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Andrew Ramspacher | The Daily Progress Hooville Virginia baseball fans hang out in “Hooville” a strip of RVs outside the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Several parents of Cavalier baseball players have stayed here the last two seasons while watching their sons play in the College World Series. Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2015 11:00 pm Virginia baseball dads enjoy another Father’s Day in Omaha Posted on Jun 20, 2015…

A group of Norwegian soccer players has deftly dismantled two daft but enduring clichés: one, that women don’t “get” football (or soccer, as the US stubbornly insists on calling it); and two, that they can’t be funny about it. In a short video made with Norwegian sports journalist Nickolay Ramm, four elite female players, three of them members of the country’s national team, joke sarcastically about how hard it is…

D.C. Everest players celebrate with the championship trophy after the Evergreens defeated Kettle Moraine in overtime during Saturday’s Division 1 championship game in the WIAA state girls soccer tournament at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee.(Photo: Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette Media/) MILWAUKEE — Time after time Saturday afternoon, the Evergreens had potential scoring chances ended by a swarming Kettle Moraine defense that clogged up the middle of the field. Then in the 104th…

Andrew Ramspacher | The Daily Progress Hooville Virginia baseball fans hang out in “Hooville” a strip of RVs outside the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Several parents of Cavalier baseball players have stayed here the last two seasons while watching their sons play in the College World Series. Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2015 11:00 pm Virginia baseball dads enjoy another Father’s Day in Omaha Posted on Jun 20, 2015…

One last game was needed to decide the second half of the 2015 College World Series championship final. Facing elimination on Friday, Florida forced a second and decisive game to be played on Saturday after defeating Virginia 10-5 The victor would go on to play Vanderbilt in the final bracket of the College World Series.  Continue below for the winner of Saturday’s game, the upcoming championship schedule and…

Andrew Ramspacher | The Daily Progress Hooville Virginia baseball fans hang out in “Hooville” a strip of RVs outside the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Several parents of Cavalier baseball players have stayed here the last two seasons while watching their sons play in the College World Series. Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2015 11:00 pm Virginia baseball dads enjoy another Father’s Day in Omaha Posted on Jun 20, 2015…

STANDISH — Greely High left the bases loaded in the first inning. The Rangers did not squander many chances after that. Greely cruised to a 10-0 victory over Camden Hills on Saturday to win the Class B baseball state championship at St. Joseph’s College. The Rangers scored two runs in the fifth inning, ending the game due to the 10-run rule. Ryan Twitchell threw a no-hitter for the Rangers. After…

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for June 21 2015 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 78 Matt Harvey R @Atl 7-4 3.32 1.00 2-2 4.18 1.04 68 Jake Arrieta R @Min 6-5 3.40 1.16 2-1 4.50 1.33 66 Masahiro Tanaka R Det 4-2 2.49 0.88 2-1 1.71 0.81 62 Michael Wacha R @Phi 9-2 2.48 1.04 2-2 3.86 1.05 60 Jose…

High School Baseball Class A Final Bangor 5, South Portland 4 S. Portland (15-5) 100 200 1 — 4 6 4 Bangor (18-2) 100 400 x — 5 3 4 S. Troiano, Sowerby (4) and N. Troiano; Hillier and Fournier E: Abramson 2, Beecher, Solomon; Cote 2, Fournier, Stevenson; LOB: South Portland 7; Bangor 6; DP: South Portland 1, ; 3B: Conti; none; SB: Curran, Degifico; Brookings; SAC: none; Stevenson;…

With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series enjoying the second of just three off-weeks over the course of the lengthy season, drivers took advantage of the break by engaging in a variety of activities that a busy race week might not allow. See how a few of the sport’s biggest stars have been spending the downtime: Looking forward to the rest of my life with this amazing girl. https://t.co/EuGZbCVynM — Dale…

The 2015 Women’s World Cup moved into the knockout stage Saturday, with Germany and Sweden kicking things off. There was no struggle for the German women, who rode two goals in each half to a 4-1 win and an appearance in the quarterfinals. There was a friendly rivalry going on between the coaches coming into the match. Germany’s Silvia Neid and Sweden’s Pia Sundhage have been able to bond during this…

Nadine Angerer: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know One of the best goalies in the world, Nadine Angerer will look to lift Germany to the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup title. Click here to read more

We find ourselves yet again with another botched suspension, and in this case, it proves that the most visible league in the United States can’t read or interpret its own rules and regulations. It can be argued a three-match suspension, which Seattle Sounders foward and USMNT captain Clint Dempsey ultimately received for tearing up the referee’s notebook in a 3-1 U.S. Open Cup loss to Portland, is the correct punishment via precedent and any…

JOLIET, Ill. — New England Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski often resembles a tornado. He can blow through defenders on the field, and is known to wreak havoc in his off-the-field pursuits. Once you meet his family, you see where this tendency comes from. The entire Gronkowski clan is at Chicagoland Speedway for the NASCAR Xfinity series stop, and the experience is Gronk times five. Everyone talks at once, and…

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facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Editor’s note: Play one-day fantasy baseball for cash! FanDuel is hosting a $100,000 league for today’s late MLB games, and first place wins $10,000. Starts at 7:05 p.m. ET. Enter now! Welcome (back) to the free DFS MLB Playbook for Saturday, June 20, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com, who recently won the 2015 FanDuel Playboy Championship, will publish their top daily fantasy baseball…

Day 3 coverage of the U.S. Open will again highlight golf’s best players on FOX Sports GO.   Saturday’s featured group selected for enhanced online coverage includes Jason Day and Kevin Kisner and will tee off at 4:55 p.m. ET. Day enters Saturday’s action three shots off the leaders at 2-under while Kisner is tied for 12th at 1-under after two rounds. If Day, who suffered a dizzy spell at the…

Gareth Southgate says the suggestion of a racial split among England’s young footballers is “hard to stomach”. The Daily Mail posted a picture on its twitter feed on Saturday showing members of England’s U20 squad eating a meal at two tables, one shared by black players and the other white. An accompanying caption asked “what does it say about race in Britain today?” England U21 boss Southgate was asked about…

One person was fatally shot Saturday night in northwest Oklahoma City, police reported.