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New Orleans Pelicans point guard Jrue Holiday is set to miss the start of the 2016-17 season as his pregnant wife,?former U.S. women’s national team soccer player Lauren Holiday, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Lauren Holiday, a two-time gold medalist and 2015 World Cup winner, will undergo surgery about six weeks after the birth of the couple’s first child. The tumor, which is benign, was found on the…

RELATED: Cast your vote   DARLINGTON, S.C. (Sept. 3, 2016) — Voting for the National Motorsports Press Association Sprint Most Popular Driver Award will officially open Sunday, Sept. 4.   The award, sponsored by Sprint and administered by the NMPA, is the only major NASCAR award determined solely by fan vote. It has been presented annually since 1953.   The 2016 voting period will open at 12 a.m. ET Sunday…

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 okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Baseball is prone to weirdness. We all know that — heck, some of us are fond of the weirdness. But in case you needed a reminder of how screwy things can get, just consider who leads each of the leagues in second-half home runs. It’s not Mark Trumbo or Edwin Encarnacion or Josh Donaldson in the American League; likewise, it’s not Kris Bryant or Nolan Arenado in the National League….

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

The Chesapeake Sports Club (CSC) will hold its monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12 at the Chesapeake Conference Center, 700 Conference Center Drive. Guest speaker for the luncheon will be Tommy Graves, a former football player from Norfolk‘s Lake Taylor High School. Graves went on to play college football for Michigan State University in the Big Ten. He was later signed by the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers,…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Athletes paddle to shore near the Olympic rings after a men’s kayak double 1000-meter heat on Aug. 17. (Luca Bruno/AP) The Rio Olympics certainly didn’t go off without a hitch (remember the green pool water?). But one of the biggest fears concerning last month’s Games has not come to fruition: There have been no new confirmed cases of the Zika virus connected to the Olympics, according to the World Health Organization….

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Discovery Communications boss David Zaslav has been going deep into the sports world, meeting sports federations around the globe and having chats with the International Olympics Committee. The Olympics arrive on Discovery’s Eurosport network in 2018. So no wonder his end-of-the summer bash was scheduled to be thick with sports stars. Slated to attend the Saturday night party in East Hampton were tennis legends Serena Williams, Henri Leconte and Mats…

If only it were as easy as it used to be. Back in the day, year after year, the Giants and the Dodgers would play each other 22 times a year, 11 times at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan and 11 times at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, and there was little doubt about this: They were each other’s greatest rivals. Period. That’s how it was in 1903 and 1923…

(UMD) (GU) Maryland and Georgetown added another chapter to a growing men’s soccer rivalry Friday night with a riveting match decided in the final minute before an overflow crowd in College Park. The seventh-ranked Terrapins prevailed, 2-1, when Gordon Wild, who shared the national scoring crown last year while at a small program in South Carolina, converted the rebound of his failed penalty kick with 44 seconds left. Wild, who drew…

Hope Solo warms up prior to a match against France at the Rio Olympics on Aug. 8. (Daniel Oliveira/EPA) Hope Solo doesn’t think her comments calling her Swedish opponents “cowards” during the Olympics are what made U.S. Soccer suspend her for six months and terminate her contract with the national team. The 35-year-old goalkeeper instead thinks she was punished because she’s been fighting for equal rights for women in the…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Serena Williams won her first Grand Slam singles match at the 1998 Australian Open Serena Williams powered to a record 307th Grand Slam match win to reach the fourth round of the US Open. The world number one moved ahead of Martina Navratilova for most match wins in a major by a woman, and tied Roger Federer’s mark for men with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Sweden’s Johanna Larsson. “That’s…

Mike Ashley and the board of Sports Direct face a showdown with shareholders this week over a host of problems – including treatment of its employees, corporate governance and ailing performance. Investors in the controversial firm, which has faced months of pressure over working conditions for staff, get their chance to quiz directors at Sports Direct’s annual meeting in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, on Wednesday. Ashley, who founded the company and still…

When NASCAR canceled qualifying on Saturday, Kevin Harvick’s season-long consistency put him on the pole for Sunday night’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Harvick holds the preferred starting spot on the tricky South Carolina track due to being ranked first in the standings, as NASCAR canceled qualifying and set the lineup based off owner points. He will share the front row with Brad Keselowski, with defending race winner Carl…

Baseball is prone to weirdness. We all know that — heck, some of us are fond of the weirdness. But in case you needed a reminder of how screwy things can get, just consider who leads each of the leagues in second-half home runs. It’s not Mark Trumbo or Edwin Encarnacion or Josh Donaldson in the American League; likewise, it’s not Kris Bryant or Nolan Arenado in the National League….