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ST. LOUIS • City lawmakers offered lukewarm support Friday for the proposed $200 million Major League Soccer stadium, with many saying they could support the plan only if it goes before voters first. Much of the lack of enthusiasm results from the scarce details available on how the stadium would be financed. The plan put forward Thursday by ownership group SC STL calls for private investors…

QUITO, Ecuador –  The former president of the Ecuadorean Soccer Federation was convicted of money laundering Friday and given a 10-year sentence in a case tied to the corruption scandal at FIFA, the sport’s international governing body. Luis Chiriboga was convicted along with two co-defendants on allegations involving nearly $6.12 million allegedly received in 2010-2015. Hugo Mora was also sentenced to 10 years and Pedro Vera was given 40…

My teammate and I were standing outside RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. It was April 2003, our first home game of the season against the Chicago Fire. It was my first official appearance as a professional soccer player. It was a dream come true. “Let’s take a picture,” he said. “I feel like this is a day we definitely want to remember.” He handed someone his digital camera, we posed…

MIAMI — Homestead-Miami Speedway today announced a grandstand sellout for the Ford EcoBoost 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship race on Sunday. The event, which starts at 2:30 p.m. ET and airs on NBC and MRN Radio/SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, has sold out each of the last three years. “Ford Championship Weekend continues to grow in stature each year, and having sold out the Ford EcoBoost 400 three years in-a-row is a…

MORE: Buy tickets for Homestead-Miami Championship Weekend Jimmie Johnson. A worldwide household name, Johnson has reached remarkable feats in the racing world. This weekend could represent a pinnacle in his racing career, as he runs for his seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the opportunity to tie the great Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time Sprint Cup Series championships within reach. But “Six-Time” wasn’t always that way: Former…

None of the NASCAR Chase contenders threw a chair at one another Thursday afternoon. You rock, sportsmanship and civility! A reporter at NASCAR’s Championship 4 news conference referenced the recent UFC 205 media spectacle, when Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor got into a chair-tossing spit-spat, and asked how these four friendly combatants would be able to start the fire Sunday when racing for the Cup title. “Right now we’re outside…

Many within the anti-doping community have called for Wada to be strengthened Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has appealed for a “unified approach” to tackle doping on the eve of a crucial meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency in Glasgow. Wada will discuss how to restore faith in the anti-doping system in the wake of the Russian doping scandal after months of disagreement with the Olympic movement about what reforms are…

My teammate and I were standing outside RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. It was April 2003, our first home game of the season against the Chicago Fire. It was my first official appearance as a professional soccer player. It was a dream come true. “Let’s take a picture,” he said. “I feel like this is a day we definitely want to remember.” He handed someone his digital camera, we posed…

RELATED: See Stewart’s special paint scheme Tony Stewart met with the media for perhaps his final press conference Friday in Miami, touching on such topics as his legacy and his future. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver and co-owner will retire from full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing following Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 (2:30 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). “Normally legacy means you’re old and you’ve been around a long…

None of the NASCAR Chase contenders threw a chair at one another Thursday afternoon. You rock, sportsmanship and civility! A reporter at NASCAR’s Championship 4 news conference referenced the recent UFC 205 media spectacle, when Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor got into a chair-tossing spit-spat, and asked how these four friendly combatants would be able to start the fire Sunday when racing for the Cup title. “Right now we’re outside…

MORE: Buy tickets for Homestead-Miami Championship Weekend Jimmie Johnson. A worldwide household name, Johnson has reached remarkable feats in the racing world. This weekend could represent a pinnacle in his racing career, as he runs for his seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the opportunity to tie the great Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time Sprint Cup Series championships within reach. But “Six-Time” wasn’t always that way: Former…

None of the NASCAR Chase contenders threw a chair at one another Thursday afternoon. You rock, sportsmanship and civility! A reporter at NASCAR’s Championship 4 news conference referenced the recent UFC 205 media spectacle, when Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor got into a chair-tossing spit-spat, and asked how these four friendly combatants would be able to start the fire Sunday when racing for the Cup title. “Right now we’re outside…

None of the NASCAR Chase contenders threw a chair at one another Thursday afternoon. You rock, sportsmanship and civility! A reporter at NASCAR’s Championship 4 news conference referenced the recent UFC 205 media spectacle, when Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor got into a chair-tossing spit-spat, and asked how these four friendly combatants would be able to start the fire Sunday when racing for the Cup title. “Right now we’re outside…

China has a big appetite for all things soccer. It even wants to become a “soccer superpower” by 2050. The country is still nowhere near the top of FIFA’s global rankings, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese investors from going on a major shopping spree for anything soccer-related in the past few years. Their latest target? Broadcasting rights of the world’s richest league, reportedly. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reports that the…

MORE: Buy tickets for Homestead-Miami Championship Weekend   NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owner Tommy Baldwin said Thursday that this weekend’s event at Homestead-Miami Speedway will be the last as a full-time organization for his single-car outfit.   The former crew chief said in a post on Facebook that “we felt it’s time for a new chapter in our lives and we have sold our charter to a great group…

The Purple Mermaids, an under-eight girls’ team, takes part in a New York City soccer league that has “everyone plays” as its motto. The league is not competitive, statistics are not recorded, and no results are logged. The keyword is participation and fun. The team will end its fall season this weekend with a trophy presentation. Each player will receive a plastic trophy after the final game, an award for…

RELATED: What if Edwards had won 2011 title?   While Tony Stewart hasn’t wanted the whole “retirement tour” and the gifts that come along with it like what we saw with Jeff Gordon in 2015, the three-time Sprint Cup Series champion recently received a gift that he couldn’t refuse — and from an unlikely source.   Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Carl Edwards revealed Thursday during the Championship…

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment LONDON — Novak Djokovic is a fan of the round-robin format in tennis, and he would even like to see it used at the Olympics and the Davis Cup. Djokovic wins, but with another heated exchange Novak Djokovic certainly seems wound up at the moment and he gave another clear indication of his mindset with an outburst at the chair umpire Thursday in London….

Arsenal’s Champions League semi-final first leg against Villarreal at Highbury was interrupted after an opportunistic squirrel scrambled onto the pitch in the 10th minute of the game. With the game locked at 0-0, Arsenal fans relieved the tension with cries of “There’s only one squirrel, only one squirrel!’ The rodent proved to be a lucky omen as Arsenal secured a crucial one goal first leg lead.