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6:38 PM ET Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior NHL writer for ESPN The Magazine Wrote for Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wrote for The Sporting News Close ESPN Staff Writer Columnist, ESPN.com Formerly at Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post Author of “The Rivals” Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment As the U.S. women’s national hockey team and USA Hockey officials continue their negotiations under the team’s looming boycott of the March…

The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West lost a significant championship contender over the weekend before the season could even start as Ryan Partridge was unable to secure his annual license to compete before the season opener at Tucson Speedway in Arizona. The 28-year-old finished second in the championship last season but wasn’t allowed on the track on Saturday night. The initial reason provided by NASCAR was that Partridge…

The four-time Cup champion and current FOX NASCAR analyst claims two different hometowns – Vallejo, California and Pittsboro, Indiana.  After starting in quarter-midgets in California, Gordon moved to the Hoosier State to move his way up the open-wheel sprint car ranks. Since his first full-time Premier Series season in 1993, Gordon racked up an incredible 93 career wins, 325 top fives, 477 top-10 finishes and 81 poles.  …

Pete Hamilton, who was at his best at NASCAR’s superspeedways, died Wednesday. He was 74. Hamilton won four career Cup races – including consecutive Daytona 500s in 1970 and ’71. He also won twice at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in 1971. Hamilton’s victory at Daytona in 1970 came in the No. 40 Plymouth Superbird of Petty Enterprises, for which he ran 16 races that season. The other Petty car – No….

The race teams of Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick received bad news from NASCAR as penalties were handed down Wednesday in the wake of last Sunday’s Monster Energy Cup Series race at Phoenix. After failing post-race inspection, the No. 2 Team Penske Ford of Keselowski was hit the hardest. Crew chief Paul Wolfe was fined $65,000 and suspended for the next three races, while Keselowski lost 35 driver points in…

12:46 PM ET Close ESPN Senior Writer Covers hockey for ESPN.com 10 years at Toronto Sun, Windsor Star and National Post Wrote best-selling true crime book “Deadly Innocence” Close ESPN Senior Writer Covers the NHL for ESPN.com and TSN in Canada Six years on the “Hockey Night In Canada” Hotstove panel 13 years at The Canadian Press national news agency Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Commissioner Gary…

10:35 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Mike Keenan is set to embark on the most extraordinary challenge of his hockey career. Considering that Keenan has served as head coach of eight NHL teams — the Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames — that is significant. Keenan, long known as Iron Mike for…

Pete Hamilton, who was at his best at NASCAR’s superspeedways, died Wednesday. He was 74. Hamilton won four career Cup races – including consecutive Daytona 500s in 1970 and ’71. He also won twice at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in 1971. Hamilton’s victory at Daytona in 1970 came in the No. 40 Plymouth Superbird of Petty Enterprises, for which he ran 16 races that season. The other Petty car – No….

facebook Share twitter Share Featuring on the Olympic programme for the first time at PyeongChang 2018 – alongside fellow debutants mixed doubles curling, big air snowboarding and mass-start speed skating – the Alpine skiing national mixed team event promises to provide quite a spectacle. Meeting in Lausanne on 8 June 2015, the IOC Executive Board finalised the programme for…

Mexican-born NASCAR driver Daniel Suarez acknowledges there’s a sort of familiarity when he comes to the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. In his first four races in the No. 19 car, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver has had one top-10 finish and is 21st in the point standings. Coming off a career-high finish in Phoenix last weekend, Suarez is looking to turn a corner on…

Sometimes, the best ideas aren’t new ideas at all. Sometimes, the best ideas are old ideas brought up to date with the times. From 1985-97, R.J. Reynolds sponsored something called “The Winston Million,” a $1 million bonus to any driver who could win three of NASCAR’s biggest four races in a single season: The Daytona 500, the spring Talladega race, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte and the Southern 500 at…

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March 21 (UPI) – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England helped rescue a fox trapped inside the net of a soccer goal. The fox was struggling to free itself from the side of the soccer net at a school in Hertfordshire when animal control officers arrived to cut it loose. Animal Collection Officer Grace Mead said the fox was uninjured and was released back…

This week’s winner Going Dutch in the saddle My tip would be to join Vrienden op de Fiets (vriendenopdefiets.nl/en), literally translated as Friends on Bikes, for an authentic cycling experience in the Netherlands.  Taking our bikes on the ferry to Rotterdam, we had a wonderful week navigating the car-free Dutch cycle paths that criss-cross this super-friendly country. Every afternoon, we would phone one of the 6,000 guest contacts that came…

A Tibetan women’s soccer team that said it was denied United States visas last month to attend a tournament in Texas has responded by organizing its own event in India. Billed as “The Never Give Up Cup,” the tournament will take place between April 2 and April 9 in the Clement Town Tibetan settlement in Dehradun, India. Tibet Women’s Soccer, the nonprofit whose team members had their visa applications rejected,…

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The country road at Lake Norman near Mooresville where NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was caught driving 128 mph is getting a roundabout to slow speeders and cut the number of wrecks. The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday about its proposed roundabout at Perth Road and Cornelius Road. The meeting will be at Troutman Town Hall, 400 North Eastway Drive ….

Ryan Newman celebrates with his team after winning the Camping World 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 19, 2017 in Avondale, Ariz.(Photo: Patrick Breen/azcentral sports) AVONDALE – Joey Logano may have cost Kyle Busch a win a week after the two got tangled at Las Vegas. Logano blew a tire with five laps remaining Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, bringing out a caution and bringing the leaders — including Busch —…

PHOENIX, Ariz. •  Blues fans enjoy watching Colton Parayko flying up and down the ice. Parayko says he likes speed, too, and the defenseman gets his fix in the form of racing. “Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR … every series,” the 23-year-old said. “My dad (Tom) has always been a racing fan and every Sunday the races were always on. I used to dirt bike race when…

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