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MOSCOW Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has issued a plea for Russia’s athletes to be allowed to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and apologized for the “deceptive” sportsmen caught doping in the past in an article he wrote for Britain’s Sunday Times. With less than three months before the Rio Games open in August, Moscow is seeking to have a global ban overturned to allow its track…

Jimmie Johnson’s foray into racing originated not in a car, but on a motorcycle as a 5-year-old in Southern California competing in motocross. A knee injury just before he became a teenager pushed Johnson into off-road truck racing. That began a career that would see Johnson, 40, eventually segue into stock cars and climb up the NASCAR hierarchy. As six Cup Series championships and 77 victories attest, he made…

RELATED: Complete race results | Updated standings DOVER, Del. – NASCAR’s new Dash 4 Cash format agrees with Erik Jones – even when his No. 20 Toyota is running on older tires.   Despite staying out on used rubber for a restart with five laps left in Saturday’s Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 200 at Dover International Speedway, Jones pulled away to beat runner-up Darrell Wallace Jr. to the finish line by 1.434 seconds.   The victory was Jones’ second of…

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It was the ultimate wish of one of baseball’s earliest pioneers — to be buried with a home plate-shaped gravestone. James Whyte Davis made the request seven years before he died in 1899 — imploring active players to chip in 10 cents to fulfill his dream. More than a century later, Davis’ wish was finally granted. A monument to the former president of…

BOSTON (AP) David Ortiz doubled with two outs in the 11th inning after lining a tying triple in the ninth and earlier moving into 20th place on the career home run list, sending the Boston Red Sox past the Houston Astros 6-5 on Saturday. Boston’s Jackie Bradley Jr. singled in the first inning, extending the majors’ longest hitting streak to 20 games. George Springer hit a grand slam and Carlos…

“I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time,” Bundy said. “Losing these seniors, taking them through T-ball all the way through, it’s bittersweet.” While the sweet from the second game for Enterprise came in a 10-1 lead after the second inning, the bitter was the never-quit comeback shown from North Sevier. The 2A East champions forced the final battle by beating Enterprise 9-4…

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The clock is ticking on “Rosen’s Sports Sunday.” Mark Rosen’s half-hour mix of scores, live interviews and features, which has aired on WCCO in one form or another for nearly 35 years, will end next Sunday with a retrospective special. Rosen isn’t going anywhere. The market’s most veteran sportscaster will remain at the CBS affiliate and continue to play a major role on Sunday nights when the 10 p.m. newscast…

Bryce Harper is continuing his quest to make baseball fun again Saturday. His most recent effort involves an incredibly fun bat decal that reads “MBFA 2016” or “Make Baseball Fun Again 2016.” Keep fighting the good fight.

Soon after his son’s death, Mike Irwin knew he wanted to do something important in his memory. Hunter Irwin died in 2014 at age 23, and his dad spent the next two years grieving and contemplating what would best honor Hunter’s life. On a recent Saturday morning, Mike and his wife, Sandra, stood alongside a memorial plaque mounted on a handsome white pedestal, part of a large crowd gathered to…

9:47 PM ET print In an effort to serve daily fantasy players and season-long fantasy players who use daily lineup settings, we present daily notes each day of the season. It’s a daily version of our Fantasy Forecaster in which we project the best pitcher game scores, as well as the best team hitting matchups based upon a number of factors. Pitching GS: The pitcher’s projected “game score,” from Bill…

The clock is ticking on “Rosen’s Sports Sunday.” Mark Rosen’s half-hour mix of scores, live interviews and features, which has aired on WCCO in one form or another for nearly 35 years, will end next Sunday with a retrospective special. Rosen isn’t going anywhere. The market’s most veteran sportscaster will remain at the CBS affiliate and continue to play a major role on Sunday nights when the 10 p.m. newscast…

It is probably too soon to expect Charlotte Edwards to appreciate the irony of her situation. The England cricket captain, who has given the past 20 years of her life to improving her national team, was told this week that she would play no further part in it. After a career spent campaigning for women cricketers to be treated like any other professional sportsmen she has rudely discovered what that…

Mathieu Raymond says he went to university not so much to learn business administration but to run track. During his studies he worked in a sports store and realized just how elusive the perfectly comfortable – or perfect looking – running shoe can be. That gave him the idea to start a custom-fit shoe company. Raymond said a professor challenged him to go ahead with his project, telling him, “Mathieu, you should talk about…

Murray will return to number two in the world rankings on Monday, even if he loses the Rome final British number one Andy Murray reached his first Italian Open final with a straight-set victory over unseeded Frenchman Lucas Pouille. Murray, seeded second, won 6-2 6-1 in a rain-interrupted semi-final at Rome’s Foro Italico to make Sunday’s final. He now meets Novak Djokovic – who beat him in last week’s Madrid…

11:00 AM ET print DOVER, Del. — One of the biggest criticisms of NASCAR has been its inability for swift change, the inability to, for lack of a better term, shift gears at a moment’s notice. The sanctioning body appears to be working on that and yet at times it doesn’t appear to make changes quickly enough. That was evident Friday at Dover International Speedway in so many ways. Cars…

Buy Photo Orchard Lake St. Mary’s baserunner Griffin Sheposh steals second against Mt. Pleasant’s Obie Ricumstrict in the baseball Div. 2 MHSAA state championship on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at McLane Baseball Stadium in East Lansing.(Photo: Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo The last time Mt. Pleasant won the state’s top baseball championship in 1996, none of the current players had been born. But that doesn’t mean it’s been…