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“Since then, Serbia is beating the U.S. by a score of 99-82.” Is Serbia still beating the US? Love how everything Americans do is given a negative spin.

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Originally published on Grist. Long after the athletes have packed up their Speedos and the torch has gone out, the structures that house the 2016 Olympics will remain. While Rio de Janeiro used its existing national soccer stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, it also built a number of other stadiums and venues for the games — and displaced 80,000 residents in the process. So what’s to come of…

Mr England said: “We always said we were taking away our most talented team and it wasn’t just rhetoric. I genuinely believed it. I was also pretty confident we would make history and be the most successful team we have ever taken away from home, and it hasn’t just been about the medals, it’s been about millions of people screaming at their televisions, whether they were watching Mo Farah, the…

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A standoff on Aug. 10 crystallized the difference for Jackie Bradley Jr. Rick Porcello said something to Chase Headley, apparently an accusation the Yankees third baseman was looking at signs. A punch-less, benches-clearing soiree ensued at Fenway Park. “We’re smaller guys,” Bradley said. “Especially when we, um, our little get-together scrum with the Yankees, we noticed how we were a lot shorter than a majority of their guys.” This is…

Like a lot of the guys gathered at the baseball field at Seventy-First High School on Sunday, Justin Hendrickson could have hung up his glove and cleats a long time ago. But the 33-year-old Hendrickson and the rest of the players in the National Adult Baseball Association of the Carolinas league, just aren’t ready to let those big league dreams go. “Everybody, in the back of their…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Brendan Rodgers has insisted Leigh Griffiths is no cheat after the Celtic striker was booked for diving in their win over St Johnstone. (Various) Motherwell striker Scott McDonald reckons Celtic are far better than Rangers on current form. (Sunday Mail, newspaper edition) Mark Warburton has insisted Aston Villa owner Dr Tony Xia is talking “nonsense” with claims the Rangers boss scuppered the deal for Joleon Lescott. (Various)…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tanni Grey-Thompson won gold medals at four different Paralympic Games Olympics success must be used to change a nation of sports watchers into participants, according a former Paralympics gold medallist. Welsh competitors in Rio won 10 medals, surpassing the seven collected at London 2012. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said Wales is more a nation “that likes watching sport” than a sporting nation. She also said…

<!– Gray joined Burnley for a then club-record fee in August 2015 Warning: this article contains offensive language Burnley striker Andre Gray has apologised and asked “for forgiveness” after homophobic tweets he sent in 2012 were shared on social media. One tweet from the 25-year-old Premier League player’s account appeared to condone killing gay people. Gray said he was now a “completely different person” to the one who posted the…

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Mr England said: “We always said we were taking away our most talented team and it wasn’t just rhetoric. I genuinely believed it. I was also pretty confident we would make history and be the most successful team we have ever taken away from home, and it hasn’t just been about the medals, it’s been about millions of people screaming at their televisions, whether they were watching Mo Farah, the…

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Despite some relative struggles throughout the Olympic tourney, Team USA is one victory away from winning gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics. That win, however, will not be easy, as the U.S. will be facing a Serbia team that took it the distance — the Serbians actually had a wide-open 3-pointer to tie the game as time expired — in the group stage. Here is all the broadcast information, followed…

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Without resorting to hyperbole, I feel comfortable saying that there is no one quite like Ichiro. No other baseball player has racked up 3,000 big league hits after not making their MLB debut until the age of 27 — to say nothing of collecting over 1,200 while playing in the NPB. No one has a fitness regime like Ichiro’s, requiring a highly specialized space age stretching apparatus. And certainly, no one…

Veteran swimmer Ryan Lochte’s brush with Rio police has already hurt his appeal to sponsors – but for two lesser-known team mates, it means they may never get a chance to sign their first major deal. Lochte has several major sponsors, including fashion house Ralph Lauren, which took down any reference to the gold medalist on its website on Friday, and swimwear company Speedo which has said it is following…

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There is a new gold medalist in women’s field hockey. Great Britain claimed the gold medal after defeating the Netherlands 2-0 in a historic shootout win. With time winding down and the pressure increasing, it was anybody’s game with the score tied at three all. Great Britain’s Nicola White scored the game-tying goal on a rebound off of a penalty corner that would ultimately send the two teams into a shootout….

Media playback is not supported on this device GB’s Adams wins boxing gold Nicola Adams became the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years by winning gold in the women’s flyweight final at Rio 2016. The 33-year-old won a unanimous points decision to beat France’s Sarah Ourahmoune. Britain have now won 26 golds in Brazil and 63 medals overall, two short of the record 65 won…