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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Sunderland boss Dick Advocaat, 68, is expected to leave the club in the next few days. (Sunday Telegraph)  Former West Ham manager Sam Allardyce, 60, is ready to succeed Advocaat. (Sunday Times – subscription required)  Sporting director Lee Congerton is set to join Advocaat in…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Following Aberdeen’s 5-1 defeat at home by St Johnstone, Dons manager Derek McInnes warns his players that the rest of the teams in the Scottish Premiership will be gunning for them after they lost four goals at set pieces. (Sunday Mail) Aberdeen midfielder Barry Robson refuses to believe the Red Army has been stopped in its tracks and does not see the “bubble…

In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, photo, Bear Duker, a marketing manager for strategic partnerships at DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, works at his computer in Boston. The daily fantasy sports industry is eyeing a breakout season as NFL games begin. And its two dominant companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, are touting lucrative opening week prizes to try to draw more customers as more competitors pop up.(Photo: Stephan Savoia/AP) Watching…

Andrew Dye/Journal William Orrell William Orrell, the winner of the World Sport Stacking Championships in Montreal earlier this year, was introduced to the sport by his physical education teacher at Shady Grove Elementary School. He currently has five Guinness World Records. William Orrell Orrell has an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for speed stacking. Posted: Sunday, October 4, 2015 12:15 am Clemmons teenager at the pinnacle of…

0 Shares Print DOVER, Del. — They say races aren’t won or lost at the start. Restarts are another story, especially given NASCAR’s increased scrutiny of them in recent weeks. Restarts could be the key factor Sunday in the AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway when the 16 drivers competing in this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup get whittled down to 12. After three consecutive races in which controversial…

All eyes have been on the weather and the weather forecast for this week’s NASCAR weekend at Dover International Raceway. Earlier in the week, it looked like a hurricane was headed for the east coast and possibly Dover, Del. Now that the storm is going to stay well away from the United States, there are other weather factors to contend with. Stalled front off the coast of the Mid…

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Evening, folks. Hark back, if you will, to MBM preambles of yesteryear. Or, last Saturday, to be more precise. The talk before England v Wales was of fear, of nerve-shredding tension; we’re not applying 20/20 hindsight and saying we were wrong – far from it – but that pales into insignificance next to the malodorous stuff-inducing terror that every England fan is feeling right now. Last week it was Wales….

After rains soaked Dover International Speedway for much of two days, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series got on track for the first time at 11:50 a.m. ET Saturday for a brief practice session. Non-Chase driver Kasey Kahne was fastest in the session with a lap of 22.429 seconds at 160.506 miles per hour, best among the 32 laps Kahne ran. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin were…

EATON, Colo. – The winningest coach in Colorado high school baseball history has been ousted from Eaton’s baseball program, 7NEWS has learned.  #BREAKING: Winningest coach in #Colorado h.s. #baseball history ousted at #Eaton. District: agreement couldn’t be met pic.twitter.com/VbLniLCyDM — Russell Haythorn (@RussellHaythorn) October 2, 2015 “I heard it from a fellow coach who said, ‘Hey they posted internally that there’s an opening for the head baseball coach’,” said coach Danley….

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Dear Sylvie, Tonight the Seattle Mariners lost a baseball game. It’s the 206th time it’s happened in your 2.25 years, as omnipresent as goldfish crackers and Daniel Tiger. You didn’t notice. Aaron Goldsmith whispered from the cell phone in my pocket while you and I moved from room to room living our typical toddler existence: sipping air out of plastic teacups, organizing blocks by color, pretending to be…

This is prompting an inneresting discussion! Several Major League Baseball teams have a tradition of hazing their rookie players every year by forcing them to dress up as women for team flights, and now, a powerful LGBT group aligned with pro athletes is calling on that tradition to stop! Related: Not All MLB Rookie Hazing Is Bad! Players on the teams — which include the Oakland Athletics, Miami Marlins, Chicago…

Ken Denlinger, a longtime Washington Post sports columnist who also wrote books on college athletics, including one of the first to examine unscrupulous recruiting of young basketball players by some of the nation’s top college programs, died Oct. 3 at his home in Frederick, Md. He was 73. The cause was esophageal cancer, said his wife, Nancy Whitcomb Denlinger. Mr. Denlinger worked for The Post from 1965 to 2003, initially as…

It’s elimination time in NASCAR‘s Chase for the Sprint Cup as the 16 drivers head into Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin sit in great standing with automatic bids into the next round after wins, but nothing is guaranteed for the other 14 drivers going into one of the series’ trickiest and most competitive tracks. With big names such as Kyle Busch and Kevin…

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One day after NASCAR announced it would double the restart zone starting this weekend at Dover International Speedway, Sprint Cup Series drivers praised the sanctioning body’s move. For many drivers, the restart box was too small for their liking, and the policing of the situation was inconsistent at best. Many feel this move by NASCAR to expand the box will help alleviate some of the issues. After Dover, NASCAR will…

One day after NASCAR announced it would double the restart zone starting this weekend at Dover International Speedway, Sprint Cup Series drivers praised the sanctioning body’s move. For many drivers, the restart box was too small for their liking, and the policing of the situation was inconsistent at best. Many feel this move by NASCAR to expand the box will help alleviate some of the issues. After Dover, NASCAR will…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat is understood to be considering quitting the club after Saturday’s home game against West Ham, having become disillusioned with life on a limited budget. (Guardian)  The Daily Star lead with Arsene Wenger not pursuing a move for Anthony Martial because he did not…