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Despite their age, the three young girls have heard it all. They’ve been called boys when they show up at the soccer field. They’ve been heckled and ridiculed, with even referees questioning what they’re doing on a girls’ soccer team. It’s because of their hair. The three girls, who play on a Madison, Wis., under-11 club team called the 56ers, prefer to wear their hair cropped close, in a manner…

A man who died while attempting to swim the Channel has been named as endurance athlete Douglas Waymark. Waymark, who had previously reached the summit of Mount Everest, was taking part in the near-300-mile Enduroman Arch to Arc triathlon when he got into difficulty on Monday night. His sister, Jo Ikel, wrote on Facebook: “Douglas Waymark has not completed his Channel swim. Last night he felt he could no longer…

Then, by the end of this year, the owners will award franchises to two additional cities from a list that includes not just Nashville, Cincinnati and Sacramento but also Raleigh, Charlotte, Tampa, Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis, San Antonio, Phoenix and San Diego. And next year, the owners will pick two more from the group that remains. Critics of M.L.S. contend that the league’s chase for new markets — and ever-rising…

Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…

In just six months, snowboarders, slalom skiers, speed skaters and others will arrive at Pyeongchang in pursuit of Olympic gold. We’ll watch as athletes from around the world compete in 15 winter sports, catching their dreams or seeing them dashed on the mountains of South Korea during the 2018 Winter Games Olympians who fell short at the Sochi Games four years ago will be focused fiercely on dazzling this time,…

Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Humor us today with a discussion of football — or soccer, as my editors at The Washington Post oblige me to call it. Last week, French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain splashed out almost $264 million to prise Brazilian sensation Neymar Da…

Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…

RELATED: Kahne, Hendrick to part ways at season’s end The Monday announcement of Kasey Kahne’s approaching departure from Hendrick Motorsports became the latest move in a flurry of forthcoming personnel changes announced this season. The NASCAR garage likely will look far different in 2018, and you might need a program to tell who goes where. Our Kenny Bruce and Zack Albert debate the finer points of an especially zany Silly…

Photo: Eric Risberg/AP Now that Los Angeles has won the bid to host the 2028 Olympics, it seems as good a time as any to look back at what happened to the city when it last hosted the events. The 1984 Games were successful in L.A., in that they were profitable for the host city and didn’t leave behind a bunch of decaying stadiums eventually overtaken by weeds and wildlife…

Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…

Players with NHL contracts, even those in the minors, will not be allowed to participate in the Winter Olympics next February. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly confirmed the league’s stance to the Associated Press on Monday. The league announced in April it wouldn’t be stopping its season to go to the Olympics for the first time since 1994, but questions had remained about players in the American Hockey League and ECHL….

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs are getting closer with 22 of 26 regular-season races in the books. When the circuit heads to Chicagoland Speedway in September, 16 drivers will be competing for a championship. Here is a look at where things stand heading into Sunday’s race at Michigan International Speedway. Locked in Martin Truex Jr.: Simply said, this guy has everyone beat in much the same fashion Jimmie Johnson…

When asked to explain the secret of Los Angeles on the eve of the 1984 Olympics, the late poet, novelist and fantasist Ray Bradbury broke it down, capturing the ingenuous advantage the city enjoyed as it was coming of age. “L.A. is a conglomerate of small towns striving toward immensity and never making it, thank God,” he wrote. “We have no kings, queens, or courts, no real pecking order, no…

Martin Truex Jr. celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday in Watkins Glen, N.Y.

During the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles was a rail transit dead zone. The region’s extensive streetcar network, once the largest in the world, had been ripped out decades earlier. And the ribbon-cutting on the first modern rail line, from Long Beach to downtown, was still six years away. “We had bupkis in terms of rail,” said Dave Sotero of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Los Angeles will host the 2028…

Alberto Contador’s announcement on Monday morning that he will hang up his wheels at the end of the Vuelta a España surprised only for its timing. The question of when and how to quit cycling has been hanging in the air around the Spaniard for almost two years; he speculated he might end his career in 2016 but an unhappy spell riding for Tinkoff prompted him to hang on for…

WHITTIER, Calif. — Authorities say three people were stabbed during an adult soccer match at a Southern California high school. Firefighters responded to the soccer stadium of El Camino High School in Whittier on Sunday following the report of a possible stabbing, CBS Los Angeles reports. When they arrived, they located three people with stab wounds. The injuries were being described as non-life-threatening. Authorities said the incident unfolded just after 12:20…

Martin Truex Jr. won a fuel-mileage gamble, holding off Matt Kenseth on the final lap to capture the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen International on Sunday. Brad Keselowski had a big lead but was forced to pit with three laps to go. That gave the lead to Ryan Blaney, who began to run dry and had to pit before taking the white flag. Trailing by three seconds after saving…

A Cornell-bound teen from The Bronx who was set to start classes in two weeks drowned Saturday while swimming in a gorge upstate, cops said. Incoming freshman Winston Samuel Perez-Ventura went for a dip in Fall Creek near Ithaca Falls just after 2:30 p.m. and never resurfaced, according to Ithaca police. The New York state dive team searched the gorge waters for more than four hours before eventually recovering his…