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By STEPHEN WILSON, AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Sports organizations must work harder than ever in 2016 to clean up their act after a year of corruption and doping scandals that tarnished the Olympic movement, IOC President Thomas Bach said Wednesday in a New Year’s message. Bach said the entire Olympic world must live up to the public’s expectations of integrity and heed his call from a year ago…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Philadelphia Eagles fired Chip Kelly with one game left in his third season, dumping the coach after missing the playoffs in consecutive years. Kelly was released Tuesday night just before the end of a disappointing season that began with Super Bowl expectations. The Eagles are 6-9 after going 10-6 in each of Kelly’s first two seasons. They were eliminated from playoff contention after losing to Washington at…

For years, the highest-paid public employees in many states have been football and men’s basketball coaches at state universities. But as big-time college sports revenues have nearly doubled over the past decade, coaches are far from the only ones cashing in. Since 2004, many athletic directors have seen their pay soar and have gone on hiring sprees, surrounding themselves with well-paid executives and small armies of support staffs to help…

Sydni Stallworth scored a game-high 26 points and had four steals, and Pima College thumped Parkland College 99-71 in Tuesday’s Bruce Fleck Classic opener at the West Campus gym. The Aztecs put Parkland away with an 18-2 run in the third quarter. Pima led by 26 points with less than five minutes remaining in the game. Denesia Smith and Shalise Fernander each added 18 points. “Tonight was a great win…

From the moment “The Queen” parachuted out of that plane and into the Olympic Stadium, the nation was enraptured. For those two weeks the country seemed like a different place to the grey, pessimistic land of daily life. This time round there will be the time difference to contend with in Brazil with the British audience forced to stay up late into the night to watch events unfold in Rio….

CHICAGO – He’s one of the most recognizable voices in the history of Chicago sports radio. Fans remember him on B96 with Jobo and the many music functions which he’s hosted in the throughout the city. Now Eddie Volkman is a teacher of broadcasting and hosts a weekly podcast called “Eddie V’s Road Show.” He also keeps his eyes closely on the Chicago world of sports which has had a…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Newcastle boss Steve McClaren is planning a £10m bid for CSKA Moscow’s Russia midfielder Alan Dzagoev, 25, as he looks to add more quality to his squad in January. (Daily Mirror) The back page of Wednesday’s Sun Liverpool are considering making a £4m bid for Leicester left-back Ben Chilwell, 19. The England Under-20 international, who was targeted…

We’re a few short days away from 2016 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2015. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this past…

Less than a year after giving Chip Kelly full personnel control in addition to his head coaching duties, the Philadelphia Eagles announced they’ve fired their head coach. And with that, one of the NFL’s biggest experiments is over, before Kelly even completed his third season. Kelly came from the University of Oregon and was a bold hire because he had no NFL experience. He had an innovative offense that was a huge…

Buy Photo Michigan and MSU hockey playing in 2012 in Joe Louis Arena.(Photo: Kathleen Galligan, DFP)Buy Photo The Michigan and Michigan State hockey teams will play for the Iron D Trophy on Feb. 5 at Joe Louis Arena. Mike Bayoff, Director of Strategic Hockey Alliances for the Red Wings/Olympia Entertainment, told the Free Press that U-M coach Red Berenson and MSU coach Tom Anastos will help play a role in the…

We’re a few short days away from 2016 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2015. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this past…

It started with the hit of a baseball and led to a vision that reached into the stands and crowds of fans. “I spent all of my time in baseball stadiums every night with thousands of people,” said Dennis Bair, founder and President of the Bairfind Foundation. Bair was a minor league baseball pitcher for nine years and started his career after he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs. It…

We’re a few short days away from 2016 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2015. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this past…

Dee Gordon’s inside the park home run on June 30 was the first of his career. (via Arturo Pardavila III) It is said that a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. It is also said, or should be, that a baseball game between fifth-place teams in late August is simply a restless siesta occasionally interrupted, if there should be such luck, by plays so impressive…

Looking at the statistics, the No. 35 is one of the least-used and least-successful numbers in our countdown so far. While Glenn Dunaway was the first to pilot the number on July 10, 1949, the No. 35 has not been used very often on a full-time basis. These days, Cole Whitt pilots the No. 35 Front Row Motorsports Ford in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. In just his second Sprint…

We’re a few short days away from 2016 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2015. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this past…

We’re a few short days away from 2016 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2015. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this past…