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Not enough hockey players remain for Richfield to offer a boys’ varsity program for the 2015-16 season. Holding out hope for a different outcome might have limited some players’ options. “We hung on longer than we should have,” said Dave Boie, activities director and a 1990 Richfield graduate. “We were just trying to get through this year.” Boie said 19 players participated in summer hockey, a small but feasible number….

MADRID—Spain deployed a massive security presence at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium here Saturday ahead of a high-profile soccer match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. Hours before kickoff, the 81,000-capacity Bernabeu was swarming with 1,100 police officers and another 1,400 private security workers. Spain’s secretary of state for security, Francisco Martínez, in a radio interview called it “the biggest security setup ever…

ST. CLOUD – North Dakota came here on Friday night for a showdown with St. Cloud State, the other 4-0 team in the nation’s best hockey league, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. North Dakota fell behind quickly on a goal by the Huskies’ Judd Peterson, and then Drake Caggiula tied it 1-1 with a goal at 6:20. There was a bevy of young, well-tuned North Dakota fans standing and cheering…

RELATED: Full coverage of Gordon’s last race Ray Evernham does more than just hope Jeff Gordon can close out his career by capturing a fifth NASCAR premier series title Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the Ford EcoBoost 400 (3 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM). He expects it.   “Absolutely. No question,” Evernham said in a telephone interview with NASCAR.com earlier this week.   “All he has to do is be Jeff Gordon one more…

RELATED: Complete Miami race results | Series standings HOMESTEAD, Fla. — With the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series title now in Erik Jones‘ rear-view mirror, the immediate question becomes “What’s next for the 19-year-old prodigy?” With a relatively nondescript, problem-free sixth-place finish in Friday night’s Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Jones secured the series driver’s championship, as well as the owner’s title for Kyle Busch Motorsports. Discovered by Busch when he beat his future car owner…

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Though the gravity of the end of his stellar NASCAR career is becoming more and more real, Jeff Gordon has maintained that the full impact won’t be felt until the checkered flag falls on Sunday’s finale. The same could be said for his longtime team owner, Rick Hendrick, who claims at least partial responsibility for keeping Gordon’s career going to this point.   Hendrick, who helped bring Gordon…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 20, 2015) — NASCAR® fans have more ways than ever to watch as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™ champion is crowned in this year’s finale at Homestead-Miami SpeedwaySM. Innovative new broadcast and digital outlets from NASCAR and NBC allow viewers to follow both the full driver field and the CHAMPIONSHIP 4® in the ultimate multi-screen experience during the Ford EcoBoost 400. Live coverage begins on Sunday with Countdown to Green…

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — It’s Ford Championship Weekend and the automotive manufacturer has its name on all three NASCAR races this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.   A champion in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will be crowned Friday, where Brad Keselowski Racing driver Tyler Reddick trails Erik Jones by 19 points.   On the XFINITY Series side, Roush Fenway Racing‘s Chris Buescher has his Ford out front by 18 points over Chase Elliott (JR Motorsports).   Sunday, the Sprint Cup championship…

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Wood Brothers Racing, one of the longest tenured teams competing in NASCAR’s premier series, will return to full-time competition beginning in 2016.   Officials with the team and Ford Motor Co. made the announcement Friday afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway, site of this weekend’s Ford EcoBoost 400 (Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM) season-ending event.   Ryan Blaney will handle the driving duties, embarking upon his first full season after making 15 starts…

RELATED: Full practice results Rain interrupted Friday’s opening Sprint Cup Series practice at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and Carl Edwards was awarded the top spot after his No. 19 Toyota topped the charts early in the session. The caution was waved twice for weather around 1 p.m. ET, and NASCAR ultimately called practice at 1:30 p.m. ET after an attempt to dry the track late in the session. The practice was originally scheduled to run…

With two laps to go at Martinsville, drivers were racing not only each other but a sinking Virginia sun. If the light left, the race would end early. Screaming through the corners of the half-mile-long track, brake temperatures climbed well past the thousand-degree mark, and the rotors began to glow. Jeff Gordon led the way, and the crowd was on its feet. The early-November race was Gordon’s last at Martinsville…

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Each month this season, The Century Poll has asked 100 members of the NASCAR industry for their opinions of a variety of topics facing the sport, and this month’s question focused on which of the Championship 4 drivers would become the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  The voting panel – made up of 50 members of the NASCAR media corps and 50 from the…

As with many of yesterday’s international soccer matches, Turkey-Greece began with a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Things quickly went off the rails, when the home Turkish fans interrupted the silence with boos and chants. But it might not be as simple as it seems. You can hear the whistles (in much of the world, whistling is the equivalent…

After nine, often controversial, races, just one event remains in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR’s version of playoffs that crowns its series champion. Emerging from the original 16-driver field that was whittled down by four every three races are Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr., who will race for the championship Sunday at Miami-Homestead Speedway. In a nice bit of symmetry, each of…

Germany and the Netherlands were supposed to play a soccer match in Hannover on Tuesday, but it was called off about 90 minutes before kickoff after police found a suspicious object inside the stadium, which was evacuated. Polizist Joerg Hoffmeister says something was found in the stadium and everyone had to be evacuated. They don’t know what it is yet. — Ciarán Fahey (@cfaheyAP) November 17, 2015 What exactly composed…

With rain steadily falling on Phoenix International Raceway and NASCAR putting Sunday’s race under the red flag 93 laps short of the scheduled distance, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and members of the No. 88 team milled about on pit road hoping and waited for officials to declare the event over. Earnhardt and company didn’t have to wait too long and when word came, euphoria broke out. Several crew members emphatically…