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For the third time in 25 years, the Sport Zone soccer dome on Hill Avenue in Aurora has collapsed. “There’s quite a bit of damage in and around the dome,” owner Tom Clifford said on Tuesday after surveying the damage. No one was injured during the incident. Around 3 p.m. Monday, the giant, white fabric dome caved under the weight of the rain, snow and sleet. By Tuesday morning, all…

Would you rather watch AB or go to the opera? © Getty Images Doping, match-fixing, cover-ups, corruption: the story of sport in 2015 in a few words. Only, it isn’t. The bigger story is expansion, brilliance and robustness. Each time you hear that sport is facing “an existential crisis”, be thankful that sport’s general health is so good that its crises are often…

The League had threatened Leeds with action if they followed through with their plan to lock Sky out, but the club’s statement read: “The Football League regulations are supposed to be there to protect the integrity of the sporting competition, not to be used as a stick to beat the club on behalf of Sky. “Leeds United season-ticket holders have had enough of these fixture changes, the players and staff…

OMAHA — “No truth,” Alex Gordon said in response to a recent story that he had no chance of signing a new contract with the Kansas City Royals. A crowd of 200 kids, coaches and others who braved Monday’s snowstorm roared approval at Creighton’s Sokol Arena, where they had gathered for a night of baseball instruction. There is no joy in free agency — at least until you sign a…

How much I do I love hockey? I can’t even describe. In Russia, we don’t really have a Christmas break, but from December 31 to January 3, everything closed. Even hockey school. These were the worst days of my life. Four days with no hockey, I get so depressed. I can’t even sleep. Just sit watching YouTube of Kovalev and wait. Some people in Canada understand this, I think. In…

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Dave Henderson file photo /Elsa – Getty Images Dave Henderson, who etched his name into postseason lore with multiple teams and blossomed into an All-Star in the latter part of a 14-year career, died Sunday at the age of 57. Henderson underwent a kidney transplant last month and went into cardiac arrest before passing away Sunday. Henderson was the Seattle Mariners’ first-ever draft pick, the first round pick (27th overall)…

The reporter behind a blockbuster expose that accused Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and other top athletes of sports doping defended the story in an interview with MSNBC on Monday. Al Jazeera reporter Deborah Davies said Manning has not denied that he had HGH (human growth hormone — a drug banned by the NFL) secretly shipped to his wife in 2011 while he was still with the Indianapolis Colts and…

The U.S. team offered its condolences to Pacheco’s family and friends on Sunday. The Salvadorean Soccer Federation also paid tribute to the player, saying it shared the pain and offered prayers to his family. This year has been the deadliest on record for El Salvador, with 6,500 murders. The country experiences an average of 17 murders a day, according to police, who attribute the violence to gangs. Other Central American…

“Gen. Evan Gattis” has a nice ring to it. (via Arturo Pardavila III) It isn’t that I’m oblivious to modern trends. Sometimes I turn a blind, or just a blurry, eye to them, waiting for them to fizzle out. I had been doing that with the proliferation of beards in baseball for the last few years. This October, though, binge-watching the playoffs so I could do some semi-informative moonlighting over…

Inside sports business There’s no use fretting over recent $30 million annual baseball salaries given David Price and Zack Greinke, or hefty signings of midlevel starting pitchers like J.A. Happ. That’s Major League Baseball’s new normal, one that takes adapting to but isn’t going away. At least not according to figures showing MLB teams continue to spend new television revenue in record amounts. Every December, The Associated Press publishes the…

Nearly 40 million kids play organized team sports in the US. For many of them, that means practice multiple times a week (sometimes late into the night), weekend games, and stiff competition to win a coveted spot on the local travel team or private club. It might mean driving hours to a single game or flying around the country for tournaments. Younger siblings, meanwhile, are left vying for their parents…

As 2015 rolls to an end, FTW looks back at the top 10 sports moments of 2015. Our list doesn’t necessarily contain every great moment (sorry USWNT) or every champion (apologies, Chicago Blackhawks), but the moments that best defined the year in sports or introduced us to the stars of tomorrow. Click here for more Best of 2015 coverage. 10. The rip-off of the century (USA TODAY Sports Images) A…

The 2015 Moto 360 is an excellent Android Wear smartwatch to use with Android and iOS. The Moto 360 Sport is the same watch with a few optimizations for those who want to use their smartwatch to track running sessions. Since I am a runner I was hoping the Moto 360 Sport would be a smartwatch that I could use to track my runs with GPS, measure my heart rate,…

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Inside sports business There’s no use fretting over recent $30 million annual baseball salaries given David Price and Zack Greinke, or hefty signings of midlevel starting pitchers like J.A. Happ. That’s Major League Baseball’s new normal, one that takes adapting to but isn’t going away. At least not according to figures showing MLB teams continue to spend new television revenue in record amounts. Every December, The Associated Press publishes the…

Each sports season keeps Barbie Nonte of Aurora, Illinois, busy as she tries to follow the games of her three children. Luckily, she has found a way to follow the kids’ games even during those times when she can’t be in multiple places at once. Just as fans of professional sports teams can read news articles that describe a game’s highlights after it takes place, Nonte can read summaries of…

Over the past two Decembers I’ve paneled a group of sports media people to answer the following question: Who will be the most fascinating sports person of the following year?  The answers have been interesting, some even prescient, and I’ve decided to make it an end-of-the-year tradition as long as I have a place to write. Once again, the 30-plus panelists (I added some new ones this year) were given…