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During a preseason soccer scrimmage at Downingtown High School East, an incoming freshman going for a header collided with another player and fell to the ground in tears. After that, her coach did something that used to be routine, but has increasingly come under scrutiny: He put her back in the game, according to a lawsuit filed by her family last week in U.S. District Court…

Longtime soccer coach George Scarpelli doesn’t hold back. Not when praising his boys team at Somerville High School. Not when talking about US Soccer’s academy system. Ever since the academy program switched to a 10-month schedule in the fall of 2012 and prohibited players from high school competition, Scarpelli has harbored concerns about the direction of youth development in Massachusetts and across the country. “It’s a disgrace,” said Scarpelli. “It’s…

As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series gets closer to the Chase, selecting your Group B drivers becomes more difficult. Most fantasy teams at the top of their league standings do not have many, if any, selections left with Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano. My team falls under this category. My strategy the rest of the way is to use the Team Penske drivers for qualifying points and find two other…

Australian Hockey Player Celebrates Goal By Sliding On Head Across Ice (Video) The hockey goal celebration game was recently taken to an entirely different level, in Australia of all places. Ric Del Basso scored a game-winning shootout goal on Saturday night for the Perth Thunder in Australian Ice Hockey League action. That was cause for celebration, and Del Basso upped the ante when it comes to celebratory antics. After netting…

The Jamaican bobsled team may have company at the Winter Olympics one day. (USATSI) Everyone loves an underdog. That’s why we have a litany of underdogs in the movies, from Rocky Balboa to Rudy to a bobsled team from the island of Jamaica. Now there’s a new real-life underdog story being written and again it’s Jamaicans at the heart of this tale. Graeme Townshend, the first Jamaican-born player in the…

BRISTOL, Tenn. – NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin got spun out and wrecked while racing as the leader by Kevin Harvick at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Hamlin later fired his HANS (or Head and Neck Support) device at Harvick’s car as it passed under caution. The incident happened on the 161st lap. Hamlin had been leading, but Harvick was on his trail for some laps. As Hamlin continued, Harvick…

BRECKENRIDGE — Tejay van Garderen has seen both the horrors and wonders of the famed individual Vail Time Trial, a 10-mile uphill grind that Saturday will be the site of the penultimate stage of this year’s USA Pro Challenge. Sitting once again in the overall race lead, it is his tour to lose — though his advantage is the slimmest it’s ever been before attempting this course: 20 seconds over…

BRECKENRIDGE — Tejay van Garderen has seen both the horrors and wonders of the famed individual Vail Time Trial, a 10-mile uphill grind that Saturday will be the site of the penultimate stage of this year’s USA Pro Challenge. Sitting once again in the overall race lead, it is his tour to lose — though his advantage is the slimmest it’s ever been before attempting this course: 20 seconds over…

JSKnews via YouTube Albert Ebosse (r.) died after being struck in a head during a soccer match in which his team lost. A soccer player has died after being hit by an object thrown from the crowd. Albert Ebosse was declared dead after being taken to hospital in Tizi Ouzou, east of the Algerian capital, Algiers. Reports suggest that fans were throwing rocks….

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Denny Hamlin got spun out and wrecked while racing as the leader by Kevin Harvick at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Hamlin later fired his HANS device at Harvick’s car as it passed under caution. Continue reading Hamlin appeared to adhere to NASCAR’s new rule of staying in your damaged car until safety crews…

BRISTOL, Tenn. It was a clean sweep for Team Penske. Joey Logano held off Brad Keselowski to win Saturday night’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway and became the third consecutive Penske driver to win at the fast half-mile track this weekend. Logano’s teammate, Keselowski, won Thursday’s NASCAR Truck series race and teammate Ryan Blaney won Friday night’s Nationwide Series race. Logano’s win is his third in the…

Young NASCAR star Joey Logano displayed the patience of a seasoned driver amid heated competition, racing to victory lane in Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. VICTORY LANE: @JoeyLogano takes home the win in the @IRWINTools Night Race #nascar #ItsBristolBaby https://t.co/nwA2PQWZMh — BristolMotorSpeedway (@BMSupdates) August 24, 2014 Past Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski and last year’s race winner Matt Kenseth were in…

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RELATED: Play NASCAR Fantasy Live ” Sign up for RaceView today DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR today will unveil the biggest, most engaging marketing campaign in the history of the sport to promote the all new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™. At the heart of the effort is a collaboration with ESPN that features five original television spots, an educational video, and an extensive social media push that will…

Aug. 20, 2014: University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs, left, discusses a hazing incident involving the women’s soccer team as head coach Kit Vela sits beside him during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M.AP The University of New Mexico women’s soccer coach Kit Vela has been suspended for a week without pay and 22 players will be suspended for one game over a hazing incident. Athletic director Paul…

Threat of scattered showers and thunderstorms remains in the forecast for tonight’s Sprint Cup series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. While the chance of rain is there I think we can get an official race (past halfway) if not a full complete race. Rain could cause a delay or two tonight but given the scattered to isolated nature of the rain showers this afternoon and evening, I do not…

Daniel Suarez has won twice in the K&N East Series and four times in the Toyota Mexico Series this year.(Photo: Alan Diaz, AP) Joe Gibbs Racing’s signing of Mexican driver Daniel Suarez this week represents the most important achievement yet in NASCAR’s diversity efforts, and that’s saying a lot for a sport that has seen several landmarks in the past year. Darrell Wallace Jr.’s October win in a Truck Series…