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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,…

I’m beginning to think some sports fans hate LeBron James more than they love sports, and it’s a shame.  MORE: Must-see conference finals photos  Following the Cavaliers’ series-clinching 113-87 win against the Raptors in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday, you knew it was coming from ESPN’s Skip Bayless. The former junior varsity bench warmer just can’t help himself. He gets his rocks off on being hypercritical of…

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…

Only four teams remain in the hunt for an SEC Tournament championship. The tournament reverts back to single elimination for today’s baseball semifinals at the Hoover Met. LSU and Ole Miss have yet to lose in the SEC Tournament, but a loss today eliminates the Tigers and Rebels. Today’s games are on SEC Network and streamed at WatchESPN. City of Hoover aiming to keep SEC Tournament in town Here is…

Brian Snitker’s 2016 baseball team is, by any objective measure, rather a mess. (Just Google major league standings or statistics). Simply eyeballing Snitker’s 1971 team, the Macon (Ill.) Ironmen, you would have thought it similarly ill-equipped for the fray. But they wrote a book about that team. High school baseball at that time in that sparsely peopled part of central Illinois was not a flashy production. The Ironmen, for whom…

Baseball in Israel? Yes that most American of games is growing in popularity thanks to individuals like Peter Kurz. The son of a father who fought in the Russian army in World War II and a mother hidden during the Holocaust in her native Hungary, Kurz grew up in Manhattan and was drawn early-on to two things: baseball and Zionism. He attended his first N.Y. Mets game at Shea Stadium…

There are nine day games on Saturday’s MLB schedule, including six that start between 4:05 pm ET and 4:10 pm ET, and only three games that start in the early evening. Those in daily fantasy baseball contests better be ready for a slight change in their normal routines. Fortunately, we’re here to help with a load of splits and BvP numbers to incorporate into your DFS strategy. Based on the numbers, there…

The third day of the 2016 Big Ten Baseball Tournament is complete. Maryland scored one run in the ninth inning but Michigan State pulled off a game-ending double play to win 4-3 in the first of four Big Ten Baseball Tournament games Friday. Iowa followed that with a thrilling win as Mason McCoy hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Hawkeyes a 4-3…

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,…

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 —…