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UK Sport’s funding of badminton, wheelchair rugby, archery, fencing and weightlifting ends at midnight on Friday night. Four months on from hearing they were the big losers in the funding battle we speak to athletes from those sports to discover how they are coping and their fears for the future. Chris Langridge, badminton ‘We found out we were having twins – and then found out we had no funding. It…

The first five races of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season have produced five different winning drivers and five different winning teams. We’ll find out Sunday if we have a sixth new winner, as NASCAR takes to Martinsville Speedway for the STP 500 and the first short-track race of the season. Coverage begins on FS1 at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday. With 21 races left in the…

Kyle Larson’s victory Sunday in the Auto Club 400 at Fontana, Calif., only furthered what’s been a strong start to the NASCAR Cup season for the young driver from California. Larson’s triumph followed three consecutive second-place finishes and puts Chip Ganassi Racing in the enviable postion of having two drivers in the top six of NASCAR’s points standings: Larson is first and Jamie McMurray, who was also sixth Sunday, is…

Image: YouTube Lauren Hennessey, a goaltender from Massachusetts who verbally committed to the University of North Dakota women’s hockey team, took an early-morning trip to Grand Forks with her parents Wednesday to visit the campus and meet the staff and players. While Hennessey was still on campus, the university announced that women’s hockey would be among the sports cut after the 2016-17 academic year. Advertisement Understandably, Hennessey was angry: Because…

Image: YouTube Lauren Hennessey, a goaltender from Massachusetts who verbally committed to the University of North Dakota women’s hockey team, took an early-morning trip to Grand Forks with her parents Wednesday to visit the campus and meet the staff and players. While Hennessey was still on campus, the university announced that women’s hockey would be among the sports cut after the 2016-17 academic year. Advertisement Understandably, Hennessey was angry: Because…

Meghan Flannery(Photo: Courtesy of St. Louis Post Dispatch) A Whitefish Bay native and standout athlete at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School who also played soccer at the University of Wisconsin was killed early Wednesday in a car crash in Missouri. Meghan Flannery, 26, was driving north on the southbound lanes of Interstate 55 about 1 a.m. Wednesday when her vehicle crashed into two other cars, according to the St….

The first five races of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season have produced five different winning drivers and five different winning teams. We’ll find out Sunday if we have a sixth new winner, as NASCAR takes to Martinsville Speedway for the STP 500 and the first short-track race of the season. Coverage begins on FS1 at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday. With 21 races left in the…

As days go for NASCAR crew chiefs, they don’t get much stranger than Wednesday was. First off, Stewart-Haas Racing announced that it would drop its appeal of the one-race suspension handed out to Rodney Childers, crew chief of Kevin Harvick’s No. 4 Ford. That means Childers won’t be at Martinsville Speedway for the running of the STP 500 (coverage starts Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on FS1). SHR named Daniel Knost…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Martinsville Seth Barbour, crew chief for the No. 6 XFINITY team of Darrell Wallace Jr., was fined $5,000 on Wednesday for lug nuts not properly installed following Saturday’s Service King 300 at Auto Club Speedway. Wallace Jr. finished sixth in the Southern California race, his fourth consecutive sixth-place finish in the XFINITY Series this season. The XFINITY Series is off this weekend, but will…

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A beer league hockey goalie was sentenced to 30 days in jail this week following a bizarre violent incident during a game. That goalie, Todd Ball, slashed an opponent in the face with his stick in a seemingly unprovoked attack during a 3-on-3 tournament in Fort Erie, Ontario, last summer. The slash did significant damage to its recipient, 27-year-old Ryan Cox, who suffered a concussion, broken nose and fractured orbital bone as a result…

It doesn’t matter if you never planned to watch a minute of the Women’s World Hockey Championships, or if you knew they began Friday in Plymouth, Michigan, or if you cared about the fact that the Americans’ defense of their championship was in peril. What you need to know: If you have a daughter, a young daughter in particular, the women who will take the ice wearing sweaters that say…

It doesn’t matter if you never planned to watch a minute of the Women’s World Hockey Championships, or if you knew they began Friday in Plymouth, Michigan, or if you cared about the fact that the Americans’ defense of their championship was in peril. What you need to know: If you have a daughter, a young daughter in particular, the women who will take the ice wearing sweaters that say…

CYCLING SUMMIT AND CENTURY RIDE AT A GLANCE Miami Valley Cycling Summit When: May 5, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Where: Wright State University Student Union Cost: Free More: The first 300 people registered receive a free bike bell; those registering by April 21 are guaranteed a free lunch. Registration: www.CyclingSummit.com MVCS Century Ride When: May 6, 7 a.m. Where: Greene County Parks & Trails Fairgrounds Recreation Center, Xenia Cost: $25 preregistration,…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Martinsville Officials with Team Penske announced in a statement that the organization will appeal penalties handed down to the No. 2 team and driver Brad Keselowski following the March 19 race at Phoenix Raceway. According to the NASCAR penalty report issued last week, the No. 2 team failed the post-race rear wheel steer on the LIS (Laser Inspection Station) following the Camping World 500….

Mar 29, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s April 10 MLB Preview Issue. Subscribe today! In Disney-Pixar’s “Cars 3,” Lightning McQueen seeks stock car racing’s roots. But why wait for the June 16 debut to meet the rides who put McQueen back on track? Here’s a sneak peek at the new characters — and the racers who inspired them. Wendell…

Mar 29, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment It might have taken an overtime or two, but the U.S. women’s national hockey team got the victory it wanted in a landmark agreement with USA Hockey on Tuesday evening. It lifted its boycott of the upcoming world championships in Plymouth, Michigan, where attention will shift toward the lead-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics. Here are our key takeaways…

It doesn’t matter if you never planned to watch a minute of the Women’s World Hockey Championships, or if you knew they began Friday in Plymouth, Michigan, or if you cared about the fact that the Americans’ defense of their championship was in peril. What you need to know: If you have a daughter, a young daughter in particular, the women who will take the ice wearing sweaters that say…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Martinsville Officials with Team Penske announced in a statement that the organization will appeal penalties handed down to the No. 2 team and driver Brad Keselowski following the March 19 race at Phoenix Raceway. According to the NASCAR penalty report issued last week, the No. 2 team failed the post-race rear wheel steer on the LIS (Laser Inspection Station) following the Camping World 500….

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s April 10 MLB Preview Issue. Subscribe today! In Disney-Pixar’s “Cars 3,” Lightning McQueen seeks stock car racing’s roots. But why wait for the June 16 debut to meet the rides who put McQueen back on track? Here’s a sneak peek at the new characters — and the racers who inspired them. Wendell…