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SANDUSKY, Ohio – The youth-sports travel industry in the United States is worth an estimated $7 billion a year, fueled by millions of young soccer and softball players and their parents, who travel to tournaments near and far. Next year, they’ll have a new place to play: The Cedar Point Sports Center in Sandusky, a new venture between Cedar Point, Erie County and Georgia-based Sports Force Parks. Officials broke ground…

Sarah Spain and Brad Zibung View Full Caption CHICAGO — Sarah Spain and Brad Zibung both believe they’re a perfect sports media match. Spain, who stars on several ESPN platforms, will marry Zibung, the creator of the satirical sports site The Heckler, in May. The River North couple met at a charity bowling event hosted by Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook in…

Salman Khan was appointed as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent for Rio 2016. (Source: PTI) Indian Olympic Association’s decision to make actor Salman Khan the goodwill ambassador for the Rio-bound contingent snowballed into a controversy after wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt questioned the logic. Many have joined the chorus, while several athletes feel it will help in generating hype for the Games. “Salman HAS a huge fan base. He has…

A new logo has been selected for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, organizers announced Monday, more than seven months after the original design was scrapped amid accusations of plagiarism. The winning design, “harmonized chequered emblem,” was chosen among four logos shortlisted by the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee. The logo was created by Asao Tokolo, a Japanese designer who is known for his intricate, mathematical motifs. The Emblems Selection Committee was…

Tony Stewart didn’t back down Sunday from the statements that got him fined $35,000 last week by NASCAR. “I’m always going to speak my mind,” Stewart told Fox before he finished 19th in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Speedway. NASCAR fined Stewart last week after he was critical of a recent policy that doesn’t require all five lug nuts to be replaced during pit stops. Stewart said drivers’…

GIF via YouTube The good ol’ bump and run is alive and well in NASCAR. This time, it gave us the first last-lap pass ever at Richmond International Raceway, with Carl Edwards nudging Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch out of the way for the win. Busch led going into the final two laps at the .75-mile track, with Edwards right on his bumper. Edwards thanked crew chief Dave Rogers…

Teammate Eeli Tolvanen grabbed the back of his helmet and pretended to fling it in the air to celebrate the hat trick. It was just the Finnishing touch on what’s already a golden year for hockey in Finland and for Puljujarvi, a budding superstar who will soon be in the NHL. Puljujarvi scored three times and Finland blew out rival Sweden 6-1 in the gold-medal game of the IIHF World…

Alex Morgan wrote an op-ed on pay equality for Cosmopolitan. Nike The U.S. women’s soccer team captivated the entire country during its thrilling World Cup win last summer, and before gearing up to do it again at the Rio Olympics in August, the players’ fight for equality off the field has attracted waves of attention and support. Brands are taking notice, and analysts say that…

LOS ANGELES – Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Baseball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million. The…

WSJ If Major League Baseball wants to expand to 32 teams, it’s going to have to get more people interested in the 30 it already has. During a meeting with sports editors from the Associated Press last week, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred suggested that “multiples of fours just work better than multiples…

By: Andrew Joseph | April 24, 2016 8:02 pm Follow @andyj0seph

Tony Stewart didn’t back down Sunday from the statements that got him fined $35,000 last week by NASCAR. “I’m always going to speak my mind,” Stewart told Fox before he finished 19th in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Speedway. NASCAR fined Stewart last week after he was critical of a recent policy that doesn’t require all five lug nuts to be replaced during pit stops. Stewart said drivers’…

GIF via YouTube The good ol’ bump and run is alive and well in NASCAR. This time, it gave us the first last-lap pass ever at Richmond International Raceway, with Carl Edwards nudging Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch out of the way for the win. Busch led going into the final two laps at the .75-mile track, with Edwards right on his bumper. Edwards thanked crew chief Dave Rogers…

Alex Morgan wrote an op-ed on pay equality for Cosmopolitan. Nike The U.S. women’s soccer team captivated the entire country during its thrilling World Cup win last summer, and before gearing up to do it again at the Rio Olympics in August, the players’ fight for equality off the field has attracted waves of attention and support. Brands are taking notice, and analysts say that…

RELATED: Edwards: ‘I’m gonna give him a little nudge’ The end of Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway saw a thrilling bump and pass for the lead to give Carl Edwards his second straight win. Only problem? He bumped his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Kyle Busch. So what do you think about Edwards’ move, NASCAR Nation — clean or dirty?

Thomas Drance April 25, 2016, 1:27 AM Thomas Drance   April 25, 2016, 1:27 AM BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Over the course of a thrilling, extraordinary six-game series, the Florida Panthers carried the play and often outplayed their opponent. And in the end it didn’t matter. It didn’t matter because hockey is a weird game. In a fast, free-flowing sport where players change on the fly and ugly bounces or strange deflections…

By: Andrew Joseph | April 24, 2016 8:02 pm Follow @andyj0seph

LOS ANGELES – Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Baseball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million. The…

Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions of Southern California says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Base Ball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million….