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Here’s something you may not have known — soccer in Rwanda is lit. In a recent match in the African nation, Mukura Victory was leading Rayon Sports 1-0 when Moussa Camara headed a ball off the post as he tried to bring his team level. He then ran to the post and put something next to it which supposedly was him trying to use witchcraft on the post. What happens…

Sir Bradley Wiggins has announced his retirement from cycling, calling time on a 16-year career as a professional in which he won the Tour de France and a record eight Olympic medals. In a statement posted on his Instagram account the 2012 Tour winner said he had “been lucky enough to live a dream and fulfil my childhood aspiration of making a living and career out of the sport I…

Russian officials have admitted to working a far-reaching doping operation that implicated dozens of Russian athletes at not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but across several Olympic Games, the New York Times reports. “It was an institutional conspiracy,”  Russia’s national anti-doping agency acting director Anna Antseliovich told The Times. Over the past year, the New York Times has reported that former anti-doping lab chief Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov helped tampered with urine…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment MONTREAL — Kasper Krog made 34 saves and Denmark held on to upset defending champion Finland 3-2 on Tuesday in preliminary-round play at the world junior hockey championship. William Boysen and David Madsen scored to make it 2-0 for Denmark (1-1-0) after 20 minutes at Bell Centre, and Joachim Blichfeld added another in the second period for a three-goal lead entering the…

There were moments when sport in its purest form shone through in 2016, despite everything. An encounter with Amy Tinkler, for example, who stood 4ft 9ins tall and wore size 3 shoes in the Olympic gymnastics venue in Rio De Janeiro, from where she was about to return in to England’s North East to collect her GCSE results. She had just won an Olympic gymnastics individual bronze and was so…

A few disappointments aside, it was all about Indian hockey’s phenomenal rise in stature, both on and off the field, in 2016 with a historic silver medal in the Champions Trophy and Junior World Cup title after a hiatus of 15 years being the biggest achievements. If the Champions Trophy silver, gold in Asian Champions Trophy and Junior World Cup title were the high points on the turf, former Hockey…

Former men’s U.S. national team soccer coach Bob Bradley was fired as manager of Swansea of the English Premier League after just 11 games. Bradley was the first American to be hired to manage a Premier League team, and his term lasted 85 days. In 11 league matches, the Swans picked up just eight points, and its defending was a major shortcoming. Monday’s 4-1 home loss to West Ham was…

Russian officials have admitted to working a far-reaching doping operation that implicated dozens of Russian athletes at not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but across several Olympic Games, the New York Times reports. “It was an insitutional conspiracy,”  Russia’s national anti-doping agency acting director Anna Antseliovich told The Times. Over the past year, the New York Times has reported that former anti-doping lab chief Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov helped tampered…

On the seventh day of the Games, it seemed, for a brief, bewildering moment, as though a bomb had gone off in the Olympic Park. A thunderclap sounded around the aquatics stadium and echoed across the food court. No one fled. Instead everyone sped towards the scene. It turned out that Brazilian police had detonated a discarded rucksack – they later explained that it had contained a jacket and a…

There were moments when sport in its purest form shone through in 2016, despite everything. An encounter with Amy Tinkler, for example, who stood 4ft 9ins tall and wore size 3 shoes in the Olympic gymnastics venue in Rio De Janeiro, from where she was about to return in to England’s North East to collect her GCSE results. She had just won an Olympic gymnastics individual bronze and was so…

“No technical factor was part of the accident, everything involved human error, added to a management factor in the company’s administration and the management and organization of the flight plans by the authorities in Bolivia,” Colombia’s Secretary for Air Safety Colonel Freddy Bonilla told journalists. Aviation authorities in Bolivia and the airline “accepted conditions for the flight presented in the flight plan that were unacceptable,” Bonilla added. Besides a lack…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Clayton Keller scored twice and the United States overcame a slow start to beat Latvia 6-1 at the world junior hockey championship on Monday. Patrick Harper opened the scoring for the Americans 6:27 into the game, but Renars Krastenbergs responded for Latvia to make it 1-1 after the first period in the tournament opener for both teams at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre….

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Caption Close Schenectady Kyle Rentz is hardly big in stature, so hearing La Salle hockey coach Tim Flanigan describing him as someone who “stood tall” seemed odd. It also happened to be an accurate description of the diminutive sophomore backup goalie’s standout work Monday evening. Rentz, facing a late 5-on-3 power-play chance from West Seneca, turned aside point-blank shots from forwards Mike Velasquez and Ian Barker to help complete the…

August 7, 2012: Dodge announces that it is leaving the NASCAR Sprint Cup series (no, we’re not ready to call it the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup series yet). Then Dodge, driver Brad Keselowski and team owner Roger Penske go on to win the 2012 championship. This leaves Chevrolet, Toyota and Ford to compete in 2013 and beyond. December 4, 2016: Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, at Daytona International Speedway as…

(L-R) Marcellus Gomes, Mervyn Fernandes, MK Kaushik, Mohd Shahid, Syed Ali, Charanjit Singh, Zafar Iqbal and Surender Sodhi during a camp in Patiala for the 1981-82 World Cup. Dhyan Chand, Shahid, Ali and Iqbal are all products of hockey nurseries in UP. The stadium had lost its voice. But Syed Ali couldn’t care less. He is on his feet, shaking his head in disbelief and applauding a fine goal. He…

Editor’s note: Images courtesy of Georgia Tech athletics/Danny Karnik   A college football player leaving school early to pursue his dream of being in a professional sport is not unusual. In that regard, Eason Fromayan will not be alone when he departs Georgia Tech following the team’s Dec. 31 bowl game with one season of eligibility remaining.   Fromayan, a large fellow at 6-foot-4, 285 pounds, has decided to step…

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  Hey remember a few years ago when they had the Olympics in Sochi, and USA Hockey produced a pretty underwhelming team? You know what I mean: When the brain trust left some of the best players at their positions in the whole world home because of things like a perceived lack of hustle or because they had bad dreams and really only wanted to beat Canada? That team ended…

The NASCAR Foundation has joined efforts to support a comprehensive relief campaign for those affected by the recent tragic fires in Sevier County, Tennessee, with a contribution to the Food City Charitable Foundation. Led by Food City’s President and CEO Steve C. Smith, action was taken quickly to build a response to the tragedy through the Food City Charitable Foundation. Bristol Motor Speedway contributed to the effort with a company-wide…