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In the summer of 2015, Clippers center DeAndre Jordan initially agreed to a deal to sign with the Dallas Mavericks. Several days later, word began to leak out that he was considering changing his mind before free agency actually opened. What followed was dubbed “The Great NBA Emoji War of 2015,” where the rush of Clippers and Mavericks flying into Houston to try to persuade DeAndre to sign with their…

Quinnipiac forward Matthew Peca (20) works for the puck in the corner against St. Cloud State’s Nick Jansen (14) and Cory Thorson during the first period of an NCAA college hockey Frozen Four semifinal. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Editor’s Note: This article has been updated from its original version to reflect the most recent data for the 2015-2016 academic year.  Ice hockey is passionately followed and played around the world….

Grubb indicated he was placed on notice early on in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, where he helped guide Edwards to a fifth-place finish in the overall standings. The situation was similar to 2011, when Grubb was informed mid-Chase that he was unlikely to return to Stewart-Haas Racing, where he ultimately helped secure a Sprint Cup championship with driver/owner Tony Stewart that season.   “I was somewhat surprised,” Grubb told…

Next season’s FA Cup and Scottish Cup could feature video assistance for referees after football bosses backed recommendations to introduce trials. The International Football Association Board, which makes the game’s laws, wants experiments to take place and will make a final decision in March. Football Association chief Martin Glenn said: “I’m happy to be part of that. We are supporters and control the FA Cup.”…

Javier Hernandez says his red-hot goalscoring form is down the “rhythm” he has built up from playing regular first-team football. Hernandez left Manchester United for Bayer Leverkusen for £7.3million in the summer after United boss Louis van Gaal claimed he could not offer the Mexico striker the game time he required. The 27-year-old has since scored 19 goals in 22 games for the Bundesliga side and he has already been linked…

ST. LOUIS • The harbingers of the baseball season, which bring flocks to St. Louis every January, begin Friday evening with a coaches’ convention in St. Charles that will feature the return of several former Cardinals coaches and Ryan Ludwick, perhaps a future one. The Midwest Baseball & Softball Coaches Convention opens Friday at the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa. Baseball has a two-day event with softball events coming on Saturday. A…

Grubb indicated he was placed on notice early on in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, where he helped guide Edwards to a fifth-place finish in the overall standings. The situation was similar to 2011, when Grubb was informed mid-Chase that he was unlikely to return to Stewart-Haas Racing, where he ultimately helped secure a Sprint Cup championship with driver/owner Tony Stewart that season.   “I was somewhat surprised,” Grubb told…

ENLARGE A peek at the balance sheet of Clemson’s athletic department is all it takes to see the school is sitting on an untapped source of revenue: its students. Clemson, like most schools, brings in more money than ever from athletics. But even its record $74 million of reported athletic revenue last year was below average compared with other universities in the increasingly rich world of big-time college sports. That’s…

Sports Direct has shocked the stock market with a warning that annual profits will be up to £40m lower than expected, blaming tough trading on the high street and unseasonal weather in the run-up to Christmas. More than £400m was wiped off the value of the company as shares in Sports Direct fell 12% in the wake of the announcement. Related: Sports Direct’s story of easy growth seems to be…

Can you make an introduction to El Presidente? That was the request made around six months ago by Mike Kerns to the agent for Jared Lorenzen, a former NFL quarterback who would later become a contributor to Barstool Sports, the controversial website led by Dave Portnoy (known to the site’s fans as El Presidente). Lorenzen obliged, and Kerns ― head of digital for media and technology firm The Chernin Group…

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Will Ferrell’s newest sports endeavor is no laughing matter. The Hollywood funny man played the owner of basketball team in the movie Semi-Pro, now he gets to do it for real with a professional soccer club. Ferrell announced himself as the final of the 25 co-owners of the MLS’ expansion LAFC at a press conference to unveil the team’s colors and logo on Thursday. It will begin play in 2018….

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid are looking at Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 22, as a potential signing as they start a new era of rebuilding. (Daily Telegraph) Manchester United will try to sign 25-year-old Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard for £65m after being told they have no chance of signing Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26. (Daily Star) Daily Star back…

There never really was concern about which hat Ken Griffey Jr. would wear on his plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Perhaps the bigger question was if that cap will be backward. On Thursday at the annual Baseball Hall of Fame news conference in New York, Griffey confirmed what long had been expected — announcing he would be inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Mariner. “I’m going…

Grubb indicated he was placed on notice early on in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, where he helped guide Edwards to a fifth-place finish in the overall standings. The situation was similar to 2011, when Grubb was informed mid-Chase that he was unlikely to return to Stewart-Haas Racing, where he ultimately helped secure a Sprint Cup championship with driver/owner Tony Stewart that season.   “I was somewhat surprised,” Grubb told…

By the numbers, Piazza was a cert for the Hall. He’s a 12-time all-star, possibly the best-hitting catcher in the sport’s history with 427 career home runs (a record for the position), and his career is a classic Cinderella story. He was picked in the 62nd round of the 1988 draft, as the 1390th overall player, by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a favor to his father, who was friends…

When it comes to Baseball Hall of Fame voting, close calls almost always lead to candidates being elected in the near future … often the very next year. Going by a lot of past history, we thus can expect Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines to be part of the 2017 class and for Trevor Hoffman to get in next year or the year after. PLUS: Piazza going into HOF as a Met…

The Jacksonville Suns baseball team wants to double its workforce for the upcoming baseball season and seek candidates for seasonal jobs at the organization’s job fair Saturday. The Suns already employ about 60 workers to handle food and beverage concessions at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, but they want to expand that number by as many as 100 employees. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday…

Adrian Peterson doesn’t want redemption for whipping his child with a tree branch, but Sports Illustrated is delivering it to him anyway. Greg Bishop’s profile of the running back, published Tuesday, doesn’t hand out the redemption directly—it can’t, because Peterson is fine with what he did to his child— so instead it doles it out by implication. Here’s A.P. visiting a child dying of cancer; here’s A.P. being nice to…