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I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe Easter. I know the teams, especially the road crews, were really looking forward to the Easter break. Remember too, they don’t get another off-weekend in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series until Father’s Day weekend in June. I was looking at all the notes I had taken over the last three races and found some interesting things I learned on the West Coast…

Jurgen Klinsmann and the U.S. national team face a critical match against Guatemala at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. (Saul Martinez/Reuters) It’s a massive day for U.S. soccer as the national team and under-23s play critical matches in Hunt-built MLS stadiums 1,000 miles apart. In Columbus, Jurgen Klinsmann’s senior squad looks to rebound from a shock defeat at Guatemala with a rematch against Los Chapines at Mapfre Stadium. In Frisco,…

On Tuesday, a group of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley officially announced that they will be starting a professional soccer team in San Francisco. The San Francisco Deltas, as the team will be known, have also declared it their intention to compete in the North American Soccer League, America’s second tier, and will take to the field in 2017. Though this was the first official announcement the club have made to…

England, buzzing after their recent spirited comeback against Germany, face off against the Netherlands on Mar. 29 at Wembley Stadium in London, England at 3 p.m. EST. It should be a game full of goals you won’t want to miss, so click for the live stream and watch all the action! After their epic 3-2 win over the old enemy Germany, England returns to back to their Wembley HQ on…

On Tuesday, a group of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley officially announced that they will be starting a professional soccer team in San Francisco. The San Francisco Deltas, as the team will be known, have also declared it their intention to compete in the North American Soccer League, America’s second tier, and will take to the field in 2017. Though this was the first official announcement the club have made to…

12:13 PM ET print The Sprint Cup Series heads to Martinsville Speedway this week, and while the participants of the most notable wreck from November have tried to move on, no one will forget that race anytime soon. Many would view the Nov. 1 race as the ultimate in NASCAR retaliation and vigilante stock-car justice, an act that resulted in NASCAR’s harshest penalty ever to a Sprint Cup driver for…

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Reuters U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann during a World Cup qualifier last week in Guatemala. It’s a scenario parts unthinkable and inevitable: The U.S. mens’ national soccer team is on the brink of missing the World Cup for the first time since 1990. The U.S., which hosts Guatemala tonight at MapFre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio,…

Get all of Lee Jenkins’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. At the 2012 Olympics in London, Chris Paul went to see the volleyball, the swimming, the track. He brought Russell Westbrook with him to root on Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings. He sat in the cheering section for…

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ENLARGE There is going to come a time when the U.S. men’s national soccer team gets bounced unceremoniously from a qualifying tournament for the World Cup. Even great soccer nations experience these calamities. England wasn’t part of the 1994 World Cup or the 2008 European Championship. The Netherlands, which came within a penalty shootout of a second consecutive World Cup final in 2014, failed to qualify for this summer’s Euro….

ENLARGE There is going to come a time when the U.S. men’s national soccer team gets bounced unceremoniously from a qualifying tournament for the World Cup. Even great soccer nations experience these calamities. England wasn’t part of the 1994 World Cup or the 2008 European Championship. The Netherlands, which came within a penalty shootout of a second consecutive World Cup final in 2014, failed to qualify for this summer’s Euro….

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The Fly By David Hammer / Eyewitness News The controversial plan to build an artificial turf soccer complex at the city-owned ‘Fly’ in Audubon Park is dead for now, according to the man who conceived the project. John Payne, an executive at Harrah’s Casino who devised the project as a volunteer for the Carrollton Booster Club, designed the complex and raised money for it, said it is dead and he…

Photo credit: Eddie Wood/Wood Brothers. Glen Wood stands next to his first NASCAR Grand National car, a 1953 Lincoln, at Martinsville Speedway on May 17, 1953 – his first NASCAR start. It’s a home game for the Wood Brothers.   But the April 3 STP 500 (1 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) is a home game the Wood Brothers haven’t experienced as a full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team with a…

The president of the Professional Cyclists Association, Gianni Bugno, has demanded that lessons are learned following the death of the Belgian cyclist Antoine Demoitié, who was hit by a motorbike after a fall during the Gent-Wevelgem cycling classic on Sunday. The 25-year-old rider was taken to the University Hospital of Lille after the accident during a section of the race in Northern France but his team, Wanty-Gobert, confirmed Demoitié’s death…

ENLARGE There is going to come a time when the U.S. men’s national soccer team gets bounced unceremoniously from a qualifying tournament for the World Cup. Even great soccer nations experience these calamities. England wasn’t part of the 1994 World Cup or the 2008 European Championship. The Netherlands, which came within a penalty shootout of a second consecutive World Cup final in 2014, failed to qualify for this summer’s Euro….

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Proponents of a soccer complex on The Fly are scrapping the project, which was to be built with $4 million in donations from the likes of Saints owner Tom Benson and quarterback Drew Brees. John Payne, who began his drive for improved soccer facilities in Audubon Park two years ago, said in a statement that the project had become “hugely divisive,” so much so that he has told others involved in the project…

Get all of Joan Niesen’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. ST. LOUIS – Sa’ad Hussein is huddled under a heated bus stop in a country where nothing makes sense. His two suitcases, which stand nearly waist-high, are tagged from Nairobi to Zurich to Atlanta to Chicago to here, St….