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He doesn’t like sports. I don’t know why. I don’t care. I can guess, but really, that’s not the point. The point is that he doesn’t like sports, so when people ask him which sports he plays, it takes that moment of, “Yes, you see me; I am part of this world,” and crushes it into another uncomfortable, and quite honestly, annoying moment.

Sports Direct is braced for a fierce investor revolt at the company’s annual shareholder meeting this week as another influential City investor declared it would vote against the reappointment of chairman Keith Hellawell. Hermes Investment Management, which manages and advises on £215bn of assets, is the latest to call for Hellawell to go, saying it will vote against his reappointment on Wednesday. A year ago, the UK fund manager had…

4 Images  Find News Near Me Fayetteville, N.C. — Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon after one person died early Sunday following an assault in a Fayetteville parking lot. Around 12:30 a.m., officers with the Fayetteville Police Department responded to an incident at 301 Wingz, a sports bar located along the 400 block of North Eastern Boulevard. At the scene, they determined that two men had assaulted Michael Mansfield, 52,…

Anze Kopitar helped Slovenia punch its ticket for the 2018 Winter Olympics. USATSI We don’t know if the NHL will be releasing their players for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, but NHLers were a big part of this week’s Olympic qualifying tournament at three different European sites. Germany, Norway and Slovenia each topped their groups in the round-robin format to solidify their spots at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, South…

Former U.S. soccer star Lauren Holiday has been diagnosed with a brain tumor while pregnant, and her husband, New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, is taking indefinite leave from the NBA club to care for his wife, the Pelicans said Sunday. “We are all praying for a healthy delivery of their first child and a successful surgery for Lauren,” Pelicans general manager Dell Demps said in a prepared statement provided…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the Bojangles’ Southern 500 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on at Darlington. USA TODAY Sports Cars race around Darlington Raceway during the 2015 Bojangles’ Southern 500.(Photo: Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports) DARLINGTON, S.C.  — It’s NASCAR race day at Darlington Raceway, and we’ve got some essential information you need to get ready for Sunday’s…

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…

The modern baseball broadcaster provides a public service to sports fans everywhere: He receives our hatred; he’s a magnet, or a receptacle, for our frustration. To talk for three-plus hours extemporaneously, particularly during a game as leisurely and mannered as baseball, is to invite listeners to pounce on every poorly researched remark. Each year the baseball site Fangraphs.com asks its readers to rank all 30 teams’ announcers; perhaps the nicest…

RELATED: Race results | At-track gallery | Standings | Chase Grid SHOP: Sadler gear DARLINGTON, S.C. — Elliott Sadler had a passenger for Saturday’s VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway — in spirit at least. After a breathtaking battle against Denny Hamlin over the closing laps, Sadler crossed the finish-line .454 seconds ahead of Hamlin to win for the first time at the Lady in Black — and immediately…

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…