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Instead of kicking back and making the most of his time off, Williams posted the above video on Twitter Thursday of him working up a sweat on a rowing machine.  But to do so, he’s strapped his protected left leg onto a longboard — which moves back and forth as he pounds the exercise equipment. Williams sustained the injury while representing New Zealand in the 7s tournament at the Rio…

After a disappointing performance at the Rio Olympics an Indian government think tank has come up with a strategy to help the country achieve 50 medals at the 2024 Games. India sent more than 120 athletes to Rio de Janeiro with hopes of exceeding the six medals won at London in 2012, but returned with a silver in badminton and a wrestling bronze. The National Institution for Transforming India Aayog…

Image copyright PA Image caption Mike Ashley founded the company and has come under pressure to reform working practices The founder and majority owner of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, has stepped in as chief executive at the retailer after the surprise resignation of Dave Forsey. The company has been under fire over zero hours contracts and disclosure that staff at a warehouse were paid less than the minimum wage. Independent…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers complains at so-called “trial by TV”, saying broadcaster BT Sport showed a challenge by his goalkeeper Craig Gordon on Alloa’s Greig Spence 14 times and one by Celtic defender Erik Sviatchenko on Inverness midfielder Ross Draper 26 times. (Various) Rodgers plays down the issue of who is his number one goalkeeper – Dorus de Vries or Craig Gordon. The Northern Irishman says he…

Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester United v Leicester: Ranieri dismisses talk of Mourinho feud Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says Jose Mourinho “is a fantastic person” and any issues between the two are “prehistoric”. The champions play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, with the two managers having clashed in the past. Mourinho called Ranieri “a loser” after replacing him at Chelsea and also insulted him…

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Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester United v Leicester: Ranieri dismisses talk of Mourinho feud Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says Jose Mourinho “is a fantastic person” and any issues between the two are “prehistoric”. The champions play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, with the two managers having clashed in the past. Mourinho called Ranieri “a loser” after replacing him at Chelsea and also insulted him…

TORONTO Ralph Krueger stood at the podium talking hockey but thinking soccer. As the chairman of Premiership side Southampton FC, Krueger’s mind was on a far away Europa Cup match that was just getting underway against Sparta Prague. As head coach of Team Europe, his focus was on the World Cup of Hockey and his team’s tournament opener the next day against the United States. It would be a good…

The NASCAR community is poorer this week with passing of two legends of the garage, reporter Bob Margolis and long-time insider Herbert Ames, both of whom were fixtures in the sport for many years. Margolis was a first-rate writer and reporter, someone who called it exactly like saw it. And he was someone who never said no to a young reporters trying to navigate the complicated NASCAR landscape. In that…

Islamic State militants reportedly beat six boys to death for playing soccer in central Mosul,  The Mirror newspaper reported. It is unclear when the boys were handcuffed and beaten with welding irons in front of a crowd, but the report said ISIS claimed that the boys were part of a resistance faction in the city. “The execution took place in Mosul in front of a large gathering,” one…

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As a self-described baseball geek, writer-producer Dan Fogelman was eager to take on “Pitch,” Fox’s new drama about the first woman to become a major league player. But he had one big concern. “I said, ‘If we don’t get Major League Baseball to sign on as partners, I don’t think we can do the show,’” he said in a recent interview from his office on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. “I…

CONWAY, S.C. — Tyler Chadwick, the Coastal Carolina second baseman who helped the Chants win the College World Series title, is working at quarterback as the injury riddled Chants prepare for Furman this week. Coastal coach Joe Moglia announced Chadwick’s addition Wednesday. Hey @CoastalBaseball, this guy was pretty good for you, mind if we give him a run? pic.twitter.com/5LNXR1SB4X — CCU FOOTBALL (@CoastalFootball) September…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

The stories are everywhere: baseball’s a dying game. American kids don’t play it anymore, and the hard-core fans like me are on Social Security. L.A.’s Mike Trout is the best player around, but he could walk down the street almost anywhere and not be recognized. And on and on. Well, I remember folks in the early 1960s saying that baseball was a goner, and the game’s done pretty well since…

In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first time. The chips are also in balls used in Thursday night games. Over the past decade, we’ve seen an explosion in data analytics in sports, particularly on the professional level. Technological advances in cameras and sensors have allowed teams, media…

USA TODAY Sports’ Lorenzo Reyes looks at the three biggest story lines heading into the third week of the season. USA TODAY Sports

USA TODAY Sports’ George Schroeder breaks down the five college football matchups to watch this week.

When Skip Bayless was a newspaper columnist, his colleagues laughed at the idea of sports journalism on TV, the “talking heads in funny suits.” Now with more than a decade of TV sports under his belt — including 12 years at ESPN and a new show on Fox Sports 1, “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed” — Bayless knows it’s no laughing matter. He explained his hyper-prepared process for arguing…