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Leicester City have never won a top-flight title Former Leicester City striker Gary Lineker says his old club “are on the edge of sporting immortality”. The Foxes, fighting relegation last year, are top of the Premier League with nine games to go. They can go five points clear if they win their game in hand against Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle on Monday. “They are on the edge of sporting immortality,” he…

This will not be well received in the greater Fort Worth tri-state region, but Jose Bautista was right to flip his bat. Any sane, rational person would have celebrated his three-run homer in the American League Division playoffs last October that essentially won the series. Only in baseball would his reaction cause an international incident. Baseball has its problems, one of which is its continued struggle to be in touch…

Tucson will have its own version of March Madness going on this week and the main attraction will be the AMSA Transportation Lancer Baseball Classic at the Reid Park Annex. The 20-team event kicks off Monday and includes 14 local programs, along with others from California, Colorado and Oklahoma. The Lancer Baseball Classic isn’t the only show in town this week: Empire’s baseball program is holding an eight-team tournament starting…

When things are going your way day after day in the world of baseball, impressive win streaks follow. Meet the Cleveland High baseball squad who won its sixth consecutive game over an 11-day span Friday afternoon, downing Clayton — the only team to have beaten the Rams this season — 6-0 at Pleasant Field. Since that opening day loss, Cleveland has pounced on opportunity after opportunity offensively and pitched more…

Leicester City have never won a top-flight title Former Leicester City striker Gary Lineker says his old club “are on the edge of sporting immortality”. The Foxes, fighting relegation last year, are top of the Premier League with nine games to go. They can go five points clear if they win their game in hand against Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle on Monday. “They are on the edge of sporting immortality,” he…

This is how NASCAR racing is supposed to be: Two drivers who really don’t like each other and who drive for different teams and different manufacturers, wailing the crap out of each other over the final two laps of a race, each one desperately wanting to beat the other. They make hard contact repeatedly, but they don’t wreck. And in the end, the difference between the thrill of victory and…

RELATED: Harvick wins thrilling Phoenix race | Full results After a hectic, fender-banging finish Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway, three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was among those on pit road basking in the euphoria of the ending and the fruits of his Stewart-Haas Racing organization’s first victory of the season. But Stewart, whose final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has been interrupted by a severe back injury, also had good news to savor in terms…

This will not be well received in the greater Fort Worth tri-state region, but Jose Bautista was right to flip his bat. Any sane, rational person would have celebrated his three-run homer in the American League Division playoffs last October that essentially won the series. Only in baseball would his reaction cause an international incident. Baseball has its problems, one of which is its continued struggle to be in touch…

Sunday was a typical day in the Arizona desert: warm, sunny, dry weather and Kevin Harvick winning at Phoenix International Raceway. Harvick fended off Carl Edwards in one of the closest finishes in NASCAR history – one-hundredth of a second – to take the Good Sam 500 in green-white-checkered overtime. Edwards’ Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and pole-winner Kyle Busch finished third and fourth. That Edwards couldn’t prevail in…

Arsene Wenger’s side are eight points behind Premier League leaders Leicester Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has used the FA Cup as a safety net for the last two seasons – final victories against Hull City and Aston Villa bringing the success that has eluded him elsewhere for so long. Now, he cannot rely on the famous old competition to protect him – or his failure to win the Premier League…

Brad Keselowski ran into late-race trouble in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, seeing a right-rear tire unravel in the 225th of 312 laps at Phoenix International Raceway.   Keselowski, who started 19th in the 39-car field, was the victim of the latest in a series of tire troubles in the Good Sam 500, the fourth of 36 Sprint Cup races this season. The right-rear tire on his Team Penske No. 2 Ford blew out on…

Sled hockey game in Wake Forest (Justin Quesinberry/CBS North Carolina). WAKE FOREST, N.C. (WNCN) – It may be a hockey tournament unlike anything you’ve seen before. “Sled hockey” teams from Nashville, Virginia Beach and Florida played in Wake Forest this weekend in the inaugural “Carolina Sled Hockey Classic.” The tournament was put on by the Town of Wake Forest and the Triangle Special Hockey Association, a hockey league for players…

It’s fitting, perhaps, that Kevin Harvick will make history at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday.   The driver of the No. 4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet who has had such dominance in the desert in recent years — he’s won five of the last seven races in Phoenix — officially made his 500th consecutive Sprint Cup Series start when the green flag dropped in the Good Sam 500.   In doing so, he passed Darrell…

This will not be well received in the greater Fort Worth tri-state region, but Jose Bautista was right to flip his bat. Any sane, rational person would have celebrated his three-run homer in the American League Division playoffs last October that essentially won the series. Only in baseball would his reaction cause an international incident. Baseball has its problems, one of which is its continued struggle to be in touch…

No. 10 Oregon again struggled offensively as No. 23 Mississippi State knocked off the Ducks, 5-2, to earn a sweep of the three-game series on Sunday at Dudy Noble Field. How It Happened: Oregon (8-5) managed just two runs on six hits and failed to capitalize on a couple of key run-scoring opportunities against the Bulldogs. The Ducks got a pair of base runners aboard in the fourth, but were turned…

A bronze statue at Boston College honors the moment an undersized quarterback named Doug Flutie hurled a Hail Mary touchdown pass in 1984 that helped catapult his struggling regional school to national prominence. A decade earlier, BC verged on bankruptcy. Then Flutie’s last-gasp heave in Miami’s Orange Bowl helped put the university on course to join one of the nation’s richest sports leagues, the Atlantic Coast Conference, and amass an…

Apparently, the World Drone Prix was just the tip of the robotic sports iceberg. Dubai has announced that it’s holding the World Future Sports Games, a broader competition, in late December 2017. The tech-focused event will include drone races as well as “robotic swimming, running, wrestling and car racing” — basically, it’s the Olympics for automatons. If it’s successful, the plan is to hold the Games every two years after…

A rendering of the proposed Portage Sport Resort shows its features on 170 acres west of Ind. 249 and north of Interstate 94.