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LONDON is hosting a heroes’ return later today, as Olympic and Paralympic athletes are celebrated in the capital – following their success at Rio 2016. It’s the second homecoming parade this week, after celebrations took place in Manchester yesterday afternoon. Boxer Nicola Adams was one of the stars of yesterday’s parade Along with rower and two-time Olympic champion Helen Glover Rio 2016 was one of Britain’s most successful games ever,…

The president of Amherst College is commending the men’s soccer team after one of its players penned an open letter in the Huffington Post, sharply critizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about women and his excuse for those comments: “locker room talk.” President Biddy Martin said the letter “exemplifies Amherst’s values in multiple ways.” Advertisement It was written by senior David Lander and published on Sunday. “I commend David,…

In Taiwanese professional baseball, the action on the field could rarely compete with the action off it — a long string of game-fixing scandals that threatened to destroy the league. Players in cahoots with gambling rings would lose games on purpose, as the Chicago White Sox famously did in the World Series in 1919. One scandal implicated 26 active or former players on the same team, the Brother Elephants. Fans…

x Embed x Share Each of the four remaining teams in the MLB playoffs is dealing with a World Series drought, some longer than others. USA TODAY Sports (From left, to right): President of baseball operations Theo Epstein, senior vice president Jason McLeod, general manager Jed Hoyer and Chairman Tom Ricketts pose before a Cubs game.(Photo: Steve Green, Chicago Cubs) LOS ANGELES –They are baseball’s version of the Rat Pack,…

Fell through a glass table after waking up from a dream that spiders were eating him. 

TORONTO A Canadian judge dismissed a late attempt to bar Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians from using their controversial logo and team nickname during Monday’s playoff game versus the host Toronto Blue Jays. The legal challenge by prominent Canadian architect and indigenous activist Douglas Cardinal was heard in a Toronto court hours before the Blue Jays host the Indians in Game Three of their American League Championship series. Lawyers for…

African players are hoping to hit the big time, as Major League Baseball (MLB) launches a talent hunt in the continent. Leagues are springing up and coaches and scouts travel across Africa looking for the next big star. The BBC spent time with one young man hoping to make it to the MLB’s “Elite Africa” training camp taking place in Johannesburg later this year. Video Journalist: Christian Parkinson

After the 49ers-Bills game Sunday, the losing team’s quarterback stepped to the podium for his postgame press conference. The primary line of questioning wasn’t about football. “To pay homage,” Colin Kaepernick said as he wore a Muhammad Ali T-shirt. The quarterback’s team had just lost to the Bills, 45-16, dropping the 49ers to 1-5, but that didn’t seem to be Kaepernick’s primary concern, either. He went on. “He was someone…

Enlarge this image Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning. A high school teacher is reading out loud from a sample recommendation letter when she notices a few students fidgeting and texting. “I’m not seeing all eyes …” she says, her voice trailing off. Naama Wrightman, who is coaching the teacher, jumps in. “All right, pause. It’s the right correction….

After the 49ers-Bills game Sunday, the losing team’s quarterback stepped to the podium for his postgame press conference. The primary line of questioning wasn’t about football. “To pay homage,” Colin Kaepernick said as he wore a Muhammad Ali T-shirt. The quarterback’s team had just lost to the Bills, 45-16, dropping the 49ers to 1-5, but that didn’t seem to be Kaepernick’s primary concern, either. He went on. “He was someone…

BAY SHORE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The NBA is telling parents that they shouldn’t let their kids focus on any one sport until they are 14 years old. CBS2’s Jessica Layton reports the recommendations are based on advice from experts. The NBA announced new youth sports guidelines which include: delay specializing in one sports until the child turns at least 14; limit the amount of days and time they are competing…

Think of the Philadelphia 76ers, and you think first of Dr. J, Allen Iverson and a long drought since their last NBA championship. Now you should also think of e-sports. Last month, the Sixers became the first professional sports franchise in the US to enter the ranks of the wildly popular e-sports realm, acquiring not one but two teams and merging them under the Team Dignitas banner. On Monday, Team…

Wearing sparkly hats and waving Union flags, more than 150,000 well-wishers gathered on the streets of Manchester today to celebrate Team GB’s stunning performance in Rio. Excited fans draped in red, white and blue waited for hours along the parade route as they prepared to welcome Britain’s triumphant Olympian and Paralympians to the city. Matt Whitlock, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Ellie Simmonds were among the sporting stars taking part in the…

As a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan, Bob Higgins relished Sunday’s Game 2 victory over the Cubs. And for the sake of his marriage, he relished Saturday’s Game 1 loss. “I did text him during the game,” Bob’s wife, Jo Higgins, told me, “saying if he brought home a Los Angeles victory, the locks would be changed.” The Higgins, who live in Hinsdale, share a deeply rooted love for baseball and…

Think of the Philadelphia 76ers, and you think first of Dr. J, Allen Iverson and a long drought since their last NBA championship. Now you should also think of e-sports. Last month, the Sixers became the first professional sports franchise in the US to enter the ranks of the wildly popular e-sports realm, acquiring not one but two teams and merging them under the Team Dignitas banner. On Monday, Team…

There was room for both Cristiano Ronaldo and Steven Gerrard in the combined Liverpool-Manchester United XI There was no room for Sir Bobby Charlton or Eric Cantona – and Ian Rush and Kevin Keegan did not make the cut either. More than 150,000 BBC Sport users picked their greatest combined post-war Liverpool-Manchester United XI, and there were obviously some agonising decisions. Seven United players made the team and, as you…

Michael Bisping has plenty of experience facing off against chemically enhanced opponents. Throughout the course of his UFC career, Bisping has fought at least six opponents who have either failed a drug test at some point or used synthetic testosterone before the practice was banned in the sport. So it’s easy to understand why Bisping is one of the most outspoken advocates for drug testing in mixed martial arts not…

What stood out to me from our Sports Media & Technology conference held earlier this month in Manhattan Beach, Calif.: ■ The Twitter Experiment Advertisers are griping about Twitter’s low NFL viewership figures, which are coming in well below expectations. But sports media’s top executives say any focus on streaming numbers misses the main point of the deal. Twitter’s NFL deal is one of the top sports media storylines…

Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s new president, has ambitious plans. They are, however, easy to execute and may help further the goals of some of the soccer body’s major sponsors.  Planned total of teams in World Cup 48 For a start, Infantino is pledging to invest $4 billion to increase the number of football participants to 60 percent of the world’s population, from the current 45 percent. Guess what: He doesn’t have to…