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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s chief says the agency is increasingly worried about the Zika virus, even though it does not recommend canceling or postponing the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. In a briefing Tuesday in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan said “the more we learn about Zika, the more worried we get about it.” Chan noted that although Zika has been around for decades, it…

The Cubs would have scored the Jake Arrieta trade as a major victory even if Jake Arrieta never threw a pitch in a Cubs uniform and kept bouncing to the next Triple-A affiliate, teasing a different organization with his potential. Pedro Strop has been that good. Arrieta eclipsed Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw in last year’s National League Cy Young Award voting, overshadows the $155 million lefty (Jon Lester) in…

ENLARGE Sports media giant ESPN is rolling out a new advertising product that allows marketers to deliver banner ads tailored to the interests of sports fans by using data the company has collected on visitors to its website. The offering, called Live Connect, lets marketers serve ads on ESPN.com that can reflect a visitor’s favorite team or player. The ad can also reflect the outcome of a particular game. For…

A consortium of liquidators that includes Tiger Capital Group, Hilco Global and Gordon Brothers prevailed in an auction for Sports Authority Holdings Inc.’s assets, according to people familiar with the matter. The winning bidders topped a rival offer from a second group of liquidators that included Yellen Partners, SB Capital Group and 360 Merchant Solutions. Great American Group, originally a part of this group of liquidators,…

It’s been a rough month for the women of the Seattle City Council. They’ve gotten vicious online abuse from trolls inviting “those BITCHES” to “BURN IN HELL,” or speculating that their “cycles must have synced up.” What did they do to deserve this, asked Samantha Bee on Monday night’s Full Frontal? They dared to vote down a proposal for a new sports arena in Seattle. The vote against…

The Rio Games begin on 5 August and run until 21 August Up to 31 athletes from six sports could be banned from competing at the Rio Games, Olympic chiefs have said. The announcement comes after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing. The IOC said the retests were conducted using the very latest scientific analysis methods. It also revealed it…

The Cubs would have scored the Jake Arrieta trade as a major victory even if Jake Arrieta never threw a pitch in a Cubs uniform and kept bouncing to the next Triple-A affiliate, teasing a different organization with his potential. Pedro Strop has been that good. Arrieta eclipsed Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw in last year’s National League Cy Young Award voting, overshadows the $155 million lefty (Jon Lester) in…

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RUMOR: Kevin Harvick is mulling an offer to leave Stewart-Haas Racing after this season and move to Hendrick Motorsports in a deal that would keep him with Chevrolet and put him into Kasey Kahne’s No. 5 car. REPORTED BY: Tom Bowles, Frontstretch.com MORE: Classic photos of Kevin Harvick THE DETAILS: Harvick is a Chevy man, having driven one in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series his entire career, but Stewart-Haas Racing is moving to Ford in 2017 and could go through a difficult transition next season. Harvick has…

In what could seemingly be called the State of the Union for the No. 88 team at the near-midway point of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular season, Dale Earnhardt Jr. proclaimed that the team has “got a lot of work to do” on Dirty Mo Radio’s “The Dale Jr. Download.” Those words and more below came after Earnhardt’s involvement in an 18-car wreck on Lap 355 in the AAA 400 Drive for Autism…

During a season when victories continually slipped away, it would have been easy for Matt Kenseth to question and point fingers at himself and those around him. Through it all, though, Kenseth, knew eventually circumstances would eventually work in his favor. He and his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team were simply too talented and their cars too fast to not eventually win. Thus, Kenseth didn’t bemoan when…

FC Cincinnati fans in The Bailey section cheer on the team before the start of the USL soccer game between the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and FC Cincinnati, Saturday, May 14, 2016, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.(Photo: Kareem Elgazzar) I went, I watched, I enjoyed. I wrote. As the legendary futbol fanatico Robert Montgomery Knight might put it, if soccer is inevitable, relax and enjoy it. And it is. Or appears to…

Why the Jose Bautista punch is a good sign for baseball The New York Post’s Joel Sherman also likes what the fight means for the game, but for different reasons: Baseball is a very popular local sport now: You care about your team, but not much about those in other cities. But if the Rangers and Blue Jays were playing again tonight, would you watch? After all the niceties —…

HAVERHILL (CBS) — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting near a Little League field in Haverhill on Saturday afternoon. Police patrols were increased after a pair of men were shot on a basketball court near Swasey Field where kids were playing. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. Two baseball teams of 13-year-olds were playing in the first inning when the shots rang out. The arrest…

Sunday afternoon was a doozy, as the Blue Jays and Rangers rivalry heated up to the surface of the sun. Matt Bush threw at Jose Bautista, ostensibly revenge for Bautista’s bat flip in the ALDS last year. Bautista then slid late into second baseman Rougned Odor on a ground ball double play attempt. Odor wasn’t happy, so he threw some punches at Bautista, one of which landed cleanly. Blue Jays…

Look: If you want to lament any one particular aspect of the ongoing feud between the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays — the one that escalated to full-blown fisticuffs between Rougned Odor and Jose Bautista on Sunday — make it the 96-mph fastball that Rangers reliever Matt Bush fired at Bautista. By probabilities, it appears the most dangerous of all real and perceived blows in the battle, because a…

3:36 PM ET print So the Blue Jays and Rangers got into it Sunday afternoon. But that was nothing. Here are 10 of my favorite basebrawls of all time — or, at least those that are officially available on YouTube via Major League Baseball. (For example, some famous brawls don’t have official video posted, like the Juan Marichal-Johnny Roseboro bat incident from 1965, or the White Sox-Tigers brawl — actually,…

LSU has ridden a season-best eight straight wins back into the top 10, with Tulane not far off from either distinction. The Tigers (36-16) climbed three spots to No. 8 in the latest Baseball America rankings and six spots to No. 10 in the D1Baseball.com rankings after a 5-0 road trip with two midweek wins at Notre Dame (27-23) and a three-game sweep of Tennessee (26-26)  in Knoxville, Tenn. LSU…

Caption Close DARIEN — By and large the hardest thing about developing a successful sports program at the high school level is the turnover of athletes from year to year. In most cases, it is the team with the most seniors that thrive, largely because of experience and leadership. That being said, Darien is in the midst of something special in 2016. A year removed from one of the best…