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<!– 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…

A young baseball fan’s epic stare-down has now become an internet sensation. The youngster he gave an ESPN camera an epic death stare during the seventh inning of a men’s college baseball championship game over the weekend. The fan certainly wasn’t paying attention to the game between Coastal Carolina and Texas Christian University. Instead, he got into a very intense staring contest with the TV camera. He held the stare…

WEST VALLEY CITY — Jennifer Maravilla is stepping up to the plate, creating a baseball league for children with special needs. Her inspiration? Her son. At the Maravilla home, a sport is always being played, but if there is one sport the family knows well, it’s baseball. “I grew up on the field with three brothers and me being the only daughter,” Maravilla said. A few years ago, when Maravilla’s…

LITTLE FALLS – In a tangible sign of a thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba, members of the island nation’s national baseball team assembled at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on Monday. Officially, they were there to promote a three-game series that the Cubans will open on Tuesday night against the minor league New Jersey Jackals. But the players also spent time…

The Memphis Redbirds hosted the New Orleans Zephyrs this evening for some AAA action, and they treated their guests to a very spicy basebrawl. Apparently, Jose Urena tried to bean Jeremy Hazelbaker in the fifth inning, he charged the mound, and it was on. Please enjoy the dude running all the way from the Zephyrs bullpen to bash a Redbirds player on the head. Five players and the Zephyrs manager…

Lewis-Palmer head coach Dustin Tupper walks the sidelines during the first quarter against Discovery Canyon Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Don Breese Stadium in Monument, Colo. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)  When Lewis-Palmer football coach and P.E. teacher Dustin Tupper was in high school he played football, wrestled and ran track. He wasn’t the only one. Playing just one sport was relatively unheard of, and the three-sport athlete reigned supreme. Now…

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…

Tom Kelly, a frequent golfer at Riviera Country Club as he was here in 2007, began calling USC football and basketball during the 1961-62 seasons. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker) Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spanning five decades, died Monday morning at his home in Encino after a long…

The field of sport* is one of the most influential contexts for shaping norms/normativities and (con)forming identities, while operating in different shapes, scales, levels and locations. It does so through gender discrimination/policing and LGBTIQ* invisibility/oppression, from labor exploitation/body norming, to evictions around mega-sporting events and propaganda for nation-state oligarchies—in personal, institutional, global ways with everything in between and in the forms of racism, sexism, (neo)colonialism, homo/bi/transphobia, ageism, ableism, nationalism, along…

x Embed x Share Less than two months away from the start of the Olympic Games in Rio the government has declared a state of emergency. Time (Photo: The Associated Press) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s acting governor warned Monday that the Olympic Games could be a “big failure,” because of budget shortfalls that threaten to compromise security and mobility during the Games. In an interview with…

6:38 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment TORONTO — The Big E finally got the call. Passed over for six years, Eric Lindros got the votes required Monday from the Hockey Hall of Fame’s selection committee and will be part of the November induction class along with Sergei Makarov and Rogie Vachon in the players category and the late Pat Quinn in the builders category. Meet the Hockey…

x Embed x Share Less than two months away from the start of the Olympic Games in Rio the government has declared a state of emergency. Time (Photo: The Associated Press) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s acting governor warned Monday that the Olympic Games could be a “big failure,” because of budget shortfalls that threaten to compromise security and mobility during the Games. In an interview with…