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Reinstated Gordon apologizes on Twitter Miami Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon issued an apology on Twitter addressed primarily to his young fans as he returned from an 80-game suspension for a positive drug test. “I know I let you down, and I’m sorry,” Gordon said in a video. “Complacency led me to this, and I’m hurt. I urge you guys to be more responsible than I am…

The SEC has played a big role in making college baseball a major sport by pouring money into facilities and paying top dollar for strong coaches. The league’s commitment to the game is translating to more talent coming to college and putting professional baseball on hold, according to South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner. In the past 10 years, 33 SEC players have been selected in the first round of…

Photo via Victor Decolongon/Getty Earlier this month, the UFC was sold for $4 billion to, of all places, WME-IMG, the talent agency best known for its co-CEO Ari Emanuel, the inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold. SportsBusinessJournal had a good piece recently detailing some of the behind-the-scenes negotiating over the deal in which, among other things, it reported that while three media companies were seriously interested, they ultimately felt that the…

A formal committee table surrounded by chairs is seen towards the back of the stage. Lounge chairs and a coffee table dominate the downstage area. It is in this area that most of the action takes place. Large, framed head shots of former club champions adorn the walls. A door on the left leads to the general and recreational areas of the club building, while to the right a door…

Mangar Makur Chuot – the South Sudanese refugee who rose from a refugee camp to qualify for the Olympic Games – has been controversially de-selected by the South Sudan team, without explanation a week before the Games begin. Chuot has declined to comment, but his coach Lindsay Bunn said South Sudan’s selection process for the Games had been tainted, and that ineligible athletes with inferior records had been preferred. Related:…

Washington Spirit attacker Estefania Banini, who plays for Argentina’s Sky Blue and Whites, has scored four goals in the past six NWSL matches. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Estefania Banini’s parents took her from club to club in Mendoza, Argentina, searching for a place for their 5-year-old daughter to play soccer. No, came the answer. No, again and again. At least 10 times. It was 1995, and in Argentina, as in…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR. This week, we hit Joe Gibbs Racing, solutions for Indy and the mystery surrounding the 88 car: Turn 1: How could Joe Gibbs Racing get this far ahead in what is supposed to be the most competitive era of NASCAR? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: They have the strongest rotation in NASCAR….

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is still pretty upset about so many Russian athletes being banned from the Olympics due to doping. While Russia did avoid a straight-up ban, track and field and several individual athletes are still not allowed to compete in Rio. So what’s an angry prime minister who thinks his country has been discriminated against by drug tests to do? Hold his own games, of course. On…

If seeking a benchmark for American Olympic dominance less than a week before the 2016 Games begin, you can’t find a better statistical example than the 1904 edition.  The U.S. cleaned up that year, taking home more than 230 total medals in its first turn hosting. No other country even hit 20 total medals. That’s nuts.  But a closer look reveals the 1904 Olympics to be something else entirely: Deeply…

Photo via Victor Decolongon/Getty Earlier this month, the UFC was sold for $4 billion to, of all places, WME-IMG, the talent agency best known for its co-CEO Ari Emanuel, the inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold. SportsBusinessJournal had a good piece recently detailing some of the behind-the-scenes negotiating over the deal in which, among other things, it reported that while three media companies were seriously interested, they ultimately felt that the…

A formal committee table surrounded by chairs is seen towards the back of the stage. Lounge chairs and a coffee table dominate the downstage area. It is in this area that most of the action takes place. Large, framed head shots of former club champions adorn the walls. A door on the left leads to the general and recreational areas of the club building, while to the right a door…

There are fastballs and there are faster balls. Then there are Aroldis Chapman fastballs, considered the Lamborghinis of modern-day pitches. They are so sleek mlb.com has a “Chapman Filter” on its website to weed out the slower pokes who can’t compete with Chapman’s speed. Consider: Of the 702,307 pitches thrown in major-league games last season, the Cubs‘ controversial new closer hogged the top 77 spots for fastest thrown. Seventy-seven. The…

Viktor Lebedev has won two gold medals at World Championships More Russian athletes have been banned from competing at next month’s Olympics by their sports’ governing bodies. Federations must rule on whether Russians can compete in Rio following the country’s doping scandal. The Union Cycliste Internationale said three cyclists were withdrawn due to previous drugs cases, with another three implicated in the doping scandal. Wrestler Viktor Lebedev, who returned a…

NASCAR’s top drivers are getting what they asked for.  During the August 28th Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR will bring back the low-downforce package it used at that track in June and at Kentucky Speedway last month.   NASCAR’s body’s vice president, innovation and racing development,  Gene Stefanyshyn, said Thursday this package, perhaps with some very minor tweaks, also will be used for the 2017 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. It…

RELATED: Buy Darlington tickets | ’16 throwback schemes  CONCORD, N.C. — When Valvoline officials queried NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Paul Menard about his racing heroes, the first name on the list was Al Unser Jr. So Menard couldn’t be more pleased that the Valvoline-themed throwback paint scheme he will run in this year’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 pays tribute to Unser Jr.’s lone NASCAR premier series start. Menard’s Richard Childress Racing No. 27…

If seeking a benchmark for American Olympic dominance less than a week before the 2016 Games begin, you can’t find a better statistical example than the 1904 edition.  The U.S. cleaned up that year, taking home more than 230 total medals in its first turn hosting. No other country even hit 20 total medals. That’s nuts.  But a closer look reveals the 1904 Olympics to be something else entirely: Deeply…

<!– START and end The Girl from Guanabara A look at the unsolved murder of Priscila de Goes Pereira. By David Biller and Michael Smith | July 28, 2016 Photographs by Photographer Name –> By David Biller and Michael Smith | July 28, 2016 From Rio de Janeiro is a troubled city and a reeling Olympic host, but it will always have beautiful Guanabara Bay. One of the bay’s newer…

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