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By Andrew Hood Published 7 hours ago Richie Porte’s decision to accept a wheel from a member of another team came a steep price. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com FORLI, Italy (VN) — In a sport with a public image about two shades greyer than black, Tuesday’s 10th stage at the Giro d’Italia showed cycling at its best. And a few hours later, its most convoluted. Late…

ENLARGE California is to high-school swimming as Texas is to high-school football. The Golden State is the sport’s scholastic epicenter. Northern California produced Mark Spitz, Summer Sanders and Matt Biondi, Olympic champions all. Southern California gave us Janet Evans, Amanda Beard and Aaron Peirsol, among others. But until now, the two sides of the state never battled it out. There was no such thing as a California statewide swim meet….

On Wednesday, legendary late-night TV host David Letterman hangs up his cleats, so to speak, after more than 30 years behind the desk. In honor of his retirement, we count down the Top 10 (!) soccer moments on Letterman. 10. Update from Brazil with Graham Fenwick-Jones Anyone around here speak “British”? 9. Top Ten Ways to Get Americans Excited about Soccer Ahead of the 2002 World Cup, the USMNT players…

ACC Tournament Notes DURHAM, N.C. – Florida State (37-19, 17-13) will enter the 2015 ACC Baseball Championship as the fourth-seed and will open competition on Wednesday, May 20 at 11:00 a.m. against fifth-seeded Clemson (31-25, 16-13) inside the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C. The Seminoles will then face the winner of Tuesday’s play-in game between No. 8 North Carolina and No. 9 Virginia Tech on Thursday, May 21…

No. 2 Vanderbilt (39-17) faces No. 7 Missouri (30-26) in the first double-elimination game for both on Wednesday afternoon. Missouri defeated South Carolina, 5-1, in an opening-round game on Tuesday. The winner will play Texas A&M in the second game on Thursday. The loser will face Alabama at 9:30 a.m.  Fans can watch the game on the SEC Network or through ESPN’s Watch ESPN app if not near a television….

Newburgh, N.Y. The ball fields at Delano-Hitch Park were covered in snow when Jim Wilson launched a campaign to keep them in use. As president of the City of Newburgh Little League, he had seen participation numbers plummet to the point where the league was in danger of folding. Now, he and the league’s board of directors were calling parents one by one, asking if their children would play this…

Alabama kept its season going with a 6-1 win over Ole Miss on Tuesday. Now, the 11th seed Crimson Tide (31-26) play third-seeded (and No. 7 nationally ranked) Texas A&M (43-10) at 9:30 a.m. here at the Hoover Met in the start of the double elimination format. The game is on SEC Network and a live stream is on WatchESPN. Texas A&M is the home team. Pitching matchups are Alabama freshman…

By Michael Salfino Twins’ Trevor Plouffe is one of our fantasy picks for Wednesday because he crushes lefties and faces Pittsburgh’s innings-eating southpaw Jeff Locke. Getty Images The Methodology: As hard as it is to project a player’s performance in any given season, projecting his performance on any single day is even more difficult. Daily fantasy baseball is all about trying to maximize each day’s matchups using historic batter vs. pitcher…

Paris Saint-Germain’s average wage bill is higher than any other team in world sport, according to 2015’s annual report from Sporting Intelligence and ESPN The Magazine.   Players at the French football club earn an average weekly wage of £101,898, paying out more than Spanish giants Real Madrid (£96,933) and 2014’s biggest spenders Manchester City (£96,455), while La Liga champions Barcelona (£90,675) rank fourth. The Los Angeles Dodgers (£89,999) are…

The 2015 SEC baseball tournament is already underway, but the real beginning of the spicy action is on Wednesday, when the top teams in the conference take the field in their postseason openers. Headlining the slate is the nation’s No. 1 team, the LSU Tigers, who will take on Auburn in the third of four games on the schedule. Although the other contests may be slightly more competitive, it’s worth…

The first day and play-in games of the 2015 ACC baseball tournament are in the books, leaving eight teams to duke it out for conference bragging rights at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina. Tuesday saw No. 7 Virginia beat No. 10 Georgia Tech 11-0 in a true laugher, while No. 8 UNC overcame an early deficit to beat No. 9 Virginia Tech by a score of 5-3. …

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for May 20 2015 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 64 Tyson Ross R ChC 2-3 3.94 1.53 1-2 3.91 1.39 55 Dallas Keuchel L Oak 5-0 1.87 0.95 3-0 3.14 1.08 55 Jordan Zimmermann R NYY 3-2 3.66 1.33 2-0 2.42 1.27 53 Jake Odorizzi R @Atl 3-3 2.36 0.96 1-2 3.12 1.19 52 Carlos…

T arget Field will be host to a showcase of the Big Ten’s top baseball teams for the next five days without any presence from its member university located less than 3 miles away. The Gophers, traditionally one of the conference’s top teams, missed the Big Ten tournament for only the third time in the past 18 seasons after failing to sweep Michigan State in last weekend’s final regular-season series. They…

The Big Ten is no longer an afterthought on the diamond, and its top eight teams will look to prove it at the 2015 Big Ten baseball tournament. Dreams of Omaha and College World Series glory start at the conference tournament at Target Field in Minneapolis, as the event’s winner earns an automatic spot in the NCAA tournament. D1Baseball.com projected six Big Ten squads in its 64-team NCAA field, but…

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Paris Saint-Germain are paying a higher average wage than any other club in any sport worldwide – with football clubs making up four of the top five positions in the salary table. The Qatari-owned PSG’s average weekly wage – £101,898 – makes them sport’s biggest spenders, ranking them above Real Madrid (£96,933), last year’s top-ranked Manchester City (£96,445) and Barcelona (£90,675). Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers (£89,999) complete the…

“Notre Dame’s just not prepared to participate in any model where the athlete isn’t a student first and foremost — that’s the hallmark for us,” Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick told USA TODAY Sports after a Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics meeting in Washington, D.C., during which he appeared as a panelist.(Photo: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports, Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports) WASHINGTON — Notre Dame’s athletic director and Northwestern’s president emeritus…

We like sports babies around here, because sports babies are cuter than regular babies. That’s a fact. So it is with great pleasure that we welcome Steph Curry’s daughter, Riley, into the ranks of the world’s great sports babies. Not only did Riley tell her dad that he was talking too loud, she also hit him with a “This is dumb, let’s go watch Dora the Explorer” fake yawn. That’s…

By Dan Roan BBC sports editor Golf’s world number one Rory McIlroy says he wants to be “the best player of my generation”. The Northern Irishman, 26, won his third tournament of the year on Sunday, recording a seven-stroke victory at the Wells Fargo Classic on the PGA…

All games can be seen on the SEC Network on TV and streamed live at WatchESPN online. Matchups are set for Day 2 of the 2015 SEC Baseball Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. No. 11 seed Alabama, No. 7 seed Missouri, No. 9 seed Auburn and No. 5 seed Arkansas advanced past the single-elimination portion of the tournament on Tuesday.   The SEC’s top four seeds – LSU, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M and…