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Should Brexit happen, players such as Dimitri Payet, Willy Caballero and N’Golo Kante would lose their right to play in the Premier League British football could be radically changed if the UK votes to leave the European Union, according to experts and leading voices in the game. Some fear so-called Brexit could lead to more than 400 players losing the right to play in the UK, while others say it…

RELATED: Women racers pave new roads to success in NASCAR   There is a bit of irony in Danica Patrick‘s Martinsville Speedway resume.   A racer who made international headlines and officially became a first-name only reference for nearly winning her Indianapolis 500 debut at one of the world’s most famous and grand-sized tracks, Danica bolstered her track record in many eyes by scoring one of her best NASCAR finishes (seventh) on…

WGN Radio Robservations on the media beat: Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood Just in time for Opening Day next week, former Chicago Cubs pitchers Kerry Wood and Ryan Dempster have been hired as baseball analysts at Tribune Media news/talk WGN AM 720. Throughout the season Dempster will appear Thursday mornings on Steve Cochran’s show, and Wood will appear Thursday afternoons on Roe Conn’s show. “Woody and Dempster are the…

In the course of a queasy hour in Harley Street 30 years ago I learned a great deal about the brain — what Woody Allen called ‘my second favourite organ’ — and altered the course of my life in sports writing. Dr Peter Harvey concluded: ‘Boxing is a contest in which the winner seems often to be the one who produces more brain damage on his opponent than he himself…

Image: AP Forty-five-year-old NASCAR racer Derek White is said to be among some 60 people arrested in what’s being called “the biggest tobacco-smuggling bust in North American history.” Bloomberg and others are reporting that the operation is linked to biker gangs and international organized crime. NBC Sports says White turned himself in on Wednesday, and will face seven charges for his part in a scheme that basically amounted to buying…

On the day he became the best man in America at the second sport he chose, Max Aaron wasn’t nervous. He thought about his parents in the stands, who he’d left as a teenager to go train in Colorado Springs and who’d never gotten to see him perform perfectly at a major event. It was more calming to meditate on owing it to them than beating other dudes. Besides, he…

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U.S. goalie Ethan Horvath, center, and forward Will Trapp react after the team’s 2-1 loss to Colombia in an Olympic qualifying soccer match in Frisco, Texas.(Photo: Brandon Wade, AP) FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The United States failed to qualify for consecutive Olympic men’s soccer tournaments for the first time in a half century, a collapse players found hard to address on analyze. Roger Martinez scored twice, Americans Luis Gil and…

Should Brexit happen, players such as Dimitri Payet, Willy Caballero and N’Golo Kante would lose their right to play in the Premier League British football could be radically changed if the UK votes to leave the European Union, according to experts and leading voices in the game. Some fear so-called Brexit could lead to more than 400 players losing the right to play in the UK, while others say it…

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U.S. goalie Ethan Horvath, center, and forward Will Trapp react after the team’s 2-1 loss to Colombia in an Olympic qualifying soccer match in Frisco, Texas.(Photo: Brandon Wade, AP) FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The United States failed to qualify for consecutive Olympic men’s soccer tournaments for the first time in a half century, a collapse players found hard to address on analyze. Roger Martinez scored twice, Americans Luis Gil and…

The 50m and 100m breaststroke world record holder, Adam Peaty, believes weekly drug tests are the only way to keep swimming clean following recent allegations about Russian state doping. Related: Wada to investigate allegations of systemic doping in Russian swimming Peaty, who won three gold medals at the world championships last summer in Kazan, is preparing for the British Olympic trials in a fortnight’s time and revealed that he had…

EXCLUSIVE: Media execs who’ve invested heavily in sports will find some reassuring, and some worrisome, data today in the first study of sports fans from USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future and digital sports media company ThePostGame. The encouraging news? About 86% of the population (92% of men and 80% of women) say that they’re at least “casual” sports fans, including 24% who call themselves “intense” fans, according to the January survey…

By: Laken Litman | March 30, 2016 1:01 pm Follow @LakenLitman

U.S. goalie Ethan Horvath, center, and forward Will Trapp react after the team’s 2-1 loss to Colombia in an Olympic qualifying soccer match in Frisco, Texas.(Photo: Brandon Wade, AP) FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The United States failed to qualify for consecutive Olympic men’s soccer tournaments for the first time in a half century, a collapse players found hard to address on analyze. Roger Martinez scored twice, Americans Luis Gil and…

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USSF President Sunil Gulati (Associated Press) The U.S. Soccer Federation will reconsider staging matches or conducting other events in North Carolina in the wake of state legislation that critics have called discriminatory against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, federation President Sunil Gulati told the Insider on Wednesday. “Given the legislation, I’ve asked the people who handle our games to reconsider,” he said. “We think the legislation in the year…

On his first day in office, in January 2015, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced his interest in “inject[ing] additional offense into the game.” Over the previous several seasons, scoring in baseball had dropped to levels not seen since the mid-1970s, as an expanded strike zone, an increase in average pitch velocity, the rise of defensive shifts, and detailed data on batter tendencies had combined to keep runs scarce….

With Opening Day almost here, we’ll look at the inside story of baseball’s most valuable commodity: the arm of the pitcher. Kansas City Royals’ Edinson Volquez throw during a spring training baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, March 28, 2016, in Surprise, Ariz. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Major League Baseball’s official Opening Day is Monday. And great pitchers have been limbering up the most valuable asset in all of…

There will be a new player in Major League Baseball dugouts this season: the iPad. Apple Inc. and MLB signed a multi-year agreement to equip every team with iPad Pro tablets to help coaching staffs make better use of data. Teams will be able sift through performance stats from current and past seasons, weigh potential pitcher-hitter matchups, look at “spray charts” showing where a player is likely to hit a…