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Will Ferrell’s newest sports endeavor is no laughing matter. The Hollywood funny man played the owner of basketball team in the movie Semi-Pro, now he gets to do it for real with a professional soccer club. Ferrell announced himself as the final of the 25 co-owners of the MLS’ expansion LAFC at a press conference to unveil the team’s colors and logo on Thursday. It will begin play in 2018….

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid are looking at Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 22, as a potential signing as they start a new era of rebuilding. (Daily Telegraph) Manchester United will try to sign 25-year-old Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard for £65m after being told they have no chance of signing Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26. (Daily Star) Daily Star back…

Grubb indicated he was placed on notice early on in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, where he helped guide Edwards to a fifth-place finish in the overall standings. The situation was similar to 2011, when Grubb was informed mid-Chase that he was unlikely to return to Stewart-Haas Racing, where he ultimately helped secure a Sprint Cup championship with driver/owner Tony Stewart that season.   “I was somewhat surprised,” Grubb told…

GLOBE FILE PHOTO Denna Laing was one of four players on the Pride practice squad before she was called up for Winter Classic duty. Boston Pride forward Denna Laing, 24, remains hospitalized one week after she left the Outdoor Women’s Classic game on a stretcher. Late in the first period, she stepped on a stick and went headfirst into the boards at Gillette Stadium. There have been no updates on…

GLOBE FILE PHOTO Denna Laing was one of four players on the Pride practice squad before she was called up for Winter Classic duty. Boston Pride forward Denna Laing, 24, remains hospitalized one week after she left the Outdoor Women’s Classic game on a stretcher. Late in the first period, she stepped on a stick and went headfirst into the boards at Gillette Stadium. There have been no updates on…

Caption Close Soccer parents and players of a Santa Clara youth league were left frustrated — but not defeated — on Tuesday when a judge rejected their second request to stop an NFL takeover of three prized fields next to Levi’s Stadium ahead of Super Bowl 50. The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League sued the NFL on Monday when crews began altering the soccer fields set to be used as…

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RELATED: Top moments in Gordon’s career Well of course it was a fellow named Jeff Gordon who discovered a fellow named Jeff Gordon‘s celebrated inaugural NASCAR winning car – the debutante drive of what would become a Hall of Fame racing career.   And now — after years of effort to historically and meticulously restore the former Busch Grand National car that Jeff Gordon first drove to a NASCAR Victory Lane in 1992,…

Temperatures are dropping across the continent, leading to 99 bad outcomes and a singular good one: the construction of backyard hockey rinks. There is something, dare I say, magical, about constructing a rink in a backyard or nearby pond for everybody in the neighborhood to play in. It’s practically the only good thing about living north of Los Angeles. But because we are an unworthy species, there inexplicably exists people…

BOSTON (CBS) – She was living out her dream, playing in the Women’s Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium, but now Denna Laing may be facing a long recovery. For the 24-year-old forward it was a landmark moment. Her Boston Pride professional women’s hockey team playing a game that was a massive step forward for the sport. “This could be the most exciting day of my life,” she wrote on her…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…

RELATED: Top moments in Gordon’s career Well of course it was a fellow named Jeff Gordon who discovered a fellow named Jeff Gordon‘s celebrated inaugural NASCAR winning car – the debutante drive of what would become a Hall of Fame racing career.   And now — after years of effort to historically and meticulously restore the former Busch Grand National car that Jeff Gordon first drove to a NASCAR Victory Lane in 1992,…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…

Organizers of a pond hockey tournament on Lake Minnetonka say it will go ahead as scheduled — with or without the pond hockey. The North American Pond Hockey Championship is set for Jan. 21-24. If the mild winter means there’s not enough ice for hockey, the event still will offer music and other winter games. The organizers plan to decide about hockey by Jan. 14. J. Lindsay, a tournament organizer,…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid are willing to pay £100m to sign Chelsea’s Belgium playmaker Eden Hazard, 24. (Daily Star) That move could prompt Chelsea to pursue the signing of Real forward Gareth Bale, 26. (Daily Mirror) But Manchester United are hoping to sign the Wales international for £75m this month – and working with “boyhood hero” Ryan Giggs, the…