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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Jose Mourinho will be given a stay of execution as Chelsea manager – but must win back the players. (Mirror)  Mourinho said very little to the media following his Chelsea side’s sixth league defeat of the season, but according to Blues midfielder Ramires he “didn’t say anything” to…

The sport of rugby union has just unlocked the door to a brave new world. Hands up those who, six weeks ago, feared sides like Japan would be flattened by “proper” nations and envisaged a surfeit of dull, second-rate games in half-empty football stadia? How gloriously, thrillingly wrong those predictions proved to be, even before New Zealand defeated Australia in Saturday’s throbbing finale at Twickenham. Related: Rugby World Cup 2015:…

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GLASGOW, Scotland — The five medals Simone Biles spent the better part of a week so easily collecting at the world gymnastics championships will join the nine others she’s captured in a safe somewhere back in Texas. Maybe one day she’ll take them out and admire her unprecedented success. Not anytime soon though. For now, there is only a brief but well-deserved break. Then it’s on to that distant speck…

The 2015 World Series could end as soon as Sunday night in Game 5, with the Kansas City Royals just one win away from their first championship in 30 years. But no matter how long the New York Mets can keep the season alive, every remaining 2015 baseball game will be played in November, joining a select handful of games. November baseball started in 2001, and it started with…

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Buy Photo Troy Turner embraces his daughter Lauren Turner, following Brebeuf Jesuit’s state soccer final Saturday.(Photo: Robert Scheer / The Star)Buy Photo She had one more soccer game to watch, and maybe then she would let herself die. But not before Saturday afternoon, no matter what the doctors were saying, because what the doctors were saying was unacceptable. They were saying almost two weeks ago that Stephanie Turner had just…

Each week the chorus of boos grows increasingly louder as Joey Logano goes through pre-race driver introductions — someone once viewed rather indifferently has now emerged as one of the most vilified. Throughout NASCAR’s history that kind of resentment is commonplace whenever a driver wins with great frequency — something Logano’s done more than anyone else of late. Dating back to the start of last season his 11 victories…

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NEW YORK – Another Royals comeback, and now we have a storyline on deck that could be written and talked about for as long as we play the game of baseball. Just 5 days after learning his father passed away in the Dominican Republic, on the same day he made a World Series Game 1 start, Edinson Volquez will climb back on the hill to honor his dad, by possibly…

HOLMEN — Before he joined Holmen’s adaptive sports team, junior Ethan Nelson didn’t have a place where he really fit in. An avid sports lover but also a special-needs student, Nelson wasn’t able to play varsity sports such as football, his mother Julie Nelson said. The adaptive sports league gives students such as Ethan a place where they can interact with their peers and be accepted no matter what. “All…

Nevada has already decided daily fantasy sports are gambling and that people can’t put their dollars down on DraftKings and FanDuel until those sites obtain a license in the state. State gambling regulators haven’t been as clear about paid season-long fantasy games offered by such longtime operators as CBS Sports and Yahoo Sports, which make a profit and pay cash prizes. Yahoo has pulled out of Nevada out of caution…

The New York Mets made a statement in Game 3 of the World Series — starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard wanted to make the Kansas City Royals uncomfortable and did so by firing the first pitch near Alcides Escobar‘s head. From there, the Mets’ offense woke up, the Royals’ defense got spotty and the Mets got their first win of the series. Now onto Game 4, in which the Mets send…

i Founded in 2011, ESPN’s popular sports and culture website, Grantland, was suddenly shut down on Friday. Jun Tsuboike/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Jun Tsuboike/NPR Founded in 2011, ESPN’s popular sports and culture website, Grantland, was suddenly shut down on Friday. Jun Tsuboike/NPR Known for its talented writers and in-depth reporting, ESPN’s sports and culture website, Grantland, was suddenly shut down early Friday afternoon. The sports media giant released a…

NEW YORK — Somewhere in the past few decades, pitching high and inside has become an offense, a violation of baseball etiquette if not the rules. Batters with multimillion-dollar contracts go ballistic when a cowhide-covered sphere of roughly 5 ounces and 9-inch circumference whizzes by their whiskers, even if they get up unscathed. So when the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard opened Game 3 of the World Series with a 97-mph pitch above…

(Photo: The Associated Press) MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — It’s been a ho-hum year for Brad Keselowski, who has been overshadowed all season by teammate Joey Logano. As Logano reeled off three consecutive wins to thrust himself into the role of favorite to win the Sprint Cup title, Keselowski quietly slipped through to the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs without much fanfare. Now that this stretch is about to begin Sunday…

NEW YORK — Somewhere in the past few decades, pitching high and inside has become an offense, a violation of baseball etiquette if not the rules. Batters with multimillion-dollar contracts go ballistic when a cowhide-covered sphere of roughly 5 ounces and 9-inch circumference whizzes by their whiskers, even if they get up unscathed. So when the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard opened Game 3 of the World Series with a 97-mph pitch above…

WASHINGTON — Getting from Cuba to the big leagues has never just been about 450-foot home runs and 100-mph fastballs. When New York Mets’ slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes decided in 2011 that he wanted to leave his country to play baseball in the United States, he did what dozens of Cuban baseball players have done since the Castro government came to power more than 50 years ago. Risking arrest and…

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