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At the UFC 204 post fight press conference, Gegard Mousasi took aim at several fighters during his question and answer period and even took a shot at featherweight champion Conor McGregor. Mousasi was questioning the validity of real fighters versus the hype surrounding people like McGregor, who get a lot of attention for trash talking and boasting about how many millions he’s going to make on his next fight. Mousasi…

Caption Close Five to be inducted into Golf Hall of Fame ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Ian Woosnam, Davis Love III, Meg Mallon and Lorena Ochoa have been selected for the World Golf Hall of Fame. Also selected Tuesday for induction was Henry Longhurst, a London Sunday Times columnist who later became a golf commentator for the BBC. The induction will be Sept. 26 in New York. Woosnam is a former…

Enlarge this image Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning. A high school teacher is reading out loud from a sample recommendation letter when she notices a few students fidgeting and texting. “I’m not seeing all eyes …” she says, her voice trailing off. Naama Wrightman, who is coaching the teacher, jumps in. “All right, pause. It’s the right correction….

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After the final at-bat of the 2016 World Series, as T-shirts commemorating the winning team hit retailers’ shelves almost as soon as they’re on players’ backs, versions celebrating the losers start a journey to the shredder. It didn’t always work that way. In past years, retailers donated preprinted Major League Baseball championship merchandise for losing teams overseas. Each new round of the postseason comes with new commemorative merchandise retailers can…

Toronto Former Blue Jays outfielder Barry Bonnell remembers the lean years in the early 1980s when fans behaved more like a golf gallery, “politely clapping” while remaining seated. Even in September, 1992, on the threshold of their first World…

Enlarge this image Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning. A high school teacher is reading out loud from a sample recommendation letter when she notices a few students fidgeting and texting. “I’m not seeing all eyes …” she says, her voice trailing off. Naama Wrightman, who is coaching the teacher, jumps in. “All right, pause. It’s the right correction….

Enlarge this image Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning. A high school teacher is reading out loud from a sample recommendation letter when she notices a few students fidgeting and texting. “I’m not seeing all eyes …” she says, her voice trailing off. Naama Wrightman, who is coaching the teacher, jumps in. “All right, pause. It’s the right correction….

When the Chase outlook appeared bleak for the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team, Kevin Harvick channeled his inner El Toro and charged to the win at Kansas Speedway. Harvick was down — eight points outside of the top-eight in the Chase, to be exact — entering the second race in the Round of 12 on Sunday. An engine failure at Charlotte Motor Speedway the week before had put…

Not long after Indians right-hander Trevor Bauer‘s forced departure from Game 3 of ALCS in Toronto — a departure that was the result of gash on his right pinky, itself the result of a drone’s act of betrayal — it started. By “it,” I mean inane comparisons of Bauer to any number of far hardier hockey players. For instance … And … And … And so on. The implication —…

The International Olympic Committee has disqualified two more athletes from London 2012 after they tested positive in the re-analysis of stored anti-doping samples. The Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov and Ukrainian pole vaulter Maksym Mazuryk both tested positive for the anabolic steroid turinabol. Aukhadov, the 2013 European and world champion in the 85kg category, loses the silver medal he won in London, while Mazuryk, a former world junior champion and 2010…

In Italy, they’re passionate about family, faith and football. Joe Tacopina inherited that same love from his Italian immigrant parents. So while his dad was undeniably proud that he become a high-profile Manhattan attorney, it was when Tacopina became vice president of the Italian soccer team Roma that he, for the first time, saw his stoic late father tear up. Following Roma, Tacopina bought Bologna, turning around the club’s finances…

After the final at-bat of the 2016 World Series, as T-shirts commemorating the winning team hit retailers’ shelves almost as soon as they’re on players’ backs, versions celebrating the losers start a journey to the shredder. It didn’t always work that way. In past years, retailers donated preprinted Major League Baseball championship merchandise for losing teams overseas. Each new round of the postseason comes with new commemorative merchandise retailers can…

Toronto Former Blue Jays outfielder Barry Bonnell remembers the lean years in the early 1980s when fans behaved more like a golf gallery, “politely clapping” while remaining seated. Even in September, 1992, on the threshold of their first World…

It was Game One of the American League Championship Series, and Cleveland Indians ace Corey Kluber was cruising against the Toronto Blue Jays. He’d allowed no runs while striking out six through six and a third innings, and — having thrown only 100 pitches — he seemed ready to keep shutting down the Jays’ bats. But Cleveland manager Terry Francona took him out of the ballgame anyway. During the regular…

Enlarge this image Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning. A high school teacher is reading out loud from a sample recommendation letter when she notices a few students fidgeting and texting. “I’m not seeing all eyes …” she says, her voice trailing off. Naama Wrightman, who is coaching the teacher, jumps in. “All right, pause. It’s the right correction….

 (Photo: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports) Cleveland is back. Just months after the Cleveland Cavaliers came down from three games to one to beat the 73-win Golden State Warriors and win the NBA Finals, the Cleveland Indians stand on the precipice of making their first World Series since 1997. It’s tempting to look at this sudden change in fortune and wonder if some cosmic forces are in play here, if…

The halfway point of the 2016 college football season is upon us, which makes this the perfect time to announce the CBS Sports 2016 Midseason All-America team as voted on by our panel of college football experts from CBSSports.com and 247Sports.com. There are four unanimous selections and players representing 20 programs among the 27 selections. Alabama Crimson Tide (four) leads the way with Florida State Seminoles , Ohio State Buckeyes…

Volumes covering athletics, surfing, football, cricket, horse racing and swimming are in the shortlist for this year’s William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, the world’s richest and longest-running prize for sports writing. The seven-strong shortlist includes Oliver Kay’s Forever Young, which investigates the short life of the eccentric football prodigy Adrian Doherty, who was offered a five-year contract with Manchester United on his 17th birthday yet died in…

The Dallas Cowboys have their quarterback of the future. They also have their quarterback controversy of the now. Do they stay with rookie quarterback Dak Prescott, who is 5-1 as a replacement starter for the injured Tony Romo? Or do they go to Romo when he’s cleared to play, possibly next week after this week’s bye? It’s a tough decision for sure. But ask yourself this: Who’s the better quarterback…