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Peyton Manning said a report by Al Jazeera set to air Sunday that suggests he obtained performance-enhancing drugs was “completely fabricated, complete trash, garbage.” Manning angrily denied allegations to ESPN on Sunday morning he used HGH in 2011. The report is based on secret recordings made by a former intern at an Indianapolis anti-aging institute who now says he fabricated the allegations. Al Jazeera sent British hurdler Liam Collins undercover…

After owner Robert Sarver and general manager Ryan McDonough met with starting players and coaching staff on Sunday, management has fired two assistant coaches close to head coach Jeff Hornacek, league sources told Yahoo Sports. The Suns fired top assistant, Mike Longabardi, along with Jerry Sichting on Sunday night, and Hornacek’s future is teetering on the brink, league sources said. Hornacek was adamantly against the dismissal of his staff, but…

Shannon Szabados makes history every time she steps on the ice for the Columbus (Georgia) Cottonmouths in the Southern Professional Hockey League, but hit another major milestone Saturday night. In a 3-0 win over the Huntsville Havoc, Szabados became the first woman to record a shutout in a men’s professional hockey league. Szabados, who has played parts of the last three seasons with Columbus, made 33 saves to earn the…

Authorities in El Salvador say gunmen shot and killed former national soccer team player Alfredo Alberto Pacheco at a gasoline station in a municipality west of the country’s capital. El Salvador’s Attorney General’s Office and its National Police said unidentified assailants aboard a vehicle approached Pacheco and some of his friends in the city of Santa Ana early Sunday and opened fire. Pacheco was killed, while two people accompanying him…

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…

MILWAUKEE — Inclusion is such an important aspect of sport. Some kids who are visually impaired were recently able to learn about and play a game they don’t usually get to play. The game was adapted to them, and they got some help from some Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) players here in Milwaukee. It takes a ball, a bat, goggles that are also blindfolds, and some very important instructions….

Accomplished director Richard Linklater, known for such films as “Dazed and Confused,” “Before Sunrise,” “School of Rock,” and “Boyhood,” has a new movie coming out in April of 2016. Said new movie is titled “Everybody Wants Some,” and it’s in some ways a spiritual sequel to the aforementioned “Dazed and Confused,” which is rightly regarded as a modern classic. As you’ll observe in the following trailer, college baseball provides the…

Amelia Parlier Patrick Day New Britain Bees general manager Patrick Day. Posted: Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:31 pm | Updated: 9:51 pm, Sun Dec 27, 2015. New Britain Bees excited to get to work on ‘startup’ baseball franchise Posted on Dec 27, 2015 by David Glovach NEW BRITAIN — With just 115 days until the New Britain Bees begin their inaugural season in the Atlantic League, there is some excitement…

Dave Henderson, who spent parts of 14 seasons as a major-league outfielder and authored one of the most famous postseason home runs in history, has died at the age of 57. MLB announced his passing on Sunday. According to Bob Nightengale, Henderson died one month after receiving a kidney transplant. A number of Henderson’s former Oakland teammates told Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle that the cause of death…

A Triple Crown. A near grand slam in tennis. Not one, but two no-hitters. We had controversy about deflated footballs and inspiration in the form of a college football team. But the biggest national sports story of 2015 is one you probably didn’t see coming. We would bet on it. Here’s our list of the top 10 national sports stories of 2015. Related News/Archive Top 10 Tampa Bay sports stories…

After owner Robert Sarver and general manager Ryan McDonough met with starting players and coaching staff on Sunday, management has fired two assistant coaches close to head coach Jeff Hornacek, league sources told Yahoo Sports. The Suns fired top assistant, Mike Longabardi, along with Jerry Sichting on Sunday night, and Hornacek’s future is teetering on the brink, league sources said. Hornacek was adamantly against the dismissal of his staff, but…

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…

While it has been a part of NASCAR’s premier division since 1950, the No. 33 was not run on a consistent basis in NASCAR until “Handsome” Harry Gant moved on from Jack Beebe’s team to join stuntman and film director Hal Needham’s team in 1981. Gant made his first start in the green-and-white No. 33 Skoal Bandit car during the CRC Chemicals Rebel 500 at Darlington Raceway on April 12,…

Shannon Szabados makes history every time she steps on the ice for the Columbus (Georgia) Cottonmouths in the Southern Professional Hockey League, but hit another major milestone Saturday night. In a 3-0 win over the Huntsville Havoc, Szabados became the first woman to record a shutout in a men’s professional hockey league. Szabados, who has played parts of the last three seasons with Columbus, made 33 saves to earn the…

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…

Nate Fish, director of the Israel Association of Baseball, demonstrating pitching to Israeli kids. (Margo Sugarman/IAB) (JTA) – Out of baseball after four years playing in the minor leagues, Brent Powers, a Christian from Texas, took a tour of Israel last year with his wife. He was smitten with the country and considered how to return. The Masa Israel Journey will provide his path. Powers and about a dozen American…

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…

The biggest story of Week 15 in the NFL was arguably Josh Norman and Odell Beckham Jr.’s on field battle, and a big part of that were the bats that Panthers were holding on the field before the game. “I brought one” pic.twitter.com/Eta1WhTbfo — Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) December 27, 2015 To demonstrate what a baseball bat looks like, I guess, Tom Jackson brought one onto…

Inside a hotel room in Austin, Texas, a pharmacist advises a professional athlete on taking performance-enhancing drugs. “One anabolic, and I can give you something to use right now, is this Delta 2 stuff. It’s a steroid. There’s a bunch of football players who take this,” he tells Liam Collins, a British hurdler reporting undercover. In another conversation, a Vancouver pharmacist poses a question to the same athlete. “Have I…

Serena Williams wins the women”s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, July 11, 2015. (AP Photo / Kirsty Wigglesworth) This past year saw no shortage of people who tried to leverage the sports world to boldly speak out on issues beyond the field of play. The football players at Missouri going on strike against racism; the remarkable activists in Boston—led in many neighborhoods…