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In his prime, George Parros was the most feared man in the NHL. Nobody wanted to fight him, not even those whose one job in hockey was to skate around in search of a willing combatant to drop the gloves with. At 6-foot-5 – an oak tree on skates – Parros also happened to be the smartest man in the sport. Here was a fearless and brutal fighter with an…

From a slicked-back style to classic flow, here’s a look at the best hockey hair in the NCAA.

1:16 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Carl Edwards will leave Joe Gibbs Racing effective immediately without regrets and while he’s still healthy, he announced Wednesday. Edwards said he has no plans to race again, but he added that he wouldn’t use the word “retirement.” He said the timing was right to leave now — that he is satisfied with his career and…

In what may have been a NASCAR first, Hendrick Motorsports recently made a hullabaloo on social media regarding the firesuits its four drivers will wear next season. Paint schemes, sure, that’s a common thing where the look of the cars are ever-changing and fans want to see how their favorite drivers’ car will appear. But firesuits? This year firesuits offered a snapshot into the uncertainty that permeates over the sport….

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The Wooden Sky’s new album, Swimming In Strange Waters, comes out April 7. Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artist The Wooden Sky’s new album, Swimming In Strange Waters, comes out April 7. Courtesy of the artist Sometimes, in the process of recording music, a band’s sweat, calluses and grit go in one end and 0s and 1s come out the other with a sort…

The Olympic golf course. Photo credit: Silvia Izquierdo/AP Even before the 2016 Olympics kicked off in August, the state of Rio de Janeiro had declared a “state of public calamity in financial administration.” Five months later, things aren’t any better. Advertisement The famed Maracanã stadium, which was given a $600 million retrofit to host the finals of the 2014 World Cup and the soccer gold medal matches at the Olympics,…

NASCAR driver Carl Edwards is retiring from the sport less than two months after nearly winning his first Cup championship, two people with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Joe Gibbs Racing scheduled a pair of news conferences Wednesday in which Edwards is expected to announce that he is giving up the sport immediately and that reigning Xfinity Series champion Daniel Suarez will replace Edwards in…

The UK has become the first country in the world to officially recognise parkour as a sport. Parkour, also known as freerunning or art du deplacement, involves negotiating terrain using only the natural strength of one’s body, principally through running, jumping and climbing surrounding features. Recognition from all five UK sports councils, including Sport England, means organisations such as Parkour UK, which led the initial application for its recognition in…

Muslim parents in Switzerland cannot refuse to send their children to mixed swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday. Europe’s highest ruled that refusing to exempt two Muslim pupils from compulsory mixed swimming lessons gave precedence to the children’s “full school curriculum” and had “not infringed the right to freedom of religion.” Two Swiss-Turkish nationals, who refused to send their teenage daughters (born in 1999 and…

ST. LOUIS • The sponsor of a city proposal to put $80 million into a new Major League Soccer stadium said Tuesday that the bill is effectively dead. “That bill will not be moving forward,” Alderman Christine Ingrassia, 6th Ward, said at Tuesday’s meeting of the aldermanic Ways and Means Committee. Whether that kills the city’s dreams of an MLS franchise is yet to be determined,…

11:37 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Carl Edwards is expected to announce Wednesday that he will retire immediately from NASCAR racing, according to sources familiar with his plans. Edwards, 37, spent 13 years in the Cup Series and won 28 times in 445 starts. No immediate reason was available for why Edwards would retire. Daniel Suarez will be named the replacement for Edwards at Joe…

Toyota Racing made offseason waves Monday, unveiling the new Camry for this season’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series alongside its road-going counterpart at the North American International Auto Show.   Team Chevy will have its own ripple effect in place for the following 2018 season.   Chevrolet racing officials confirmed Monday that the automaker will cease production of the Chevrolet SS at the end of the 2017 model run. The…

Muslims girls in Switzerland must not be exempt from mixed swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has said, in a potentially groundbreaking ruling.  The court in Strasbourg threw out an appeal that had been brought by a Muslim couple who said they should be allowed to let their daughters sit out swimming lessons with boys.  It was not a violation of the pupils’ human rights to make them…

Toyota Racing made offseason waves Monday, unveiling the new Camry for this season’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series alongside its road-going counterpart at the North American International Auto Show.   Team Chevy will have its own ripple effect in place for the following 2018 season.   Chevrolet racing officials confirmed Monday that the automaker will cease production of the Chevrolet SS at the end of the 2017 model run. The…

If Los Angeles wins its bid for the 2024 Olympic Games, the event would generate as much as $11.2 billion in economic output in the city, according to a study commissioned by Los Angeles 2024, the local organizing committee. Los Angeles’ third Olympic Games would also create the equivalent of as many as 79,307 jobs and between $152 million and $167 million in additional tax…

Toyota teams have won one championship, 30 races and made 10 total Chase appearances with six total drivers since 2015, the last time the automaker made any significant changes to its on-track product. This past season, its teams won 16 races, the most since the company began competing at NASCAR’s top level in 2007. It also won its first premier series manufacturer championship as well.  SEASON REVIEWS: Busch | Edwards…

The Triangle is about to get a second professional soccer team. Gov. Roy Cooper joined Steve Malik, owner of North Carolina F.C., to announce the purchase of the Western New York Flash, champions of the National Women’s Soccer League. The team will be renamed the North Carolina Courage and will begin play at Cary’s WakeMed Soccer Park in April. “We, in North Carolina, are an epicenter for sports,” Cooper said…