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BY ANDY BAGGOT UWBadgers.com Insider MADISON, Wis. — Mike Eaves is one of the most distinguished figures in Wisconsin athletic history, which is why this moment is particularly difficult. Eaves has been relieved of his duties as UW men’s hockey coach after 14 seasons, which included an NCAA championship in 2006, a national runner-up finish in 2010 and, at last count, 26 players who’ve…

SUKHUMI, Georgia—Abkhazia doesn’t hold a seat in the United Nations. Its athletes can’t compete under their flag in the Olympics. But the post-Soviet separatist region is determined to get on the map as host of a world cup for would-be countries that, by most people’s reckoning, don’t exist. Abkhazia, a stretch of Black Sea coastline that was once a Palm Beach for the Soviet elite, broke away from Georgia in…

Buy Photo Soccer fans pack the stands to cheer on the Orlando City Soccer Club in a match against Eastern Florida State College during scrimmage earlier this month at Titan Soccer Complex. That complex also will be the home for the Orlando City B soccer team.(Photo: CRAIG RUBADOUX/FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo Brevard County’s tourism agency is looking for a big payoff from its investment in professional soccer. The Space Coast Office of…

Last summer, Yusra Mardini and her sister Sarah fled their home in Damascus for Beirut, Istanbul and finally Izmir in Turkey, where they managed to squeeze on to a dinghy crossing the Mediterranean to the Greek island of Lesbos. Thirty minutes into their journey, however, the motor stopped and the boat, carrying 20 people rather than the six or seven it was intended for, threatened to capsize. Yusra, Sarah and…

WATCH – Ohio State’s Christian Frey shows some incredible focus to track the puck and stop the goal vs. Michigan State. The Big Ten Hockey Tournament got underway with two exciting games on Thursday night. Twitter: @HockeyOnBTN | @MSU_Hockey | @umichhockey |@GopherHockey | @OhioState_MHKY | @PennStateMHKY | @BadgerMHockey |  @B1GHockey In the opener, No. 3 Penn State eliminated No. 6 Wisconsin, 5-2. No. 4 Ohio State followed that with a thrilling…

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There are January nights when I lay awake in bed, with nothing but the low moan of the wind and a creaking side gate to keep me company. I’m terrified that there will be no more unwritten rules to write about. Don’t bunt to break up a no-hitter. Don’t watch a home run for too long. Don’t steal a base with a big lead. We’ve done this all, you fool….

Sky has announced that it will launch a free sports channel for all of its subscribers, with Sky Sports Mix serving as a showcase for the broadcaster’s subscription sports offering. Sky Sports Mix, which will launch in the summer, will show a ‘select number’ of Premier League matches as well as football, golf, international cricket and, brilliantly, continue the great strides taken into televising women’s sport. The channel will be…

I love the arts. I also love sport. And I don’t think I am unique in having a passion for both activities. In fact, I think there are millions of us who do. And yet, there are still those who love to pit the one against the other, who find it unthinkable that anyone could enjoy what they see for some bizarre reason as incompatible pleasures. The latest person to…

ZURICH — FIFA finally revealed Sepp Blatter’s pay deal, which was $3.76 million in 2015 as soccer’s embattled governing body reported a loss of $122 million for a year marred by scandal. After years of secrecy about presidential earnings, FIFA disclosed its disgraced former leader’s pay package three weeks after his employment officially ended. Blatter, who was suspended on full pay last October and later banned for unethical conduct, had…

1) Chris Scott, Warwickshire v Durham, 3 June 1994 Brian Lara strolled out the crease at Edgbaston on Friday 3 June 1994 with six centuries in his previous seven first-class innings. Earlier in the summer he had relentlessly compiled 375 against England in Antigua to beat Garry Sobers’ record of 365 for the highest Test innings. To say he was in decent nick was to somewhat understate the matter. He…

Interestingly, this year will be the first time that competitors will get to play on the console of their choice — either XBox One or the PS4. The action will be broadcast in its entirety on Fox’s digital platforms, FOXSportsGO and FOXSoccer2Go, beginning with the group stages on Sunday, March 20th. Fox Sports 1 will televise the Grand Final on Tuesday the 22nd starting at 5:45pm EST. International viewers will…

U.S. Soccer’s new uniforms are out, with Nike and the federation revealing what the men and women will be wearing in Copa America Centenario and the Olympics this summer (and the friendlies and World Cup qualifiers before them).  While the reaction to a uniform reveal typically features a mixture of fierce passion and ambivalent shrugs, it marks another chapter in the history of the national teams. Jerseys are tied to…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jimmie Johnson might be sitting third in the latest NASCAR driver standings, but Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Cal. is where JJ fans look for him to shine. While he is certainly hot to start the season, historically, he sizzles at Fontana. Sunday’s race is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. on Fox, with coverage starting at 3. Tonight’s qualifying…

The Burton family racing lineage now runs even deeper. Kyle Busch Motorsports announced Thursday that Harrison Burton — son of 21-time Sprint Cup race winner Jeff Burton — will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut for KBM at Martinsville Speedway on Oct. 29. The second-generation driver isn’t eligible to compete in a NASCAR national series event until his 16th birthday on Oct. 9. Harrison is the nephew of…

The spectacular rise and subsequent fall of the New York Cosmos soccer team will be the subject of drama TV series. The project, now in development, will track the brief existence of the North American Soccer League, which spanned 1968-1984, through the story of its most famous club, the New York Cosmos. Set in the chaotic ’70s in a nearly bankrupt New York City of blackouts, riots, the Son of Sam serial…

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Being an NFL insider is walking a tightrope. For better or worse, you’re caught in a high wire act, balancing time against veracity. That’s just how it is, and only a few guys are able to navigate it effectively most days—the Jay Glazers, Adam Schefters and Mike Florios of the world. Each of these insiders have taken different paths on their rise to the top of sports media, but they…

Manifestly, it is. This is a role Coe has coveted all his career, not that he ever imagined it would be quite such a galling or solitary experience. There could be worse to come, too. Soon the US Anti-Doping Agency will publish their investigation into the methods of polarising super-coach Alberto Salazar, and later in the year French prosecutors are poised to uncover the full scale of corruption under past IAAF president…