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Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay The fairy tale season of the professional Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense ended in tragedy when their plane crashed in Colombia, killing all but six of the 81 people aboard. As Colombian investigators tried Tuesday to pin down the cause and retrieve the bodies, Brazilian President Michel Temer declared three days of national mourning and his countrymen braced for a series of wrenching…

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. Six people initially survived, but one of them later died in a hospital. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay Five people survived and 76 others were killed when a plane carrying a Brazilian professional soccer team crashed in Colombia, authorities said. Gen. Jose Acevedo, the head of police in the mountainous area of jungle where the jet came down, confirmed the deaths early Tuesday. “Six people were rescued alive, but unfortunately one died,” he added. Poor weather conditions were reported at…

“Maybe if it went to China and you found some billionaires out there who would put the sport on and have million pound prize money you could start looking at snooker as a core sport again,” said O’Sullivan, widely known as ‘Rocket Ronnie’. “But you’re competing with Formula One, tennis, golf and the Olympics. “They give it (snooker) like 10 seconds on BBC Sports Personality – it’s a complete insult to…

Want your kid to become a professional soccer player? Unless your kid is showing signs of being the next Cristiano Ronaldo or Wayne Rooney, you may want to think again. Cristiano Ronaldo (middle) celebrates after Portugal beat France in the finals of the European Championships in July. Ronaldo may be the world’s top-paid athlete with $88 million in earnings but two-thirds of all soccer players make less than $12,000 a…

Soccer’s apex body in the U.K., the Football Association, says it is launching an investigation into multiple allegations of sex abuse, and has appointed a lawyer with experience in such cases to oversee the claims. According to the BBC, four police forces are also investigating the allegations made by more than 20 former players, who say they were abused many years ago when they were coming up through the ranks…

Tribal land to be new home of Phoenix Rising pro soccer team near McKellips Rd. and Loop 202 in Scottsdale.

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Want your kid to become a professional soccer player? Unless your kid is showing signs of being the next Cristiano Ronaldo or Wayne Rooney, you may want to think again. Cristiano Ronaldo (middle) celebrates after Portugal beat France in the finals of the European Championships in July. Ronaldo may be the world’s top-paid athlete with $88 million in earnings but two-thirds of all soccer players make less than $12,000 a…

In NASCAR as in life, breakups are often messy and sometimes very public. And just after the 2016 NASCAR season ended, there’s already legal action taking place. According to an ESPN.com report, veteran driver Clint Bowyer is suing his former team HScott Motorsports for more than $2.2 million that Bowyer said he is owed for driving for the team in his one-year-only deal in 2016. Through a PR flak, the…

Arizona’s professional soccer club made some big announcements on Monday. The former Arizona United will now be known as Phoenix Rising FC and has partnered with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to build a soccer-specific stadium. Tom Veit, executive vice president of the United Soccer League, said a stadium is part of the magic formula for a successful club. “You’ve got to have a venue that is yours, that…

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Fidel Castro was a tyrant whose oppressive regime killed thousands of Cubans and forced millions more to leave the small island nation during a refugee crisis that’s lasted more than a half-century. But in ESPN’s tone-deaf remembrance piece, Castro’s atrocities are glossed over. Instead, the WorldWide Leader focuses its efforts on glorifying the dictator’s love of sport. The article, which was published shortly after Castro’s death Friday, paints him as a defiant strongman who agitated the…

Fidel Castro was a tyrant whose oppressive regime killed thousands of Cubans and forced millions more to leave the small island nation during a refugee crisis that’s lasted more than a half-century. But in ESPN’s tone-deaf remembrance piece, Castro’s atrocities are glossed over. Instead, the WorldWide Leader focuses its efforts on glorifying the dictator’s love of sport. The article, which was published shortly after Castro’s death Friday, paints him as a defiant strongman who agitated the…

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Usain Bolt has admitted he struggled to motivate himself to train before the Olympic Games in Rio but says the pressure is off as he approaches his final season on the track. The Jamaican, who won individual gold medals in the 100m and 200m in Rio before rounding it off by anchoring his country to the 4x100m title, says he is more relaxed as he prepares to retire after the…

Tucson’s Craig Cunningham, right, is in critical but stable condition after collapsing before a game Saturday. “The care he’s receiving now is unbelievable,” Coyotes GM John Chayka said.

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