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Twitter has signed a deal with Sky Sports to show Premier League highlights and goals on the social media site from the 2016/17 season. As part of the agreement, Twitter users in the UK and Ireland will be able to see video clips of key moments and goals from all games broadcast by Sky in real time via the SkyFootball Twitter account. The Sky Sports Football Centre app will also…

OLYMPICS MOSCOW (AP) At least 105 athletes from the 387-strong Russian Olympic team announced last week have been barred from the Rio Games in connection with the country’s doping scandal. International federations in canoeing, sailing and modern pentathlon ruled out eight, including an Olympic gold medalist. Rowing added 19 more athletes to three that had previously been announced. Swimming has also barred some athletes. Some appeals are likely. The vast…

Sevens rugby players are runners. They’re fit, hard, athletic sports people. Their bodies are fat-less and trim – strong thighs, cut calves. They’re not fit like competitive body-sculptors or cross-fit types. Sevens players are purpose-built to run. We’re watching the Australian women’s team train at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation in Narrabeen. It’s a couple of days before the team flies out for Rio. And though they’ve been…

The ACC celebrated the announcement of the long-awaited ACC Network during the league’s annual “Football Media Days,” but one sports media expert writes that there is still significant work to be done. John Ourand, a writer with The Sports Business Journal, reportedly spoke with “several anonymous distribution executives” who suggested the league might struggle to find cable companies willing to carry the network. Ourand, one of the industry’s leading writers…

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Federer, 34, reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon, where he lost to Milos Raonic, but the 17-time Slam winner underwent surgery on a knee injury in February which forced him to miss the French Open. It was the first Slam the Swiss great had not competed in since 1998, but his announcement on Tuesday means Federer will not take part in the US Open either, and he will also…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned. NASCAR’s most popular driver is scheduled to miss his third consecutive race this Sunday with concussion-like symptoms. On his weekly podcast, he said he will have another evaluation soon to see “what kind of gains we’ve made and get in front of my doctors . and let them tell me where they think I’m at…

OLYMPICS At least 105 athletes from the 387-strong Russian Olympic team announced last week have been barred from the Rio Games in connection with the country’s doping scandal. International federations in canoeing, sailing and modern pentathlon ruled out eight on Tuesday, including an Olympic gold medalist. Rowing added 19 more athletes to three that had previously been announced. Swimming also has barred some athletes. Some appeals are…

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(Photo: The Associated Press) Roger Federer is sitting out the rest of this season, including the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and U.S. Open, to protect his surgically repaired left knee. Federer wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that he needs “more extensive rehabilitation following my knee surgery earlier this year.” “The doctors advised that if I want to play on the ATP World Tour injury free for another few years,…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned. NASCAR’s most popular driver is scheduled to miss his third consecutive race this Sunday with concussion-like symptoms. On his weekly podcast, he said he will have another evaluation soon to see “what kind of gains we’ve made and get in front of my doctors . and let them tell me where they think I’m at…

Sevens rugby players are runners. They’re fit, hard, athletic sports people. Their bodies are fat-less and trim – strong thighs, cut calves. They’re not fit like competitive body-sculptors or cross-fit types. Sevens players are purpose-built to run. We’re watching the Australian women’s team train at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation in Narrabeen. It’s a couple of days before the team flies out for Rio. And though they’ve been…

Photo credit: @keselowski WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Brad Keselowski escaped uninjured — “still upright,” in his words — after a scary crash Tuesday during an organizational test for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams at Watkins Glen International. Keselowski had just turned a session-topping 124.572 mph on his 18th lap of the day, best of the 14 drivers participating on the freshly repaved 2.45-mile road course. But just after registering that…

Russian Alexander Dyachenko won gold in the kayak doubles sprint at the London Olympics in 2012 Nineteen more Russian rowers have been banned from competing at next month’s Olympics, taking the number of Russian athletes suspended this week to 37. Earlier on Tuesday, eight athletes across canoeing, modern pentathlon and sailing were banned, as seven swimmers and three rowers were on Monday. Governing bodies are making the rulings following the…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned. NASCAR’s most popular driver is scheduled to miss his third consecutive race this Sunday with concussion-like symptoms. On his weekly podcast, he said he will have another evaluation soon to see “what kind of gains we’ve made and get in front of my doctors . and let them tell me where they think I’m at…

On the morning that Britain voted to leave the European Union, I was in Paris covering Euro 2016, and quite honestly football was the last thing on my mind. I walked the streets of Oberkampf and Le Marais listlessly and without purpose, trying and failing to organise my thoughts, engulfed in a quiet, private devastation. As the repercussions began to jolt into motion, as politicians sank without trace, as markets…

Archery Has a decision been reached? Yes All three Russian athletes selected for Rio have been cleared to compete by World Archery, which says they have been tested extensively. None of the three has previously been sanctioned for doping. The World Archery president, Prof Dr Ugur Erdener, said: “The World Archery executive board was satisfied that, within the framework established by the IOC, archery’s three qualified Russian Federation athletes should…

Too muscular. Too short. Too stocky. Too young-looking. Former gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson was called a lot of things by the media in her time as an athlete. Often, few of them had anything to do with her athleticism. Her mother would tell her over and over: “Honey, look at your success. Look how happy you are when you are out there on the floor. Don’t let…

Philly sports fans have a reputation. They’re loud. They’re drunk. They’re occasionally violent. It’s possible that a Philly sports fan might not even realize that a teen running out on the field mid-game until he’s tasered into submission by a security guard is unusual behavior until one leaves their hometown. However, if there’s one thing that people from at least 100 miles outside the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area love doing,…