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Your Sport: National Adult Baseball Association lets grownups play like kids – Fayetteville Observer

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Like a lot of the guys gathered at the baseball field at Seventy-First High School on Sunday, Justin Hendrickson could have hung up his glove and cleats a long time ago. But the 33-year-old Hendrickson and the rest of the players in the National Adult Baseball Association of the Carolinas league, just aren’t ready to let those big league dreams go. “Everybody, in the back of their…

Scottish Gossip: Celtic, Leigh Griffiths, Rangers, Joleon Lescott, Hearts, ICT – BBC Sport

Sunday, August 21, 2016

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Brendan Rodgers has insisted Leigh Griffiths is no cheat after the Celtic striker was booked for diving in their win over St Johnstone. (Various) Motherwell striker Scott McDonald reckons Celtic are far better than Rangers on current form. (Sunday Mail, newspaper edition) Mark Warburton has insisted Aston Villa owner Dr Tony Xia is talking “nonsense” with claims the Rangers boss scuppered the deal for Joleon Lescott. (Various)…

Rio 2016: Success to inspire ‘nation of sport watchers’ – BBC News

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tanni Grey-Thompson won gold medals at four different Paralympic Games Olympics success must be used to change a nation of sports watchers into participants, according a former Paralympics gold medallist. Welsh competitors in Rio won 10 medals, surpassing the seven collected at London 2012. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said Wales is more a nation “that likes watching sport” than a sporting nation. She also said…

Andre Gray: Burnley striker asks for ‘forgiveness’ over homophobic tweets – BBC News

Sunday, August 21, 2016

<!– Gray joined Burnley for a then club-record fee in August 2015 Warning: this article contains offensive language Burnley striker Andre Gray has apologised and asked “for forgiveness” after homophobic tweets he sent in 2012 were shared on social media. One tweet from the 25-year-old Premier League player’s account appeared to condone killing gay people. Gray said he was now a “completely different person” to the one who posted the…

Ryan Lochte: ‘I over-exaggerated’ Olympics robbery story – CNN International

Sunday, August 21, 2016

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Our greatest Games: Mo Farah’s double double caps golden Olympics for Britain – but how did we do it? – Telegraph.co.uk

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Mr England said: “We always said we were taking away our most talented team and it wasn’t just rhetoric. I genuinely believed it. I was also pretty confident we would make history and be the most successful team we have ever taken away from home, and it hasn’t just been about the medals, it’s been about millions of people screaming at their televisions, whether they were watching Mo Farah, the…

Olympics: Brazil beats Germany on penalties to win football gold – CNN

Sunday, August 21, 2016

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Rio Olympics: Team USA men’s basketball gold medal matchup vs. Serbia, how to watch, date, TV, time – CBSSports.com

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Despite some relative struggles throughout the Olympic tourney, Team USA is one victory away from winning gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics. That win, however, will not be easy, as the U.S. will be facing a Serbia team that took it the distance — the Serbians actually had a wide-open 3-pointer to tie the game as time expired — in the group stage. Here is all the broadcast information, followed…

Rio Olympics: Caster Semenya Leaves No Doubt in 800 – New York Times

Sunday, August 21, 2016

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Watch Ichiro treat his baseball bat with as much care as most people have for their children – MLB.com

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Without resorting to hyperbole, I feel comfortable saying that there is no one quite like Ichiro. No other baseball player has racked up 3,000 big league hits after not making their MLB debut until the age of 27 — to say nothing of collecting over 1,200 while playing in the NPB. No one has a fitness regime like Ichiro’s, requiring a highly specialized space age stretching apparatus. And certainly, no one…

Olympics #LochteGate Means Lesser-Known Swimmers May Miss Pay Day – Fortune

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Veteran swimmer Ryan Lochte’s brush with Rio police has already hurt his appeal to sponsors – but for two lesser-known team mates, it means they may never get a chance to sign their first major deal. Lochte has several major sponsors, including fashion house Ralph Lauren, which took down any reference to the gold medalist on its website on Friday, and swimwear company Speedo which has said it is following…

At the Olympics, the Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat and the Lure of the Dance Floor – New York Times

Saturday, August 20, 2016

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Great Britain wins gold in shootout, ends Netherlands Olympic field hockey reign – NBC Olympics

Saturday, August 20, 2016

There is a new gold medalist in women’s field hockey. Great Britain claimed the gold medal after defeating the Netherlands 2-0 in a historic shootout win. With time winding down and the pressure increasing, it was anybody’s game with the score tied at three all. Great Britain’s Nicola White scored the game-tying goal on a rebound off of a penalty corner that would ultimately send the two teams into a shootout….

Rio Olympics 2016: GB’s Nicola Adams wins flyweight gold again – BBC News

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Media playback is not supported on this device GB’s Adams wins boxing gold Nicola Adams became the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years by winning gold in the women’s flyweight final at Rio 2016. The 33-year-old won a unanimous points decision to beat France’s Sarah Ourahmoune. Britain have now won 26 golds in Brazil and 63 medals overall, two short of the record 65 won…

Rio Olympics: What time does the closing ceremony start Sunday? – Los Angeles Times

Saturday, August 20, 2016

The 2016 Summer Olympics come to an end on Sunday, with the closing ceremony scheduled to start at 4 p.m. Pacific time at Maracana Stadium. You will not be able to watch it on TV, however, until 7 p.m. on NBC, with coverage scheduled to end at 9:30. So, some things could be edited out for time. As usual, the closing ceremony will end with the official handover of the Olympic flag…

Loss of Paschal baseball star forces awful question of why – Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)

Saturday, August 20, 2016

The last thing Julia Medford wants to do right now is to eat or sleep. “If I close my eyes I picture Drew walking through that door,” she said. “It’s hard to sleep or to take care of yourself when you have this much grief. It’s constant.” Julia Medford was fine Wednesday evening when she and her younger brother, Drew, were playing fetch with her dog. “He was so excited…

Quick trip around Major League Baseball – Chicago Tribune

Saturday, August 20, 2016

American League Central Division White Sox: Had same record after 115 games (55-60) as in 2014 and 2015. #Progress Indians: Prospect Francisco Mejia becomes first minor-leaguer since 1954 with 50-game hitting streak. Royals: With 10 wins in 12 games entering weekend, champs finally showing a pulse. Tigers: Red Sox GM Dave Dombrowski returns to place where Tigers owner said he “didn’t win enough.” Twins: Closer Brandon Kintzler tells himself, “This…

Dead rubber – The Economist (blog)

Saturday, August 20, 2016

TWENTY-EIGHT sports have been contested in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio. Yet though that number makes it impossible to keep track of all 306 events, it is still not enough to include all disciplines that would like to feature. Despite much vigorous campaigning by the World Squash Federation (WSF), a bid to add the game to the Rio schedule was rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2009….

Rio Olympics 2016: GB’s Nicola Adams wins flyweight gold again – BBC News

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Media playback is not supported on this device GB’s Adams wins boxing gold Nicola Adams became the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years by winning gold in the women’s flyweight final at Rio 2016. The 33-year-old won a unanimous points decision to beat France’s Sarah Ourahmoune. Britain have now won 26 golds in Brazil and 63 medals overall, two short of the record 65 won…

New, high-tech twists on taekwondo are rapidly changing an ancient sport’s feel – Washington Post

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Crystal Brittany Weekes of Puerto Rico, right, and Jackie Galloway of the United States compete in a women’s taekwondo over 67 kg round of 16. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) There’s a technological revolution occurring in taekwondo that is changing the look of the sport and it might take time to get used to it. Tradition is giving way to modern rules that are aimed to bring more excitement to the sport and…