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The scene in Chimay, Belgium, in a fatal explosion. Vince Crate/Facebook An accidental explosion rocked a sports center in the Belgian city of Chimay shortly after midnight local time on Friday, Reuters and The Associated Press reported. At least one person was killed and as many as four were believed to be injured, two of them seriously, Reuters said. A report from the Guardian noted that there may have been five people…

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – One of the largest indoor sports complexes in Northeast Florida could soon be coming to St. Johns County. Project Family is a dream that’s been about five years in the making and could become a reality. For moms like Kristi Stovall, driving children to all their after-school activities can be a struggle to say the least. “We’re driving all over the place. We’re driving to…

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Tim Tebow’s High School Coach Gives A Glimpse Into QB’s Baseball Past, MLB Future Tim Tebow has been aiming high his entire life. But this might be his most ambitious goal yet. The 29-year-old will take the field Aug. 30 not as a quarterback but as a baseball player, holding a workout for reportedly more than 20 Major League Baseball teams — including the Boston Red Sox — in an attempt to kick-start a…

The fourth installment of the World Baseball Classic takes place next spring and, as expected, three of the host ballparks will come from Major League Baseball. MLB revealed Thursday that WBC games will take place in Dodger Stadium, Marlins Park and Petco Park. Dodger Stadium gets the top billing here, as it will host the semifinals and finals March 20-22. It previously held those two rounds in 2009. Dodger Stadium…

Look, sports just don’t make any sense. Try explaining some of our society’s favorite team sports to someone who knows nothing about it and keep track of how often they give a blank stare. To try explaining baseball to a British man is like explaining Harambe memes to your great grandmother. Case in point: golf. Golf is ultimately about using a metal club to hit a very small ball…

Johnny Cueto is having a great year on the mound. But he provided more proof in Wednesday night’s loss to the Dodgers that he’ll never be confused with rotation mate Madison Bumgarner in the batter’s box. Cueto was already grinning before this fifth-inning pitch, which resulted in laughter from around the baseball world and comparisons to the golf swing of Happy Gilmore. It’s hard to pick the best part of…

Barcelona beat Manchester City in the Champions League last 16 in both 2014 and 2015 Manchester City will meet Scottish champions Celtic and manager Pep Guardiola’s former club Barcelona in the Champions League group stage. German side Borussia Monchengladbach will be the other team in Group B. Premier League champions Leicester will play Porto, Club Brugge and FC Copenhagen in their debut campaign. Arsenal have been drawn alongside Paris St-Germain,…

Clemson Tigers quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) looks to pass the ball during the first quarter of the spring game at Clemson Memorial Stadium.(Photo: Joshua S. Kelly, USA TODAY Sports) Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and six players from Alabama highlight the USA TODAY Sports’ preseason All-America team. Watson is the first-team quarterback, while McCaffrey joins LSU’s Leonard Fournette as first-team running backs. The first team also includes Alabama…

T The Bluetooth workout headphone field is as wide as it is colorful. It’s one that Danish wireless headset maker Jabra has been involved with for some time now, with its simply named Sport line. The company’s latest two entrants up the ante, bringing new fitness tracking metrics and coaching to the table, in an attempt to set themselves apart from the pack. At a glance Dust and water-resistant (IP55) Up to 5…

Six years ago, the New York Times appended a correction to its obituary of George Michael, the sportscaster who pushed those big buttons on The Sports Machine, saying the original piece had “omitted three survivors.” The paper blamed the error on “information provided by a family member.” I’d seen obit corrections over a name misspelling or résumé omission before, but never anything that screamed “Dysfunction!” quite as loudly as this….

Mark McClusky, one of Wired’s top executives, is leaving to run digital for Sports Illustrated. If that news sounds familiar, there’s a reason: Last week, Joe Brown, who ran Wired’s website, left to run Popular Science. In McClusky’s case, he’s leaving after an 11-year run up Wired’s masthead; by the end of it he was the title’s head of operations, heading up product and biz dev. Like Brown, McClusky is…

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Tim Tebow’s High School Coach Gives A Glimpse Into QB’s Baseball Past, MLB Future Tim Tebow has been aiming high his entire life. But this might be his most ambitious goal yet. The 29-year-old will take the field Aug. 30 not as a quarterback but as a baseball player, holding a workout for reportedly more than 20 Major League Baseball teams — including the Boston Red Sox — in an attempt to kick-start a…

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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nancy Armour shares her Top 5 from Rio. USA TODAY Sports Hope Solo(Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports) U.S. Soccer suspended goalie Hope Solo from the U.S. women’s soccer team for six months for her divisive comments aimed at Sweden during the Rio Games, the organization announced Wednesday night. Beyond the suspension announced publicly, Solo’s national team contract was terminated after a 15-minute-long meeting with…