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Before this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup even began, drivers talked about the pressure. On the eve of the Eliminator round’s first race at the Martinsville Speedway, even some of the eight drivers who have made it this far are a bit frayed around the edges. Defending champion Kevin Harvick finds himself on the defensive after being accused of wrecking the green-white-checkered restart at the Talladega Superspeedway on…

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Rock superstar Rod Stewart is well-known for his love of soccer, especially the Celtic Football Club in Glasgow, Scotland. Hockey, it turns out, is another matter. “All he knows is if my team scores. That’s about it,” said his son, Liam Stewart. “I was like, ‘Dad, that’s all you need to know — if we win or if we score.’” Liam Stewart, 21, is the newest addition…

A student at Loyola School died after he was hurt Monday in a boys’ varsity soccer game on Randall’s Island, according to his family and others with knowledge of the incident. Thomas Jakelich, a 16-year-old junior, had spent the weekend preparing for the season’s semifinal match against the United Nations International School, forcing himself to eat fruit, which he disliked, steering away from sweets and junk food and going…

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Dobber launched his fantasy hockey website DobberHockey back in 2005 and has been Puck Daddy’s resident fantasy hockey ‘expert’ since 2009. There are always some new players who enter the fantasy hockey scene who are unknown quantities. Newbies who were so surprising that they couldn’t be found in any preseason primer (except uh, mine of course). Last year it was John Klingberg. Fantasy owners scramble for information and advice on these newcomers….

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA— Rock superstar Rod Stewart is well-known for his love of soccer, especially the Celtic Football Club in Glasgow, Scotland. Hockey, it turns out, is another matter.   “All he knows is if my team scores. That’s about it,” said his son, Liam Stewart. “I was like, `Dad, that’s all you need to know – if we win or if we score.”’   Liam Stewart, 21,…

Jim Schermerhorn, Notre Dame coach Jim Schermerhorn, Notre Dame coach Photo by Danielle Moore Jim Schermerhorn received the message Wednesday morning while his Notre Dame girls’ soccer team descended from Monteagle on the way to Murfreesboro. The Lady Irish were past the point of no return. The quarterfinal rounds of the Class A/AA and AAA state tournaments were postponed until today due to poor…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

Thomas Jakelich’s final moments were spent doing what he loved most – playing soccer with his friends. The 16-year-old sophomore, who went to the ritzy Loyola High School on the Upper East Side, died Monday night hours after an on-field collision during a varsity soccer match against the United Nations International School. “He was doing the thing he loved very much,” his tearful stepfather, Rick Newman, said. Newman received a…

Win Cash Live is offering gambling odds on which England national soccer players will reportedly come out as gay.(Photo: Andy Rain, EPA) A British bookmaker has sparked controversy by offering odds on which England national team soccer player will come out as gay. London’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported at the end of last week that two players, including one who has played for England in international matches, would reveal they…

CHICAGO (Oct. 27, 2015) – Abby Wambach, the leading scorer in the history of international soccer and one of the world’s all-time greatest players, has announced her retirement.  Wambach, 35, will end a spectacular 15-year international career that began in September of 2001 at the age of 21 when she debuted against Germany. She currently has 252 caps, which is fifth all-time in U.S. history, and 184 goals, far…

Less than three months after Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal committed to spend about $950 million to air English Premier League soccer games in the U.S., the deal is starting to look like a rare commodity in the hot market for sports rights: a bargain. In August, when the media company announced the new deal, which extends an earlier partnership and spans the 2016-17 season through 2021-22, NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus…

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There were definitely a lot of NASCAR fans upset with the outcome of Sunday’s Chase elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway, and NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France feels their pain. “We understand that if you’re a Dale Jr. fan, you are very disappointed,” France told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s Dave Moody Tuesday afternoon. “Your driver did everything possible, put on an unbelievable performance, raced from the back of the field to…

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