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Retired U.S. soccer champ Abby Wambach was arrested late Saturday night for driving under the influence in Portland, Oregon, authorities said. Wambach, 35, was charged with a misdemeanor and released on her own recognizance, jail records show. In a statement, Portland Police said that Wambach was pulled over shortly after 11 p.m. when a police officer saw her drive through a red light. After failing a sobriety test, she was…

Red Berenson(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News) Long-time Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson announced Sunday at the team banquet he will return for his 33rd season as the Wolverines’ head coach. “I’m here today to say I had a meeting with Warde Manuel and this will not be my last hockey banquet,” Berenson, 76, told the crowd. New Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel told reporters Friday he had met with Berenson…

7:12 PM ET print MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Joe Gibbs remembers flying to Wisconsin to a small track to watch Kyle Busch race a late model car. Busch was all excited about how the small track would have a packed crowd, even if its capacity was probably seven times smaller than the Martinsville Speedway where Busch raced at Sunday. The NFL Hall of Fame football coach knew at that time what…

Defending STP 500 champion Denny Hamlin went to the garage and saw his day end early after his No. 11 Toyota sustained significant damage when he lost control in Turn 1 and slammed into the outside wall.   Hamlin was running in fifth place at the time of the wreck, on Lap 220 of 500.   JGR’s official Twitter account would confirm that the No. 11 team is done for the day….

Pop-ups go up. Pop-ups go down. Pop-ups go up. Pop-ups go down. Tee hee hee hee hee. Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s spin caused the first caution of today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway, but it’s one of the shortest tracks on the schedule, so he still has a good chance to claw back onto the lead lap. Either way, you have to admit that the aerodynamic devices that help…

Soccer star Abby Wambach was arrested early Sunday on a DUI charge in Portland, Oregon. Portland police said Wambach, 35, was pulled over at 11:05 p.m. local time Saturday night after failing to stop for a red light. She was arrested after failing a field sobriety test and was taken to Portland’s Central Precinct, where she also failed a breath test. Wambach Wambach was booked at 2:02 a.m. local time…

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series STP 500 takes place Sunday in Martinsville, Va. Kevin Harvick enters Sunday leading the Spring Cup with 195 points through five starts, and he hasn’t missed a top-10 finish yet. Jimmie Johnson has two wins already in the No. 48 car, and he’ll be looking for his fourth STP 500 win. Johnson previously won in 2007, 2009 and 2013, so he’s got an impressive…

Three Premier League clubs have denied “false” doping allegations made by the Sunday Times. The paper claims London-based private doctor Mark Bonar prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to over 150 British athletes including footballers. Arsenal said they were “extremely disappointed” by the publication of the claims, “which are without foundation”. Chelsea said the claims are “false and entirely without foundation” while leaders Leicester also denied them. Read more: Footballers ‘doped by…

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RELATED: Full lineup for Saturday’s race MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Successful late model drivers Claire and Paige Decker, along with cousin Natalie Decker, all hoped to take the green flag in Saturday’s Alpha Energy Solutions 250 (2:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway. Claire, 21, and Paige, 23, are sisters from Eagle River, Wisconsin, and both made the field, qualifying 31st (92.038 mph) and 30th (92.389 mph)…

12:42 PM ET print Martinsville. There isn’t a track on the circuit I enjoyed more. There isn’t a track on the schedule that better represents our heritage as a sport. The half-mile paperclip-shaped short track, almost exclusively, symbolizes how we all became race car drivers, and it symbolizes how NASCAR was formed, created, sprouted into formation. It is, in my view, the purest form of auto racing. Pure because the…

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In fact, this marks Quinnipiac’s second Frozen Four appearance, having lost the 2013 title game to its archrival Yale, situated in New Haven, Connecticut, just 10 miles south of QU’s sprawling Hamden campus. “Three years ago you were the Cinderella team at the Frozen Four,” Lahey reminded the team. “Now you’ve got a big target on your backs, because you’re recognized as one of elite programs in the country.” That’s…

print LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao said he is thinking about fighting for his country in the Olympics this summer, if the boxing competition is open to professional fighters. Pacquiao’s promoter, however, thinks having any pro — much less the eight-time world champion — fight in Rio is a terrible idea. “The idea [that] you’ll allow professionals into the Olympics at this short notice is absolutely insane,” promoter Bob Arum…

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RELATED: Larson sidelined after hard hit at Auto Club MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson says he feels no ill effects from a heavy crash two weeks ago at Auto Club Speedway, despite soreness in his upper body and legs that lingered for a handful of days after the impact. Larson declared himself fit Friday in advance of Sunday’s STP 500 (1 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM) at Martinsville Speedway, where he’s running double duty this weekend in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Camping World Truck Series. “Yeah, I feel…

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — With a simple, conversational tweet this week, Dale Earnhardt Jr. let his 1.39 million followers — and many others through the message’s social spread — know that he would donate his brain for scientific research upon his passing.   Earnhardt Jr. didn’t expect the informal mention over social media during Easter weekend to become national news, part of a growing focus on professional sports and brain injuries. But Friday…

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