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Sofia Alcaraz has waged a lonely, years-long campaign to get the Tijuana Xolos to notice her son Ricardo Villalba, a talented 17-year-old goalkeeper who plays high school soccer just six miles from the border. “They said, ‘You’re very good. We’ll call you.’ But they never do,” Alcaraz said of her dealings with the Mexican league team. So she couldn’t hide a feeling of vindication when Xolos scout Jaime Vargas approached…

RELATED: Full results for final practice   Kyle Larson made it a perfect sweep of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practices, as his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Chevrolet flew to the top of the leaderboard at 132.577 mph in Saturday’s final practice session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Larson paced the field in Friday’s lone session and tied Martin Truex Jr. for the fastest speed/time in Saturday’s…

Team Russia forward Alex Ovechkin (8) and defenseman Andrei Markov (79) embrace goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (72) after a 3-0 win over Team Finland in preliminary round play in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre.(Photo: Dan Hamilton, USA TODAY Sports) TORONTO – Most Canadian senior citizens can probably tell you where they were when man first walked on the moon in 1969 and when Paul Henderson scored the…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment LOUDON, N.H. — Carlos Contreras has spent the 2016 Camping World Truck Series season working hard to get to every race, and working with several drivers to get there. The match between driver and the Contreras Motorsports team for the race Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one made in multicultural heaven. Israeli driver Alon Day is competing for the Mexican-owned team of…

LOUDON, N.H. — NASCAR returns to the business of postseason Chases in all three of its top series this weekend. Two of those tours have landed in New England, greeted by crisp weather and the changing of the seasons.   But thoughts continue to focus on the news of this week’s social unrest nearly 900 miles away in Charlotte, North Carolina — stock-car racing’s hub and one of the sanctioning…

Photo credit @grommet on Twitter! An Interstate Batteries van gussied up in a NASCAR-themed livery based on the company’s sponsorship of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team collided with one of them fancy-pants Google self-driving Lexus cars in Mountain View, California according to 9to5Google.com. Advertisement According to the report, there were no injuries from the crash. It wasn’t immediately clear which vehicle was at fault nor whether or not…

Matthew DeBord/BI I’m not going to get into the long and illustrious history of the Chevrolet Corvette, in continuous production since the 1950s and now into its seventh generation. You can look it up. Suffice it to say that we really, really like Vettes. The C7 Stingray was our 2014 Business Insider Car of the Year. It set a whole new standard for this most American of vehicles (still bolted together…

x Embed x Share Foothills Academy players voted they would only play their soccer game against Faith Christian with their two female teammates. (Obert/azcentral sports) Sisters Alyssa and Colette Hocking sit and watch so that their teammates could take the field and play Our Lady of Sorrows in a CAA boys soccer game. Our Lady of Sorrows had refused to take the field if the girls played.(Photo: Courtesy of Noelle…

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

Race fans, vote now on the hottest issue in NASCAR after the decision was made earlier in the week to change the way the sanctioning body will assess penalties for the remainder of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. We pose the question in the wake of NASCAR’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked laser inspection following the first Chase race at…

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…