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Elinor Barker claimed her third medal of the Track Cycling World Championships on Sunday with a brilliant gold in the women’s points race. Barker won her second silver medal on Saturday, taking second place in the inaugural women’s Madison alongside Emily Nelson. She was also determined to prevail in the 100-lap (25km) points race, which featured 10 sprints, on Sunday’s final day of competition after also finishing second in the…

The Blues’ suffocation of the Minnesota Wild offense began before Game 1 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series and there is a direct correlation to the date. It started on March 7, Mike Yeo’s first game against the club that fired him. He had just taken over the Blues, from Ken Hitchcock. The Blues allowed just one goal to one of the NHL’s most potent offenses,…

Seven races into this Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, one thing is certain. Stage points and stage wins are so meaningful under NASCAR’s new race format that drivers are starting to ramp up the intensity when it comes time to put the pedal to the metal and go for them. You saw it on the short track at Martinsville, when Kyle Busch and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. tangled at the…

Caption Close GEORGETOWN – This wasn’t about going undefeated for Rennie Rebe and her Pflugerville Hendrickson Hawks. Seven times before 2017, Rebe led soccer teams to regional tournaments, which included a run with Kingwood to the region final in 2008. And seven times before 2017, her teams lost on the doorstep of the state tournament. So Rebe loaded up the schedule – Hendrickson’s first seven games featured five recent state…

For the first time in decades, the powerhouse that is women’s soccer in the United States finds itself at a crossroads. On the one hand: three World Cup trophies and four Olympic gold medals, the most hardware for any women’s national team. On the other: a jarring trend of America’s most accomplished and marketable star players being lured away to play professionally in the relative luxury of Europe. This year,…

Unbeaten Dallas Highland Park allowed just 10 goals all season, four in six playoff games. But Aledo scored right away and for a while gave the No. 1 team in the nation all it could handle. The Scots scored four quick goals in the first half and added another in the second to beat the Bearcats 5-3 in the Class 5A girls state soccer final at Birkelbach Field on Saturday….

The first modern Olympic Games started in Athens on May 25, 1896 under the old calendar, which is April 6 of today, thus marking the 121st Anniversary of the modern Olympics. The last successful tournament was in London in 2012. Today, the Olympics is in crisis and requires a major rethink to ensure a stellar future. Unlike the Football World Cups or Euro championships, which are multi-billion businesses sustained by…

A recent Under-16 hockey game in Czech Republic took an ugly, ugly turn when a wild brawl broke out toward the end of the contest. The donnybrook not only involved several players from both teams …. but one of the game’s on-ice officials as well. The incident came during the annual Easter Cup — an annual international tournament held in the spring — and saw HC Brest and Liba Academy 11 Kosice go at it during the bronze medal…

4:00 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CHICAGO — Patrick Kane was still eight years short of being born when the “Miracle on Ice” U.S. Olympic hockey team shook the world, while Marcus Kruger was just 3 years old for one of the greatest moments in Sweden’s Olympic history. But the Blackhawks teammates say much of their hockey upbringing was based on the two events. “That…

The Derby della Madonnina (or Milan Derby, if you prefer not saying fun words) is back on the menu this Saturday. Inter and A.C. Milan’s rivalry dates back all the way to the early 1900s, and while both sides haven’t been the powerhouses of years ago there’s still plenty of drama. Inter, with goal-scoring threat Mauro Icardi, are just two points back of their crosstown rivals. A win would see…

April 14th should be a day when we at FOXSports.com helped Steve Byrnes celebrate his 58th birthday. Instead, we celebrate his legacy on this day. Byrnes, who spent more than 30 years in the television business, died April 21, 2015 from head and neck cancer. Byrnes joined the FOX Sports family in 2001, hosting and reporting for multiple NASCAR programs and serving as a pit road reporter for…

Eddie Dawkins from the Mens Sprint team training after the UCI World Cup squad was announced at the Avantidrome in Cambridge in 2015. Photo / Greg Bowker At the end of last year, Cycling New Zealand took a financial hit because of a disappointing medal return from the Rio Olympics. Half a million dollars of cycling’s chunk of change went elsewhere when the Government funding arm, High…

Dana Vollmer describes what it’s like to continue swimming competitively while six months pregnant by saying, “It feels like I have a bowling ball hanging from my stomach.” As a five-time Olympic gold medalist, there is very little Dana Vollmer hasn’t been able to overcome in the water. In her world-record 100-meter butterfly victory at the 2012 London Olympics, she lost her swim cap. In Rio last August, she won…

The Derby della Madonnina (or Milan Derby, if you prefer not saying fun words) is back on the menu this Saturday. Inter and A.C. Milan’s rivalry dates back all the way to the early 1900s, and while both sides haven’t been the powerhouses of years ago there’s still plenty of drama. Inter, with goal-scoring threat Mauro Icardi, are just two points back of their crosstown rivals. A win would see…

Dana Vollmer describes what it’s like to continue swimming competitively while six months pregnant by saying, “It feels like I have a bowling ball hanging from my stomach.” As a five-time Olympic gold medalist, there is very little Dana Vollmer hasn’t been able to overcome in the water. In her world-record 100-meter butterfly victory at the 2012 London Olympics, she lost her swim cap. In Rio last August, she won…

NASCAR’s premier series entitlement sponsor Monster Energy was awarded brand of the year and recognized as a luminary honoree at the sixth annual 2017 Cynopsis Sports Media Awards on Thursday morning in New York City.   NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Global Sales and Marketing Officer Steve Phelps presented Monster Energy with the Gem Award, which honors the brand of the year. Monster Energy Senior Vice President of Marketing…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Bristol All these seasons (16), all these Monster Energy NASCAR Cup win trophies (81) and all those Hall of Fame-ready championships (seven) later, the perpetually good-natured Jimmie Johnson can still smile when people wonder if his success train has derailed. Even a bit. His victory Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway – now giving him a winner’s cowboy hat for every day of the week…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series takes a week off: Turn 1: Ryan Blaney led the most laps Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, the most laps a Wood Brothers Racing entry has led in one Cup race since 1981. Where were you and what were you doing in April…

Oh, Nashville. Your inferiority complex is starting to get the best of you. As if Jay Cutler moving back there wasn’t bad enough, Nashville now has to endure another close encounter of the Chicago kind: a playoff series with the Blackhawks. The cover of Thursday’s Tennessean, the city’s fine newspaper, features a photo illustration of a saber-tooth cat with a mouthful of feathers – four feathers, to be exact, in a…

At the Monster Energy All-Star race on May 20th at Charlotte Motor Speedway, NASCAR will introduce a bold new element: a second Goodyear tire compound for teams to use during the race.  Goodyear will bring its standard tire set – known as “Prime” — for teams, along with a softer tire combination known as the “Option” set. The Prime tires will carry traditional yellow Goodyear logos, the Option tires…