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INDIANAPOLIS — The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the fourth time with Saturday’s Lilly Diabetes 250. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Jennifer Pferrer, American Diabetes Association Executive Director, Indiana/Kentucky area and a guest will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:37 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:49 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 100 laps (250 miles)…

After the U.S. Women’s National soccer team trounced Japan at this year’s World Cup, the players returned home like conquering heroes. But despite all the media attention and ticker-tape parades, the reality of life for professional female soccer players is far from glamorous. “It’s probably embarrassing how much below the poverty line we get paid to play,” said Hayley Haagsma, 23, who has played for the Sky Blue Football Club,…

Asbury Park Press All-Star Hockey Classic(Photo: Asbury Park Press) From the pioneering efforts of Jim Dowd to the recent successes of James and Trevor van Riemsdyk, the Jersey Shore has emerged as a hotbed of ice hockey talent, and the Asbury Park Press and APP.com is proud to honor the local hockey community by announcing its inaugural Asbury Park Press Hockey Classic. Presented by Trinity Financial Sports & Entertainment Management,…

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The Baseball Hall of Fame will induct its 2015 class of immortals on Sunday, July 25, 2015, in Cooperstown, New York. Former pitching greats John Smoltz, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez join star second baseman Craig Biggio in the 2015 induction class. Smoltz, Johnson and Martinez were elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America in their first year of eligibility, while Biggio was voted in in his third year….

‘The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season’ by Barry Svrluga Blue Rider, 176 pp., $23.95 “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” intoned the venerable Wizard of Oz. Those who love baseball may want to heed the Wizard’s warning before opening this book. It may tell them things about the American pastime they would rather not know. In “The Grind,” Barry Svrluga, a sports writer for The Washington Post,…

TOLEDO, Ohio – The University of Toledo depends less on student fees and other general university resources to pay for its sports program than any other Mid-American Conference school in Ohio. One reason is successful athletic fund-raising – tops among the Ohio MAC schools with $2.6 million in 2013-14. A second factor is a relatively low budget. Toledo fields the NCAA-minimum of 16 teams for football-playing schools at the FBS…

European champions Barcelona will “fight” to stop the best players joining the Premier League, says the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The Premier League’s new £5.1bn television deal will give English clubs huge financial power from the 2016-17 season. But European champions Barcelona feel they can combat the threat. “We are going to fight against the Premier League. We want to have…

By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new rules package for Indianapolis Motor Speedway provided visibility issues for drivers. More troubling for NASCAR, though, is that after nearly five hours of practice Friday, there was little indication the changes will produce better racing. NASCAR, in its effort to improve the on-track product, is using four track-specific aerodynamic packages to see what could be a better fit…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest (UPDATE: USA Today reported late Thursday that Cowherd’s comments — and the lack of a response by ESPN and Fox, Cowherd’s soon-to-be employer — angered the MLB Players Association. A source close to the union told writer Jorge L. Ortiz it may stop cooperating with ESPN and Fox in response. An ESPN spokesman said the network any statement would come Friday at the earliest.) On Thursday morning, ESPN radio host Colin…

‘The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season’ by Barry Svrluga Blue Rider, 176 pp., $23.95 “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” intoned the venerable Wizard of Oz. Those who love baseball may want to heed the Wizard’s warning before opening this book. It may tell them things about the American pastime they would rather not know. In “The Grind,” Barry Svrluga, a sports writer for The Washington Post,…

A youth league baseball coach — who had been previously charged but never convicted of molesting children under his supervision — has been arrested again. In the latest case, coach David Solomon, 47, described as a “longtime” coach with the city’s Optimist Club, was allowed to have sleepovers with a young ballplayer despite the multiple previous arrests involving molestation on his record. The prior arrests did not result in convictions….

European champions Barcelona will “fight” to stop the best players joining the Premier League, says the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The Premier League’s new £5.1bn television deal will give English clubs huge financial power from the 2016-17 season. But European champions Barcelona feel they can combat the threat. “We are going to fight against the Premier League. We want to have…

Longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Bernie Miklasz has announced that he is leaving the newspaper after 26 years. His last column will appear on Aug. 9. Miklasz, 56, joined the Post-Dispatch as an NFL writer in 1985. After the St. Louis football Cardinals moved to Arizona in 1988, he moved to Texas to cover the Cowboys for The Dallas Morning News. In July 1989, the Post-Dispatch hired Miklasz as…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Paris St-Germain expect winger Angel Di Maria, 27, to leave the North America tour next weekend as their player, having flown to the continent with Manchester United. (Mirror)  PSG’s 33-year-old striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has raised the possibility of a move to Old Trafford, despite admitting he does not…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…

BT phone and broadband customers who signed up for the “free” sports package over the past two years will soon find themselves paying £5 a month for the service – unless they opt out. The telecoms giant is launching a revamped sport channel in August, and while the service will be free to BT’s television customers broadband-only users will be required to pay. Controversially, the company is automatically applying the…

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BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…