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Two-time world cross-country world champion Emily Chebet is among the Kenyan athletes to have been banned for doping offences Kenya has been declared in breach of global anti-doping rules. The surprise move will mean some of the world’s top athletes are at risk of missing August’s Olympic Games in Rio. Kenya, one of the major forces in world athletics, has already missed two World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) deadlines to show…

A lab director at the 2014 Olympics says that he provided athletes with a three-drug cocktail of banned substances mixed with liquor in a systemic and state-run doping operation by Russia, according to an investigation by The New York Times. The operation reportedly involved 4 members of Russia’s cross-country ski team and two bobsledders who won two gold medals. Russian antidoping experts and members of the country’s intelligence services would…

As the opening ceremony to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro fast approaches, Brazil faces a slew of problems that could overshadow the highly-anticipated games. Here are some of the major issues plaguing Brazil less than 100 days before games commence: The Zika ‘Health Disaster’ Unless the Olympics are postponed, the games could cause a “full-blown public health disaster” due to the Zika virus, according to a…

Will lug nuts — or the lack thereof — be an issue again this week at Dover International Raceway, site of Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive For Autism NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race (FS1, 12:30 p.m. ET)? Maybe, maybe not. After receiving numerous complaints from drivers about racing on just three or four lug nuts, on April 24, NASCAR sent a bulletin to all teams, stating, “All tires, wheels and all…

Media playback is not supported on this device Everton: Are you Wigan in disguise? Everton have sacked manager Roberto Martinez after three years in charge. Martinez’s side, 12th in the Premier League, were beaten 3-1 by champions Leicester on Saturday and lost 3-0 at Sunderland on Wednesday. The Toffees lost in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and League Cup this season. The club praised the Spaniard, 42, for his…

Three NASCAR personalities have made TheDrive.com’s list of top 10 most influential car people in sports.    It’s a curious list, to be sure, with an eclectic selection of athletes and others on it.    Coming in at No. 7 was Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. “Since the death of his father in 2001, Junior has been the most popular and, arguably, the only ubiquitous race car driver, in…

Here’s a look at some of baseball’s notable knuckleballers (you can find an extensive list here): Jim Bouton Though this righthander did not always throw the knuckleball, he began develop it about a third of the way into his career after being plagued by injuries. Tom Candiotti Advertisement After Tommy John surgery, Candiotti switched to the knuckleball full time after signing with the Cleveland Indians for the 1986 season. R.A….

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Joel Alterman’s love affair with baseball began innocently that night. He was 9 years old, and his father thought a boy his age needed to know the game. Joel didn’t know a home run from a first down. But it didn’t matter. It was early in the 1954 season, and Ponce de Leon Park was the place to be — even if you knew nothing about baseball — because the…

In answering whether the NFL would allow betting in Las Vegas should the Oakland Raiders relocate to Las Vegas, the director of the largest sports book operation on The Strip may have created the town’s new catchphrase. “You come to Vegas, you take Vegas the way Vegas is,” said MGM Resorts’ Jay Rood, who sets the betting lines at some of its best-known properties, including MGM Grand, Mirage, Mandalay Bay…

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The troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics could get a boost from the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, according to the spokesman for the local organizing committee. “Now that the political focus has moved forward, the games will greatly benefit,” Mario Andrada told The Associated Press on Thursday. But the shift of attention from politics to the opening of South America’s first games could also be a detriment, thrusting the games’…

These days, very few historically black colleges and universities have majority-black teams. The Clark Atlanta Panthers are a remarkable exception. Credit Photograph by Oscar Daniels It’s a Wednesday afternoon in April, and Bill Evans Field is dotted with players taking batting practice, fielding grounders, shagging flies. The Clark Atlanta Panthers practice on a lot at the corner of Princeton Drive and College Street in College Park, Georgia, behind the library,…

England cricket players give bland interviews because Andy Flower took fright at David Warner’s attack on outspoken batsman Joe Root, said Graeme Swann. Swann, the former England cricketer and Ashes winner, said  ex coach Flower, who stepped down in 2014 after five years, “got very frightened of his young stars being in the media spotlight.” Root had been hit in a nightclub in 2013 by Australia player and Ashes rival David…

“We’re also bringing BT Sport to a new generation of younger sports fans who view their entertainment online, through social media and on their mobile devices.  We plan to make these finals the most social sports broadcast ever, with lots of exciting content in the build-up and on the night across YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Vine.” Stephen Nuttall, YouTube’s senior director in Europe, the Middle East and Africa,…

Braden Holtby lies on the ice after giving up the game-winning goal on Tuesday. (Photo by Toni L. Sandys/ The Washington Post) This post was originally published after the Nationals, who owned the best regular season record in the National League, were eliminated by the Giants in the 2014 National League Division Series. It is far from a perfect account of how the Capitals added to D.C.’s playoff disappointment with their season-ending,…

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More than three months have passed since Peyton Manning ended his career and Denver’s search for his replacement has been an ongoing story. After Brock Osweiler went to the Texans, the Broncos signed Mark Sanchez, reportedly kicked the tires on Colin Kaepernick, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Sam Bradford, and drafted Paxton Lynch. Yet while the Broncos have temporary patched their QB hole with Sanchez and hope to have plugged for the…