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Washington University on Friday suspended the men’s soccer team for comments about the women’s team that were “degrading and sexually explicit.” The university said the comments—which were reported by members of the women’s team on Wednesday—were made in an online document from 2015, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The university is the latest in a series of schools to suspend athletic teams over lewd or offensive comments, often about female…

Don’t count out Ryan Howard just yet. The former National League MVP may be 37 years old and unemployed for the first time in his major-league career, but he’s not ready to walk away either. That was evidenced in a new video posted by Whistle Sports titled ‘No Days Off.’ The video takes us behind the scenes in Howard’s rigorous offseason training, which his training partner says is aimed at…

Andy Murray capped a glorious year, in which he lifted the Wimbledon title, stormed to Olympic gold and became the first British tennis player to reach No 1 in the world, by winning Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time. Murray, a massive 1-7 on favourite with bookmakers beforehand, beat the gold medal-winning triathlete Alistair Brownlee into second place, with 58-year-old showjumper Nick Skelton, who became the…

Don’t count out Ryan Howard just yet. The former National League MVP may be 37 years old and unemployed for the first time in his major-league career, but he’s not ready to walk away either. That was evidenced in a new video posted by Whistle Sports titled ‘No Days Off.’ The video takes us behind the scenes in Howard’s rigorous offseason training, which his training partner says is aimed at…

A woman got to relive her baseball glory days and it’s basically the real-life A League Of Their Own. The foundation Wish of a Lifetime just granted former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) star Mildred “Meach” Meacham the chance to spend a day talking all things baseball and it’s a reminder that women can be just as passionate about sports as their male peers. Now 92, Meacham played in…

Andy Murray became the first three-time winner of the BBC award, with fellow Olympic gold medallists Alistair Brownlee and Nick Skelton second and third Report: Murray wins Sports Personality of the Year 2016

They are tipped for big honours in the New Year’s Honours list. And Jason Kenny and Laura Trott led the glamour as they arrived at the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Awards at Birmingham’s Genting Arena on Sunday. The Rio Olympic cyclists, who married in a secret ceremony in September, turned heads in their glamorous cocktail attire as the put on a loved-up display at the prestigious awards show…

BRITISH sports stars got more than involved in the Icelandic Thunderclap at the Sports Personality of the Year award…even though Iceland dumped England out of the Euros in most embarrassing result in their history.  The Iceland national team made the viking war chant world famous after their surprise run in the Euros, with the supporters using the thunderclap to cheer on their team and intimidate the opposition. British sports stars…

Media playback is not supported on this device Overseas Sports Personality of the Year American gymnast Simone Biles has won the 2016 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award. The 19-year-old broke new ground with a series of dazzling routines as she secured four gold medals at the Rio Olympics. Victory in the floor event added to her all-around, vault and team titles. Described by some observers as the…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

2.38pm EST14:38 The focus is now on Cox and Storey, two of the most extraordinary athletes on this, or any shortlist. Cox won golds and set two world records in two sports – athletics and cycling – just two years after a stroke led to a diagnosis of MS. Storey, meanwhile, is nothing less than a gold medal machine – two golds in Rio made her Britain’s greatest female Paralympian,…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

The public will decide which of the 16 nominees will be named 2016’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year tonight in a live ceremony at Birmingham’s Genting Arena. Andy Murray is the hot favourite for the big award, but will need the public’s vote to win his third SPOTY after an incredible year on the court which climaxed with him finishing as world No.1. The other contenders are boxer Nicola…

The greatest single-game performance by a freshman in the storied history of Kentucky basketball ended Saturday night in the most fitting possible way. It finished with Malik Monk sinking a shot they’ll be talking about for years in Lexington. With sixth-ranked Kentucky trailing seventh-ranked North Carolina by two and less than 30 seconds to go, De’Aaron Fox sped up the floor in transition and whipped a pass to Monk spotted…

Jason McAteer filling out the credit-card application form is one of football’s most cherished, if perhaps apocryphal, anecdotes. For the section ‘position at company’, the man they called Double Trigger of course wrote “full-back”. Watching Sunday Supplement, the viewer might have wondered: what position would Gary Neville say that he holds? Is he a former footballer, a former football manager, a future football manager, a pundit, a journalist, an entertainment…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

It’s probably not well known but Africa has been represented at every Winter Olympics since 1984. Morocco and Algeria are some of the most regular participants these days. South Africa did take part as early as the 1960 games in Squaw Valley, USA, but that was during apartheid, and it was subsequently banned from participation till 1994. Since then it’s taken part in every games except the last one in…

Team USA hockey defenseman Anne Schleper(Photo: Carlos Osorio, AP) The public address announcer let the crowd know Canada was penalized for “too many men on the ice,” during the first period Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. The statement was somewhat quizzical and turned more than a few heads because the U.S. women’s national team was hosting Canada in an exhibition match, which Canada won, 5-3. It was the…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

India take on Belgium in the final of the Junior Hockey World Cup. The winner of the Junior Hockey World Cup would be decided on Sunday in Lucknow when home team India take on Belgium. A win for either teams would be a historic occasion for them. India would be winning the Junior Hockey World Cup for a second time – after a gap of 15 years – to replicate…