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By Caley Fretz Published 4 hours ago Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media RCS Sport, organizer of the Giro d’Italia, announced on Wednesday its support of the calendar and structural reforms proposed by the UCI, reforms which have been rejected by RCS competitor Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO). “RCS Sport has never been opposed to the Reform Project and is ready to analyse and discuss all technical issues related…

As blazing hot temperatures spread across Alabama, mayors from several Birmingham area cities today joined forces to encourage more city officials to train youth coaches to protect against heat-related sports injuries and illnesses. Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey, Homewood Mayor Scott McBrayer and Alabaster Mayor Marty Handlon joined together at a press conference in Homewood to advocate a sports safety program offered by the Birmingham-based National Center for Sports Safety. The…

CHATTANOOGA, TN (WRCB) - Following the World Cup tournament in Canada this summer, the U.S. Women’s National Team will play a game versus Costa Rica at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga. The game, called an international friendly, will be played Wednesday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN2. Tickets go on sale to the public Wednesday, July 1, at 12 p.m. ET through ussoccer.com and by phone at…

 (AP) Confederate flags are as easy to find at NASCAR races as cutoff jeans, cowboy hats and beer. They fly over motorhomes. They adorn clothing. They are regular fixtures, just like Ford and Chevrolet, and that is unlikely to change any time soon. NASCAR probably would like to see them go away. The sanctioning body for the motorsports series backed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call to remove the Confederate…

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ESPN and DraftKings reached an exclusive pact making the startup the official daily-fantasy sports offering across the sports giant’s platforms. The fantasy-sports biz — in which players compete against each other by picking virtual teams, based on real players — is a huge and growing category. In 2014, 42 million fans in the U.S. and Canada spent an estimated $15 billion on fantasy sports, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade…

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Liverpool have signed forward Roberto Firmino from Hoffenheim on a five-year deal for a fee of about £29m. The 23-year-old’s deal is subject to a medical, which will take place after he returns from Chile, where he has been playing for Brazil in the Copa America. Firmino, who has scored 47 goals in 151 games for Hoffenheim, becomes the Reds’ second most expensive player. …

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Larimer County Health and Environment officials confirmed the septicemic plague killed a Poudre High School baseball player. Taylor Gaes, 16, died June 8. Health officials are urging people who visited the Gaes home after his death to seek medical attention if they notice flulike symptoms. “He died from the septicemic plague, which means infections goes through the blood,” Larimer County Health and Environment spokeswoman Katie O’Donnell…

i Marcel Granollers (left) and Roger Federer leave the court at the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y., last August. Commentator Frank Deford says with all that baggage, tennis needs caddies. Leslie Billman/Ai Wire/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Leslie Billman/Ai Wire/Landov Marcel Granollers (left) and Roger Federer leave the court at the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y., last August. Commentator Frank Deford says with all that baggage, tennis needs caddies. Leslie…

View photo . (AP) Monday wasn’t a great day for the Pete Rose reinstatement campaign. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reported that Rose had indeed bet on baseball as a player, something he had long denied, even as recently as two months ago. Producer Willie Weinbaum and reporter T.J. Quinn uncovered an old log of gambling records that had been sealed for 26 years. The response was immediate from his critics: This was…

No sports contract runs a single sheet of paper. The simplest signing is processed by an army of attorneys, who insist upon pages and pages of provisions, amendments and stipulations. Does the team want its player to maintain a certain weight? Put it in contract. Can the athlete have their own physical therapist? Put it in writing. Want to inspire someone to play better? Add an incentive. Every once in…

We all know Mike Francesa isn’t afraid of biting the hand that feeds him at FOX Sports, which simulcasts his WFAN show (sometimes). So here’s what he did on Monday: Ripped the heck out of FOX’s coverage of the 2015 U.S. Open: “They’re in kindergarten,” he said. “The other [networks] are in graduate school. They need a lot of work.” Of course FOX Sports 1’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole had…

Feb. 15, 2008: Flags, including a Confederate flag, fap in the wind during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP) Confederate flags are as easy to find at NASCAR races as cutoff jeans, cowboy hats and beer. They fly over motorhomes. They adorn clothing. They are regular fixtures, just like Ford and Chevrolet, and that is unlikely to…

We all know Mike Francesa isn’t afraid of biting the hand that feeds him at FOX Sports, which simulcasts his WFAN show (sometimes). So here’s what he did on Monday: Ripped the heck out of FOX’s coverage of the 2015 U.S. Open: “They’re in kindergarten,” he said. “The other [networks] are in graduate school. They need a lot of work.” Of course FOX Sports 1’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole had…

View photo . (AP) Monday wasn’t a great day for the Pete Rose reinstatement campaign. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reported that Rose had indeed bet on baseball as a player, something he had long denied, even as recently as two months ago. Producer Willie Weinbaum and reporter T.J. Quinn uncovered an old log of gambling records that had been sealed for 26 years. The response was immediate from his critics: This was…

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is featured on a regional cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, with magazines set to hit newsstands today, the team announced. Curry helped lead the Warriors to the team’s first NBA Championship in 40 years by averaging 26.0 points, 6.3 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 1.83 steals during the 2015 NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, a series the Warriors won, 4-2. The regional cover…

How did Fox Sports do with its initial foray into U.S. Open broadcasting? Let’s start with the premise that it’s a thankless job. If social media were the sole arbiter of what constitutes quality sports broadcasting, well, then no one does it well, whatever the sport, whoever the anchors and analysts. Fox did fine. Not great, but OK for a first effort, and nothing that would cause heads to explode….

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