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Two more wins. That’s all Serena Williams needs to complete the Grand Slam, a feat so rare that it has been accomplished just six times in tennis history. Steffi Graf was the last winner, taking all four major tournaments in 1988. Williams has already won four straight major titles, dating back to last year’s U.S. Open, but she has never won all four in the same year. “I don’t know…

The World Cup of Hockey is coming back, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman insists that doesn’t necessarily mean the league will skip the 2018 Olympics. “I don’t think one has anything to do with the other,” said Bettman in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. While Bettman didn’t sound enthused about the idea of the league’s players going to Pyeongchang, South Korea, he is intrigued by the prospects…

The Americans defeated Japan in the World Cup championship match in July.(Photo: Ronald Martinez, Getty Images) The United States women’s national soccer team will play its match at Ford Field next week, despite its scheduled opponent, Australia, canceling its participation in the event, sources told The Detroit News on Wednesday. The sources requested anonymity because the new opponent has not been announced. The match will go on as scheduled on…

The Chicago Cubs had no trouble scoring runs to secure a series win in St. Louis, and they could have a key bat back as they try for the sweep. Kyle Schwarber may return to the starting lineup from a six-game absence Wednesday as the streaking Cubs try to put up big numbers for Jon Lester in a second straight start. Schwarber has been sidelined with a sore rib cage,…

Apple has a lot to announce at today’s keynote with new iPhones, a new Apple TV and new iPads. But the company can’t just ignore its new baby, the Apple Watch. In order to keep things fresh, Apple announced that you will be able to buy new Watch bands, and the Watch Sport is now also available in gold and rose gold finishes. The company also showcased watchOS 2 once…

0 Shares Print With an estimated $95 billion expected to be bet — mostly illegally — on NFL and college football this season, research shows that a legal sports betting market in the United States would be the largest in the world and could potentially generate as much annual revenue as the NFL itself. Calling the U.S. sports betting market a “sleeping giant,” global gaming research firm GamblingCompliance projects that…

Chinese internet giant Alibaba set up a new sports business on Wednesday as it continues to expand into areas beyond e-commerce amid growth concerns in the world’s second-largest economy. Exact details of what the Alibaba Sports Group would be doing were thin, but the New York-listed parent company said it will be involved in several different aspects of the industry. “Alibaba Sports Group expects to…

Malin Ruccolo, 3, waits patiently for another signature on her pink football at the Detroit Lions training camp in Allen Park on Aug. 3. She scored: wide receiver Calvin Johnson ended up signing it.(Photo: Daniel Mears / Detroit News) It’s official: Michigan is sports crazy. A study by WalletHub found that three of the best sports cities are in Michigan: East Lansing, Ann Arbor and Detroit. And, sorry, UM, but…

The William Hill sports bar at Monmouth Park will be the home of a sports book if sports wagering is approved in New Jersey.(Photo: File photo) For New Jersey and Monmouth Park, the battle to bring sports wagering to the state isn’t over quite yet. Just two weeks after a three-judge panel from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia rejected the state’s latest bid to allow racetracks and…

Sep 6, 2015; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander (35) fist bumps with a young fan on kids day prior to the game against the Cleveland Indians at Comerica Park.(Photo: Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports) You don’t need any proof that Michigan is the greatest sports state in America. But here’s a little more, just in case. WalletHub recently ranked more than 300 American cities based on comprehensive studies and…

There are 14 MLB games on FanDuel’s Wednesday evening slate . The first games begin at 7:05pm  with the last ones at 10:10pm. Please be sure to check your lineups and of course check the weather to make sure your players are actually playing tonight. Pitching In yesterday’s DFS posting Tim Finnegan discussed avoiding the narrative and dealing with just the numbers. It’s something that’s easy to fall…

The Marlins are a team that is bad and a team that is owned by a man who’s not especially popular. On Tuesday night, they played host to the Brewers (GameTracker). They are also not especially good, at least as the standards of major-league clubs go. It follows, then, that the streets of Miami were not ablaze in anticipation of his matchup. As for the people of Miami, they did…

(CHICAGO) — Aligning with the 50th anniversary of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game against the Cubs and Koufax’s iconic decision to not pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, founder and CEO of Jewish Baseball Player.com Greg Harris stopped by Sports Feed Tuesday to share the story of the roles Jews like Koufax played in baseball. Harris came up with the…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to an hour-long drama that follows a young female pitcher who defies the odds to become the first woman to compete in professional baseball. The untitled project, which hails from 20th Century Fox TV for Fox Broadcasting Company, will be penned and exec-produced by names not usually associated with television drama: Rick Singer (“American Dad!”) and Dan Fogelman (“Galavant,” “Grandfathered”). Non-writing exec producers are Tony Bill…

As Serena Williams swats and backhands her way towards sports history at the U.S. Open this week, controversy has cropped up over whether she is getting a champion’s payday that’s worthy of her performance on the court. The fact at the heart of it all: Maria Sharapova, the tall, blond Russian superstar whom Williams has bested in 16 out of 17 of their matches, earned $10 million more in endorsement…

ST. LOUIS — Joaquin Andujar, a star pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s who called himself “One tough Dominican,” has died in his native Dominican Republic. He was 62. “He was a joy to manage,” said former manager Whitey Herzog. “Everybody knew he didn’t operate with a full deck most of the time, but when you had Joaquin on your ballclub, you were sitting on a firecracker…

Sep 6, 2015; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander (35) fist bumps with a young fan on kids day prior to the game against the Cleveland Indians at Comerica Park.(Photo: Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports) You don’t need any proof that Michigan is the greatest sports state in America. But here’s a little more, just in case. WalletHub recently ranked more than 300 American cities based on comprehensive studies and…

Hendrick Motorsports founder and owner Rick Hendrick said Tuesday he’s optimistic a deal can be put in place as early as late this season between NASCAR and the Sprint Cup Series team owners to create some sort of permanent value for the teams. Hendrick did not proffer any specifics about what an arrangement between NASCAR and the owners would look like. But he did confirm that talks are ongoing. “I…

Sep 6, 2015; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander (35) fist bumps with a young fan on kids day prior to the game against the Cleveland Indians at Comerica Park.(Photo: Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports) You don’t need any proof that Michigan is the greatest sports state in America. But here’s a little more, just in case. WalletHub recently ranked more than 300 American cities based on comprehensive studies and…