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Using his most emphatic language to date, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday that the league will not take a break next season to allow players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In addition, he said the 2018 NHL All-Star Game has been awarded to Tampa, which reinforces his resolve because the league has not held its All-Star festivities during recent Olympic seasons. NHL players…

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They have popped up in the scablands of eastern Washington and along Lake Michigan. They have come to prominence during the Gilded Age and in the new Millennium. They have all, at one point or another, shocked, dominated or captivated a sport. What made college sports’ one-sport wonders what they are? The typical formula for success dictates that a school build football and basketball into cash machines, with the revenue…

Is there anyone like that on the Penguins? Well, a guy named Phil Kessel won a Stanley Cup in his first season with the Penguins last year. He’s awesome and goofy and really good at scoring goals. Toronto basically ran him out of town, too. Why did they do that? The team stunk so some of the media unfairly pinned it on him and said he was…

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Is there anyone like that on the Penguins? Well, a guy named Phil Kessel won a Stanley Cup in his first season with the Penguins last year. He’s awesome and goofy and really good at scoring goals. Toronto basically ran him out of town, too. Why did they do that? The team stunk so some of the media unfairly pinned it on him and said he was…

Austin Dillon passed an out-of-gas Jimmie Johnson two laps from the end in the Coca-Cola 600 for his first NASCAR Cup victory, returning the iconic No. 3 car to Victory Lane early Monday. Dillon, the grandson of Hall of Fame car owner Richard Childress, was among several drivers who chose not to pit down the stretch. Johnson ran out of fuel on Lap 399, and Dillon was able to cruise…

Chase Elliott and Brad Keselowski entered Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 as two of the favorites to possibly win the 400-lap race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Then they exited together. Just 19 laps into the race, debris flew off the back of Jeffery Earnhardt’s car as he rounded Turn 4. Elliott attempted to dodge the material and some leaked oil, but he lost control, prompting Keselowski to plow into the back of…

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RELATED: NASCAR holds pit crew combine | Learn about the Drive for Diversity program CONCORD, N.C. — The pit guns are buzzing. Lug nuts are flying off tires. There’s chatter and instruction back and forth. Encouragement, competitive banter. It’s a money stop taking place not on pit road in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event, but in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity National Pit Crew Development Combine Presented by…

Bruce Arena’s U.S. squad will face Trinidad and Tobago on June 8 outside of Denver and Mexico on June 11 in Mexico City. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) In Bruce Arena’s first gathering of the U.S. men’s national soccer team this winter, every candidate from Europe and most from Mexico were not available because of club commitments. When he summoned a couple dozen for two 2018 World Cup qualifiers in March,…

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DOUGLAS, Mass. — Authorities in Massachusetts say a young woman apparently drowned while swimming in the Whitin Reservoir in Douglas, CBS Boston reports. The woman was with three male friends when they went swimming at about 2:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon. The 18-year-old woman went under and her three companions say she did not return to the surface. Douglas Police received the 911 call and sent officers and dive units to…

There will be no shortage of auto racing on Sunday as IndyCar, Formula One and NASCAR will all be in action. First up, it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, followed by the 101st Indianapolis 500 with the Coca-Cola 600 serving as the finale. Just a week after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race, Kyle Busch will look for continued success at Charlotte Motor Speedway as he pursues a spot in…

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: For the athletes, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio were full of triumph and defeat, victory laps and tears, all the usual themes. But the legacy of those games for the host city… (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The Rio Olympic organizers have a $40 million debt for setting up Olympic facilities that are now in decay. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: A brand new velodrome built at huge…

Mexico international Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez became the nation’s all-time leading goal scorer on Saturday night, scoring in the 2-1 loss to Croatia to reach 47 goals and pass Jared Borgetti. He headed home late to earn his place atop the goal scoring chart. Take a look:  Not the fanciest goal in the world, but a monumental moment for the striker. Considering he is just 28 (his birthday is June 1),…

VANCOUVER — A push to grow girls hockey on Vancouver Island is being criticized by some parents, but one advocate says the controversial move is the only way to save the sport from attrition. The Vancouver Island Amateur Hockey Association has put forward a resolution that would require all girls play on a female-only team. Any girls who want to play on a co-ed team as well would be allowed…

Forecasting for the NASCAR Monster Energy Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway is a challenge. There seems to always be a threat of rain Memorial Day weekend. Even more complicated is when the storms are scattered in nature. What does that mean? Predicting how scattered the storms will be is challenging. It can be like dropping marbles onto a checkered floor and trying to predict on which square each marble…