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Around 350 victims have reported child sexual abuse within United Kingdom soccer clubs, following a former player’s allegation that he was sexually assaulted as a young boy by a coach in the 1980s. Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing scandal: How did it start?On Nov. 17, The Guardian published a front page story in which Andy Woodward, a former lower league soccer player, broke his silence to…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay Demerson Costa’s face fell Thursday as he stood at the entrance of the soccer field where a week ago his team celebrated their advancement to the Copa Sudamericana final. The father of three did not travel on the doomed flight that crashed in Colombia on Monday, killing 71 people including 19 team members of his team from Chapecó, Brazil. “Everything in our…

John Gaustad, who died in June, argued that “the best sports books are about life itself, as much as sport”. The range, depth and ambition of the books published in 2016 prove his point. The judges for Gaustad’s creation, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, did him proud with a winner so leftfield – William Finnegan’s exquisitely observed surfing memoir Barbarian Days (Corsair) – that even its author…

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

RELATED: NASCAR, Monster Energy announce entitlement deal LAS VEGAS — Mark Hall called it “a rare opportunity that doesn’t come along every day.” “If you would have asked me five years ago if I’ve ever contemplated something like this, the answer would be never in a million years,” said Hall, Chief Marketing Officer for Monster Energy. Time flies. Contemplation became reality Thursday as NASCAR and officials with the energy drink…

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5:45 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment The owners and players have a tentative five-year labor deal that will go through the 2021 season, and Cubs starter Jon Lester is happy with the agreement even if his primary request wasn’t granted: While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I’m proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new…

Hooray, there’s a new CBA today! The owners and the players reached an agreement several hours before midnight on Wednesday, meaning there won’t be a lockout and baseball will continue. Both parties got things that they wanted, though not everyone was totally satisfied. While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I’m proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new…

x Embed x Share MLB’s All-Star Game will no longer decide World Series home-field advantage, which will now go by which team has a better record. USA TODAY Sports Shohei Otani is Japan’s version of Babe Ruth.(Photo: Koji Sasahara, AP) There is a new collective bargaining agreement, with plenty of new wrinkles, but unless you count the personal chefs now required in each clubhouse, there will be no dramatic changes…

3:29 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment BUFFALO, N.Y. — The NHL Players’ Association is expected to reject the NHL’s verbal proposal to extend the current collective bargaining agreement in exchange for Olympic participation in 2018. The players’ association is expected to notify the league of its decision before next week’s board of governors meeting in Florida. An NHLPA spokesperson said Thursday that the group has not officially…

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Four-time NASCAR premier series champion Jeff Gordon will make his return to the Rolex 24 At Daytona for the first time in 10 years as Wayne Taylor Racing on Thursday confirmed Gordon alongside full-season co-drivers Jordan and Ricky Taylor and endurance driver Max Angelelli as the driver lineup in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 55th Rolex 24 At Daytona. The race opens the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar…

MEDELLIN, Colombia— The championship match that was canceled by a plane crash got replaced on Wednesday evening by one of the most poignant events in soccer history, thanks to the kindness of a city that has suffered its neighbor’s pain as if it were its own. In an emotional display of sportsmanship, tens of thousands of fans of Medellin’s Atletico Nacional soccer team packed the stadium where the match would…

Hooray, there’s a new CBA today! The owners and the players reached an agreement several hours before midnight on Wednesday, meaning there won’t be a lockout and baseball will continue. Both parties got things that they wanted, though not everyone was totally satisfied. While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I’m proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new…

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring a goal for Real Madrid. (Photo: Denis Doyle/Getty Images) Critics howled when Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram and its 13 employees in 2012, but the photo-sharing site has been on fire since it was launched in October 2010. This year was no different with the brand expected to generate more than $3 billion in ad revenue for Facebook, according to analysts at Credit Swiss…

You can make a case for sports itself as the 2016 Sportsperson of the Year. How many tweets, Instagram posts, memes, GIFs, Vines (RIP!) throughout the year began and ended with that single word? Jenkins for the win! Sports. Leicester City has pulled off the impossible. Sports. Cleveland’s long championship nightmare is over! Sports. The Cubs’ long championship nightmare is over! …

The league that wins the All-Star Game will no longer have home field advantage in the World Series, which will now go to the pennant-winning team with the better regular-season record, according to a report from the Associated Press. The new rule was part of a new five-year collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the players’ union that will run through the 2021 season. The home field advantage…

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LONDON What began as a harrowing account of child abuse suffered by a former professional English soccer player last month has lifted the lid on what could be one of the worst pedophile scandals Britain has ever known. Andy Woodward, 43, who played in the lower divisions of English soccer, told the Guardian newspaper in an interview two weeks ago how his life had been ruined because he had been…

MEDELLIN, Colombia The plane that crashed in Colombia killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team had no fuel on impact, according to initial findings by aviation officials, prompting an investigation into why the plane flew under those conditions. The comments by the civil aviation authority late Wednesday night confirmed Bolivian pilot Miguel Quiroga’s final words to the control tower at Medellin’s airport on a crackly audio obtained…