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x Embed x Share EW News Flash: In the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, Caitlyn Jenner reflects on how her 1976 Olympic win shaped her, and opens up about her decision to come out as transgender. Time In celebration of winning the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon 40 years ago, Caitlyn Jenner graces the cover of Sports Illustrated. In an in-depth interview and an SI Films documentary, Jenner: 40 Years…

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Few companies have come forth to buy Sports Authority’s stores as the retailer goes through the bankruptcy process. That’s a good sign for Dick’s Sporting Goods dks , according to investment banking giant Goldman Sachs gs in a Monday note to clients. The bank is so convinced about the company’s upside, that it added Dick’s to its “Conviction Buy List”—a step above “Buy.” Sports Authority first filed for bankruptcy in…

Pat Summitt leaves this world far, far too soon at the age of 64 and as one of the greatest coaches ever in any sport. Don’t add the qualifier of greatest women’s coach ever. Just “coach” will suffice. Vince Lombardi, Bill Belichick, Bear Bryant, Nick Saban, John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski, Red Auerbach, Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Scotty Bowman — pick any great coach you want and…

Media playback is not supported on this device Former England manager Roy Hodgson ‘unhappy’ with England media call Roy Hodgson says England’s 2-1 loss to Iceland and exit from Euro 2016 will cause longer-term “damage” to the team. And Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn said it is now “imperative” to find out why England are “brittle” at tournaments. Hodgson, who resigned after Monday’s game, repeatedly questioned why he had…

If this were anywhere in the world but a well-to-do American suburb, the sight wouldn’t have seemed so odd: a pack of children of varying ages and abilities playing soccer on their own without a peep of direction from coaches or parents. Of course, this being suburbia — Evanston, specifically — this form of pickup soccer wasn’t exactly what you’d find in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. A coach…

This season has gone how most Reds fans expected. Still, that doesn’t make the losing any easier. My guess is most of you watched last night, and you put your head in your hands with each Kris Bryant home run. You cringed when the sounds of Cubs fans cheering at Great American came through loud and clear. There have been times over the course of this season that I’ve wondered,…

Photo via Getty Here’s a tweet: Kanell was swiftly reminded that this is because baseball is set up such that players can either go professional and develop in the minors or go to college. That he didn’t remember this is even juicier because Kanell himself was drafted. Advertisement However, just because baseball has a two-track path that separates the amateurs from the professionals doesn’t mean that the NCAA is any…

Summitt and son Tyler cut down the net after winning the championship in 1996. (Pat Sullivan/AP Images) The story of women’s basketball is so incomplete without Pat Summitt, it’s almost not worth telling. Not just the winningest coach in D1 history, Summitt is the modern game, her success mirroring its rise, her ascendancy propelling the sport out of obscurity. And now she’s gone. Summitt died Tuesday morning at age 64….

Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of “Sports Illustrated.” (Photo: Yu Tsai, Sports Illustrated) In celebration of winning the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon 40 years ago, Caitlyn Jenner graces the cover of Sports Illustrated. In an in-depth interview and an SI Films documentary, Jenner: 40 Years After Gold, the former athlete turned activist revisits her journey to winning gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games with stops at the University of…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Brendan Rodgers’ Parkhead pre-season got off to a bumpy start after Celtic’s flight set for Slovenia ended up in the wrong country – over the Croatian border in Zagreb. (Various) Rangers are poised to make Northern Ireland right-back Lee Hodson their eighth summer signing upon his return from Euro 2016. (Scottish Daily Mail) <!– Celtic arrived at Zagreb after Maribor airport was shut – then faced a…

Each year, The Oregonian/OregonLive names an overall athlete of the year for every major high school sport. Staff and readers voted for 2016’s best in baseball, softball, boys golf, girls golf, boys tennis, girls tennis, boys track and girls track. Here are The Oregonian/OregonLive’s 2015-16 spring athletes of the year:

Lesa France Kennedy, CEO of International Speedway Corporation and Vice Chairperson of NASCAR, was named one of ADWEEK’S ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ in their July issue, on newsstands now. This is the inaugural ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ list.  ADWEEK’S annual Sports Issue will feature the list yearly. Kennedy is featured along with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Danica Patrick, and other elite athletes, league executives, sports…

(Photo: The Associated Press) OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — USA Swimming has a straightforward system for selecting its Olympic team: the top two finishers in each event at the trials are the ones who compete individually at the Summer Games. No exceptions are made for injuries or other setbacks, which is why Ryan Lochte won’t get a chance to defend his Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter individual medley. After sustaining…

Kevin Cordes competes in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Swimming at CenturyLink Center on June 26, 2016 in Omaha, Neb. OMAHA, Neb. — In 2012, Kevin Cordes just missed out going to the London Olympic Games. Four years later, the…

Iceland’s Ragnar Sigurdsson celebrates scoring their first goal. REUTERS/Yves HermanLivepic England suffered its most humiliating defeat in an international tournament in over 60 years when it was eliminated from the European Championship by Iceland on Monday in Nice, one of the biggest upsets in the history of the game. The 2-1 defeat led manager Roy Hodgson to immediately resign and will lead to a merciless postmortem as the English media…

USA Basketball officially announced its roster for the Rio Olympics on Monday, and there’s no use beating around the bush: this is a B team or, if you’re feeling particularly generous, a B-plus team. Yes, the Rio roster is led by A-list headliners: Kevin Durant and Paul George, plus a two-time Olympic gold medalist in Carmelo Anthony. But there are just too many big-name no-shows—LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook,…

Bryant’s record night leads Cubs over Reds Kris Bryant became the first major-leaguer to hit three homers and two doubles in a game, and Jake Arrieta added a solo shot in the ballpark in which he threw a no-hitter in April, leading the visiting Chicago Cubs to an 11-8 victory over Cincinnati on Monday night. “The last couple of weeks haven’t been what I’ve wanted, so I…