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BT are set to launch their answer to Sky’s Soccer Saturday next season Fast-talking Mark Pougatch has signed up to be the show’s anchor PGA hosted corporate day at Donald Trump-owned Turnberry Trump has made series of controversial comments regarding immigration  Colin Murray and Stan Collymore have left their roles with talkSPORT By Charles Sale for the Daily Mail Published: 16:30 EST, 13 July 2016 | Updated: 19:42 EST, 13 July 2016…

x Embed x Share With the Rio Olympics 50 days out most of the headlines have been negative. But there’s always more than meets the eye in this fascinating, mysterious city. USA TODAY Sports Rory McIlroy would rather watch the Olympics than play in them. Will he regret that?(Photo: Thomas J. Russo, USA TODAY Sports) Honesty got the best of Rory McIlroy the other day when he became just another…

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Note: Don’t whiff on this special FanDuel offer. Win your first contest or get your money back (up to $10) to keep playing Try FanDuel now! By now, those preseason prospect lists are looking pretty dusty. Some of the biggest names have graduated to the majors. Others have faded into obscurity because of injuries or performance. Still others have only recently risen to prominence. (They’ve been playing games down in…

We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve had some truly wonderful times so far this season. We’ve also spent nights looking longingly out at the moon over the dim light of our screens reading “1/34, 0R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0 SB; 0.0 IP, 0 Ks, INF ERA, INF WHIP”… was that too specific? Sorry. On with the show!

Oakland University baseball co-coaches Colin Kaline and Jacke Healey each received two-year contracts that pay $50,000 annually.(Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News) Oakland University has quickly developed a reputation for outside-the-box thinking since athletic director Jeff Konya came aboard. But co-head coaches, in Division I? That’s practically unheard of. “We feel good about it,” Konya said Wednesday, a day after Colin Kaline and Jacke Healey were named, jointly, in charge of…

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Baseball’s All-Star Game, which happened last night, isn’t the big draw it once was. But it’s still a big deal. Within the last half-century, the audience for the All-Star Game peaked at 36.3 million when ABC aired it back in 1976. The Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” had five players named to the starting roster and seven in the game overall as the National League pummeled the American League 7-1….

Forget “This One Counts.” Forget the fan voting. Forget the Home Run Derby and national anthems (please forget that) and pregame ceremonies. Tuesday’s All-Star Game wasn’t just an exhibition game — it was a delineation point, a clear juncture between the old guard and the next era of baseball stars. The man who bridged the gap was the last holdout of the prior era’s greats. Jeter and Rivera are retired,…

LENOIR COUNTY, NC (WITN) – A former high school coach accused of being sexually involved with a student made a brief court appearance this morning. Donnell Garris, III was released from the Lenoir County jail Tuesday night. The judge set July 27th as his next court date. The Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office received word Monday afternoon that there was possibly an inappropriate relationship going…

ALEXA WELCH EDLUND PRINCE GEORGE MATOACA BASEBALL 050316 Matoaca’s Robin Traylor pitches to Prince George Tuesday, May 3, 2016. ALEXA WELCH EDLUND COSBY HYLTON BASEBALL Cosby’s Ryan Clawson pitches to Hylton during the regional championship baseball game Friday June 3, 2016. Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 3:40 pm VHSL to set a pitch-count policy for baseball BY ERIC KOLENICH Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Times-Dispatch The Virginia High School League is implementing…

To keep its nationwide bankruptcy liquidation from crashing to a halt, Sports Authority Holdings Inc. has cut a deal with senior lenders that portends bad news ahead for landlords and suppliers to the failed sports retailer. Going-out-of-business sales are still in full swing at many stores, as liquidators sell off the last bicycles, skateboards and rest of the gear and apparel still on the shelves. Sports Authority auctioned off its…

Think, for a second, about the most famous fans of D.C. sports teams. There’s Wolf Blitzer and Chris Wallace, Luke Russert and David Gregory, Alan Greenspan and Chuck Todd, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, Charles Krauthammer and Ben Bernanke. These are household names in many cases, important and serious men from Official Washington. But they’re not exactly Jack Nicholson or Spike Lee. Which isn’t to say D.C. teams have no celebrity supporters. The…

x Embed x Share Zika, pollution, political turmoil, muggings, doping, floating corpses among concerns Time The Christ the Redeemer statue is an iconic symbol of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which will host the Olympics in August.(Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images) The 2016 Olympics are highly unlikely to spread Zika worldwide, federal officials said, noting that the 500,000 people expected to travel to Brazil for the August games account for less than 1% of…

Even now, eight years later, I’m not completely over it: The US softball team lost in the gold medal game of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It was the first time in Olympic softball history that the US didn’t win gold. It was horrible. I felt that we’d let down the tradition of USA softball. That we’d fallen short for all the women who’d paved this golden tradition for…

Photo via: Morry Gash/AP Images The Rio Olympics formally begin August 5th with the opening ceremony from the Maracanã stadium. Proceedings start at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, only you won’t be able to watch them on NBC until at least an hour later. At a press conference yesterday, NBC execs announced plans to broadcast the ceremony at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and 7 p.m. Central Time, each on one hour…

After finishing my last race at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, I went back to the arena and climbed the highest tower overlooking the pool. I sat there and looked out at all those empty seats, thinking, “What’s next?” I was 17. I’d already competed in two Olympic Games, winning two gold medals. Over the course of my career I’d set 18 fastest times and world records. And…

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Forget “This One Counts.” Forget the fan voting. Forget the Home Run Derby and national anthems (please forget that) and pregame ceremonies. Tuesday’s All-Star Game wasn’t just an exhibition game — it was a delineation point, a clear juncture between the old guard and the next era of baseball stars. The man who bridged the gap was the last holdout of the prior era’s greats. Jeter and Rivera are retired,…