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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – 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 got…

RELATED: Race results | Standings | Chase Grid SHOP: Logano gear | Chase gear TALLADEGA, Ala. — If Joey Logano‘s victory in Sunday’s Hellman’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway was decisive — in relative terms — the race between Denny Hamlin and Austin Dillon for the final spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup‘s Round of 8 was anything but. In an overtime race that went four laps past its scheduled distance,…

Sounders defender Zach Scott speaks on stage at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire Growing up in Hawaii and working in pineapple fields, Zach Scott probably didn’t think he’d spend the first 15 years of his professional career playing soccer. But with perseverance, determination, a little luck, and a lot of hard work, Scott has defied stereotypes during his remarkable career with the Seattle Sounders FC. The 36-year-old will…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Sophomore Andrew Sturtz netted his team-leading fourth goal of the season in overtime to lift Penn State past third-ranked Notre Dame 3-2 in non-conference men’s ice hockey action Saturday evening from the Compton Family Ice Arena. This marks the highest ranked team Penn State has ever defeated in the young history of the program. The win moves the Lions to 3-1-1 on the season while…

Former U.S. women’s national team star Lauren Holiday had surgery on Thursday to remove a brain tumor. She was diagnosed with a benign, operable brain tumor in June while carrying her child with New Orleans Pelicans player Jrue Holiday, and doctors induced birth early to expedite surgery which was slated for Thursday. Many friends and fans sent well-wishes to Holiday on social media as she prepared to undergo surgery: One…

You’ve probably heard talk about the rise of “e-sports,” the currently exploding business of professionals playing videogames—and, more important, audiences excited to watch professionals playing videogames. The Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman has been all over this topic for a while now. Investors, advertisers and media companies are lining up to get a piece of what they view as the next great sports phenomenon. There is indeed a lot of money…

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Ed Orgeron’s odds just improved to land the LSU head coaching job full time after his Tigers thumped Ole Miss 38-21. Orgeron still probably needs to win at least three of the Tigers’ four games left to have a good shot at getting the job permanently, and that’s still an uphill climb with Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida and Arkansas remaining. Could he still get LSU if he ends up 5-2 in the…

CLEVELAND – The atmosphere. Everyone remembers the atmosphere. How unique it was for a high school baseball game, how there had to be just the right combination of factors to create an environment jammed with students, scouts, energy and possibility. “It was a special night,” said Tom McNamara, then the Mariners scouting director. “We go to hundreds and hundreds of games. That one I remember.” On Feb. 17, 2011, Javier…

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Upward of 25,000 scraps of paper and yellowed newspaper clippings in Peter Gorton’s northeast Minneapolis basement tell dual stories that intersect at an improbable place: the central Minnesota town of Bertha. That mountain of research chronicles the dominant but largely forgotten career of a black baseball pitcher named John Wesley Donaldson. The other plot line centers on Gorton, a 46-year-old speech consultant and tireless researcher. For 14 years, Gorton has…

MESA, Arizona — Regarding Tim Tebow’s future in baseball, the needle has not moved very much. After six games for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, Tebow is hitting just .100, with two hits and an RBI in 20 at-bats, including seven strikeouts. Tebow, the former NFL quarterback who turned 29 in August, started out 0-for-12 in Arizona, but has picked it up a bit this week with…

As we watch embers fly from the conflagration that is Donald Trump’s unhinged campaign for America’s presidency, it is tempting to start probing questions of its legacy. What will remain after this bad hombre retreats to Trump Tower and ascends the escalator from which he once entered our lives to announce his noxious candidacy? Much has been written about the toxic brew of misogyny, racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia that Trump…

Los Angeles (AFP) – As the 2016-2017 NBA season gets under way next week, AFP crunches the numbers behind the world’s most popular basketball league and its rival US sports: – Money, money money – Top salaries in the National Basketball Association are among the highest across the world of team sports, with LeBron James due to pocket just under $31 million this season after negotiating a new three-year deal…

Jose Mourinho, speaking to Sky Sports: “It started badly after a few seconds. We are close to the 1-1 and after another defensive mistake and it is 2-1. “You come with a strategy, you can not concede a goal in the way we did.  “We were coming to have an offensive approach, we wanted to create chances, we showed that after the 1-0. The second and the third were counter-attack…

It was the summer of 2011. As I walked from the first-base dugout toward the batting cage behind the right-field wall, I stopped to take in the ivy. How could you not? The ivy was perfect and so obviously well cared for. It seemed like the only thing in Wrigley with growth potential. In those days, like the stadium they played in, the Chicago Cubs were run down. They had…