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NASCAR announced Thursday that the sanctioning body has issued warnings to teams in each of the three major series for issues in technical inspection last weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway or Kentucky Speedway. On the Sprint Cup side, the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team of Chase driver Kevin Harvick was hit with two warnings and will be held out of practice 15 minutes this weekend at Dover for failing…

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CATON, N.Y. — A former minor league hockey player has been charged with killing his wife inside their upstate New York home, authorities said. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office said deputies and state troopers responded to Thomas Clayton’s home in Caton, near the Pennsylvania border, after he called 911 early Tuesday and said he found his wife dead. Kelley Clayton, 35, was discovered on the floor with severe facial trauma,…

Within the span of nine months, two of NASCAR’s all-time greats have announced their pending retirements. Jeff Gordon will step aside at the conclusion of the current season, while Tony Stewart will do so following the 2016 season. That Gordon is preceding Stewart into retirement is somewhat appropriate, as it was Gordon’s success in transitioning from open-wheel sprint car racing to NASCAR that allowed Stewart to make a similar…

INDIANAPOLIS—The NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee has announced the host sites for the 2017 Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Regionals. The East Regional has been awarded to the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island and will be hosted by Brown on March 24-25, while the Northeast Regional will be held at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire with New Hampshire serving as host…

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Within the span of nine months, two of NASCAR’s all-time greats have announced their pending retirements. Jeff Gordon will step aside at the conclusion of the current season, while Tony Stewart will do so following the 2016 season. That Gordon is preceding Stewart into retirement is somewhat appropriate, as it was Gordon’s success in transitioning from open-wheel sprint car racing to NASCAR that allowed Stewart to make a similar…

Herb Brooks National Hockey Center at St. Cloud State(Photo: KARE John Croman) ST. CLOUD, Minn. — St. Cloud State University will offer living expense stipends to hockey scholarship recipients next year, under a new NCAA rule that allows Division I programs to cover the actual “Cost of Attendance” for players. “The NCHC is one of strongest hockey conferences in the country, and a number of schools have indicated they are…

Juergen Klinsmann was only eight months into his job as coach of the national soccer team when the U.S. was eliminated in the group stage of the last Olympic qualifying tournament. In men’s soccer, the Olympic competition is an under-23 tournament lagging so far behind the World Cup in importance that many European countries no longer take it seriously. But for Klinsmann, who scored four goals to help West Germany…

More: Equestrian Olympic equestrian champ’s ban lifted in horse doping case Ian Millar, 68, wins Pan American Games equestrian gold Olympic equestrian champion suspended after horses test positive Making the U.S. Olympic equestrian team is much about timing, and neither Jessica Springsteen nor Georgina Bloomberg has been fortunate in that respect in recent months. The show jumpers are entered in this week’s Longines Masters of Los Angeles among several Olympic hopefuls, including three of the four members…

Within the span of nine months, two of NASCAR’s all-time greats have announced their pending retirements. Jeff Gordon will step aside at the conclusion of the current season, while Tony Stewart will do so following the 2016 season. That Gordon is preceding Stewart into retirement is somewhat appropriate, as it was Gordon’s success in transitioning from open-wheel sprint car racing to NASCAR that allowed Stewart to make a similar…

Herb Brooks National Hockey Center at St. Cloud State(Photo: KARE John Croman) ST. CLOUD, Minn. — St. Cloud State University will offer living expense stipends to hockey scholarship recipients next year, under a new NCAA rule that allows Division I programs to cover the actual “Cost of Attendance” for players. “The NCHC is one of strongest hockey conferences in the country, and a number of schools have indicated they are…

NASCAR has placed driver Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. and Whitney Scott, the wife of XFINITY Series driver Brian Scott, on probation through the end of the year for their roles in a post-race altercation following last Saturday night’s XFINITY Series race at Kentucky Speedway. Brian Allen, the motorhome driver for Brian Scott, has meanwhile been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR. Angry about contact with Wallace that loosened his right-rear wheel late…

It’s elimination time and some of NASCAR’s biggest names are in jeopardy of not moving on to the next stage of the Chase as NASCAR heads to Dover International Speedway. Sunday’s AAA 400 is the first cutoff race of the Chase and Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. could be among the first four out with a poor performance. PHOTOS: Must-see photos from Sylvania 300 | Chase clinching scenarios…

I’m chasing Kim Harding down a hill. We’re heading from the Royal Mile to Princes Street on the kind of descent one rarely encounters, living as I do in a very flat part of the country.“I love that hill,” he says as we regroup at the traffic lights. Like Athens and Rome, Edinburgh is built on seven hills, but perhaps more akin to a “lumpy” city like Bristol, those hills…

Within the span of nine months, two of NASCAR’s all-time greats have announced their pending retirements. Jeff Gordon will step aside at the conclusion of the current season, while Tony Stewart will do so following the 2016 season. That Gordon is preceding Stewart into retirement is somewhat appropriate, as it was Gordon’s success in transitioning from open-wheel sprint car racing to NASCAR that allowed Stewart to make a similar…