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SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid are willing to pay £100m to sign Chelsea’s Belgium playmaker Eden Hazard, 24. (Daily Star) That move could prompt Chelsea to pursue the signing of Real forward Gareth Bale, 26. (Daily Mirror) But Manchester United are hoping to sign the Wales international for £75m this month – and working with “boyhood hero” Ryan Giggs, the…

Ken Griffey Jr. and Curt Schilling were the only two unanimous picks for the Baseball Hall of Fame on ballots submitted by the six members of the Boston Globe sports staff who are Hall of Fame voters. Peter Abraham, Nick Cafardo, Amalie Benjamin, Bob Hohler, Bob Ryan, and Dan Shaughnessy all have votes. To earn a Hall of Fame vote, a writer must have been an active member of the…

Last month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that nobody was elected in this round of Pre-Integration Era Committee balloting — the second straight year that one of the Hall’s era-based Veterans Committees failed to induct a player from before 1973. Nobody elected on pre-integration ballot. Silly to have an exclusive Vet committee for the most overrepresented part of baseball history. — Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) December 7, 2015 We don’t…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid are willing to pay £100m to sign Chelsea’s Belgium playmaker Eden Hazard, 24. (Star) That move could prompt Chelsea to pursue the signing of Real forward Gareth Bale, 26. (Mirror) But Manchester United are hoping to sign the Wales international for £75m this month. (Mail) Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola, 44, will become Manchester City…

Last month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that nobody was elected in this round of Pre-Integration Era Committee balloting — the second straight year that one of the Hall’s era-based Veterans Committees failed to induct a player from before 1973. Nobody elected on pre-integration ballot. Silly to have an exclusive Vet committee for the most overrepresented part of baseball history. — Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) December 7, 2015 We don’t…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war between soccer parents, the city and the NFL just one month before the world’s largest sporting event lands in the Bay Area….

Olympic track and field star Lolo Jones is one of 10 American athletes to compete in both the summer and winter games. Only 130 athletes worldwide can make that claim, of which just 25 are women. For more than half her life, Lolo Jones has been clearing hurdles on and off the track. After what she calls her “worst year professionally,” the 33-year-old hurdler and bobsledder is now on the…

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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

Last month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that nobody was elected in this round of Pre-Integration Era Committee balloting — the second straight year that one of the Hall’s era-based Veterans Committees failed to induct a player from before 1973. Nobody elected on pre-integration ballot. Silly to have an exclusive Vet committee for the most overrepresented part of baseball history. — Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) December 7, 2015 We don’t…

The Browns are really on one right now. Just a few days removed from chucking head coach Mike Pettine and GM Ray Farmer, the team has hired Paul DePodesta to be its … top executive? Per a gibberish-laden press release (“DePodesta will be responsible for assessing and implementing best practices and strategies that will provide the organization with the comprehensive resources needed to make optimal decisions”), his title will be…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League filed a lawsuit against the city and the National Football League, claiming that construction on three fields being used for the Super Bowl has stopped kids from playing soccer there. The construction will displace an estimated 1,600 youth soccer players until about 30 days after the Super Bowl. ABC7 News reports the fields are planned for a media village, security and half-time event staging…

“I remember all our swims together—we are both water creatures,” Oliver Sacks, a few months before his death, wrote in a letter to Henri Cole. Credit Photograph courtesy Henri Cole Oliver Sacks swam until he died. He believed swimming was instinctive, and that we must learn to walk but not to swim. Still, for many years he took a weekly lesson from a Russian coach, Slava, to perfect his stroke,…

By: Nate Scott | January 5, 2016 8:56 am Follow @aNateScott

One great thing about working in sport media, beyond the blindingly obvious, is that each time you turn up for work the people whose deeds you’re there to report do unexpected and often wonderful things, some of which can be foretold but enough of which are sufficiently unpredictable that the whole thing’s a hoot. A member of the media in front of me was tabbing between his match report and…