy Photo Ashlyn Harris walks toward the net during a practice at the Citrus Bowl Saturday.(Photo: Michael Parsons/FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo Saturday morning Ashlyn Harris was on the field at the Citrus Bowl, getting ready to play a “home” game with her U.S. Women’s National Team teammates. The Satellite High graduate and goalkeeper will take the field with her teammates as the victory tour hits stop No. 6 Sunday afternoon when…

View photo . (AP) If you thought Cubs’ NLCS ticket prices at Wrigley Field were going crazy at this time last week, you haven’t seen anything yet. With the New York Mets set to compete in their first World Series since 2000, ticket prices at Citi Field have soared beyond those numbers and reached all-time highs.  With Games 3, 4 and 5 scheduled for Citi Field, ticket resale services say…

Daniel Murphy has been a good, productive player for the Mets over the last seven-plus seasons, but the 30-year-old infielder wasn’t near the top of many free agent watch lists as October began. That has changed. Murphy smashed three home runs in the NLDS, four home runs in the NLCS, and he’ll carry a record six-game postseason home run streak into Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday night…

When it comes to restrictor-plate qualifying no one has been better than Jeff Gordon this season, supremacy that continued Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway. Gordon (194.500 mph) edged Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kasey Kahne (193.638 mph) and Jimmie Johnson (193.584 mph) to take the No. 1 starting spot for Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500. Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr., the fourth driver in Hendrick’s lineup, completed the top-five qualifiers. The pole…

A look at Mason’s final goal in its 3-0 victory over Chelsea in a Division 2 district final. John Kingman and Christian Jordan combined on the score. Brian Calloway/LSJ Brian Calloway/Lansing State Journal

Buy Photo Ashlyn Harris walks toward the net during a practice at the Citrus Bowl Saturday.(Photo: Michael Parsons/FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo Saturday morning Ashlyn Harris was on the field at the Citrus Bowl, getting ready to play a “home” game with her U.S. Women’s National Team teammates. The Satellite High graduate and goalkeeper will take the field with her teammates as the victory tour hits stop No. 6 Sunday afternoon when…

Buy Photo Rutgers officials and donors participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Fred Hill Training Complex for baseball and softball, Saturday, October 24, 2015, on the Livingston Campus in Piscataway. (Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)Buy Photo PISCATAWAY – Ron Bainton has nicer Rutgers apparel than the tattered windbreaker he wore Saturday afternoon to the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Rutgers baseball and softball facility. But none with greater personal significance to…

Four Stewart-Haas Racing cars, including those of Chase contenders Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch, failed inspections on Saturday ahead of qualifying at Talladega. The problems: a cooling system component that reports say didn’t conform to NASCAR rules. MORE: Chase standings before Talladega | Kurt Busch earns extension Harvick, Busch, Tony Stewart and Danica Patrick were among drivers whose cars were flagged ahead. After the components were replaced on their Chevrolet…

It’s elimination time at NASCAR‘s Chase for the Sprint Cup as the 12 drivers remaining take to the dangerous Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday for the CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega. Joey Logano enters the event sitting cozy after winning the first two races of Round 2, but everything behind him is up for grabs. Four more racers will bow out of the Chase after the event, and some can only stay…

The tragic news of fatalities and scores of injuries caused when a speeding car crashed into a crowd of revelers at Saturday morning’s Oklahoma State Homecoming parade quickly reminded of other sports-related tragedies that have too often affected the school. Every year thousands of people attend the Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Okla., just one of the weekend’s events that make Oklahoma State’s Homecoming one of the largest in the nation….

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The Mets and Kansas City Royals play Game 1 of the 2015 World Series on Tuesday, K.C. clinching the American League pennant Friday night with a win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the ALCS. (New York swept the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.) For the Mets, it’s their first trip to the Series since 2000; the Royals lost in seven games to the San Francisco Giants last season. Kansas…

Sept. 9, 2015: An employee in the software development department of DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, walks past screens displaying the company’s online system stats in Boston. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) BOSTON –  If fantasy sports websites are allowed to continue operating in Massachusetts, they would likely have to do so under a “robust” regulatory framework, state Attorney General Maura Healey said Friday as her office continued an examination of…

With the Kansas City Royals clinching the ALCS on Friday at Kauffman Stadium, the 2015 World Series is now set. The Royals, who knocked off the Toronto Blue Jays in six games, will meet the National League champion New York Mets, who swept the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS. For the Royals, it’s a quick return to the World Series after falling in seven games to the San Francisco Giants…

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The voices booming off the walls of the packed ballroom at the Midpointe Event Center in St. Paul on Friday said it all. “We love United, we do … United we love you!” supporters of the Minnesota United soccer team shouted as city and team leaders officially announced a not-so-well-kept secret: St. Paul will be the new home for the Major League Soccer-bound team, which has committed to playing in…

Sept. 9, 2015: An employee in the software development department of DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, walks past screens displaying the company’s online system stats in Boston. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) BOSTON –  If fantasy sports websites are allowed to continue operating in Massachusetts, they would likely have to do so under a “robust” regulatory framework, state Attorney General Maura Healey said Friday as her office continued an examination of…