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Marshall Faulk was unable to play last season due to a knee injury that threatened to end his career. He will officially end his playing days for football on Monday when he announces his retirement at the NFL owners meetings. Faulk was the NFL Most Valuable Player in 2000 and Offensive Player of the Year three years running from 1999-2001. The 34-year-old was a big help for the Rams to let them win their only Super Bowl after the ‘99 season. He is ninth on the career rushing list with 12,279 yards and tied for sixth with 100 rushing touchdowns.

A little school from Alabama makes it all the way to the NCAA hockey tournament as the longtime coach prepares to skate off into the sunset. We’re probably the talk of college hockey right now because of what we did,” said coach Doug Ross, who is retiring after 25 years. “People didn’t think we could do that.” What they did was come from behind in all three games to win the College Hockey America tournament, overcoming a 4-0 deficit in the championship game against Robert Morris on Sunday, to claim an automatic NCAA berth.

The plans that were made for a $500 million baseball stadium for the Florida Marlins in downtown Miami was thrown a sharp curve Tuesday as Miami-Dade County commissioners decided to put the Orange Bowl back in play. Led by Commissioner Joe Martinez, the panel argued at a proposal that was being pushed by Mayor Carlos Alvarez and County Manager George Burgess to build a stadium on 9 acres of government-owned land on Northwest Third Street.

As we enter into this week’s two-day Car of Tomorrow test session at Bristol Motor Speedway, the No. 1 question on that everyone was asking was how the spec car’s front splitter would react to damage. Clint Bowyer answered that question firsthand Thursday morning. Bowyer was in the middle of a long run and was nearly ready to bring his No. 07 Chevrolet back to pit road when he lost it in Turn 4 and hit the wall.