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United States goalkeeper Brianne McLaughlin-Bittle blocks a shot. (AP Photo / The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) “It is a lady’s business to look beautiful and there are hardly any sports in which she seems able to do it.” –Sportswriter Paul Gallico, 1936 Ad Policy “Well, the vast majority of WNBA players lack crossover sex appeal…. The baggy uniforms don’t help.” –Bill Simmons, HBO sports personality, circa 2006 “Women’s sports in…

A new app from SI Play launching this week aims to bring the world of youth sports into the mobile age, putting schedules, scores and statistics in the palm of parents’, coaches’ and players’ hands. Parents can use the app to view their children’s game and practice schedules across multiple teams, as well as chat with other team parents to coordinate gameday snacks and upload photos of the action. For…

Though Brazil has been in the news all year for a massive Zika epidemic, health officials aren’t concerned that the Olympics in Rio will pose a big risk for spread of the virus. The World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control have all said the risk is low. The key reasons: It’s winter there, so mosquitoes…

MOSCOW — Russia’s top Olympic official expects a final decision by Sunday on whether the entire Russian team will be banned from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro over allegations of state-sponsored doping. The International Olympic Committee is examining the legal options of a blanket ban following a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren that accused Russia’s sports ministry of overseeing doping of the country’s Olympic athletes….

comment () It’s been 20 years since Dominique Dawes and her fellow “Magnificent Seven” gymnasts won gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first U.S. team to achieve the feat. Today, Dawes is a busy stay-at-home mom to her two daughters, Kateri, 2, and Quinn, 10 months. She and husband, Jeff Thompson, recently celebrated their third wedding anniversary, and when she is not keeping up with her kids, Dawes works…

You won’t need to spend Olympic gold to see the Games in person this summer. Demand for tickets to the Rio Olympics has been low in the months leading up to the events, which will run from Aug. 5 to Aug. 21. Ticket sales have been so slow that Rio organizers will now allow buyers from outside Brazil to purchase…

Your teams. Your favorite writers. Wherever you want them. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS or Android. Welcome to the SI Media Mailbag. Writing a Mailbag—as egocentric as it is—is a fun exercise. So thanks for tweeting these questions. (Questions have been edited for grammar, clarity and concision.) Which sports media member do you think could shift immediately to election coverage and excel at it? — @TheOutlawMacaw…

United States goalkeeper Brianne McLaughlin-Bittle blocks a shot. (AP Photo / The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) “It is a lady’s business to look beautiful and there are hardly any sports in which she seems able to do it.” –Sportswriter Paul Gallico, 1936 Ad Policy “Well, the vast majority of WNBA players lack crossover sex appeal…. The baggy uniforms don’t help.” –Bill Simmons, HBO sports personality, circa 2006 “Women’s sports in…

Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images The hubris and planet-sized egos of lunatic sports owners is a core Deadspin beat, from Joe Lacob’s horniness for the Larry O’Brien trophy, to Stan Kroenke’s dead raccoon hair, to Dan Gilbert’s simpering evil. When the Panthers’ owner gets a dang statue of himself with two actual panthers built out front of his stadium, you should expect us to make fun of him. However, Tinkoff…

RELATED: Pictures of Gordon through the years | Junior through the years Jeff Gordon is not done after all. The recently retired Hendrick Motorsports driver will compete for the first time this year Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a substitute driver for Dale Earnhardt Jr. , who will be sidelined at least two more weeks due to concussion-like symptoms, according to a team release. Gordon will also sub for…

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Ask Thea Hanscom why she plays baseball and you get a simple answer: “Baseball’s what I grew up doing,” she said. “So I enjoy doing it.” Since the rising ninth-grader started playing T-ball at age 6, she’s been a minority in a game traditionally played by boys. There have been other girls on her teams, but she’s the only one who has continued to play. “Mostly the girls quit (playing),”…

It’s hard work for a country to get turfed out of the Olympics. You must seriously dedicate yourself to the task. It’s not enough to have a brutal, devious autocracy that flagrantly intimidates its domestic critics and is author of miseries all over the world. It’s not even enough to dope your athletes until they virtually glow in the dark. You really need to get caught in the act so…

It’s hard to believe that the youth sports market is worth $14 billion—that’s a lot of halftime orange slices—but if you think about how much time parents spend shuttling their little ones from practice to practice, it starts to make sense. So it comes as no surprise that Sports Illustrated, the venerable sports magazine (and sister title to Fortune), wants a piece of it. The brand this morning released a…

The next several days will make sports history. Russian athletics are facing global accusations of the existence of a state-sponsored doping system, and at least some of the charges appear grounded. The most outspoken opponents of doping recommend banning Russia from the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, while international sports officials are trying to formulate a compromise. For its part, the global sports community must make certain ethical…

Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images The hubris and planet-sized egos of lunatic sports owners is a core Deadspin beat, from Joe Lacob’s horniness for the Larry O’Brien trophy, to Stan Kroenke’s dead raccoon hair, to Dan Gilbert’s simpering evil. When the Panthers’ owner gets a dang statue of himself with two actual panthers built out front of his stadium, you should expect us to make fun of him. However, Tinkoff…

Today, the sports media, most notably television, is more powerful than ever. As an example, approximately 75 percent of NFL revenues come from television rights fees, up from 45 percent in 1979.

Nearly 45,000 fans filed into Busch Stadium on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball. They watched the Cardinals, all of whom wore jersey No. 42 in honor of the man who broke baseball’s color barrier 69 years earlier, slug a stadium-record six home runs in a 14-3 rout of the visiting Cincinnati Reds. Earlier that evening, less than five miles away, the predominantly black…