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The bids for Sports Authority’s bankrupt assets are in, but no one will be coming to its rescue. Instead, a group of liquidators have staked a claim on the inventory and will soon begin going-out-of-business sales. It’s been rumored that Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) would swoop in and take over some Sports Authority locations. That could still happen as landlords for Sports Authority’s leased locations will auction those terms at a later…

  Everything you need to know for today’s 100th running of the Indianapolis 500: START TIME: Green flag at 12:17 p.m. ET TV SCHEDULE: ABC. Coverage begins at 11 a.m. ET DEFENDING RACE WINNER: Juan Pablo Montoya POLE-SITTER: After a brutal crash in practice before last year’s Indianapolis 500 almost killed James Hinchcliffe, he bounced back to win this year’s starting spot. NATIONAL ANTHEM SINGER: Darius Rucker — of Hootie & the…

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DURHAM, NC (WVIR) - The Virginia baseball team scored seven runs in the 5th inning, and beat Louisville 7-2 in its final game of the ACC Tournament Saturday night in Durham, NC. With the win, Cavaliers’ head coach Brian O’Connor moved into first place on the all-time wins list at UVa with 595 career victories, eclipsing Dennis Womack (1981-2003). The Wahoos recorded six consecutive hits in a scoreless game to lead…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Sunday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. There are plenty of pitching options to choose from today, including the best pitcher in the game if you’re entering an all-day or late-day contest. There are some other studs going, as well, with David Price, Chris Sale and Stephen Strasburg scheduled to start, but they…

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Denny Hamlin used fresh tires to roar past the leaders during overtime Saturday and win the Hisense 300 Xfinity Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Hamlin came in for a four-tire pit stop after a yellow flag for debris was shown on the 199th of 200 scheduled laps. While leaders Kyle Larson and Joey Logano stayed out, Hamlin dipped into the pits and came out in sixth place. He was…

NASCAR’s best are set to do battle in the sport’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (Sunday, FOX, 5:30 p.m. ET). This race dates back to 1960, when the track first opened. Then called the World 600, the first race featured a 60-car field, with only 18 cars running at the finish and Joe Lee Johnson winning by four laps over Johnny Beauchamp. As reliability has improved…

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It was the kind of throw from center field at Dodger Stadium that would have made Willie Mays or Roberto Clemente nod with approval. Daniel Moreno of El Camino Real retrieved a single by Chatsworth’s Andrew Renteria in right center after one bounce. He was moving forward when he released the ball with all his might. It landed straight into the glove of catcher Eric Yang, who tagged out Daniel…

OMAHA, Neb. – The Iowa baseball team did without drama Saturday. A day after rallying from a 4-0 ninth-inning deficit to beat Ohio State 5-4 in 10 innings, the Hawkeyes piled on 11 runs on 14 hits for an 11-0 semifinal win over Maryland. The game was scoreless until the fourth when Robert Neustrom’s single followed two straight walks and put Iowa in front. Daniel Aaron Moriel added an RBI…

Cameron Spencer/Getty When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” “Thanks, king,” Thorpe is rumored to have responded. Exactly 100 years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Oregon-native Ashton Eaton became the…

New Orleans Pelicans forward Bryce Dejean-Jones died early Saturday morning in Dallas from injuries sustained from an apparent gun-shot wound. Dejean-Jones, 23, was a promising rookie who went undrafted in 2015 and played 14 games for the Pelicans last season. View photo . Bryce Dejean-Jones (NBAE/Getty Images) “It is with deep sadness that the Pelicans organization acknowledges the sudden passing of Bryce Dejean-Jones,” the team said in a statement. “We…

NEW YORK — The red signs are up — Sports Authority began its going-out-of-business sale months before it’s slated to close all 450 stores nationwide. Sports Authority started the sale Thursday just in time for Memorial Day weekend. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” the retailer wrote on the top of its site. “Everything now up to 30% off original ticketed price.” The liquidation sale varies in each location. The company said it will close all…

MOSCOW — Russia’s Olympic Committee says eight of the country’s athletes have registered positive in doping retests for the 2012 London Games. CBS Evening News New details in Russian doping scandal Secretly recorded conversations obtained by “60 Minutes” implicate at least three Russian gold medalists from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for the use… The brief statement from the ROC on Saturday did not give names or what disciplines the athletes…