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It was as if the Olympics had never left London. Armed with blue foam fingers and Team GB T-shirts, crowds at the Olympic Park’s Copper Box arena gave double gold-medallist gymnast Max Whitlock and taekwondo silver medallist Lutalo Muhammad a heroes’ welcome. Free sports sessions were held at the arena, which hosted handball and fencing at London 2012. There were 2,600 such events across the UK,as clubs and sports centres…

The head of Guinea’s Olympic delegation says two athletes did not return to the West African nation after competing at the Rio Olympics.  Atef Chaloub said Saturday that swimmer Amadou Camara disappeared 48 hours before the team’s scheduled departure. He said Mamadama Bangoura, who competed in judo, also did not return to Guinea, having disappeared after leaving a message saying she wanted to “try her luck” abroad.  A friend of…

Simone Biles won four gold medals in the Olympics — but lost all of her memories. The celebrated gymnast took to Twitter on Saturday to share the sad news that all of the photos she had taken during the games were erased from her phone. “Lost all of my Olympic pictures,” she wrote, with an emoji of an upside down smiling face. Surely there are thousands…

Everton manager Ronald Koeman said: “If you don’t score the second and kill the game then it is always difficult in the last few minutes. But we had much more ball possession, 18 shots on target, them 0 and it is normal you win three points. “Today we were not really clinical in the box. We had some good opportunities and need to be more aggressive, but the performance was good, it is…

Hundreds of thousands of people across the UK have been taking part in sports events after clubs and sports centres opened their doors for free to celebrate Team GB’s Olympic success. About 2,600 free sporting events were being held, involving up to 60 Olympians, while ITV switched off all seven of its channels for an hour at 9.30am to encourage people to get involved. The national sports day, called I…

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Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Let’s get to today’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. Five Things to Watch: 1. Here are the three highest projected over/unders, provided by OddsShark… 2. Weather: Should be all clear, but keep an eye on Twitter for updates closer to game time. 3….

A rainbow arches across the sky over Lake Olmstead Stadium during the playing of the national anthem as Class-A Augusta GreenJackets play the Delmarva Shorebirds in Augusta on July 15. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) AUGUSTA, Ga. — They trickled into the mid-July night, a rain-shortened loss beginning their Friday night early. A 25-year-old catcher hung back. Matt Paré chatted with teammates and underwent a long treatment session as other Augusta…

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,…

To DH or not to DH? The debate rages in not only among fans, but among players and coaches and executives within baseball. There seems to be no middle ground. Either you love the designated hitter or you hate it. Reds outfielder Adam Duvall is not a fan of the DH. He prefers the old school National League style of play. Here’s what he told ESPN’s Mark Saxon recently: One…

RELATED: Qualifying results | See every car, team rosters BROOKLYN, Mich. – If Joey Logano was looking for a good omen for Sunday, he found it on Friday afternoon at Michigan International Speedway. Touring the two-mile track in 35.697 seconds (201.698 mph) during the final round of knockout qualifying for Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 (2 p.m. ET on NBCSN), Logano edged Jimmie Johnson (201.523 mph) for the top starting spot by…

When ESPN sneezes, the entire sports world shivers. The largest force in the sports TV universe, ESPN has lost more than 11 million subscribers since 2011 and more than 4 million since last summer. The cable giant — now in 88.78 million homes, according to Nielsen — has been dramatically affected by two factors: Viewers known as cord-cutters are shunning cable or satellite entirely and current subscribers are electing to…

Medaling at the Olympics is nice. You can get your national anthem played, everyone claps. The McDonald’s in the Olympic Village slides you a free 20-piece McNugget (unconfirmed). But the most underrated part is the cash. Many Olympic athletes are amateurs incapable of accepting financial benefits through sponsorships, so the cash their sport’s national Olympic committee tenders for medals is the only direct financial gain they can see for their work….

A rainbow arches across the sky over Lake Olmstead Stadium during the playing of the national anthem as Class-A Augusta GreenJackets play the Delmarva Shorebirds in Augusta on July 15. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) AUGUSTA, Ga. — They trickled into the mid-July night, a rain-shortened loss beginning their Friday night early. A 25-year-old catcher hung back. Matt Paré chatted with teammates and underwent a long treatment session as other Augusta…

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As more people watch videos on digital platforms, their viewing behaviors are changing. Whistle Sports believes young viewers ages 25 and under are even more different than previous generations. When it comes to sports content, they don’t want to sit back and passively watch: They want to create their own videos. “Traditional sports media is old guys in a production truck or old guys in suits telling you what to…

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Medaling at the Olympics is nice. You can get your national anthem played, everyone claps. The McDonald’s in the Olympic Village slides you a free 20-piece McNugget (unconfirmed). But the most underrated part is the cash. Many Olympic athletes are amateurs incapable of accepting financial benefits through sponsorships, so the cash their sport’s national Olympic committee tenders for medals is the only direct financial gain they can see for their work….

Enlarge this image Mosquitoes hover around South Korea’s bronze medalist Ki Bo Bae during the medal ceremony for archery, held on Aug. 11 at the Rio Games. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Mosquitoes hover around South Korea’s bronze medalist Ki Bo Bae during the medal ceremony for archery, held on Aug. 11 at the Rio Games. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Not 1,000. Not 50. Not even…