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GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) – Jimmy Smothers, a longtime sports editor for The Gadsden Times who covered everything from Little League to the opening of the Talladega Speedway and college football, died Monday. He was 82. Smothers joined The Gadsden Times in 1961 and became sports editor two years later. He retired in late 2006, but continued to write columns and articles for the newspaper. In 2011, he became the fifth…

View photo . Lawrence Phillips has been charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a Central California prison. (A … Lawrence Phillips, once one of the biggest stars in college football and a top-10 NFL draft pick, has been charged with first-degree murder. In April, Phillips was investigated in the death of his cellmate, 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was strangled to death at Kern Valley State Prison in…

The Yoga Federation of India is likely to receive more funding to conduct its national championships as well as host international events. Very soon, athletes might start competing for a medal in yoga at multi-discipline events. The sports ministry on Monday recognized yoga as a sports discipline and placed it in the ‘priority’ category alongside disciplines like football, swimming, squash and chess, among others. In continuation with the Narendra Modi…

Let’s get those daily fantasy baseball lineups ready with our starting pitcher rankings, closer news and weather reports below. As usual, we’ll also have hitter matchups and daily fantasy baseball picks to help you win some cash. Wednesday’s MLB schedule starts at 12:10 p.m. ET with the Marlins-Braves in Atlanta. There are three more afternoon contests, though with two starting between 3:35 and 4:05, the lineups might not be out before the Marlins-Braves game starts. Be careful with those in…

For a list of Tuesday’s transfer day deals, check out the transfers page and for reaction follow Sportsday live on Wednesday. Arsenal refused to pay £50m for 28-year-old Paris St-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, 28, as he has no sell-on value. (Daily Mirror)  West Brom forward Saido Berahino has gone on strike, the front page of the Daily Telegraph’s…

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Karsyn Elledge stands atop the Bristol Motor Speedway grandstands last month while recording a segment for “NASCAR Hammer Down.”(Photo: NASCAR Productions) Karsyn Elledge, granddaughter of seven-time Sprint Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr., has proven that she can handle a racing vehicle. Now she’s trying out racing microphones. Elledge, the 14-year-old daughter of Kelley Earnhardt Miller, co-owner of JR Motorsports, is the new host of NASCAR Hammer Down, a television series produced…

Alongside the Tommy guns, gangland mugshots and photos of bullet-riddled corpses at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement in Las Vegas, you can now find embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter. The museum — better known as the Mob Museum — opened a three-month exhibit Tuesday chronicling the $150 million world soccer scandal. “The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly,” which runs through the end of the year, aims to…

NASCAR fined Jennifer Jo Cobb on Tuesday for having a cell phone in her Camping World Truck last weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. Cobb was fined a total of $7,500. She was docked $5,000 for the P3 violation. She was fined an additional $2,500 because the infraction happened while she is on probation. TV cameras caught Cobb reaching back into her vehicle to grab her cell phone after wrecking in practice Friday….

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Alongside the Tommy guns, gangland mugshots and photos of bullet-riddled corpses at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement in Las Vegas, you can now find embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter. The museum — better known as the Mob Museum — opened a three-month exhibit Tuesday chronicling the $150 million world soccer scandal. “The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly,” which runs through the end of the year, aims to…

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Japan’s Olympic committee has decided to scrap the logo for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, following accusations of plagiarism. The committee announced the decision after convening an emergency meeting Tuesday evening, reversing its stance on the logo after it was revealed that the designer, Kenjiro Sano, used images taken from the internet when presenting it, and that his studio copied designs for a previous promotional campaign. “We have reached…

NEW YORK (AP) OLYMIPCS LOS ANGELES (AP) – With Boston out, Los Angeles appears on the verge of stepping in as the U.S. candidate for the 2024 Olympic Games. The City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a proposal to authorize Mayor Eric Garcetti to execute agreements related to the Olympic bid. If approved, the U.S. Olympic Committee is expected to announce LA is the candidate. Rome, Paris, Hamburg,…

SPORTS by Porter Dickie | Aug 31 2015 | 10 hours ago Share on Twitter There are a lot of significant aspects of Virginia culture, and sports are an important part. When people across the country think of the University of Virginia, they don’t just think of the outstanding academics or Thomas Jefferson. More and more people are quick to recognize Virginia for its widespread success in sports. This past season,…

He is 15 years old, 5-foot-9 and 185 pounds of cartoonish muscles on top of muscles. He had six-pack abs when he was 6. Today, he bench-presses one-and-a-half times his body weight and can leap from a standing position to the top of a car. He averages four touchdowns per game and hasn’t lost a wrestling match since 2012, making him the nation’s top-ranked football player and wrestler for his…

From everything I’ve seen so far, the NASCAR throwback paint scheme project for this weekends Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway looks like it’s going to be a real home run. Think about it: Two dozen or so paint schemes from the glory days of Petty, Pearson, Allison and Yarborough at one of the sport’s most historically significant tracks is something race fans can really wrap their arms around. And not only…