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Harvard President Drew Faust has asked the university’s Office of the General Counsel to “conduct an immediate review” of the 2012 men’s soccer team’s sexually explicit “scouting report” of freshmen women soccer players. The report, which assigned ‘ratings’ to recruits based on their physical appearance and sexual appeal, has ‘no place at Harvard,” Faust wrote in a statement Tuesday to the Harvard Crimson that was also provided to the Globe….

 (Photo: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports) CLEVELAND – Baseball makes no sense, so it makes us senseless. Look: This post has a shelf life of only a few hours before the Cubs and Indians kick off Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night, so you’ll have to excuse me if it reads as a stream of consciousness. It is that. What follows are the sleep-deprived and caffeine-fueled thoughts of…

Enlarge this image The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp unveiled their new team name and logo Wednesday, retiring their previous name, the Suns. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp hide caption toggle caption Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp unveiled their new team name and logo Wednesday, retiring their previous name, the Suns. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp It’s a bold move, meant to energize the local fan base. But a Jacksonville baseball team’s decision to…

Image: AP The US Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Wednesday it’s suing AT&T, alleging the company used DirecTV in an illegal campaign to block carriage of a television channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Advertisement The lawsuit accuses DirecTV and its parent company AT&T of sharing private negotiating information with other TV providers including Cox Communications and Charter Communications to gain an illegal advantage over mutual adversary Time Warner…

Photos by Tony Wittkowski / HP staff Beards and baseball Chris Siriano, owner of the House of David Baseball Museum, stands in front of his favorite memorabilia Tuesday inside the St. Joseph museum. Beards and baseball Chris Siriano, owner of the House of David Baseball Museum, looks on as visitors watch a video Tuesday inside the St. Joseph museum. Tony Wittkowski / HP staff Beards and baseball The House of…

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

Tens of thousands of runners will line up in Staten Island to run the TCS New York City Marathon this Sunday. Preparing properly for a marathon can take weeks to months and require runs that span hours. But on race day plenty of new or even experienced runners can get caught up in common preparation myths that have little science to back them up. We talked to some sports medicine…

Take a look at the CBS Sports All-America teams from the 2015-16 season and what you’ll find is that only one of the 15 players honored — Duke’s Grayson Allen — is actually back in school. In other words, we’re basically starting from scratch, which is normal for the sport of college basketball, where new and/or unknown players annually become the faces of the sport. We put it up to…

No two ways about it now: The Cubs’ forcing a Game 7 of a World Series in which they trailed three games to one in pursuit of their first title in 108 years means we’re arguably looking at either the greatest sports heartbreak ever endured or the greatest sports story ever told. Sorry, 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. You know I loved you, Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, Jack O’Callahan and…

Chances are there’s at least one die-hard sports fan in your life. And look, even if your idea of game-time small talk is “Hey, how about that local sportsball team” you can still get them the perfect gift. Whether they’re big NBA addicts, avid runners or trying to perfect that spiral and become an NFL quarterback, we’ve got you covered. And you don’t even have to betray your tech-geek roots…

Harvard President Drew Faust has asked the university’s Office of the General Counsel to “conduct an immediate review” of the 2012 men’s soccer team’s sexually explicit “scouting report” of freshmen women soccer players. The report, which assigned ‘ratings’ to recruits based on their physical appearance and sexual appeal, has ‘no place at Harvard,” Faust wrote in a statement Tuesday to the Harvard Crimson that was also provided to the Globe….

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

Brian Webster Staff Writer @briweb69 Steven Albers struck the blow Tuesday night that soccer fans in Jacksonville waited decades for: the winning goal in a supersectional contest. The Crimsons’ senior swooped in on a loose ball, broke away with his quarry and drove it past Springfield High goalkeeper Evan Wright to give Jacksonville a 3-2 lead with six minutes and six seconds left in the second…

The head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) wants FIFA to adopt what he called a Crimea-style solution to prevent Israeli league clubs from being based in settlements in the West Bank, he said on Tuesday. After Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014, European soccer body UEFA banned Crimean clubs from moving to the Russian league and instead authorized them to set up their own competition….

Former employees who are yet to receive wages include freelance contractors who worked as stadium announcers, DJs, journalist who worked for the Olympic News Service who worked at the Olympics and Paralympics. “I’m working with a legal firm that is already representing someone involved with Rio 2016, so they have a pretty good handle what is going on,” Rocky Bester, a South African freelance show producer, told The Associated Press…

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Baseball season is on the brink of being over and it sure feels like it has been a fictional postseason with the likes of the Cleveland Indians and those Cubs from Chicago making it to the World Series. Seriously, isn’t that the plot of every baseball movie ever? The Cubs or the Indians need a boost from some strange player or mystical being to win their division? They don’t even…

This is only the start of the conversation. That’s important to remember when you see how far apart Heath Cummings and I are in our initial rankings. The goal isn’t to confuse you but to provide contrasting opinions. And in early November, you might get a little bit of both. For this initial run, we worked independently, retreating to our own separate corners and only comparing notes afterward. Also, these…

CLEVELAND — Maybe curses take real magic to break. Maybe deep heartache takes the nearly impossible to cure because, having lost hope, the only remedy is for it to be replenished by what feels too much like a miracle to ignore. Maybe these kinds of baseball demons — those that have lasted 108 years in Chicago, that have taken form in the Never Say Die Mets and the San Diego…

This is only the start of the conversation. That’s important to remember when you see how far apart Heath Cummings and I are in our initial rankings. The goal isn’t to confuse you but to provide contrasting opinions. And in early November, you might get a little bit of both. For this initial run, we worked independently, retreating to our own separate corners and only comparing notes afterward. Also, these…