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FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic and Swansea are keeping tabs on St Johnstone forward Michael O’Halloran. Sun  Anthony Stokes, out of the first-team picture at Celtic, is wanted by Cardiff City in the January transfer window. Daily Record  Former Celtic captain Tom Boyd is adamant frustrated Stokes has a future at the club after Sunday’s social media rant, saying it shows his…

RELATED: Keep updated on the 2016 changes for drivers, crew chiefs Stewart-Haas Racing announced Monday its crew chief lineup for the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, including high-profile changes for two of its four teams.   Michael Bugarewicz will become the new crew chief for team co-owner/driver Tony Stewart as he embarks on his final full season in the No. 14 Chevrolet. Billy Scott will take over as crew chief for Danica Patrick in…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, has given his word to Paris St-Germain that they are the only club for whom he would quit the Bernabeu. The Portugal international has been linked with a return to Manchester United. (Sun) The Daily Star leads on Chelsea striker Diego Costa’s bib-throwing after not being brought on against Tottenham Former…

By Paul Brubaker | The Backgrounder For many soccer players, setting an NCAA record, playing on a national championship team, and representing their country on a U.S. national team would be crowning achievements of a respectable career. Yael Averbuch But to Yael Averbuch, these achievements have been stops along the way of her long journey in pursuit of her dream to play in the Olympics or the World Cup. “I…

Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse University men’s soccer team will continue to nurse all the comforts of home while taking a journey unprecedented in the annals of program history. That was assured late Sunday afternoon when Boston College stunned favored Georgetown by advancing on penalty kicks in an NCAA Tournament third-round game. The upset meant that Syracuse will play its first-ever tournament quarterfinal game on its own field when the…

Now Boston isn’t even the most recent city to say no to the Olympics. Residents in Hamburg, Germany, voted Sunday to end the city’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Games. When Boston’s quest to host was stunted earlier this year amid widespread public pushback, it spoke to factors both local and international. Yes, there were Boston-centric issues with the bid, which stoked fears of high public spending and rubbed…

A group of high school boys playing soccer at the Indoor Athletic Practice Facility at Eastern Michigan University made it out safely after the facility’s structure fell early Sunday. At about 8:30 a.m. Nov. 29, fabric from the air-supported structure began to split from east to west, causing the structure to deflate, said Eastern Michigan University spokesman Geoff Larcom. EMU students Megan Trapp, 21, and Rachel Washburn, 20, were working…

Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse University men’s soccer team will continue to nurse all the comforts of home while taking a journey unprecedented in the annals of program history. That was assured late Sunday afternoon when Boston College stunned favored Georgetown by advancing on penalty kicks in an NCAA Tournament third-round game. The upset meant that Syracuse will play its first-ever tournament quarterfinal game on its own field when the…

RELATED: NBC Sports Live Extra All times ET Monday, Nov. 30 5 p.m., NASCAR America Live, NBCSN 6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of the Year, FS1 2 a.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of the Year (re-air), FS2Tuesday, Dec. 1 6 a.m., NASCAR America (re-air), NBCSN 7 a.m., NASCAR America (re-air), NBCSN 5 p.m., NASCAR America Live, NBCSN 6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of the Year, FS1 Wednesday, Dec….

NHL Network and Sportsnet 1 will televise “Rogers Hometown Hockey” on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET, prior to the game between the Florida Panthers and the Detroit Red Wings. The location this week is Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and the show will celebrate the history of hockey in the city. Among the features airing on the pregame show: * Florida Panthers coach Gerard Gallant played in the NHL with…

Article by Dan Levinsohn Ten world records fell this week at the IWF World Weightlifting Championships, which concluded last night in Houston, shedding light on who will contend for a medal next summer in Rio. The tournament brought together 609 lifters from a record breaking 98 participating countries, with men competing in eight different weight classes and women in seven. The athletes didn’t waste any time getting to work rewriting…

For now, it is a question best asked at a pub table, perhaps pondered in Columbus or Newark, N.J., in the hours before the local soccer sides will play today to decide which advances to the MLS Cup final. Might either of their coaches — Crew SC’s Gregg Berhalter and the New York Red Bulls’ Jesse Marsch — one day move on to bigger things, maybe to the helm of…

Sarah Kovan, a senior captain for the MSU women’s soccer team, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. (Photo: Michigan State University Athletics) Being a college student is tough enough. Imagine trying to keep up your grades while starting for the Michigan State women’s soccer team. Sarah Kovan has done that extremely well. Kovan, 21, is working on bachelor’s degrees in comparative cultures and politics and in human biology and was recently…