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I think we all remember flinching with horror as pudgy “soccer mom” Katie Castro got starched by a professionally trained fighter at Xplode Fight Series. XFS owner Gregg Sharp publicly defended the spectacle as the video quickly went viral, saying the video was actually shot six months earlier and that “if we were not in San Diego, no one would care.” Well, somebody seems to care now. According to an in-depth story…

Christen Press feels badly for most of her Chicago Red Stars teammates. It bothers Press that the demands of both playing in the women’s World Cup and of traveling to celebrate the U.S. triumph have drained her ability to help the team since returning to National Women’s Soccer League play three weeks after the tournament ended. And she finds it discouraging that the league’s financial caste system leaves the three…

JERSEY CITY — A few children are kicking a soccer ball around outside the Westin Hotel in Downtown Jersey City while a couple news cameras are set up at the main entrance. What’s this all about? The few young soccer fans said they are waiting to see the Brazilian National Team make their way into the hotel. ESPN and CBS employees with the Brazilian flag on their shirts said members…

Michael Riley Jr. is seen in a photo posted on a GoFundMe fundraising page. Michael Riley Jr. is seen in a photo posted on a GoFundMe fundraising page. A 14-year-old boy from Houston who was diagnosed with a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a lake earlier this month has died, his family said Saturday night. Michael Riley Jr. passed away at Texas Children’s Hospital after battling the infection for…

RELATED: Race results from Canada “You’re clear!” Those were the words that Erik Jones heard from his spotter, as the No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports truck pulled ahead of BK Racing‘s Alex Tagliani with two laps to go in Sunday’s Camping World Truck Series Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. The 19-year-old wheelman held on to take the checkered, his task becoming easier on the final lap when Tagliani began dropping in the field. As Tagliani fell back, ThorSport Racing’s…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Bayern Munich have joined Paris St-Germain in trying to sign Everton defender Seamus Coleman, 26. (Daily Star Sunday)  Manchester United are refusing to lower their £30m valuation of Real Madrid target David De Gea. (Sunday Mirror)  But Real Madrid are putting the details in place…

When Los Angeles City Council members vote on pursuing the 2024 Summer Olympics this week, they will be deferring an issue that will probably return to haunt them: Whether city taxpayers should be made liable for budget overruns on the event, which is expected to cost at least $5.8 billion. Boston’s bid for the Games collapsed in July after the city’s mayor balked at the fiscal guarantee, which the International…

Can the Olympics and democracy co-exist? It’s a question being asked again this summer after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond the fact that the International Olympic Committee put the biggest event in winter sports in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any real snow, people are concerned about China’s demonstrated record of human rights violations during the last games it hosted, the 2008 Summer Olympics. But…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Road America for the sixth consecutive year with Saturday’s Road America 180 Fired Up by Johnsonville. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Steve Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing Johnsonville will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 45 laps (182.16 miles) around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road…

This will be Indian eves’ only second Olympic appearance after their maiden participation in the event way back in 1980 where they ensured a fourth-place finish. (Source: PTI) Thirty-six years after they last competed, the Indian women’s hockey team will return to the Olympics next year after their qualification was confirmed by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Saturday. The fifth-place finish at the Hockey World League semi-finals earlier in…

Oshkosh — It’s been a while since Ruth McKone went for a bike ride. The retired school secretary figures it was about seven decades ago. But last week McKone, 94, tooled around Oshkosh sitting beside her neighbor, 90-year-old Dorothy Youngwirth, while a volunteer pilot pumped the pedals of a bicycle rickshaw. The Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh residents giggled and chatted as the wind whipped through their hair, waving…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Road America for the sixth consecutive year with Saturday’s Road America 180 Fired Up by Johnsonville. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Steve Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing Johnsonville will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 45 laps (182.16 miles) around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Road America for the sixth consecutive year with Saturday’s Road America 180 Fired Up by Johnsonville. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Steve Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing Johnsonville will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 45 laps (182.16 miles) around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United will offer Real Madrid £65m plus goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, in exchange for Gareth Bale in a last-ditch bid to lure the 26-year-old Wales forward to Old Trafford. (Daily Star)  Chelsea will have to break the British transfer record and pay £72m to sign France…