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BOSTON - Traditional power or relatively unknown? One will win college hockey’s biggest prize in the Frozen Four at the TD Garden. The first semifinal Thursday has a newcomer, Nebraska-Omaha, making its first Frozen Four appearance, against Providence, which hasn’t made it to the final four since 1985. The nightcap features two of college hockey’s traditional names: Boston University and North Dakota. “If you ask any casual hockey fan, name…

The wife of noted NASCAR engine builder Ernie Elliott remains in custody more than a week after her arrest on felony aggravated assault charges for allegedly attempting to run over her husband with her car. Sheila Elliott, 63, of Dawsonville, Ga., was arrested April 1. A bond of $10,000 was set Tuesday by Magistrate Judge Tony Tarnacki. A check of Dawson County (Ga.) Sheriff Office inmates shows Sheila Elliott is…

This might be the most sickening stat of all, if you’re a Clemson fan: yes, the Tigers won two of three over South Carolina, which always counts as brownie points. But Clemson is 2-5 against all other in-state programs, with wins over Wofford and Furman but losses to Winthrop, Coastal Carolina, Presbyterian and Charleston Southern.

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The cash-strapped national ice hockey team launched a successful crowdfunding campaign on April 4 for their trip to the Ice Hockey Federation Challenge Cup in Kuwait next week. With the hashtag #SupportIceHockey skating across Twitter, the Ice Hockey Association of India urged the public to help them meet a Rs3.5 lakh ($5,630) goal through the online platform BitGiving. According to the website, each player had paid Rs20,000 from his own pocket. But the programme…

Buy Photo Kelsie Crow’s fellow soccer players gathered to remember her at Kolping Soccer Club on Wednesday evening. Her teammates recalled her signature soccer moves and team motto: “We are one team, one squad, one bond, one sisterhood, one family.”(Photo: The Enquirer/Cameron Knight)Buy Photo Kelsie Crow’s death in no way defines the life she led – a life cut short at 17 years Saturday when she was shot and killed…

BOSTON (AP) - Traditional power or relatively unknown? One will win college hockey’s biggest prize in the Frozen Four at the TD Garden. The first semifinal Thursday has a newcomer, Nebraska-Omaha, making its first Frozen Four appearance, against Providence, which hasn’t made it to the final four since 1985. The nightcap features two of college hockey’s traditional names: Boston University and North Dakota. “If you ask any casual hockey fan,…

If a loaded slate of MLB games tends to overwhelm you in daily fantasy baseball, we have just the time for you to play at DraftKings—evenings of getaway Thursdays. With just three night games on tap, the variables are reduced and you can dive more deeply into the minutiae, as we do below, outlining the best pitcher stats and picks for April 9. Starting Pitchers CC Sabathia, New York Yankees…

Longtime Hanover Park head baseball coach Dave Minsavage died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Minsavage, The Star-Ledger’s State Coach of the Year in 2006, led the Hornets for 19 seasons before taking a leave of absence prior to the start of this season. In his tenure, Hanover Park won three sectional titles, a Morris County Tournament championship in 2003 and the state Group 2 title in 2006. Minsavage’s…

A lightning bolt streams from the storm near Medicine Bow, Kan., on Wednesday evening. (Bruce Bishop via Twitter) With 200 reports of severe weather, eight of which were tornado sightings, Wednesday was the busiest severe weather day of the year thus far. Severe thunderstorms are forecast to continue through Friday in the central and eastern U.S. as an upper level low shifts east. Severe weather outlook for Thursday, April 9,…

The New York Times on Wednesday published an op-ed with the headline “Don’t Let Statistics Ruin Baseball.” Some of the baseball nuts at FiveThirtyEight staff couldn’t contain themselves after reading it. Here’s an edited transcript of our Slack conversation. cwick: This is the kind of thing that gets our attention around here. A sample of the op-ed: “Thanks to ‘Moneyball’ and stats-driven fantasy leagues, advanced statistics have changed how fans…

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Baseball’s Major Leagues want to bring America’s pastime into the present – not that the game will change that much. Chicago’s Wrigley Field is under renovation, but it’s still Wrigley Field. New rules are meant to make the game move faster, but it is still that timeless game with no clock. Baseball also faces pressure for a deeper change – making those in the LGBT community feel…

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. TRANSFER GOSSIP Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has called on captain Wayne Rooney to give a Winston Churchill-style speech ahead of Sunday’s derby against City, reports the Sun Manchester City want to sign three players from Liverpool – 22-year-old playmaker Philippe Coutinho, 20-year-old forward Raheem Sterling and…

Killing a sport body three months before the province hosts the Pan Am Games seems a strange move, especially since Michael Coteau, Ontario’s sport minister, on down to Pachi, the mascot, are constantly pushing the importance of Games legacy and inspiring the next generation of athletes — the very people the alliance already targets.

One of the fastest-growing segments of motorcycling takes a Swiss Army-knife approach to the sport, with bikes that are legal to ride on the highway and also can tackle dirt trails. Dual-sport motorcycles are popular in northern Wisconsin, where there are hundreds of miles of gravel roads and trails through the woods. Some have even called the Town of Wabeno in Forest County the dual-sport capital of the world….

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→ April 8, 2015 Every Major League Baseball team starts the season with the same record, but it doesn’t take long to know whether a team will be a contender or a cellar-dweller. With RBI Baseball 15, I knew a championship wasn’t in the cards after my second at-bat. After David Murphy started my first exhibition as the New York Mets against the Boston Red Sox with a blistering single…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. TRANSFER GOSSIP Manchester United are pondering a move for Barcelona’s Dani Alves, 31, despite making Southampton’s Nathaniel Clyne, 24, their number one target for a new right-back. (Daily Mirror)  The Sun says West Brom are in for Gignac of Marseille However Clyne and his Saints…