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The bid book for the 2024 Olympics that Los Angeles officials released Tuesday laid out an initial blueprint for 30 or so proposed venues. A renovated Coliseum will serve as the centerpiece, with other facilities arranged in five clusters across the city. Bidding is a long process and plans almost always change, but here is the current configuration: Downtown Cluster • Coliseum: Opening ceremony and closing ceremony, track and field…

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First off, a quick introduction, though if you don’t know what FanDuel is, well, you’re missing out. FanDuel is a site that offers daily fantasy sports games. Participants are given a chance every day to select new players, fill out a lineup and, most importantly, win some cash. If you choose poorly Monday you can come back Tuesday and try again. Easy as that. Click here to enter a $5 FanDuel contest that offers a $10,000…

Note to UC San Diego med school students: That first-year, 30-year-old woman sitting quietly in the back of your biochemistry class, you might want to get her on your intramural soccer team. Her name is Rachel Van Hollebeke. You might remember her by her maiden name, Rachel Buehler, or as No. 19 on the U.S. national women’s soccer team, winning gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, starting in…

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The nearly daily SBN MLB editor emails tell me otherwise, but it’s really hard to find something to write about everyday for a baseball team, let alone every week. It’s nearly September, I think we have an idea of what kind of team we’re watching (sometimes good, sometimes bad, Goldschmidt is Godschmidt, et cetera). Trade bait stories are always good for inspiration, but we’re past the trade deadline and…

HACKENSACK — The lanky teenager stared out at the empty football field, lost within himself. Dante Washington once thought it was all over. He no longer was a high school athlete. No more baseball. No more football. All he had to look forward to was a senior year in which he would watch others play. Related:  North Jersey deaf athlete pleads for a waiver to play high school sports Washington,…

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Citizens Bank Park was a field of dreams. Phillies Fan Ann Klein explained, “I came here to get the experience of a lifetime, on the field. Batting, I can’t wait to bat, fielding. Just to be here is a dream come true for me.” More than 100 Phillies fans got lesson in Baseball 101. They’re all women and they all love the sport. Baseball 101 is a program…

In a significant legal defeat for advocates of sports betting and for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that New Jersey is prohibited from implementing a state law that would have enabled casinos and racetracks to offer sports waging. For those who had hoped to travel to Atlantic City’s casinos to place sports bets, those dreams are now dashed—at least…

Justin Wilson (Mike DiNovo, USA TODAY Sports) Justin Wilson sat at a table in a hospitality tent nestled inside the paddock at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg this March. He was intermittently grinning widely and squinting to watch a television monitor as the din surrounding him indicated practice had begun. The Englishman was left behind at the start of the IndyCar season, but Andretti Autosport had announced a deal that…

On Sunday, the world’s greatest sprinter, Usain Bolt, overcame his worst season to defeat this year’s fastest man, American Justin Gatlin, in the track world championships in Beijing. It continued Bolt’s six-race winning streak in the 100 and 200 at the two major international meets — world and the Olympics — a streak that likely would have been at 16 had Bolt not false started in the 100 at the…

The 2015 season will mark CBS’ 56th year broadcasting NFL games, which coincides nicely with the network broadcasting Super Bowl 50 in February. On Tuesday, CBS Sports announced its broadcast pairings for 2015 with Jim Nantz, Phil Simms and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson leading the way. The trio will also call a full slate of Thursday Night Football games on CBS and NFL Network. CBS Sports’ ‘The NFL Today’ enters…

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With restarts an increasingly topical debate subject among drivers, a senior NASCAR official said Monday that officials wants drivers to police themselves so that the sanctioning body doesn’t have to.  “(Restarts) certainly garner attention, but it’s one of those (items) that we’ve told the drivers that we’d like to leave it in (the drivers’) hands,” NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR’s…

ENLARGE Tehran Women, and women’s sports, still face stiff winds of resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hard-liners supported by the highest echelons of government oppose women even watching the country’s most popular sport, much less playing it in public. But quietly, there is something of a women’s soccer revolution going on here. And one of its leaders, of all people, is an Iranian-American. Katayoun Khosrowyar, 27, moved here…

Beer producer Anheuser-Busch had decided to switch its beer brand that is associated with NASCAR, beginning in 2016. Sports Business Journal first reported the news. Anheuser-Busch, a primary sponsor on Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 4 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, will switch out its Budweiser brand with Busch. Busch was the brand long associated with NASCAR, beginning in 1982 when it began sponsoring what is now the Xfinity Series. Busch left its role as…

British driver Justin Wilson has died after being struck by flying debris and suffering a serious head injury in Sunday’s Pocono IndyCar 500 race. Wilson was airlifted to hospital from the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania after Sage Karam’s car spun and crashed in front of him on lap 179 of 200. Debris from Karam’s car hit ex-Formula 1 driver Wilson, 37, and the Andretti Autosport…