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Tonsser, the Copenhagen-based startup that offers a vertical social network aimed at youth soccer players who want to build their own online profile and potentially get discovered by a bigger club, continues to grow at a clip, both in terms of signups but also the influence it wants to have on the beautiful game. The company has signed on Nike as its first brand channel partner, and now has 380,000…

ROCK HILL, S.C.—With soccer’s popularity soaring in the United States, the kids who kick are becoming overshadowed by the parents who throw temper tantrums. A simple search of “soccer parents” on YouTube quickly turns into “soccer parents out of control.” The competitive juices have extended outside of the pitch and the outbursts are taking a toll on referees in the Palmetto State. “We’re only retaining about 30 percent of our…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

Greg Biffle at Martinsville Speedway in October 2016. Photo credit: Daniel Shirey/Getty Images Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law filed a lawsuit against him that alleges hidden cameras and peeping inside of his home, according to WSOC-TV. The local station reports that the lawsuit alleges there were secret cameras in the master bedroom, bathroom and guest bedroom. Jalopnik couldn’t immediately obtain a copy of the complaint reported by…

When I began writing The Last Wave, I didn’t set out to create a character who would swim the Channel. In fact, it just seemed natural to me that the wife of the man I saw so clearly at first – standing on a cliff, looking out to sea through the fog – was a swimmer. Once I settled on that idea, the years I’d spent in the water flooded…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

VITTEL, France World champion Peter Sagan was kicked out of the Tour de France on Tuesday after sending Mark Cavendish crashing in a hectic finale to the fourth stage, sending shockwaves through the three-week cycling extravaganza. French champion Arnaud Demare won the stage, a 207.5-km ride from Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg, but all the drama was just behind him. Slovakian Sagan elbowed Cavendish off balance as the Briton was trying to force…

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu said on Tuesday she had founded a professional swimmers association with 30 initial members, a move to give athletes more say in how the sport is run and a greater share of profits. Hosszu last month called on fellow swimmers to band together ahead of the 2017 World Championships in Hungary. She raised the possibility of boycotting global competitions. The…

With so many of NASCAR’s biggest names recently retired (Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards) or set to (Dale Earnhardt Jr.), there is a legitimate concern of who will replace them. Think about the last 20 years of competition in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the vast majority of triumphs, failures, tragedies and special moments have involved at least one – and sometimes all –…

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu said on Tuesday she had founded a professional swimmers association with 30 initial members, a move to give athletes more say in how the sport is run and a greater share of profits. Hosszu last month called on fellow swimmers to band together ahead of the 2017 World Championships in Hungary. She raised the possibility of boycotting global competitions. The…

Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press Rec-league hockey players in Buffalo set a record Monday for the longest hockey game ever recorded, coming in at nearly 11 full days in length. According to an Associated Press report (h/t ESPN.com), the players set a record of 10 days, 10 hours, three minutes and 21 seconds just after 7 a.m. ET Monday. The game was scheduled to continue until 8 a.m. Monday after beginning at 9…

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The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs are getting closer with 17 of the 26 regular-season races in the books. When the circuit heads to Chicagoland Speedway in September, 16 drivers will be competing for a championship. Here is a look at where things stand heading into this weekend’s race at Kentucky Speedway. Locked in Kyle Larson: The No. 42 driver clinched a spot in the playoffs in March when…

Caster Semenya, the Olympic 800m champion, may be banned from competing at future Games unless she undergoes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or even surgery in the wake of a landmark study into athletes with raised testosterone levels which has just been published. The International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body, commissioned research which has produced the most conclusive evidence yet that female athletes with very high levels of…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo’s hockey marathoners have overcome injuries, illness, fatigue and countless blisters to unofficially set the record for the longest continuous game. It happened shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, when the official time clock mounted in the stands overlooking center ice hit 10 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes and 21 seconds. The time surpassed the previous Guinness World Record mark…

The academies are part of an effort by Club Tijuana — the Xoloitzcuintles, or more simply the Xolos — to appeal to fans on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Xolos was the first team in Mexico’s top division, Liga MX, to go bilingual in its public relations, and it has courted an American audience and American players since the team’s inception in 2007. Advertisement Continue reading the main…

Great Britain’s Christopher Froome waits for the start of the 203,5 km second stage of the 104th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 2, 2017 between Dusseldorf, Germany and Liege, Belgium. AFP LIEGE, Belgium—Chris Froome and his Sky team were under attack again on the opening weekend of the Tour de France, but not on the road. Having previously been accused of doping and using a…