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Sam Allardyce’s best Premier League finish is sixth, with Bolton in 2004-05 Sam Allardyce will be named as the new manager of England, with confirmation expected on Thursday. He will leave Sunderland after nine months at the Premier League club. Allardyce replaces Roy Hodgson, who quit in June after the surprise defeat by Iceland in the last 16 of Euro 2016. The 61-year-old, who has also managed West Ham, Newcastle,…

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…

PHOTOS: Big-name drivers in No. 88 | Junior through the years   For at least the next two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, starting this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Jeff Gordon will be behind the wheel of the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet as Dale Earnhardt Jr. continues to recover from concussion-like symptoms.   The high-profile changing of seats prompts several questions — for the recovering Earnhardt Jr., the…

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Brazilians are not happy that the Olympics are in their backyard. An estimated 50% of Brazilians are against the Olympics, according to Brazilian polling agency Datafolha. That’s double the disapproval rating from June 2013. It’s a sobering reminder that Brazilians are grappling with the country’s historic recession, which has shadowed the lead up to the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, which start August 5. The…

Buy Photo A group of youth baseball coaches and umpires have joined forces to bring Xtreme Diamond Sports to the El Paso area. They are, from left: Sergio Beltran, John Medrano, Raul Robles and Arturo Velasquez.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ/EL PASO TIMES)Buy Photo Story Highlights Xtreme Diamond Sports tournaments are coming to El Paso and Southern New Mexico. The organization is a fastpitch softball and baseball national organization based in Moreno Valley,…

Matt Parish, a Morristown resident and Mendham assistant coach, is now pitching for the independent New Jersey Jackals.(Photo: Brandon Koodish/New Jersey Jackals) MONTCLAIR – Every so often, Matt Parish gets a weird feeling when he’s out on the pitcher’s mound. Instead of thinking like the New Jersey Jackals starter he is, Parish is acting like a coach. But that’s not too surprising, since Parish is the Mendham pitching coach as…

Every summer, aspiring baseball players come out to take lessons from one of the brightest minds in high school baseball at the Wiese Baseball Academy at Heritage Field. Puyallup High and USA baseball coach Marc Wiese has established a reputation as one of the top coaches in the game. From his time playing in the New York Mets organization (1988-1989) to being an 11-time SPSL coach of the year over…

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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…

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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…

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…