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Despite promises of a ‘legacy’ and a million people being inspired to take up sport after 2012, there was a decrease in participation  Labour politician Lee Waters said sports clubs had been ‘brought to the brink’ by funding cuts while top athletes were ‘prioritised’  He said: ‘An obsession with medals risks the future of grassroots sports’ By Eleanor Harding and Mario Ledwith for the Daily Mail Published: 19:45 EST, 22…

A volunteer for the Special Olympics was dismayed at the pomp and show at the felicitation ceremony organised by the Telangana government for PV Sindhu at the Gachibowli stadium in Hyderabad on Monday. He told me how a few months back, when the national coaching camp ahead of the Special Olympics for softball and floor hockey was to be held, they asked for permission to use the stadium for practise….

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

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Despite promises of a ‘legacy’ and a million people being inspired to take up sport after 2012, there was a decrease in participation  Labour politician Lee Waters said sports clubs had been ‘brought to the brink’ by funding cuts while top athletes were ‘prioritised’  He said: ‘An obsession with medals risks the future of grassroots sports’ By Eleanor Harding and Mario Ledwith for the Daily Mail Published: 19:45 EST, 22…

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

A volunteer for the Special Olympics was dismayed at the pomp and show at the felicitation ceremony organised by the Telangana government for PV Sindhu at the Gachibowli stadium in Hyderabad on Monday. He told me how a few months back, when the national coaching camp ahead of the Special Olympics for softball and floor hockey was to be held, they asked for permission to use the stadium for practise….

TOPSHOT – Brazil’s forward Neymar poses for a selfie with fans as they celebrate after the Rio 2016 Olympic Games men’s football gold medal match between Brazil and Germany at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 20, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSENODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: AFP_FG01T(Photo: ODD ANDERSEN, AFP/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook won gold in the Rio Summer Olympics’ social media conversation,…

Baseball writers are all frauds, and I’m the worst offender of all. Every year, we’re presented with a month of games and asked to assign meaning to them. The Phillies are surprise contenders. Bryce Harper is going to hit 74 home runs. Mat Latos just might be back. The takes are hot, the takes are dumb, but it’s not like we’re going to go a month without takes. Goodness, no….

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

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For head-to-head sports, including football, Vint is an advocate of the research of Hungarian physicist Arpad Elo. “We used a method originally developed to assess skill among international chess players (a USOC-modified version of the Elo method),” he explained. “The Elo method took into account both how you did in the tournament, but also who you competed against. All things considered, it did terrifically well at identifying the most internationally…

Screencap credit: Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated has laid off a number of staffers, according to multiple sources, as a part of approximately 40 layoffs of editorial staffers across Time Inc. properties, that POLITICO reported began on Thursday. This comes a week after 110 Time Inc. sales and advertising staffers were laid off, a month after a broader Time Inc. organizational shuffle that included Chris Stone stepping into Paul Fichtenbaum’s shoes…

Kimmage also compared Hickey to some of the administrators involved in running cycling, and wondered whether Hickey – and some of the other heads of sporting organisations – truly love the sports that they are supposed to be in charge of. “Pat Hickey is another one of those guys who got in there and got onto the ladder and started climbing,” he said.

Baseball writers are all frauds, and I’m the worst offender of all. Every year, we’re presented with a month of games and asked to assign meaning to them. The Phillies are surprise contenders. Bryce Harper is going to hit 74 home runs. Mat Latos just might be back. The takes are hot, the takes are dumb, but it’s not like we’re going to go a month without takes. Goodness, no….

KINSTON, Lenoir County – For the first time since the end of the 2011 season, baseball is returning to Kinston and Grainger Stadium. An agreement was reached where the Texas Rangers will field a high Class A team in the city known for years for its baseball. The team will be part of the Carolina League. It’s anticipated the league will also field a newly formed team in Fayetteville, which…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

Media playback is not supported on this device Great Britain’s Olympic review It has been an Olympic fiesta like never before for Britain: their best medal haul in 108 years, second in the medal table, the only host nation to go on to win more medals at the next Olympics. Never before has a Briton won a diving gold. Never before has a Briton won a gymnastics gold. There have…