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Team USA hockey defenseman Anne Schleper(Photo: Carlos Osorio, AP) The public address announcer let the crowd know Canada was penalized for “too many men on the ice,” during the first period Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. The statement was somewhat quizzical and turned more than a few heads because the U.S. women’s national team was hosting Canada in an exhibition match, which Canada won, 5-3. It was the…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

Abbey D’Agostino toed the line before the first Olympic race of her career and felt at ease. This event, on this stage, among these people — the “epitome of athletic competition,” as she calls it — wasn’t about her. Still, as she prepared to take off, the American distance runner had her sights set on the final of the women’s 5,000 meters in Rio de Janeiro. She would have to…

ST. PETE BEACH — Jennifer McKenney stood alone on her old Little League field as the late afternoon shadows grew longer and longer, signaling the end to a chamber of commerce fall day along the Intercostal Waterway. Related News/Archive AP Exclusive: MLB rookie hazing rules ban dressing as women 4 Days Ago New Rays catcher Wilson Ramos says he’s ahead of schedule in rehab 5 Days Ago Rays open to…

We may be nearing the end of an era in baseball broadcasting. Joe Buck, the lead play-by-play voice for Fox Sports who has called 19 World Series since 1996, says he’s considering leaving his baseball responsibilities behind once his current contract expires. Buck first hinted at the life-altering decision during a podcast interview with Brad Straubinger on Dec. 7. He expanded on his comments this past Tuesday during a Q&A…

A dozen games into the season, the question surrounding UCLA has shifted. It’s no longer what it’s going to take for the Bruins to keep winning but what will be required for them to lose a game. UCLA played a ragged, turnover-filled first half Saturday afternoon at T-Mobile Arena and didn’t shoot particularly well over the final 20 minutes. None of it mattered. The second-ranked Bruins prevailed fairly comfortably, 86-73,…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

The University of Maine has named Nick Derba as its interim baseball coach, the school announced Saturday. Derba, associate head coach of the baseball team since 2015, replaces Steve Trimper, who is leaving Maine to become the baseball coach at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Derba, 31, has been a member of the Maine staff for the past three seasons. He played six seasons as a catcher in the St….

Dec 16, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS – Within days of the St. Louis Cardinals missing the playoffs for the first time since 2010, the team’s front office met and quickly zeroed in on what the club needed to get back to World Series contention. General manager John Mozeliak laid the plan out for the public at the team’s annual postseason media conference. The Cardinals needed…

If you haven’t kept a close eye on the fitness industry recently, you might have missed a rather odd development. Athletic clothing company Under Armour has been busy snagging up fitness apps like Map My Run, Endomondo, and My Fitness Pal. It’s the key part of a larger strategy to integrate the various tracking services and devices that fitness nuts use under one banner. It should come as no surprise,…

Leicester City If the most important factor for the judges is which team’s achievement was the most unlikely, they should look no further than Leicester City. Money doesn’t just talk in the Premier League, it stands an inch from your ear and shouts into it with a megaphone, and no one, probably not even Claudio Ranieri’s mother, had Leicester down as title contenders. Promoted from the Championship in 2014, they…

Richard Petty Motorsports confirmed on Friday night that it would drop to a one-car team in 2017 and focus on just Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Ford. As a result, the charter for the No. 44 has been loaned out to Go FAS Racing’s No. 32, whom in turn loaned out their charter to the Wood Brothers No. 21 entry. This ensures that all three cars will…

Some say sport builds character, while others argue that it reveals character. The truth is that sport is filled with characters, some sketchy, others reckless, and still others entirely bizarre. We watch sports for the triumphs, but also for the failures and the foibles, for the incomprehensible intersection of man’s best efforts and his most ignominious moments. Here, then, culled from a list that could have been five times as…

Sager was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014, and went through multiple courses of treatment, including chemotherapy and stem cell transplants, to try to beat back the illness. After missing nearly a year, he was cleared to return to television in March 2015, only to see the illness return, forcing him to once again step away from his duties. After several more months of treatment, including a transplant of bone marrow…

Criminal court, civil court, on-campus hearing: There are many places to try to determine if a sexual assault happened. A sports column is pretty low on that list. So let’s say, up front, that we don’t know if 10 University of Minnesota football players are guilty of an obscene crime. What we do know is this: 1. Police did not charge the players after a Sept. 2 incident.2. The…

Major League Baseball’s streaming-technology unit is looking to break into the hot arena of competitive videogaming by partnering with the creator of one of the world’s most popular computer games. The agreement, which was announced Friday, calls for MLB’s BAMTech to pay a minimum $300 million through 2023 to Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Riot Games for the exclusive rights to stream “League of Legends” competitions. BAMTech, a…

11:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS – Within days of the St. Louis Cardinals missing the playoffs for the first time since 2010, the team’s front office met and quickly zeroed in on what the club needed to get back to World Series contention. General manager John Mozeliak laid the plan out for the public at the team’s annual postseason media conference. The Cardinals needed…

Major League Baseball’s streaming-technology unit is looking to break into the hot arena of competitive videogaming by partnering with the creator of one of the world’s most popular computer games. The agreement, which was announced Friday, calls for MLB’s BAMTech to pay a minimum $300 million through 2023 to Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Riot Games for the exclusive rights to stream “League of Legends” competitions. BAMTech, a…

One Thursday during Les Miles’s tenure as Oklahoma State’s head coach, a message surfaced on an answering machine inside the Cowboys’ football facility, with a man’s voice making a solemn claim: He had watched practice of Oklahoma State’s opponent and learned its plays. The message detailed a dozen plays and formations for the Cowboys to prepare for. “It was really, really good stuff,” Miles said. “The only thing is, we…

NASCAR premier series driver Ryan Blaney and the Wood Brothers Racing team will be guaranteed a spot in all 36 races in 2017 now that the organization has obtained a Charter through a lease agreement with Go FAS Racing.   Blaney qualified for all 36 races this past season based on his qualifying times in the No. 21 Ford. Two years ago the team missed three races when inclement weather…