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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. I couldn’t get my money. I won five bucks this past weekend playing daily fantasy football for the first time and when I went to “withdraw” my winnings, I was confronted with the crushing news that I needed to win more than $20 to have my riches sent back to me via…

NASCAR announced Thursday that the sanctioning body has issued warnings to teams in each of the three major series for issues in technical inspection last weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway or Kentucky Speedway. On the Sprint Cup side, the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing team of Chase driver Kevin Harvick was hit with two warnings and will be held out of practice 15 minutes this weekend at Dover for failing…

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CATON, N.Y. — A former minor league hockey player has been charged with killing his wife inside their upstate New York home, authorities said. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office said deputies and state troopers responded to Thomas Clayton’s home in Caton, near the Pennsylvania border, after he called 911 early Tuesday and said he found his wife dead. Kelley Clayton, 35, was discovered on the floor with severe facial trauma,…

Within the span of nine months, two of NASCAR’s all-time greats have announced their pending retirements. Jeff Gordon will step aside at the conclusion of the current season, while Tony Stewart will do so following the 2016 season. That Gordon is preceding Stewart into retirement is somewhat appropriate, as it was Gordon’s success in transitioning from open-wheel sprint car racing to NASCAR that allowed Stewart to make a similar…

INDIANAPOLIS—The NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee has announced the host sites for the 2017 Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Regionals. The East Regional has been awarded to the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island and will be hosted by Brown on March 24-25, while the Northeast Regional will be held at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire with New Hampshire serving as host…

As D’Arcy Maine at ESPNW notes, “Houston has turned in a lackluster 7-11 record since her [September] concert—including losing seven of the eight games immediately after.” The young team, once poised to storm into the playoffs, is clinging onto life, having lost control of the division and the wild-card spot. If you’re willing to believe in the dark power of Swift, you’ll see that Houston isn’t the only team afflicted….

Royals RHP Yordano Ventura and Angels OF Mike Trout exchange words at home plate.(Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports) A scene from the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse at Oakland’s Coliseum last week neatly captured the blending of cultures that’s so prevalent in baseball. As Shin-Soo Choo highlights flashed on a TV screen, a group of seven Latin players sitting around a table – some born in the U.S., others abroad –…

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George Solomon (Photo Via Washington Post) George Solomon, who ran the Washington Post sports section from 1975 until 2003, coveted  writers who were young, hungry, and single. They’d travel everywhere, and all of them will tell you that Solomon had a willful disregard for geography. He cajoled sportswriters who were already out on the road into covering something else that was interesting, but rarely logistically convenient. In a voice you can easily imagine, Michael Wilbon echoed many of…

Well, that didn’t take long, did it? As part of a two episode-launch Thursday of his new self-titled podcast “The Bill Simmons podcast,” the former ESPN commentator was critical of his previous employer, including targeted shots at the network’s relationship with the NFL, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, the ESPN Radio duo who form “Mike and Mike,” and his former employer preventing him from appearing on competing radio shows in…

A Taylor Swift concert at Rogers Centre in Toronto could doom the Blue Jays’ playoff run. OK, that’s being a little dramatic, but a fantastic ESPNW article pointed out that Swift’s summer tour has stopped in three MLB ballparks this summer, and doom has immediately befallen the respective teams that play in each park. First, she stopped at Nationals Park, and a few nights later the power went out. To…

i Atlanta Dream guard Angel McCoughtry (35) passes around Washington Mystics forward Ally Malott (11) in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Chuck Myers/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Chuck Myers/Landov Atlanta Dream guard Angel McCoughtry (35) passes around Washington Mystics forward Ally Malott (11) in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Chuck Myers/Landov You may not know that the WNBA finals begin this weekend. It’s probably fair to say that if it…

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Within the span of nine months, two of NASCAR’s all-time greats have announced their pending retirements. Jeff Gordon will step aside at the conclusion of the current season, while Tony Stewart will do so following the 2016 season. That Gordon is preceding Stewart into retirement is somewhat appropriate, as it was Gordon’s success in transitioning from open-wheel sprint car racing to NASCAR that allowed Stewart to make a similar…

Herb Brooks National Hockey Center at St. Cloud State(Photo: KARE John Croman) ST. CLOUD, Minn. — St. Cloud State University will offer living expense stipends to hockey scholarship recipients next year, under a new NCAA rule that allows Division I programs to cover the actual “Cost of Attendance” for players. “The NCHC is one of strongest hockey conferences in the country, and a number of schools have indicated they are…

Juergen Klinsmann was only eight months into his job as coach of the national soccer team when the U.S. was eliminated in the group stage of the last Olympic qualifying tournament. In men’s soccer, the Olympic competition is an under-23 tournament lagging so far behind the World Cup in importance that many European countries no longer take it seriously. But for Klinsmann, who scored four goals to help West Germany…

More: Equestrian Olympic equestrian champ’s ban lifted in horse doping case Ian Millar, 68, wins Pan American Games equestrian gold Olympic equestrian champion suspended after horses test positive Making the U.S. Olympic equestrian team is much about timing, and neither Jessica Springsteen nor Georgina Bloomberg has been fortunate in that respect in recent months. The show jumpers are entered in this week’s Longines Masters of Los Angeles among several Olympic hopefuls, including three of the four members…

Royals RHP Yordano Ventura and Angels OF Mike Trout exchange words at home plate.(Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports) A scene from the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse at Oakland’s Coliseum last week neatly captured the blending of cultures that’s so prevalent in baseball. As Shin-Soo Choo highlights flashed on a TV screen, a group of seven Latin players sitting around a table – some born in the U.S., others abroad –…

0 Shares Print When Jonathan Papelbon of the Washington Nationals choked the youngster having an MVP-caliber season, it represented a swelling culture clash over how to play baseball “the right way.” After Bryce Harper jogged to first base on an eighth-inning flyout Sunday, the closer met him at the top step of the dugout and admonished the likely MVP to “run the [bleeping] ball out.” Harper bleeped right back, and…