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HAMILTON – The East Windsor teen struck and killed by an NJ Transit train Sunday was a star soccer player for Notre Dame High School who recently signed a letter of intent to play in college. Jacob J. St. Phard, 18, was struck on the tracks just west of the Hamilton train station around 8:20 p.m. by a train heading for maintenance in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith…

Target Field will host its first soccer match when Minnesota United FC welcomes Club León, a powerhouse team in Mexico, for a friendly encounter on June 25. The pitch will be situated with the end lines stretching from the first-base line to the left-field wall, the Minnesota Twins explained in its announcement Monday. The field dimensions will be 109 yards long by 74 yards wide, just a touch on the…

NASCAR’s Kobalt 400 played out during an odd weather day in Las Vegas. A light rain shower delayed the start of the race by about 25 minutes. Later, high, gusty winds made controlling their cars even more of a challenge for the 39 drivers in the field. Finally, all that wind precipitated a sand storm that blew in, making conditions that much tougher. “I guess that’s the wild, Wild West,…

Boomer Prinstein was born and raised in Michigan, but many of his baseball connections — as a player and coach — exist on a continent not widely associated with our national pastime: Europe. Prinstein has worked as a pro scout for multiple Major League Baseball organizations and in 2013 was responsible for scouting Europe while also coaching in the Czech Republic’s top league. There, he noticed a trend that will…

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“I’m here to, uh, fix the cable.” Screenshot via “We’re getting Minnesota with it,” the narrator of this year’s Minnesota high school hockey all-hair team video says, as the camera cuts to a plate of spam, lutefisk, and a lefse, which is then placed on a vinyl copy of Purple Rain. It somehow only gets more Minnesota from there. The analysis and ranking of the best hair from Minnesota’s state…

The Minnesota All Hockey Hair Team is a tradition unlike any other. (Game On! Minnesota) Hockey is a team sport, but getting some individual recognition is always nice. The Hart Trophy, some might say, is the greatest individual honor one can receive in the sport. Being the NHL MVP is certainly a pretty big deal, but there’s one award above all that is both elusive and desperately coveted: A selection…

NASCAR will not make any modifications to its caution procedures after a delayed caution call during Saturday’s Xfinity Series race led to a three-car pileup. During the second half of the race, won by Kyle Busch, Cody Ware spun in turn two. He hit the wall and his car slowly slid down the track into the middle of the racing groove. NASCAR did not call a caution for Ware’s damaged…

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The resilient University of Maine Black Bears erased a 3-0 deficit but senior left wing Kevin Roy scored with 6:15 left in overtime to give the Northeastern University Huskies a 4-3 victory and a sweep of their best-of-three Hockey East first-round series Saturday night at Matthews Arena in Boston. Northeastern won Friday night’s game 3-2 in overtime. Roy capitalized on an ill-advised pass by defenseman Mark Hamilton and fired a…

i Fans of Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan celebrate after a goal against Chongqing Lifan on June 28, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Fans of Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan celebrate after a goal against Chongqing Lifan on June 28, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images In 2009, pro soccer player Lyle Martin was playing for the Vancouver White Caps, in a North American…

The mystery creator of the All Hockey Hair Team video hopes the 2016 edition, posted on YouTube late Saturday and likely already making its viral rounds on social media, meets its legions of fans’ expectations. But he refused to try too hard. “I meant this to look more like the Minnesota version of, ‘I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl,’” he said, citing…

Miesha Tate won the UFC women’s Bantamweight Championship on Saturday night as NASCAR and UFC collided in Las Vegas.   Tate, the challenger, bested undefeated champ Holly Holm by submission in the fifth and final round. Tate is represented by Kevin Harvick‘s company, KHI Management, giving her a strong NASCAR connection. She attended the end-of-season NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards banquet — yes, also in Las Vegas — in 2014. She also dropped…

Barry Melrose made his inaugural trek to the Minnesota boys state hockey tournament this week. His instant reaction: “Great.” Barry Melrose (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) “I knew it would be,” Melrose said Saturday. “I know what kind of hockey town St. Paul is.” What Melrose underestimated was the quality of the hockey he would see. “The high school hockey is better than I thought it was,” he said. “The product on the…

RELATED: Full race results | Updated series standings LAS VEGAS – When Kyle Busch finally broke his home-court jinx at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, he did it in style.   Leading 199 of 200 laps, Busch won Saturday’s Boyd Gaming 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series at the 1.5-mile track, pacing a 1-2-3 finish by Joe Gibbs Racing Toyotas. The Las Vegas native ended an 0-for-11 drought at his home track, beating teammate Daniel Suárez to the finish line by…

LAS VEGAS — Most sports organization start the year with a point of emphasis on certain rules. The first few weeks then prove whether officials will enforce rules differently than years prior. NASCAR often employs a similar officiating offseason reset. The crew chiefs have an idea of hot-button topics and parts and pieces that could receive more scrutiny. They can see new wording of rules as a reaction to fishy…

Michael Schuckers doesn’t consider himself a die-hard hockey fan, yet all he seems to think about in his spare time is that frozen rubber disk and what happens to it in every moment of every NHL game. That’s to be expected for someone in the vanguard of hockey analytics. Schuckers, a statistics professor at St. Lawrence University, has been crunching hockey numbers in his office for more than a decade….

i Fans of Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan celebrate after a goal against Chongqing Lifan on June 28, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Fans of Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan celebrate after a goal against Chongqing Lifan on June 28, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images In 2009, pro soccer player Lyle Martin was playing for the Vancouver White Caps, in a North American…

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Dale Earnhardt was known as “The Intimidator” or “The Man in Black.” His second-oldest son, Dale Jr., has been dubbed “June,” “Junebug,” and “Little E,” although he’s most often known as simply, “Junior.” Then, there’s Kerry Earnhardt, who is Dale Jr.’s half-brother and the oldest of the late seven-time Sprint Cup Series champion’s four children. It seems that Kerry, who made 106 starts among NASCAR’s three major series from 1998-2009,…