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Can San Diego become a hub for the cycling industry? Bob Rief, a 40-year veteran of the sports and active lifestyle industry, thinks it can. The new executive director of San Diego Sports Innovators – an action sports trade group — recently hosted a gathering of about 10 local cycling-related firms to get them talking about how to promote the region for the sport. The meeting highlights San Diego Sports…

Last Updated Oct 16, 2015 1:25 AM EDT LAS VEGAS — Nevada regulators have ordered daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel to shut down, saying they can’t operate in the state without a gambling license. The decision comes amid growing backlash by investigators and regulators over the sites, which have grown in popularity in the past year. CBS This Morning Insider trading probe launched on DraftKings, FanDuel DraftKings…

Katrin Mulligan in St. Louis, Missouri, writes: My children’s school district has been switching to online textbooks for many of their classes. I understand some of their reasons (up-to-date information, added videos, never “forgetting book at school,” less weight to carry around, etc.) but struggle nightly with my kids to quit using electronics an hour before bedtime (to get a good night’s rest, less eye strain, etc.). I can’t get…

(CNN) — There are a slew of benefits I know my girls get by playing a team sport: learning about teamwork and how to win and lose gracefully, building confidence and pushing themselves physically and mentally. But perhaps, I can add another positive to the already solid list — helping them crack the glass ceiling. Just look at some of the top women in corporate America: Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo’s chief…

Volkswagenn Hayranları/YouTube See Also Volkswagen’s emissions crisis could hit American bicycle racing close to home and leave USA Cycling, the sport’s national governing body, scrambling to find a new title sponsor if the beleaguered automaker decides not to renew its partnership in the coming weeks. Volkswagen is USA Cycling’s biggest partner, and this is a contract-renewal year. Last month, an investigation by the US Environmental Protection Agency revealed Volkswagen had…

The United Soccer League plans to continue a burst of expansion that has spread its footprint across nearly 30 markets in the United States and Canada, its president said Thursday. “The expansion clubs who have joined the league this year and in the previous season have done extremely well,” the USL president, Jake Edwards, said during a conference call with reporters. “The popularity…

DULUTH, Minn. — In northern Minnesota, it’s not uncommon to find a guy in his nineties looking back on his glory days as a hockey player – but it is uncommon to find a guy still living them. Like his handle bar mustache, Mark Sertich’s hockey days appear to be never ending. “You’ve gotta challenge yourself a little bit,” said Sertich. “I think that’s what keeps you going.” Mark Sertich…

The University of South Carolina’s baseball stadium is about to get a new identity. USC trustees are expected to approve a naming-rights contract with Lancaster-based Founders Federal Credit Union on Friday that will change the name of the Gamecocks’ baseball home from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park. Nicki Nash, senior vice president for marketing at Founders, confirmed the proposed deal Thursday but declined to discuss details. USC Athletic Director Ray…

“Baseball just doesn’t have rules from another time, it has an old-fashioned code, too. When you score in baseball, the code says: ‘You better not look too happy about it. . .’ It’s the only game where there’s a ‘right way’ to play the game . . . the way it was played 100 years ago. This code doesn’t exist in other places where they play baseball, like Korea, where bat flipping is an…

UPDATED WITH FINALS/CABLE: Sports dominated the primetime landscape on Wednesday, with a deciding game of the Mets-Dodgers series on TBS and NFL action on CBS and NFL Network drawing most of the live viewership and sending shows like including Fox’s “Bones,” “NBC’s “The Blacklist” and ABC’s “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder” to season lows. According to national estimates from Nielsen, CBS and NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football”…

New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom, above right, catcher Travis d’Arnaud, left, and other Mets players celebrate a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of baseball’s National League Division Series on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. (AP) The biggest spenders in Major League Baseball will be watching the rest of the postseason on television. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who have the highest payroll in…

Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. The two League Championship Series kick off this weekend in Major League Baseball, starting with tonight’s ALCS Game 1, which pits the Blue Jays against the Royals in Kansas City. The semifinal round of the baseball postseason follows an all-around exciting set of division series, three of which went to a winner-take-all Game 5—and the other featured the Cubs pulling…

Volkswagenn Hayranları/YouTube See Also Volkswagen’s emissions crisis could hit American bicycle racing close to home and leave USA Cycling, the sport’s national governing body, scrambling to find a new title sponsor if the beleaguered automaker decides not to renew its partnership in the coming weeks. Volkswagen is USA Cycling’s biggest partner, and this is a contract-renewal year. Last month, an investigation by the US Environmental Protection Agency revealed Volkswagen had…

NASCAR’s most popular driver is at a crossroads in the 2015 season. Dale Earnhardt Jr. needs to win either this weekend’s Hollywood Casino 400 in Kansas or the CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega on Oct. 25. Earnhardt currently sits 11th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase standings; he’s 19 points behind Brad Keselowski on the cutoff line. These next two races are the final ones of the Contender Round in the…

Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott, who makes the jump to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next season, will unveil his 2016 No. 24 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet SS paint scheme on NASCAR Race Hub on FS1 this coming Monday at 6 p.m. ET. The anticipated reveal is being simulcast in New York City’s Times Square on the giant FOX video screen. Elliott, 19, the defending NASCAR XFINITY Series champion and…

For the first time since 2003, the Valley Preferred Cycling Center will be hosting the USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships. The velodrome in Trexlertown last hosted the junior national championships in 2013, but last hosted the elites in 2003. This time out, the world-famous Concrete Crater will host both the junior and elite events. The 2016 USA Cycling Elite and Junior Track National Championships will be held July 25-31,…

The United Soccer League plans to continue a burst of expansion that has spread its footprint across nearly 30 markets in the United States and Canada, its president said Thursday. “The expansion clubs who have joined the league this year and in the previous season have done extremely well,” the USL president, Jake Edwards, said during a conference call with reporters. “The popularity…

The University of South Carolina’s baseball stadium is about to get a new identity. USC trustees are expected to approve a naming-rights contract with Lancaster-based Founders Federal Credit Union on Friday that will change the name of the Gamecocks’ baseball home from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park. Nicki Nash, senior vice president for marketing at Founders, confirmed the proposed deal Thursday but declined to discuss details. USC Athletic Director Ray…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Athletics Department recently welcomed Karla Horsfall as the Director of Sports Nutrition. As Director of Sports Nutrition, Horsfall will lead the sports nutrition program for the athletics department, including programming within a new, state-of-the-art fueling facility that opened in August 2015. Horsfall will provide education to student-athletes, supervise the sports nutrition team and work collaboratively as an active member of the Department’s sports…