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CLEVELAND — People here are trying to comprehend what has happened over these past few months, how to process a delirious and wholly unfamiliar confluence. A visitor flying in might hear a Southwest flight attendant, minutes before takeoff, declare the plane is bound for “Cleveland, the land of champions.” One might see along Prospect Avenue the construction of a television stage for a national NBA pregame show, and another one…

 There’s two weeks left in the regular season for football, and Mater Dei, Corona Centennial and St. John Bosco hold down the top three spots in the Southern Section Division 1 football poll. Here’s the link to complete rankings. In water polo, Harvard-Westlake is No. 1 and Huntington Beach No. 2 in Division 1. Here’s the link to complete rankings. Here’s the link to this week’s cross country rankings. Here’s the link…

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Heading a football may look effortless but many scientists have suspected it might actually harm the player’s brain. There could be real consequences—we know that brain injury is linked to an increased risk of dementia, for example. However, it has proven surprisingly difficult to find out the true impact of football heading, partly…

x Embed x Share Court Jeske talks about the future of pro soccer in Nashville. Joey Garrison Court Jeske(Photo: Chris Trotman, Getty Images) Nashville Soccer Club, the city’s new United Soccer League franchise, has hired the team’s first chief executive officer, a key front office decision as the organization prepares to begin play in 2018.    Court Jeske, who previously worked as vice president of international business for Soccer United Marketing, the commercial…

RIO DE JANEIRO –  In soccer-crazed Brazil, the game is proving central to the sport of electoral politics in one major city amid growing disgust with career politicians. The mayoral runoff in Belo Horizonte, the country’s sixth largest city, features two candidates associated with the first division Atletico Mineiro club based there, one as a former player and the other as its ex-chairman. Retired goalkeeper Joao Leite, who…

Unless you’re a Portland State University superfan, there’s a good chance you missed the best soccer goal of the weekend. It came off the foot of PSU player Breanne Chilton-Eddy, who sniped an awesome long shot into the top corner of the net from about 20 yards out. The sick strike was delivered in sudden death overtime and gave PSU a 2-1 comeback win over Weber State, so it was as clutch…

A soccer coach in Texas was arrested after he was accused of sexually abused eight of his players — boys between 10 and 15. Police say more players are likely to come forward. Marcos Ramos, an undocumented immigrant living in Corsicana, Texas, is also is wanted in his native Guatemala for sexually assaulting children, police said. He faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and five counts…

click to enlarge Can’t you just hear a long-suffering Chicago Cubs fan in 1958 — a half-century since his team won the World Series — whining? “You know, the Cubs will win the World Series the day a…

It’s not about the money or the fame … Tim Tebow says he’s simply pursuing a baseball career for the love of the game. Tebow appeared on “Good Morning America” in NYC Monday morning — even though he’s got a game tonight in Arizona — and told Robin Roberts he’s having a blast playing minor league baseball.  “I’m so passionate about the game and pursuing it and playing every day…

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The teams have been selected, the stadiums are getting prepped, and the 2016 World Series is so close that you can practically smell the hot dogs cooking. But the Fall Classic isn’t quite here yet, so in the meantime, let’s look back at the NCAA careers of the players on each team. Many major league players sign with the team that drafted them directly out of…

If it’s October, it’s time for fall baseball in sunny Southern California. Defending City Section champion El Camino Real took on Division 1 semifinalist West Ranch on Saturday, and there were plenty of individual efforts to admire. Tim Josten, the ace left-hander for West Ranch headed to Cal State Fullerton, had one shutout inning and also had a triple, double and single. For El Camino Real, the next star player…

Consumers in sporting goods stores today are faced with seemingly countless choices of footwear. But are any of those innovations really helping you run longer or jump higher? And are those expensive sneakers any better? At the Portland, Oregon, headquarters of sportswear maker Adidas, footwear developers are using motion capture technology to design their latest shoes. It’s called ARAMIS — technology that NASA has used to analyze stresses on the…

MOSCOW Russia has dismissed a deputy sports minister at the heart of the doping scandal that led to its track and field athletes being banned from the Rio Olympics, the government said on Monday. Yury Nagornykh was named as a key player in an investigation into state-sponsored doping by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published weeks before the 2016 games. The report said Nagornykh was routinely informed about positive doping…

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The two teams squaring off in Major League Baseball’s World Series, which begins Tuesday night, have not won the fall classic for a combined 176 years. The Cleveland Indians, which will host the first two games in the best-of-seven series, last won the World Series (annual championship of Major League Baseball in North America) in 1948. The Chicago Cubs have not won the fall classic for 108 years – since…

Tim Tebow said his passion for the sport of baseball is making it “so much fun” to play with the New York Mets after transforming from a football star. “It’s amazing when you do something for the love of it,” Tebow, 29, said today on “Good Morning America.” “I’m so passionate about the game and pursuing it and playing every day is just so much fun.” The former NFL star,…