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Jul 5, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

ROCK HILL, S.C.—With soccer’s popularity soaring in the United States, the kids who kick are becoming overshadowed by the parents who throw temper tantrums. A simple search of “soccer parents” on YouTube quickly turns into “soccer parents out of control.” The competitive juices have extended outside of the pitch and the outbursts are taking a toll on referees in the Palmetto State. “We’re only retaining about 30 percent of our…

CLIFFWOOD, N.J. — On a stormy Saturday, a group of young boys wearing red soccer uniforms and cleats in a dizzying array of colors clip-clopped out of the rain and into an old warehouse, where wealthy residents of this historic community along Raritan Bay once stored their antique cars. That space is now occupied by an unlikely tenant, and serving a very different clientele. Xolos Academy FC New Jersey,…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

Greg Biffle at Martinsville Speedway in October 2016. Photo credit: Daniel Shirey/Getty Images Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law filed a lawsuit against him that alleges hidden cameras and peeping inside of his home, according to WSOC-TV. The local station reports that the lawsuit alleges there were secret cameras in the master bedroom, bathroom and guest bedroom. Jalopnik couldn’t immediately obtain a copy of the complaint reported by…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

When I began writing The Last Wave, I didn’t set out to create a character who would swim the Channel. In fact, it just seemed natural to me that the wife of the man I saw so clearly at first – standing on a cliff, looking out to sea through the fog – was a swimmer. Once I settled on that idea, the years I’d spent in the water flooded…

Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press Rec-league hockey players in Buffalo set a record Monday for the longest hockey game ever recorded, coming in at nearly 11 full days in length. According to an Associated Press report (h/t ESPN.com), the players set a record of 10 days, 10 hours, three minutes and 21 seconds just after 7 a.m. ET Monday. The game was scheduled to continue until 8 a.m. Monday after beginning at 9…

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Sir Bradley Wiggins is Britain’s most decorated Olympian Sir Bradley Wiggins is a five-time Olympic cycling champion, but will the 37-year-old’s plans to swap his racing bike for a rowing boat see him reach a sixth Games? The 2012 Tour de France winner retired from cycling in December 2016 and has taken up rowing in the gym to keep fit. He first raised the idea of switching sports in his…

Caster Semenya, the Olympic 800m champion, may be banned from competing at future Games unless she undergoes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or even surgery in the wake of a landmark study into athletes with raised testosterone levels which has just been published. The International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body, commissioned research which has produced the most conclusive evidence yet that female athletes with very high levels of…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo’s hockey marathoners have overcome injuries, illness, fatigue and countless blisters to unofficially set the record for the longest continuous game. It happened shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, when the official time clock mounted in the stands overlooking center ice hit 10 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes and 21 seconds. The time surpassed the previous Guinness World Record mark…

Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch loves football. He seems less interested in futbol, at least based on his brief appearance at a charity soccer game over the weekend. Organized by former Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers player Steve Zakuani, the game featured Major League Soccer players, former NFL star (and soccer fan) Chad Johnson and Lynch. Beast Mode made his way to midfield to start the second half, a shift…

The academies are part of an effort by Club Tijuana — the Xoloitzcuintles, or more simply the Xolos — to appeal to fans on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Xolos was the first team in Mexico’s top division, Liga MX, to go bilingual in its public relations, and it has courted an American audience and American players since the team’s inception in 2007. Advertisement Continue reading the main…

Great Britain’s Christopher Froome waits for the start of the 203,5 km second stage of the 104th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 2, 2017 between Dusseldorf, Germany and Liege, Belgium. AFP LIEGE, Belgium—Chris Froome and his Sky team were under attack again on the opening weekend of the Tour de France, but not on the road. Having previously been accused of doping and using a…

Great Britain’s Christopher Froome waits for the start of the 203,5 km second stage of the 104th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 2, 2017 between Dusseldorf, Germany and Liege, Belgium. AFP LIEGE, Belgium—Chris Froome and his Sky team were under attack again on the opening weekend of the Tour de France, but not on the road. Having previously been accused of doping and using a…

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. raced to his second victory of the season — and second on a restrictor-plate track — Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. Stenhouse picked up his first career NACAR Cup Series win in May at Talladega. Just like last time, girlfriend Danica Patrick was there to greet him in victory lane — she had wrecked out shortly before and was the first person at his car window…