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Sports Authority Holdings Inc.’s vendors and landlords are looking to pull the plug on the retailer’s bankruptcy case. The retailer’s unsecured creditors filed court papers Friday calling for the lights to be shut off permanently, saying Sports Authority faces mounting administrative claims on which it will never be able to get a grip. …

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

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Associated Press MOSCOW The International Olympic Committee is weighing up whether to ban Russia from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro after revelations of a massive doping cover-up, but relations between the two were once much sunnier. When IOC president Thomas Bach was elected in 2013, he was called almost immediately by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country was then gearing up to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi….

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

COLORADO SPRINGS — Outside it was a beautiful spring day with Pikes Peak looming majestically to the west, but as Desiree Linden pounded out miles on a treadmill in a hermetically sealed room at the Olympic Training Center, it was a Sunday morning in August in Rio de Janeiro. And she wasn’t at 6,100 feet, she was at sea level imagining the Olympic marathon. Linden was sweating hard in the…

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Final practice results Kyle Busch closed out final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice atop the leaderboard Friday afternoon, recovering from a spin earlier in the day and landing the fastest speed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Busch, the defending race winner, lapped the track with a best speed of 184.619 mph in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota as teams made mock qualifying runs ahead…

Paul Konerko readily admits there are times when he misses baseball. He doesn’t miss it enough consider a full-time role yet, but misses it enough to keep his options open. The former White Sox captain who retired after the 2014 season maintains a busy schedule without being around the game. Besides serving as an assistant coach for his son’s youth baseball team, Konerko fills his days with being a father,…

i Beep baseball player Kerry Kuck practices at Ruby Hill Park in Denver, Colo. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hyoung Chang/Getty Images Beep baseball player Kerry Kuck practices at Ruby Hill Park in Denver, Colo. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images There sure has been a lot of sports in the news these days. NBA Finals, UEFA Cup, Wimbledon, the ongoing endurance test which is Major League Baseball. Sports is a…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

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Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Updated July 23, 2016 14:26:03 Photo: Stephen Dank climbs into an ambulance after the shooting. (ABC News) Stephen Dank, the sports scientist at the centre of the Essendon doping scandal, has told of being shot at through the window of his house while he slept in the early hours of the morning. ABC News Radio contacted Dank, who said he was advised by police not to do…

Image copyright DAVID MARIUZ Image caption There has been a big increase in the number of people playing cricket in Scotland in recent years The number of people participating in sport in Scotland has increased in recent years, according to new figures. The SportScotland statistics showed the overall number of people registered to sports clubs had risen from 706,764 to 768,212 since 2013/14. The rise applied to almost all sports…

RELATED: Pictures of ‘Smoke’ through the years   Tony Stewart said Friday that he’s completely content with Jeff Gordon ‘s return taking away some of the spotlight on his final scheduled start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In fact, he said if the situation arose, he’d be open to a similar substitute role for his Stewart-Haas Racing team after his full-time career ends.   Stewart, 45, is set for what should…

ENLARGE Amid all the drama about how to punish the Russians for doping, here’s an uncomfortable truth—the Olympics are a far less entertaining event without them in Rio. We can all agree that it’s better to have a competition in which all the athletes are clean. As this week’s investigative report from the World Anti-Doping Agency showed, the Sochi Games certainly were not. Russian officials managed to swap out dirty…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

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,…