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CBS Miami: Twitter | Facebook Are you ready to go the beach? As if Florida didn’t throw its year-round sunny, beach-worthy weather in the face of the rest of country enough already, the Sunshine State Athletic Conference and the Florida Region of USA Volleyball announced Wednesday that it has partnered to initiate beach volleyball as an official high school sport in the state. The SSAC High School Beach Volleyball League…

Golf hasn’t been an Olympic sport since the third modern games, back in St. Louis in 1904. Since then there hasn’t been a clamoring for the sport to return to the quadrennial event – no large protests or player-led crusades. Most in the sport seemed perfectly happy with the status quo: Four major tournaments, a few other top-tier events, an annual team competition and then run-of-the-mill tournaments that pepper the schedule…

We’re heading to Richmond this weekend after an entertaining race at Bristol Motor Speedway, that saw seven of the top nine finishers have their best results of the year and two drivers — fourth-place Chase Elliott and sixth-place Matt DiBenedetto — post their respective best career finishes.  With that in mind, here are some final thoughts on Bristol and a look ahead to Richmond. LOOSE WHEELS — There’s a lot of hand-wringing…

Credit Photograph by Marc Volk / Getty I pay a lot for cable. The sky isn’t charging me an exorbitant monthly fee to look at it. Nachos don’t travel well. Open-container laws exist, and apparently nobody at this judge school knows how to let loose and party. I have windows. Well, a window. O.K., it’s just my TV, but I can see that it’s nice out at the stadium. No…

At first glance, Felix Hernandez has quelled any concerns over last season’s second-half swoon. In his first three starts, Seattle’s ace has survived Globe Life Park in Arlington and Yankee Stadium to post a 1.00 ERA and 20 strikeouts in 18 innings. King Felix, who recently turned 30, has also induced a 64.3 ground-ball percentage, which is a sterling mark indicating tons of weak contact for his infielders to convert…

OLD LYME >> A former three-sport athlete at East Haven High School died early Wednesday after the car he was driving went off Interstate 95 and crashed in Old Lyme. Michael DeAngelo, 19, died after the Lexus ES 300 he was driving crashed into a wooden sound barrier wall, Connecticut State Police said in a press release later Wednesday. …

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Former Major League Baseball player Curt Schilling speaks with the media on September 27, 2015. Credit: Brian Lawdermilk/NASCAR via Getty Images He doesn’t care who’s calling foul, he’s not backing down. Baseball legend and ESPN analyst Curt Schilling caused a major stir online on Tuesday, April 19, after he not only refused to apologize for an anti-trans meme he shared via Facebook, but also defended his actions. In a blog…

You may not follow Olympic qualifying. You may not know all the names of the athletes, or understand the rules of all the sports involved, but in many ways it doesn’t matter. Every four years you turn on the Olympics anyway and know, above all else, that these athletes have dedicated their lives in pursuit of a gold medal for themselves and for their country. But that’s not the case for 2013…

Almost every sportswriter I know loves to romanticize about the old days — when being a beat writer allowed you to get to know the people you covered on a meaningful level. You developed a good working relationship, a give and take. Maybe the player would get mad at you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…

New York City was named the top sports host city.(Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) New York City has received the 2016 SportBusiness Ultimate Sports City Award as the top sports host city in the world, according to NYC & Company, New York City’s marketing organization. The announcement was made at the annual SportAccord Convention in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ten finalists were chosen from a field of 150: Auckland, Calgary, Copenhagen,…

Sky Sports broadcast its first live event 25 years ago on Wednesday The market leaders now show five thousand hours of sport every month  Sky have tapped into the spirit of sport to create some amazing moments The innovations have been numerous and have changed sport for good  By Joe Bernstein for MailOnline Published: 04:07 EST, 20 April 2016 | Updated: 08:36 EST, 20 April 2016 30 View comments On…

WASHINGTON — Resting fewer than 150 miles from one another along the Eastern Seaboard, Washington and Philadelphia are natural sports rivals. Their professional teams share a division in baseball, football, hockey and soccer, and a conference in basketball. So it’s no surprise that, at times, tempers have boiled over both on the field and in the stands. We’ve taken a half dozen of the most memorable such occasions and ranked…

Racing legend Mario Andretti tells TMZ Sports … he kinda agrees with Bernie Ecclestone when it comes to women in F1 racing — “it’s clearly more of a men’s sport.” Ecclestone — widely considered the most powerful man in racing — made headlines this week when he said women are too weak to be successful F1 drivers … and “wouldn’t be taken seriously.” So, we called up Andretti — one…

The money that Rutgers spends — and loses — on its athletics program will be examined on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST. NJ Advance Media viewed an advance screening of the 15-minute segment entitled, “Arms Race.” With Jon Frankel reporting, the piece examines how the pursuit of winning on the athletic fields continues to drive up college costs and notes that Rutgers is among the…

Almost every sportswriter I know loves to romanticize about the old days — when being a beat writer allowed you to get to know the people you covered on a meaningful level. You developed a good working relationship, a give and take. Maybe the player would get mad at you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…

Jess Varnish has been dropped from the Great Britain cycling team weeks after suffering Olympic disappointment for a second time. The 25-year-old from Halesowen was told in March she would not be considered for selection for August’s Olympics in Rio after failing to qualify in the two-woman, two-lap team sprint. Related: Jess Varnish rips into GB coaches after team miss Rio sprint spot Varnish, who was disqualified from the event…

Ex-MLB pitcher Pappas dies Milt Pappas, who won 209 games during his 17-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs, has died. He was 76. His widow, Judi Pappas, said Pappas died Tuesday morning of natural causes at his home in the northern Illinois community of Beecher. The 6-foot-3 righthander was part of the Baby Birds staff in Baltimore in 1964, a…

The money that Rutgers spends — and loses — on its athletics program will be examined on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST. NJ Advance Media viewed an advance screening of the 15-minute segment entitled, “Arms Race.” With Jon Frankel reporting, the piece examines how the pursuit of winning on the athletic fields continues to drive up college costs and notes that Rutgers is among the…