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RELATED: Buy Darlington ticketsMORE: Darlington wins Myers Brothers Award | See the ’15 throwback schemes Darlington Raceway announced the theme of its award-winning throwback campaign on Wednesday for the Bojangles’ Southern 500 racing event on Labor Day weekend (Sept. 2-4. 2016). The track will focus on the 1975-84 era of the sport next year, a revolutionary time period when iconic drivers such as Bobby Allison, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt and Darrell Waltrip left their imprints on stock…

i U.S. forward Abby Wambach waves to fans at the end of a practice session Tuesday in New Orleans for Wednesday’s final U.S. victory tour match, against China. Wambach will be playing in her final match with the team. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerald Herbert/AP U.S. forward Abby Wambach waves to fans at the end of a practice session Tuesday in New Orleans for Wednesday’s final U.S. victory…

Congressional leaders agreed to a budget-busting set of tax cuts late Tuesday as part of a year-end, clear-the-decks deal that marks a major reversal from the last four years’ focus on deficits and streamlining the tax code. While the total cost of the package had not been publicly estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, it was expected to total in the hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade…

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Almost never in NASCAR has one car number belonged in perpetuity to just a single team, but the No. 21 is about as close as it gets. While NASCAR officially owns each and every car number, the No. 21 will always truly belong to Wood Brothers Racing, one of NASCAR’s founding families. Yes, a dozen different drivers drove the No. 21 for a race or two from 1949-52, in the…

i Abby Wambach celebrates the United States’ 5-2 win over Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer championship. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption toggle caption Elaine Thompson/AP Abby Wambach celebrates the United States’ 5-2 win over Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer championship. Elaine Thompson/AP The name Abby Wambach is so closely intertwined with U.S. women’s soccer that it’s hard to mention one without the other….

Somewhere along the path to Hawaii, the US women’s soccer team’s victory tour veered into Spinal Tap territory. The team canceled a game in Honolulu, then returned to the mainland for a grim contest against a woefully underfunded and outclassed Trinidad & Tobago team in San Antonio. The first half of that game was marked mostly by an awkward non-contact injury to Trinidad & Tobago defender Lauryn Hutchinson and a…

NASCAR fans get a little extra under their trees on Christmas Day, as FOX Sports announces a 17-hour NASCAR marathon, beginning Friday, Dec. 25 (6 a.m. ET) on FS1 with three consecutive hours of “NASCAR Race Hub: Best Of The Year.” As visions of Daytona Speedweeks dance in their heads, viewers get to relive everything from the benchmark 1979 Daytona 500 to the 1992 NASCAR All-Star Race to last season’s…

Glen Sonmor was an enemy to newspaper deadlines, even though his sister Jean was a sportswriter and news reporter in Toronto. Sonmor was the coach of the North Stars during their near-to-glory days in the early ’80s and the problem he created for newspaper people was this: The locker room door would open, you would spend some time getting quotes from players (perhaps as they smoked a postgame heater) and…

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It’s a great time to be a fan of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. With a dominant 38-0 victory at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Bank of America Stadium on Sunday over the visiting Atlanta Falcons, the Panthers continued their march toward an improbable perfect season, and at 13-0 remained the NFL’s only unbeaten team. With the vast majority of NASCAR drivers residing in the metro-Charlotte and most of their respective teams also…

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Sara Tommasi has made the bizarre jump from porn movies into the football boardroom. The well-known Italian beauty has been hired by amateur side Marruvium in her homeland, although her exact role is still unclear. Tommasi’s road to her new role has certainly been an interesting one. From appearing nude on camera and starring in several hardcore porn films to dating football stars such as Ronaldinho and Mario Balotelli, the…

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A third Women’s World Cup title and a few million pieces of confetti in New York. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) In 2015, American soccer celebrated a third Women’s World Cup title, fretted about the erratic men’s program and toasted MLS’s 20th season. It welcomed the annual parade of European clubs on summer tour and Loretta Lynch’s investigation of Sepp Blatter and FIFA. Dozens of matches and moments caught our eye, but 10…

News Pond style hockey at the Roseville Oval ice rink Posted:Dec 13 2015 11:14AM CST Updated:Dec 13 2015 11:14AM CST Unseasonably warm temperatures for the first annual Girls Outdoor Hockey Classic \n News Unseasonably warm temperatures for the first annual Girls Outdoor Hockey Classic Parents and their hockey players made the most of the unseasonably warm temperatures Saturday.  ROSEVILL, Minn. (KMSP) – Parents and their hockey players made the most…

• Box Score KANSAS CITY, KAN. — The STANFORD men claimed the second NCAA team title for the Conference of the 2015-16 campaign and the first soccer title in program history, winning the championship on Sunday, 4-0 over Clemson. Pac-12 institutions have won 480 all-time national team championships across all sports to lead the country. STANFORD, the 2015 Pac-12 champion, claimed its first NCAA crown in men’s soccer, defeating No….