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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 between soccer parents, the city and the NFL just one month before the world’s largest sporting event lands in the Bay Area….

Olympic track and field star Lolo Jones is one of 10 American athletes to compete in both the summer and winter games. Only 130 athletes worldwide can make that claim, of which just 25 are women. For more than half her life, Lolo Jones has been clearing hurdles on and off the track. After what she calls her “worst year professionally,” the 33-year-old hurdler and bobsledder is now on the…

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League filed a lawsuit against the city and the National Football League, claiming that construction on three fields being used for the Super Bowl has stopped kids from playing soccer there. The construction will displace an estimated 1,600 youth soccer players until about 30 days after the Super Bowl. ABC7 News reports the fields are planned for a media village, security and half-time event staging…

“I remember all our swims together—we are both water creatures,” Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death, wrote in a letter to Henri Cole. Credit Photograph courtesy Henri Cole Oliver Sacks swam until he died. He believed swimming was instinctive, and that we must learn to walk but not to swim. Still, for many years he took a weekly lesson from a Russian coach, Slava, to perfect his stroke,…

By: Nate Scott | January 5, 2016 8:56 am Follow @aNateScott

One great thing about working in sport media, beyond the blindingly obvious, is that each time you turn up for work the people whose deeds you’re there to report do unexpected and often wonderful things, some of which can be foretold but enough of which are sufficiently unpredictable that the whole thing’s a hoot. A member of the media in front of me was tabbing between his match report and…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

SANTA CLARA — Just hours after the city handed the keys to its youth soccer park to the NFL, an outraged group of soccer advocates expanded their lawsuit to include the NFL. The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s new lawsuit against the NFL comes hours after the football league began drilling holes in the soccer fields across from Levi’s Stadium for use as a media center for Super Bowl 50….

When you look back at 2015, I think you will agree it was an emotional roller coaster the entire year. There just seemed to be a story to follow each and every week. The clearest example clearly comes from Kyle Busch. In the XFINITY Series race on Saturday Feb. 21, Kyle Busch was in a horrible crash that broke one leg and broke the foot on his other leg. Fast-forward…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are set to meet Barcelona and Brazil forward Neymar’s £140m release clause after the 23-year-old’s contract talks stalled. (Le Sport10, via Daily Star) United will let will let midfielder Nick Powell, 21, go out on loan to a Championship club for the rest of the season. (Sun) Southampton will not sell Senegal forward Sadio Mane,…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are set to meet Barcelona and Brazil forward Neymar’s £140m release clause after the 23-year-old’s contract talks stalled. (Le Sport10, via Daily Star) United will let will let midfielder Nick Powell, 21, go out on loan to a Championship club for the rest of the season. (Sun) Southampton will not sell Senegal forward Sadio Mane,…

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KABUL — Sport echoed life on Sunday as Afghans watched their national soccer team self-destruct and lose the South Asian Football Federation Cup to bitter rival and host India 2-1 in extra time. A win would have been a rare moment of joy for Afghanistan, a soccer-crazy nation that has suffered four straight decades of fighting but had been on the upswing in soccer. Instead, the surprise defeat seemed like…

Hockey Wilson enjoys coaching juniors After his 18-season NHL coaching career ended tumultuously, Ron Wilson needed time to decompress and fall back in love with hockey before he would consider coaching again. Almost four years after the Toronto Maple Leafs fired him, Wilson is back behind the bench — and this time he is having fun. Wilson, 60, is coaching the United States team at the International Ice Hockey Federation’s…

The State of U.S. Swimming: Thumbs Up! New swimming facilities in the United States are keeping pace with the country’s growing number of competitive swimmers. Author Chuck Warner discusses the growth of competitive swimming facilities, as well as the independence many coaches have taken in owning their own pools in the first half of the article, while fellow author Annie Grevers draws upon the knowledge and experience of Pat Hogan, USA Swimming’s…

It’s hard to say what’s more annoying about Canada’s failure at the world junior hockey championship – the quiet exit or the fact that Ron Wilson called it. When he was coaching the Maple Leafs, Wilson proved spectacularly incapable of subtlety or gamesmanship. He was perpetually baffled by the passive-aggressive nature of local fandom. That tone deafness is what killed his career in Toronto. But over in Finland, leading a…