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The Italian Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and 5 live on Sunday Jenson Button will not race in Formula 1 in 2017 but will remain with McLaren as an ambassador. The 2009 world champion will work with the team and could race again in 2018, having signed a two-year contract. Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne will be promoted from reserve driver to partner double world champion Fernando Alonso….

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) — Before Jack Sock took on 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in the third round, the 23-year-old American acknowledged that, as of a couple of years ago, simply making it that far would have made him, to use two of his words, ”satisfied” and ”excited.” Now Sock wants more. Sock overwhelmed No. 7-seeded Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a little more than 1 1/2 hours…

UK Athletics is to launch an inquiry into the classification of Paralympic track and field athletes following claims that some have been allowed to compete against those who are significantly more impaired, resulting in a boost to their medal chances. Tanni Grey-Thompson, Britain’s most decorated and best-known star of the Paralympics, is among those who have complained in recent months, expressing her concern that some athletes have obtained a competitive…

Schweinsteiger has been training alone, or with the Under-23 squad, since Mourinho took charge this summer Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has been left out of Manchester United’s Europa League squad. The ex-Germany captain, who has trained alone or with the Under-23s under new boss Jose Mourinho, was named in their 25-man Premier League squad on Friday. The 32-year-old World Cup winner retired from international football this week after 24 goals and…

In the lead up to the Rio Olympics, there was a flurry of panic around whether the games might act as a super-spreading event for the Zika virus, flinging cases out of the hot zone (Brazil) and into the far corners of the earth. Some worried critics even called for the games to be postponed or moved. Some athletes dropped out in fear of the virus. But researchers studying…

Was there anything surprising about Friday’s news that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the rest of the NASCAR season with concussion symptoms? Not really, at least not if you’ve been listening to what Earnhardt has been saying before and since he violently slammed into the wall at Michigan International Speedway that Sunday afternoon in June. The hit gave Earnhardt, 41, a concussion, his third in the past five seasons. He…

San Diego State sports historians couldn’t remember the last time the Aztecs beat a No. 1 team in any Division I sport, men’s or women’s. They won’t have to reach far into the memory banks any longer. The Aztecs shocked No. 1 Akron in men’s soccer Friday night, winning 1-0 on Travis Nicklaw’s 61st-minute penalty kick before an SRO crowd at the SDSU Sports Deck in what ranks among the…

3:45 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Dale Earnhardt Jr. won’t race in 2016, and his continued absence will bring many questions about not only his own future but the future of his team. Dale Jr. shuts it down for ’16 after concussion Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the rest of the 2016 Sprint Cup season as he recovers from concussion symptoms. It doesn’t end there. The absence…

Irish poets learn your trade Sing whatever is well made. . . . — William Butler Yeats,“Under Ben Bulben” LOS ANGELES For 67 years, the son of Vincent and Bridget Scully, immigrants who came to New York City from County Cavan, Ireland, has been plying his trade. For eight years on the East Coast and 59 on the West Coast, on radio and television, he has strolled with Brooklyn Dodgers fans and…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

Major League Baseball distributed iPad Pros to its clubs this season. (Photo via MLB) Since at least the 1930s, according to baseball historians, Major League Baseball clubs have kept phones in their dugouts and bullpens. Historians aren’t really sure when the first one appeared, but the earliest mention of one came in a 1930 article in The Sheboygan Press about Yankee Stadium. Managers use the phones to call the bullpen,…

Peg Holecek has to get up at 5:20 every morning, but lately, she’s been staying up past 10 p.m., just to watch TV. Why? Mikey’s back in town. Mikey Berman is one of the Glenbrook North High School teacher’s old broadcasting students, and, since Aug. 15, he’s been working as a sports reporter at Chicago’s NBC 5. “I’m so excited, I stay up late to look for him on the…

Fall sports are starting up again. Soccer, football and volleyball. And that means brain injuries are a topic of concern for athletes and parents. This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview. PRI.org Yet there are still plenty of questions about concussions. That’s what sports writer Joanne Gerstner, along with neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher, set out to address in their new book, “Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn’t…

He’s a U.S. Olympian, NFL alum, startup CEO and now a TV host. Jeremy Bloom sat down with TechCrunch to tell us about his new show “Adventure Capitalists,” which he characterizes as “Shark Tank meets the great outdoors.” The CNBC series takes a look at investment opportunities in the sports and action space — from electric bikes to underwater jet packs. The startups with successful pitches can receive investments from…

3:45 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Dale Earnhardt Jr. won’t race in 2016, and his continued absence will bring many questions about not only his own future but the future of his team. Dale Jr. shuts it down for ’16 after concussion Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the rest of the 2016 Sprint Cup season as he recovers from concussion symptoms. It doesn’t end there. The absence…

Irish poets learn your trade Sing whatever is well made. . . . — William Butler Yeats,“Under Ben Bulben” LOS ANGELES For 67 years, the son of Vincent and Bridget Scully, immigrants who came to New York City from County Cavan, Ireland, has been plying his trade. For eight years on the East Coast and 59 on the West Coast, on radio and television, he has strolled with Brooklyn Dodgers fans and…

Baseball bats are apparently popular in Russia. Though it’s not known for its interest in our national pastime, a report says that 500,000 bats were sold in Russia last year, per Moscow’s traffic police chief. The report also notes that only one pair of batting gloves were purchased. OK, so it’s a country full of Matt Carpenter and Wil Myers fans, right? Well, no … (via tass.com): “Road conflicts with…

Peg Holecek has to get up at 5:20 every morning, but lately, she’s been staying up past 10 p.m., just to watch TV. Why? Mikey’s back in town. Mikey Berman is one of the Glenbrook North High School teacher’s old broadcasting students, and, since Aug. 15, he’s been working as a sports reporter at Chicago’s NBC 5. “I’m so excited, I stay up late to look for him on the…

Was there anything surprising about Friday’s news that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the rest of the NASCAR season with concussion symptoms? Not really, at least not if you’ve been listening to what Earnhardt has been saying before and since he violently slammed into the wall at Michigan International Speedway that Sunday afternoon in June. The hit gave Earnhardt, 41, a concussion, his third in the past five seasons. He…