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GOLF COURSE SOLD ... HOCKEY ON HOLD

  Bummer … It’s all but official … that Sycamore Creek Golf Course is being sold to the Eagle Construction of Virginia … that will turn the prime land east of Manakin Road in Goochland County into yet more family houses and condominiums … Still unknown is whether Mid-Atlantic will retain the land west of Route 623 which has included holes 3 through 8 since the public course opened in 1992. …… .  Plans for the return of ice hockey here have been  put on hold … even as discussions are ongoing among  several interested parties … Originally, the Henrico  Sports and Entertainment Authority hoped to have a  17,000-seat coliseum built and operational by late  2025 … with the ECHL (formerly the East Coast  Hockey League) first in line … with ownership of the  local franchise by come-here millionaire  FRED  FESTA , former owner of the ECHL Greenville (S.C.)  Swamp Rabbits … Now, construction is not expected  to begin until later this year (if then) … thereby  pushing the earliest hockey can cal
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NOTING RANGER RUMORS, SLIPPERY STAIRS AND MORE

  It’s all  CHRIS DRURY ’s fault. The NHL Rangers’  general manager told reporters “everything is on the  table” after the Broadway Blueshirts were eliminated  by eventual-champion Florida in the Stanley Cup  semifinals, four games to two. In other words, no player  was exempt from moving on … that is, if the price was  right. Make us an offer … What followed in  the 26 days since then has been rampant with  speculation … which is not unusual in the Big Apple  … where everybody in the news media is an expert  (just ask them) and think they know something nobody  else does … So, depending on the source, captain   JACOB TROUBA , a right-handed defenseman who  makes $8 million annually – with two more years to go  at that inflated price – and was terrible in the playoffs  (playing with a broken ankle) after being minus 4  during the regular season, will be/won’t be traded ...  Same goes for  RYAN LINDGREN , injury-prone but  tough, reliable left-handed defenseman who was plus  22 during t
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AS EXPECTED, RICHMOND LOSING NASCAR RACE

  Once NASCAR announces the 2025 Cup schedule (any day now) it becomes official … Richmond is losing one of its two traditional dates on the sanctioning body’s top circuit. The spring race will be replaced by a new event outside the country – in either Mexico or Canada – although Homestead, Fla., is considered a possibility … for one year only. Nobody should be surprised that NASCAR is pulling a  race from Richmond Raceway … which was among  the original tracks when  BILL FRANCE SR ., started  building his stock car racing empire more than 75  years ago. Once International Speedway Corporation,  which acquired the 3/4-mile asphalt track in 1999 for  $217 million then, in turn, sold it to NASCAR for a  reported $2 billion 14 years ago, the loss was  inevitable. Originally a local labor of love by promoter  PAUL  SAWYER , the man who turned a half-mile dirt course  into a one-of-a-kind speedway that, in its heyday,  attracted crowds of 100,000 (even more), the track at  Strawberry Hill l
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SOCCER STUFF; KICKERS NEED HELP

  It has been obvious for some time that your Richmond Kickers professional soccer team needs to find someone (or someones) who can put the ball in the net. Saturday night, before a small crowd at City Stadium, the offensive-poor Roos dropped a 2-0 USL LeagueOne decision to Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC … How bad was it? Well … the home team managed one shot on goal against  EDWARD DELGADO , who entered with a bloated goals-against 1.50 … The Kickers didn’t have a corner kick until the 81 st  minute … The shutout … sorry, clean sheet … was the visitors’ first of the season in league play. Tenth-place Richmond has been blanked five times, scoring a total of 11 goals in 10 games for a minus 6 overall … Only No. 9 Chattanooga has allowed more goals (20 to 17). Three-times league-leading scorer and MVP EMILLIANO TERZAGHI  made his third  appearance of the season in the 53d minute for the  Kickers … but the most notable thing the Argentinian  striker did was pu sh down a yappy opponent – a
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