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So Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said some sorta poor-sport-y stuff after his Badgers lost the NCAA championship game to Duke last night. In the video below, he can’t get through the pro forma talk of how much his graduating players meant to him without tossing in a passive-aggressive aside about how “we don’t do a rent-a-player.” In the next one, he can’t even get a full sentence into how proud…

Thibault Camus/AP Paris has a pollution problem. Instead of the smoke from Gauloise cigarettes and the aroma of freshly baked bread, the air is packed with smog, an issue that got so bad one day last month, the city forcibly halved traffic by allowing only cars with odd-number plates to drive. Paris is working toward less authoritarian, more considered solutions, including a program that gives drivers up to $11,400 if…

A Dutch soccer club is working to identify fans who chanted anti-Semitic slogans about the Holocaust during a match with a rival team from Amsterdam. The chants were documented on Sunday at Galgenwaard Stadium in Utrecht, a city situated 40 miles southeast of the Dutch capital Amsterdam, during an honor division match between Amsterdam’s Ajax team and FC Utrecht, the De Telegraaf daily reported. Utrecht supporters chanted…

Home run, touchdown…same thing? (Twitter/Hostess Snacks) On Monday, the MLB celebrated opening day with 14 games across the country. But baseball fans weren’t the only people jumping for joy. Hostess cupcakes declared its love for America’s pastime with an unusual tweet that had followers scratching their heads. “It’s here and we couldn’t be filled with more sweet joy. #OpeningDay” the snack company tweeted from its Hostess Snacks account. Accompanied with the…

Driven Sports says it plans to start selling Craze v2 in April. The firm’s longtime marketing partner, Predator Nutrition, has posted this image on its website.(Photo: Predator Nutrition) A controversial maker of sports supplements, undeterred by a long-pending federal criminal charge, is poised this month to sell a new version of a popular workout powder pulled from the market in 2013 after tests found it contained a methamphetamine-like compound. Driven…

So Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said some sorta poor-sport-y stuff after his Badgers lost the NCAA championship game to Duke last night. In the video below, he can’t get through the pro forma talk of how much his graduating players meant to him without tossing in a passive-aggressive aside about how “we don’t do a rent-a-player.” In the next one, he can’t even get a full sentence into how proud…

A Dutch soccer club is working to identify fans who chanted anti-Semitic slogans about the Holocaust during a match with a rival team from Amsterdam. The chants were documented on Sunday at Galgenwaard Stadium in Utrecht, a city situated 40 miles southeast of the Dutch capital Amsterdam, during an honor division match between Amsterdam’s Ajax team and FC Utrecht, the De Telegraaf daily reported. Utrecht supporters chanted…

Danica Patrick says qualifying doesn’t have to be heart-racing for TV viewers every weekend.(Photo: Jerome Minton, USA TODAY Sports) CONCORD, N.C. — Danica Patrick helped Charlotte Motor Speedway announce an old-school music act for the Coca-Cola 600 on Tuesday: ZZ Top. As it turns out, she’s also a fan of another throwback: Single-car qualifying at superspeedways. Patrick applauded NASCAR for announcing a change to qualifying at the upcoming Talladega Superspeedway…

Oh dear, John Fish used the “P” word. As in, “decline of Patriotism.” And as in, if you oppose my wish to make Boston the site of the 2024 Olympics, you are a member of that less-than-upright-group known as decliners. No, he did not say that. But yes, he did imply it. His exact words were: “Personally, what bothers me a lot is the decline of pride, of patriotism and…

A community is mourning today after a brother and sister were killed in a crash on their way home from high school soccer practice. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as Peyton Christopher Spain, 17, and Erin Ashley Spain, 15. Both were students at Hueytown High School and were on the school’s competitive soccer teams. “They were very, very sweet, popular kids,” principal Gayle Gober told AL.com this…

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Massillon high school baseball coach has taken a leave of absence after Cleveland police arrested him and accused him of possessing cocaine and pills. Neall French, 31, of Independence, was arrested about 9:40 p.m. March 9 at State Road and Tampa Avenue, according to a Cleveland police report. Second District vice detectives arrested French in his 2008 BMW 528i with a plastic baggie of cocaine, a…

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Lon Tweeten for TIME New rules should quicken games and capture today’s short attention spans Opening day has arrived, and baseball’s 2015 story lines are set. The Washington Nationals are the favorite to win the World Series, according to the Vegas oddsmakers, mostly because of a starting pitching rotation that was already stellar, and then added free agent Max Scherzer to the mix this off-season (for a cool $210 million)….

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All homers to get you ready for Opening Day One of my favorite baseball moments captured in a film won’t be found on this list. That’s partly due to the fact that the movie it appears in, City Slickers, isn’t a baseball film, even if Billy Crystal opts for a Mets cap over a standard ten-gallon. In the scene, the lone woman on a tourist cattle drive comments on how…

• PODCAST: Fitt & Rogers discuss the landscape | Weekly Chat Transcript Vanderbilt and Texas A&M maintained their positions as the top two teams in the D1Baseball Top 25 rankings after sweeping Southeastern Conference road series. Florida fell seven spots from No. 3 to No. 10 after a 1-3 week, and Florida State moved up two places to No. 9, but there was little other movement in the top 10. Oklahoma…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. TRANSFER GOSSIP Tuesday’s Mirror back page Manchester United striker Robin van Persie, 31, will be sold this summer and replaced by 28-year-old Paris St-Germain forward Edinson Cavani as Red Devils boss Louis van Gaal spends £150m to overhaul his squad. (Star)  Real Madrid are monitoring…