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The Minnesota Baseball Association’s state amateur baseball tournament has entered its second weekend at fields in Green Isle Hamburg and Norwood Young America. In Class C, 48 teams from around the state started the tournament and were being cut to 16 during the second weekend of play (August 26-27). The Minnetonka Millers have already been crowned Class A champion. The Class B and C tournaments will be decided on Labor…

Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar is being sued by his former club, FC Barcelona. (Photo: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images) Neymar Sued For Switching Clubs FC Barcelona is suing soccer superstar Neymar, alleging that he breached a contract by signing with competitor Paris Saint Germain. Barcelona wants Neymar to pay at least 8.5 million euro in damages based on a “loyalty bonus” that was paid out by Barcelona last year. Neymar’s new team,…

LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor got tired. He got woozy. He ended up on the ropes, staggering around, futilely attempting to grab Floyd Mayweather and struggling to stay standing. But the proud Irish UFC champion refused to go down. And referee Robert Byrd stopped the fight anyway, mercilessly ending the punishment, even if McGregor thought it was ended too early.  One minute and five seconds into the 10th round. About…

The sports world turned its collective eye to the Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather fight on Saturday night (and into Sunday morning), and NASCAR Nation was no different. Current and future Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Kyle Busch and Erik Jones attended the bout in Las Vegas, and Jeff Gordon was shown on the red carpet during pre-fight coverage. McGregor, a Mixed Martial Arts star from Ireland, and Mayweather, who entered Saturday’s fight…

NASCAR doesn’t have much of an offseason, with the first race in February and last in November, so off time is hard to come by. This weekend was the first that drivers had off since April and last until the season wraps up at Homestead around Thanksgiving. With the NASCAR playoffs just a few weeks away, the Monster Energy Cup Series drivers are taking full advantage of their week off….

LAS VEGAS — In the end, the equation we all knew coming in turned out to be true: The best boxer in the world beat one of the best mixed martial artists in a boxing match.  How we got there, however, was completely surprising.  In his return from a two-year retirement, Floyd Mayweather improved to 50-0 with a 10th-round TKO over an incredibly game Conor McGregor in their pay-per-view superfight…

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NASCAR doesn’t have much of an offseason, with the first race in February and last in November, so off time is hard to come by. This weekend was the first that drivers had off since April and last until the season wraps up at Homestead around Thanksgiving. With the NASCAR playoffs just a few weeks away, the Monster Energy Cup Series drivers are taking full advantage of their week off….

Elliott Sadler practices Saturday at Road America for Sunday’s Johnsonville 180.(Photo: Getty Images) ELKHART LAKE – As teammates go, these three from JR Motorsports cover quite the spectrum. Elliott Sadler is a Virginia boy through and through who loves his hunting dogs about as much as his racing. At 42 he has been in NASCAR for more than half of his life. Justin Allgaier is 31 and from Illinois, where…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The No. 11-ranked Michigan field hockey team surged early in the second half and used a late-game defensive stand to knock off No. 1 North Carolina 3-2 in its season opener at the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Saturday afternoon at Iowa’s Grant Field. It was Michigan’s second straight season-opening win over the top-ranked Tar Heels in as many seasons. The Victors!…

The National Park Service has found the body of an Oak Park man who disappeared while swimming in a rapids area with friends in West Virginia. The Park Service says 28-year-old Abdulrahman Binomran was swimming with three friends in the pool above Fayette Station rapids in the New River Gorge National River when they decided to swim through the rapids. Binomran was last seen struggling and disappearing under the water…

NASCAR doesn’t have much of an offseason, with the first race in February and last in November, so off time is hard to come by. This weekend was the first that drivers had off since April and last until the season wraps up at Homestead around Thanksgiving. With the NASCAR playoffs just a few weeks away, the Monster Energy Cup Series drivers are taking full advantage of their week off….

To celebrate the collaborative nature of both soccer and craft beer, a Columbus brewery is teaming up with the opposition for a couple of soccer-themed brews. Land-Grant Brewery is well-known to Columbus soccer fans thanks to its American wheat ale, Glory, which launched this year in partnership with Columbus Crew SC and supporters. Now, the brewery has taken its soccer-inspired beer to another level, and is introducing two new beers…

Jose Mota collected eight hits in the major leagues, none of them for extra bases. Cooperstown called the other day. Not for one of his bats, to be sure. The Hall of Fame wanted the scorecard he used last weekend. He had just hit a grand slam, as a broadcaster. He had called the Angels game on radio, in English. That made him the first announcer in major league history…

The fact that Josh Williamson hadn’t stepped on ice until about a month ago hardly makes him an ideal candidate to become an Olympic bobsledder. Then again, if Williamson completes the journey from the lacrosse fields in Florida to a bobsled track in Pyeongchang next year — or Beijing in 2022 — he will, in more than one way, be rewriting the script about how an American can become an…

On the August 2017 edition of HBO’s Real Sports, a consultant on youth sports facilities development named Dev Pathik explains to reporter Jon Frankel that $9 billion is spent per year (and growing by 20 percent annually) on youth sports travel. “It’s an incredible transformation with massive ripple effects on the rest of our society,” Pathik tells Frankel. If that sounds over-the-top, consider that the Real Sports piece shows a traditional vacation…

US Soccer has long been subject to tensions between its more nativist, nationalist impulses and more liberal, progressive tendencies. That battle may be coming to a head now in the age of Donald Trump as the national federation is taking a political stance in favour of the status quo with its policy banning protests by players during the playing of the US anthem. As expected, all players in the US men’s…

On the August 2017 edition of HBO’s Real Sports, a consultant on youth sports facilities development named Dev Pathik explains to reporter Jon Frankel that $9 billion is spent per year (and growing by 20 percent annually) on youth sports travel. “It’s an incredible transformation with massive ripple effects on the rest of our society,” Pathik tells Frankel. If that sounds over-the-top, consider that the Real Sports piece shows a traditional vacation…

With two races remaining in the NASCAR Cup Series regular season, Martin Truex Jr. has accumulated an astonishing 35 playoff points (and counting). In past seasons, that number – as well as the solid 15-point lead he has over Kyle Busch in second place – would have been unimaginable. But thanks to NASCAR introducing stages to each race and accompanying playoff points for the winners, Truex has a healthy cushion going…

“Dembélé is a player who is very quick and technical,” Barcelona Coach Ernesto Valverde said. “He can play on both sides of the field, and he gives us depth, which is something that we need.” FOOTBALL Patriots’ Edelman Injures Right Knee Wide receiver Julian Edelman limped off the field with an injured right knee, putting a damper on a strong performance from Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Edelman…