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Article by Dan Levinsohn Ten world records fell this week at the IWF World Weightlifting Championships, which concluded last night in Houston, shedding light on who will contend for a medal next summer in Rio. The tournament brought together 609 lifters from a record breaking 98 participating countries, with men competing in eight different weight classes and women in seven. The athletes didn’t waste any time getting to work rewriting…

For now, it is a question best asked at a pub table, perhaps pondered in Columbus or Newark, N.J., in the hours before the local soccer sides will play today to decide which advances to the MLS Cup final. Might either of their coaches — Crew SC’s Gregg Berhalter and the New York Red Bulls’ Jesse Marsch — one day move on to bigger things, maybe to the helm of…

Honestly, sports can be awful sometimes. One of the biggest stories in college football yesterday was whether or not a bunch of rich old people would be able to get enough money together to fire a man who clearly had the support of every single one of the young men who play for him at the LSU. At other times, sports can be wonderful. This is wonderful. …

View photo . ATHENS, GA – NOVEMBER 7: Head coach Mark Richt of the Georgia Bulldogs in the fourth quarter of the game against … Georgia has fired coach Mark Richt, according to various reports. ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach was the first to report the move. Georgia will hold a press conference on Monday. Richt was 145-51 in 15 seasons with the Bulldogs, including a 9-3 record this year. The Bulldogs defeated…

Sarah Kovan, a senior captain for the MSU women’s soccer team, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. (Photo: Michigan State University Athletics) Being a college student is tough enough. Imagine trying to keep up your grades while starting for the Michigan State women’s soccer team. Sarah Kovan has done that extremely well. Kovan, 21, is working on bachelor’s degrees in comparative cultures and politics and in human biology and was recently…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola is understood to see Manchester United as his preferred option when he decides to leave the German giants. (Sunday Telegraph) But Guardiola, 44, has also refused to answer questions about reports in his native Spain linking him to the manager’s job at Manchester City. (Daily Mail) Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 30,…

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — “Philadelphia is the saddest pro sports city in America right now.” That is the sentiment of USA Today sports blogger…and probably a few others. Feel free to form your own opinion about the writer’s statement and the state of sports in this town. But before you do either, consider reading the article and, perhaps more importantly, consider the facts. The Eagles are 4-7 after three consecutive losses, including…

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The New York Times posted an intriguing feature Saturday about the efforts of longtime minor-league baseball executive Lou Schwechheimer to bring minor league baseball back to Cuba. Not since the middle of the 1960 season, in the early months of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary administration, had Cuba been connected officially to Major League Baseball. A year before in 1959, the Havana Sugar Kings won the International League as the Triple-A affiliate…

I know it’s hazardous to read much into weigh-ins or other pre fight rituals but how calm and classy is Klitschko? He looks in good nick, unruffled and focused. I have a friend who photographed both brothers and found them pleasant, self-deprecating and good company. To my mind there is something more unsettling about his placid, controlled professionalism than any amount of grandstanding. The sinister nature of his almost unapproachable…

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — “Philadelphia is the saddest pro sports city in America right now.” That is the sentiment of USA Today sports blogger…and probably a few others. Feel free to form your own opinion about the writer’s statement and the state of sports in this town. But before you do either, consider reading the article and, perhaps more importantly, consider the facts. The Eagles are 4-7 after three consecutive losses, including…

San Francisco police have found more than two-dozen bats chained to street poles across the city. Some of the bats have nails sticking out of them. Denise Chew stepped out of an optometrist office on Mission Street near Rolph Street where a bat was found chained to a parking meter. “This is really odd. I’m kind of speechless about it,” said Chew. “It’s pretty bizarre and it’s weird that there’s…

0 Shares print Mike Veeck has been called the funniest man in baseball. When Veeck — along with actor/comedian Bill Murray and lawyer Marv Goldklang — started the independent minor league St. Paul Saints in the then-Northern League (now the American Association) in 1993, it looked as if the joke might be on them. Independent baseball was all but extinct, and few thought their plan would work. It not only…

(Photo: The Associated Press) PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Like all big ideas, this one started small. It was back in 2010 that sports marketing executive Lea Miller first approached government officials in the Bahamas with the brainstorm of bringing NCAA basketball outside the United States — to help lure visitors to the islands during what is an otherwise slow period. Five years later, the three-day Battle 4 Atlantis tournament…

The hockey fight is not dead. Not even close. Among the dozens of fights this month alone, a Nov. 7 blow from San Jose Sharks’ Micheal Haley sent Anaheim Duck Clayton Stoner’s helmet bouncing across the ice. A Nov. 14 punch-up between the Winnipeg Jets and the Nashville Predators landed every single player on the ice in the penalty box. Three days later, Predators forward Mike Fisher punched Ducks defenseman…

Goalkeeper Casey Murphy (blue) starred in the shootout as Rutgers upset Virginia to advance to its first Final Four.(Photo: Kelsey Grant/Courtesy of Rutgers athletics communications) Rutgers women’s soccer team isn’t done making history just yet. Continuing the winningest season in program history, Rutgers advanced to the Final Four for the first time Friday by upsetting No. 1-ranked powerhouse Virginia, 7-6, on penalty kicks, after a scoreless regulation and two overtimes. In a battle…