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PRO BASKETBALL TORONTO (AP) — LeBron James scored 33 points, Kevin Love had 20 points and 12 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers secured their second straight trip to the NBA Finals by beating the Toronto Raptors 113-87 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night. It’s the third finals appearance in team history for the Cavaliers. Cleveland lost to Golden State in six games last year and…

Tottenham’s new 61,000-seater stadium is expected to be completed in two years Tottenham have reached a deal to play their Champions League home games at Wembley next season. The Premier League club also has the option to play all home league and cup matches, as well as any European games, at the national stadium during the 2017-18 campaign. Spurs are having a new £400m stadium built next to their existing…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

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7:27 PM ET print The World Cup of Hockey rosters are set. Each of the eight teams taking part in the tournament in Toronto this September revealed its final seven players on Friday, completing the full 23-man World Cup rosters. Barring injury — or, in the case of Russian defenseman Slava Voynov, possible league intervention — these players will be entrusted with reviving the once-dormant event. Were there surprises among…

Friday is a dark day at Charlotte Motor Speedway and we don’t mean that in a bad way. There is no on-track activity today, as the Friday before the Coca-Cola 600 is traditionally a day teams use for fan events, shop open houses, sponsor meetings and other activities. With that in mind, here are five things we’ve learned about this weekend so far as we approach NASCAR’s longest race, which…

Pat Bush spent 20 years completely detached from the game of hockey, which only makes what he’s been able to accomplish since all the more remarkable. He moved to Raleigh from his native Michigan in 1970 after meeting his wife, a North Carolina native, while serving in Germany in the Air Force. He left hockey behind. Then the minor-league Raleigh IceCaps arrived in 1990, desperate for any locals with hockey…

Among the questions that John Swofford, the ACC commissioner, has addressed about North Carolina’s House Bill 2, this one might have been most difficult to answer: Was he concerned, he was asked recently, about how the law might affect access to sports locker rooms? HB2, as it’s more well known, has created nationwide controversy. One part of the law requires people to use the bathroom of the gender specified on…

On Wednesday, UCLA reached a deal with Under Armour that would pay the school $280 million over 15 years to wear and use Under Armour apparel and equipment. It is the largest deal in college-sports history and shows that the value of these types of deals is skyrocketing. In 2014, Notre Dame, arguably the most recognizable brand in college sports, struck its own then record deal with Under Armour. That deal —…

SPRINGFIELD — Red and yellow signs advertise the sale in all caps. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” blares one. “EVERYTHING MUST GO,” yells another. Sports Authority’s Springfield store is playing up the going-out-of-business sale that began this week at 21 company locations in New Jersey. The sports retailer has said its 463 stores across the country will close by the end of August.  In a news release, Sports Authority touted the “unprecedented values” it would sell its merchandise at before…

We all know the NCAA system is broken when it comes to college football. The sport is a billion-dollar industry, but the employees of the companies that make up that industry aren’t fairly compensated for their work. That should change in the future, but for the past few decades, that’s been the reality, and it’s starkest in the Power Five conferences. In this flawed system, the incentive to cheat is…

Children play in a water fountain next to Olympic rings at Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2015. (AP/Silvia Izquierdo) More than 100 prominent physicians, bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urging WHO Director-General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro or delay the games because of public health concerns over the Zika virus….

Greg Rutherford, who won long-jump gold on Super Saturday at London 2012, added: “It’s all well and good getting caught years later, as we’ve seen from Beijing and London. But we have to see people receive a punishment. “Obviously, they lose their medals but they’ve been able to enjoy the plaudits and money that comes from winning Olympic medals. “There has to be a stronger stance towards those people. Because…

It’s not cricket! Whenever England and Australia meet it’s normally for The Ashes! But this time, the Socceroos are heading to the Stadium of Light on May 27 to face off against the Three Lions in what should be an entertaining encounter full of goals. Catch the international friendly with us right here at 2:45 p.m. EST! England and Australia don’t usually meet in the world of soccer too often,…

Friday is a dark day at Charlotte Motor Speedway and we don’t mean that in a bad way. There is no on-track activity today, as the Friday before the Coca-Cola 600 is traditionally a day teams use for fan events, shop open houses, sponsor meetings and other activities. With that in mind, here are five things we’ve learned about this weekend so far as we approach NASCAR’s longest race, which…

All eight teams that will compete in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey are announcing their complete, 23-man rosters today, featuring their final seven selections. We’ll update this page as the selections are announced. So far, Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic have revealed their selections. Here’s the schedule for remaining teams (all times Eastern): Team Europe: 6:09 p.m. Team USA: 6:13 p.m. Team North America: 6:16 p.m. Team…

SPRINGFIELD — Red and yellow signs advertise the sale in all caps. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” blares one. “EVERYTHING MUST GO,” yells another. Sports Authority’s Springfield store is playing up the going-out-of-business sale that began this week at 21 company locations in New Jersey. The sports retailer has said its 463 stores across the country will close by the end of August.  In a news release, Sports Authority touted the “unprecedented values” it would sell its merchandise at before…

Twenty-three athletes at the London 2012 Olympic Games, from five different sports and of six different nationalities, tested positive for banned drugs after samples were reanalysed, the International Olympic Committee has announced. The results, taken from 265 selected doping samples and focused on athletes who could potentially take part at the Rio Games this summer, were all based on intelligence-gathering that began in August 2015, and the IOC said that…