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Look at this spectacle! The Oracle Arena on Saturday was vibrating, and the fans were jumping, literally jumping, almost every time Steph Curry raised up to shoot. The team has been a fixture for 45 years in the city, two entire generations. “You have to think of the Warriors like a tree,” an Oakland native and Oracle attendant named Lorenzo said. “We planted our roots here and just keep growing,…

It’s very obvious that the NASCAR community is psyched about Super Bowl 50. Winston Kelley, the executive director of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, recently toured the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio and came away wondering how a certain piece of hardware he discovered there might look in Charlotte, North Carolina. FOX Sports NASCAR analyst Michael Waltrip and his daughter, Macy, are in Santa Clara, California for…

Arsenal maintained their record of not losing a Premier League game in which they had a two-goal lead at half-time since November 2010 (at home to Tottenham) Arsenal scored twice in 88 first-half seconds to overwhelm Bournemouth and move level on points with second-placed Tottenham. Mesut Ozil lashed the ball home from 12 yards for the Gunners’ opener, before Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain drifted in from the right and scored with a…

Updated February 08, 2016 06:59:33 Photo: Critical of previous regime … Swimming Australia president John Bertrand. (AAP: Sam D’Agostino) Four years ago the headlines painted a picture of a dysfunctional Australian Olympic swim team, beset by drug and bullying scandals, and under-performing in the pool. Now Swimming Australia’s (SA) president John Bertrand has criticised the sport’s previous administrators’ response to the London scandals, saying too much pressure…

Barcelona have won their past 10 league and cup games Barcelona celebrated boss Luis Enrique’s 100th match in charge with a laboured win over Levante to go three points clear at the top of La Liga. They went ahead against the run of play when David Navarro turned Jordi Alba’s cross into his own net. Bottom-of-the-table Levante hit the woodwork through Jose Luis Morales while Giuseppe Rossi forced a fine…

A 10-year-old boy has been raped at a public swimming pool in Vienna, according to local media reports. Local newspaper Kronen Zeitung described the assailant as a 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was arrested at the scene of the incident in late December. It was reported that the child was taken to hospital for treatment over “severe” injuries. Austrian police did not initially release details of the rape, which took place on 22 December…

View photo . (AP) With over 50 years in professional baseball, Dusty Baker has experienced every high, every low and every in-between moment imaginable within our beloved game. And he’s not done yet. Not after accepting the Washington Nationals managerial job just this past November. Baker is a baseball lifer, some might say. And that, in part, is why his story is worth telling. But it’s his remarkable journey to…

2015 5×5 Rotisserie Stats   Sleeper Outlook Carter Capps has always had closer-caliber stuff with a fastball that can touch triple digits and a biting slider, but a quirky mechanical adjustment has allowed his career to take off. Already a big guy at 6’5″, Capps hops forward off the rubber toward the hitter before releasing the ball, so his 100 mph fastball looks like it’s right on top of you when he throws it….

It seemed insignificant at the time, and the record books have all but forgotten it. But for the final inning and a half of an otherwise meaningless September baseball game, Gene Baker made history. Near the end of the 1963 season, the 8th-place Pirates traveled to play a three-game series in Los Angeles against the pennant-bound Dodgers. In the top of the eighth inning of…

Editor’s note: A.J. Richards of Iowa City grew up in Newton and dreamed of being the Chicago Cubs’ third baseman. Her early dreams of a baseball career (player, coach, umpire, or broadcaster) were met with “baseball isn’t for girls.” She works for a local non-profit serving people who have disabilities. She also volunteers with Baseball for All and plays baseball and goes to as many games as possible. She have…

Today is THE day for die-hard football fans who will be watching every second of Super Bowl 50 later today here on CBS. And mingling with them for our Cover Story is where you’ll find Susan Spencer: Love ’em or hate ’em, until the clock runs out on today’s Big Game, the New England Patriots are still the reigning Super Bowl Champions, and die-hard fan Peter Carbone has been fired…

Americans love sports, so much so that a majority of them – 56 percent — will rearrange their schedule to accommodate watching their favorite sport or team. But their fandom also comes with responsibility: just one in 10 will sometimes skip work or school to do so. According to a new poll by CBS News, America’s favorite sport is football, picked by 58% of sports fans, with baseball a distant…

It seemed insignificant at the time, and the record books have all but forgotten it. But for the final inning and a half of an otherwise meaningless September baseball game, Gene Baker made history. Near the end of the 1963 season, the 8th-place Pirates traveled to play a three-game series in Los Angeles against the pennant-bound Dodgers. In the top of the eighth inning of…

GREENVILLE, N.C. (ECU Media Relations) – East Carolina baseball fans got the chance to meet the 2016 Pirates up close and personal on Saturday at the 2016 Pirate Baseball Banquet inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. Former Pirate great and 2015 ECU Hall of Fame inductee Chad Tracy served as the keynote speaker, while WNCT-TV Sports Director Brian Bailey emceed the event. Tracy, who spent nine years playing with four…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With a Super Bowl-sized stage, a celebrity-filled crowd and two championship contenders on the floor, it felt more like late May in Oracle Arena than early February. Stephen Curry was up to the task. Curry scored 26 points and keyed a strong closing stretch that sent the Golden State Warriors to their 41st straight regular-season home win, 116-108 over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night….

SAN FRANCISCO — OK, at the top, let’s get this out of the way: By the end of this column, we may have to pretend like we never had this conversation. If anyone ever finds out, they’ll take away our Gotham Cards, our Metropolis Cards. We are New York City. We are not supposed ever to admit we are jealous of anyone, anywhere, anytime. We are the Greatest City in…

Jose Mourinho watched the match between Hertha Berlin and Borussia Dortmund on Saturday Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he does not believe reports that the club have lined up ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho to replace him. Mourinho, who was sacked in December, said he will be “back soon” after it was revealed his representatives had held talks with United. Van Gaal said: “When there is such nonsense written…

Villa’s previous win in the league was on 12 January, at home to Crystal Palace Aston Villa moved to within eight points of Premier League safety with their third win of the season as Norwich slipped into the bottom three. Joleon Lescott’s headed goal at the end of a dire first half was Villa’s first attempt on target. Gabriel Agbonlahor doubled the lead after the break, stroking home after Declan…

The NHL is finalizing discussions to bring an outdoor hockey game to Busch Stadium in 2017, multiple sources have told the Post-Dispatch. The plan is not yet complete, but the league is strongly considering the city to host the “Winter Classic,” in which the Blues’ opponent could be the Chicago Blackhawks. There is also the option of the team playing in a “Stadium Series” game, but according to sources, the…

When Marshall Lamm was growing up in Dallas, soccer was considered little more than the waste of a football field. So years later, when Lamm became a fan of the English Premier League, he had no idea how to pick a team for which to root. “In England, if your dad was a West Ham fan, your grandfather was a West Ham fan, every family member is pretty much a…