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The Sports Ministry on Thursday announced that financial assistance to the 26 disciplines under ‘others’ category, which was stopped in 2014, will be restored. The decision was taken after Sports Minister Vijay Goel met representatives of the various National Sports Federations (NSFs) here. The participants in the meeting also unanimously supported inclusion of sports in the concurrent list of the Constitution, which they felt will encourage promotion of sports in…

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General view as members of the grounds crew prepare the field before Game Two of the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field on Oct. 26, 2016. Photo courtesy of Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports, via Reuters *Editors: This photo may only be republished with RNS-SEXTON-OPED, originally transmitted on Oct. 28, 2016. (RNS) Soon, more than the seasons will be changing. The Fall Classic…

TODAY’S BIG IDEA is by Breanne Deppisch: UPPER DUBLIN, Pa.–Donald Trump’s narrowing path to the presidency depends on winning Pennsylvania. One of his advisers was quoted just yesterday saying that he will be “ cooked” if he cannot prevail in the Keystone State. The GOP nominee is counting on Rust Belt voters in western Pennsylvania, who have traditionally voted Democratic but been battered by deindustrialization, to come out in droves for…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said he is “really grateful” for quick action that kept all passengers and crew safe when his campaign plane skidded off the runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Thursday night. “Thank God everybody was fine,” Pence, Donald Trump‘s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket, said today on “Good Morning America.” “I’m just really grateful, really grateful for some quick action,” he said. “Not only by…

U.S. economic growth picked up in the third quarter after an uninspiring first half of the year as a build in inventories and a soybean-related jump in exports helped cushion softer household spending. The 2.9 percent annualized increase in gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced, was the biggest in two years and followed a 1.4 percent gain the prior quarter, Commerce Department data showed Friday….

“I had been telling my client you can count on being convicted,” said Matthew Schindler, a lawyer for one of the men on trial for the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. “You don’t walk into a federal court and win a case like this. It just doesn’t happen.” But win they did and even Schindler thought it “off the charts unbelievable,” he told the Seattle Times. “I…

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The results are in. Almost half of the 10,000 visitors to our poll yesterday voted that it’s the ‘right call’ by NASCAR to limit Premier Series drivers from competing in the XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series. We had a feeling this would be the response after fans have been frustrated by Sprint Cup regulars, *cough* Kyle Busch, from dominating in the XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series. Following up the 48 percent…

Awesome, gross or both? Either way, it’s impressive.  Felix Passlack, an 18-year-old who plays for German powerhouse Borussia Dortmund, captured the internet’s attention this week by turning soccer and gum-chewing into some bizarre new sport.  SEE ALSO: Rest in peace, Vine. Sports fandom will never be the same Behold Passlack atop this post spitting out his gum, uncorking an impressive juggling routine for more than 10 seconds, then casually catching…

Here at FiveThirtyEight, we tend to think statistics can add to our understanding of sports. (What a surprise!) From the more mature sabermetric movements of baseball and basketball to growing ones in soccer and hockey, evidence-based examination has led to new thoughts and ideas about the games we love. But there can also be a dark side to analytics. Among other potential pitfalls, interpreting the numbers incorrectly can lead to…

Wiggins was cheered by the fans at the London Six Day meeting this week British Cycling chiefs will face questions from MPs over the use and policing of therapeutic use exemptions, The Times newspaper reports. TUEs, which allow athletes to take prohibited drugs on medical grounds, have been brought into the spotlight by the Fancy Bears hackers. Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Laura Trott were among the British cyclists…

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Why? One reason might be that menswear draws its currency from three major sources: athletics, institutes of higher education, and the military. Baseball hits two of those, a solid double ain’t bad. The first baseball jackets, or what we know now as the baseball jackets but are also called varsity jackets or letterman jackets, were borne on the backs of Harvard’s baseball team back in 1865. Originally sweaters, through the…

Here at FiveThirtyEight, we tend to think statistics can add to our understanding of sports. (What a surprise!) From the more mature sabermetric movements of baseball and basketball to growing ones in soccer and hockey, evidence-based examination has led to new thoughts and ideas about the games we love. But there can also be a dark side to analytics. Among other potential pitfalls, interpreting the numbers incorrectly can lead to…

The results are in. Almost half of the 10,000 visitors to our poll yesterday voted that it’s the ‘right call’ by NASCAR to limit Premier Series drivers from competing in the XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series. We had a feeling this would be the response after fans have been frustrated by Sprint Cup regulars, *cough* Kyle Busch, from dominating in the XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series. Following up the 48 percent…

Here are the hot topics, trending news and key story lines to get you ready for this weekend’s races at Martinsville Speedway. WEATHER Another beautiful race weekend is forecasted for Martinsville. The National Weather Service says Friday will be sunny with a high near 70, and Saturday will be even warmer with a high of 77 and sunshine. Sunday is downgraded to only “mostly sunny,” with a high of 74. Overall,…

So alarmed were insiders about how dysfunctional the International Olympic Committee-run process had become, one senior figure in the war on drugs with experience of several major events told The Telegraph at the time that it was “by far the worst I’ve seen”.  The report by the IO, chaired by leading British sports lawyer Jonathan Taylor, also revealed that of a planned 5,380 drugs tests, only 4,882 took place. Worse still, just 47 of a planned…

Night races compound the problem. Majors said he once lost his car in the Rolex 24 sports-car race at Daytona. Joey Meier, Brad Keselowski‘s spotter, walks around the garage every Friday morning to verify what sponsor each driver’s car has, including his own, and he does that in part because of what happened during a NASCAR XFINITY Series practice years ago.   As cars hit the track, Meier waited and waited and waited…