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The private bid committee seeking to bring the Olympics back to Southern California for a third time has released a new budget estimating it would spend $5.3 billion to stage the Games. The total exceeds the initial $4.6 billion estimate included in LA 2024’s original budget from the summer of 2015. However, that budget also had $1.7 billion in costs not tied to the local organizing committee, bringing the total…

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…

A general view of the Rocinha favela on June 9, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Richard Heathcote, Getty Images) From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company danced, and opera singers belted out the strident “Carmina Burana.” It was last month, and the show was an artistic public protest. The performers, all state employees, haven’t been paid for weeks and won’t be getting paychecks until Dec. 5….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

In the moments before the charter jet plummeted more than 9,000 feet into the Colombian mountains Monday night, the plane’s pilot signaled a fuel emergency, calling out for assistance with an emergency landing. An audio recording of the final conversation between the pilot and air traffic controller was leaked to Colombian press Wednesday, providing the clearest image yet of the crash that killed 71 people, including the members of the Chapecoense soccer team…

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…

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In the moments before the charter jet plummeted more than 9,000 feet into the Colombian mountains Monday night, the plane’s pilot signaled a fuel emergency, calling out for assistance with an emergency landing. An audio recording of the final conversation between the pilot and air traffic controller was leaked to Colombian press Wednesday, providing the clearest image yet of the crash that killed 71 people, including the members of the Chapecoense soccer team…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay The pilot of the plane carrying a doomed Brazilian soccer team reportedly told a Colombian air traffic controller he had run out of fuel moments before the jet crashed into the Andes Mountains, killing all but six of the 77 people aboard. Those frantic last words from the jet chartered by the Chapecoense team were captured on a recording of the flight’s…