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Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov said Tuesday he wants to resign from the position to focus on duties as a lawmaker. Russian media quoted Zhukov as saying he would step down from the Olympic committee to focus on his position as deputy speaker in the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, the State Duma. Zhukov has served as Russia’s top Olympic official for the past six years,…

Bigger than baseball. After playing his first game for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday, October 11, Tim Tebow helped a fan who collapsed in the crowd. PHOTOS: Celebrities Dating Athletes As Tebow, 29, signed autographs at University of Phoenix stadium, he saw a man, Brandon Berry, who was having a seizure. According to local news station KNXV, the former NFL star ran to Berry’s side…

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An extremely rare find of Ty Cobb baseball cards headlines a large collection of memorabilia that’s expected to fetch around $5 million in an online auction. Continue Reading Below The legend of the Cobb collection, known as the “Lucky 7 Find,” began earlier this year. A family in a rural town in the South was sifting through their great-grandparents’ possessions, and what they discovered turned out to be one…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL In another step toward redefining the amateur status of college athletes, Northwestern has agreed to drop social media restrictions placed on football players after a complaint about the team handbook was filed with the National Labor Relations Board. ESPN first reported the complaint was withdrawn in September after Northwestern agreed to modify its rules. The NLRB’s advisory memo states the scholarship football players are assumed to be ”statutory…

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The notion that athletes shouldn’t have sex before they compete – as it could negatively affect their performance – is one of the longest-held superstitions in sports, but that myth has just been thoroughly debunked. According to a new study that looked at hundreds of published papers examining the links between sex and sport, there is no plausible research that suggests sportspeople shouldn’t get their freak on before game time….

Nadine Hernandez, a Los Angeles Police Department detective assigned to the Derrick Rose rape investigation, has died after being found with a gunshot wound, according to the Los Angeles Times. She was 44.  Police in the L.A. suburb of Whittier responded to a call of an attempted suicide at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday. Hernandez was taken to a hospital and died at 3:27 p.m., according to the Times.  Whittier lieutenant Steve…

The notion that athletes shouldn’t have sex before they compete – as it could negatively affect their performance – is one of the longest-held superstitions in sports, but that myth has just been thoroughly debunked. According to a new study that looked at hundreds of published papers examining the links between sex and sport, there is no plausible research that suggests sportspeople shouldn’t get their freak on before game time….

  A St. Francis High School soccer coach who wore a clown mask for a photo at the team’s final practice is fighting to get his job back. Ben Hildre, a volunteer coach for the junior varsity girl’s soccer team, received a letter from district Superintendent Troy Ferguson on Friday relieving him of his duties after a photo of Hildre wearing a clown mask on school grounds circulated on social…

Cities used to covet the Olympic Games. Hosting them meant glamour and prestige. Not anymore. Rome became the latest city to abandon a bid for the 2024 Summer Games when it withdrew on Tuesday because of worries over the cost. Budget concerns have led city after city to drop their Olympic dreams in recent years. Hamburg, Germany, previously bailed on 2024. Stockholm and Krakow, Poland, pulled the plug on bids…

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Paolo Bruno/Getty Serie B, Italy’s second-highest professional soccer league, is unveiling a new initiative to promote sportsmanship among its players: the green card.  On Friday, the AP reported that after a game’s final whistle, refs will award green cards to those players who demonstrated good sportsmanship over the course of the game. Admit a goal kick when the refs called a corner? Green card. Help your opponent off the ground?…

Tim Tebow warms up before his first practice in the Arizona Fall League. (Rick Scuteri/AP) The Scottsdale Scorpions got their first real-game taste of Tebowmania Tuesday, and they darn near got the total package. The 29-year-old former quarterback, now a Mets prospect making his Arizona Fall League debut, got his first real-game taste of the outfield wall with a memorable face-plant while chasing a hard-hit ball. Oh, and he also laid his hands on…

(The Sports Xchange) – Chase Utley’s RBI single with two outs in the eighth inning lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-5 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, leveling the National League Division Series at 2-2. Utley singled off reliever Blake Treinen (1-1), allowing the Dodgers to force a decisive Game Five in Washington on Thursday. Daniel Murphy went 2-for-3 and had four RBIs for…

The notion that athletes shouldn’t have sex before they compete – as it could negatively affect their performance – is one of the longest-held superstitions in sports, but that myth has just been thoroughly debunked. According to a new study that looked at hundreds of published papers examining the links between sex and sport, there is no plausible research that suggests sportspeople shouldn’t get their freak on before game time….