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Attention parents looking for a way to jumpstart your kids’ emotional, intellectual and physical growth: Olympic gold medal-winning swimming sensation Amanda Beard has a message for you. “Get them in the water and teach them to swim,” says Beard, whose recently-opened Beard Swim Co., a swim school in Gig Harbor, Washington, has just become the first such facility recognized by the International Swimming Hall of Fame. “The scientific research over…

Three-time Olympian Ashley Jackson is about to begin another gruelling pre-season, but for the first time in many years he is excited about a fresh, different challenge. Jackson is Great Britain’s all-time top goalscorer in field hockey, but he has not joined the Olympic squad as they prepare for Tokyo 2020. He has left field hockey behind, for now, to focus on his first love: ice hockey. Jackson is considered…

Instagrammers love soccer. That might be because soccer players love Instagram. Or because soccer is a global sport. Or because soccer is played year-round. But whatever the reason, soccer is the most popular sport on Instagram by a wide margin, according to Brandon Gayle, Instagram’s head of sports partnerships. Gayle says that 146 million of Instagram’s 700 million-plus users are “world football fans,” more than three times the number of…

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British Cycling is on the brink of failing to push through its governance reforms, putting £43m of Sport England and UK Sport funding in serious doubt. It is understood that it will fail to reach the required 75% majority vote in favour of the reforms at an emergency general meeting of British Cycling’s national council on Saturday. The governing body was warned that future funding is dependent on it adopting reforms…

x Embed x Share CLOSE IndyStar Motor Sports Insider Jim Ayello talks about NASCAR decision’s to reschedule the Brickyard 400. Jim Ayello/IndyStar Jul 7, 2017; Sparta, KY, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.(88) during qualifying for the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports(Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel, Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports) INDIANAPOLIS — For the legions of Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans in Indianapolis wondering which…

NASCAR XFINITY Series driver Brendan Gaughan and Richard Childress Racing engineer Ryan Isabell share what puts the speed in stock race cars with day campers at Rochester Museum & Science Center.(Photo: Rochester Museum & Science Center) Even though the annual arrival of NASCAR to upstate New York is a turn or two away, driver Brendan Gaughan took a rolling start Tuesday, talking science and racing in Rochester. Gaughan spent part of…

Instagrammers love soccer. That might be because soccer players love Instagram. Or because soccer is a global sport. Or because soccer is played year-round. But whatever the reason, soccer is the most popular sport on Instagram by a wide margin, according to Brandon Gayle, Instagram’s head of sports partnerships. Gayle says that 146 million of Instagram’s 700 million-plus users are “world football fans,” more than three times the number of…

x Embed x Share CLOSE AS Roma’s Kevin Strootman talks about the competition his teammates had with a few Michigan football players on Monday in Ann Arbor. Video by Brandon Folsom/Special to DFP AS Roma coach Eusebio Di Francesco(Photo: Brandon Folsom, Special to the DFP) Should Detroit get an MLS team, it could be a boon for the city.  Italian soccer club AS Roma and Paris Saint-Germain FC, two pro…

NASCAR XFINITY Series driver Brendan Gaughan and Richard Childress Racing engineer Ryan Isabell share what puts the speed in stock race cars with day campers at Rochester Museum & Science Center.(Photo: Rochester Museum & Science Center) Even with the annual arrival of NASCAR to upstate New York is a turn or two away, driver Brendan Gaughan took a rolling start Tuesday, talking science and racing in Rochester. Gaughan spent part of…

The executive who oversaw Spain’s rise to dominate world soccer in recent years was arrested Tuesday in an anti-corruption investigation, dealing yet another blow to the sport’s already-tarnished image. Angel Maria Villar, his son, Gorka Villar, and two other soccer officials were detained while raids were conducted at the federation headquarters and other properties, the state prosecutor and Spanish police said. The elder Villar, who has led the Spanish Football…

ROMANS-SUR-ISERE, France – Australian Michael Matthews accused German rival John Degenkolb of being a poor sport after his angry reaction to being beaten in a sprint for the line at the end of a windy 16th stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday. Sunweb rider Matthews won his second stage of the race after his team mates set a scorching pace at the head of the peloton to take…

Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar, FIFA’s senior vice president and a long-time player in world soccer, was arrested Tuesday along with his son and two more federation executives in an anti-corruption investigation. Villar, who is also a UEFA vice president, was suspected of having arranged matches for Spain that led to business deals that benefited his son, the office of the state prosecutor in charge of anti-corruption said….

NASCAR will return to its roots Wednesday on the dirt track of Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, for the Eldora Dirt Derby. Ty Dillon, along with defending Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter and rising star Christopher Bell, will be apart of the intense racing on the half-mile clay track. Wednesday’s event, which is one of the most popular in all of NASCAR, marks the fifth time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has…

Stephon Marbury was supposed to be one of the NBA’s best point guards. He was a phenom in Minnesota, but it was clear from his time with the Knicks that he couldn’t lead a team by himself. However, before that became evident he spent some time with Team USA during the 2004 Olympics. The ’04 team is of course the infamous group that came away from the Olympics with bronze….

After two years of “aggressive” short programs set to tango music, Gracie Gold and her new coach, Marina Zoueva, wanted something a little more “touchable” for the Olympic season. “The short programs are colder often because they’re so short. You’ve got to do everything in 2 [minutes], 50 [seconds],” Olympic team bronze medalist and two-time national champion Gold explained to NBCOlympics.com. “We hadn’t really done anything touchable with lyrics for…

It began as yet another scorching Saturday in central Arizona as scores of families flocked to the cool waters of a popular swimming hole, seeking relief from the 100-degree temperatures in the cities. Among them was an extended family of 14 from Phoenix. They gathered at the Cold Springs swimming hole in the Tonto National Forest, near Payson, to celebrate Maria Raya’s 26th birthday, their relatives told local media. At about 3 p.m., it…

Nine people were dead, including six children, and one man was missing after a flash flood roared through a popular Arizona swimming hole on Saturday afternoon. The deadly incident at the Cold Springs swimming hole in Tonto National Forest followed heavy rains that had spurred thunderstorm and flash flood warnings from the National Weather Service in areas scarred by a recent wildfire. Officials suspended their search Sunday evening but were…

Joe Tacopina has guided Venezia from Italy’s fourth division to the second division in two years.(Photo: Venezia FC) In terms of this week’s soccer friendlies, Tuesday’s Detroit City FC-Venezia FC encounter might be dismissed as an undercard to the following day’s AS Roma-Paris Saint Germain clash at Comerica Park. That would be shortsighted. Perhaps no soccer team has compiled a more compelling story than the Winged Lions of Venice. In…

Nine people died and a 13-year-old boy was missing Sunday after a furious flash flood tore through a group of family and friends cooling off in a creek in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Gila County Sheriff’s Det. David Hornung told the Associated Press that the group from the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas had met up for a day trip along the popular Cold Springs swimming hole near Payson…