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Tim Tebow boldly thrust himself back into professional sports last week by signing a minor-league contract with the New York Mets. In his hype-spinning return to competition, though, he may have made one crucial mistake: He picked the wrong sport. Tebow should be playing handball. A sport that rewards size, prizes speed and fetishizes…

She’s not giving up on racing any time soon but NASCAR driver Danica Patrick is already eying her next move. Continue Reading Below “At this point and time it’s racing but while I’m in racing, it’s fun to develop relationships and plant the seed about all the other things that I love to do that will go beyond racing,” Patrick tells FOXBusiness.com. The 34-year-old stock car driver says…

12:35 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The four-star quarterback was a three-sport star in high school, and though that versatility may have kept him out of the zip code of five-stars a few years ago, DeShone Kizer says now playing baseball and basketball was the best thing to ever happen to him. “It allowed me, one, to create the athletic ability that it…

3:35 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment An ongoing referendum is taking place in America, a trial in which we, the people, seem to be both plaintiff and defendant. The same questions are being asked that have always been asked, especially in an election year, but the consequences of those answers no longer seem to result merely in a difference of opinion. Today, they either confirm that our…

Last week, the 2016 Paralympics opened in Rio with enough pomp, ceremony, stunts and celebration to almost conceal the disgraceful plundering of its funding and shoddy state of the facilities. There were epic stunts, heartfelt moments and the obligatory booing of allegedly corrupt politicians. The British press, perhaps empowered by the 2012 London “best ever” Paralympic games have been following the current games closely, but likely few American readers have…

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Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raises his fist in the air during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP) Let a thousand raised fists bloom. As the National Football League’s regular season kicked off this weekend, players on a number of teams joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protests…

MPs have called on Sports Direct to end its relationship with Transline, which supplies workers for the retailer’s Shirebrook warehouse, over fears that the employment agency misled a parliamentary inquiry. Iain Wright, Labour MP and chair of the Commons business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee, which published a damning report on Sports Direct in July, has written to the retailer’s founder and majority shareholder Mike Ashley saying he believed…

RELATED: Find out more, order NASCAR Heat Evolution CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sitting down with former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski as he gets comfortable behind the controller of an Xbox One is uncannily similar to broadcasters popping into the driver’s No. 2 Team Penske Ford on a race day to inquire about his upcoming performance. He’s eager, but focused and able to maintain an engaging conversation. For Keselowski,…

Adam Jones has never been afraid to speak his mind on baseball or social issues. So it wasn’t shocking to see the Baltimore Orioles star—and one of the most high-profile African-American stars in Major League Baseball—weigh in on Colin Kaepernick’s protest and the wave of support he’s received from some other players in the NFL. But as Bob Nightengale of USA Today broached in a conversation with Jones, not one African-American baseball…

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BOSTON (AP) — Call it the unholy alliance: one-time Super Bowl rivals Tom Brady and Michael Strahan are teaming up to produce a six-part documentary TV series called the “Religion of Sports.” Each hour-long episode looks at different examples of the cultural and spiritual impact of sports in religions around the world. The show explores the rivalry between soccer clubs in Glasgow, Scotland; the Calgary Stampede rodeo in Alberta, Canada;…

Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raises his fist in the air during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP) Let a thousand raised fists bloom. As the National Football League’s regular season kicked off this weekend, players on a number of teams joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protests…

The governing board for U.S. college athletics said on Monday it will move seven championship sporting events out of North Carolina to protest a state law it deems discriminatory to transgender individuals. It is illegal for anyone in the state to use a public restroom that does not match the gender they were assigned at birth. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) cited the law in its decision to relocate…

Daniel Wilkinson signed his first professional contract with Hull in 2010 A non-league footballer has died after collapsing on the pitch during a match on Monday, his club has announced. Shaw Lane defender Daniel Wilkinson, 26, collapsed during a cup game at Brighouse Town’s St Giles Road stadium. The former Hull City youngster was treated on the pitch before being taken to Halifax’s Calderdale Royal Hospital. “I don’t know how…

Hey Mike Ashley, this is how it’s done. That wasn’t the strapline for JD Sports’ game-winning interim results on Tuesday, but it should have been. As Sports Direct — founded by Ashley — lurches from crisis to crisis, JD Sports reported a record 66 percent increase in pre-tax profit before one-off losses in the first half of its financial year, and says sales in the second half so far have been…

Soccer is one of the most widely played youth sports, with nearly 3 million children from ages 7 to 17 participating every year, according to U.S. Youth Soccer. However, with its growing popularity, documented soccer-related head injuries have risen dramatically, according to a new study that is the first to comprehensively investigate injury rates based on soccer participation data among children at the national level. The annual rate of concussions…

As the number of NFL players joining Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest grows by the game, the movement has yet to spread to baseball, where players usually stand for the National Anthem and salute the flag six days per week. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Why is that? According to Baltimore Orioles star Adam Jones, it’s a matter of numbers and demographics and the same type of inequality…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment With racial issues in the United States coming to the forefront in the sports world, Major League Baseball players generally have been absent from the growing chorus of athletes who have publicly spoken out about problems they may see in the United States, and Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones thinks he knows why. “Baseball is a white man’s sport,” the Orioles star told USA…