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South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan banished memories of a dismal run at the Rio Olympics by winning his third gold medal at the FINA short course world swimming championships in the men’s 1,500 meters freestyle on Sunday in Windsor, Ontario. Having already triumphed in the 200 and 400 freestyle, Park swam neck-and-neck with world record holder Gregorio Paltrinieri in the early stages of the 1,500 before pulling away to take the…

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Two bombs exploded less than a minute apart, killing 29 people and wounding 166 outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Saturday night, in a co-ordinated attack on police shortly after a match between two of Turkey’s top teams. First a car bomb exploded outside the Vodafone Arena, home to Istanbul’s Besiktas soccer team, leaving flaming wreckage on the street. Forty-five seconds later, a suspect wearing explosives detonated them while…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Twin attacks by a suicide bomber and a car bomber near an Istanbul soccer stadium Saturday night killed 29 people and wounded 166 others in the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security threats. The bombs targeted police officers, killing 27 of them along with two civilians, Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters early Sunday. He added that 10 people had…

ISTANBUL Turkey on Sunday vowed vengeance against Kurdish militants it said were likely behind twin bombings that killed 38 people and wounded 155 in what appeared to be a coordinated attack on police outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul. The blasts on Saturday night – a car bomb outside the Vodafone Arena, home to Istanbul’s Besiktas soccer team, followed by a suicide bomb attack in an adjacent park less than…

ISTANBUL Turkey said on Sunday that Kurdish militants may be responsible for the two bombs that killed 29 people and wounded 166 in an apparent coordinated attack on police outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul after a match between two top teams. The blasts on Saturday night – a car bomb outside the Vodafone Arena home to Istanbul’s Besiktas soccer team followed by a suicide bomb attack in an adjacent…

TOKYO –  Tokyo held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday for a $1.5 billion National Stadium to host the 2020 Olympic Games. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and other dignitaries launched the construction at the site of the demolished National Stadium, which was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, by putting their hands on a glass sphere that rotated through pastels of the colors of the Olympic…

Rescue and medics carry a wounded person after attacks in Istanbul, late Saturday. Two explosions struck outside a major soccer stadium in Istanbul after fans had gone home. Cansu Alkaya/AP hide caption toggle caption Cansu Alkaya/AP Rescue and medics carry a wounded person after attacks in Istanbul, late Saturday. Two explosions struck outside a major soccer stadium in Istanbul after fans had gone home. Cansu Alkaya/AP Updated at 9:30 ET…

Turkish police officer cordon off the roads leading to the area of the Besiktas football club stadium, in Istanbul, late Saturday. Two loud explosions have been heard near the newly-built soccer stadium. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Istanbul explosions within Turkey. Emrah Gurel/AP hide caption toggle caption Emrah Gurel/AP Turkish police officer cordon off the roads leading to the area of the Besiktas football club…

Sure it’s sometimes tough being a soccer fan in America. For instance, the MLS Cup (the championship game for the major soccer league in America) hasn’t even been broadcast live on an English-language network since 2008! But tonight that changes. Fox is airing the MLS Cup tonight between Toronto FC and the Seattle Sounders starting at 8pm ET. And to make up for the lack of attention Soccer typically gets, they are…

TORNTO – Hosting MLS Cup is, without a doubt, a milestone for Toronto FC and the city of Toronto. “We were told that if we could turn the franchise around we’d be amazed by the support we’d get and that’s what we saw,” TFC coach Greg Vanney said in reference to the team’s fans on Thursday. “They’re ready to explode and get behind our group and help get us across…

Lion hunting is an age-old tradition for Maasai tribes in southern Kenya, which used the sport as a rite of passage from adolescence to manhood for young male tribe members. With the encouragement of conservationists, amid a drop in the lion population, Maasai warriors are finding other ways to maintain their cultural identity and prove their leadership.  The third edition of the Maasai Olympics, which are being held…

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“For whatever reason that was just my initial gut reaction and it feels important to me that that’s owed to Alex,” Earnhardt said on a conference call Friday, one day after NASCAR issued medical clearance for him to return to competition. “He deserves it. It is a bit of a tip of the cap to not only his pole win and how well he did at Phoenix, but how he stepped…

“For whatever reason that was just my initial gut reaction and it feels important to me that that’s owed to Alex,” Earnhardt said on a conference call Friday, one day after NASCAR issued medical clearance for him to return to competition. “He deserves it. It is a bit of a tip of the cap to not only his pole win and how well he did at Phoenix, but how he stepped…

RELATED: Junior: ‘Stronger than before’ | Earnhardt medically cleared Rick Hendrick considers it a wonderful early Christmas present. Having Dale Earnhardt Jr. medically cleared to resume driving Hendrick’s No. 88 Chevrolet has been six months in the making. And the whole storied, championship organization couldn’t be happier with Thursday’s official word that NASCAR’s reigning Most Popular Driver will be behind the wheel for the 2017 season after missing the final…

Cycling, Britain’s most successful sport at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, has suffered a 4.29 million-pound ($5.4 million) funding cut in the build-up to the 2020 Games in Tokyo, UK Sport announced on Friday. Four of Britain’s less successful Olympic sports — archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting — have lost all their funding completely along with the Paralympic sport of wheelchair rugby. Britain’s cyclists won 12 medals in Rio,…

x Embed x Share An investigation found that Russian athletes were involved in a state-run doping system. USA TODAY Sports Russia flag bearer Sergei Tetyukhin leads the team into the stadium during the opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games.(Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Sports) Russia’s state-sponsored doping program corrupted the London Olympics on an “unprecedented scale,” and probably did much the same to the Sochi Games. So…

MOSCOW Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock’n’roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll Center will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion roubles, according to state tender documents available online, and will be…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on five of the biggest questions in NASCAR as the offseason begins: Turn 1: Are you surprised Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming back? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Three or four months ago I would have been surprised, but all indications have been that Dale Jr. had been making progress and has the desire to once again compete. I was…